Acoustic Revive RAF-48H Air-Floating Board (447 x 397mm)

Original price was: 1 560,17 €.Current price is: 1 248,13 €.

Achieving the ultimate vibration suppression effect with air! The board and cabinet are made of hickory, a high-quality material.

SKU: RAF-48H
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Description

The Acoustic Revive RAF-48H Air-Floating Board is a high-end audio isolation platform designed to significantly improve the performance of audio equipment by effectively reducing vibrations, resonance, and external interference. By utilizing air-floating technology, this board creates an ultra-stable and vibration-free environment for your audio components, resulting in enhanced sound clarity, detail, and overall fidelity. This air-floating board is ideal for audiophiles and professionals who want to maximize the potential of their high-fidelity audio systems.

Key Features

  1. Air-Floating Isolation Technology:
    • The RAF-48H uses an air suspension system to create a “floating” effect, isolating audio equipment from external vibrations and resonance. This technology minimizes the transmission of vibrations from the environment to your audio equipment, ensuring that the signal remains pure and undistorted.
  2. High-Quality Construction:
    • The board is constructed from multiple layers of high-quality materials, including solid wood and a reinforced frame, which provide exceptional stability and durability. This ensures that the RAF-48H can support heavy audio equipment while maintaining its vibration isolation properties.
  3. Air Chamber for Vibration Absorption:
    • The RAF-48H features a built-in air chamber that acts as a cushion, absorbing and dampening vibrations. This air chamber provides a high level of isolation, making it highly effective at reducing the impact of both low-frequency and high-frequency vibrations on your audio equipment.
  4. Adjustable Air Pressure:
    • The air pressure in the floating board can be adjusted to suit the weight and type of audio equipment being used. This allows for fine-tuning of the isolation effect, ensuring optimal performance for various components such as turntables, CD players, amplifiers, and DACs.
  5. Large Surface Area (447 x 397 mm):
    • The RAF-48H offers a generous surface area of 447 x 397 mm, making it suitable for a wide range of audio equipment sizes. Its ample space ensures that even larger components can be placed securely on the board.
  6. Elegant and Functional Design:
    • The RAF-48H boasts a sleek and elegant design that complements any high-end audio setup. Its polished wooden finish not only looks sophisticated but also adds to the overall functionality by contributing to vibration damping.

Benefits

  • Enhanced Sound Quality: The air-floating technology isolates your audio equipment from vibrations, resulting in improved sound clarity, detail, and accuracy. This allows you to experience a more dynamic and lifelike listening experience with enhanced resolution and soundstage.
  • Reduced Noise and Distortion: By minimizing the impact of external vibrations, the RAF-48H helps reduce noise and distortion, ensuring that your audio signals remain clean and unaltered.
  • Versatile Compatibility: The adjustable air pressure and large surface area make the RAF-48H compatible with a wide range of audio components, from turntables and CD players to amplifiers and DACs.

Who Is It For?

The Acoustic Revive RAF-48H Air-Floating Board is ideal for audiophiles, music enthusiasts, and professionals who want to achieve the highest level of sound quality from their audio equipment. It’s particularly beneficial for those with high-end audio setups who seek to eliminate vibrations and interference that can negatively impact sound performance.

Applications

  • Turntables: The RAF-48H is perfect for isolating turntables, preventing vibrations from affecting vinyl playback and allowing for a more accurate and detailed sound.
  • CD Players and DACs: Enhances the performance of digital sources by reducing vibrations that can interfere with the precision of the digital-to-analog conversion process.
  • Amplifiers and Preamps: Provides a stable, vibration-free platform for amplifiers and preamplifiers, resulting in improved signal integrity and overall sound quality.

How to Use

  1. Place the RAF-48H on a stable surface where you want to position your audio equipment.
  2. Adjust the air pressure in the board using the provided pump to suit the weight and type of equipment you are using.
  3. Position your audio equipment on the board, ensuring it is centered and stable.

Technical Specifications

  • Dimensions: 447 x 397 mm
  • Weight Capacity: Adjustable air pressure to support various equipment weights
  • Material: Multi-layer construction with high-quality wood and reinforced frame
  • Vibration Isolation: Air-floating suspension technology with built-in air chamber

The Acoustic Revive RAF-48H Air-Floating Board offers a sophisticated solution for reducing vibrations and resonance in high-fidelity audio systems. By utilizing air-floating technology, this board provides unparalleled isolation, ensuring that your audio components perform at their best. Whether you’re an audiophile looking to optimize your listening experience or a professional seeking to maintain the highest level of audio fidelity, the RAF-48H is an investment that delivers noticeable improvements in sound clarity, detail, and overall performance. Its elegant design, versatile compatibility, and advanced vibration isolation make it an essential accessory for any serious audio setup.

Ultimate vibration isolation characteristics Achieving an air floating board at low cost

The air-floating board RAF-48 achieves superior vibration isolation by suspending audio equipment in mid-air. The RAF-48, which won the top award in the accessory category of the 2010 Audio Equipment Awards, has been further refined into the RAF-48H by replacing the birch plywood top plate with hickory. This change lowers the center of gravity, enhancing sound quality with greater dynamism. The RAF-48H brings the air-floating structure, typically used in electron microscope stands, to audio equipment at an accessible price point.

Air provides significantly better vibration isolation compared to traditional damping materials like springs and rubber. By placing your audio equipment on the RAF-48H, vibrations from the installation surface are nearly eliminated. This results in an exceptionally high S/N ratio, far surpassing that of boards with conventional structures. The combination of the air-floating design and the hickory board synergistically reduces distortion and extraneous noise, improving transparency and overall sound quality. It also enhances phase characteristics, allowing for the reproduction of a rich, three-dimensional sound field with a wide, deep, and high soundstage.

Maximum load capacity is 60kg. Easy to refill air

Refilling the air in the RAF-48H is a simple process that can be done with the equipment still on board. Using the included air pump, you can easily replenish the air through the inlet located on the surface of the RAF-48H. Unlike other air-floating boards that require frequent air replenishment with large equipment like a compressor, the RAF-48H is designed for convenience, allowing you to easily refill it with the compact air pump provided.

High-quality materials are used for the top plate and cabinet.

Even with air-floating or magnetic-floating systems that block external vibrations, the material in contact with the audio equipment still impacts the playback sound. This is due to vibrations from the motors of CD players, analog players, or internal currents within amplifiers that reverberate back into the equipment through the top plate. As a result, boards made from glass, acrylic, or low-quality plywood often produce a thin, light sound in the lower frequencies.

The RAF-48H addresses this by using acoustically superior hickory for both the top plate and cabinet. This choice results in an organic, vivid sound quality with a robust low range and a majestic overall tonal character.

Compact size that can fit inside a wrap

The RAF-48H features an extremely compact design, allowing it to be used not only for equipment placed on top of a rack, like conventional air-floating or magnetic-floating boards, but also for equipment installed between shelves. This versatility makes the RAF-48H suitable for all types of audio equipment. By air-floating all your devices, the RAF-48H achieves an unprecedented S/N ratio and delivers stereophonic sound with an overwhelming level of detail and clarity.

 

Body dimensions: 486W x 436D x Approx. 55H (mm) (When filled with air, not including terminals)

Top plate dimensions: 447W×397D×20H(mm)

Weight: Approximately 5.5kg

Pair weight: up to 60kg

Air pump included (Pump color is either black or white)

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