Equipment Rack Between Speakers...Good or Bad

@atmasphere  Just to follow up on the past post. I contacted Benchmark and their Engineering department confirmed the following:

Thanks for your patience. Yes, our units do support the AES48 standard.

As I mentioned previously, with my old Benchmark DAC3 + AHB2,  I could not tell a difference between using Bryston Canare XLR between the preamp + amp and Audience Au24 XLR.  The Bryston cost me about $60 about 20 years ago and the Audience was a few hundred used.

I contacted LuxmanUSA to ask about the AES48 standard and they are contacting Luxman Japan to ask engineering.

Just wanted to add this if anyone was interested.

Thanks for your patience. Yes, our units do support the AES48 standard.

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I find it very interesting that mastering studios nearly always have amps between the speakers for the short cabling.  But, the mastering engineer is sitting at a big bulky console smack in the middle of the whole shebang. Not to be confused with a recording studio. Just  my two cents.

@mijostyn 

I meant to say the M6 are Magico's M series flagship. I'm aware that the Q7 Mkii are step up from the M6 and cost more too. I'm thinking to upgrade to the Q7 Mkii at some point possibly next year. For now I'm just enjoying the M6. 

For closure to my previous post here is Luxman’s feedback on AES48 support.

The M900u / C900u do not support AES48 standard.

The engineering team does not recommend using only pins 2 and 3 to conduct signal... without pin 1 in use, the units would be unstable.

The engineer did ask a question: What cables are you trying to use? If he has this information, he may be able to research further.

Also, the Luxman M900u and C900u are Class II devices. As such, they do not employ an earth ground. My understanding is that for AES48 standard, an earth ground is required. I may be wrong about this, but this is what I have been told. I don’t know if this changes your approach or not, but just wanted to pass that along.

On well, I may have to spend a little more on long XLR’s since I am getting the m900u.