HRS MXR Equipment Rack Assembly Photos
Our first Harmonic Resolution System MXR equipment rack, in gloss black, arrived just before the HE 2006 show. So we assembled it, taking lots of photos, played it for a few days (yes, it is just like a component), and then were subsequently inundated with reports to write: From the HE 2006 Show Report, to the VTV 2006 Show Report, to the Cogent True-to-Life horn loudspeaker tour.
So finally, without further delay, we have finally posted to the website (oh, please no! Not more photos! Yes, more photos) the Tour in Gloss Black, the Pictorial Odyssey through the Process of The Assemblage, the Celebratory Victory over the Vibrating Elements of the Sound Dimension, The….
Assembly of the HRS MXR Equipment Rack
This is an equipment rack whose sonic impact on our system in listening room number two Blew Our Minds. We thought it would sound a little better – and look better by hiding all those cables.
And the feel of this rack is like that of a Mercedes – with tolerances few turntables can match – and a truly Impressive impact on the sound – especially dynamics along with much improved evening out, a cmore correct proportioning of all sorts of sonic properties across the frequecny spectrum, top to bottom.
Kind of a loss for words here – everybody expects that a $50K preamp and a $20K pair of speaker cables are going to sound pretty dran good, right? But a 15K equipment rack?
Yes! Yes, Yes!
The Lamm ML2.1 amplifiers now had SLAM on the Marten Coltrane loudspeakers…….!
…… all because the Lamm L2 preamplifier, the Audio Note CDT-Three transport and the Audio Note DAC 4.1x Balanced were on the MXR rack instead of on the Acoustic Dreams equipment rack – no slouch itself in the vibration control department either, at least compared to the rest of the competition.
What, with the Jorma Design Prime cables, the Audio Note M10 preamplifier, and this HRS MXR equipment rack – we have heard a lot of stuff in this last month or so that KICK sonic booty –
that dramatically improve the sound of already state-of-the-art systems,
that really go one step beyond what are reasonable expectations for what a pile of resistors and spun metal can do to one’s mind,
that can open doors into new dimensions of visualizations and sounds to which we attach the dramatically understated label ‘music’, ….
i.e. they kick some humongous sonic booty. 🙂
How deep to you want to go today? Red pill or blue? Or gloss black?
Me, I’ll take gloss black.
Whoa. If it weren’t for the wood paneling and knowing that you and Neli have rather sunny dispositions, I’d be pretty much convinced this is Darth Vader’s home HiFi.
Maybe, as next door neighbors, we can arrange a shoot-out between this rack (if you’re bringing it) and a piece of hotel furniture, moving just one component back and forth at RMAF. I’d like Audio Note to get out of the “any hotel furniture in a storm” mode of exhibiting, at least in the U.S. 😉
On a much more mundane level, at my late lamented CT shop I started with Sound Org stands with their now std glass shelves, ditched the glass for 2″ maple – much better, then moved to Quadraspire, which looks tons better and souds still better. That’s as far – at 1/50th the price! – as I’ve gone with rack experimentation.
The furniture is great. Anyone would love it. I like how the amplifiers were neatly arranged in the rack. This is nice because it saves enough space in the room.