Impact of speaker stands?

The day I spend $3K on speaker stands is the when they put me away for my own good. My Timbernation stands were a little more than 1/10th the cost of those Raidho stands and the amount of image focus was dramatic.

Kick drums no longer emanate sound from the whole surface of the skin but start from the center and work their way outward. It's that much better. Images shrink ever so slightly due to this focus lock and everything seems a lot more real. With the tighter focus comes a darker background and better separation. You get the picture. I didn't think it would be this good.

All the best,
Nonoise

The higher end Raidho's require there 3k dollar stands...thats insane..

With the Raidho the stands de-couple the speakers. Talk about wobble!! But they sure look good. I never tried a solid stand like my Dynaudio Stand4 but I would guess it would ruin the sound. What was very interesting when I had the D1's I added 3/4" granite slabs under the stands (I have padded carpet on concrete). It made the sound more forward and tighter. Sounded great. Very similar as adding the spikes to the Dyn stands when I had the C1's

Thx for all responses. I don't have a dedicated room so the stands have to look good as well as function effectively. The system is on the ground floor of my townhouse which has wood floors over a concrete pad. Anything that spikes into the floor is not going to fly. (Space in Hawaii is at a premium and at 57 my townhouse is paid for and it would cost me another $200k to buy a house to gain another room. I love audio and music but I have to make this work here.) So its not clear to me whether I want to couple to the floor or I so late from it? I looked at Timber nation stands and could ,"sell" those to my wife. Skylan stands would be OK...less WAF. So I buy the stand argument but still a little fuzzy on the right way to go?