Jan 05, 2005 07:19 am HHHmmmm, don't know but sounds like a good project to find out what works the best Loki!
Home made speaker stands?
Posted on Jan 05, 2005 05:29 am
Loki
Cone Poker
Member Since: Apr 07, 2002
Anyone made any speaker stands for themselves? I'm not able to go out and buy a pair right now as I'm broke but I have some wood and tools and was wondering if anyone had tackled this themselves?
Also I was thinking of using a roll of the blue camping pad you can get at walmart to go under your sleeping bag to isolate the speakers from the stand after I saw those peices of foam they sell for this purpose, anyone know how well this would work?
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Jan 05, 2005 07:19 am HHHmmmm, don't know but sounds like a good project to find out what works the best Loki!
Jan 05, 2005 07:40 am yeah but I dunno where to even start lol
Jan 05, 2005 08:17 am Well, first thing is to measure how high your speakers need to stand, so you know how high to build the speakers.
After you know that, head to the local home improvement store and get some plywood. Cut out a base for the top and bottom and then build a four-sides "box" to act as the leg for the stand. Make it as long as the height you need your stand (minus the thickness of the bases). Bolt the bottom base to one end of the box and stand it up, put a garbage bag in the box and fill it with sand (vibration absorption) then screw on the top base.
Rather than the rubber stuff, I would consider getting small rubber feet to screw down to the top base to set the speakers on, this will make the points of contact between speaker and stand as few square inches as possible.
Jan 05, 2005 08:53 am I should call the hospital in advance and let them know i will be using power tools...
Jan 05, 2005 10:06 pm Loki, I can still type with only 3 fingers left on each hand so...
Jan 05, 2005 10:13 pm Yeah I'm gonna do this, I'm actually going to make two prototypes, probably going to have to wait till next week though so i can afford the plywood. I've actually got a lot of articles I could write about the various projects I have in mind, problem is I haven't got around to doing any of em yet. Oh well, Monitor stands will be done!
Mar 09, 2005 12:42 am hmmmm....As an official proponant of the easier, faster, cheaper club...would a length of pvc pipe be a good substitute for a wooden box? Like get a wooden top and base and bolt a 2" or 3" pvc pipe cap to each and then fit a length of pvc pipe into the base, fill it with sand and fit the top on? No power tools. Pvc is fairly cheap in short sections. Just thinkin.
Pickin Pete
Mar 09, 2005 12:46 am Of course filling with sand means its gonna be top heavy, so a wide base would be recommended.
............Great.......now I'm probly gonna think about this till I Just HAVE to build one. Like I need another project.
Pickin Pete
Mar 09, 2005 10:37 am go to a car audio place that makes their own boxes... ask them for the scrap wood that they cut out when cutting the hole for the subs... (12" or 15") then go to home depot and buy a pice of tube with the square ends looks like this |---------| take 8 screws, 4 in each end, and screw them to the middle of the scrap wood.
Note 1) make sure you buy the right length. measuring is crucial.
Note 2) you can buy those tube pieces in any length, usually in 6" increments.
Mar 09, 2005 10:38 am hey, good idea, PVC tubing is cheap, plus it's hallow so you could fill it with sand or something for additional absorption...good idea dude.
Mar 09, 2005 10:44 am sand? bah... expanding foam! $1.49/can then rubberized undercoating $1.29 ( aka Dynomat spray, $20.00/can) for the top surface.
Mar 09, 2005 10:47 am What? expanding foam does nothing, sand is the best vibration absorption you can get, it is the best you can do for making your stands not only hold up the speakers, but isolate them from vibrating thru into the floor and everywhere else and throwing off your monitoring. And also makes them good and heavy...expanding foam would do...ummmm...nothing...
Mar 09, 2005 10:49 am expanding foam obsorbs a bit of vibration... not as much as sand, but If I were to fill a tube with sand like that, I would be very scared that it would tip over from all of the weight.
Mar 09, 2005 10:50 am how about... a couple of shelf brackets and some bungie cords... hang the speakers!
Mar 09, 2005 10:55 am Expanding foam absobs nothing of any consequence. and also, your stand is less likely to tip with sand in it because that will lower the center of gravity. Having empty stands with speakers on top make the stand much more top ehavy and much more likely to fall with small bumps.
Also, when building stands, the bottom plate should be at least an inch or two bigger than the top plate to increase it's footprint, and have four small rubber feet on it to limit the actual amount of contact between the stand and the floor, but still having them spread far enough apart to provide a sturdy base.
I have an older model of stands from these guys www.stereocilia.com which I talk about here www.homerecordingconnecti...tory&id=353 and believe me, THEY know how to build a stand.
Mar 09, 2005 11:00 am how about this?
It would be a solid design, and rubber feet could be added.
Mar 09, 2005 11:05 am it might be a bit of a challenge linking the legs together. perhaps drill a hole and put a 3-4" long bolt through all three? I dunno, the details could be worked out.
Mar 11, 2005 02:22 am I LOVE THIS SITE!!!! IT'S BETTER THAN "THIS OLD HOUSE"!!!!
Mar 11, 2005 06:47 am wow, just like lazarus the dead (thread) was brought back to life. haha :) I never got around to making speaker stands cause i messed up my speaker so I was like "man, it's gonna sound like crap now anyway, whats the point"? I was cleaning the little dome thing above the main speaker and pressed a little too hard and it collapsed in, so I tried to take the speaker apart and push it out to it's proper position but couldn't, then I lost a screw to the thing putting it back together.
Mar 11, 2005 09:43 am Those can live pushed in, with small (sometime unoticable) consequences. If you are inclined to pull them out, which I usually am, take a pin, smaller the better, and poke just the pointy tip into the material, then angle the pin and pull the dome back out to it's domey roundness. Should just pop back into place.
Mar 11, 2005 10:07 am Perhaps a vacuum would work ?
Mar 11, 2005 10:29 am I used a vacuum to fix my sub when the center cone popped in. it worked great!
Mar 11, 2005 10:31 am All the center code is, is a dust cover for the voice coil. If or out on most typical speakers whether they are pushed in or not does really make much of a difference. However, it does look bad, I have usually heard of the previously mentioned pin trick, never heard the vacuum one before, thats a good idea. :-)
Mar 11, 2005 10:39 am ah maybe i've just got overly sensitive ears... or I was being overly paranoid haha
Mar 11, 2005 10:42 am dust cones arent even being used on a lot of subs lately. PPI flat pistons, Audiobahn subs, Kicker subs... exc...
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