Advice on Speaker Stands

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

I have had similar in the past. The one I always remember which must have been in the 90's was an on going compliant that went on and on with a customer, who insisted the product was faulty (one speaker). I kept telling him to use his ears to find the problem. Eventually he did and it was a glass nick-nack on a glass shelf behind the speaker vibrating. I am not saying this is the case now but it may be similar. That one was a tizz sound, another one I remember was occasional lower frequency buzz that turned out to be a loose window pane.

[savvypaul]

Rooms - fixtures, fittings etc - definitely like to sing along to the music...

Ornaments, pictures, glasses, cups, door frames, even furniture that's not screwed together properly

Little fixes for these are free and easy if you can spend the time

Extra room furnishings can also help, IME - heavy rugs, books, heavy curtains

Apologies if I am stating the bleedin' obvious...

[George Hincapie]

*sigh*

I am starting to feel as though my integrity is being challenged/questioned. Is that the case or am I misinterpreting what is being posted?

[SteveTheShadow]

Nobody's challenging your integrity, folks are trying their best to help.
Put your culprit speaker on the floor and off any stands, spikes or any other gubbins and preferably on the carpet, now play the offending piece of music, get close to the culprit speaker and try to make it distort. If you hear the distortion coming from the driver or the cabinet, then you have the source of your problem. If you hear nothing untoward then the "distortion has to be somewhere else in the room or to do with the stands.

[savvypaul]

*sigh*

I am starting to feel as though my integrity is being challenged/questioned. Is that the case or am I misinterpreting what is being posted?

I understand the frustration, but doesn't look that way in terms of the actual substance of the replies. As you know, I'd be the first to throw up a red flag if I thought that were the case.

There are lots of variables that could cause the symptoms you describe. Try the suggestions given, and...follow your ears. It's only fair to Doc to go through the process of ruling everything else out before you engage him in taking apart / testing / building. And if you track it down before then... you are awarded 'expert' status of your own...

You'll get there.

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

*sigh*

I am starting to feel as though my integrity is being challenged/questioned. Is that the case or am I misinterpreting what is being posted?

You are misinterpreting.

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

Nobody's challenging your integrity, folks are trying their best to help.
Put your culprit speaker on the floor and off any stands, spikes or any other gubbins and preferably on the carpet, now play the offending piece of music, get close to the culprit speaker and try to make it distort. If you hear the distortion coming from the driver or the cabinet, then you have the source of your problem. If you hear nothing untoward then the "distortion has to be somewhere else in the room or to do with the stands.

Very good suggestion.

[Fretless]

Been listening to the Laura Marling track 'What He Wrote'. It has a simple and open arrangement with a simple bass note (acoustic guitar, I think) - an ideal track to get anything vibrating in or around a speaker.

Here's a track that caused me a lot of trouble:
Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny - waltz for ruth

[George Hincapie]

Nobody's challenging your integrity, folks are trying their best to help.
Put your culprit speaker on the floor and off any stands, spikes or any other gubbins and preferably on the carpet, now play the offending piece of music, get close to the culprit speaker and try to make it distort. If you hear the distortion coming from the driver or the cabinet, then you have the source of your problem. If you hear nothing untoward then the "distortion has to be somewhere else in the room or to do with the stands.

I have had time to do this today. The distortion still occurs with the Cube on the floor...until I press on the top grille and it stops...

I tried pressing on both grilles the other evening when advised to try by Doc and although it reduced it, it didn't stop it. Clearly I wasn't pressing firmly enough. How can I secure the grille properly?

P.S. Thanks.

[zebbo]

When I had this with mine I just pushed the grille sideways. With mine I found I could almost get it to vibrate with a sharp tap with my fingertips, (not knuckles), so I just kept shoving it about until it sounded "dead". It hardly moves at all, certainly not enough to see but it did sort of wedge-in tighter.
If that fails, (or in my case if it starts to do it again), I would go round the rubber seal, lifting it and squeezing a drop of Uhu glue in there every couple of inches or so.