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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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islandmandan
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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
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millercarbon
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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.
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mapman
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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. 
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russ69
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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. 
theaudiotweak
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The best I ever heard the Klipschhorns was when they were placed on the largest set of Starsound Sistrum platforms. They were still partially  loaded into the corners and probably 6inches off the floor. The box resonance of that large enclosure was given a way out of the system before its negativity was added to the sum of all the moving  parts. Remember a speaker box is an innocent criminal but will be found guilty as a passive radiator of all the harmonics of that speaker.  Sistrum removes interfering energy from every device in every system thru the process of mechanical grounding. Tom 

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