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Lovan Classic Rack - What a disapointment!!

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Posted by three quid on January 4, 2007 at 16:56:52

Originally I had my components on the glass tv stand that came with my tv, but it sounded bad - glare in the upper mid range, small flat soundstage. I tried a few different types of footers (brass cones, herbie's dots, domes, and ebony balls) but these all still left slight glare in the upper mid range lower treble that made the sound fatigueing. I found the vibrapods/cones stacked got rid of the glare...but didn't have the detail and weight of the other footers, and the highs were attenuated the highs a bit. I ended up just placing my comonents on the bare carpet without any footers and got the most balanced sound without any glare. Its a sound a could live with. Unfortuantely the rest of the househole can't live the components on the floor, so I needed to get a rack for them.

The lovan classic one ended up being the perfect dimesions for my space and looked like it could be a decent rack. It wasn't a real expensive rack, so I wasn't expecting much. I wasn't expecting it to be much better than the bare carpet, but I wasn't expecting it to be worse. I was hoping to at least get at least the same quality as on the carpet.

I placed the order last week and got it a couple days ago.... and man what a disppointment! The worst sound out of everything else I've tried. Glare in the upper midrange/lower trebel, dip in the upper bass, and very artificial sounding. I filled the legs with copper bb's to dampen the ringing, but with minimal improvement. I read of other tweaks that peoplebe done to this rack (i.e. dynamat, pe batting, chopping board shelves). Do these tweaks improve the sound significantly? Because filling the legs didn't do much, and if each of the other tweaks have the same amount of improvement as this, I'm probably just going to return this rack and look for something else. Any suggestions? On the tweaks or a better rack?

Thanks!

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