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quartz as shelving

Recently came across a quartz kitchen counter top at a friend's house.
Got the basic stuff from him, it is 93% quartz and 7% color and polymers. Under some sort of process this is vacuumed and vibrationed into a slab under 100 tons of pressure. Then they are kilned dry. Have a 10 year warranty. What is all this leading to?
Has anyone tried it with their racks or equipment?
What are some reasons why it may not work well?
and of course the converse.
If someone has it will save me the trouble of trying to find out what it would cost and how it might work first.
It is hot here and it makes me lazy, or perhaps more so.
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rrog
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Hard surfaces like marble, granite, glass and your quartz countertop are kryptonite to your stereo equipment.
rrog
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Lowens, So, how does your bathroom system sound with the quartz countertops?
rrog
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Quartz and other hard surfaces will not drain unwanted energy from your equipment. The better equipment stands use wood like the stand Zargon uses. Check the photos of his system.
rrog
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Onhwy61 is in fact speculating. Unity Audio speakers like my Green Mountain speakers use a synthetic marble to eliminate cabinet resonance. This has nothing to do with placing your equipment on a rock hard surface that will make your system sound bright and glaring.
rrog
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Uru975, Notice the photos of Onhwy61's systems. His equipment is on wood. There is a good reason for that. Stereo equipment on wood is known to give the best sound.
rrog
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What you are not getting is, I don't use my speakers as a shelf to set my equipment on and speaker designers use this material for speaker cabinets for reducing cabinet resonances.

I think you should take out the maple and replace it with quartz. Then you can tell us how bad it sounds.

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