My speakers are wall mounted out of necessity in the room that doubles as an office and the occaisional guest bedroom. The speakers are Legacy Audion studio HD's. These are fairly hefty for a bookshelf design.
When originally mounted one fell off having worked the bracket away from the wall and sheared two of the four screws holding it in place. This was after about 6 months in place. So logically I changed all of the screws to larger ones and thought this should be OK. For about three years this was working. Then two weeks ago one did the exact same thing. a bit of damage to the wall, skirting board and the foot of my Desktop PC. As it was the same speaker both times the cabinet is showing the evidence of its attempts at acrobatics.
Drastic measures were called for. I replaced the uprated fixings with mechanical expanding anchors, four bolts per speaker. If the thing falls down now it is likely to take the wall with it!
A good job the speaker cabinets are solid and well made as they still work properly. An emotionally painful lesson.
IMG_20200314_175401 by Milan Vjestica, on Flickr
MVIMG_20200314_180911 by Milan Vjestica, on Flickr
IMG_20200314_180920 by Milan Vjestica, on Flickr
MVIMG_20200314_180928 by Milan Vjestica, on Flickr
IMG_20200314_181133 by Milan Vjestica, on Flickr
For anyone curious about the system;
Room set up is certainly not optimal and there is very little room treatment. The image on the wall is stuffed with old towels and backed with a sheet of plastic. The rug, with underlay, is the best upgrade in the room. Behind the listening position (where I took the image from) is a pair of cushions that sit just behind my ears. Out of image to the near right of the room, close to the TT is a sub woofer, you can just amke out the top corner.
System is;
When originally mounted one fell off having worked the bracket away from the wall and sheared two of the four screws holding it in place. This was after about 6 months in place. So logically I changed all of the screws to larger ones and thought this should be OK. For about three years this was working. Then two weeks ago one did the exact same thing. a bit of damage to the wall, skirting board and the foot of my Desktop PC. As it was the same speaker both times the cabinet is showing the evidence of its attempts at acrobatics.
Drastic measures were called for. I replaced the uprated fixings with mechanical expanding anchors, four bolts per speaker. If the thing falls down now it is likely to take the wall with it!
A good job the speaker cabinets are solid and well made as they still work properly. An emotionally painful lesson.
IMG_20200314_175401 by Milan Vjestica, on Flickr
MVIMG_20200314_180911 by Milan Vjestica, on Flickr
IMG_20200314_180920 by Milan Vjestica, on Flickr
MVIMG_20200314_180928 by Milan Vjestica, on Flickr
IMG_20200314_181133 by Milan Vjestica, on Flickr
For anyone curious about the system;
Room set up is certainly not optimal and there is very little room treatment. The image on the wall is stuffed with old towels and backed with a sheet of plastic. The rug, with underlay, is the best upgrade in the room. Behind the listening position (where I took the image from) is a pair of cushions that sit just behind my ears. Out of image to the near right of the room, close to the TT is a sub woofer, you can just amke out the top corner.
System is;
- LP12, Cirkus, Nima, Dynavector DV20XL, Heed Orbit PS, Heed Questar MC Phono
- Laptop running JRiver and Tidal (also using Bubble via Tablet for Tidal)
- Arcam rDac with TeraDak PSU
- Chord Mojo
- Schiit Magni Headphone Amp
- Electrocompaniet ECI-3 Integrated Amplifier
- Mostly Mogami interconnects (the Mojo uses a Belkin) and Mogami speaker cables
- Legacy Audion Studio HD speakers
- JM Lab Chorus SW700 sub
- Ultrasone Pro 550 Headphones
- Sennheiser Momentum 2 Headphones