Tony L
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I’m increasingly getting an itch to try some wood speaker stands for my JR149s. A lot of what I have learned over the past 20 years or so with audio seems to come down to challenging widely accepted orthodoxy/groupthink with regards to “rigidity” (bolt tightness etc), rejecting high-mass turntables and speakers, spikes etc etc, so it strikes me it may be time to rethink my speaker stands. I currently have two pairs of very highly regarded high-mass stands; Target R4s, which are just insanely heavy, and in fairness superb with many speakers (especially little ProAcs etc). The other pair are Falcon’s own LS3/5A stands, which I’ll certainly keep for that speaker. I really like the look of the AudioChic tripods and I could custom order round tops and whatever height I liked for the 149s, plus I could put my money where my mouth was and get rubber feet rather than spikes. They are bloody expensive (especially as I’d want walnut given teak is sadly not an option), so a hell of a gamble even if I factored selling the R4s.
Basically I’m right out in theory land, I’ve never listened to this. I am convinced one of the reasons the JR149s are so bloody good is they are low-mass (compared to typical naff MDF boxes) and non-resonant, so chucking them on big heavy mass-loaded stands might not be the answer. I’ll admit there is also an aesthetic aspect here too, they’ve never looked right on boring square stands!
So, has anyone moved from metal to wood stands? The closest I’ve done is I moved from mass loaded stands to Something Solid when I had Harbeth Compact 7ES, and they certainly improved, but they are still a resonant metal stand and not as light as they look (I’m not knocking them, they are superb stands).
Basically I’m right out in theory land, I’ve never listened to this. I am convinced one of the reasons the JR149s are so bloody good is they are low-mass (compared to typical naff MDF boxes) and non-resonant, so chucking them on big heavy mass-loaded stands might not be the answer. I’ll admit there is also an aesthetic aspect here too, they’ve never looked right on boring square stands!
So, has anyone moved from metal to wood stands? The closest I’ve done is I moved from mass loaded stands to Something Solid when I had Harbeth Compact 7ES, and they certainly improved, but they are still a resonant metal stand and not as light as they look (I’m not knocking them, they are superb stands).