Where should my equipment rack go?


hi all,

i am trying to figure out where to place my equipment rack. i really have two spots available. one is right behind my speakers in the center (speakers are about 6 feet from the rear wall), or all the way in the back of the room (about 20' long roon). obviously one requires long interconnects and the other is close to the speakers. does anyone have good advice??? thanks.
dewinkle

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My room is 20' by 13'. The speakers are about 6-7 feet out from the wall and are about 7 feet apart. My 5 shelf rack is off to the side of the right speaker about 4-5 ft out from the wall. It is a quality rack, locally made weighing 80 pounds retailing for $800. I have to use 12 ft speaker cable as all my components are in the rack. I love having nothing in the sounstage but I am thinking about moving the rack to the center very close to the wall so that I can get better speaker cable with shorter lengths. I realize the optimum setup is amps in the middle, low to the floor, and short runs of speaker cable. Moving my monoblocks to the center and getting long interconnects is out of the question. I cannot afford a 3 meter Nordost QuattroFil interconnect (mine is .6 meter). Any comments / suggestions?