Re: Sierra 2 stands
Originally Posted by
maheeinfy
Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I have decided to go with steel stands just for the long term durability sake, and willing to go slightly over by budget(as always
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I still have few questions, I could use your help with
1. Top plate seems quite small on most of the stands, compared to the dimensions of Sierra 2. Is it not required that entire speaker's base has something to rest on?
2. Top plate on Sanus stands seem to have some kind of studs instead of rubber feet. Resting the Sierra 2s on the studs might damage the base..right?
3. Is 26inch really the ideal height for a stand? Sitting in a regular computer chair, my ears are at height of 44 inch, so 34 inch seems like the height of the stand I need. But I am sure I am missing something here
Thanks again!
1. The top plate on all speaker stands are rather small. You don't need the plate to be the same size as the speaker. It is perfectly stable with that design.
2. If you don't like the little poker things you can always use some rubber furniture isolators or sorbothane dots. I just didn't install them at all on my Sanus stands, went with Blu-Tak instead. My Pangea stands don't have those, they have little felt stickers that go on the stands instead, much friendlier.
3. The Pangea LS300 stands that I really like come in 4 different heights, 36 being one of them, and also 32, so if you go with the 36 it'll put them slightly above ear level, which would likely be perfect. Most stands are designed for people sitting on sofas, not at desk chairs, so that usually accounts for the height difference.
Get the LS300 from Audio Advisor. They are a great company with fast shipping. No returned/damaged products like I've gotten from Amazon, when I got extendable stands that had a warped metal base on one of them. Ugh.
http://www.audioadvisor.com/prodinfo.asp?number=PGLS300
-Alex
PS4/Nvidia Shield --> Emotiva XMC-1 --> Emotiva XPA-5 --> Ascend Acoustics Sierra Towers and Horizon Center w/ RAAL tweeters (L/C/R), HTM-200 SE (Surrounds), 2x Rythmik F12 subwoofers