@ghdprentice - that's what I did; they don't cost much at all, and I've used them with both my very heavy standmounts and my large, tall bookcases....Â
Heavy speakers: How to be able to reposition?
I suppose this is an odd question but, here goes...
Perhaps unlike other audiophiles, I play with speaker positioning occasionally. I have a pair of Acoustat 1+1s which are very sensitive to room placement. The upside to that sensitivity is I can easily play with the sound stage they present. And as they are easily moved, I do so every few months to enjoy a wider or narrower, more intimate stage. It's rather fun actually.
In a very few years however, my wife and I will be moving into our retirement home. There I will have exclusive use of an appropriate sized room for my audio salon where I can install my pop's B&W Matrix 800's. Weighing in at almost 250lbs each moving them around seems rather daunting to me.
What do people with heavy transducers do to facilitate moving them around?
I know, you're wondering why I'm thinking about this now. It's simple really. Being retired I can start thinking about details like this now so I don't have to then! I'm already working on my rack design, electrical, etc. so when the time comes, I can hit the ground running. 😉 Thanks!
Happy listening.
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One of my systems uses Wilson Maxx 2s which weigh over 400 lbs. each. The speaker bases are threaded for spikes, but the threading also takes heavy duty commercial casters which helped set up a lot - and while you could (somehow) jack them straight up and swap to spikes, I decided to just lock the casters in place and I doubt whether spiking would improve sound anyway. FWIW, these speakers are set up with vernier adjustment of the rake angle of the top module (tweeter and two mids) and we set them up using a laser range finder with me sitting in the listening seat, and I have had zero urge to move them (although I did apply markers with carpet tape in case I ever did want to mess about with them. |
Hi @musicfan2349 - I just came across your post and was thinking, if you hadn’t yet got those sliders, and your listening space is planned to be hard-floored, that you could use the placement plinths I designed for my 85kg apiece speakers. They work really well for fine tuning speaker placement. In the case of your bw matrix, they would be jacked from the front and rear, with the plinths slid in from the side for greater stability, seeing your speakers are deeper than they are wide : ) You can see these at -  |
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