An audio rack that really does make a difference.

The fact is most rooms are far from ideal listening rooms, so compromise rules the day


I have a decades old vertical Solid Steel vertical rack, but have long wanted to replace it with a horizontal rack, but quality racks are $$$$! Recently, I moved mine  ~ 4ft back, very close to the front wall. That helped a ton. Moving the speakers well out in front of the rack helped quite a bit, too


As to how much any rack interferes with the imaging might be offset by the extreme high price of either high quality speaker cables, or interconnects. AND, if the rack is to be placed along a sidewall, what about side wall reflections?


One inexpensive tweak that really works is/are Machina Dynamica Springs under everything
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For much less than $3k, you can have a metal manufacture custom make you a stand.

And, buy some Critical Mass 1.0 footers for under the components. Cheaper than buying the Critical Mass stand but still very effective.

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Core Audio designs are esthetically and functionally superb. My TT and associated equipment sits on a 3 shelf plyKraft rack. They look incredible and are extremely well build. These racks are so sturdy you can jump up and down in front of it whilst playing an LP and nothing happens. Although not recommended, give it a kick, yep, nothing happens. Here are some pictures:

https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/7324