What makes a good Hi Fi rack improve your system.
When I lived in the UK (some 20 years or so now) I was a big fan of the Audiophile Base system. It looks good, is versatile and expandable and is well designed from an isolation standpoint. As I recall it was also good value Somewhat higher end and no doubt prohibitively expensive as an import in the UK I now use Grand Prix Audio racks |
Ricred1 - absolutely. Rack design, choice of shelf material and footers all matter. Design of the rack and the material of the shelf will all affect the vibration transmitted to the feet thus definitely has an impact. As a rule solving the problem down the chain (rack-> shelf -> footer) is best but a good footer will always help as it affects the transmission of vibration both to and from the component as well (i.e. Changing the component to shelf connection) For the GPA racks I use the stock shelf is acrylic, upgrade is carbon fiber and I have one custom shelf under my pre amp in a special composite made by Marigo labs. Them the footers you use make a huge difference, I use Marigo labs F8 extreme mystery feet which really eliminate micro vibrations and work well under everything I have tried them on. Others like Stillpoints but I’ve never tried them As an example of how tiny things matter in the latest mystery feet update three dots of sticky tape were added to the top of the footer and they materially changed the sound of the footers, like I said all of these things matter. Good news is the effects are all additive and you can stop once you feel you are not getting good results for your spend |
