Homegrown Speaker Stands

Mark Korda · « **on:** 4 Dec 2025, 10:10 pm »

Hi, here are my speaker stands.They are in the corners of a small bedroom. On the base is an empty milk case.The diary name is not shown so I won’t get arrested.The ballast in the milk crate is a bunch of Absolute Sounds.Using zip ties I attached a Narragansett beer case awarded to me for hard work as a caretaker on Cushing Island Maine,1981,82.A friend of mine worked there too and I tracked down his case in all his junk 3 years later. Atop sits a Dynaco A-25 Mark 2,1977. It was only out a year.The

corners were dented so I bondoed them up and painted them black.I used black burlap for the grills which is more porous than the original cloth. The A-25 Mark 2 had the Seas tweeter directly above the woofer and not off set to the right.It used an Lpad instead of all those resistors for the tweeter control. I have a cat I love and he has never screwed with the grills.When not in use I leave a piece of card board on the front with a deflatbed football on top to keep the cat off. I used modeling clay for speaker gaskets for better isolation….Mark Korda

Letitroll98 · « **Reply #1 on:** 5 Dec 2025, 12:45 pm »

I'm confused, is it April 1st?

max190 · « **Reply #2 on:** 6 Dec 2025, 04:34 pm »

WTF?

mix4fix · « **Reply #3 on:** 6 Dec 2025, 08:56 pm »

keenween · « **Reply #4 on:** 6 Dec 2025, 08:57 pm »

Nice! I feel like the crates should get a matching black paint job too. Footers on the speakers or no?

Also could paint the cardboard black for that stealth look, would show more dust for sure though.

JCarney · « **Reply #5 on:** 6 Dec 2025, 10:58 pm »

Quote from: keenween on 6 Dec 2025, 08:57 pm

Nice! I feel like the crates should get a matching black paint job too. Footers on the speakers or no?

Also could paint the cardboard black for that stealth look, would show more dust for sure though.

JCarney

whell · « **Reply #6 on:** 9 Dec 2025, 06:40 pm »

Reminds me of the speaker stands I used back in the '80's in my college dorm room. Heisted milk crates, painted black, text books for ballast. They worked great!

Letitroll98 · « **Reply #7 on:** 10 Dec 2025, 01:31 pm »

Quote from: whell on 9 Dec 2025, 06:40 pm

Reminds me of the speaker stands I used back in the '80's in my college dorm room. Heisted milk crates, painted black, text books for ballast. They worked great!

We had the classic 18" cinder blocks under JBL 43xx with Wish You Were Here on continuous repeat on the Radio Shack turntable. The roommate who had the stereo didn't play rent because if he left so did the music.

timind · « **Reply #8 on:** 10 Dec 2025, 02:49 pm »

You could build something like these for not much money:

Some MDF, PVC pipe, threaded rods, washers and nuts, and some black paint. I also added threaded spikes for stability.

timind · « **Reply #9 on:** 10 Dec 2025, 02:50 pm »

Dang that picture is huge. Wish I knew how to shrink it.

JakeJ · « **Reply #10 on:** 10 Dec 2025, 04:48 pm »

You mean like this?

JakeJ · « **Reply #11 on:** 10 Dec 2025, 04:55 pm »

I used the same program to resize timind's image and to turn Mark Korda's.

Paint!

timind · « **Reply #12 on:** 10 Dec 2025, 07:51 pm »

That looks great. How'd you do it?

JakeJ · « **Reply #13 on:** 11 Dec 2025, 02:55 am »

Open your original image (too big) in Microsoft Paint. Select Size and Skew.

Just enter the reduction (or increase) of the highlighted 100% (try 50%).

Next save as a new filename and Voila!

Notice there are rotate and flip buttons just to the left.

Have yourself a field day!