I used the Herbies gliders to position my GE Triton Reference speakers. At over 110 pounds each, it was a no brainer. Very easy to move and position and very easy to make very slight positioning adjustments using them.
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. đ Thanks!
Happy listening.
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@musicfan2349  Hi. I too have the B&W Matrix 800s. They are my main speakers for my listening room. But when I do move them I just walk them on the bases. One corner at a time. I donât use the spikes because they are on my hardwood floor. |
Or just get furniture sliders from Amazon and use them until you have them correctly positioned, then take them out. A set made for both hard floor and carpet are alway good to have around the house to move other stuff. Mine have a fulcrum to slip under heavy object to lift high enough to put the sliders under. |
All good solutions! But⌠I realized there were more considerations than just moving around the room after I ordered a pair of Aeris speakers for my lake house!  After I thought about it a bit - I realized there were going to be a lot of other issues to cope with:  getting them into the house, unpacking them, uncoupling them from the floor over the crawl space, and when I sold them packing them securely, getting them out of the house to a safe shipper, etc, etcâŚÂ The Aeris is one of the best sounding speakers <$100 000 - and I realized that no matter how great they sounded, or what a great deal I had made for them - unless I was prepared to spend a lot more money coping with their size and weight (which I wasnât) - I was better off with smaller speakers with a big sound.  So, I got the Calibres instead - still very much the same sound - without all those issues. There are a lot of smaller speakers which sound as good as most of the greats that are much easier to manage (eg. LRS+ modded, LX521.4 which is in manageable pieces, Harbeths, etc, etc). When we are young and bench press 300 lbs we might be able to cope with all of that.  But⌠âthat ainât me.â Sometimes it makes sense to compromise our specs to achieve about the same sound in a more practical manner. |
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