Where should my equipment rack go?

I would advise against corner placement of a rack as that is where you are most likely to run into large quantities of low frequency reinforcement / air-borne vibrations. There was a thread about this the other day and i know that there is quite a bit of info in the archives about it. You might also want to try checking there. Sean
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I have moved my equipment rack from between the speakers and out along the side wall. Getting the more sensative equipment away from the amp helped the sound quite a bit. So did going with a much better IC than I used previously.

I first and formost beleive you should put it were YOU want it. As I ran into the same problem in my application but I broke the rules my rack had to go down a side wall, I had no place for the amp so it went with the rack around the side wall everybody will tell you to use longer interconnects with shorter speaker cables but being hard headed I went with 30ft speaker cables I had to replace 1 time to find something that would work with the system. The problem is when you talk (long) bring your checkbook whether they be interconnects or speaker cables. Also taking into conideration your source equ. turntable expecially you would want that as far as possible from speakers.David

I would never move the rack from between the speakers at the sacrafice of lower quality cables - as long as your speakers are that far out from the front wall your fine. I've done it both ways and it was a very minimal if any difference for me.

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?