I decided to finish with the speaker stands today. It was a pain in the ass. To start with, I had to crawl all the way to the other side of the attic to loosen the bolts holding on the old speakers. I ended up loosening the ones for the wire plates too.
So I replaced the wire plate screws with plastic anchors. They will work fine.
I was going to attach the stands to the sheet rock, but that wasn't going to work. The speakers were too heavy and the lever arm provided by the stands was too long. So I attached them to the beams instead. Unfortunately I didn't have enough of the right size of screws. After a lot of scrounging I found enough to get the job done.
Figuring out the positioning of the stand was difficult. I had to try a lot of options, and holding up the heavy speaker/stand combination was difficult. I had to call a halt during the process to rest my aching arms.
I finally got the first one positioned and attached to the wall. The second went much faster because I knew how everything needed to be positioned.
The new speakers are up and sound great.
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