Solidsteel Speaker Stands

With a name like this, you’d expect them to be made of it, and they are! And all are made by hand and all in Italy.

One of the most underrated categories in our industry is speaker stands. We have previously gone out on a limb and stated that we believe a good pair of speaker stands (along with proper placement) has a greater positive impact on your system than a good pair of speaker cables. It is very important that the speakers are held rock-solid, and that there is no transfer of energy from the speaker to the stand or vice-versa.

For years our speaker stands of choice have been from Sound Organisation in the UK. We no longer have access to this range, so we have needed to go out and find a suitable alternative — and that alternative is Solidsteel. We did not have to search far. Brad Serhan of Serhan & Swift — the designer of the exceptional

Mu2 bookshelf speaker (pictured above on Solidsteel stands), insists that of all the stands available, Solidsteel stands are the ones that bring the best out in his designs. We are inclined to agree.

Solidsteel stands are manufactured in Italy by the brothers Gaetano and Manfredi Conti, the two sons of

Moreno Conti, the man who founded the company in the early 90s. Moreno originally worked in his family’s metal fabrication company, one of whose contracts was to build stainless steel exhaust systems for Ducati motorcycles in Bologna. He had multiple passions in his brief life, including a passion for music, a passion for motorcycles and a passion for creating beautiful hand-crafted metal parts, particularly those that involved the now-rare skill of open-flame welded stainless steel.

Moreno together with his wife Dora, combined their talents to start a company that specialised in building custom speaker stands and audio-video furniture, the first such company in Italy.