The verdict's in: Grand Prix Audio makes the highest-performance vibration isolation devices in the business. From Stereophile's Michael Fremer and Paul Bolin to Stereo Times writer and Blueport Records producer Jim Merod; from Enjoy The Music's Rick Jensen to 6moons publisher Srajan Ebaen - professional reviewers have praised the stunning system advances when their components were isolated on our multi-stage Carbon-composite Monaco Modular equipment support system.

At CES 2004, premier manufacturers used our stands to optimize the performance of their active display systems: Audiopax, Avantgarde-USA , BAT, Elrod Power Systems, Fidelis Audio, Harbeth Speakers, Joseph Audio, McCormack Audio, Rockport Technologies, TG Audio, Thiel Audio, VTL, Wilson Audio Specialties. The principals of Avantgarde-USA, Balanced Audio Technology, McCormack, Shunyata, Thiel and 6moons also own our equipment for personal use. The word is out. Grand Prix Audio stands not only feature elegant contemporary aesthetics and are sized to support even over-sized audiophile components. GPA equipment stands are ultra high-performance components themselves. As our testimonals website pages confirm, they make a bigger contribution to overall system performance than many so-called active components.

  • Comprehensive multi-stage isolation system from a winning race-car specialist
  • Multiple degrees of freedom coupled to hi-tech 90-degree crosswoven Carbon fiber laminates and visco-elastic interfaces to optimize self-damping properties
  • Carbon fiber composite primary chassis
  • Aircraft-quality aluminum with proprietary damping sealant
  • Precision CNC machining
  • Stainless steel custom spikes
  • Visco-elastic decouplers weight-matched to each component
  • TrueVector coupling interfaces between modules
  • Clear acrylic shelves or optional Formula Shelves made from high-performance Carbon fiber laminate
  • Shelf dimensions hold even non-standard depth components
  • Custom configured to your specific needs
  • Novel triple-sandwich composite Apex floor interface (optional)
  • Aerospace quality throughout
  • No assembly required
  • Predictable performance
  • Maintenance-free
  • Hand-built in America
  • The most sophisticated, high-performance audio/video supports on the market

Solving the problem

Audio/video playback systems are constantly being assaulted by vibration. The audio community has long accepted the benefits of vibration control. Grand Prix Audio believes an investment in audio video equipment should not be compromised by the use of a poorly designed and inferiorly produced equipment stand.

We understand that real performance can be measured and quantified. Using sophisticated instrumentation to test competing products and develop our designs allows us to confirm superior performance. The Monaco Modular Isolation System was engineered to allow audio and video components to reach their full potential. No longer constricted by resonance intermodulation, your system will perform beyond your wildest dreams - revealing elements of music you never knew existed.

The Monaco Modular Isolation System is the culmination of hundreds of hours research, testing and development. Its stunning elegance hints at the dramatic effect it will have upon your music reproduction. You know the phrase "silence so thick you can cut it". Silence becomes acutely audible. We think of it thus: When Silence Becomes Presence.

More information on Grandprix Audio isolation products is available on the official Grandprix Audio web site.

The Brooklands Wallmount Isolation System

The Brooklands Wallmount Isolation System provides the best possible method of isolation for critical components such as turntables. The system eliminates all forms of airborne and structural vibration and prevents any from reaching the component.

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The Grand Prix Audio Monaco Modular Isolation System

The Monaco's affect on overall system performance is, in a word, breathtaking. The improvements it wrought were so significant, it sounded as if I had upgraded every component in my system. We are talking about a scale of performance enhancement I would have, prior to its insertion, believed unattainable by merely changing or adding one component. Its benefits come in three primary categories; resolve, timbre and space.

The noise floor is significantly lowered, presenting music from a "darker," quieter backdrop. Musical speed improved to a remarkable degree as well. Transients and microdynamics are recreated with a greater deftness and alacrity. Individual instrument attack and decay becomes ridiculously clear and accurate, recording permitting.

Soundstaging and imaging improved in both size and specific focus. I could clearly hear further "into" a performance, with recordings now offered with a much more expansive and clearer sense of the space and air around instrumental voices. Performers and instruments are further liberated from the speakers, creating an even more vivid sense of "being there." To use a photographic analogy, it was as though I had moved from a Kodak Instamatic to a Leica.

Timber became more truthful in a number of manners including reduced stridency, diminished grain, and greater stability of pitch. Pounding pianos, blatting trumpets, resounding drums, plucked and bowed strings all carried a renewed sense of "rightness" about them. Combined with the improvements found in resolution, this more balanced timbre allows for greater musical clarity and a deeper view into the musical message of any source I played whether that be vinyl, Redbook CD or any manner of hi-rez aluminum (DAD, DVD-A or SACD). Though no one could mistake this gorgeous looking, sonic stunner as cheap at $3,795, in my opinion, there is no other way to attain the dramatic degree of improvement it offers for a similar

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