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Posted by David Aiken (A) on March 12, 2007 at 22:57:24

In Reply to: We are talking about loudspeakers on stands. posted by cheap-Jack on March 12, 2007 at 19:07:11:

If we go back to the original post, it started out as follows: "The speaker stands I have for my VMPS 626R's are a bit too high, and since Brian recommends bearded stands".

What that means is that the speaker manufacturer, Brian Cheney, recommends stands with a beard or front plate for his speakers. In those circumstances, I would expect that Brian designs and tests them with stands that do have a beard or front plate.

Your assumption about non-solid sides to stands is probably correct in the majority of cases. It's definitely not totally correct here. I have no idea whether the stands Brian Cheney uses have sides and a back as well as the front plate but one could always ask Brian and attempt to duplicate whatever he uses.

Unfortunately there are no hard and fast rules about whether stands should have solid or open sides, be mass loaded or not, place the tweeter at ear height or higher/lower that will apply to all speakers. It would be very nice if they were but manufacturers have as much variation in those parameters when they design and test stand mount speakers as they do with any other paramater such as sealed box or ported, panel or dynamic, ribbon or dome tweeter, etc. We can find examples of speakers designed to be used with every variation of stand design available if we look hard enough.

David Aiken

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