Gravity SP 3202 Studiomonitor Stand

Do studio monitor stands matter? Truly YES! In the Age of DIY production/mixing/mastering (bed-)rooms, as we try to keep unnecessary reflections out of our signal and monitoring paths for an uncolored sound. Monitors/Speakers on stands have a few advantages over floor/table standing brothers: apart from eliminating front wall & table reflections and thus minimizing comb filtering, it also minimizes diffractions and has a bass boost of 4-6 dB in the region below 200 Hz, that would usually radiate (diffract) to the back of floor standing speakers, making it a more efficient monitor. Your neck, shoulders, and back will also see the benefits of this control as you will be in a position self-designed for your comfort and convenience (!). Gravity SP 3202 Studiomonitor Stand features a heavy, triangular base made of cast iron and a 25x25 cm steel tray with isolating foam rests. These ensure effective coupling to the floor. If you have a cat - you can be calm in case she jumps out - your monitors will not fall down! 30 kg load capacity. It is tilt-adjustable by 10°(!) and height-adjustable from 90 to 150 cm for optimum speaker positioning. Very easy to control. I am happy with them! 😅

Solid boxing, it has some good weight which is of course never a bad thing when it comes to any type of stands. Instruction manual is close to nonexistent, but it does not have too many parts and it's easy to figure out what goes where, so it's not a big issue.

One thing that sort of stood out for me is I could tighten the stem/body to the bottom piece without actually screwing it fully on, which gave me some freedom of rotating the upper piece but at the same time it wasn't straight and I'd assume if left like that it might tend to bend. I had to fully tighten it and move the whole piece around if I had to. Again, not a biggie unless you're cemented to your chair or constantly moving around. I'm using a pair of these for holding up studio monitors for mixing so I'm fine with this.

It wiggles a little bit when pushed (with weight on top of it) but other than that it doesn't budge at all. I'm not using the bottom spike screws only the rubber feet, I'd guess those could give me some additional stability but I'd rather not scratch the floor up with those. As the manual is 4 drawings in total I wasn't sure what to make of those.

In the end, this is my first ever monitor stands and I'm wasn't at all disappointed, I think I got good value for my money. Can totally recommend!

the stand is a disaster which shows me once and for all not to buy cheap stuff anymore!

after hooking it up (all the way correct to mention that) the device stood terribly unstraight. so I had to use the spikes first to fix one of the issues and that was to get the stand itself straight and.. after 5 or 6 corrections using the spikes in different positions the stand was straight. the second pro came with the top plate which for shame was also unstraight so.. I cut some paper and pressed it under one of the plates bottoms where the tending was to be unstraight downwards. after doing "all that" I got a well working stand for my mini dekker home studio hybrid homedisco/studio light effect. distastrous man, no cheap gear anymore.

the stand in its core is stable and the quality itself is good but I dont need a stand which isnt accurate after hooking up and putting down on the ground.