Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Stereo Nutty Idea: Mounting M80ti's

With summer more than halfway over for me (I'm a university student) I decided to refurnish my room. After walking around furniture stores for a week with a piece of paper and measurements of everything in my room, I purchased everything that I intend on putting in my room. Not much really, the only floor piece is a new dresser. In any case, I finally began to move everything around and discovered that I'm about 10cm short to fit both of my speakers where they used to stand. So here's a nutty idea that'll probably turn some heads; since I have an attic above me I can quite easily do a cieling mount to have them hanging, this would solve a few of my problems and give me a bit more floor space. The question here is, what's a good place to make mounting holes on the speakers, if any?

If your speakers are not too heavy, perhaps you can glue a "hook" onto them. This way you avoid drilling into them.

You want me to glue hooks onto my Axiom M80ti's? heheh... I wonder how long that would last before they came crashing down.

But no, it doesn't seem like a viable option, I wish that Alan or someone from the factory would post a cross-section of the speaker or make a recommendation. I know that it's been done before because I saw a post about a year ago of the M80's hanging off a cieling.

I didn't know you had M80s...or floor-standers for that matter. Why don't you e-mail Alan for suggestions?

Have a look at the subject line, Mojo...

. I need to start reading the titles.

I remember that this had been done before...

Look at this former Axiom thread

Thanks for the link and pic.

*Grabs the dremel tool and a powerdrill*

So where do I make the holes on the M80?

I would think an Anchor of some sort was used, as the frame of every axiom speaker consists of MDF...

I know I recently put up a shelf in the garage, screwing the shelf supports into MDF...I knew in the pit of my stomach that it wouldn't hold over time with all the weight on there (wasn't much, a bunch of boxes from the speakers, and a kick drum hard case that weighs around 15 pounds mabey).

Well, it lasted for about a week, and I came into the garage and found 2 of the freaking supports ripped right out of the MDF...

Needless to say, I have since used some drywall anchors (good for 30 lbs of weight each) for each support (2 for each support) behind the MDF...nothing has crashed...yet

I know you can buy some pretty hefty anchors...but do you REALLY want to drill holes in your M80s?!?!?!

Ian has a pair of M80s hanging on the factory wall just above the CNC cutters. Give Axiom a call.

If you don't want to drill the speakers you could always just run a few cables down from the ceiling and support a flat piece of wood for the speaker to stand on.

It wouldn't hurt to ask if the holes used for mounting the feet would be strong enough to hold the speaker. Depending on how far from the ground you have it, you might want to invert anyways to get tweeters at ear level and ports & woofers near the ceiling for bass reinforcement.