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How to couple my monitors to stands???

Happy New Year, everybody!

I just acquired a pair of Aerial Acoustics Model 5 monitors and will be receiving a pair of Osiris 24" stands by UPS today. I need to know what I can do to keep my speakers FIRMLY planted on the stands.

Here's the problem...For those of you unfamiliar with the Aerial 5's, they have 3 brass "cones" (for lack of a better word) that screw into the bottom of the speakers - two in the back, one in the front. The front "cone" is height adjustable and tilts the speaker back to align the tweeter and woofer. Of course, if I just set the speakers on the stands, they'll be very unstable and could easily come sliding off the stands. I've got little kids in the house, so they've got to be solidly planted.

How critical is it that the speakers be sloped? I was wondering if there might be some kind of a "cup" (again, for lack of a better term) that I could couple to the stands (with blu-tak) that would keep the cones from sliding off the stands?? I got the idea from the cups that I had to buy for a chair with casters that I was using on hardwood floors.

Any help that you can provide will be GREATLY appreciated!

BTW - I know that Aerial offers a Sound Anchor stand for these speakers, but at $500 I couldn't pull the trigger. I got the Osiris for $299 shipped.
danheather
mar00
59 posts
 
Permit me to follow up with one more suggestion for mounting your Aerials.The tilt is critical to proper time alignment.If you look at the bottom of the speakers you will notice that in addition to the inserts for the three cones there are two other inserts for machine screws.These two are for bolting the speaker to the factory stand.What you can do to achieve this factory set-up with your Osiris is simply center the speaker on the top plate cones installed.This obviously raises the speaker off the plate so you can mark where the mounting inserts would align with the top plate,then simply drill the corresponding holes a little larger than the bolt size as they will angle slightly through the plate to connect up the speaker.Just make sure to buy a bolt long enough to go through the plate and up into the speaker.This is exactly how the dedicated Sound Anchor stands are set-up
ed_sawyer
588 posts
 
Hey, sorry to rant, but really - buying a set of $2000+ speakers and skimping on stands seems like false economy to me. I have aerial 5s (among other speakers) and the factory stands cant' be beat. Great if the Osiris are nice, but they are not factory, no getting around that fact. Curiously enough, a pair of factory aerial 5 stands came up here on Agon within a day or so of your posting... for $250. And even if those are gone, I know an aerial dealer that would cut you a break, I think.

-Ed
danheather OP
108 posts
 
Hey, Ed. Thanks...and no hard feelings. I saw the posting right after I got my Osiris stands. I have since been in contact with the seller who is a heck of a guy. He let them go for $200. I located a local buyer for the Osiris stands and I'll just about break even on the deal.

Everyone has been tremendous. The gentleman selling the Aerial stands didn't have the bolts to secure the speakers to the stands, so I thought I'd contact Sound Anchor and see if I could purchase a set. Well the gentleman at Sound Anchor (who also owns Model 5s) said that he'd drop a set in the mail...For Free!!

Good people all the way around. Thanks everybody for your advice. It's greatly appreciated.
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