What stands do you use for Heresy's?

[JohnT123]

I am experimenting with stands for my Heresy II speakers. There seems to be many ideas and solutions.

I have mine on risers about with a slight tilt back. the height is 6 1/2" at the rear and 7 1/2" at the front. This is working but I've read a lot of people saying they should be higher. I raised the riser by 4" and the bottom end just fell apart. I took out the 4" blocks and it came back.

I'm wondering if the short little risers that Klipsch sold would be any better. Do these speakers sound better close to the floor? I use spikes on the bottom of my stands to decouple them. I'm in an apartment so decoupling is a must and I can't use a sub. The neighbors would be the only ones to hear it.

 

[moray james]

Skylan Stands which are custom made and are of exceptional quality made from polymer resin and MDF and no metal.

 

[sKiZo]

I don't have Heresy's, so I can't tell you.

(Don't mind me ... I posted a question up on Amazon yesterday and you should see some of the drivel posted back. Truly sad it is.)

Anyway - if you're into DIY, I make stands out of #2 pine and give em a couple coats of gravel guard paint. The paint gives them almost a leather-like look, and you can adjust that to your liking by how many layers you spray on.

Make the top flat and experiment with angle by just propping scrap wood under as needed. Once you hit on the secret combo, make pads to fit the top of the stands and lock the speakers in place. For that, velcro is your friend as insurance for when you're really hitting it and the boxes start bouncing.

Oh - rule of thumb for speaker placement is your basic triangle, with the speakers toed into the primary listening position, and adjust the angle to shoot the tweets right at your ears. Add to that any specifics listed in the owner's manual for your brand, and yer golden.

Have fun with it, eh. I'm sure you're getting buried in snow about now, so no excuses.

EDIT >> Then again, those Skylan stands look pretty good, and should do the trick nicely. So forget I mentioned it, eh. <G>

EDIT AGAIN >> Then again, six hundred bux a pair? Yikes!

 

[JohnT123]

Sounds like trial and error to get them correct. My listening space is horrible. The speakers sit at either end of a partition wall 8 ft long. There's a good 12 feet of empty air behind each speaker and I sit about 8 feet in front of the wall, I'm wondering if I should relocate them against a solid wall with more space between them. Maybe in corners?

Anything I use I will need to build, but I do appreciate the eye candy @moray james.

I was curious about the Klipsch designed risers but if there's no mojo in the design I'll carry on experimenting. I already know 1 setup that doesn't work. I think the speakers are as good as I'm going to get them so now its all about location. Some advise to have the squawker pointed at your face but it didn't work for me. Perhaps I'm just too close to hear the low frequency waves propagate.

 

[vinylaudio]

I have a dedicated listening room, so I'm not sure how helpful this will be. I have mine on stands so that the tweeter and squawker are roughly at ear level. For my sofa, this means stands that are ~27" from spike tip to speaker bottom. I have them about 8" off the wall, which puts the front baffles a few inches beyond anything that is between the two speakers. I feel the imaging and sound stage is best when the tweeters and squawkers are roughly at ear level. You could do some testing in your space with random height objects to see what gives you the best results, and then but nice looking stands that are a similar height.

 

[uteman1011]

I bought the OEM replacements from Crites. I spec'd them but seem to have misplaced the measurements. I'll keep digging if you want to try and make your own.

 

[Schmidlapper]

I bought the OEM replacements from Crites. I spec'd them but seem to have misplaced the measurements. I'll keep digging if you want to try and make your own.
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same here Crites makes a great riser.

I use spikes on the bottom of my stands to decouple them.

I’m pretty sure spikes are meant to couple the speaker to the floor. Some sort of isolation block would decouple them.

Bill

 

[ThomasD.]

Really hate beating a dead horse here because I know how much better sounding the mids of my H2’s are @ ear level. But the bass drastically deteriorates the further away from the floor they get. Had mine on 24” stands and w/o a sub they were lifeless. I’m not a sub person so back down to the floor and slightly tilted up they went. I’m happy again. YMMV.

 

[mkane]

Had a pair over 30 years and they never got off the floor.

 

[usedto]

Really hate beating a dead horse here because I know how much better sounding the mids of my H2’s are @ ear level. But the bass drastically deteriorates the further away from the floor they get. Had mine on 24” stands and w/o a sub they were lifeless. I’m not a sub person so back down to the floor and slightly tilted up they went. I’m happy again. YMMV.

If you tilt the fronts up a few inches you get the same benefits without losing the bottom end.

 

[genes]

Stock Klipsch riser height bass too resonance. Agree with JohnT123 7 1/2" rise just right for even tone. I do find 3 1/2 " increases the stage height. They remind me of stage monitors.

 

[wetowne]

I have Heresys with the flat factory risers. I friction fit some 1x3 strapping lumber in the front between the sides of the risers. Tilts them, looks ok and doesn't alter the speakers in any way.

 

[ThomasD.]

Stand’s I had made for my Polk 7a’s but they fit the H1’s so well I use them in the rotation.

 

[moray james]

Sounds like trial and error to get them correct. My listening space is horrible. The speakers sit at either end of a partition wall 8 ft long. There's a good 12 feet of empty air behind each speaker and I sit about 8 feet in front of the wall, I'm wondering if I should relocate them against a solid wall with more space between them. Maybe in corners?

Anything I use I will need to build, but I do appreciate the eye candy @moray james.

not just eye candy but you can use them as a guide for what works ratio wise. You can use black plastic pluming pipe easy to find and not too expensive. Yes mid horn/driver at your seated ear level you can adjust with toe in/out and speaker position. I like an equilateral triangle.

 

[KlipschFan61]

The Crites risers seemed to have brought a better soundstage to the party.

 

[JamesML]

Made my own risers for my Heresy 1s. I couldn't say my design is optimal - purely guesswork in fact. I just wanted them raised off the floor.
They sound OK. But there is always room for improvement.

 

[KlipschFan61]

Had a pair over 30 years and they never got off the floor.

Lazy speakers!

 

[mkane]

^ and just busy people. Those were my working days. Left @ 4am got home @ 7pm.

 

[billyz]

I put them on Ultimate Tripod stands and use for P.A.

 

[bassgruvn]

I have mine on a set of ADS L810 stands. Work great.