Wondering what everyone is using to space equipment when you stack components. I've been using the donuts from my hoel saw when I cut holes in cabinets, but was wondering if theres a nicer looking solution out there.

Any Ideas?

Middle Atlantic. Just think......it looks professional too!

I've made some pretty good looking feet out of chunks of wood and electrical tape... Not that I'm recommending that... Houston has the better Idea...

You are not suggesting you do that in customers systems, right? If inside a cabinet, just get more shelves maybe. One for each component. Maybe I don't get it.

How about a banana?

I mean, if you're not going to do it right, what's the diff? Let your imagination run wild and have some fun.

Just because someone invented something as obvious as a round wheel that works doesn't mean you can't come up with a really swell square one.

(he he. maybe a rack or some extra shelves?)

You could leave out a box of Crispy Cremes and when they harden you could throw those in there.. best of all, you can take out a little nibble from the ones in the back that the client wont see.

Or you could just use Middle Atlantic or more shelves..

for the record crispy creams dont get hard enough to use as spacers for stacking...only dunlin doughnuts get that hard

I havent used these, but they seem rather nice and are " high performance"

[Link: mapleshaderecords.com]

The MapleShade Isoblocks look like they might work, except

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These are vibration isolators. The

are, presumably, wood (he didn't say whether he used the nice powdery ones you get when you cut through drywall). Wood will transmit vibration. If the ones that transmit vibration work well, perhaps vibration isolators won't work correctly.

By the way, does that 1/4" hole in the middle of the hoel saw donut cause any problems? I would think that might be a filter-type passageway for sounds in the 40 kHz range to pass from one component to the other.


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Do you really want to buy something from these guys and get on their mailing list? You might be seeing a whoel lot more writing like this if you did!

I'm confused, all the equipment I've installed have feet that come with it. Just simply stack. Utilizing a shelf between each component is just ripping off the customer and plus you are losing A LOT of the heat that the components need.

I'm going to market component blankets to keep them warm. Maybe leftover pink insulation from intallations.

Jesus, I didn't think I'd get flamed that bad on this question. So all of you guys are telling me that either:

1). every job you sell, you install a Middle Atlantic rack, and every service call you go to that has existing equipment, you upsell the customer to a rack system...

OR

2). you have a shelf for each piece of heat generating equipment.

Since all of you seem to be experts, tell me, in a closed cabinet, how is having an amp on a shelf with say, 4" clearance to the bottom of the next shelf above, any different than an amp with a DVD player sitting on top of it with the same clearance?

I've got an idea what all of you can do with the banana Steve suggested.

I did not say that I recommend these . I was only replying to a post with a valid product which clearly says at the end of it's description that it's the best thing to seperate components when you need to stack them.

((( as claimed by the manufacturer -- If you have issue with that claim talk to them))))

Excuse me for trying to help.

And what product do / did you suggest???

Ohh wait you didn't suggest one.

A lot of guys here won't sell a system without a rack... We don't force the issue, and end up installing in a lot of different cabinets. I never stack anything other than a speaker selector on a receiver/amp. I always try to keep things with moving parts away from hot items like cable boxes/sat boxes etc. And yes, truth be told, there have been times where there was no choice, and I needed to break my own rules to finish and get paid. In these cases I have invented things out of what I had in the truck, and I wasn't kidding about the electrical tape (Sharpie works too, but it's tedious).

I saw a VERY large CI firm around here use Red wire nuts. Do they increase system perfromance. I'm skeptical.