AV Racks. What difference does it make?

Having been in the server/storage networks and enclosure industry during a pervious internship, I garnered some 411 on how acoustics and vibration energy can induce the amount of transfer inaccuracies and bandwidth impedements during high speed/volume data transfer.

This has led me to come up with many different ways to augmenting/optimizing the stereo's musical acoustics. The root of this approach is in the belief that every material has a natural resonant frequency (remember plate techtonics and seismic waves?). And, any material that comes into contact with the stereo will mechanically or physically alter the sound characterstics of the stereo.

Most important, and this is a disagreement with previous threads, I feel a "good" rack is just as or more essential for digital than for analog since, in my opinion, digital data transfer integrity in audio is years behind computer network technologies which is the one of the culprit to why digital sounds so "digital."

So, along with better data transfer hardware and software, the casing holding the hardware is crucial in order to ascertain higher fidelity digital audio transmission.

Lastly, and perhaps this can be started/stated in a thread of its own, I've gained a tremendous amount of audio "heads up" from this forum. I would hate to see a few bad seeds in the form of 1) shills, 2) fallous logic and 3) vulgarities ruin it for the rest of us. So, to Slappy who has made these types of implications, you definitely earn and deserve this rarest of golden sombreros of disgrace. If you are offended, I did so intentionally.

Dean, you are like the audiogon mom I never had. Do you have to go around showing my naked baby pictures to strangers? = P

Hey Sean,

The purpose of understanding natural resonance frequencies of different materials is so you can combine different materials to mechanically/sympathetically minimize vibration (instead of amplifying it.)

If you examine the Symposium shelves where it sandwiches materials of varied densities together, you'd see how this phenomenon works. Lexus does something similar with their car bodies and IBM does something like this with their high end server/storage cases.

With my speakers, I have good luck using the wood/graphite/granite to tailor the speaker to sound the way I like it. This reduced a bit of boominess in the lows and LOTS of hashiness in the highs as well as expanding the soundstage.

So, when using your vibration measurement machine, try using it on a combination of materials such as rubber on wood or metal on marble etc, and, ofcourse, tune with your ears.

El, materials do not have natural frequencies, yet it is the form that determines its physical properties? So your bell tower can consist of bells made of wood, metal and plastic and they will all sound the same so long as their shape is idential... absurd.

Well, there is a difference between natural frequency and natural RESONANCE frequency. This concerns the differences or sameness at which vibration or waves move through the material(s). And, the key part is, the more sympathetic the natural frequency is to the vibrating waves (catylist), the more compelling waves will be created thus maximizing vibration.

Bells and tuniing forks specifically work in these methods which have opposite results in what we want to achieve concerning audio racks.

Lets just say we are talking about two completely different properties.