Location of compoments.


Hello,

I'm reading Jim Smith's book "Get Better Sound". He notes that, if possible, do not locate your audio rack between the speakers, better off to one side. I would guess over 50% of audiophiles have their equipment exactly where he says it should not be placed. Needless to say, I would need 20' long speaker cables to reach the farthest speaker. Not very cost-effective or practical. 

Any thoughts? Do most have their electronics between the speakers?

 

lovehifi22

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Mono tube amps next to speakers with short runs of speaker cable. XLR interconnects from output of line stage, which are long, equipment on sidewall. 

@drmuso- it's actually a hand wired 2061 reissue so it is smaller than a real stack. I've talked to Galen- seems like a good dealer, I have nobody in Texas I regularly work with other than a genius tube repair guy whose real love is pre-war amps. 

@bdp24 - I've had a little Fender and also have a small Vox which has that chime-y quality of the bigger Vox amps. I'm not much of a guitarist, was a keyboard player. but Rob Stoner helped me learn how to play guitar. There is a Les Paul standard here that was done by CV? Guitar with the pick-ups wired out of phase to emulate the Peter Green guitar. Using an Echoplex clone preamp/booster, it has huge bite and is way too loud. I have an American Tele-- with a standard Fender pick up and a hum bucker, maple neck. I forget how Fender branded it- a hot rod. It is not a custom shop job.  I actually like playing that guitar better.

@grislybutter -I was too lazy to reformat the photo when I pointed to it. If you have it on a phone and tilt it sideways you can see there is a little more room than that distorted view presents. The horns are highly directional and unaffected by the their position relative to the sidewalls. I have adjusted the volume of the integrated woofers to blend with the midhorn which means that a lot of the deep bass is coming from the bigger 15" subs, which I DSP'd using a separate line from the line stage.