Location of compoments.

King Cobra, Jaguar, Panther, Columbia, Colorado, Water, Earth

Sounds like a jungle. 

Yep @yoyoyaya, Townshend was playing a 6-sting Rickenbacker in ’68, but I seem to recall him taking it of for the last song, smashing a cheaper guitar instead. He rammed the headstock into the speaker cabinet, which if memory serves me was a Hi Watt. The speaker cabinet may have been a dummy, no drivers inside. The guitar made quite a racket, though.

John Entwistle was still playing a Fender bass, and proved himself to be an amazing player. Massive tone too, the best electric bass I’ve ever heard live. And then there was Keith Moon. A possessed madman I tells ya!

The show in '69 was them performing the whole Tommy album, no smashing of instruments.

My components sit directly on the vinyl tile covered concrete basement floor. It's a huge pain for the turntable but great for everything else. No vibration issues, no wobbly and expensive racks and no acoustic complications. 

Another scenario Jim Smith brings up with components in the middle are all the lights that are there. His point is that your trying to create a believable soundstage and all those lights are very distracting. You just end up staring at them. I tried it and for me it makes a big difference. I auto shutoff any display that I can, the rest gets covered with blu tack.

I find it hard to determine the non-obvious soundstage cues looking at anything- I can only do determine soundstage fine details, especially depth, with my eyes closed. Many times I hears the drums etc. are coming directly from the speaker, but after closing my eyes, and shaking the head to remove the memory of the speaker position, then focusing on the sound it turns the image is several inches left and a few feet back of the speaker, after opening my eyes to confirm. 

And speaking of lights, one of worst things someone can do is have a dimmer switch in the same circuit as the system. 

I confess I have a dimmer switch in my audio room, but the system is on its own circuit. The dimmer still throws noise into the AC, I know this, as well as all the other dimmer switches in the house, but haven't done anything about it yet. If it is off no noise will be produced, and I have gone back and forth listening with it on and off and if there is a difference it is small- much smaller than changing ethernet or digital cables. (Or having a 3 foot rack between but a few feet back of the plane the speakers.) At least the bulbs are old-school incandescents and not LED.