Advice on Speaker Stands

[terrybooth]

Why do you think most bar stools have only three legs?

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

Because the pubs are too cheapscate to pay for four

Personally i think the "three" hi-fi thing is daft. Probably someone like a Jimmy Hughes said it somewhere so it takes on religious importance

Three is not more stable, it is easier to level.

[zebbo]

Four is fine if they are adjustable if not there is no way you will get a perfect seating as the top plate of the speaker stand may look flat but it isn't flat enough.

[George Hincapie]

Why do you think most bar stools have only three legs?

Personally, I haven't carried out a national census on the number of legs on a bar stool, but in my experience it's mixed between three and four legs.

[George Hincapie]

Three is not more stable, it is easier to level.

That's irrelevant for speakers though surely?

[zebbo]

A three legged support will sit stable on any surface, that's why photographers and surveyors use tripods.

[_D_S_J_R_]

The Jimmy H thing was to do with odd numbers.

[Geoff.R.G]

Think about it, with three legs all three are guaranteed to be on the surface, with four there is always the possibility that one will not be. Photographers use tripods for exactly the same reason.

[savvypaul]

My stands have 3 spikes to their triangular base.

From scratch, I can level them and have them rock solid in a minute or so each. It used to take me ages to level a floorstander I had which had 4 spikes, and I never felt like it was properly stable.

[terrybooth]

Three is not more stable, it is easier to level.

Presactly!.