R1 Carbon
HI-FI RACK (MODULAR)
 
Price:
$8,500 per module
 
 
Product Features:
• $8,500 per module
• Stackable design
• Modules fully assembeled
• Finish: black/silver/carbon
• Designed as Amp stand & Rack

Engineered to perfection
 
The R1 Hi-Fi Rack is a modular rack solution designed to provide 
optimal conditions for the operation of state-of-the-art digital and analogue audio equipment.

Developed through extensive testing with the industries leading 
audio components, the R1 is the most advanced Hi-Fi rack ever 
developed. Design details across the R1, are indicative of the 
exceptional attention to detail and ‘total engineering’ approach to the products design. Each component working in harmony to 
create an energy management system that draws unwanted 
structural borne resonance away from sensitive audio 
components.
 
The striking monolithic R1 ‘vertical nodes’ are machined and 
finished in house, to a tolerance of 0.02mm. Each level in the R1 
rack consists of two vertical nodes, which is assembled from six 
high mass blocks of polyoxymethylene (POM). The material has 
been selected for its hardness and machinability, much like 
aluminium, with the advantage that it is exceptionally well 
damped.
 
The R1 vertical nodes are cross-linked by elegant carbon fibre 
‘Isobars’ which form the support for the carbon shelves. 14mm 
steel bars, tied at the ends with precision machined sockets run 
through the centre of the Isobars, compressing them under tons
of pressure along their length. This improves the energy 
transmission pathway along the carbon fibre tube, creating a pathway between the sensitive audio components and the nodes that draw unwanted energy, which would otherwise manifest as 
resonance in the audio components, away and into the nodes that absorbs and dissipates the energy.
 
Elegant examples of these highly optimised energy pathways can be seen across the R1 design.
 
At the interface between the carbon fibre Isobar and the carbon 
shelf, Wilson Benesch have designed fluted cups that are 
precision machined to create two points which meet with the 
carbon fibre.
 
Each R1 rack interfaces with the next by four huge 500g chrome 
steel spheres that locate kinematically with four sockets on the 
adjoining R1 rack. The interface creates an assured feel to the 
whole design; there is a palpable feeling of precision when placing each R1 rack onto the next. But the nodes are a functional design element, the nodes legislate that tons of pressure is focussed 
equally through the four nodes.
 
Modular in design, micro-adjustable in setup, the R1 is fitted with 
four spikes taken directly from the same shelf as the Cardinal 
loudspeaker. Four ball bearing tipped spikes kinematically located into four floor cups holding captive three ball bearings to create 
the final energy node.
 
The R1 is Total Engineering.