Russ Andrews - No Escape?

Just had a quick look at the RA site.

£1k for Torlyte speaker stands. That anyone would pay that much for a pair of stands just defies comprehension
 
£150 :eek: for that?

Looks like an Ikea jobby to me......mind you my current hifi support is a £20 chipboard Ikea rack with 2 additional MDF shelves that cost me £3 each, plus two inner tubes under the MDF shelves (£3 each again), and rubber washers on the shelves themselves (£1 for 4). Cheap and undoubtably ghetto, but from appearances alone its construction is probably more robust and rigid than that, and mine has more bits to aid absorbtion.

(I wonder if I could start making silly money from repackaging Ikea kit, you know, add some spikes to the bottom, couple of extra shelves with foculpods underneath, give my 'company' and products an audiophile sounding name, I don't know, 'Acoustishelf Deluxe' and start trading, wine and dine a few reviewers and give them a few freebies, then sit back and laugh myself into profit...:confused: )
 
I built my rack myself, it has 6 shelfs and cost me £60 to make, its really big as well, I can fit all my remote controls on it and my 9 Hifi/video seperates on it!
 
whats going on - why can Russ Andrews and Richer Sounds both sell on Ebay??? Isnt that a bit illegal - an actual business being able to sell without any overheads - surley there's got to be something wrong here???
 
Originally posted by jimmymcfarrell
whats going on - why can Russ Andrews and Richer Sounds both sell on Ebay??? Isnt that a bit illegal - an actual business being able to sell without any overheads - surley there's got to be something wrong here???
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As longs as their paying the VAT on the stuff they sell then its perfectly legal, they do have some otherheads with stuff like listing fees.

I am not sure if I see any moral problems with it either, apart from RA (in my opinion) as I don't agree with them selling anything
 
forget Torshyte,here is my £28 rack made from 2 Ikea coffee table tops and 4 legs (with legs spare to make things out of)
this looks just like Torlyte and could easily be passed of as a Torlyte rig

does it look shit though?

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With all these 'audiophiles' buying IKEA (myself included) to support their equipment I'm suprised they haven't started a specialist HiFi range of their coffee tables with higher tolerance 'special' MDF :).
 
Originally posted by Saab
forget Torshyte,here is my £28 rack made from 2 Ikea coffee table tops and 4 legs (with legs spare to make things out of)
this looks just like Torlyte and could easily be passed of as a Torlyte rig

does it look shit though?
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Dave

Looks pretty good, why not buy another one, cut a square out each corner (leg sizes) and fix to legs with small angle bracket, this would give you another shelf for your headphone amp, and only cost another £14.

paul
 
Saab, snap...heres my current setup, sans DAC (which is currently on the table with the lid off)

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Excuse the shocking pic, T610s aren't good cameras (nice phones though :p)
 

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