I m cheap at heart. So I can appreciate the effort to not spend anything. The amp as it is is GREAT.
The CD and pre not so good.The table steadiness matters greatly. If you can move it horizontally, not good. Also if flimsy the vibrations from speakers will affect the CD player a lot. If nothing can be done abut the table then: The sorbothane feet are a MUST.
3/4" Sorbothane feet are $15 on Amazon. Half globe shape in different sizes The one problem is they WILL stain a wood finish. The solution is a sheet of paper. Cut small under each sorbothane pad.I personally used size 10 butyl rubber chemical bottle stoppers $1.50 each. But they are hard to find.
Raising the pre away from the CD is a good idea. any sort of riser will work. A few blocks of wood? or more rubber bottle stoppers...
One free trick is to tilt the preamp up in front (or in back).. Thus making the heat from the CD FLOW away toward the front or back, faster. It only takes a 1/4: rise at one end to cause the heat to flow away, instead of baking the component above. (if the above component had a face which extends past the bottom, tilt so the back is up.not the front, as the face sticking down blocks airflow .. not as good) also so the bottom component sticks out a little more at that end the heat is going TO, and the top a little less, if possible.
Do NOT cut your speaker cables. Sooner or later you may want to change stuff around. And the then too short speaker cables will be annoying. From experience anything cable can be too long and never a real problem. Even one inch too short? major problem. So do not cut the cables. Yes try to separate the power cables from the IC. or s they cross but not parallel for any distance.
The CD and pre not so good.The table steadiness matters greatly. If you can move it horizontally, not good. Also if flimsy the vibrations from speakers will affect the CD player a lot. If nothing can be done abut the table then: The sorbothane feet are a MUST.
3/4" Sorbothane feet are $15 on Amazon. Half globe shape in different sizes The one problem is they WILL stain a wood finish. The solution is a sheet of paper. Cut small under each sorbothane pad.I personally used size 10 butyl rubber chemical bottle stoppers $1.50 each. But they are hard to find.
Raising the pre away from the CD is a good idea. any sort of riser will work. A few blocks of wood? or more rubber bottle stoppers...
One free trick is to tilt the preamp up in front (or in back).. Thus making the heat from the CD FLOW away toward the front or back, faster. It only takes a 1/4: rise at one end to cause the heat to flow away, instead of baking the component above. (if the above component had a face which extends past the bottom, tilt so the back is up.not the front, as the face sticking down blocks airflow .. not as good) also so the bottom component sticks out a little more at that end the heat is going TO, and the top a little less, if possible.
Do NOT cut your speaker cables. Sooner or later you may want to change stuff around. And the then too short speaker cables will be annoying. From experience anything cable can be too long and never a real problem. Even one inch too short? major problem. So do not cut the cables. Yes try to separate the power cables from the IC. or s they cross but not parallel for any distance.