Mounting onto Speaker Stands

[nadsys]

Hello,

Just bought my first kit, the speakers in question are the Canton Le130 rear speakers and the LS 600 speaker stands.

http://canton.de/index.php?pg_id=20,30,ls600 (link to see stand)

my problem is two things:

1. The rear speakers are rather large and have nothing on the bottom of them to fasten them to the stands, seems all a bit risky. Not too stable. The metal plate has holes in it to fasten it to the speakers but im a bit scared of taking a drill to my speakers, wont it affect the sound?

2. The cable runs under the base of the stand, up the tubing and out the top of the metal plate, but with the speaker sitting flush on the plate, it will squish the cable or not allow it to pass at all. Is there a way to overcome this? maybe raise speaker up off metal plate a bit with plastic feet to allow space for cable.

im sure there's others had similar issues to me. Please help me overcome this.

Thank You,

Neil

[Knightshade]

Blu tack's the old favourite here. Works a treat. May even space off the speaker enough to make up for the poor design....

[Jake James]

Hi

Both the Speakers and the stands come with rubber feet. Attach 4 pads to each of the top plates of the speaker stands and then run your cable. Attach speaker to cable and place on top of the stand.

This is pretty standard practice and nothing to do with the design. But if you are still worried there is nothing stopping you putting a short self tapping screw through the top plate into the base of the speaker. make sure you have the pads inbetween. you shouldn't need a screw bigger than a No8 x 1/2"

If your still unclear, feel free to pm me

Regards

JJ

[nadsys]

thanx to both of you for answering. You have pretty much just confirmed my thoughts JJ with one exception, putting rubber feet on metal plate, i was going to put them on base of speaker. your way makes more sense however so will attempt that.

and yes, i thought about a tiny screw to hold it in place, its not me i worry about, its others knocking them off. i dont want to have to martial all my friends everytime they visit "CAREFUL WHERE YOU MOVING, WATCH OUT".

Thank You,

Neil

*edit* knightshade, im an ex-pat, no such thing as blu tack in germany, they give me blank looks whenever i mention it. You'd think with german efficiency they'd have that stuff these days, cant live without it in UK.

[Knightshade]

Good God!
No Blu Tack? Next you'll tell me they haven't discovered gaffer tape!
How you can live there......

[nadsys]

haha!!

They have many ways of making you talk but none to solve audio problems. ahh well. hehe.

i spoke to guy in Frankfurt today from a good named audio shop and he had no solution, so i mentioned what you guys said and he just shrugged and said that likely be best solution. then i got 25meters of cabling from him with a sub-woofer cable thrown in for free. w00t, go me. then i got home and decided to try it on over the phone with a shop and got my sub for 50euro's cheaper after saying i found it elsewhere cheaper. Gotta love the internet for driving down prices.

having a good day so far . Now, everyone start signing a form to get blu-tack in Germany.

[Arfa]

Just tackled this problem myself. Picked up a pair of Target speaker stands and didn't fancy drilling or nailing into the bases of my Gale Gold Monitor speakers. I popped into B&Q and found some double-sided carpet tape. Not called gaffer/duck tape, but essentially that is what it is.

Two 10cm strips on each stand was all that was needed. I can now pick up the stand, hold it horizontal and the speaker still one budge! There may be a bit of gunkyness to scrape off if you ever did pull the speakers off the stands, but I'm sure some detergent would clean it up.

I still haven't sourced some spikes for the bases of the stands to go through my carpet, so I won't comment on sound quailty yet. But there's been no degradation from just resting the speakers on the stands.

Arfa