Solidsteel Racks


Hi all,

Does anyone have any experience with Solidsteel racks and their customer service? I wanted to order the HF-4 rack, as it's big enough to hold my McIntosh amp and I like the way it looks. That said, it's listed as temporarily out of stock on Crutchfield and an email sent to the company a few days ago has gone unanswered. Should I just move on to another company? Suggestions? (I don't want an all wood rack. I like the look of the metal legs and black shelves).
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@lostbears I'm not sure how that translates to the current Solidsteel lineup. They do offer a ceramic shelf option. As for Zoethecus - I'm glad you like yours, but I have all SS devices, I don't even think Zoethecus is still in business? and either way I have about -42 interesting in the aesthetic of their racks. 

That said, I'll give Solidsteel another day and then move on to something else. It's depressing how bad customer service these days. I just ran a few errands and stopped a car dealer in hopes to check out a future purchase. There were maybe a dozen people wandering around and the only 2 salesman I could see were helping other people. No one offered to help any of the people there who were clearly looking for help. Most I saw ended up just leaving. 

As for Solidsteel - how hard is to reply to simple emails from potential customers? It's 2018. Email should be treated almost no different than a phone call.
Look at the Symposium Acoustics Foundation rack looks and sounds much better than Solidsteel. Symposium is a wonderful co with great customer service as well.Good luck!!

 My only point was that I had a SolidSteel Rack a while back. At the time it seemed like a decent rack. But in hindsight I was not all that impressed. That was a few years ago. There new line might be great, I don't know.


 Thanks @ebm 

the Symposium racks look nice. I wish I could get the Osiris. Especially is copper they look awesome. I’ve sent them an email as their ordering seems complicated and there aren’t too many online sources. 

I have the old Model 44 Solid Steel rack, which was later renamed the 5.4. Those were the Solid Steel racks, long-ago discontinued, with shelves that each sat on three aluminum cones, the tips of which sat in little wells in the cross-members of the rack's aluminum frame. Each shelf is 3/4" MDF covered with a thin veneer of Formica. MDF is out of fashion, but I guess the stock shelves could be replaced with maple ones.

The metal frame is nicely made and finished, and the four corner pillars can be filled with sand/lead shot/kitty litter. Each pillar has a nicely-machined stainless steel threaded spike in it's bottom for leveling. The only problem I have had with the rack is that the top shelf sits on three cones, the one in the back in the shelf's center. My turntable, which weighs 60 lbs. and has four feet, was heavy enough to bend the back side of the shelf at it's two corners---since it was supported only in it's center, all the way down onto the top of the pillars. I removed the three cones and placed the MDF shelf directly onto the four corner pillars. Cones are reputed to provide isolation, but I don't buy it.