Stands or no stands


Hello all. 
I have been living with my new Klipsch Heresy IV's for months now and I am really pleased. My question is this, should I stand mount them to bring them up off the floor a bit?

My Room has a concrete floor, standard drywall and stud walls, sound foam in corners on the system side, and back wall on the listening side. Drop ceiling tiles are a little better than average, the floor is carpeted. room is essentially 12'x15'.

My system is MoFi ultra deck into an NAD pre, to a McIntosh 240, and I've recently added an SVS PB 2000 sub. 

I understand that the Heresy's were designed to stay on the floor as is, but i can't help but wonder...

Thank you for any feedback.

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Understand the higher off the floor the less bass reinforcement. But also the top end dispersion will change as well. You may or may not like it, and the only way to be sure is to try it and see. Bear in mind stands for trying something like this can be anything. You can put them on a chair, a stool, a stack of books. Just so long as you understand what is going on and listen for bass and tone you will be fine. Then if you do like em higher this way you will know exactly how high and this will tell you what stands to shop for.  

Another really big one to keep in mind, this sort of thing is really only do do with frequency response. There are also big improvements to be had from vibration control. So once you get speaker height nailed down then look into putting the speakers on Townshend Pods, Podiums, Bars, or if you can't afford those then Nobsound springs. Good idea to try these before doing the stands as you may well find so much improvement with those you stop even thinking of stands.
My 84 year old friend purchased some original Heresy's that are in pristine condition. They are  mounted on some great looking stands that match the speakers perfectly.

He made some changes to dial back the over-aggressive high frequencies, and they are a great sounding and looking pair of speakers. I was very impressed with how they sounded.

The stands made a positive addition overall.

Regards,
Dan
That's what I mean, it will shift the overall tonal balance quite a bit. But may be a good tradeoff, especially if willing to tweak as this guy did. Crossovers are pretty easy to adjust this way. It could be something as simple as a higher value resistor to dial down the mid and tweeter.  

This is what I mean by try it and see, but try it with understanding what is going on. It helps a lot to be familiar with the different aspects of loudspeaker performance, and the way different things like placement impact the overall sound.
Try it and see. They are designed to get the bass reinforcement from the floor but you never know what sounds best until you try. 
Put them up on cardboard boxes (original boxes would work) and see what you get before you spend money on beefy stands. Mine are happy on the floor.