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people tell me Bruce Wayne was a Republican
Fake news. He was a independent. 
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Current backend.
Still Atma-Sphere M-60 output-transfomerless, all-triode, push-pull poweramps and Serenity Super-7 speakers… Centerstack now a Martin Logan Electromotion ELS C centerchannel speaker and Emotiva XPA-3 Eleven/1.5s 11-channel poweramp driving M-L center and all 10 ELAC B6 surround and ceiling speakers.
Frontend from the bottom… Balanced Power Technologies balance-power 3.5-Ultra 2400-Watt p-con, cablebox sitting atop the p-con, Marantz '8805 preamp/processor, and oppo '203 DP. DP drives preamp with HDMI cable; using preamp’s DAC.
All premium IC, speaker, and power cables in important (ie NOT in surround channels) roles.
In a couple weeks a black P20 will be on the bottom shelf.
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I envy you for that carpet! Is it a Jan Kath?
Very nice. I’m a HUGE fan of Atma-Sphere 
That floor looks rather nice indeed. I wish I was the guy would got the chance to lay it down and nail it. LOL
Is this a second system or did you replace a lot of the components? I recall you having Quad speakers and BHK 300’s driving them. Nice looking system even though there’s no PS Audio (yet).
T.Y… It’s my only system… I’ve owned the Super-7s since 2014 and reinstalled them over the winter of 2018-9… IMO, between the Quads and the Super-7s, sonic qualities in the treble and MR are approximately equal, while the dipole, servo-controlled dual-12"-woofers in the Super-7s produce bass that is substantially superior…more extended, powerful, and resolved…than that of the Quads…The 40-60 Watts of the M-60s are PLENTY enough for these 96dB-sensitive '7s.
Sold the BHK300s last fall… Was driving the Quads starting late last year with Atma-Sphere 140-Watt MA-1s; the MA-1s are now surplus.
Over the decadeds, I’ve found that I love the sounds of tubes rather than transistors, triodes over pentodes, and no-output transformers over output transformers… The Atma-Sphere OTLs are perfect for me.
You should see the timber floor in the Zorzi home I visited the other day. American black walnut. 19mm thick, not laminate. Imported and machined on-site.
Check out the virtual display of THE RESIDENCE. It looks even better in real life. Not a hollow sounding board in the whole home, and not a nail hole to be seen. I’m guessing it has to be $300+ per square meter. Unlike my home which has a few hollow sounding boards that have come unstuck, even though the concrete was primed with epoxy.
I spy a VPI Magic Brick!
Nice Rack! Seriously.
I have a half-dozen! All are from the 1980s days of Two Jeffreys Audio; I had three and the other Jeffrey gave me his three. His are better looking than mine. 
I’ve added Herbies Grungebuster dots to all.
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TYVM. It started as an inexpensive Sanus, but it’s LOTS more than that now. For instance, all sixteen tubes(1) are filled with lead shot–a mix of #8 and 8-1/2–and all shelves but the top are 3cm (1.2") granite, all but one with two layers of Dynamat the Thicker, etc.
Just this afternoon I had the bottom (p-con) shelf cut shallower so it would sit lower in the framing on the stand’s bottom to accommodate the very-tall P20 that will soon be on its way to me.
I now have about 12" between the bottom and 2nd-bottom shelf.
(1) Eight main vertical and horizontal tubes plus four front-back shelf supports per side.
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And what is this, and why?
That’s one hell of a coincidence. My rack is a Sanus too. I guess it’s time to start modding that. Will it ever end? I hope not!
If ‘this’ means the black-and-blue pad, it’s an industrial vibration-reducing pad for, for instance, airconditioner compressors, etc. They’re available in 2", 3", and 4" squares… Here’s the 2"er…
https://www.supplyhouse.com/DiversiTech-MP-2E-EVA-Anti-Vibration-Pad-2-x-2-x-7-8
They’re HIGHLY affordable, too.
I used to spike equipment stands, amppads, and speakersystems to my concrete floor, but after realizing that even concrete floors vibrate a significant amount(1), I now isolate these things from the floor.
So I decouple the platforms from the floor and then decouple the equipment from the platforms, currently with Herbies’ Tenderfoots of various heights and densities… I also have 16 IsoAcoustics OREA equipment footers to use under my four pieces of equipment, but I haven’t gotten around to installing them.
(1) In a exchange of e-mails with Steve Herbelin (sp?) of Herbies Audio Labs several years ago, he wrote in so many words that I only think concrete floors don’t vibrate. That caused me to think more seriously about all this.
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Of course it’ll never end. 
Mine will when I die… But seriously…I hope this is the last equipment stand, and the last speaker systems, and the last poweramps, and the incoming P20 the last p-con I ever own.
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How is the stability of that arrangement, on carpet, when you aren’t spiked to the concrete?
Excellent; the stand must weigh WAY more than 200 pounds.