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Placement of components in audio rack

I currently have from bottom to top, on individual shelves in an open rack stand: amp, pre-amp, CD recorder, CD player, turntable on top. This is probably a pretty normal set up, but wondering if anyone has messed around with the order and found any significant improvement? Also, I plan on adding a tuner to the mix. My past experience has been to put the tuner away from all other components for best signal; like in another part of the room with long interconnects. Thoughts?
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newbee
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I prefer to keep the pre-amp nearer to the turntable and further from the amp. The former's phono pre-amp could be more sensitive to interference from the amp. Could be. So in your stack I'd just switch the pre-amp and CDP.

I've never experienced a problem with a Tuner but perhaps I've just always had a top quality one. In any event I'd still keep it away from my pre-amp just as I would an amp.

FWIW.
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