How to Increase Turntable Height on High WAF Rack

I knew from the open house that the std. arm on the Ayre/DPS is a modified RB250. I was mightily impressed. At the previous year's open house I had heard a SME 30 with Series V tonearm, and it was remarkable how much the Ayre/DPS had that same surefooted, yet deeply natural and relaxed presentation. Very involving and musical. I don't know how they wring that much performance from an RB250, but as you said, I saw no reason to look further.

They were demoing with a Lyra Helikon. Excellent match. Most of the open house was featuring digital sources, including some 24/96, which is significantly better than Redbook. Yet, there was a group of us that huddled in the Ayre room spinning vinyl until the open house closed down. That Ayre/DPS is really hard to turn off! And we weren't just listening to 180g audiophile re-pressings. We had a lot of fun listening to some of those $10 Original Jazz Classics as well.

Johnnyb53:

I have listened to the Ayre/DPS with the two top of the line Dynavector and EMT cartridges. I chose the 2nd best EMT cartridge pretty much for the same reason I went with the modified RB250 - more than good enough (incredible, actually) performance for the $. That pretty much sums up the way I feel about the Ayre/DPS as well!

Prior to selecting the Ayre/DPS/EMT combo, I was learning pretty heavily in favor of the much less expensive Well Tempered Amadeus. That is really a remarkable turntable and tremendous sonic value for the $. But in the end, the things you heard with the Ayre/DPS - natural, relaxed, involving, musical, hard to turn off - I found all of these to be quite a bit more evident with the Ayre/DPS than they were with the Amadeus.

However, there were two things I liked better about the Amadeus - the tonearm (a thing of beauty, visually and sonically) and the bass response (marginally better than that of the Ayre/DPS).

Symposium ultra shelf will look great and improve sound !!

Ebm:

Thanks for letting me know about Symposium! Just started researching their web site. So far I like what I see and read! Do you have one or more of these shelves, or have you heard them on someone else's system? I am interested in them for both the TT and for an amp stand.

Thanks in advance for any more information you can share!

I use a DPS 3 on a HRS isolation base that sits on a wooden shelf... Great isolation, very solid and lively performance, highly recommendable.

You might want to look into this, as it will add about 3" to the height of the table and provide valuable additional (tuned) acoustic isolation enhancing (and quite audibly at that!) the performance of your table.