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Having had my hifi standalones sit on emtpy shelves in my bookcase for the past 15 years, I decided I needed something more professional for the new system I just bought.
The new system:

•  Receiver:                              Sony STR VA-555ES
•  DVD-Player:                         Denon DVD-2900 (Region Code Free and PAL/NTSC Progressive Scan)
•  HTPC:                                   Busch SVC-107TD (My own design and build by me)
•  CD Player:                            JVC XL-Z452
•  Casette Player:                    JVC TD-R611
•  Front Speakers:                   B&W DM 603 S3
•  Surround Speakers:            B&W DM 601 S3 (with the shown B&W speaker stands)
•  Center Speaker:                  B&W LCR 60 S3
•  Surround Back Speaker:    B&W LCR 60 S3
•  Subwoofer:                           B&W ASW 650

After having looked through dozens of internet sites offering semi-professional to professional hifi-stands, I concluded that the only way I as gonna get what I wanted, was if I build it myself.

I wanted an hifi-stand that ensured that each component was as close as possible to being100% sonically de-coupled from it's surroundings.
In my opinion I had 3 options:

1. Put spikes under the feet of the rack itself.
2. Construct the rack in such a way that the glass plates would be attached via wires to the steel frame.
3. Install spikes under the glass-plates of each level.

Option 1 was dismissed rather quickly because I was not sure if 3 spikes would be able to handle the 105 kg of the rack with the hifi standalones.

Option 2 was dismissed because the rack would become real big and ugly.

Option 3 was exactly what I wanted. A sleek, cool looking design with glass-plates resting on 3 spikes on each of the 5 levels.

So after a couple of hours of AutoCAD drawing I came up with this design:

At a local steel shop I ordered the parts for the hifi-stand.
All bars are made of 20x20 mm square steel tube, wall-thickness 2 mm.
The 2 front round tubes have a diameter of 50 mm and a wall thickness of 3 mm.
The rear round tube has a diameter of 115 mm and a wall thickness of 3 mm.

On each of the 5 levels of the rack, the hifi-standalones sit on 10 mm thick hardened glass-plates, wich have a 45 deg chamfer around the edges.
In turn the glass plates rest on 3 spikes each, on the square steel tubes.

In the 115 mm rear tube there are holes on each level so all cables can be routed out of view through this tube to each component or to the speakers by a hole on the rear and bottom of the tube.

All steel connections are welded.
After welding was completed the rack was spray-painted with 2 coats of glossy black car paint and 1 coat of clear glossy varnish.

To complete the rack, I attached a "Busch" logo in the middle of the fifth level.

The pictures below will clarify all this:

For questions, remarks or suggestions just e-mail me.