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In Reply to: The BEST! tweak I've found so far for the Lovan rack... posted by vocalion on April 5, 2004 at 00:39:14:
When I originally made my isolation platforms, I first cut the platform out of ply because it was available and I wanted to see if I liked the idea. When I decided I liked it, I thought of using clear, flame polished acrylic but because of the cost I looked around for a cheap alternative to try first instead of the ply and gave a PE chopping board a try. It surprised me by working/sounding better than the wood. I then tried acrylic which I think works better again but is much more expensive.My one concern about the PE is that it is a relatively bendy material, at least in most chopping board thicknesses, so I wonder how well it would hold up under a heavy component. 15mm thick acrylic is very good in my isolation platforms and I see that Grand Prix use acrylic shelves in their megabuck platform, plus at least one other firm making isolation platforms uses acrylic.
I think acrylic is definitely superior to PE, but at more than a few times the cost. PE seems good value for the money as a shelf option provided it's stiff enough to support what you're going to put on it.
David Aiken
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- Re: The BEST! tweak I've found so far for the Lovan rack... - David Aiken 13:39:03 04/05/04 (1)
- Re: The BEST! tweak I've found so far for the Lovan rack... - vocalion 20:17:42 04/05/04 (0)