Good Questions: "Shock Absorbers" for Media Stand?

Here's a Good Question sent over to the editors at AT San Francisco having to do with "shock absorbers" to prevent damage to hardwood flooring: We own a Min Media Stand (purchased from DWR). It sits on our hardwood floors and hold all of our media equipment (dvd & cd player, receiver, etc.). When our niece and nephew come over with all of their energy from jumping around they are able to put a pause on a playing dvd or a skip on a cd...

Aside from chaining them down, are there any casters with "shock absorbers" or any other solutions folks have found helpful. Thanks.

Please let Marcus know of any solutions you've used or seen in the comments below...

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i think they were looking to prevent damage to the equipment, not to the flooring. in any case, you can add silicon feet to the each component (dvd, cd) which should dampen shocks quite a bit.

posted by dkdk on February 6th 2009 at 5:32pm
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Seeing that the body of that media stand is pretty slim, the feet might stand out too much. I would put maybe some cork trivets under your dvd and cd players, or slimmer silicone trivets. You'd be insulating the machine from the jumping, rather than the furniture.

posted by chusmabilly on February 6th 2009 at 7:28pm
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Tell the kids no jumping in the house.

posted by Sydney on February 6th 2009 at 7:56pm
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Just putting a rug underneath the stand would probably help some.

posted by peshue on February 6th 2009 at 10:25pm
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