Tips on mounting speakers to my seat's headrest.

[Synthbent715]

Hey guys.

I recently purchased a logitech 5.1 system for my rig downstairs. I have mounted the front speakers on the wheel plate, and my center speaker above my pedals, and I put the subwoofer behind the seat. I made a bracket to hang the speakers on either side of my head but now my problem is I can't think of how to mount the bracket onto the seat itself. The seat is from a 90 something civic, the headrest is only held up by one side. The rest of the seat is just foam, covered in cloth. I know there are some metal braces inside, but I can't get to them without cutting the seat up. I was thinking about maybe just making some hooks or something to stick into the top of the seat under the headrest.

Just wondering if any of you have run into this issue and found a good solution.

Thanks!

 

[left888]

I purchased a set of speaker stands for $30 and two pieces of aluminum, I cut the aluminum too the correct width so the speakers were a safe distance from my head. This photo doesn't show it but I ran two bungee cords from the aluminum around the sub woofer so they will not get knocked over. I drilled holes in the aluminum and fastened them with strong plastic ties to the speaker stands.

 

[left888]

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[sesselpupser]

I'm probably going to do something similar to Left when I get round to buying some speakers, so far I've been using headphones but they get too hot. I don't think I'll be spending a huge amount on said speakers, though, so I imagine they'll be quite small and light, so I was going to use some aluminium profile to make my own mounts out of rather than buying proper mounts, otherwise I imagine they'll end up looking like Left's solution.

Which Logitech set did you go for by the way? I'm looking at both of their cheap sets but heard one of them just sucks and the other picks up French radio stations or something.

 

[museumsteve]

When I was looking for solutions to mount/hold speakers I ended up buying metal tube furniture legs (like this) from a local DIY store (£4 each I think)turn them upside down and screw them to my base (which is MDF). Drilled through the tube and fixed using bolt into the munting screw on the speaker. I only needed that for the front as rears are mounted on my gantry...but was a quick and easy solution.

 

[MaliciousMD]

The seat is from a 90 something civic, the headrest is only held up by one side. The rest of the seat is just foam, covered in cloth. I know there are some metal braces inside, but I can't get to them without cutting the seat up.

I'm going to go ahead and assume its a seat from a 92-95 EG/EJ Civic. Looks something like this?

If so then the plastic on the head rest post is actually 2 pieces. All you need to do is pry the two halfs apart with a thin flat head screwdriver. It will expose the metal post and you should be able to make speaker mounts off that post. Did something similar on a friends EG6 Civic a few years back for a camera mount.

EDIT: Forgot to mention what we did to make the camera mount, might be helpful to you. So if I recall correctly there's a small threaded metal bracket inside the actual headrest that attaches to the headrest post. I think theres two bolts that go from the headrest post to the actual headrest. We took one of the bolts out and put in a loooong stud that was threaded on both sides, then cut a hole in the plastic headrest post cover to allow the stud to protrude. Heated up and bent the stud to a 90-degree angle, welded a nut to a small piece of scrap metal laying around. Used another nut on the stud as a "jam nut" to keep the camera mount plate from moving when screwed onto the stud. In any case there is metal behind that plastic...

 

[Synthbent715]

I went for the z506 system. It doesn't have a built in decoder so it won't give true 5.1 on my ps3 or xbox 360 but it does sound very good and clear, faaar better than the tv speakers I have been using up until now.

Left, that looks great. I am kind of looking to mount to the seat itself because I no longer really have mount spots on the bottom of the rig since I wrapped it in painted aluminum and put stickers on it. Kind of don't want to muss that up.

And, yes MD that is the seat I have! I will pry that plastic apart when I get home and make a trip to the hardware store!

I will let you guys know how it turns out, thanks everyone.

 

[StevenKing70]

Hi,
I'm trying to mount myLogitech speakers on Playseat. In back of Playseat are two screws I used to mount a metal bracket.

But this low position is not optimal, because is difficult to hear high frequencies.
I'm looking for solution to mount speakers near head position, without damaging my Playseat.

 

[Synthbent715]

well guys here is my solution. Before I started to pop the plastic off, I decided to just TRY to drill a pilot hole into the tube inside the seat near the top of the seat back...and it worked! seems to be a hollow tube, so I drilled a hole through both sides of the tube on the left and right, and drilled the bracket on with sheet metal screws, its very solid!

I stuck the speakers onto the "shelves" using 3M VBH double stick tape, the stuff is very strong. The pics make it look like the rear speakers are tilted down waaay too much, but it they actually point pretty much directly to my ears

 

[Mars Attacks]

The seat is from a 90 something civic, the headrest is only held up by one side

I use a seat where the headrest is held up in the usual way (2 sticks). My solution will not benefit you, but maybe somebody with a similar seat.
So this is how I mounted the speakers to my seat's headrest:

 

[Coxis]

Left, is it the camera lens or are those speaker stands bent from the speaker weight?

 

[sesselpupser]

Hi,
I'm trying to mount myLogitech speakers on Playseat. In back of Playseat are two screws I used to mount a metal bracket.

But this low position is not optimal, because is difficult to hear high frequencies.
I'm looking for solution to mount speakers near head position, without damaging my Playseat.

Could you not add something between the speaker and the mount to raise them up? I'm thinking a plank of MDF or something, I don't know.