Quote Originally Posted by Woochifer
It's not just the size, but the load capacity and balancing that are difficult to find for using a decent sized bookshelf speaker as a surround. I started hunting around for surround speaker stands when I bought my Studio 20s and found that the viable options were few and far between. Most of the stands taller than 34" that I saw were the telescoping variety. While those stands can go up to about 48" in height, they typically can support no more than about 10 lbs. and their top plates are no more than 4"x4" which for something like the Studio 20s is way inadequate since those things weigh close to 30 lbs. each. With the Studio 20s, you probably need at least 36" of elevation if you want to use them as surrounds, and at least 40"+ if you intend to use your system for both multichannel music and movies.

Like topspeed said, I use the Sound Anchor adjustable studio stands. At $350 a pair, they are expensive, but they can support up to 100 lbs. (not quite Hummer mass as topspeed mentioned, but definitely in the Civic/Corolla class ), and are adjustable between 7" and 45" in height. Sound Anchor can also custom weld together a nice tall fixed height stand for about $200 if the adjustable stands cost too much. I went for the adjustable stands because I liked the side mounting option that those stands give you and with those stands I can raise the surrounds for certain movies and lower them for multichannel music discs. Very versatile and the construction is about as ridiculously rugged as I've seen (they're shipped prewelded with no user assembly, and they weigh 65 lbs. each).

The gallery section has a picture of the stands and links to Sound Anchor's site.

http://gallery.audioreview.com/showp...cat=500&page=1
Now Wooch, are you telling me that if I want to order stands that are 84" tall, Sound Anchor is willing to make this stand for me for $200? If this is true, I am going to quickly ditch the crates, and do this yesterday!!