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October 17, 2022, 04:54 PM #1
How to choose the right audio rack
Just posted a video on the steps I went through in how to choose an audio rack. Check it out:
How To Choose a Hi-FI Audio Rack / Hi-Fi Console - YouTube"We are all billionaires because of the huge piles sweet dough rolling in from our participation in the ongoing campaign to suck your collective brains through a stirrer-straw." - PTA Editorial Staff
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October 18, 2022, 10:51 AM #2
Re: How to choose the right audio rack
One of the areas that often see poorly done is turntable height. So many, mostly newcomers to LP playback have their TT's placed way too low. My platter resides 50" from the floor, perfect for my 6' 1" ht.
Cheers ! …. Dave
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October 18, 2022, 11:14 AM #3
Re: How to choose the right audio rack
I know you don't like mine but for the amount of records I play and not wanting it on the top shelf, it works just fine.
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October 18, 2022, 11:31 AM #4
Re: How to choose the right audio rack
Brian, my back aches just looking at that, LOL !
One other thing of note with your placement, can you keep the dust cover lifted for playback ? if not, that's another reason to move it. But I understand your feelings about minimal LP playback, regardless us serious vinyl guys would put it up top and the knick-knacks below !!Cheers ! …. Dave
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October 18, 2022, 12:52 PM #5
Re: How to choose the right audio rack
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October 19, 2022, 12:37 PM #6
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Re: How to choose the right audio rack
You didn't cover the most important thing.....how does it sound? The reason I say that is there was a huge difference when I went from a solid maple shelf rack with threaded rods to an inert multi layered shelf rack.
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October 19, 2022, 12:42 PM #7
Re: How to choose the right audio rack
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November 30, 2022, 07:19 AM #8
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Re: How to choose the right audio rack
Video was very informative,
I really liked getting your wife on board part.
I am looking for a rack also in family room and for now I relly like this
Myro HiFi Furniture
Being that I am form Europe thay seem like a good bet.
Thanks again
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November 30, 2022, 09:24 AM #9
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They look really nice. Here is a link if anyone is interested
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November 30, 2022, 09:34 AM #10
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November 30, 2022, 09:40 AM #11
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Re: How to choose the right audio rack
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November 30, 2022, 10:00 AM #12
Re: How to choose the right audio rack
My rack and the top of where my TT sets is 36". Perfect for me. Like anything audio, its a personal preference, as we all are not the same, nor have the same rooms and or home construction.. ex: Some have wooden floors with wooden floor joist, others have poured concrete floors, and concrete slab homes.
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November 30, 2022, 10:17 AM #13
Re: How to choose the right audio rack
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November 30, 2022, 10:30 AM #14
Re: How to choose the right audio rack
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November 30, 2022, 06:30 PM #15
Re: How to choose the right audio rack
Core Audio plyKraft Racks are an excellent example.
Component Racks | Core Audio Designs
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November 30, 2022, 07:23 PM #16
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Just a note that all hard materials, including tile, stone, concrete, will resonate, and or, ring. Just ask the folks who were walking down Market Street in San Francisco in 1906. In fact, sound waves will travel faster through concrete than air because it's much denser.
Folks that think having a concrete slab floor means it won't vibrate, resonate, ring, or have an audible impact on the sound of their system should...think again.
Here's some...data: Watch this video with Norm Varney of A/V Roomsystems, play a music box mechanism at approx. 8:20 into this video, and specifically, on a speaker with a cabinet made of concrete at approx. 13:10 into the video. Turns out concrete rings like a bell.
This is why racks (e.g, Core Audio, HRS, Finite Elemente, Artesania), amp stands, speaker cabinets that incorporate constrained-layer damping (as one example of a design embodiment) perform well to attenuate or damp (not "dampen", which is to make something moist) vibration, resonances, and ringing.
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November 30, 2022, 08:12 PM #17
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November 30, 2022, 09:22 PM #18
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Good stuff. Thanks for posting that vid.
I have rubber pads between my rack legs and the hard floor and then I also have vibration control at the component level.
I'd love to have a super fancy vibration-fighting rack, I just am not prepared to spend $5k-$10K at this time for one.
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December 1, 2022, 02:37 AM #19
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Re: How to choose the right audio rack
I am going on a limb here and will say something that 90% of the tech guys won't like...
But i don't like the idea of killing of everything in the room.
This will be more like studio sound? Right?
And we are going for a concert-hall sound?
As far as am concerned it is more about "controling the vibration" like thay do that i concert halls.
In Dresden there is one relatively newly built one, and it struck me when i went there that this is the game...
The guys that were making instruments were thinking this way i think, and the guys that were designig the concert hall were also thinkin in those terms.
Now maybe it is just me... In the 80ties Yamaha had this "neutral sound" series, never liked it...
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December 1, 2022, 07:52 AM #20Rance
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December 1, 2022, 08:51 AM #21
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