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Author Topic: Audio racks Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 08-22-2007 05:07 PM                        Which are your favorite types and brands of audio racks? Open and/or closed? Which ones do you think are crappy, and why?  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-22-2007 06:28 PM                     I prefer Mid Atlantic overall. Always good consistancy and quality, Raxess is also pretty good. The worst.... Home Equipment. They have the louvers punched in upside down so they are not effective in the least. Mark  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-22-2007 06:59 PM                     Hammond knock down Racks are my prefference  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 08-22-2007 08:41 PM                     Preference Mid Atlantic panels and accessories / Raxness racks ( they used to build us a custom 44 space )/ Atlas for knock down UPS able racks and wall mount/ Lowell for rack extensions, beefy open racks and roomy racks as needed for broadcast. Home does suck, Bud racks are gold plated, Equipto hit and miss  |  IP: Logged Chad M Calpito Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: San Diego, CA Registered: Apr 2006 posted 08-22-2007 10:54 PM                        I prefer Big Sky Industries Sound Racks due to the overall construction, design & durability.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 08-23-2007 12:41 AM                     You can't beat Middle Atlantic for build quality vs. price. Plus their rack designs offer plenty of flexibility and have a good amount of thought put into them.  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 08-23-2007 07:29 AM                       Lowell is my favorite. They make a variety of models and also offer six circuit power strips that put power where it needs to be and save a lot of work and eliminate a number of potential problems.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-23-2007 11:02 AM                     Who is home racks?  |  IP: Logged William T. Parr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 823 From: Cedar Park, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 08-23-2007 11:20 AM                     I prefer closed racks and Mid Atlantic as well. They may be slighty higher in cost, but there miles ahead in quality.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 08-23-2007 04:46 PM                       Middle Atlantic.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-23-2007 06:31 PM                     quote: Gordon McLeod Who is home racks? They are somewhere in Missouri... My boss loves them in spite of the fact I pointed out to him that the louvers are upside down and provide no ventallation at all . Mark  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 08-25-2007 07:23 PM                        Note that open racks are illegal in cinemas in most states. Middle Atlantic has a UL rating, required in most states. Louis  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 08-25-2007 07:24 PM                     Louis, do you have a list?  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-25-2007 07:53 PM                     They can still be used in Wyoming.. the only State I've worked in that requires Locomotive Cable for the DC Lamphouse connections. Go figure.... Mark  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-26-2007 03:41 AM                        Long ago I recall, I think it was at the Sound Factory in NYC, two of the engineers there saying that power amplifiers should never be mounted in metal racks. All their pwr amps in that studio were in racks made out of finished wood, and not even with metal rails, but they were screwed directly into the wood rails. Is there any truth to that or is it rubbish? And I have heard a lot of rubbish in my time -- like this guy who has high-end audio gear and insists that everything sounds better if he puts magazine paper on top of all the interconnecting wires. I kid you not -- his place is covered with paper (and it has to be shiney magazine paper too, not just regular paper). It's over every interconnecting wire in his system. You have no idea how hard I have to bite my tongue to not laugh as he explains the exquisit sound he gets from his paper covered wired system. But I digress....about the amps not mounted in metal -- supposedly isolating them via wood racks stops oscillation and interaction between amps or some such.  |  IP: Logged

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