Rogoz Audio. Reasonable pricing and flexible design.
https://www.rogoz-audio.com/en/products/audio-stands.html
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Which rack i can buy???????????????
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They look well made, but I don't like their models with an upright in the middle as that is where you need to access connectors and switches at the back of components. It looks kind of stylish, but is functionally a design flaw imho.
Hi Bodhi
I prefer open rears too. There is one application where I like 3 legged racks however, Turntables
They are so much easier to level
I prefer open rears too. There is one application where I like 3 legged racks however, Turntables
They are so much easier to level 
4 post racks can be a relative PAIN to level perfectly. Even if many tables now can be leveled independently, including motor and/or arm pods, the OCD in me just has me belly on the floor adjusting spike height LOL. I'm using a 4 leg now. It's fine now that I got it leveled but on my belly you can bet I was wishing I went with the three poster LOL I would have been done in less than ten minutes, instead of the hour and some it took me.
So you're basically saying you're an audiophile Jack?!
I found a good solution using upgraded FE Cerabase Classic feet on my Taoc racks. I can't recall how long they took me to level, but it was probably too long, lol. My Dealer who is Russian would have done it in <5 mins!I use 3 Stillpoints U6's under my cdp for the same reason.Hi Bodhi
There is one application where I like 3 legged racks however, Turntables
Shhhhh. Don't let the word out that we level our transports/CDPs too. People will really know we're crazy LOL
I would suggest a Mapleshade rack, but it will probably cost more than the rack itself to ship.
http://www.mapleshadestore.com/samsonracks.php
http://www.mapleshadestore.com/samsonracks.php
Sound and other vibrations physically alter audio components. Whatever you put a component on will change its Q. Whatever you put a component on will change your system's sound to one degree or another.
The biggest source of vibration to an audio system is largely the music it produces. Next is floor-borne and non-audio air-borne vibration, and then there is vibration created by components themselves. I suspect the easiest to address is floor-borne vibration through isolation. But you likely know all that.
Ask yourself: What are you trying to accomplish with a rack?
If you just want something to hold your components, buy some nice furniture. Many, I dare say most, 'audio racks' aim to please the audiophile with their looks - and many 'philes are concerned first with looks, which is okay, but there's a lot of furniture that looks better than an audio rack. If you want then to fiddle with footers, have fun. In my experience (I've tried a lot of footers over the decades) maybe you'll hit on a match to a component that actual mitigates a broad spectrum of vibration in that component, maybe. But you won't know what works before trying. And there's usually not a one-size-fits-all footer that works optimally for every component. But you will (almost) always hear a sonic difference. In my experience, footers are not a long-term satisfaction solution. There always seems to be a footer du jour.
(One thing it seems no one talks about with footers is reaction time. Many of them can indeed turn some mechanical energy into heat energy (or into some other resonance at a different frequency), but their reaction time is too slow to prevent feedback of mechanical energy back into the component. Or so is my understanding - I'm not a physicist.)
If you want to reduce, or greatly minimize the effect of vibration on your components then get a rack designed specifically for that purpose. You'll want both isolation and abatement. Every component has its own resonance frequency. Buy an "off-the-rack" rack and maybe you'll get lucky and it will help mitigate vibration's effect to some extent. The majority of racks are generic, they have no clue about the resonant characteristics of the components that will sit on them.
The biggest source of vibration to an audio system is largely the music it produces. Next is floor-borne and non-audio air-borne vibration, and then there is vibration created by components themselves. I suspect the easiest to address is floor-borne vibration through isolation. But you likely know all that.
Ask yourself: What are you trying to accomplish with a rack?
If you just want something to hold your components, buy some nice furniture. Many, I dare say most, 'audio racks' aim to please the audiophile with their looks - and many 'philes are concerned first with looks, which is okay, but there's a lot of furniture that looks better than an audio rack. If you want then to fiddle with footers, have fun. In my experience (I've tried a lot of footers over the decades) maybe you'll hit on a match to a component that actual mitigates a broad spectrum of vibration in that component, maybe. But you won't know what works before trying. And there's usually not a one-size-fits-all footer that works optimally for every component. But you will (almost) always hear a sonic difference. In my experience, footers are not a long-term satisfaction solution. There always seems to be a footer du jour.
(One thing it seems no one talks about with footers is reaction time. Many of them can indeed turn some mechanical energy into heat energy (or into some other resonance at a different frequency), but their reaction time is too slow to prevent feedback of mechanical energy back into the component. Or so is my understanding - I'm not a physicist.)
If you want to reduce, or greatly minimize the effect of vibration on your components then get a rack designed specifically for that purpose. You'll want both isolation and abatement. Every component has its own resonance frequency. Buy an "off-the-rack" rack and maybe you'll get lucky and it will help mitigate vibration's effect to some extent. The majority of racks are generic, they have no clue about the resonant characteristics of the components that will sit on them.
Tima, the problem is that last para. There is no such rack that is "specifically designed for that purpose" and does not affect sound possibly negatively, or at least we do not know which to select without trying all the recommendations mentioned in this thread. And once he picks a wrong rack, he is stuck unless, as you say, he gets lucky. With footers he can make his own luck because they are easy to shift in and out and and match to personal taste and requirement.
So then the answer is to get a seemingly sturdy, well-made, decent-looking rack, and then foot to taste.
Dear Ron. Dont listen to him too much. Regard 51% of his comments as noises or hum. If you havebudget, just by any stable decent ones like CMS, SRA, Nothing rack, whatever give you peace of mind. They may or may not improve sound but I dont think they will do any harm.
Tang
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Dear Ron. Dont listen to him too much. Regard 51% of his comments as noises or hum.
Tang
Hahaha!
Dear Ron. Dont listen to him too much. Regard 51% of his comments as noises or hum. If you havebudget, just by any stable decent ones like CMS, SRA, Nothing rack, whatever give you peace of mind. They may or may not improve sound but I dont think they will do any harm.
Tang
Tang, no hum, I am grounded due to no head concussion
Bonzo - Sure, anyone can make a mistake, especially if you follow the trial and error approach of rotating through footers. By and large, after years of doing that I've forsaken them. And sure someone can make a bad purchase of anything including racks, but you can also do your homework and avoid that. From what I gather the problem is maybe you haven't done much homework on racks or vibration management - at least your comments here don't indicate that, no offense meant. You don't need to rely on luck, but of course you can.
If you think you'll find something to put your component on that does not effect sound, you're on the wrong track. People too often use footers to tune the sound. What you want is something that isolates and abates vibration for a particular component. You want to hear your component/system without the effects of vibration - then you'll find out what they sound like. Frequently, if you have decent components, they'll sound better under vibration management.
And of course you can find racks - yes racks - designed specifically to handle vibration in a specific set of components. Of course there are platforms too - the component equivalent of a rack. Some people use individual platforms on racks.
I honestly believe that here you are giving the wrong advice.
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