Looking for a pre-built recessed audio rack

More than 20 years ago, I had Mid-Atlantic build custom racks for a large home theatre system, they were to my dimensions, doors, power controllers, fans and exhaust, along with various trays. They were powder coated to my choice. 

This assumes you want standard rack mount specification, not just a tower of shelves, whether or not "audiophile" approved. 

Don't know anything about a recessed audio rack, but it's awesome you are designing a listening room. Mine was a 5 year project in my head and it physically came together in 6 months over 5 years ago. Never a regret. Enjoy the journey.

Equipment racks can be made to slide in and out plus rotated for service.  MidAtlantic is the most well-known and they have the hardware kits to do so.  It's just a baseplate that the rack is bolted to, that is on tracks, allowing it to be moved out into the room and rotated.

Here you go:

https://www.legrandav.com/products/racks/slide_out/srsr_slide_out_rotating_rack_system

I'd suggest contacting a local A/V integration company to assist with this to ensure you get all the necessary parts, plus consider adequate cooling, electrical, framing, etc.

I like your idea to access the back of the components for routing cables and easy connections to dedicated power. What a convenient place for a storage/electrical utility room. Consider routing your cable/internet into that room too so you can easily hard wire network cables.

I would rough out a design and enlist a carpenter to make the front look however you and your SO want it to look - a door with leaded glass panes could be cool, but a solid door or no door could work too. I would consider built-in vertically adjustable shelves, not a slide in rack. If you really want a slide in rack, look at Sound Anchors.  They will make whatever size you want and you can put it on castors or sliders (like Herbie's Giant Threaded Stud Gliders). Consider ventilation - a passive approach would be best but if you have a lot of tubes a fan may be necessary.

For shelves figure out how to provide very solid supports connected directly to the wall studs (consider 6-inch doubled-up studs on the sides). Preferrably the supports can have with some adjustability for changing the opening heights between shelves. You can then select the shelf material and design of your choosing. I would probably look at thick wood planks for simplicity and esthetics. If you want to get fancy, have some steel frames welded that can be connected to height-adjustable supports on the sides. Powder coat the steel and select some nice looking wood to sit on the steel shelf frames.

Some very good audio racks use elastomeric material to support the shelves (like this one), which would be easy to incorporate into the shelf supports using commonly available elastomeric materials like these or these, or Herbie’s products.

Finally, consider where your speakers are going to go and allow a method for routing speaker cables. If you use monoblock amplifiers sitting next to the speakers, consider how you are going to power those. Also, consider power and cables for subs, both at the front wall and at the rear wall in case you later decide to go with a four sub (swarm-type) set-up.

Have fun!

Thanks for the suggestions so far. 

@whart , I looking into the Mid-Atlantic angle.  Some possibilities there.

@paradisecom - A good suggestion (and appreciated) on the pull out rack.  However, with the storage room on the other side of the wall, I won't need the rotatable style.  

I've been digging into this general idea today and am running into one big concern.  Every "prebuilt" rack design I've found so far is designed around the 4 post network/server rack model, which is not going to be very good at handling vibrations and use thin sheet metal shelves, etc.  Not very audiophile.

I already have my network rack going into the storage room.  It will handle my switching, modem/routers, servers, etc.  House security/alarm system is in there too.  (I'm an ex-IT guy.  33 years of site IT, system administrator, network engineer, software engineering, and IT Management.  So I have all the stupid goodies.  LOL)  I am starting to question the ventilation into the room it might get a little warm in there during the summer.

@mitch2 - 

Finally, consider where your speakers are going to go and allow a method for routing speaker cables. If you use monoblock amplifiers sitting next to the speakers, consider how you are going to power those. Also, consider power and cables for subs, both at the front wall and at the rear wall 

I will be running balanced interconnects from the preamp through an opening at the base of the wall to my monoblocks which will be next to the speakers.  I am going to keep it simple and just use a nylon brush plate that you see for home theater applications.  A second pass through will be used for the power cords out of my power regenerator to the amps.  I'm still working on the Sub(s) placement and how to run power to it.  Good suggestion on the sub(s).  I hadn't thought about potentially placing a sub(s) on the back wall.  I'm probably going to extend the 10awg power from the box through the stud wall to back of the room.  Gotta think about the signal wire however.  That could be a up to a 40 ft run.

Back to the rack solution.  I did talk today to a custom AV room integrator in California today (who works on home theater projects for the ridiculously rich and shameless).  His recommendation was to simply cut a hole in the wall, slide a good stereo rack in flush to the front wall, trim around it and put some kind of a door in/over the opening.  The more I think about it, the more I like the idea.  And it will be a lot less $$.

@baylinor -  I'll let you know how all this turns out in about 5 years... LOL