Salamander Synergy Rack Experiences?

I purchased a synergy 30 about 2 weeks ago after looking around for quite awhile. Zeothecus was out of the question for me so I felt these were the next best looking options out there. With the CD Player on the top shelf, which is not, as you know, isolated, and my tube pre and tube amp on isolated shelves, the intial sound was somewhat muddy. Also I am not using the unit with spikes to the floor so this intial starting point was as un-"audiophile" as you could get. With a little bit of tweaking - the sound has greatly improved. Given the incredible wealth of info on this site on footers and shelving material there is no doubt in my mind you'll be able to tailor the sound to your liking for not much money. (See the numerous posts involving Redkiwi.) I'll probably play around with things a little more, but for now i'm very happy.

The most noticeable improvement came from putting an extra one of the black inner MDF shelves I had between the CDP and the top shelf. I placed this on 3 hard sorbothane pucks(not the squishy ones), there are no footers currently b/t the CDP the MDF. Whenever I get the time I may do some juggling with the CDP "inside", and look into shelf materials. From what I've read, MDF is really not the ideal material. The point being, this has been a half-baked and very premilinary starting point - but the sound is very liveable. Tone is good, soundstage is good, and transparency is improving. I've heard moderately tweaked out set-ups(Solidsteel,BDR, symposium,) that were definetly better and I've heard overly-complicated/expensive set-ups where the results were way too "hifi"(read:sterile) for my tastes. I won't comment on whether this will work with your table as that's a different ballgame. Again, If you search the "isolation/footers" threads I think you'll see there are some real specialists(far more than me) in this area. While I'm at, i'll also say that getting the shelves level is a pain is the ass, but doable.