Do stands make a difference for equipment?

Agear, I'm currently using a Sistrum rack that is grounded to my Tripoint Audio Troy using a Tripoint Thor grounding cable. Due to the high sensitivity of the TROY, you can hear dielectric materials, purity of metallurgy, shielding designs/materials all are very audible when grounding the rack. The key lies in the dispensation of the energy coming from the rack at a higher speed. It's all speed!In the future I need to change the shelves to brass. Resonating frequency in proportion to their equivalent mass also becomes critical for ultimate voicing. When your room and system become that revealing not only do the scientific principles apply but also materials choices become critical. Folks get caught up with the gear, source material and never address these other issues in their systems. They really never get to hear their electronics or the recorded materials due to all the noise. I know you know this but I can't ilustrate the importance anymore of addressing grounding.

Miguel, I have all my Sistrum racks grounded to a binding post that connects to a dedicated ionic grounding rod for the room but hope to one day use one of your boxes....

Agear, everything matters the Troy will let you hear more of the ionic grounding rod benefits. Are you using bendonite to lower resistance with the rod? In the future I would love to ground your room to the Troy for a ride to audio heaven.

Yeah, the rod is encased in a proprietary Bentonite slurry developed by Lyncole, the designer of the rod.

I think that there is no substitute for a solid and massive rack. I also think that mixing materials lessens the likelihood of developing resonances. Sooo...I built my own.

For the vertical supports, I bought eight decorative concrete blocks and painted them with white semigloss enamel. I applied heavy felt to the top and bottom of each block.

I made the shelves from 1/2" granite tiles laminated on top of 1 1/8" high density fiber board. The mortar for the tiles acts as a dampening material. I edged the shelves with oak door stop stained semigloss black.

The whlole project cost less than $300. The beauty of it is that you can use any color granite (or marble) you want and you can paint the blocks any color you want.

I put one self directly on the carpet and built up from there. The rack is 78" long x 27" high x 17" deep. It weighs about 500 pounds. It has a total of 9 spaces (including the top)