TW Raven Acustic AC Owners

This solution is not practical for most and I realize the my not be possible for you. How about thinking out of the bigger box into a smaller box. Put you entire front end in a near by closet on your choice stand solution. Maybe you can spend less money on a stand. Maybe it's slightly more costly and goes grain of having the shortest possible cables in all positions. This approach gives the great isolation from all air and most floor passed vibration. If you have a slab floor then there's no floor vibrations. I've done and hear great results. IMHO having lived with this now, I would never-ever put my front end in open space in my sound room, regardless of great (usually) stand solutions.

There are other benefits too: My musical experience is improved also for another reason because I'm not looking at my equipment while listening - my weakness not yours. My wife loves it readily gave up that closet for this.

GerryM.
Nice system!...
One up from your closet spot, set up of a front end in an adjoining room is by far the best solution...
Especially for those that listen to their music at eye denting levels.

I know how well this works, if you can do it.
Not many can.

Even set up in another room, turntables themselves are resonating devices and I would still try out methods to drain the resonates off.

Isanchez what is your profession?
Your talk of material fatigue displays an ignorance of structural principles.
Apart from ' metal fatigue' which can occur when metals approach their elastic limits after repeated cycling of loads, there is no material ' fatigue' in structures that I am aware of and certainly not in regards to cantilevered wall shelves.
Tightening screws and bolts has nothing to do with metal fatigue.

Halcro,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatigue_(material)

Enjoy it,

Stilkin, thanks for the kind words. I recommended a closet because I do think isolation is paramount if not always practical. Do what you can. But you can get too smart and design what you think is just what you need - like me. In my case I designed my solution only 24" wide. Not really wide enough for double arm TT's to be used by clumsy hands the likes of me. Most closets are wider. Sometimes what's at in a normal house is better than custom. You just have to look, or maybe the wall is better after all.