Available in many different materials and colours
Wood (Cherry or Maple): $245 per shelf including columns
Glass: $325 per shelf including columns
Sand Blasted Glass: $325 per shelf including columns
Acrylic: $365 per shelf including columns
Quadraspire is well known for its high quality component racks. Resonance can be a real problem for sound quality. Hence a component rack that can control resonance is the best course of action.
Does your Turntable sound a little dull and boring? A good component rack can make a massive difference to soundstage and presence.
HiFi Choice said:
Sound quality
Again, there's the odd mixture of low frequency and midband resonances, depending on whether the stand is excited by direct contact or airborne vibration. But most of them are fairly well damped and hence not too distracting. Indeed, this diminutive support had one of the least pronounced effects on the bass in terms of coloration and loss of detail of the group as a whole. Plucked double bass retained most of its tunefulness and body, and solo male vocals were also notably full-bodied. At climaxes there was still some hint of harshness and loss of solidity to the sound, but on the whole tonality was good.
Detail was also good in a wide variety of music, with little impairment in clarity of textures. As a turntable support, this stand has little or no isolating effect.
Conclusion
If you like the subtle ringing that glass shelves can contribute - with quite pleasant effect - to simpler musical textures, you may find this unit a bit lacklustre, in which case try the version with glass shelves. As it stands (groan), it's attractively designed and versatile and as such may be Recommended.
Subsequently HiFi Choice gave the stand four stars and a recommended award!