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Floorstanding Speakers

Floorstanding loudspeakers (also called column or floorstanding boxes) are larger than so-called bookshelf or monitor loudspeakers. They are tall enough to be placed directly on the ground or on uncoupling spikes. They are usually speakers that offer a deeper bass due to their larger size. They can be two or more ways (each way is played by one or more speakers) and can usually handle more power and be used in larger rooms.

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What are floor standing speakers?

Floorstanding loudspeakers (also called column or floorstanding boxes) are larger than so-called bookshelf or monitor loudspeakers. They are tall enough to be placed directly on the ground or on uncoupling spikes. They are speakers that generally offer a deeper bass due to their larger size. They can be two or more ways (each way is played by one or more speakers) and can usually handle more power and be used in larger rooms.

Hifi Floorstanding Speaker Tips

To choose the most suitable floor-standing speaker and get the best performance from it in our audio room, we recommend taking the following aspects into account:

Placement: For a correct placement of our floor or column speakers, the ideal is to move the columns away from the walls, and place them, taking into account the dimensions of our room, at a distance of between 1.5m and 3.5m above the listening point. , keeping the tweeter at the height of our ears.

Using decoupling points: It is interesting to use decoupling points to avoid excessive vibration during playback, and to concentrate all the sound mass in the same point. Thus, in addition to placing them on the ground, we can orient our speakers effectively towards the ear to achieve the best sound.

Do tests whenever you can: Whenever you can and it is possible for you to travel to test the speakers, it is highly recommended to do your own sound tests, even with the equipment with which you are going to make them sound in your room.

Choosing an amplifier according to the floor-standing loudspeaker: to get the most out of our floor-standing loudspeakers we have to accompany it with an integrated amplifier according to its technical specifications (sensitivity of the cabinets and impedance levels), which in combination with them , give us all the power we need to listen to our favorite songs. The delivery of extreme power can be detrimental to our speakers.

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Guide to choose HIFI speakers:

How to choose the most suitable speaker for my hifi system? What do I need to know?

To choose the best hi-fi speaker for our audio equipment, several factors must be taken into account:

What use will you give the speaker?: Types of speakers

There are different types of hi-fi speakers. We can distinguish between:

Bookshelf (monitor-type) speakers: Bookshelf or monitor speakers are often placed on feet or on top of furniture. They are recommended speakers for intimate listening and/or for small spaces. Its biggest advantage is its small size and that it can be used in rooms where loud bass cabinets cause problems.

Floor speakers (standing or columns): They are named for their structure and design. They are usually placed directly on the ground, on their own base or on uncoupling spikes.

Ceiling or wall speakers: These are speakers that are usually used for home theater or in those cases where architectural integration is necessary. They usually require installation and once installed they go completely unnoticed. They are a good option for home theater systems, to avoid having the entire listening room full of cables and speakers.

How is your listening room? (size, materials, acoustics, insulation)

It is important to choose suitable speakers for the size of the room and depending on where you are going to place them in the room. The loudspeakers are made to cover a given room cubicle, so you should avoid putting small monitors in a 70m2 room and large columns for a 15m2 studio.

Wall and floor materials: Hard surfaces are enemies of sound. It doesn't matter how good the sound is coming out of a speaker, as long as there are a lot of big smooth surfaces where that sound can reflect. If your room has a lot of reverberation or echo, you should add furniture, curtains, rugs, plants... anything that breaks the smooth surfaces. You can also add acoustic material specially created for these cases to your room.

If you are going to place your speakers on furniture, you should avoid buying reflex speakers or woofers because of the bass that will cause undesirable resonances to be generated.

To also avoid this problem with bass, it is advisable not to locate your speakers in the corners. This can create standing waves that muddy the sound from your equipment or even cause bass to be cancelled.

What music do you hear? Does it do it with high or low volume? Technical characteristics of the speaker:

The impedance: This value is measured in Ohms and determines the resistance to the passage of electrical current through the speaker. This means that the lower the impedance, the easier the electric current to pass and the power generated by the amplifier in watts is higher (a 4Ohm speaker will sound louder than an 8Ohm speaker with the same amplifier). You have to look for a good synergy between the impedance of the speakers and the ability of the amplifier to generate that power without distortion.

Sensitivity: This figure is measured in decibels (dB) and indicates the maximum volume that our speaker is capable of reaching. A reasonable limit is 100 dB, which is the usual limit that all speakers and players usually have, above that figure we could damage our ears with prolonged exposure.

Frequency range: The human ear is only capable of hearing sound waves that have a frequency between 18 or 20 Hz and 20,000 Hz (20 kHz). The bass sounds are located in the range that goes from 10 Hz to 256 Hz; the middle sounds are between 256 Hz and 2,000 Hz; and the treble goes from 2,000 Hz to 20,000 Hz. When a loudspeaker is capable of approaching its minimum frequency response to 20 Hz and its maximum to 18-20,000 Hz, then it is a full-range loudspeaker capable of reproducing the entire audible musical spectrum.

Output power: It is the one that determines the maximum power (RMS) that a speaker can withstand before the sound that is produced is distorted excessively or begins to deteriorate, if a speaker works above that power it can be damaged, by not being able to dissipate the heat produced by the electric current that circulates through the coil, and this being able to melt the insulator that covers the copper wire.

Number of ways: Thanks to the use of filters (crossover), a loudspeaker can distribute the sound waves of the low frequencies (10 Hz to 256 Hz); the mids (256 Hz to 2,000 Hz) and the treble (2,000 Hz to 20,000 Hz) to different types of drivers prepared to be used in each different frequency range. If a speaker uses a specific driver for all three ranges, then it will be a three-way speaker, if a speaker uses two drivers for all three ranges (a tweeter for treble and a mid-bass driver for low and mid frequencies) then we will have a two-way speaker.

Closed or reflex enclosure: Closed enclosure speakers are those that have their drivers inside a hermetic acoustic enclosure to keep the air inside, so that the inside air becomes part of the woofer's own suspension, In a speaker Bass Reflex enclosure has a port (opening) that allows air to flow between the inside and outside of the box.