How close to rear of speake for a rack?


trying to shorten my cables-`If I put my turntable rack-3.5 feet from back of speaker will that cause a problem or is 2 feet from side better- Not sure if it will effect the sound- Using a Finite-Elemente 4 tier rack BUT will just have turntable on top and everything else open??- thank
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Showing 1 response by williewonka

Some of us do not have the luxury of having lots of space. In my case, I’ve taken lots of measures to isolate the stand and turntable from vibrations...
- the mass of my turntable is pretty high and has sorbothane suspension in the ball bearing feet
- the shelf it sits on is a sandwich of granite on top of 3/4" MDF, with a thin layer of foam between them
- the shelf itself is isolated from the frame by small sorbothane pads
- each shelf is isolated from the next by spiked feet
- the "interface" to the hardwood floor is inert rubber blocks with small felt pads

Each component has ball bearing feet and sits on its own granite/foam/mdf sandwich shelf

I can’t say its perfect, but I don’t believe any component suffers from vibration. None that I can feel anyway :

My rack sits 8" to the left of my right speaker and 6" back from the front of the speaker

regards