Drive difficult loads with ease. Power, speed and authority without the crassness of typical ''slam'' laiden muscle amps. Naim-like musicality.

Top end can be a little frisky, comapny is out of business so spares may be difficult - though internal design is typically audiphile-simple.

I bought these Linx Power Amps second hand from a private seller, having known how good they were from previous experiance hearing four Linx poweramps in a biamed system. However I was very shocked when I actually got them into my system - there are superb. The power amps are monoblocks and the preamp is a dual mono design wired internally with Van den Hull cable. MM and MC input pus a nice switching system. Boy, so these amps sing! If you like Naim stuff these will be right up you''re alley - they''ve got that Naim drive and speed but are a lot sweeter and more airy. Definition is superb and they bop like crazy! they also have tons of power (100W per monblock) and easily match a pair of 135''s when biamped. What I dislike about Naim amps is the courseness, so the Linx amps were a great find, shame the New Zealand company is no longer in business - if you find any of these amps going second hand snap them up! I''m looking for another pair of monoblocks so I can biamp..can''t wait...

Elegant, Neat, Sturdy and Effective

Good if all shelves were on spikes & cumbersome to move.

Awesome looking stand - equipment seems to float in the air since the rear support spine is hidden (especially if you paint it to blend with the rear wall).

Sound is focused, stable and the stand does not colour the sound.

Filling the vertical column with expandable foam improves the focus and helps with damping...a cheap tweak.

I have no complaints with the stand...as robust as it gets with one piece construction.

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This has to be the most attractive equipment stand on the market. On the plus side: it is very sturdy considering it is supported by only one column and the paint finish is awesome. It is a flat black (textured) which leaves no fingerprint marks but best of all is that it is very sturdy which aids in the sound of your stereo.It has its drawbacks though: The rear post or column has holes to run your wires inside but the holes are not finished properly and you can get your fingers cut up pretty bad and scratch up your wires even worse. The rear center column is right in the center so if your equipment has any connections in the middle, forget this stand. Also its shelves are not that deep.
The location of the rear column cannot be fixed because this is what attributes to the stand's looks. What can and should be fixed, are the holes at the rear column which should be finished properly (smoothly) or there shouldn't be any holes and the shelves should be deepened.
For these shortcomings I give this a 4 star rating because the manufacturer should have sweated the details a little more.

avant-guard styling

lack of shelf depth; center post location

I want to reiterate what other reviewers have reported. The styling is first class. It is stunning looking. But I would agree with the negatives listed elsewhere:

1) The holes in the back center column where the cords are to be hidden are unfinished. You could cut your hands on them. But if your careful, this shouldn't be a major negative.
2) However, lack of shelf depth, combined with center post location, is a problem. If you take the depth of the average stereo component, and you use banana-clips to connect the speakers, and the speaker posts on the back of the receiver/amp are either centrally located or nearly so, they you are in trouble. The depth of the component plus the banana clip are greater than the depth of the shelf, so you end up having the component stick out beyond the front of the shelf. It's manageable, but the slick beauty of the rack of the rack is compromised. Even my CD player isn't centered on the shelf because of the same kind of conflict.

To be sure, I'm upgrading to an A/V stand (the standesign isn't intended to have a TV on its top shelf--it's too small, too high, and can only support about 60 lbs.) so mine is for sale.

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Unique design, good workmanship on the metal

crappy workmanship on the shelves, can't possibly hide cables in the spine.

Everyone who sees this rack is amazed at the clever design. Because of it's design, it is easy to change equipment and/or cables. It it is also easy to do a complete cleaning a couple of times a year. I noticed that my equipment sounded better on this rigid stand, versus my old wood rack.

The rack is not perfect, however. The quality of the shelves leaves a lot to be desired. Mine had chips on the edges and black marks (cutting lines). Also, hiding cables in the back spine sounds like a great idea, but the reality is that you could never hide a system's full cables in that spine. They should have forgot about the holes in the back, and allowed the stand to be sand-filled. I rate the value 3 stars, based on the retail price. For what I paid, it is a 4. Overall, I have to give it a 4 for it's unique design.

Nice solid stand. The rear column and cable management system are too small to be useful for any amount of cables. Easier just to tie the cables together and hide them behind the column where they are essentially invisible.
The stand has a great finish and is as tough as a tank - and the individual shelves appear to "float" since the support column is hidden in the back. A good buy.

Very solid one piece unit. Very easy to level and no assembly required.

The shelves are made of poor material. I was shipped to units with the same problem. The strips around thr edge of the shelves weren't glued on well and some had broken off doing shippment.

I love this rack. As for the shelves I didn't plan on using the shelves that came with the unit. I replace them with 1/2" dark grey glass which look black at that thickness. The glass cost about $44.00 a shelf, but the glass makes this a really elegant looking rack. I purchase from the hardware store rubber feet to conpensate for the thickness of the orignal shelf and the glass shelf. The rubber feet also serve as a good isolator between the shelf and rack.

Without the changes I have made I still would recommend this rack as is. The end strips which weren't glued well could be glued back on rather easily if they were still one whole piece.

Superb looks, robustness

Average particleboard shelves

The looks and practicality of this stand are superb. Everyone who sees it is impressed. The best part is that the cables can be hidden down the central spine.

The isolation for the record deck is fine (spikes) and the unit has spikes at the base. The other shelves can be easily 'upgraded' by adding isolation mounts between them and the frame.

Highly recommended