Thread: tilt/swivel mechanism

Altronics Australia sell what they call the Wacki Bracket. It isn't specifically for stands but it may do the job. Here's the link.

Thanks, unfortunately that would not be suitable, my speaker boxes have 36mm front baffles, 18mm side panels and a latice of 12mm mdf inside, plus two several kilo woofers and a tweeter. They weigh about 20 kilos each, the rating of one of those is 5kg unfortunately.

Could you explain a bit more how and where they are going to be positioned. Are they going to be on the floor, the wall or from the ceiling? How big are you expecting the brackets to be? I'm sure that there is something out there to do the job.

I have two high end monitors on a computer, which were placed behind a desk out from the wall about 2 meters behind, however since i moved to a 21in flat CRT plus my old 19in flat CRT the acoustics have been stuffed.

Thanks to the old plaster on our walls i am unable to wall mount anything, and speaker stands high enough to go over the monitors are impractical. I want to build some stands that will bolt to each rear corner of my desk, but high enough to get the correct distance. I need something that will allow me to swivel and tilt the speakers on the stands, so i can tweak them for the correct angle etc (they have poor vertical off axis response, so "aiming" them at the right angle is very important")

Bunnings had something a bit like this:

http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/pshow...number=182-155

but in black steel, rated to 25kgs, sold as a wall mount, but a pair cost $60. I feel there must be a cheaper solution, able to be mounted to a steel rectangular tube section, or MDF or something.

Send a message to "Soundman", he's into speakers, sound and making stuff for sound...

I have had an idea for a while that I haven't got around to using. It doesn't relate to this thread precisely but since I put it on another forum I thought I'd paste it here for future reference too.

• Get a 200mm poly pipe (or larger) and two end caps.
  Glue on one end cap and fill with sand.
  Glue on other end cap
  Make a wooden box base with a hole in the top to sit the pipe in for stability.
  Make a similar box for the top except with a hole in the bottom.
  Paint the pipe (marblise maybe?), stain the wood to your liking.
  Sit speaker on top and crank up the volume.

The theory for the design is simple, the wood provides a platform for stability, the pipe provides the mass and simplicity of construction. The modular design allows it to be moved easily.
Finally, if you are careful with the dimensions, it will resemble a classical Roman column - replete with base, column and entablature - that should suit any decor.

ther are quite a few specaliased brackets available for this and similar applications, and quite a few more that were intended for other applications but work just fine for speakers.

two of my prefered options for relativly small speakers (probably not small to many here) are TV wall mount brackets and TFT monitor mounts. I actualy prefer these to many of the speaker brackets.

The Tv wall brackes will support a resonable 12" & horn box anf the TFT mounts will easiliy handle a 8" two way box.

If you are mounting on top of a pole you will probaly throw most of the mounting kit out & just use the tilt swivel bits.

I'd have to know how the rest of the gismo was to work and a better idea of the size & shape of the boxes and the available mounting methods.

let me know if you need further assistance.
cheers

BTW I hate wacki brackets. I had to use them once or twice and they never seem to have enough ability to point the speaker where they need to go.
& they are only for very very light stuff.
cheers