Feet for Klipsch The Sixes

I realize that this is pretty niche, but hey, that's why you're here, right? :)

I wasn't a big fan of the stock wood ‘foot ring' that the Sixes have:

• When the speakers are really making sound, the hard wood foot may damage the surface of anything the speakers were rested on.
• The foot ring would acoustically couple to another hard surface leading to unpleasant buzzing/rattling.
• The stock foot has basically no traction, meaning that the speakers can slide around the surface they're on, especially if they're vibrating (you know, the thing you bought them to do in the first place)

So I made these little feet to augment the existing wood ring. They keep the speaker's natural 2-degree recline, and I made them to be printed in TPU to help them absorb vibrations from the speaker.

Print settings

Make sure to re-orient these in your slicer so that the large flat side of each foot is on the print bed. There is no need for any bridges or supports to print these.

If you decide to print this in TPU, I recommend:

• Low percent gyroid infill (I used 10%)
• Low wall count (I used a wall count of 1)
• Low top and bottom shell count (I used 1 and 2, respectively)
• Print it slow
• Give a calibration pass on your printer for your TPU, and watch those retraction settings or this print will string like crazy :)
• They will probably look nicer if you only print one at a time.
• (optional) Using adaptive layer height in your slicer to handle the top couple layers with some smaller-than-.2mm layers.

With 95A and the settings above they feel like a really good combination of strength and squish. I probably could even lower the infill a bit more to get some more squish, too. Play around with it… All told a set of 4 feet is only about 25g of filament anyway :)

That said… you probably want to put all the seams on the inside/backside of these and bring a hobby knife for clean up.

Note to self/Pro tip

If you switched from a harder filament to a softer filament, remember to manually clean the nozzle before shoving TPU through it. I was printing Silk PLA-Tough and switched to TPU… Got about halfway through before a little shard of PLA caused everything to go bottom's-up.