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| Best rack for non-suspension turntable? Minus K work station good... falling into the Silent Running Audio's marketing- bad :)Don't believe too much of the hype. The SRA is a solid-to-solid and only helps with anti-resonance through mass loading... that's it. No magic there... all of th... | |
| Best wood for making an isolation platform? Skip the sandbox, it has no magic quality and it only adds mass. The box is enclosed in a solid-to-solid connection with the sides, so transfers throughout the platform. You can read the "theory" on audiav's website for more information.The best m... | |
| Light-Rigid vs. Mass Loaded Racks - Help Be careful with low mass though... low mass rigid shelf materials can turn the shelf into a transducer.The NXT technologies boon of 2002 with Clark transducers brought this to light ten years after we discovered it. We just happened to test low ma... | |
| Maple platforms They are all still just plank wood, think bigger...Yes, MDF will handle some resonance benefits due to it's mass... and more than the same thickness of solid plank woods. All wood platforms can get good anti-resonance characteristics if you go ver... | |
| Isolation platform for the power amps Try 1" MDF with large brass spikes... or layered thinner stock. These work the best for a low cost DIY solution. You can also look for a few 18" x 18" or 21" x 21" granite tiles and layer them with thin rubber in-between and add some spikes or foo... | |
| Best rack for non-suspension turntable? Hands down, Audiav turntable rack with Signature Platforms.They even design it for free and are 1/3 of the price of Naim's.The Fraim really is limited on size and is hard to work with other gear... plus they don't really do much for vibration, and... | |
| Need advise on rack for turntable The Ultimate Reference Platform by Audiav might answer all of your prayers and is due out in December! The Composite Products / Black Diamond Racing are just too flimsy and useless.On thought - I think the Zirconia TT might be out of your price ra... | |
| MDF or Plywood for best sound in Hi-Fi rack ? We layer our Signature Shelves... 19 times.Nrchy is soooo right! Now if Sota only layered in useful things like Audiav does, it would sound good :)In answer to your question: MDF for anti-resonance, Plywood for strength. Think low mass and viscous... | |
| The Importance of Audio Furniture Tboooe, I agree completely! Most people have to juggle the asthetics and WAF with performance. The most important thing for most customers is changing out the way the rack looks with different wood inserts. Odd as it seems, I sell more to women th... | |
| Regards to the Rack The precision rack guys are around, but the public gets bombarded with marketing that varies from one end to the other. It is easier to show and explain benefits at a hifi dealer... but they are all drying up due to direct Internet manufacturers. ... | |
| Acoustic Dreams - Isolation Rack ? Acoustic Dreams rack stands and furniture: This is a classic example of deception. The racks they made do not address vibration and are more similar to kitchen racking without nylon standoffs.The big selling point is "constrained layer dampening".... | |
| Solid Tech - A new brand for racks and stands The "High Performance" racks are solid-to-solid connections but claim anti-vibration... just marketing ploysThe "Extreme Performance" racks actually control vibrations, but have big problems holding weight due to a spring suspension design. Over t... | |
| Light-Rigid vs. Mass Loaded Racks - Help You have hit an interesting topic. Vibration can actually be controlled by either lack of mass or high mass. The heavier the equipment... the more a mass-loaded shelf is desired. I think the real turning point is when you look outside the one shel... | |
| How to thwart cats You need to find shelves that can be elevated out of the reach of pets and children. Audiav Furniture does this. There is only one manufacturer that actually lets you do this. I had to figure a way to keep my daughter, Audia, from getting into my ... | |
| The Importance of Audio Furniture As a designer of the highest available reference, I would love to shed light on this. It really depends on equipment as to what is best to hold them in or on, plain and simple. NOT how some other market has confused the public.Turntables benefit f... |