The APEX-THREE Vinyl is the three-tier record collector's build of Forged Audio's APEX modular stand system. The APEX-50 base platform carries the tallest module in the range, the APEX-315, whose 330 mm of clearance fits 12 inch sleeves stored upright, with the 200 module above it for an integrated amplifier or CD player and an open top shelf for the turntable. Records, amplification and deck in one footprint. The best rack is one you can't hear, and everything about the APEX is designed to stay out of the way and let your equipment do its job.
Shelves designed to dissipate
Each shelf is a 620 × 400 × 36 mm board made from two bonded plies of bamboo. The bond line between the plies acts as a mechanical energy break, so a single shelf carries two independent dissipation mechanisms, and bamboo's naturally random internal fibre geometry spreads vibration broadly rather than resonating at a single frequency. The four Ø38 mm posts per tier are solid steel, not hollow tube and not aluminium. They anchor the structure and channel energy down through the supplied isolation spikes and floor discs. The bamboo absorbs. The steel anchors. Between them, vibration has nowhere to go.
Built around the record shelf
The 330 mm bay sits directly above the base shelf, keeping the weight of a record collection low in the stack, and it works just as well for a valve amplifier or power amp if your collection lives elsewhere. Because APEX is fully modular, you can rearrange the order, or add a fourth tier, whenever your system changes.
Details that work both ways
A sculpted edge groove on each shelf works as a rear cable channel or a forward styling detail, and there is 500 mm of clear width across the front of every tier. Bamboo grain is unique to each shelf, so no two APEX racks are the same. Built to disappear. Designed to last.
