Monitors - Clamping them to a desk

fastonebaz

My monitors take up alot of space on my desk although they are nicely damped on foam seats.  I can't mount them on the wall or floor standing as there's not enough room.  However I could clamp them to the edge of the desk so they're just off the desk.

Is it a bad idea to do that due to vibrations through the clamps into the desk?  

octatonic

Show me what the clamp looks like.

In theory you could decouple the speakers using some ISOpucks.
I use 2 sets of them with my 2 pairs of monitors and they work great.

fastonebaz

@octatonic ;
I don;t have any clamps yet. Just started looking for some but wasn't sure if it was a general no no or not.

octatonic

This is what the Isopucks look like on my Sound Anchor stands.

They are heavy rubber pucks, they decouple the speaker really well.
Bass response is noticeably tighter using them, even though the Sound Anchors stands weigh about 20kg each.

If you can get 3 or 4 pucks under the speaker then it will help reduce vibration between the stand and the speaker.
I prefer using 4, even though 3 would be acoustically slightly better- it is more stable.

fastonebaz

Very nice as always.  Checked out the isopucks and they look great.  cheers

octatonic

Sweet.

Musicwolf

I use a pair of these https://www.thomann.de/gb/millenium_desktop_monitor_stand_dm3.htm to lift my monitors off the desk which gives me a little extra room underneath.  I can tilt them downwards so that the tweeters are pointing at my ears when I'm adopting my normal slouching listening position.

Thomann also do a stand that clamps to the desk but I've never seen one so can't comment on its usability

https://www.thomann.de/gb/millenium_desktop_monitor_mount_dm1.htm 

I useful tip is to sit the monitors on four, marble sized, blobs of blu-tak (a cheap DIY version of the ISOpucks)