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Post by 79sg on Apr 8, 2023 13:42:28 GMT -6
Both of my pairs are welded at the bottom, no bolts.
The comment about the video was regarding the bolt at the top, sorry if I confused anyone.
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Post by Tbone81 on Apr 8, 2023 13:46:56 GMT -6
Thats essentially what I did. Pavers were a little too fancy for me so i went with good ol’fashion cinder blocks!  They work great and are surprisingly steady even though they just sit on top each other freely. The only problem is they’re heavier than shit. You gotta make sure you have them setup in the perfect position because once they’re setup you’re not going to want to move them. Also, hauling them from the back of my truck, up stairs into my 2nd floor studio was literally back breaking lol. Yeah, that's why I want SA type stands. If I've gotta move a pile of cinder blocks around multiple times until I find the right position, I'm gonna end up just not doing it because it's too much trouble. At least with these stands, I can move the whole thing in one motion. Speaking of cinder blocks, Colt whatever his name is posted a video a while back and his testing seemed to indicate that cinder blocks didn't perform as well as people think they do, if his video is to be believed. I had a bit of skepticism that this video was performed in a fully scientifically rigorous manner, but those were the results from the video anyway. I hinted about this in another thread related to monitors, but yes, I got lazy and didn’t want to move my stands. It resulted in some wonky monitor placement that was severely effecting the high end of my monitors. As far as “how well they work”…the cinder blocks do their job well…which is to say they hold up the monitors just fine |
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Post by drbill on Apr 8, 2023 14:34:11 GMT -6
I bet they had enough returns from the base getting bent to make a design change. Honestly, I doubt that. You could literally run over them with a truck and they would almost certainly be fine. I'd guess they wanted to reduce the dimensional size of their shipping container, and also reduce the cost of welding the base on and getting them squared up perfectly. |
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Post by drbill on Apr 8, 2023 14:36:14 GMT -6
Because people are idiots? Seriously it makes sense if you discount the cost of shipping, people tend to buy dirty cheap sand full of bugs moisture and crap vs more expensive clean sand. Yup. Playground or Aquarium sand, spread out for at least a week to dry. <thumbsup> |
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Post by Quint on Apr 8, 2023 14:44:49 GMT -6
I bet they had enough returns from the base getting bent to make a design change. Honestly, I doubt that. You could literally run over them with a truck and they would almost certainly be fine. I'd guess they wanted to reduce the dimensional size of their shipping container, and also reduce the cost of welding the base on and getting them squared up perfectly. Or that. Either way, my point simply was that having the base stick out like that, for shipping purposes, presents additional difficulty over having it designed as two pieces that you bolt together. |
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Post by Quint on Apr 8, 2023 14:46:41 GMT -6
Both of my pairs are welded at the bottom, no bolts. The comment about the video was regarding the bolt at the top, sorry if I confused anyone. Oh. Got it. |
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Post by Quint on Apr 8, 2023 15:49:36 GMT -6
So based on the conversation thus far, it sounds like no one has any experience with the Danmark stuff, good or bad. That doesn't necessarily mean I still might not go that way though. I'm running out of reasons not to do it and a few hundred ($) reasons that I should do it. I'm still waiting to hear back from my VK guy on Monday.
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Post by Quint on Apr 10, 2023 15:06:11 GMT -6
So Gino Ferrare, the owner of Danmark, sent me this YT link for assembly of their stands.
I'm pretty much sold at this point. These are going to be every bit as good as the Sound Anchors, but a few $100 cheaper. I placed an order with VK, using the store credit I had for the Neumann wall mounts I had previously purchased (long story).
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