Speaker grille protection

[Kobus]

Since I received my 803,s I was worried that my grille will get damaged when my theatre gets vacuumed. (ie. knocked at the bottom)

When I had my new kitchen fitted there were some offcuts of granite. That gave me the idea to use this to make "stands" for the speakers. It works great and looks classy to.

[misterdoggy]

Kobus,

Nice look to the speakers but........

The only comment might be that you should put you speakers on spikes as you will have a better sound. Also The rug will be crushed in a circle if you ever move them and you will have a huge round flat area.

Spikes would make "pinholes" in the rug that you won't see and improve sound quality.

[Kobus]

I know the spikes do work for sound and performance, but they dont raise the speakers high enough to stop them from being knocked by the vacuum cleaner. I am working on a plan to put the granite on spikes.

[misterdoggy]

Or the spikes on Granite with cups would probably work better too.

[caleb]

Lovely idea Kobus - what are your plans for the HTM?

Will you raise it - it looks very vulnerable on the floor there. :E

BTW wherebaouts are you in Cape Town?

[Kobus]

I have a piece of granite for the htm, but not sure what to do with it.
All around the front of the room I made this step thing, about 30cm (1 foot) deep. I made this for looks really, without thinking about my centre speaker. At the moment the centre is standing on this "step". The problem is that the step is to narrow for a propper stand and I do not really want to bring the centre to much forward.

Caleb, I stay in Durbanville.

[gerardhn]

Hello

Could we make an ideal stand with granite????
What do we think??

See also..

http://cgi.ebay.de/B-W-803-803S-800-Serie-Granitplatten-Paradiso_W0QQitemZ7552298669QQcategoryZ75779QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Right now for sale btw

[Kobus]

mmmmm.... and why did I think this was an original idea of mine !

What do you mean with "ideal stand"?.

[gerardhn]

With ideal i mean
the possibilties you get to decouple the speaker with the granite plate