Placement of your equipment

Castanza · « **on:** 24 Jan 2003, 08:26 pm »

I am sure that this is a newbie question. I will putting together my flexi rack sometime in the next week. I am just letting the paint cure. I was planning on putting the receiver on the bottom shelve, and than either the cd player or dvd next., and of course the turntable on top. Does anyone feel like it makes any difference? I am guessing its just a matter of convience.

bubba966 · « **Reply #1 on:** 24 Jan 2003, 08:29 pm »

You probably want to keep the heavier gear on the bottom. If not just for stability.

hairofthedawg · « **Reply #2 on:** 24 Jan 2003, 08:59 pm »

that makes sense, but I placed mine due to laziness, the ones that I have to switch on occasion are at the level that requires the least amount of bending over.

cheers,

Dick

nathanm · « **Reply #3 on:** 24 Jan 2003, 09:29 pm »

I second the dawg's suggestion; place in order of most-adjusted to least-adjusted component from the top down. Cable routing is also an issue of course. Did you build any wire management into your rack?

John Bauder · « **Reply #4 on:** 26 Jan 2003, 05:23 am »

Quote from: bubba966

You probably want to keep the heavier gear on the bottom. If not just for stability.

My bottom shelf is full of LPs that should be heavy enough.

Castanza · « **Reply #5 on:** 27 Jan 2003, 12:46 am »

Nathan I didn't build any kind of wire management in this rack. I had already drilled the holes & painted the shelves. In fact, I just put it together today. Since I had extra shelves from the original mdf sheet, I am going to build a 2nd one, and drill holes probably around 1 1/4 inches in the back center of each shelve to drop cables through. It turned out that I figured that the hdwe for 2 sets of audio racks (5shelves) was $52, and the mdf sheet was $16.50, and the paint & accessories $20. So it turned out to be less than $50 for each rack.

Val · « **Reply #6 on:** 27 Jan 2003, 03:26 pm »

Making sure the rack is very rigid is the most important thing. I will sidestep your question by recommending that you don't do what seems logical, that is, placing the rack between the speakers. The taller the rack the worse this is for soundstaging and imaging. Better spend a bit more on a long run of inexpensive speaker cable and place the rack close to the listening position if you can.

Val

JoshK · « **Reply #7 on:** 27 Jan 2003, 03:48 pm »

I find that placing the rack between your speakers is just fine so long as it is at least a foot behind the front of the speakers. Mine is even more than that.

Val · « **Reply #8 on:** 27 Jan 2003, 07:32 pm »

As a famous guy once said, "it depends on what the meaning of fine is." It may work OK, but if you want to optimize imaging, anything tall between the speakers, even at that distance, degrades it. Check with a continuous music section like a flute being played; big obstacles behind and between the speakers will make the sound flutter, like it is moving slightly.

Val