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[Snoopy8]

As the phantoms are torally inert  from what I can make out - I would have thought the only benefit to a stand is to make sure the drivers are suitably far away from the floor / wall / corner?

Are your accoustastands ontop of some other traditional  speaker stand? Or just sat on a desk / flat surface?

If the latter it’s inrerestinf to hear raising them by such a small amount could make any difference...

The Phantoms as a stereo pair should be treated like any stereo pair of speakers. The room has the greatest influence and positioning the speakers correctly will help. It is more than putting them away from floor, wall, corner, some ideas here. 

My Phantoms sit on Isoacoustics stands which in turn sit on Triangle speaker stands.

If using Phantoms on a desk or other furniture, the Isoacoustics stands, which can be tilted,  are used to align the speakers to ear level. It also reduces vibration which causes smearing of instruments.