How do pack a pair of large speakers


You disposed of the packaging material for your large speakers, and now you want to ship them safely. How would you go about this? Are there professional packaging companies that can do this kind of job without costing too much? Are there companies that do full-service packaging and LTL freight?

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strong outer protection (box) speakers are secured inside the box with thick surrounding ( of bubble wrap..) Themocol/sponge spacers (3-6" thick) which keeps object in place no matter what. securing Corners are very important. Plastic cover to take shower. Imagine what abuse box is going to get during transport. Handlers not aware of how fragile, sensitive or expensive is product inside. Handlers may throw from 15feet high. Box may sit exposed to all elements. Forklift may brush the carton.

I recently moved and had the moving company do "custom crates" for heavy, expensive monitors. Turns out they charged $300 bucks for it and all it was was a guy taping some cardboard he cut on the fly to the speakers. Fortunately they weren't damaged and I got my money back but definitely go with original packaging or pay service that does this and only this.

The usual 2 ways....

Badly or correctly.

Will likely cost about the same if the shipper even considers the first...perhaps more on the advised insurance...

What model of speakers are they?  This would determine how large and heavy they are and if they need to be crated rather than having cardboard boxes. 

You buy new packaging from the speaker manufacturer.

This should 100% be your go-to if the company is still available for it. Barring that, TMR does their own custom injected Styrofoam, molded to the shape of the speaker/component on one side, the intended box on the other, and covered in plastic - that stuff works pretty well, but I’m not sure of its upper limit for size & weight of really big speakers.

Closed-cell foam snugly molded to the speaker ends (optionally with an extra middle piece for tall speakers) is what many manufacturers choose for a reason. Needs to be at least a few inches thick.

This should go without saying, but bubble wrap and packing peanuts and the like are useless here.

Outer box should be double / triple wall cardboard at a minimum and with corner reinforcements for larger suff.