Look at the Townshend site I posted above. A seismic podium (preferred) or platform will take the weight and they will custom make them to fit your amp. Won’t be anything like $10k.
My speakers sit on these podiums and were $3k for two podiums about 4 years ago…
For fun I removed my Solid Tech rack which visually dominated the listening area and replaced it with an ikea table set - the grey finish complimenting the colour of the Stenheim speakers. The new “rack” sounds a little less focused especially vocals and seems to have more harmonic distortion but in a good way ( to my ears ). But more importantly, with the simplified layout I am enjoying the music more as the space is less cluttered and so my mood is elevated . Our brains work in mysterious ways.
Are there similar pillows behind the left speaker?
Different style of cushions . My listening room is a refuge to hoarded junk that I can’t simply throw away . My wife calls it the gallery of unwanted art .
I am curious if you think they are acting as as an absorber. Have you listened with them there and without?
We have so much art in our house I think the line between wanted and unwanted depends on the beholder 
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Fantastic looking and I’m sure sounding system. I have the Von Schweikert Unifield 2 Signature model, but the VR55 is the model I aspire to, although they may be kinda large for my one bedroom apartment, lol.
How’s the Stenheim Alumine 3?
Considering this high efficiency speaker vs the Kudos Titan 808 
The listening room is set on a mezzanine floor which extends into an open space converted loft . So the whole area is quite challenging acoustically . These days most of my listening is near field at low volume. So I try and take the room out of the equation . I don’t think the cushions do any harm and I don’t hear booming
low end . They also hide a lot of cables !
Well decided i wanted to see if i could actually get all 3 boxes in the rack on one side.
Why, well it would not only look better, it would also place my turntable better on the rack isolation points rather than the home made shelf, this for certain sounds better placed here as i had it like this before i got the extra dcs box, and noticed the changes in sound from my turntable. So very happy to get it back to sounding better again.
Also with both sides lower now, i guess it also has slightly less impact on the sound, but it certainly looks better.
I also moved my switch, and phono stage power supply as far away from the rack as possible, theses are now behind each speaker on isolation pads.
Anyway far better i am glad to say.
The stenheim are a really good fit with the ch precision amp . They are also pretty discrete and look fantastic in that understated Swiss way . But as always you need to hear them at home in your system . I was able to audition stenheim / ch precision gear at home for an extended period ( more than 4 weeks ) before buying .
4 weeks to evaluate is quite wonderful. Nice dealers.
I found, as the equipment gets more expensive, the dealers generally become more accommodating 
Back in the fold!! (Sorry for the rambling post)
I used to have a bartok and rossini clock, but got seduced by the luxman d-10x. Now that is a great player and dac but in all honesty i only used the cd player a dozen or so times. So i decided that it was a waste have something that wasn’t being used and now having active speakers the opportunity of reducing the box count was appealing.
The issue i had was that i still have a turntable, so i bought a wadia adc (got cheap) and tried converting analog to digital running through the luxman. I was very pleased that i didn’t notice anything detrimental so bit the bullet and bought a used bartok.
At the demo i heard a Grimm MU1 and really liked that, so put my innuos statement up for sale which sold very quickly and was able to source a MU1 for what i got for the statement so all good.
The new system sounds excellent, just waiting on some new cables and i should be set for quite sometime.
Equipment list -
Nottingham Analogue Dais / Dynavector 507mk2 / Audionote IQ2
Grimm MU1
dCS Bartok with headphone amp
Tron/Phonote Phono stage
Puritan 156 Mains purifier
Uptone JS-1 lps
How big a difference do you feel the Puritan makes? Did you choose it over any other mains treatment?
Hi, no i only tried the puritan. It did make quite a big difference, the thing i noticed most was that it seemed to remove a background noise that i wasn’t even aware was there. I know that sounds a bit odd, but the background was quieter and i could hear sounds (sometimes quite tiny) that just weren’t noticeable before.
(I did upgrade mine to a version with furutech sockets as the standard version had flaps covering the sockets and when i was lying on the floor trying to plug in a new cable it was really difficult!!)
I installed Puritan’s Ground Master too for additional benefits.
I asked about fitting one of those and was told by Mike Lester (Mr Puritan) that due to my electrical supply coming in via overhead line i do not have a “shared earth” (or words to that effect) and as such there would be no benefit in using a ground master.
That’s interesting, what benefits have you heard with dCS kit? I have the Rossini. How would you go about connecting the Ground Master to it?
Martin, the Puritan GroundMaster is not a box that simply connects to your Rossini. As @lazyscott writes ,unless it already exists, it requires the installation an external earth reference grounding point to which it connects. That would typically involve driving a grounding rod into the ground at least six feet/2m from your dwelling’s foundations and running a ground wire from this to the GroundMaster.
For those unable to do this there is another product from them, GroundMaster City which connects to a power conditioner such as their PSM series.
I have a review sheet that they sent me in the box containing another product from them. If you are interested I can scan this and PM it to you. Let me know.
For connection, please refer to their website. As for benefits, since it is tough for me to put in words but I agree 100% with this review below.
