Mapleshade sells some speaker stands and seems to advocate putting small speakers on the floor on small stands (thick wood) and aiming the speakers up at an angle.
I have wood floors and borrowed some Paramount Zeeba speaker couplers for my Lansche No. 5 speakers. The improvement was astounding. I am definitely going to buy a pair.
Cio52 wrote: Mapleshade has very good advice on their website and they back it up with a money back guarantee. The low height and tilt back set-up has to do with the Allison Effect (floor boundry bass reinforcement) and time alignment (think Vandersteen or Thiel speakers). The brass footers and wood plinths drain internal vibrations keeping the sound clean. This is a win win if you try them out.
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Tilting speakers back don't time align them and tweeter height is very important to things like perspective and size. I cannot see this working better than stands that place the tweeters at the optimum listening height.
there is no optimum tweeter height from what i know. some people like at ear level, some at below ear level, or higher then ear level. all subjective i guess.
Many, if not most, speaker owners manuals of the higher end, do speak of tweeter height, at least what I have experienced. But more importantly, they speak of the listeners sweet spot, along with speaker/room interaction.
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