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<blockquote data-quote="Lyle Williams" data-source="post: 123897" data-attributes="member: 6359">Re: Amp Racks, shock mount or not?Shock mounted racks are a lot bigger than regular racks, unless you spend a zillion dollars and get ones like the Zarges models.In a non-audio application we use these: <a href="http://www.zarges.com/en/packaging-transportation-storage/rackmount-cases/mitraset-classic/mitraset-classic-19-housing/" target="_blank">http://www.zarges.com/en/packaging-transportation-storage/rackmount-cases/mitraset-classic/mitraset-classic-19-housing/</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; (Don&#039;t ask how much they are, you really can&#039;t afford them.)They get airfreighted a lot and the additional size of a regular shockmount container makes the cubic freight charges too high.&nbsp; That was essentially the business case for smaller external dimensions.&nbsp; A few international flights and the cases have paid for themselves.My general experience is that if you make something look indestructible it will be handled as if it was indestructable.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />&nbsp; I wouldn&#039;t bother with shock mounting if the gear is going to be handled by your own people or a show crew.&nbsp; If the gear needs to be freighted and will be chucked about by random people who don&#039;t give a ####, then it might be worth it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lyle Williams, post: 123897, member: 6359"] Re: Amp Racks, shock mount or not? Shock mounted racks are a lot bigger than regular racks, unless you spend a zillion dollars and get ones like the Zarges models. In a non-audio application we use these: [url]http://www.zarges.com/en/packaging-transportation-storage/rackmount-cases/mitraset-classic/mitraset-classic-19-housing/[/url] (Don't ask how much they are, you really can't afford them.) They get airfreighted a lot and the additional size of a regular shockmount container makes the cubic freight charges too high. That was essentially the business case for smaller external dimensions. A few international flights and the cases have paid for themselves. My general experience is that if you make something look indestructible it will be handled as if it was indestructable. :-) I wouldn't bother with shock mounting if the gear is going to be handled by your own people or a show crew. If the gear needs to be freighted and will be chucked about by random people who don't give a ####, then it might be worth it. [/QUOTE]

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