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    Posted: 04 Nov 2017 at 8:49am
I’m considering commissioning a piece of furniture to house my kit. The reasons are to hide the mess of cables, remove an ugly underpopulated Hi-Fi rack (small boxes don’t need the space) and to create some useful storage space, which might be used for LPs.

TTs would be on a wall mounted shelf. CDT and Majestic would be on top of the new piece of furniture. The new piece would have three shelves. The top shelf would be shallow and would accommodate Proprii, phonostages, switch and R Pi. The middle shelf would be deep enough for LPs, but could be used for other purposes. The bottom shelf would be shallow and would accommodate the PSUs. The top and bottom shelves would allow cable access through the back panel.

I think I’m right in saying that it is usually recommended that PSUs are off the rack, preferably on the floor. Here’s the question; what, if anything, would be the downsides of housing the PSUs on the bottom shelf, as I have described?

It is a suspended wooden floor in a 19th Century house.
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Vibration/isolation. Until yo7 try it you won’t truly know, but you could try various isolation materials underneath (by ear). You could also try on/off the rack though best avoid carpet (heat).

If your gear is permenant the best way of tidying the cables up is to have them terminated to size, mains, interconnect and speakers. The STD PSU mains and outlet are long too and can be customised.
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I wonder if you could attach some shielding material to the underneath of the shelf above where the PSU's will be ?

I've no idea what material or whether it would be effective - but sounds like a good idea !  Smile

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Originally posted by Richardl60 Richardl60 wrote:

Vibration/isolation. Until yo7 try it you won’t truly know, but you could try various isolation materials underneath (by ear). You could also try on/off the rack though best avoid carpet (heat).

If your gear is permenant the best way of tidying the cables up is to have them terminated to size, mains, interconnect and speakers. The STD PSU mains and outlet are long too and can be customised.

We don’t do carpets so that’s OK. I agree about bespoke cable lengths if permanently sited, but I’d not be that certain.
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Originally posted by RichieCactus RichieCactus wrote:

I wonder if you could attach some shielding material to the underneath of the shelf above where the PSU's will be ?

I've no idea what material or whether it would be effective - but sounds like a good idea !  Smile

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I don’t understand why shielding might be needed.
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PSU1's best on floor. This is because of mechanical vibration which all mains transformers produce. The vibration has been known to "induce" 50Hz (60Hz if your mains is that) signal into other things. This might not happen in all cases. But seeing it has it is worth thinking about. The "phenomena" I  first discovered 30 years ago when building some amplifiers which had output transformers. I had mains hum on the output. I started removing bits of the circuit until there was no amplifier left - absolutely no connection to the output transformer, but there was still mains hum. It was because the mains transformer was doing what mains transformers do - they're constrained buzzers! The vibration was transmitted via the case to the output transformer which turned it back into electricity!
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Thank you Graham.
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