Live Vibe Audio


It's time for me to purchase a new audio rack. Unfortunately I don't have the opportunity to hear one in my system prior to purchase. Does anyone have first hand experience with Live Vibe Audio racks? If so, please share your experience. 

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I have a Star Sound Sistrum 4 shelf rack for my analog front end. As you might know, Star Sound changed its name to Live Vibe. You can see my rack in my virtual system. I also have Apprentice platforms under my other stuff and speakers. I have been very happy with the sound.

As you might know, Live Vibe products are designed to drain vibration from your components. To give you an idea how this works, I once used a microscope and could see that the rack subtly vibrates when touching any component on the rack. The vibrations end within 15-20 seconds. Once music starts playing, all is great. After the microscope experiment, I was kind of freaking out about the vibration and what it was doing to the tracking of my cartridge, so I compared my turntable placed on my Sistrum rack versus on top of my Salamander Chameleon cabinet, which is pretty sturdy. My turntable has Stillpoints feet and potentially should have sounded just as good on the Chameleon, but it did not. The sound is obviously more muddy on the Chameleon, and obviously more in focus with the Sistrum. Easy to tell the difference.