Stands make a huge difference with ProAc

OSIRIS stands can be found for $250-$300, I have a set I use under my Vmps 626's. These are very well made and heavy stands (50lb. each unfilled) with good spikes that adjust up or down about 2 inches. Like Herman said, good stands will give you nice tight bass, to get more or less bass out of your speakers you will need to play with placement in your room or maybe even try changing walls. There have been lots of threads about speaker placement, you may want to do a search here on audiogon.

Proac are stand critical. Get the best that you can. It is the difference between loving and hating your speakers.

You can probably produce a fuller (and slightly warmer) tonal balance with either Cardas Golden Cross (Cardas Cross may also work) interconnects and / or speaker wire. Acoustic Zen Matrix Reference or Wow may also produce a similar effect.

You can also transform the sound of these speakers by using one, or ideally two, Vandersteen 2Wq subwoofers, which will seamlessly crossover at 80 hz.

I agree that the right speaker stands are critical to extracting the most from these speakers, but I think adjusting your system's tonal balance will produce your desired effect.

There is not a monitor out there, where stands are not a major player. Target? Osiris? Not my cup of tea. I use the Sistrum Mini Monitor Platform System. You can read my review. Remeber: your stands are a fundemental extension of your speaker. The Sistrum system (I don't know of a better one) is based on coupling your speakers to Mother Earth. They do it better than anyone. Check out their website for more info. Robert be da man over there. peace, warren

My Response 2s showed up before the stands did and I thought I'd blown it entirely. They sounded thin and the mid-bass that they should have had wasn't there. I was seriously doubting my purchase until the stands showed up. The stands I used were the Target RS2s and made the difference. I gather the RS2s were designed in conjunction with the Response 2s, so it really takes both to make the whole. Mine came with the S'phile review of the Response 2s... To quote Corey Greenberg:

HARSH REALITY TIME

Unfortunately, there is *one* teensy-weensy detail: the ProAcs absolutely, positively MUST be used with Target's custom-designed RS2 stands.
"Whew! Is *that* all?! We thought you were going to tell us about some fatal flaw in the--"
The RS2 stands cost 700 clams.
"AI-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!"
Sorry, but its true. The ProAcs are astonishing *only* when sitting on these muy espensivo sand- or lead-fillable heavy metal Target RS2 stands; used with even the excellent $350 Sound Anchors model I also tried, the Response Twos lose most of their incredible imaging precision and startling-for-the-size bass.