A few months ago I put together a small, simple system while away from home and my TAD Cr-1’s.
The speakers I chose were the LSA statement 10’s from Underwood, which very recently TAS have a great review. I paired them with a Hegel h190 and an old furman power conditioner.
Since the rather small speakers are only 25lbs, I decided to try placing some 8lb neooprene covered hand weights on top.
While the difference isn’t night and day, with the weights on, I get the sense of really listening to a “high end” speaker. Sure I could site a slightly better disappearing sense of the speaker as well as slightly better imaging, but it’s mostly an intangible sense. I wish Steve Stone had listened to the speakers with weights- his review might have been even more glowing.
I especially think with light speakers There is a larger possible improvement (and also 8lbs is almost a third of added mass to 25lb speaker).
I haven’t tried adding weight to my tad’s which are about 130lbs with the attached stands.
The speakers I chose were the LSA statement 10’s from Underwood, which very recently TAS have a great review. I paired them with a Hegel h190 and an old furman power conditioner.
Since the rather small speakers are only 25lbs, I decided to try placing some 8lb neooprene covered hand weights on top.
While the difference isn’t night and day, with the weights on, I get the sense of really listening to a “high end” speaker. Sure I could site a slightly better disappearing sense of the speaker as well as slightly better imaging, but it’s mostly an intangible sense. I wish Steve Stone had listened to the speakers with weights- his review might have been even more glowing.
I especially think with light speakers There is a larger possible improvement (and also 8lbs is almost a third of added mass to 25lb speaker).
I haven’t tried adding weight to my tad’s which are about 130lbs with the attached stands.