Yo Dudes,
As you know I am experimenting with my audio rack.
Last time I had shared with you the controversy article about nordost spikes.
That article brought my attention to the fact that anything you put under your equipment will influence the sound.
I also have changed my mind regarding soft connections. I understood that the energy that is produced within electronics and which is delivered to them through the speaker cables is the most important issue to cope with.
Cope means to make very solid connection so energy can go away. Which materials and how to mineralize the vibrations still stays magic for me, but let’s say that ceramic balls and rvs/alu is the destiny!
Anyway I have build something based on new knowledge and it seems to work.
The frame of the rack is filled with the quartz sand, that poses a great resonance value.
Feet are equipped with super spikes! (just to start somwhere)
Special, just a spikes, but they allow proper solidity and adjustability.
The whole rack stands very, very solid and there is no way of footsteps trilling. The whole thing weights app. 95kg. Maybe Adrian can count how much tons of weight is on the point of each spike.
The rest stays basically the same as in the past. (Position of the cd player is just for a test reason. I want to determine, if I still audible the spinning of cd, by some quiet moments)
The verdict:
I hear the change! I can´t say what is it exactly though it is different. I got the feeling that I can listening with harder volume before having a bass problem.
Though I think that the stage has lowered itself.
The next step:
- I try to find out which material is the best to use as an equipment platform (plexi, glass, granit)
- I am trying to find out how much it would be to make base stands as shown above from finite elemente: http://www.finite-elemente.de/en/accessories/cerafamily/cerabase_compact
- The ceramic balls are chosen and can be bought cheap in Poland for1.5E
What you think?