Isolation Stand Details

It is often necessary to isolate or "lift" the studio monitor speakers from your desk or stands so they don't resonate, don't act like a secondary (unwanted) source of sound. There are some isolation foams you can buy for cheap which gives you limited capabilities and often does not fitting your speakers' size - so you'll want something more aesthetic and not so pricy.

Sizes:

• Base
  • 130x150, most likely for small speakers, like <5"
  • 150x190, probably will fit 5-7" the best
  • 200x200, for monitor cubes or sub
  • 200x250. for 7-8"
  • 230x230, 8" and above, in the illustration my Kali IN-8 v2 are standing on top

of them. Also the size of many speaker stands are 230x230.

• Rod
  • 30 mm to 60 mm by 5 millimeter steps, choose the one that fits your needs.

Printing:

• Materials required: PLA (PETG will do as well) & TPU
• Supports are required for 01 base *
• I printed with 40% infill, type: adaptive cubic / cubic-subdivision
• Build plate adhesion: brim is required for 01 base * , please see slicer image of custom brim / ears around the “X”, it is required to avoid warping. Yes, even PLA would warp on such long straight edges and get off from the build plate!
• Print sufficient numbers of parts:
  • 2x 01 base (your choice of size) (PLA/PETG)
  • 4x 02 rod (your choice of size) (PLA/PETG)
  • 8x 03 foot (TPU)
  • 8x 04 dampener (TPU) - If you put more than one piece of TPU components on a build plate it is

recommended to set printing order from by layer to by object in order to avoid too much TPU blobbing and stringing

Assembly:

• As the 01 base is printed you will need to remove brims & supports, the side which originally facing top will receive the foot parts
  • The side which were facing the build plate will receive the dampener parts
  • Repeat this for the 2nd set of 01 base and 03 foot and 04 dampener parts
• Turn the 2 printed 01 base parts facing each other with the dampeners and insert the 02 rod parts in-between