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Well Ace, put on your brass cup and nomex underwear.
How do you take your ACE...? I like mine well done.
All kidding aside, I just looked up these stands - the wording and promises on the site are sketchy at best. Time alignment? We worry about that in arenas - not living rooms! Sound travels over a 20' area in open air in 0.015 milliseconds, so even if there was a difference of 20' in your speaker distances, the "time alignment" wouldn't suffer nearly as much as the relative loudness would. The "major time shift" involved in something as drastic as that is about the same length of time occupied by a single CD sample (of which there are 44100 in one second).
But these at least have a good chance at changing the sound of a set of speakers, they reorient the drivers (to a strange, uppercut - below and rising - kind of stance?) and in the case of rear ported speakers (like the Axiom bookshelves), they reduce the breathing room behind the port (much like placing an M22 on a stand in a corner) which accentuates the bass reproduction.
Bren R.
