It’s not difficult – just time and a good contact cleaner. Put them all together and your music will sound more involving. The improvements aren’t going to be a revelation (unless you haven’t touched anything for years) but they are global. Its a chore and we’d much rather be playing music. Silent Mounts, both speaker and rack versions, can often fix big issues with bass, dynamics and definition throughout the whole frequency range.Ī thorough cleaning session of all contacts, from mains plugs to speaker connections can make a big difference and should be a twice yearly event. Underneath a properly levelled rack, the extra sense of detail, dynamics and particularly definition is quite profound. We’ve used titanium Silent Mounts under various racks and the results range from good to extraordinary. A set of Silent Mounts beneath your speaker spikes will allow you to make micro adjustments until you find the perfect position.

Used beneath floor standing speakers (particularly big ones) they also make it incredibly easy to slide the speaker around the floor until you find the perfect position. Silent mounts can bring better definition and coherence to music and a precision to the start and stop of individual notes.

We have two versions of the Silent Mounts, one machined from titanium to sit beneath equipment racks and one built from stainless steel to use beneath speakers. They are designed to sit beneath equipment racks and speakers and we are still surprised at the musical improvements they can make to systems. Outwardly simple and internally very complex, they are beautifully engineered and extremely effective isolation devices. There are some very reasonably priced, well built racks available and as with all things hi-fi, you can also spend a small fortune should you wish. They aren’t always the most sexy thing to buy. It is very easy to hear improvements in the music. This all seems to make a lot of sense with turntables but don’t forget CD players, amplifiers and just about any piece of audio electronics will sound better if placed on a dedicated rack or isolation shelf. There are wall mounted shelves built specially to isolate turntables from their surroundings and all manner of stands and supports to do the same thing.

Put on the wrong support and even footsteps can make the needle and arm jump from the grooves in the record, causing damage to both the needle and the record. The easiest example of this is record players. Put simply, hi-fi racks isolate and absorb/dissipate mechanical energy from the components. A rack does far more than just make your equipment look tidy.

Of course it sounds wonderful, but there may be cables of all sorts draped around the room and whoever shares your space may well regard it as a no-go, trip hazard area but hey, you’re going to stay up late and play it as loud as you can get away with.Īt some point though you’re going to have to find a better and more acceptable place to put it all, so welcome to the world of hi-fi racks. Plug it all in, connect the speakers, switch on and find your favourite album. Amplifiers, turntable, CD player and whatever else you’ve just spent your hard earned money on are stacked on top of each other. Speakers placed anywhere you can fit them. You rush home, unpack everything and look around the room for somewhere to put it.

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