The Backstory
During one of our regular video calls, my friend Csavar — known as Screw-Jay, a Roland gear expert based in Budapest — mentioned something that had been bothering him. He sells a lot of studio monitors to new producers, and most of them make the same mistake: they just put the speakers flat on the desk. No angle, no lift, nothing. He asked if I had anything for that. I didn't — yet. But that one question planted the idea for Speaker Lift.
Why Not Just One Universal Size?
The obvious first instinct is to design one stand that fits everything. But that doesn't actually work for something like this. A platform big enough for an 8" monitor would look absurd under a compact desktop speaker — and a platform sized for small monitors wouldn't properly support anything larger.
So instead of designing around driver size (the usual 4"/5"/6"/8" categories), I went back to basics: actual cabinet footprints. Real width and depth measurements, monitor by monitor.
The Rule Behind the Sizes
I built a research database covering dozens of popular studio and DJ monitors — cross-checked across multiple sources to verify the numbers — and set a simple design rule:
- The stand should never be larger than the speaker's own footprint.
- But it still needs to support at least 60% of the speaker's width and depth to hold it securely.
That gave us three platform sizes:
- Speaker Lift S — 127 × 145 mm
- Speaker Lift M — 170 × 180 mm
- Speaker Lift L — 200 × 200 mm
Three overlapping sizes, rather than one-size-fits-all or a dozen arbitrary SKUs.
Getting the Angle Right, Too
Sizing wasn't the only variable. Most compact monitors sit flat on a desk, which means the tweeter ends up firing below ear level rather than at it. Speaker Lift adds a fixed 10° forward tilt — enough to redirect the sound toward your actual listening position, without changing the desk footprint or making the setup look bulky.
It Actually Works Across the Board
The compatibility list now covers models from Pioneer DJ, Yamaha, KRK, JBL, Kali Audio, PreSonus, M-Audio, Mackie, Tannoy, ADAM Audio, Focal, Behringer, Alesis, Edifier, EVE Audio, Fluid Audio, Swissonic, Samson, Hercules, Roland, Avantone, and Auratone — from small desktop monitors to much larger nearfields.
I've also tested it beyond the original research list — the Pioneer VM-80 and KRK Rokit 7, both outside the initial dataset — and the same 60% rule held up perfectly in practice, not just on paper.
That's really the point of Speaker Lift: whatever monitor you're running, there's a good chance there's already a size that fits it properly on the Deckra Gear webshop — built from real measurements, not guesswork.