Help required to optimise my set-up in reconfigured room.

Posted by: Sloop John B on 22 June 2017

I'm lucky enough to have the chance to reconfigure my listening space and now will be able to move my system from between my SL2s. Forgive my rudimentary drawing skills but hopefully for Naim users it's clear enough.

I have to make a decision on where to put the new dedicated plugs. I presume we always need brawn on the right for cable dressing and it's probably best not to have the plugs directly behind the fraim to keep them away from other cables etc. I don't think it's feasible to have the fraim out 1.5m form the wall so although it might not look phenomenal would my red plug be the best place to have the power? I need to power a 300 and 552. I thought I'd put 2 double sockets on the other side of the frame for DAC, turntable and RPi/Roon bridge.

Ideally aesthetically the all the plugs would be better on the left but then power and burndies are running together.

I could always put the 4 Naim pieces on the left fraim but again my perception is that brain left, brawn right leads to better runs of burndies.

Any insights any of you may have would be most welcome.

Thanks.

 

Posted on: 22 June 2017 by ChrisSU

Siting the all sockets is always going to be a bit of a compromise, I guess. They'll be running parallel to both your speaker cables the way you show it, bearing in mind that one of these, going to the L speaker, will likely be folded back on itself somewhere to take up the excess. Maybe the lesser of two evils if it keeps power away from interconnects & Burndies?

Putting the sockets high on the wall to use up the extra cable length makes life a lot easier. Mine are tucked up under a large, non-hifi related shelf which partly hides them from view, otherwise putting them high can look a bit odd to me.

Posted on: 22 June 2017 by hungryhalibut

You don't want to be looking at ugly plugs and wires, do you? I'd put the sockets on the left of the racks. Simply run the mains leads under the Fraim 6" from the wall to the two sockets on the right hand side of the power supplies. If the back leg of the Fraim is a few inches from the wall, the speaker leads can run along the skirting and won't go anywhere near the mains leads. My mains sockets are right next to the Fraim and I have the Powerlines in a big loop under the Fraim and it works fine. 

Posted on: 23 June 2017 by joerand

Do you have the option of installing the outlets in the floor near the baseboards?

Posted on: 23 June 2017 by Sloop John B
joerand posted:

Do you have the option of installing the outlets in the floor near the baseboards?

Unfortunately not, regulations are pretty strict here, understandably so really. 

.sjb

Posted on: 23 June 2017 by Drewy

As HH said, why not put the sockets to the left of the fraim? That's what I'd do.