You owe it to yourself to read old posts from an A'gon member called 'Caterham1700'. Read his posts from the following thread. He gives a decent DIY recipe than betters the "Flexy" design for minimal cost.
http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?htech&1001889380&read&keyw&zzflexy%20ikea
And YES, a good rack should improve the sonics of your system. It's no different than any other tweak. The whole idea of high end audio is MASSIVE engineering overkill. It sometimes blows the whole sound/$$$ ratio out of the water, but who cares.
(FWIW, I have a DIY 'Flexy' type stand. Most people look at the $500 the Flexy/Salamander/BillBags -type racks, and go.. "pbpbbbbbbbbtt!! I could get some 3/4" MDF, 3/4" threaded steel rods/bolts/washers and make my own for $80." LOL. I dunno, it keeps my stuff off of the floor, at least! I'd like to try Caterham1700's DIY recipe, and see for myself. It's gotta be better than my 'Flexy' clone...)
Cheers!
http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?htech&1001889380&read&keyw&zzflexy%20ikea
And YES, a good rack should improve the sonics of your system. It's no different than any other tweak. The whole idea of high end audio is MASSIVE engineering overkill. It sometimes blows the whole sound/$$$ ratio out of the water, but who cares.
(FWIW, I have a DIY 'Flexy' type stand. Most people look at the $500 the Flexy/Salamander/BillBags -type racks, and go.. "pbpbbbbbbbbtt!! I could get some 3/4" MDF, 3/4" threaded steel rods/bolts/washers and make my own for $80." LOL. I dunno, it keeps my stuff off of the floor, at least! I'd like to try Caterham1700's DIY recipe, and see for myself. It's gotta be better than my 'Flexy' clone...)
Cheers!