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I'm looking for a 15-20" tall speaker stand for an M80. Has anyone found one that can hold it?
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I take it you don't have a stage below your screen that the 80's are sitting on like mine? Normally you want the tweeters at ear level when seated, seems like they would be to high if sitting on 15-20' stands. jm2cents
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I take it you don't have a stage below your screen that the 80's are sitting on like mine? Normally you want the tweeters at ear level when seated, seems like they would be to high if sitting on 15-20' stands. jm2cents
Hi Sirquack,
I'm using a setup very similar to yours, except I'm using an acoustically transparent screen with an M80 for the center channel. So I'm wanting to use this speaker stand to raise the M80 up behind the screen.
(Brian at Axiom said that they have an M80 that's wall mounted using two of their speaker brackets. That could work, but I'm a little leery about taking a drill to my cabinet!)
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What is the location of your left/right m80s? For the best experience, you want the tweeters of all 3 to be at the same level. This may not be possible for you though. Bring on the pictures. 
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What is the location of your left/right m80s? For the best experience, you want the tweeters of all 3 to be at the same level. This may not be possible for you though.
Bring on the pictures.
I do understand the advantages of getting the tweeters all at the same height, and if I were doing HT only, I'd mount L,C, and R behind the screen at the same level. However, audio will be a large part of the listening percentage, so I'm compromising by putting the L and R flanking the screen and on the stage (very much like your setup).
Pictures are about a month out. The room and stage are ready, just waiting for everything now (speakers, pre-amp, amp, projector).
So... how can I raise up this M80 to live behind the screen?
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Nuke, it still isn't entirely clear(at least to me)why you'd require that the center speaker be raised. There doesn't appear to be a good reason not to have the M80 sitting at the same level as the mains with the mids and tweeters presumably being high enough so as to be behind the screen.
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How far away from the wall will this M80 be? The ports need room to breathe.
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Dude- Just put each on a matching sub! 
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Nuke, it still isn't entirely clear(at least to me)why you'd require that the center speaker be raised. There doesn't appear to be a good reason not to have the M80 sitting at the same level as the mains with the mids and tweeters presumably being high enough so as to be behind the screen.
Hi JohnK,
This is my first AT (acoustically transparent) screen. As I understand it, you want your center channel to be in a position so that the sound is coming from the middle of the screen (instead of above or below it). That's why I want to raise the M80. And yes, optimally, L,C, and R would be mounted at the same height behind the screen, but that would put the tweeters quite a ways above the listener's ears.
I may try that configuration, but my original issue would be tripled; how do I get them up there?
But my plan is to split the difference between what is best for movies (center channel in the middle of the screen) and music (L and R with tweeters more or less at ear level flanking the screen).
Unless there's something wrong with my thinking here. Am I doing something stupid here?
Thanks for your help!
-Nuke
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How far away from the wall will this M80 be? The ports need room to breathe.
Hi Mojo,
I was planning to have it fairly close to the wall (about 2-4"). I assumed that would be OK since Brian at Axiom told me they had an M80 mounted to a wall using two of their speaker brackets (which would put it about that far away). Figured they'd know what acceptable placement for this speaker would be.
Could be wrong though. How far does an M80 need to be from a wall to breathe? I could move my screen forward a bit to give the speaker more room if it'll make a huge difference.
Thanks for your input and help.
- Nuke
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