raysablade
pfm Member
I'm in the process of buying some Falcon Q7s and planning to put them on open stands rather like these pretty things currently on the sales corner. I've been using floor standers for years so it is a long time since I thought about stands.
Because the Q7 isn't a standard LS3/5a size, its 65cm deeper, I'm going to need to have any open stands I want to use custom made. That presents an opportunity, because I want to specify a colour, but also an issue in that I'd be able to choose the stand height.
I've noticed that most stands built for for the LS3/5a are around 60cm tall, however my calculations are that, with my ear 96cm off the ground when I'm sitting, a height of 70 cm would make for better physics.
That prompts a couple of questions;
Because the Q7 isn't a standard LS3/5a size, its 65cm deeper, I'm going to need to have any open stands I want to use custom made. That presents an opportunity, because I want to specify a colour, but also an issue in that I'd be able to choose the stand height.
I've noticed that most stands built for for the LS3/5a are around 60cm tall, however my calculations are that, with my ear 96cm off the ground when I'm sitting, a height of 70 cm would make for better physics.
That prompts a couple of questions;
- can anyone explain why 60cm is considered the best height for LS/5a stands? In saying that I recognise that the issue might simply be that I'm 196cm tall, but my chair does take me unusually close to the ground. My sense is that a tiny speaker on top of a stand much taller than 60cm is too much of an aesthetic challenge and that's it.
- would it make sense to start with the Q7s on cheap or s/h 60cm and 70 cm stands and find a sweet spot, using books or similar to fine adjust the height, before pushing £400 plus into a custom job? I'm a bit concerned that a cheap stand and some books would be so different in presentation that it would not be a useful comparison.