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If that's you're projected costings, you've probably done it for a third of the price
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Last week I made an MDF stands to raise the height of my screens & Yamaha HS7 studio monitors & I definitely notice the difference with the tweeters now at ear level.
https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/yamaha-hs7-hs8s
If you can afford it it might be worth you going for the HS8 monitors as that should bring some extra bass & weight due to their larger size. Although you are in a slighter higher price bracket with that model & may well be better looking at another brand. @octatonic
knows these things much better than me.
RW3
As above https://www.builderdepot.co.uk/
Wood
The RW3 is 100mm thick but getting planed 100mm thick timber off the shelf is impossible. It's 100mm rough sawn which is then about 94mm planed. I called up a local timber merchants (https://www.forestrall.co.uk/) and they planed some timber down to exactly 100mm x 20mm. In hindsight, 20mm is probably a tad thick.
Fabric
I used Camira Cara fabric from https://www.kirkhouse.co.uk/. There are cheaper fabrics out there but this looks great, is available in loads of colours and is flame retardant.
For the back of the panels, I used some weed control fabric from B&Q.
Hanging
I haven't got to this point yet but I've got 2 options, French cleat and keyhole hanger. I've not decided yet but I'm tending towards the French cleats.
@ChrisRG I was thinking of putting my Nordell stands in the classifieds soon (they are these ones: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B072N7TWFY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 ) . I've been using them for my Yamaha HS8s and they are really good. But the problem is that I'm a shortarse, and when I sit down the stands don't come down quite enough for me to be at the right listening position, so I'm going to move to a different solution. PM me if you are interested.
https://www.screwfix.com/p/heavy-duty-cotton-twill-dust-sheet-24-x-3/42657
Ebay mark7777_1
This is what I used for the back of mine (Cara for the front)
Although I haven't hung them properly, I've put them in the roughly the right place and it's already made a big difference. It may sound odd but the music seems to be more focused in coming out of the monitor in front of me if that makes sense.
Anyway I've got a week away in a few days but I'll post again once I sort the room out and will then take some measurements with Room EQ Wizard.
Monitors are now on stands and are about 15cm from the wall. The panels are set up 1 on each side and 2 on the back wall. At the moment they are just propped up at about the right height. I'll fix them once I'm happy with the setup.
I've run a test with REW and I get the following waterfall graph. Seems I've got a big issue at around 83Hz