Bluesound Vault position

I was thinking that since there is a place to slide a CD in, it may be position sensitive, like it wouldn't sit properly on the little spinner without the parallel force of gravity. 

Interesting thought.  Try burning a few discs and see what you think.

Interesting thought.  The Vault isn’t a perfect ripper even when positioned conventionally so the only way to test this would be to buy two them and rip a bunch of discs and compare 

My thought is this. You are trying to place a square peg in a round hole. If the Vault could do this, don’t you think the engineers, designers and advertising dept would have listed that as an option? If you place it in your rack vertical and it works for a year ...then stops working, would you say the player failed? When it had feet on the bottom, but you mounted it vertically to fit in your rack? Find a place to put it on its feet.... that’s my suggestion. Or get a new rack. BTW I have a Vault2 and it works beautifully...the way it was designed to work.

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Another option to explore if you can. I have two audio systems and two vertical racks. I found that running out of equipment space is a real issue. If you have enough height on 1 shelf in your rack you can make or buy a small metal, wooden or plastic table/platform. Think small miniature coffee table where the 4 legs fit around the component on your rack shelf but the underside of the table clears that component. Thus a new shelf/platform for your Vault. If you look at my two systems you will see the small wooden table I made for this purpose. Just and idea...