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Please tell me the wait will be work it......my rack

The supply chain issues have certainly sucked. I am waiting for the LAST piece of my set up.....my rack. I’ve been waiting over a year for all my components to come in and the rack has been the longest wait. Please tell me it’s worth the time and $$$ or offer other options for consideration that may be more available. My brother offered Critical Mass but I am trying to save a few bucks, and not clear if they have the same supply issues. Appreciate your thoughts in advance.

Lance

meadski

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ieales
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Racks also affect reflections which affect sound stages

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@boxcarman

For a few hundred bucks you can get a Pangea wood rack with 4 or 5 shelves. If you think you have vibration issues, use footers or an isolation pad. It is ridiculous to spend megabucks on a rack.

+1

Better to spend the money on nice custom book/LP/CD racks and other room treatments.

Sorbothane, points and VPI bricks in a Pangea create an absolutely dead support. ZERO tube amp microphonics.

IMO, anyone with the TT the same room as speakers capable of realistic levels is asking for trouble. [My last TT set up was in another room with the ARC SP6 with support anchored to the concrete floor... in the last century 😉]

None believers can digitize the preamp output with the power amps on and off, then compare. Any delta and you gots a problem

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The Pangea racks are garbage.

Mine haven’t rotted and holds about 200 pounds of amplifiers and VPI bricks.

Mac equipment

that ’splains it! 🙄

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Buy sound, not jewelry.

Jewelry has enabled so many charlatans and is destroying the HiFi space.

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