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quartz as shelving

Recently came across a quartz kitchen counter top at a friend's house.
Got the basic stuff from him, it is 93% quartz and 7% color and polymers. Under some sort of process this is vacuumed and vibrationed into a slab under 100 tons of pressure. Then they are kilned dry. Have a 10 year warranty. What is all this leading to?
Has anyone tried it with their racks or equipment?
What are some reasons why it may not work well?
and of course the converse.
If someone has it will save me the trouble of trying to find out what it would cost and how it might work first.
It is hot here and it makes me lazy, or perhaps more so.
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rrog
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What you are not getting is, I don't use my speakers as a shelf to set my equipment on and speaker designers use this material for speaker cabinets for reducing cabinet resonances.

I think you should take out the maple and replace it with quartz. Then you can tell us how bad it sounds.

Now do you get it?
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onhwy61
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So reducing resonate behavior in speaker cabinets is somehow different than reducing resonances in equipment shelves and different materials should be used?
6550c
393 posts
 
"Quartz and other hard surfaces will not drain unwanted energy from your equipment."

Can you tell us the origins of this "unwanted engery"? lol

BTW, I use solid marble slabs for amp stands for 200 lb monos. Anyone can build with flimsy wood and come up with vodoo logic as to why wood is better. (arn't some of the truly great speakers made with concrete- Theil?) (See allot of older Speaker Builder Mags)
paulsax
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i think it would be most accurate to say that the job of vibration management is a function of may variables such as freq and amplitude of the driver, weight of the load, materials used and the design. complicated enough to say that there is no one size fits all solution. I'm, still hazy on the effects of vibration (even minimal)on solid state electronics. I've read lots of stuff that is frankly BS but lots of folks report noted improvements so............

anyway there is no magic material.
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audioblazer
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Rrog, u mentioned that glass is kryptonite to stereo equipment. I m curious why Mana stand and Naim Fraim (expensive) used glass as shelf. Appreciate your input thks
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