KRK Rokit 8 Wall mount

Hello all, anyone has a set of 8" studio monitors mounted on the wall in his studio? I've been looking around for the best wall mount for my KRK Rokit 8's but very little comes up. Would be great if i had some advice from someone with the same size speakers.... Thanks in advance!

 

Hello.

I have some experience with mounting speakers and televisions, i think important is the plate screwed to the wall like in this picture with 6 drew wholes, also the longer the better, and also very important is that you use the correct screws and dowels. I always use vienesse screws (hope translation is correct) for solid walls and the correct stuff for other types of walls never had any problems even with long levers.


Uwe

 

Thanks for the reply!

I saw these indeed and they looked heavy enough. But they are not big enough. The 8" speakers have a dept of 29 cm so the base plate on these is too small.

 

Yes it was just an example, but you can easily find something that fits i guess.

Uwe

 

https://www.thomann.de/de/krk_vxt_6_8_wall_mounting_adapter.htm

Mhh ok it really not that easy to find something that can hold a speaker that deep

Uwe

 

Maybe something like this
https://www.amazon.de/dp/B07KTBSTWB/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_6Q4MN4C3TE0J3W1VCXTK

Uwe

 

I have those, on some Yamaha HS 7" so 8" should fit, I think. Got them in 2016 and never had any problem.

On buying this style of mount you have to live with the fact that your monitors are way closer to the wall than they should be, it's not that great for acoustics but in small rooms, one might not have the luxury of a proper distance.

 

Not sure on the newest model R8 but I have some 15 year old ones and they are HEAVY... So much so that when I built my lift desk (which has a rated lift capacity of 120KG) they were a bit too heavy with everything else and caused the sensor to trip, tho it could have been more a case of the weight not being centred correctly as I did offset the legs again after I pulled the whole setup apart but I took the opportunity to replace them with some Adam monitors and instead place the R8 as a secondary pair on stands behind the desk.

Main point depending on your wall is if you have a cavity/stud wall you want to really find the stud/beam and screw into that otherwise they could rip a hole in your wall, alternativelly make a wood plate, screw bracket to that then fix that to the wall to try and separate the wall anchors as far as possible. Brick wall should be fine as long as you either sink the plugs correctly or use dynabolts (anchor bolts) and drill them in correctly.

If you aren't real experienced with fixing loads to walls then I'd suggest taking some time to learn properly to avoid a major failure. A TV is probably far easier to mount as it has the load spread out over a large distance but the speaker bracket proposed above will have all that load focused in a small portion and could easily fail if not done correct.

 

Good point.
Over here pretty much every house is made out of bricks and concrete but in some countries, wood frames covered with drywall are the norm (not sure that's the correct way to describe it) so if that's the case a frame plate is probably a good ideia.