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What makes a good equipment rack?

I've outgrown where all my components live and planning on building a solution myself.

I get the need for air flow around components. No turntable in my future which I'm sure have special needs.

What should I be concerned about or need to address beyond just making a solid peice of furniture and cabling accessible?
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mitch2
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Speaking of racks and stands, and since you are good with underwater stuff, do you know much about the SRA folks and products?
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geoffkait
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I don’t have any experience with SRA products but you have to hand it to their marketing dept.

From their page for Virginia Class iso stand,

“Each jewel-like chassis features a custom-made nanocomposite housing. This creates the ideal coupling path between component footer and isoBASE, enabling it to drain and sink skin-effect vibration.

Under this nanocomposite skin are two of our enormously complex Raft Isolation Systems™. Each is encased in its own vacuum and calibrated to single-angstrom tolerances. It’s our most reactionary, most effective implementation ever.

Mechanically grounding this to your floor are build-specific leg assemblies. These are made of HY80 high-tensile steel, a material originally developed for the hulls of U.S. nuclear submarines.”


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grannyring
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I just set up a brand new Sound Anchors 200 pound 5 shelf unit. I love this thing! Solid as a rock and I love the way it allows air to circulate all around my gear! It sounds terrific to boot! I still use my Iso Acoustics footers under all my gear in addition to the rack. Best rack I have ever used.
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bdp24
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If I were starting over, and had unlimited funds, I'd get Sound Anchor stands for everything. I have their ET LFT-8b speaker stands, and love 'em. Cut some Baltic Birch plywood into shelf-size pieces, finish them with satin polyurethane (it brings out the contrast between ply layers), and use whatever isolation devices you prefer.
mitch2
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When I was using my Sound Anchor equipment stand, I made a quartersawn oak top shelf that really warmed up the industrial appearance.  I also made thick quartersawn oak platforms that I use on the tops of my Sound Anchor amplifier stands.  I use thin sheets of Isodamp elastomer material between the wood platforms and the tops of the amplifier stands.  The stands themselves are spiked to the concrete floor.  You can see the various stands in my system pictures.
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