Please tell me the wait will be work it......my rack


The supply chain issues have certainly sucked. I am waiting for the LAST piece of my set up.....my rack. I’ve been waiting over a year for all my components to come in and the rack has been the longest wait. Please tell me it’s worth the time and $$$ or offer other options for consideration that may be more available. My brother offered Critical Mass but I am trying to save a few bucks, and not clear if they have the same supply issues. Appreciate your thoughts in advance.

Lance

meadski

For me the rack for my gear is at the back of the line for upgrade dollars. I’m using a VTI rack (inexpensive, not very well made, passable) and picked up a few Symposium Svelte Shelves used to place under each component to enhance isolation. Works great and leaves me with funds to spend where a real difference can be heard.

you guys dont understand critical mass racks are a huge upgrade to a system when you remove noise and resonance from components it is an upgrade as significant as upgrading an amp or preamp from a very good component to a reference level

we havebeen playing with these kinds of racks for years we started eith hrs went to stillpoints then  to critical mass

we demoed a 20k stillpoints rack it transformed our reference system from good to something approaching a live event

 

unless you have experienced this kind of device and what it dies sonically

you have no idea to the magnitude of the improvement

honestly I could never have imagined ever spending 20k on a rack tillI personally heard how transformenal a real energy absorbing rack can be

Dave and Troy

Audio intellect nj

critical mass dealer

 

 

 

 

 

Whatever pleases everyone, but I tend to agree that a well made rack should minimize tweaking as the improvement they bring is more uniform.

Some of them look nice too.

What a surprise.   A Critical Mass dealer giving a positive review of the product!   I wonder how the folks down below are enjoying the freeze. 🤣

@boxcarman

For a few hundred bucks you can get a Pangea wood rack with 4 or 5 shelves. If you think you have vibration issues, use footers or an isolation pad. It is ridiculous to spend megabucks on a rack.

+1

Better to spend the money on nice custom book/LP/CD racks and other room treatments.

Sorbothane, points and VPI bricks in a Pangea create an absolutely dead support. ZERO tube amp microphonics.

IMO, anyone with the TT the same room as speakers capable of realistic levels is asking for trouble. [My last TT set up was in another room with the ARC SP6 with support anchored to the concrete floor... in the last century 😉]

None believers can digitize the preamp output with the power amps on and off, then compare. Any delta and you gots a problem