How to Make a Speaker Stand with Milk Crates

"Making" a speaker stand can be extremely easy and rewarding, as long as you know what you are looking for: namely, a clean, attractive, milk crate.

This is assuming that you need a stand for a relatively large speaker. Go to your local grocery store, and ask the guy in the back of the store if he has any unused milk crates.

Assuming that he does, bring them home and carefully place your speakers on the crates, one speaker per crate.

The elevation of the speaker may improve the bass response you get in your room (it depends on placement within the room and on proximity to walls and floor), and may improve other aspects of performance as well. If your speaker is directional at higher frequencies (not uncommon), placing it closer to ear level may improve clarity and tonality.

If you are unable to procure milk crates, go for the next best thing: a stack of books or other hard items.

Tips

• Be sure to ask nicely at the store!
  
  
  • To get more stable bearing between the speaker and milkcrate put between the surfaces a piece of plywood or anything like that, even some newspaper. This obviates the speaker sliding on the crate's top.

Warnings

• • High quality speakers tend to be heavy, and are sometimes awkwardly shaped, and often have odd weight placement within them (unlike a uniformly dense otherwise equivalent box). Accordingly, stability of the speaker / stand combination is not likely to be as you automatically expect. given the trials of life (pets, stumbles, children, ...), it may be necessary to secure the speaker / stand combination. This can be done in several ways, from attaching the speaker bottom to the stand (eg, double sided tape, construction adhesive, Velcro strips, ...) though some methods may damage the speaker finish. A common method in high end audio is to use screws (assuming the speaker cabinet will accept them -- some plastics don't work well with screws), but this must be done carefully as air leakage from the cabinet may affect speaker performance (mostly an issue with acoustic suspension enclosures). Since many quality speakers are more than heavy enough to cause injury (or death in the case of the smaller amongst us), attention to this point may avert tragic (or expensive) consequences.

Things You'll Need

• Speakers (large)
• Milk Crates