physically protecting my monitors

[eddie.machete]

You should probably just enclose them in a wooden box and just poke a hole in the front of the box and feed a piece of string through with a paper cup on the end. Cup mixing: all the pros do it.

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[DCT3]

Easy ghetto method...

Sheet metal the same width of the monitors bent to a 90 degree angle. Kinda like a book end but the monitor sits on top of the horizontal part of the sheet metal and the vertical part protects the speaker cone itself. Obviously you can't use them like this but at least it will keep them fairly safe while you aren't around.

[jrhager84]

Death threats seem to work well for me...

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[Sinner]

Car audio places tend to sell grill covers in various sizes. Simply screw in. I put some rubber washers between the grills but not even sure that was necessary, i just had those handy.

Pyramid - Car Audio - Audio / Video Cables And Accessories - Speaker Grills

You might want to take your monitors apart to make sure you aren't drilling into anything but the wood.

[Sloot]

bump, any other solutions? car grill solution sounds good but i don't want to do any sort of damage to the monitors.

[sameal]

a friend of mine had plastic covers made for hers she put over the top of them when they weren't in use. you can purchase the plastic sheeting at a hardware store, heat it and fold it to a box shape.

but honestly, the cardboard boxes they came in would work just as well.


just cover them when not in use.


otherwise, death threats and fists of fury seem to work well.

[Bill@WelcomeHome]

in my small room, with the monitors placed correctly for the room, and the desk placed in front of the monitor stands, the monitors end up back further than most could reach.

[joelpatterson]

Originally Posted by Sloot

... any other solutions? ...

I got some "eco-friendly-green" hardware cloth and wrangled it around a bit... much easier than threatening the customers... I'm a peaceful man!

[SabreChris]

Originally Posted by joelpatterson

I got some "eco-friendly-green" hardware cloth and wrangled it around a bit... much easier than threatening the customers... I'm a peaceful man!

That just screams... "I don't trust you."

But I like it.

[joelpatterson]

Originally Posted by SabreChris

That just screams... "I don't trust you."...

Figures! I find myself quite often screaming at people, "I DON'T TRUST YOU!"

[sameal]

Originally Posted by joelpatterson

I got some "eco-friendly-green" hardware cloth and wrangled it around a bit... much easier than threatening the customers... I'm a peaceful man!

hey! you stole my monitors!

[string6theory]

I use a round metal (with rubber edge) speaker grill from GC (might have been Sam Ash) for my JBL LSR sub as its floor level. I attached it to a solid book-end and it's perfectly centered around the speaker. They may have smaller sizes more suited to monitors? I believe these were in the live sound dept.

[joelpatterson]

Originally Posted by sameal

hey! you stole my monitors!

... just borrowing them for a while, calm down...

[Sloot]

Originally Posted by joelpatterson

I got some "eco-friendly-green" hardware cloth and wrangled it around a bit... much easier than threatening the customers... I'm a peaceful man!

loool that looks ridiculous, but it may just be the solution.

but i'm thinking of using this Speaker Grill, 8" Black Metal 2 Piece Speaker Grill, SG-M8 ....

Might try to glue or screw it on top on the woofer, but I don't know how much it's going to affect the sound since the grill holes are so tight. Any other solutions would be helpful.

[2manyrocks]

Originally Posted by joelpatterson

I got some "eco-friendly-green" hardware cloth and wrangled it around a bit... much easier than threatening the customers... I'm a peaceful man!

Do you have studio mice?

Could always pick up some expanded metal mesh at your local metal shop. That's what they use on the floors of many landscape trailers. Clamp a piece between a couple of 2x4's and bend it to whatever shape you want.

Now for those really pesky folks, just add an electric fence shock controller to this setup.

[joelpatterson]

Originally Posted by 2manyrocks

... an electric fence shock controller to this setup.

I did that once around a beehive... worked GOOD, too!

The other thing which I am hesitant to mention, for fear of the ridicule of my peers... but... I would swear that after I installed the wire guard, geez but something felt better about the sound coming out of the speakers... this was a definite, definable featherweight-subtle nuance that I noticed, at least I think I did...

[jrhager84]

Originally Posted by joelpatterson

I would swear that after I installed the wire guard, geez but something felt better about the sound coming out of the speakers... this was a definite, definable featherweight-subtle nuance that I noticed, at least I think I did...

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[2manyrocks]

Originally Posted by joelpatterson

I did that once around a beehive... worked GOOD, too!

The other thing which I am hesitant to mention, for fear of the ridicule of my peers... but... I would swear that after I installed the wire guard, geez but something felt better about the sound coming out of the speakers... this was a definite, definable featherweight-subtle nuance that I noticed, at least I think I did...

There was a post here a while back where a GS was trying a set of Adams A7s at his studio. This drummer comes in with a hoodie and decides to drag the metal tip on the hoodie drawstring against the ribbon tweeter, and it gets drawn into the ribbon tweeter....

The OP asked a question worth thinking about.

[joelpatterson]

In my case it was much more prosaic... the Tannoys were going to be stage monitors, at foot level, and I just wanted to keep the Doc Martens out of the woofers. The improvement in the sonics was purely serendipity.

But this does raise a trivial issue... in olden times, there was always some kind of foam or cloth cover, you never saw a raw speaker staring you in the face... what happened?

[2manyrocks]

Marketing?

Manufacturer cutting the extra cost of a grill?

[joelpatterson]

I'd rather think it was some deep, dark conspiracy... one day we'll find out!

[2manyrocks]

I thought marketing was a deep, dark conspiracy to separate as many people as possible from their $?

[joelpatterson]

I thought that was "banner ads"?

[Arksun]

Originally Posted by Sloot

loool that looks ridiculous, but it may just be the solution.

but i'm thinking of using this Speaker Grill, 8" Black Metal 2 Piece Speaker Grill, SG-M8 ....

Might try to glue or screw it on top on the woofer, but I don't know how much it's going to affect the sound since the grill holes are so tight. Any other solutions would be helpful.

I'd be more worried about your friends or siblings poking the tweeter, thats far more fragile.

My solution? A dead bolt lock on the room door!, and be picky about who you let in when you're there too.

[2manyrocks]

Wonder what it costs to run a banner ad for my new Audio Enhancing Speaker Protection System (TM)? Now available in your choice of natural galvanized, white, black, or your custom color fit designed for your critical monitors. Special introductory price of only $29.99 per speaker plus shipping this week only.

[sameal]

speaking of grill covers........what the hell happened to all the urei 809 covers?


i think I've seen one set with them in my entire existence. i feel strongly that this non-covered speaker conspiracy movement had it's roots in the disappearance of all the urei 809 grill covers.

this thing might be bigger then we imagine.....

[Sloot]

Originally Posted by sameal

speaking of grill covers........what the hell happened to all the urei 809 covers?


i think I've seen one set with them in my entire existence. i feel strongly that this non-covered speaker conspiracy movement had it's roots in the disappearance of all the urei 809 grill covers.

this thing might be bigger then we imagine.....

urei 809 covers are the ugliest things i have ever seen...

I'm surprised that there inst a company that has made some sort of universal monitor protection sort of thing

[Sloot]

Originally Posted by Arksun

I'd be more worried about your friends or siblings poking the tweeter, thats far more fragile.

My solution? A dead bolt lock on the room door!, and be picky about who you let in when you're there too.

A grill is already built covering the tweeter on the HS80's lol... why couldn't they added some sort of optional grill like the krk vxt's...

[sameal]

Originally Posted by Sloot

urei 809 covers are the ugliest things i have ever seen...

I'm surprised that there inst a company that has made some sort of universal monitor protection sort of thing

indeed they may be. but when i hauled mine in the back of a u-haul for four hours of some of the nastiest pot holed, hilly roads I've encountered, i would have felt slightly better with them having covers.

I'm also surprised there isn't a company doing this. it seems there's at least a small business, made by order demand. like a company manufacturing these aside some other product.