today is thursday and it is snowing a lot

Weeeooo, snow! That is so much snow! I like snow. I even like driving in the snow, except for the having other cars around to hit and the getting stuck parts. But I'm a Minnesota girl at heart, so this makes me happy. I haven't been skiing since junior high and would really love to go sometime. Maybe on Sunday if I'm not too knackered from playing derby on Saturday night and I can convince S4 that he wants to come along.

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Speaker stands

(x-posted to women_in_audio)

I've decided I want some speaker stands, and in case anyone has any opinions about them, I'm soliciting.

I mainly want them for my near-fields in my home studio (I have Yamaha NS-10s, specifically), to free up workspace and finally have my speakers at the same height. (woo!) So, they don't need to be anything crazy, but if I'm going to spend some money on them, I'm not against putting a couple more bucks to have something that'd stand up to a mid-sized PA setup in case it'd be handy to have for or a smaller performance space or party or something along those lines.

I don't really want tripods, they fold up nice but I think the footprint would be larger than ideal for home. I'm thinking of something like these:
Quiklok BS300 http://www.zzounds.com/item--QLKBS300

Any thoughts, O audiophiles? Does the platform come off to have just a pole-mount if'n you wanted? I can't tell.