Stand Installation

[admin_exported]

This is going to sound like a stupid question but what is the technique for attaching speakers to speaker stands?

I haven't bought speakers for about 12 years and I'm just about to hit the button on some B&W 685s on a pair of custom design stands. In my day I had to drill a hole in my Tannoy Mercury f1 speakers and physically screw them onto my old Atacama stands.

Is there a standard size and bolt hole these days or is it still careful screwing?

Cheers,

Dan.

 

[Anonymous]

I dunno about standard, but the fixing bushes in my B&W CM1s are M6, but check with B&W first.......

 

[fatboyslimfast]

Blue-tak. Seriously. Saves harming the speakers.

 

[Anonymous]

Not a bad idea although I will probably use the more conventional method 🙂

 

[chebby]

I thought Blu-Tack was the conventional method.

Been using it (for stand mounted speakers) for 30 years now.

 

[professorhat]

Indeed, I don't think drilling into your speakers is a good idea...
Blu-Tak works perfectly well, one of my speakers is next to a door and occasionally gets a little knock but the blu-tak keeps it firmly on the stand.

 

[Anonymous]

This is interesting as I thought a solid physical attachment to the stand was what made the difference to the sound. I would have assumed that more modern speakers had a standard set of bushes to bolt into.

 

[fatboyslimfast]

TBH, we're not talking huge thicknesses of BluTak - once it's squashed down to 1 or 2mm, it will hold the speakers really rigidly to the stands - moreso than some spikes...

 

[Anonymous]

Another vote for the blu stuff.....works a treat

 

[bretty]

i use blu-tac's sticky tabs. holds the speaker firm and the foam construction adds a bit of dampening.

 

[Anonymous]

Blu-tak, I don't have any bushings in my speakers and the thought of driving screws into the base is a non-starter. The only problem I've had with blu-tak is that it provides quite a robust connection, and I have had a couple of incidents where the 'uneducated' have tried to move my speakers and stands by grabbing the speakers (I think they believe they really are joined). These are the same sort that ask why I don't put the speakers 'out of the way' on the shelves.

 

[John Duncan]

Ooo I have that conversation twice a week. Is going to happen again when the kit comes out of storage once the builders have started (the other conversation I have is "where did all this blutak come from?"). Agreed that screwing one's speakers to stands is not a good idea........