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Loading speaker stands with?

Rehashing a common question, with a uncommon choice: I will be getting stand mounted speakers soon for a new listening room in my next house. I have always had floor standing speakers, but this room is small so smaller monitors just make sense. Obviously I will have them on stands. The question is do people load their speaker stands with dry sand or shot (or similar heavy dense materials) to stop resonance or to create weight for stability? I know the answer may be for both, but has anyone tried using foam packing peanuts jammed into the legs of the stand, and what were the results? I would guess it would soften any resonance from the metal legs, without creating a heavy, immovable tsand. Thanks for any feedback.

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curiousjim
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FYI,

Depleted Uranium would probably work well, but sadly it is still radioactive and should be handled with care. 😁

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incorrigable
203 posts
 

I am thinking about solid wood stands. My floor is cork. 

audition__audio
1,776 posts
 

Well the poly foam sounds like something the Harbeth guy would suggest.

Stands are really helped by weight. Or at least that used to be the logic. 

 

dacpin
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Foam Packing will deaden a ring that occurs when striking metal. 

Particle Fillers are a design to control amplitude transferal, each Particle needs to take on amplitude and transfer this energy across all Particles. The physics is that the energy is becoming a conversion to heat rather than a amplitude being efficiently transferred. 

A additional Footer under the Stands does also work wonders. The amplitude ftom ambient amplitude is reduced, hence, the Speaker Stands are not being directly impacted on. 

My experience is Suspension Footers work great, and there are now available 3D Printer suspension footers, that are inexpensive and may prove ideal for long term use. The iitems will certainly supply a god impression of what a much more expensive option can deliver. 

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