Audioengine DS1 Small Desktop Speaker Stands - Designed for A1, A2+, HD3 or Similarly Sized Speakers, Tabletop Stands (Pair)

If I wanted to put my blinkers on I could mark these stands down for being pricey for what they are physically, and, yes, being just a trifle narrower than the speakers they were produced to support. Those are sort-of valid points, but I wonder how readily one would come up with a genuinely easily made or obtained alternative that is at least as effective. It's easy to come out with negative opinions, but I am more interested in the practical reality.For me, the stands are doing a remarkable job in greatly minimizing sound transmission to my computer desk from my new Audioengine A2+ speakers, with a significant subjective improvement in the sound. No, they don't completely stop such sound transmission - total isolation would be a real 'holy grail'! Nonetheless, before I was using those stands every loud passage in orchestral or organ music was causing vibration of my desk, which I could feel with my hand - and indeed could feel also right down the desk's legs, with the potential to disturb my neighbour below despite concrete floor and sound insulation underneath that - whereas now, with the stands, only the most extreme loud passages produce feelable vibration on my desk. Of course, their tilting the speakers upwards is just right for a computer desk, but if one wanted to use them, say, on high bookshelves, in some instances these stands might serve well reversed, so tilting the speakers a bit downwards.

I saw these expensive rubber feet in a YouTube video reviewing the speakers, and when I read the other Amazon reviews I was skeptical that they would make such a big difference to the sound performance... but my goodness, they weren't wrong! Somehow the sound is richer and more well rounded when the speakers are sat on these tilted feet. Massively overpriced for what they are, but they definitely work! Only 4 stars for that reason. As a side bonus, they also stop the speakers slipping around as much on my desk.

Expensive for what you get but getting the tweeter on ear level is worth it. You could fashion something yourself out of wood or thick cardboard, but these are solid rubber and have useful surface decoupling for the heavy cabinets with no play and no effect on high volumes. Very expensive but I suppose if you send low volume stuff round the world that is it.

The supports are OK, but in my opinion they are a little small and would have been better with a footprint the same size as the speakers to give safer and steadier holding.Also for a couple of rubber mouldings they are very expensive and do not greatly enhance the audio capacity of the speakers.

Funnily enough I'm on Amazon looking for something more robust to replace these with. The part at the back of the stand that holds the speaker in place just came off on both of them after a few years. Great while they last, but very poor lifespan for the money.

Defiantly a lot of money for what they are, but they do make a difference to the sound and look better than other stands I've tried so its a must buy for me if you have the speakers. Just would have been nicer if they weren't overpriced.

Worthwhile!

I found these stands for my A2+ to be a bit expensive for just some pieces of rubber! What pushed me towards buying them is my OCD for looks and assumed they would be the best at making the speakers look better and also read they improved the audio for the A2+, something I was very skeptical about but took the plunge anyway.Upon getting them out of the box, they were not much to look at and in my opinion did not visually speaking fit the speakers very well. However when it comes to audio it pretty much helped the A2+ in every way it increased clarity, opened the perceived space of the audio up and tightened and cleared up the bass which i was very happy about as it seemed very muddy before.These are definitely worth the money for how much they improve the audio but I like other reviewers have said, these should of come with the speakers. It feels a little like DLC (downloadable content) thats on a game disc already but you're being made to pay extra for it again!