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Audio Systems & Components for the Music Lover |
| MAIN: 847-356-5161 FAX: 847-265-9459 CELL: 224-577-5161 Email: ja-info@jamnaudio.com |
Specifications: $400 per Component shelf
$500 Turntable shelf (top shelf in picture)
The new Taalam rack has been designed not only to isolate your
components from vibration but also to help in the defraction of sonic
floor reflections by letting the holes in the shelves act as difusers.
The thru holes also make the shelf lighter while retaining the rigidity
that comes from using 50mm wood slabs. Holes are machined into
the wood using a honeycomb pattern resulting in a shelf that is
immensely rigid yet very light.
The shelves are composed of several layers of isolation. If you observe
the line on the side of the shelves. That is a 6mm layer of polyurethane
foam between an 18mm ply above and a 27mm ply below all bonded
together. That's the first level of isolation. Then with the short arm that
comes out of the shelf and slides into the vertical legs, there are
several forms of isolation/vectors of flexibility. The arm itself ends in a
50mm high sleeve which slides onto the vertical bearing member. The
inside of the sleeve is lined with 2mm thick polyfoam again so that
rigid metal does not contact rigid metal. There is deliberate play there.
In the vertical direction, this arm/sleeve combination actually sits on a
neoprene ring which is the interface between the arm and the bearing
surface on the vertical leg.
Each shelf is completely separate. You can buy shelves when you
need them and just put them on top of the previous ones when you
wish to expand. There is no single frame that links all of them together.
The interface between the legs of each shelf is a low-elasticity ( i.e. it
will not really bounce if you drop one of them on the floor ) neoprene
ball sitting inside cupped surfaces top and bottom. So in effect, each
shelf can move in all directions if you push it. In spite of the lack of
rigidity as a unit, the shelves remain completely stable, even under full
load
The orientation of the shelves is also modular. You can use the
shelves sideways (as shown in the photograph) or you can orient the
shelves turned - and you can use both configurations within the same
stack. There are bolt inserts put in below to enable the arms to be
attached either way. The arm lengths are varying to allow this to
happen. So when a customer purchases a shelf, it comes with 4 arms
instead of just 3 so that it can be fitted any which way.
Each shelf system also comes with 3 dished wooden pucks about
50mm in diameter -- with glass balls not shown in the photograph -- to
be placed on the shelf to support the equipment you will have on it.
These are included with the realization that as a result of the rather
close hole pattern on the surface, equipment may not sit perfectly on
the shelf if the placement has the holes at some critical points aligning
with the footers on the equipment itself.
$500 Turntable shelf (top shelf in picture)
The new Taalam rack has been designed not only to isolate your
components from vibration but also to help in the defraction of sonic
floor reflections by letting the holes in the shelves act as difusers.
The thru holes also make the shelf lighter while retaining the rigidity
that comes from using 50mm wood slabs. Holes are machined into
the wood using a honeycomb pattern resulting in a shelf that is
immensely rigid yet very light.
The shelves are composed of several layers of isolation. If you observe
the line on the side of the shelves. That is a 6mm layer of polyurethane
foam between an 18mm ply above and a 27mm ply below all bonded
together. That's the first level of isolation. Then with the short arm that
comes out of the shelf and slides into the vertical legs, there are
several forms of isolation/vectors of flexibility. The arm itself ends in a
50mm high sleeve which slides onto the vertical bearing member. The
inside of the sleeve is lined with 2mm thick polyfoam again so that
rigid metal does not contact rigid metal. There is deliberate play there.
In the vertical direction, this arm/sleeve combination actually sits on a
neoprene ring which is the interface between the arm and the bearing
surface on the vertical leg.
Each shelf is completely separate. You can buy shelves when you
need them and just put them on top of the previous ones when you
wish to expand. There is no single frame that links all of them together.
The interface between the legs of each shelf is a low-elasticity ( i.e. it
will not really bounce if you drop one of them on the floor ) neoprene
ball sitting inside cupped surfaces top and bottom. So in effect, each
shelf can move in all directions if you push it. In spite of the lack of
rigidity as a unit, the shelves remain completely stable, even under full
load
The orientation of the shelves is also modular. You can use the
shelves sideways (as shown in the photograph) or you can orient the
shelves turned - and you can use both configurations within the same
stack. There are bolt inserts put in below to enable the arms to be
attached either way. The arm lengths are varying to allow this to
happen. So when a customer purchases a shelf, it comes with 4 arms
instead of just 3 so that it can be fitted any which way.
Each shelf system also comes with 3 dished wooden pucks about
50mm in diameter -- with glass balls not shown in the photograph -- to
be placed on the shelf to support the equipment you will have on it.
These are included with the realization that as a result of the rather
close hole pattern on the surface, equipment may not sit perfectly on
the shelf if the placement has the holes at some critical points aligning
with the footers on the equipment itself.
