Question about speaker stands.

[Parabola]

I have a pair of Dynaudio 'Audience 42' speakers. They sit directly on a set of Partington Dreadnaught stands.

Should I have something inbetween them? Rubber feet, blutac or something?!

It doesn't seem right to have nothing there!

[robinhood21]

Yup! Blutac should do the trick.

[Graham E]

+1 for bluetac - some of the bearded community will advocate spikes, but IMO there's no sonic benefit. I'd also mass load / sand in plastic bag fill your stands, even though the dreadnoughts are beasts anyway. One word of warning, if your cabinets are of the slightly cheap vinyl wrap veriety (Wharfedale, Bowers 600 series, that sort of thing), you have a 50/50 chance of making the bottom of the speaker delaminate when you move the speakers after a year or so, just to warn you!

[allgonepetetong]

+2 for blu-tac. But as mentioned, it does go extremely tough after a few months so be careful if removing the speakers. A good point to this is thought that you know you are getting zero vibration!

[FlossyThePig]

Slightly O/T

Who remembers blacktac?

[The_Burg]

FlossyThePig said:

Slightly O/T

Who remembers blacktac?

I was just thinking the same.
Was the holy HiFi grail for a while.

[telecat]

The_Burg said:

FlossyThePig said:

Slightly O/T

Who remembers blacktac?

I was just thinking the same.
Was the holy HiFi grail for a while.

Had it between My Snell Type K's and the Pirate Stands I had. After a while couldn't get the things off the Stands!!!!!!!

[Parabola]

Blu Tac it is then!
Although, I'm going to try and find some of this mythical "Blac Tac' too!

So I should definately fill the stands legs with sand?
I've heard of stands rusting from the inside? I've got an unopened bag of B&Q 'Kiln Dried' sand.
Will I be OK to pour that straight in?

Cheers all.

[robinhood21]

That is what I used on an old pair of stands and, never had a problem with them

[garycat]

Parabola said:

Blu Tac it is then!
Although, I'm going to try and find some of this mythical "Blac Tac' too!

So I should definately fill the stands legs with sand?
I've heard of stands rusting from the inside? I've got an unopened bag of B&Q 'Kiln Dried' sand.
Will I be OK to pour that straight in?

Cheers all.

No! put a plastic bag in the cavity and fill the bag with sand, then seal it. I use Tesco play sand for kids sandpits, and large food bags.

[10 Pence Short]

Instead of blutac, you could buy some of those little rubber 'feet' that are adhesive on one side. That way you're sticking them to the speaker stand but not the speakers, with pretty much the same benefits as blutac.

[Parabola]

garycat said:

No! put a plastic bag in the cavity and fill the bag with sand, then seal it. I use Tesco play sand for kids sandpits, and large food bags.

The stands have 4 quite narrow legs. I might be better with lead shot?

[headcase]

Graham E said:

some of the bearded community

Thats gotta be a +7

[5pen]

Parabola said:

garycat said:

No! put a plastic bag in the cavity and fill the bag with sand, then seal it. I use Tesco play sand for kids sandpits, and large food bags.

The stands have 4 quite narrow legs. I might be better with lead shot?

Without wishing to contradict anyone, I have Partington stands too (Broadside I think) and I filled them with kiln-dried sand a few years ago. Never had a problem and together with the blu-tac I'm convinced (or I convinded myself) that the sound was improved.

I'm not sure how much lead-shot costs, but sand it cheap and has much the same result I'd guess.

[Hoover.]

Just popped into this forum ......

why don't the stands have isolation spikes for the speakers to sit on, rather then sitting them on blu-tac.

my old speaker stands have spikes at where they rest on the floor, and the top to site the speakers on.

ohhh sand is fine, just make sure it's dry............. mine I filled up approx 15 years ago, no sign of rust... just lots of dust sittin in the spare room due to floor standers for last 6 years.

[telecat]

Hoover. said:

Just popped into this forum ......

why don't the stands have isolation spikes for the speakers to sit on, rather then sitting them on blu-tac.

my old speaker stands have spikes at where they rest on the floor, and the top to site the speakers on.

ohhh sand is fine, just make sure it's dry............. mine I filled up approx 15 years ago, no sign of rust... just lots of dust sittin in the spare room due to floor standers for last 6 years.

Some speakers do "like" spikes. Most Older Linn designs such as the Index and Sara prefer Spikes. Others such as the Snell/Audionote E,JII and K prefer blu-tac. The Sound changes depending which method you use. Most stands do have spike to floor coupling though.