high outdoor speaker stands

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himhimself
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high outdoor speaker stands

#1 Post by himhimself »

Was coming out of Menards yesterday and noticed all their hunting blinds and such out front and had an interesting thought. They had 16' high tripod stands with a platform, seat and railing that, minus the seat, could make a pretty cool way to get a stack of DR or Otops way up high. Three big stakes to firmly anchor the legs and it should be pretty sturdy. Not that I need such a thing, but I know there have been posts about getting speakers up high for festival events and such, so I thought I'd toss the idea out there. I think they were about $200 each.
By the way, I am working on building some pro-looking (I hope) non-tripod speaker stands that will get bottoms of my Otop stacks up about 5' so they will play over heads. I'll post pics once I get them done.
2xT30 (20", 3012LF)
2xT30 (21", 3012LF)
4xOtop J-array (Beta12, melded/straight piezos)
Truck Tuba (MCM)
Next up: 2xJack12 or family of table tubas

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Re: high outdoor speaker stands

#2 Post by Seth »

himhimself wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2019 8:55 am Was coming out of Menards yesterday
Hey hey hey, let's keep this family friendly :shock:

:lol:
Build in process - 2 WH6, one Alpha 6a loaded, one PRV Audio 6MB250-NDY loaded

Two 2x6 shorty SLA Pro's
One T39, 16", 3012LF loaded
Tall AutoTuba, 20" wide, 2x 8" MCM 55-2421
TruckTuba, 8½" wide, 2x 8" MCM 55-2421

himhimself
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Re: high outdoor speaker stands

#3 Post by himhimself »

:roll: Oh good grief...
"As I was walking out of a local home improvement store..." :D
I still think a couple stacks of Otops 16' in the air would be pretty cool, and avoid the issue of trying to fly them.
2xT30 (20", 3012LF)
2xT30 (21", 3012LF)
4xOtop J-array (Beta12, melded/straight piezos)
Truck Tuba (MCM)
Next up: 2xJack12 or family of table tubas

AcousticScience
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Re: high outdoor speaker stands

#4 Post by AcousticScience »

The most I've found are 4 metres as I was searching around, and these have a built in handle winch.
https://cpc.farnell.com/equinox/stan93/ ... YoQAvD_BwE

They do get progressively far more expensive compared to my Gorilla stands and my JAM stands that I preferred but managed to lose them (how!?).

I wonder what this guy's using for stands. If they are on the floor that looks to be about 3 metres, and can support double-Omnitop 12 cabs and tilt mounts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBkwjk3b9zQ
Double Omnitops are a bit much for my Gorilla stands....

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