where to place equipment rack?


my room is a standard rectangle(14x19) with the speakers on the short wall facing the listening chair about 10 ft back.My rack is behind me in the corner about as far away from the speakers as possible-since I've read this is for the best.But this requires 20ft+ speaker cables. Would I do better to place the rack in the front corner,just behind the plane of the speakers and shorten the cables?Any thoughts....
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at 1/4 increment of the room length (19'/4=4.75'), bass node is at max. 1/3 increment of the room length bass node is at min. corners should be avoided due to bass energy storage.

best to avoid a location with high bass energy, vibration is bad for equipment even solid state gears. easier to avoid vibration than trying to eliminate it with an expensive rack, but good rack even in bass null will still make a difference.