Speaker stands

[Nick1881]

I'm after some advice and opinions on speaker stands. I have Kef R300 speakers on Atacama HMS1.1 stands.

The speakers are 210 W x 345 D mm, the shop I bought the speakers from also sold me the stands, the top plate on these is only width 145 mm, depth 210 mm. Does anyone think these are a bit small?

Here is a pic of how my room looks at the moment

So I was thinking of changing them and was looking at wooden stands, this place will make the stands to my spec http://www.customspeakerstands.co.uk/ but the centre column would be 90 x 120 mm, they would be £155 and they could match the colour of my AV cabinet. I'm a bit worried how good it will look with so much wood.

Or I could buy Atacama HMS 2.1. I also looked at Partington Super Dreadnought but they are too small and the broadside version is £300 which is a bit much.

Any thoughts, opinions or suggestions? Should I stick with what I have?

Thanks

 

[kidloco]

They will be absolutely fine mate. I have actama se24 stands, the top p,ate dimensions are pretty much the same, about 3 cm wider though. Have Monitor Audio GS10s sat on them which overhang slightly on all sides. About 2 cms all round.

I've tried a few other stands including wooden ones. Always end up back with the sand filled se24s. Although I do keep looking at the matching Monitor Audio GS stands

 

[Nick1881]

The trouble with my HMS 1.1 is the narrower tubes are difficult to sand fill as the opening is small at the top, unless I didn't use bags, but without bags the sand can leak out. I could use Atacama Atabites but that stuff is expensive.