AKG ST45 Solid Metal Table Stand for Gooseneck and Desk Microphones

AKG ST45: Solid Metal Table Stand for Desk and Lectern Microphones

The AKG ST45 is a passive metal table stand for microphones and gooseneck powering modules, machined from one solid piece of metal on a 4.5 in (115 mm) base plate. AKG describes it as a reference table stand for the easiest installation and takedown of mobile sound systems, and the design reflects that brief: a massive base plate that holds a microphone upright without a clamp or counterweight, and special shock-absorbing rubber feet that effectively eliminate footfall noise travelling through the table top. It accepts the SA60 stand adapter for straight-shaft microphones and all Discreet Acoustics Modular Plus series powering modules, so a modular gooseneck arm becomes a self-contained desk microphone. Carrying item number 6000H03080, it is deliberately simple hardware with nothing electrical inside, which is exactly why it keeps working.

Footfall Isolation and the Problem It Solves

Shock-absorbing rubber feet are the feature that separates this stand from a plain weighted disc, and they exist to stop structure-borne noise. A microphone on a rigid base is mechanically coupled to whatever it sits on, so every footstep on a hollow stage, every knock against a conference table leg and every laptop set down heavily arrives at the capsule as a thump that no amount of low-cut filtering fully removes; compliant feet break that path, letting the table move without dragging the microphone body with it. Because the stand body itself is one solid piece of metal, its mass works with the feet rather than against them, giving the assembly a low resonant behaviour rather than a ring. A council chamber with a hollow raised floor, or a hotel ballroom with lightweight banqueting tables, is precisely where the difference is audible.

Modular Plus Compatibility and the SA60 Adapter

Mounting on the ST45 is handled two ways: through the SA60 stand adapter for straight-shaft microphones, and directly for all Discreet Acoustics Modular Plus series powering modules. A Modular Plus gooseneck arm has no output of its own and always needs a powering module, so a stand that accepts that module is the piece that turns a two-part modular microphone into a finished desk unit, with the arm above the table and the powering electronics in the base. The SA60 route covers the other common case, where a conventional straight-bodied microphone needs a desk position instead of a boom. That flexibility is what makes one stand suit a panel table, a lectern and a demonstration desk without three different pieces of hardware being ordered.

Mobile Systems, Fixed Rooms, and a Name That Invites Confusion

Rapid setup and takedown is the use AKG names for this stand, and it suits both a rig that travels and a room that never changes. A production crew striking a conference room at midnight wants hardware with nothing to unscrew, adjust or lose, while an installed council chamber or courtroom wants a base that will still sit flat after a decade of being pushed around a table; a single machined metal piece with no moving parts answers both. One point is worth stating plainly, because it catches buyers out: despite the numeral, the ST45 is not part of the wireless series that includes the SR45 receiver and the HT45 handheld transmitter, and it carries no radio, no connector, no cable and no switch. It is a stand, its item number sits with the conference and installation hardware rather than the wireless line, and anyone who came here looking for a wireless component needs a different part number.