@tablejockey ,I do not know your system. But I never open any component to show what's inside. I rather focus on the music that my friends like. See my response in another thread where, recently a friend decided to purchase his first system after listening to mine. See the post on 02/04/2020.
https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/all-in-one-1k-marantz-or-2k-hegel/post?highlight=Hegel%2BH90&postid=1877160#1877160
I would rather encourage you 2 things:1. Try this power conditioner in your system2. Check with Inakustik on why they have so much space in the box.
There must be some reason, I don't know. But I can see your and ozzy's point. As for "you paid HOW much for that", all I can say is that when I purchased my first system in 2005, I did not care for cables and power conditioners. Switching to the Clear Day double gunshots opened my eyes (and ears). Switching from Brickwall to Inakustik shocked me, since I was not prepared for the upgrade. I have decided that I would like to try some nice cables for my loudspeakers, since the speaker upgrade was from a $1.2k speaker to $12k speaker. Inakustik is what I would be looking into, after my positive experience and discussing with @wig who has experience with 30+ brands of cables, including the ones I currently have in my system.