On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 09:34:15AM +0100, Dave Malham wrote: > Whoaa! Be very careful if you are using a system like this - many years > ago I was working with Chris Richards from Cepiar, trying out some > decoder stuff here at York. He brought with him a system exactly like > this on which we mounted some of my (then brand new) Wharfedale Diamond > V's at almost 4 metres height. What Chris forgot to mention was that he > _hadn't_ fixed the speakers down in any other way than their weight. I > went to move one of the stands and the speaker fell off, grazed my right > shoulder and smashed its corner in on the floor. If it had been 50 mm > further over, I doubt if I would have been interested in height > information - or anything else - any more :-(
You have been lucky ! This is really an example of a bit too little security. But you can overdo it as well. Shortly after I moved to Parma there was an Italian AES meeting at the Casa della Musica. Angelo wanted to show off Ambisonics so we set up a double ring of eight. The stands were quite stable, the speakers not really heavy and firmly fixed to the stands. But when the director of the CdM discovered what we were going to do she demanded that each of the stands should be guarded by a Parma virgin. In the end the girls didn't show up, but nothing fell down and nobody got (nearly) killed. Ciao, -- FA _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
