Anyone use Salamander Design racks? Comments?

What I like about the Salamander racks are the "cabinet" look, the adjustable shelves, and the availability of the mesh door for ventilation. I'm open to other suggestions. The feedback thus far has been less than enthusiastic. I'm glad I asked the question!

When I was rack shopping, I considered Salamander, but cheaped out with the very similar DIY Flexy design, which is as dimensionally customizable, but probably not going to look as nice depending on the DIYer. I have since jumped off the Post and MDF designs because my experience with Ikea's LACK had led me to conclude that there are many more better sounding designs. The Ikea is not as good looking as Salamander, but I have yet to find anything that looks nice and sounds nice that is not near $1k.

I am using the Salamander Archetype 5 in a second system with very nice results. Reasonably affordable and sturdy.

I have two 40 (black/rosewood) with two bridges in between carrying very heavy stuff (McIntosh MC 2000 and Revel LE-1, which are 140kg alltogether!) The front end such as transport, DAC, Pre, DAT-recorder, harddisk DVD etc. fits nicely into the two columns, the turntable "crowns" the right top shelf. The whole thing really stands like a rock (probably because of the heavy weight in the lower centre) so I don't need to care about vibration control at all. Bottomline: the thing looks beautiful, is very rigid and offers you every thinkable way of putting the shelves.

Salamandar stands look great with lots of accessories, but have no vibration control. I own one for home theater. Even with vibration control tweaks, there is no substitute for a stand that starts out addresssing these issues. Check out Music Direct's new line called Solid Steel. They are great stands and I have placed two of the 3 shelved units side by side and it looks like a low boy stand.