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In Reply to: Mass Loading your Rack posted by OMalley on May 5, 2007 at 14:40:13:
The critical line in the article for me is :" .. here's a good one. If you have an unused shelf, try placing the weight there. I put an idle 20 lb AC conditioner on an empty TAOC shelf. This worked well and left my components' voices alone."
Which is to say that quite often loading the shelf, the rack, or whatever platform you're using may often pay dividends that loading an individual component may not.
And you may want to consider that loading on some other plane from the component.
And as Fret notes below, component-loading, often as not, sounds like just that : a loaded-down component.But often enough, not so the support platform. Very often the platform is built to some kind of perceived-value 'overkill' standards that means they've got huge headroom for weight, and don't really begin to do the job till they're correctly loaded, and anchored down.
If I recall correctly, the industrial versions of the Vibraplane even cite minimum loads for correct operation as well as max loads.
As User510 notes, even a set of welded steel tubes as a wallshelf is extremely over-rated for something the weight of a Linn Lp12, and won't be put to best use by underwhelming it in that way. (And until he granite-loaded his wallshelf, he was under-utilizing it....)But note-- no one's talking about mass-loading a Teres. We're talking about mass-loading racks and supports for devices like the Teres to perform their best on top of.....
This is an endless topic, and straddles an endless stretch of grey area, but there is one guideline to go by-- too much is way too much. Over-doing the mass-loading thing kills everything the music has to offer, so keep an ear out for anything that seems to "firm up" but also "deadens" as it firms up. That's the red flag.
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