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In the Thread: Mastodont DIY Rack: Wall Mount?
Post Subject: I nice platform.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 7/25/2013
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A very nice made rack. I do not know if “stupid, indiscriminative mass loading is a road to nowhere”. To me all of the solutions with rack design are road to nowhere. There are many reasons why some of the solutions are better or worse and they all do make since but I still need to see if and how the actually affect sound of playback. I spent long houses experimenting with all imaginable suspension and decouples, using a good stethoscope to hear how vibration are propagated but I was not able to find how better noise in stethoscope impact the sound of the components. I might say that I can hear some difference with different racks but I would not definitively say that one solution is better then another. Even more: each component or class of the components behaves differently and the “better” suspension for CD player is not the “best” for tube power supply. In the end that all is a huge mess where I was not able to find any rational. That is why I feel that racks are pretty much the road to nowhere.I meant the acoustic aspect of racks road to nowhere. The furniture, the continence of the racks is very nice future and shall not be discarded.
About your rack. It is nice that you have a provision to use the larger geg under the bottom of the rack. My estimate that you would need a good 8” of legs in order to use the floor as an extra shelf, of cause if you have enough crap to put in there. I do and in my world it is never too much space on the rack. You might want o look in eBay for pneumatic vibration Isolation legs. They come in set of 3 or 4 and might cost over $1000. Ironically the same legs might be listed much much chipper. Look for those that have no industrial look and work at over 80psi. It is nice if they are self-setting: you would need a compressor for it.
If I were you I would make easy extendable wings from sides of the top plates, perhaps under an angle Trust me, very soon the top shelf will be loaded with CD boxes, records, and anything ease imaginable….
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