Book shelf speaker stands

madmax

What makes for a good bookshelf speaker stand.

I heard hard wood is best, no MDF is better, no steel with sand and spikes on the bottom, no more solid mass is better, no you need little ball bearings or a granular sand which will disipate vibration as heat. The speaker itself should be mounted with blu-tack to isolate vibration, no it should be spiked to the stand to transfer vibration to the floor.

Any ideas here?

madmax

Willow

here's what I have and it works great:

rubber feet screwed into a MDF base a sand filled trunk with a metal plate covered by a two sided grip mouse pad !!

VR3

I was going to get stands built for my mini defs...but dont need em

anyways --

Here is what I was contemplating eh...

Build the stand right.... and make a rectangle or square, whatever you want to make for the stand....

Overlay the inside with plastic eh...

take some concrete mix....and some water eh...

waa laa....one heavy arse stand

Willow

great for weight but waht about wire management ??

madmax

Yea and what about the granular substance or ball bearings that would soak up the vibration and turn it into heat? I'm hearing mass alone isn't optimum. The mouse pad sounds like a great thing to try.

From what I've been reading it seems that all the different stands have different sound all the way from bass to mids to treble. Makes sense if you think about it.
madmax

Edit: I also read where one company is going in the total opposite direction. They are going super light weight and are having positive results.

Willow

I don't see how weight alone could help it could be made of aluminum but stuffed with some absorbing material...

I had a whole bunch of old mouse (mice) pads lying around at work and they had the double sided grip went home cut them down to size....I even used the scraps under the feet of the sub which is on a thick sheet of MDF

madmax

These stands are a very confusing issue for me because I'm not sure of the goal.

Conduct energy from the speaker to the floor?

Conduct enery from the floor back to the speaker?

Isolate speaker?

Absorb and disipate energy from the speaker?

Absorb and disipate energy from the floor?


Too many questions here.

madmax

Willow

shoot got me there !!

scottnbnj

i'm thinking corian for mine designed with as little mass to interfere with rear ports as possible while not losing rigidity. though, i'm still looking for ideas of what a stealthy stand design might look like.

but, then, i just happen to have some laying around looking for and excellent use.

btw, are your speaks close to a doorway?

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Willow

mad max or me ???

one speaker is near a big openeing that leads from the living room to the dinning room

VR3

Stick a PVC pipe down through the center, put plastic around -- fill up with concrete...wa la, wire managment and a solid stand...

to reduce vibration, layer bottom with a rubber blanket, like a yoga mat, etc... and the same for the top - I would use a concrete paver thing for the top or granit...hmm

scottnbnj

Originally posted by Willow
mad max or me ???

sometimes this flippin' keyboard starts rattling so derned loud, i can't keep track of who i said what to, or even what i said it about.

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scottnbnj

Originally posted by Vr3MxStyler2k3
-- fill up with concrete...wa la,...

i think you better aim for at least two joists with that one.

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scottnbnj

Originally posted by madmax
These stands are a very confusing issue for me because I'm not sure of the goal.

Conduct energy from the speaker to the floor?

Conduct enery from the floor back to the speaker?

Isolate speaker?

Absorb and disipate energy from the speaker?

Absorb and disipate energy from the floor?


Too many questions here.

madmax

excellent point.

depending on your situation sometimes you want to couple, sometimes you want to decouple and sometimes you want both to varying degrees.

this is why dense weighty solutions(including concentrating the weight you do have on tiny areas) are tried first. it's cheap, not too hard to do, it doesn't have to look bad and it tames various problems for various reasons, ~and~ if it works for you, you don't have to ask any more questions or wait for the correct answers.

if it doesn't work for you, then worry about going deeper.

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