The Guide to all High-end Audio Racks

We updated, modernized, and moved the Audiophile’s Guide to the Galaxy’s guide to High-end Audio Racks.

This is a pictorial guide of all the brands of all of the high-end audio equipment racks we were able to find. We chose a few prime examples from the manufacturer if they made more than one kind of rack.

We are still working on making it look cool and awesome [and pretty], but it is not so bad right now 🙂

Many racks are no longer being made, but people do still buy and sell [trade] them. So we may end up making another page of ‘dead racks’ in the future. Anybody interested in this?

At first I thought there weren’t that many racks out there. Then I discovered there were more than I knew. But, now, later, I am back to thinking there are not that many after all.

Most are just ways to get the gear off the floor so you can run 1 meter cables between it all. How else would we make this work? Laying flat on the floor? Then it would take some mental energy to figure out just the right layout to make all those 1m cables reach. Makes my brain hurt.

Just seems like one of those necessities of [audiophile] life – but few people talk about these things.

There are a few that tout this or that technological advantage, that they either don’t muck up the sound or, a very few, say they can even improve the sound.

Some are beautiful. Most are… less so.

Some are heavy. Some are not.

Anyway, the Audiophile’s Guide is a easy way to see everything that is available [know of one we missed? Let us know! Please!].

 

 

Sold: Esoteric P70 CD transport

Sold. Esoteric P70 transport for sale.Very solid heavy transport from one of the largest players in high-end audio.

A few dings but otherwise perfect. Slight ding at top front and some discoloration on top. See photos.

Have more questions about this? Send us an email (mike+neli@audiofederation.com), or give Neli a call: 303.546.6503.

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Esoteric P70 CD transport remote control

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A couple of dings. One on the ridge above the open/close button. And one on upper right ridge.

Taking our specials page to warp 9 (used and demo audio equipment)

Changing Times. Crank it up to warp Nine.

We’ve had a specials page for most of our 12+ year history.

But it was never like this.

The easiest way to buy demo and used audio equipment [often trade-ins or gear on consignment] is once again direct from the dealers themselves. Trust. Support. Email. And you can use credit cards.

Our new Used and Demo Audio page is very popular with links to many dealer’s special pages.

We want to be there to meet this demand and help audiophiles find their used ‘gems’ as well as, of course, their new ones.

So now we have tons of stuff on our page where we sell our own demo and used audio equipment.

I had no idea we had this much stuff squirreled away.

Lots of stuff I never knew we had at all [but someone knew. Guess who?]

Crazy Audiophile Wife Stories

One of us [not me] has been piling up boxes of stuff in the Audio Closet. In Listening room 3. The garage, the storage unit, the dining room table [seriously, yes] for YEARS. *I* just thought the ever growing mess was bad organization skills on the part of one of us [no, not me either :-)].

My wife is a pack-rat!

Who knew! [I guess maybe I am supposed to know these things? How am I supposed to keep up? Now she wants to collect phono cartridges. ???!!! Me? Speakers and amps and turntables? Yes. Definitely. Why not. Cartridges? No. That. Is. Just. Nuts. :-)].

[We’ve been trying to sell our house for awhile, and come to think of it, I wonder what the lookey-loos thought about all the boxes and cables and tweaks laying around. It’ll be nice when we can have a little more elbow room here. Maybe I’m just getting old and like to see the walls and floor sometimes ;-/]

Special Specials

So now we have one of the largest specials pages in the U.S. Us! Audio Federation! A sale. Feels weird.We hardly ever feel so ‘traditionally store-like’.

The only relatively new thing of ours we are selling [i.e. it is less than 5 years old :-)] is the Acapella Atlas speakers. These have been to a few shows and we have all agreed that they deserve a nice happy place in someone’s listening room where they can just make music for a good long while. [People, you should get these if you can swing it. Awesome performance. Awesome special pricing. Just saying.]

We take Consignments

And, beyond the stuff Neli has been putting in the corners, Under the beds. Behind the desks. On top of the closets. Is a lot of stuff we are selling is on consignment. Many people were never that comfortable with selling online, and it has gotten worse the last few years for high-end audio.

We are happy to do consignment for our customers and other reasonable people. We have one of the best world-wide reputations and tons of goodwill with audiophiles everywhere. We accept credit cards and wire transfers – and we are always happy to get gear into our international friends hands as much as we are people here in the Americas.

Happy shopping. And to infinity and a little bit more.