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Wow cant mount them on the walls? You Sure? they are no more damaging than hanging mirrors or pictures? Drywall is much easier to repair than building makeshift speaker stands..... a little mud, 2 hours and some paint....done. Just my 2 cents....
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That's my 2 cents as well. If you ask for everyone's 2 cents on this board, you just may have change left over once all the work is done! 
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Walls were made to put holes in. That's why they aren't made of steel!  That... that... makes sense. (!)
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Ok so today I'm leaning towards putting holes in the walls anyway. So... what sort of anchors should I use. I'm thinking the plastic ones that you drive screws into in a size where the plastic part is just slightly smaller than the holes in the brackets and then put a washer on the screw. The other option I think is to find studs and use 3 screws in the center of the bracket.
I just remembered these things came with a manual... I wonder what it says.
Sorta related. I have an Outlaw Audio LFM-1 Plus which is a down firing subwoofer. I have the carpet spikes installed but this place has some pretty deep carpet. I'm wondering if I should put something under it to raise it out of the carpet or possibly put the hard floor discs under the carpet spikes.
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Ok so today I'm leaning towards putting holes in the walls anyway. So... what sort of anchors should I use. I'm thinking the plastic ones that you drive screws into in a size where the plastic part is just slightly smaller than the holes in the brackets and then put a washer on the screw. The other option I think is to find studs and use 3 screws in the center of the bracket.
I just remembered these things came with a manual... I wonder what it says.
Sorta related. I have an Outlaw Audio LFM-1 Plus which is a down firing subwoofer. I have the carpet spikes installed but this place has some pretty deep carpet. I'm wondering if I should put something under it to raise it out of the carpet or possibly put the hard floor discs under the carpet spikes. Find the studs. You can start with a plug in the wall. The plug is attached to a stud on one side or the other. Studs are generally 16" on center - at least around here. You can measure out with any standard tape measure and get pretty close. To be sure, you can take a drill with a small bit like 1/16 and locate for sure. Not hard, you just have to jump in and do it. When you are ready to leave for good, Spackle the hole and maybe repaint - dependant on your landlord. If he is going to repaint anyway, he will appreciate you patching the holes. Speaking from experience, dude.
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Newer homes are getting spec'd with studs on 24" centers out here. A stud finder works very well for locating studs and no extra holes required The sub should do fine sitting on the floor. LFE is very hard to cancel but you can certainly try it out with the floor discs or a piece of MDF cut to fit the area of the feet and thus you can reflect the sound waves out/up vs. having them forced into the floor not that I beleive it really matters much. LFE is like a ripple in a puddle of water and it just emminates outward in all directions, but worth a try.
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Newer homes are getting spec'd with studs on 24" centers out here. A stud finder works very well for locating studs and no extra holes required Everything is getting cheaper. I figured he might not have one of those hi tech stud finders - or the magnetic kind either.
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I've got a stud finder... the high tech kind and a hammer I don't really trust the stud finder from use in my old apartment but I think the walls there were plaster lath over concrete reinforced with lead coated straw and asbestos since the place was built in the 1940s.
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Not to mention they were probably 10" on center back in them days.
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