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I just bought a lovely pair of Tannoys a week ago. From reading everything I could find about them prior to buying them, I learned that the most troubling thing about them, at least to me, was that they are a bit top heavy and did not come with outriggers for added support, so could easily tip over. I confirmed this when I went to demo them at the inmates house.
They were pretty firm if pushed straight front to back, but side to side or at a angle didn't take much to get them tipping.I am pretty amazed that for the price of the speakers, Tannoy didn't see fit to provide a plinth with a wider footprint with the speakers. I guess they must be trying to maintain that straight clean look.
They do make plinths for them, but I was told that they are special order and cost $500 a pair plus shipping.Well, as a tweaker and DIYer, and wanting no chance of these beautiful works of art having a accident, I decided to make my own.
Looking around in the garage to see what I could use as a base, I found my original pair of monobloc amp stands which I first had made maybe 20 years ago. They are made of half inch white coran or plexy, not really sure, but very strong. Since them I have upgraded twice, from that to granite and now I am using maple. The granites are still in the garage too, but there is no DIY possibility with them.
So the plexy proved to be the right size and workable as far as sawing and drilling goes. I was not too sure the jigsaw could cut it, but it did.
So take a look, I bolted the finished bases to the speakers with felt pads between them, and used the Tannoys spikes with new Tnuts in the outrigger positions.AB.
Edits: 05/07/12 05/07/12Follow Ups:
could not get them all in one post.
I had a similar problem with my Vandersteen 5As, which appear to be wider (and perhaps more stable) than your Tannoys, but with THIS clumsy guy walking about behind them every day, I took no chances.
The original bars were wider than I thought looked good, so I cut a section from them, had my friend weld them together, and painted them a silver color close to the Porsche Arctic Silver the speakers are painted.
BTW, due to poor workmanship by the concrete finisher, the floor slopes lower toward the front of the room, so having spikes only at the speakers' rears works very well.
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Tin-eared audiofool, former fotografer, and terrible competitive-pistol shootist.
"Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted." Albert Einstein.
Edits: 05/08/12
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