Goldenear BRX Stand Height

I used to have a pair of BRX speakers. I used them on 30" stands, and thought they sounded excellent and looked good.  When I first got them, I tried them out on two tables that were 18" or 20" high.  While they didn't sound bad, the stereo image and clarity improved when I put them on the 30" stands.  Now, 24" stands are in the middle of those two, so all I can do is suggest you try.  You may be perfectly happy with the combo.  However, given the relatively small size of the speaker, I'm thinking they might look a bit odd on the 24" stands, but that may just be me.

Always follow the manufacturer's positioning guidelines.  So many people unhappy with the sound of their system did not even bother to read the manual.  

Not always about tweeter height at ear level either.  KEF for example wants the LS50 tweeters below ear level and a max stand height of 24 inches.  

The other reason for height guidelines is proper amount of floor bass reinforcement.  

Hi -

Herb Reichert reviewed the Golden Ear BRX speakers a few years back. In the measurements section, there was a mention about speaker height. I have attached it below.

Rich

Fig.4 shows the GoldenEar’s horizontal dispersion, normalized to the response without the grille on the tweeter axis, which thus appears as a straight line. The apparent peak at 3.5kHz to the speaker’s sides is likely due to the small peak between 3kHz and 4kHz increasing in amplitude off-axis. The BRX’s radiation pattern narrows a little at the top of the woofer’s passband. Similarly, the tweeter becomes more directional above the cursor position in this graph of 14kHz. Other than those issues, the contour lines in this graph are relatively evenly spaced, this correlating with the stable stereo imaging I noted in my auditioning. In the vertical plane (fig.5), again with the off-axis response normalized to the tweeter-axis response, the small peak in the presence region flattens out 5–10° below the tweeter axis, which presumably is why GoldenEar recommends using a stand with the BRX that is sufficiently high to place the listener’s ear just below the tweeter axis.