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Title: Cheap speaker stands
Post by: TheBoy on 13 October 2014, 19:53:51
Where can I buy them? Looking about 50cm high, silver/stainless effect, speaker is a very lightweight surround speaker.  Everywhere I've looked online seem to want silly prices for something quite tatty looking...
Title: Re: Cheap speaker stands
Post by: powerslinky on 13 October 2014, 19:58:24
Where can I buy them? Looking about 50cm high, silver/stainless effect, speaker is a very lightweight surround speaker.  Everywhere I've looked online seem to want silly prices for something quite tatty looking...

A speaker stand shop . .  . don't you know 'nuffin    Jamie   ;D ;D ;D ;D    sorry could not resist ( just getting  my coat) :-[

Tried Argos ?
Title: Re: Cheap speaker stands
Post by: powerslinky on 13 October 2014, 20:02:56
Thinking "Richer Sounds"  may do something  . . .   ;)  depends what you mean by cheap though I suppose  :-\
Title: Re: Cheap speaker stands
Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 13 October 2014, 20:15:52
I wish I had known two weeks ago that you needed such a thing TB.

I replaced my JVC surround system with a Panasonic sound bar set up and threw all the equipment, including the speaker stands into the recycling depot!  ::) : ::)
Title: Re: Cheap speaker stands
Post by: TheBoy on 15 October 2014, 20:18:07
I wish I had known two weeks ago that you needed such a thing TB.

I replaced my JVC surround system with a Panasonic sound bar set up and threw all the equipment, including the speaker stands into the recycling depot!  ::) : ::)
Good point, there is a recycling centre a few miles from here :y
Title: Re: Cheap speaker stands
Post by: Kevin Wood on 15 October 2014, 20:20:40
Proper speakers reach the floor so they don't need stands. ;)

But.. I often see old stands in antique / 2nd hand shops. Many are black, but a can of paint will soon sort that out. Will keep an eye out. :y
Title: Re: Cheap speaker stands
Post by: Taxi_Driver on 15 October 2014, 20:23:24
Ive got a couple you could have, tho not that tall iirc....few inches off the ground, the speakers just sit on the stands tilted back....aluminium...
Title: Re: Cheap speaker stands
Post by: TheBoy on 15 October 2014, 20:26:04
These are poxy small speakers, phoney crap :o

After something to lift them about 18-24"...
Title: Re: Cheap speaker stands
Post by: chrisgixer on 15 October 2014, 21:12:59
Wall mounting not suitable?
Title: Re: Cheap speaker stands
Post by: TheBoy on 15 October 2014, 21:23:47
Wall mounting not suitable?
Rather wouldn't.  They have been sat on the floor for the past 10yrs, I just thought I should get around to getting stands ;D
Title: Re: Cheap speaker stands
Post by: chrisgixer on 15 October 2014, 21:34:30
Surround speakers should be ok on the wall, big softy. ;D
Title: Re: Cheap speaker stands
Post by: Nick W on 15 October 2014, 22:11:08
Wall mounting not suitable?
Rather wouldn't.  They have been sat on the floor for the past 10yrs, I just thought I should get around to getting stands ;D

10 years? Perhaps you should consider putting them on mats rather than stands?
Title: Re: Cheap speaker stands
Post by: powerslinky on 16 October 2014, 06:38:28
Car boot sale is the only option IMO . . . send Mrs TB  to search them out

 while you tinker with the silver bullet at home  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Cheap speaker stands
Post by: Gaffers on 16 October 2014, 08:10:00
Proper speakers reach the floor so they don't need stands. ;)

 :y :y

.... but a can of paint will soon sort that out....

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Title: Re: Cheap speaker stands
Post by: Taxi_Driver on 16 October 2014, 18:24:51
These are poxy small speakers, phoney crap :o

After something to lift them about 18-24"...

Are they the oval type (two small speakers per unit) that has two screws on the rear off them for bracket mounting?
Title: Re: Cheap speaker stands
Post by: TheBoy on 17 October 2014, 14:20:37
These are poxy small speakers, phoney crap :o

After something to lift them about 18-24"...

Are they the oval type (two small speakers per unit) that has two screws on the rear off them for bracket mounting?
I single threaded hole in rear of speaker
Title: Re: Cheap speaker stands
Post by: Taxi_Driver on 17 October 2014, 18:20:48
These are poxy small speakers, phoney crap :o

After something to lift them about 18-24"...

Are they the oval type (two small speakers per unit) that has two screws on the rear off them for bracket mounting?
I single threaded hole in rear of speaker

The fony speaker stands i have (somewhere) for my surround sound (came with four, i only used two of them) are not going to fit then....
Title: Re: Cheap speaker stands
Post by: peter the butcher on 17 October 2014, 19:37:01
wall mounting is easier. I remember back in the day forking out silly money on stands and lead shot to fill them :'(
they were cheapish, only cost £100 in 1980 something l ;D ;D ;D