Wall brackets Vs floor stands

Posted by: blythe on 18 August 2003

Surely a half decent wall bracket screwed to a brick wall is always going to better than ANY floor standing support on a wooden joisted floor?

With a wooden floor, it's always a problem, with records jumping when you walk past etc. so there must be vibration of a smaller scale interfering with the system, even if the records don't jump......

The isolation of a wall mount HAS to be better... Or am I wrong?

Comments please.......
Posted on: 18 August 2003 by John G.
"The isolation of a wall mount HAS to be better... Or am I wrong?"

Depends on the wall. My LP12 on a Audiotech or Mana wall shelf skipped when doors within the house were closed. I ended up putting all the gear on one single support on a concrete floor in my basement. Made an improvement in the performance of the gear and no more footfall or skipping problems when doors are closed. Razz
Posted on: 18 August 2003 by Dan M
Here's something else to consider - the direction of motion. I imagine many 'tables are designed to minimize the effects motions in the vertical. Coupling a 'table to the wall that is vibrating in the horizontal may not be handled well by the 'tables suspension.

cheers

Dan
Posted on: 18 August 2003 by Dan M
quote:

Does 'table mean turntable?

Yep, sorry for the confusion.
Posted on: 19 August 2003 by blythe
quote:
Originally posted by John Gilleran:
"The isolation of a wall mount HAS to be better... Or am I wrong?"

Depends on the wall. My LP12 on a Audiotech or Mana wall shelf skipped when doors within the house were closed. I ended up putting all the gear on one single support on a concrete floor in my basement. Made an improvement in the performance of the gear and no more footfall or skipping problems when doors are closed. Razz

As I mentioned, my walls are solid brick. 9" thick actually! No matter how hard I slam a door, it will not make the wall shake :-)
Posted on: 19 August 2003 by John G.
"The isolation of a wall mount HAS to be better... Or am I wrong?"

Better than what? And what equipment are we talking about mounting to the wall? And what type of racks/wall mounts are we talking about?

If were talking solid wall vs solid floor, I would go for a floor stand as long as the turntable was high enough off the ground to make it easy to change records.

The problem with mounting to walls is that fasteners over time work there way loose and eventually cause degradation in performance.
Posted on: 21 August 2003 by blythe
quote:
Originally posted by John Gilleran:
"The isolation of a wall mount HAS to be better... Or am I wrong?"

Better than what? And what equipment are we talking about mounting to the wall? And what type of racks/wall mounts are we talking about?


Turntable (LP12), 252 pe-amp and CDX2 CD player. My equipment/room set-up means that I really can't use floor standing supports. As previously mentioned, the walls are solid brick. There is some vibration felt in the supports for the power amps and power supplies, but I want to mount the pre and CDX on wall brackets to improve the system.
The turntable is already on a wall mount and there is no detectable vibration at all, even at very high volume... I'm looking to do the same with the ohter source components and hope to be satisfied with wall mounting them.

Computers are supposed to work on 1's and 0's - in other words "Yes" or "No" - why does mine frequently say "Maybe"?......
Posted on: 22 August 2003 by John G.
Try a Mana Wallshelf. It can be mounted any height on the wall and can handle a multi-tiered amp rack with alot of weight in it.