Atacama Audio
British stand and rack maker building in South Yorkshire since 1993. Atacama's designs are mass-loadable, which means the customer sets the final weight and damping rather than the factory.
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Why Atacama stands are designed to be filled
A speaker stand has one job: to stop the cabinet moving and to stop the floor sending energy back into it. Doing that well is mostly a question of mass and damping, and mass is expensive to ship. Atacama's answer, from the beginning, has been to build stands that arrive light and are filled by the customer.
That is not a cost-saving measure so much as a performance one. Atabites, Atacama's own filling material, is made of high-density steel chips shaped to interlock rather than to settle the way loose sand does, and it lets you set the mass to suit the speaker sitting on top. A partially filled stand behaves differently from a fully filled one. A small standmount and a large one want different things, and a fixed-weight stand can only be right for one of them.
The company designs, manufactures and tests in the UK, which shows in the finish quality and in how easily replacement parts and spikes can still be had for older models.
Material choice runs the same way. Alongside steel, Atacama use bamboo across much of the stand and rack range, chosen both for its anti-resonant behaviour and because it regrows far faster than the hardwoods it replaces. That is an unusual decision in a category that defaults to MDF and glass.
Alongside stands, Atacama make equipment racks, isolation platforms and turntable supports. The rack ranges share the same design thinking: modular, level by level, so a system can be added to rather than replaced.
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£16.66Ex. VATAtacama High Density spike shoes are made of a copper /zinc alloy construction, and feature a hole on the upper surface to locate the spike and on its lower surface, a non slip E.P.D.M. elastomer membrane designed to protect delicate floor coverings and aid sound dampening. -
£20.82Ex. VATMade with a copper/zinc alloy and a non-slip E.P.D.M elastomer membrane, Atacama's HD-L Floor Spike Shoes are designed to protect delicate floors, able to effectively support up to 125kg spread across all 4 shoes.
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SALE£208.99 £219.99Inc. VAT ✓ Save £11.00
The SLX Series is Atacama's professional range of speaker stands available in a wide range of height options and caters for when a larger top plate is required. SLX Series are supplied in a Satin Black paint finish with Silver Metallic or Diamond White as a cost option.
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SALE£189.99 £199.99Ex. VAT ✓ Save £10.00The SLX Series is Atacama's professional range of speaker stands available in a wide range of height options and caters for when a larger top plate is required. SLX Series are supplied in a Satin Black paint finish with Silver Metallic or Diamond White as a cost option.
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SALE£197.91 £208.32Ex. VAT ✓ Save £10.42The SLX Series is Atacama's professional range of speaker stands available in a wide range of height options and caters for when a larger top plate is required. SLX Series are supplied in a Satin Black paint finish with Silver Metallic or Diamond White as a cost option.
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SALE£246.99 £259.99Inc. VAT ✓ Save £13.00The SLX Series is Atacama's professional range of speaker stands available in a wide range of height options and caters for when a larger top plate is required. SLX Series are supplied in a Satin Black paint finish with Silver Metallic or Diamond White as a cost option.
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SALE£285.00 £299.99Inc. VAT ✓ Save £14.99The SLX Series is Atacama's professional range of speaker stands available in a wide range of height options and caters for when a larger top plate is required. SLX Series are supplied in a Satin Black paint finish with Silver Metallic or Diamond White as a cost option.
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SALE£159.00 £169.99Inc. VAT ✓ Save £10.99Moseco speaker stands combine all the aesthetic and sonic Benefits of Bamboo with the adaptability, strength and stability of twin carbon steel poles.
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SALE ★ Award£134.57 £141.66Ex. VAT ✓ Save £7.08Moseco speaker stands combine all the aesthetic and sonic Benefits of Bamboo with the adaptability, strength and stability of twin carbon steel poles.
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SALE£132.50 £149.99Ex. VAT ✓ Save £17.49Moseco speaker stands combine all the aesthetic and sonic Benefits of Bamboo with the adaptability, strength and stability of twin carbon steel poles.
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SALE£167.75 £199.99Inc. VAT ✓ Save £32.24Moseco speaker stands combine all the aesthetic and sonic Benefits of Bamboo with the adaptability, strength and stability of twin carbon steel poles.
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SALE£261.24 £274.99Ex. VAT ✓ Save £13.75Introducing the flagship of the Moseco range, the Moseco XL speaker stands are supplied as matched pairs and feature a substantial 5mm thick, 200mm wide by 275mm deep carbon steel top plate specifically designed to support large bookshelf style speakers. Four domed isolation gel pads are also included with each top plate to protect and dampen the cabinet of the supported speaker.
