Location of compoments.

Like most things in life, it all depends.  Especially if you have a TV between your speakers which are all in close proximity--bad idea.  

In the case of my audio room, a small rack is 5 feet behind the speakers.  If anything, it probably helps imaging by maintaining perfect symmetry in my room.

Remember Michael Green, the guru of speaker placement/imaging?  He also felt this was the way to go.  

So it all depends.

Do what your room and budget will allow.

Just no TV between the speakers.

In response to ozzy62's query: 

No electronics since 1972? Are you a wizard?

Here is my corrected post:

I have not had any electronics situated between my L/R speakers since 1972. OTOH, since my systems have been multichannel since around 1995, there is another (identical) speaker in the center between the left and right speakers. There is a power amp on the florr behind each one.

The rest of the equipment is placed where is it most convenient for me to access it because cabling is cheap. 

@bdp24 - was he playing a Riccy when you saw him? Great that you had the opportunity to see them then. To be fair, most of his Tele playing was with Hiwatts.

@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.