TARGET TT2 stands any good ?

Posted by: Robbie on 02 October 2001

Are Target stands any good ?I know they've got wooden shelves on an iron frame.
I can get a pair for 125 pounds (2 racks , 4 shelves).
Posted on: 05 October 2001 by Craig B
Robbie,

My first dedicated stands were a pair of Target TT2. Prior to that, my audio boxes (and television) were all placed in a large free standing wall unit comprised of veneered chipboard (it even had a bar in the middle...a true entertainment centre!)

The Targets freed the sound of so much shite that I thought that I had just replaced the whole lot with top flight kit. Everything was simply better. My vinyl front end, especially, was hugely better on its own dedicated stand with the bottom shelf removed. I was so bowled over by the effect of the stands that I became Vuk-like obsessive about their setup, experimenting with tweaks until all hours of the night. Now-a-days I just enjoy the music and get a good rest. (BTW Vuk, that reminds me, our friend Terry R. suggested ball-bearings-on-nuts to me back in 1984 razz )

That was a long time ago, and things have moved on in the stand market. It seems to me that no one has really reinvented the wheel, they have just taken the basic concepts further along the development path, diverging into different camps along the way.

IMO, Target TT2s are considerably better than heavy sideboards, or those cheap nasty vinyl clad knock up rack system thingies. I also prefer them over the original Sound Organisation Floor Stand for turntables with three point contact, like Regas, but £125 sounds way over the top for old Target racks.

Hope this helps,

Craig

Posted on: 06 October 2001 by JohnS
With four computers (3 with speakers), a phone, a couple of minidisk players and several sets of headphones, I appear to be sharing my listening room with more transducers than one might wish to shake a stick at.

Luckily, the music still moves me.

-John

Posted on: 09 October 2001 by Robbie
After reading the answers (thanks everyone!),buying these stands is a sort of "better than nothing" solution.The point is that I'm very sceptical about stands.A decent stand is going to cost me around 400 pounds, an amount of money I'd rather throw in buying another CDP (instead of the Meridian 506).So I want a cheap solution for now.

Greetings,Rob.

Posted on: 09 October 2001 by Martin Payne
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Originally posted by Stallion:
The best way is to have a seperate listening room and keep very little else in it apart from your hi-fi system. The shape and size of the room are important and the type of floor you choose.


Whilst I can quite understand about keeping phones, TVs, etc out of the room, I have to disagree that you will get the best sound with an almost empty room.

You need to add some furniture (e.g. bookshelves or soft furnishings dependent on circumstances) to keep down the amount of reverberant sound energy, which can smear out the sound.

Of course, you mustn't overdo these things, and I am coming to the conclusion that solid stuff like bookshelves (which can disperse the sound) can be more useful than sofas and the like.

cheers, Martin