Audio Rack Selection

I thank everyone for their valuable input! You have given me several directions to start looking towards!!!

Really like the look and cost of racks from Butcherblock Acoustics.

Adona  Corporation makes effective and wallet friendly racks that also happen to look good.

millercarbon, when you are an old man with a bad back and poor eye site having your turntable at about shoulder height is a blessing (along with a good light)  A well made tall rack with a granite top will have no problem with this on concrete with any turntable and on any floor with a good suspended turntable. 

One of the best racks I've ever had was a tall, thin rack with a 70kg turntable on top. The trick was simple: the rack was extremely rigid with plywood skirts (glued and screwed) on three sides, and fixed to the wall studs with 4" long #12 screws.

Not sure whether it was a reinforced shelf, a permanently fixed rack or a wall extension, but damn if wasn't stable. Performed nearly as well as my long, low, slate-topped, structural post-fixed on two sides, wall-fixed  plywood cabinet, joined to concrete.