My lounge awaits the builders and the nice black boxes are sitting patiently in piles on the bedroom floor. Silence is not golden I can assure you.
I have seen some threads on this topic before but need some basic advice. All the kit goes into my Quadrsapire rack and space is tight. I cannot spread it over different stands and am not changing the rack.
Are there some broad principles when I reassemble the kit in terms of positioning components?
Am I right that one good idea is to keep the CD player and preamp away from XPS/Supercaps as much as possible?
Any good ideas about managing cables in the birds nest at the back too are welcomed. Am I right in at least trying to keep Snaic cables away from power, and speaker cable away from everything else? Easier said than done...
Bruce
Posted on: 15 March 2002 by Frank Abela
Working up from the bottom shelf:
Supercap
XPS
140x2 (assuming they'll be side by side)
SNAXO next to hicap (SNAXO under the p/s side of 52)
52
CDX
Regards,
Frank.
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Posted on: 15 March 2002 by Thomas K
Bruce, I've got almost the exact same system as you (apart from speaker cable and stand).
Similar space problems, too - I have a five-tier and a Supercapped SNAXO, which means I've currently got my 140s and the SNAXO-Super on the floor! Shock, horror!
No funds for an extra rack at the moment, and I'm guessing these are the components least in need of support (at one point I had the 140s in the rack and the XPS on the floor - changing that around definitely made sense).
Thomas
Posted on: 17 March 2002 by Rico
I'd agree with Frank, keeping the noisier supplies away from the SANXO. additionally, the burndy is easier to dress when the Supercap & XPS are further away from their respective compnents.
my £0.02 contribution.
Rico - SM/Mullet Audio
Posted on: 17 March 2002 by Steve Toy
Brains at the top, brawn at the bottom, a spacer shelf between. Generally the preamp is best placed on the top shelf (unless you use QS Ref. whose top shelf is optimised to provide the greatest benefit to the source component - and thus to the whole system.)
Power amps and PSUs can be classed as the brawn.
Peter may have a few comments to make on this matter, following a few experiments of this nature here in Gai Paris... 
Regards,
Steve.
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