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What's Your Approach to Dressing Rack Cables?

Just pretend for a minute that you have many different manufacturers, chassis sizes and AV cable formats and lengths and you need to keep AC cabling & power conditioner away from all of the AV cables- HDMI, coax, optical, speaker level and line level interconnects... How do you approach setting up and dressing an empty rack?
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gdnrbob
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I gave up when power cords became so unwieldy- like my AQ Thunder.
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folkfreak
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like starting with all AC going to one side and then...,
by the way -- one thing never to do (but is common in AV installations) is to bundle cables together (e.g, all interconnects down one side for example). Bundling interconnects magnifies the problems of vibration borne interference and is a big and very audible no no in a high resolution two channel system. In complex AV setups with many more cables it may be a cost worth living with but in two channel keep the cables loose and floating free of one another


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bdp24
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It also helps to keep interconnects a length no longer than absolutely necessary. I have a few 0.5m lengths for that very reason. 
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