How To Elevate Speakers Off Floor

Apply the golden rectangle rule.

How to elevate speakers off floor.

We had those sitting on top of a pair of 3 way mackie speakers that weren t turned on why we had two good sets of floor speakers in the youth room i don t know. What are the pros cons of getting an amp off the floor hide2. If you remember the work roy allison did after he left acoustic research he addressed the issue of floor reinforcement or cancellation from woofers located at certain distances from the floor in his allison acoustic speakers by putting the woofer at the bottom of the cabinet and crossing over to them at a lower than common frequency with the midrange and tweeter drivers put at ear level. However from what i understand you are wanting to put it several feet up resting on a shelf.

Do you use a stand milk crate tilt back legs other device. The speakers in question are jbl s with 2 15 woofers and a horn tweeter. I have a pair of b w dm620 floorstanders and when i listen to them i use a pair of wooden stands found on ebay that not only raise the speakers 5 or 6 inches off the carpeted floor but also tilt them back about 10 degrees. It states in my manual for my vandersteen speakers that you should use the shortest length of speaker cables necessary to get from your amp speaker outputs to the speakers.

It s actually a great idea to slightly raise your subwoofer and speakers off the ground. If done properly this serves to decouple them from the floor and reduces energy transfer and vibrations resonance. You can achieve a tilt in your center channel speaker one of two ways either tilt the stands up or place something on the top the stands to tilt up the speaker while leaving the stands level. I m undecided on this subject.

All of my equipment is within 8 feet or so of each other i ve been thinking of shortening my speaker cables from their current 10 foot length each down to about 4 or 5 feet or so each. How many of you raise your amplifiers off the floor when playing. If your room permits try placing the speakers about 3 feet from the front wall. They sound better to me that way whether i m sitting down or standing up.

Will make them sound much better. I just purchased a pair of rf 5s and felt like i was listening thru a basement window until i put one of them on a coffee table to elevate it 10 12 inches off the floor. Tilt the center channel up 5 10 degrees by placing foam on the front of the stands courtesy of auralex. The distances from the side walls are equally important.

It worked pretty well with the speakers being elevated up 3 4 feet that way.