Stand to raise my Mid/Tops
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Topic: Stand to raise my Mid/Tops
Posted By: Chris P
Subject: Stand to raise my Mid/Tops
Date Posted: 16 September 2008 at 10:07pm
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My system currently consists of two LABs and two USBs with four Ohm Rw3s. It kicks out a lovely sound but i desperatly want to have another pair of USBs. While i think this would obvioulsy be useful in achieving more bass (main "kick") i think the added height the overall system would achieve would be useful as it would riase the mid tops up above peoples heads and stop the sound getting lost in the first 5 rows of people. My problem is making another pair of USBs and buying the amp to power them would cost about a grand. A grand i simply dont have......yet. So as a simple solution to this problem i designed and built this little stand to sit above my USBs. Its the same height as a USB/LAB and i used a simular (but not copycat) design to stay in keeping with the aesthetic qualities of the system. Although not yet finished, i've incorporated a tilting mechanism which will allow me to tilt the RW3s forwards. My guess was that if it turned out i could achieve better sound by causeing the cabs to fire down to help with a dispersion issue, i could. I'll post a picture of it working when i'm done. Anyway, heres what i've got so far...  A sketch of what i wanted to achieve.     |
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Posted By: adambomb
Date Posted: 16 September 2008 at 10:11pm
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Nice design.. good thinking too.. I like em. How does the tilt work? ------------- http://www.freespeakerplans.com" rel="nofollow - www.freespeakerplans.com |
Posted By: Chris P
Date Posted: 16 September 2008 at 10:17pm
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I'm basicly going to make a hinge out of a bar that will run the whole width of the front of the stand/frame. If you look at the top panel i've cut a small section the width of the centre support. As the middle part sticks out further than the left and right sides (due to it having to support two trap shaped cabs side by side) the front will drop down when the back is raised (i sure hope this makes sence! ha!). I'm just going to put two supports on the back with multiple holes for various angles, which with push the back up, angleing the cabs on top downwards. |
Posted By: breakdabeat pete
Date Posted: 16 September 2008 at 10:21pm
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nice just got to make sure no idiots pull it out of the stack and send everything crashing to the ground
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Posted By: Chris P
Date Posted: 16 September 2008 at 10:29pm
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Hehe, never fear. I'm ratchet strapping the stand to the the lower section, and i'm making a bar that will be attached to a threaded rod that will clamp the mid tops down onto their small sections of speaker poles resting in tophats. I would use ratchet straps again, but i've had issues with strapping down trap cabs as the strap always works backwards and gets loose. It SHOULD (in theory at least) be quite stable. |
Posted By: FarmerWardy
Date Posted: 17 September 2008 at 12:14am
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nice idea, more labs is the answer. trap cabs are annoying to strap. a friend of mine came up with the idea of strapping a bit of wood to the top of the cabs, making sure its wider than the speaker boxes, this then only pulls down on the wood, not the boxes, and prevents them from pulling together or the strap moving backwards. |
Posted By: darkmatter
Date Posted: 17 September 2008 at 12:44am
looking good, you seen this mate? something toasty posted in the soundsystems thread, a pic of the new funktion one install in mint club in leeds: |