Live Vibe Audio

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.

@ricred1 - I only have experience with their audio points, which by the way, really worked in my system. My expectations were low, after having tried a few other products, but the audio points made a noticeable improvement. 
 

I am now also intrigued by their racks. If you do end up getting one, please report back. 

Thanks for the response. I'll post an update if I purchase them. It's between Live Vibe Audio and Solidsteel audio racks. 

I’ve been an owner of two Sistrum racks with 3 platforms on each for about 8 years now. I may also be the only one to have RTS couplers clamping each component to its platform. Just setting a component on a Sistrum platform will immediately make it sound better in all ways than most other racks. The RTS couplers in addition cause almost the same amount of improvement as the Sistrum rack. They also don’t allow the component to tip if leaned on because of the 3 points it sits on with the Sistrum platform only supporting it. Audio Horizon makes the couplers now. The combination of the two things is very nice looking and allows one to locate the rack(s) between the speakers as long as they are also mostly behind them at the same time. The Sistrums don’t have a location problem like Jim Smith mentions in his book. Their is so much space for air and vibrations to travel without getting trapped by the back of a typical rack. The technology that has a quick draining of vibrations to the ground is another great reason for the superior SQ.

I had Robert Maicks cut my longer rods that hold the platforms in two so that it would sit lower, and thus be even less likely to affect the sound in a detrimental way. It also makes the rack more stable. I love these racks, the look, and the sound that results from their use. I use them for my 120 lb. Lenco TT, Modwright 5400 CD player, TRL DUDE 75 lb. preamp, phono preamp, and my mono amps. It all sounds fantastic.  There are 8 tubes in use also.

Bob