Amps on top?

@ghasley I designed the stand.   I've been working in an industry dealing with vibrations for over 40 years.  I know those selling other things have talked down steel and many have read their marketing.  I wish them luck. 

Jerry

I hit the lottery and bought a used BDI rack for $100.     It is heavy gauge steel and Birch ply.    It is strong.   I have my tube amp on the top shelf ,  plenty of space around it.   Preamp is below , with a shelf removed so it has plenty of space to breath too.  DAC, tuner , streamer are all on separate shelves.    Everything stays cool,  as cool as tubes can be I guess

     Things got very crowded after the divorce shrank my listening room.

     The amps were on top, until I started Jonesing for my vinyls and TT.

      Had the scrap metal, 1/2" Corian, a huge granite leveling table, mill, lathe and welder at hand, so: figured I could probably come up with a way to straddle the two subs that were built to stand vertically, next to the Acoustats, for which I used to have room.

       All I had to buy was the 1" granite, felt for between that and the Corian, the powder coating job and 8 brass nuts, to lock the adjusting spikes that I turned out of 1/4-28 SHCSs, into the legs.

        Posted the result in my system pics.

        Haven't dusted this year (is it Spring yet?) and: the wallpaper was there when I moved in*.                                   

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                                                 Happy listening!

Solved this issue long ago, even tho' a SS kinda guy....

'Puter fans....Quiet, turns on with the amp.  No electrical racket noticed, low power draw.  Use it on the stand-alone units, anything I want to remain cool under pressure.....

For you 'tube types', a means of making use of that heat when winter returns...unless global warming makes that whole issue moot... ;)

(Keeps the dust out, too...*G*)

(( ....that, and the 'current crop' .... "To pun....or not to pun....isn't a question...😏..." even has the ability to give y'all a 'light show' in the comfy Barcalounger of your 'phile foxhole....))

Ludwig w/Lights!  Yow, so 21st Cen.....*L*

@rodman99999 ...mine is 2 slabs of cast-off 1.5" stone of indeterminate nature with a beefy pine frame....takes 2 to move empty...

With the pile on it?  Oh, ferget 'bout it...can't bring the Bobcat in here anymore... ;)