How-To: Dirt-Cheap Speaker Stands

http://chrismetcalf.net/blog/archives/2007/05/15/howto-dirt-cheap-speaker-stands/

Traditionally you’ll wall-mount them or put them on speaker stands. But wall mounting isn’t a good option for me, since all the “good walls” are too far away or obscured by doors or bookshelves. And stands are out, because they’re prohibitively expensive ($40-100 each) and generally too short to stick up above the back of my couch.

The answer came in the form of a pair of [$13] Walmart “torchiere lamps”, those tall, wide-based lamps that are pretty much ubiquitous in everybody’s first apartment.