Location of compoments.

How can a rack on the side not mess with first reflections ? 

How can a rack on the side not mess with first reflections ?

Because you don’t plop it onto a 1st reflection point lol. Ideally it should be at around the same depth into the room as your seating position, or even further back.

If you have a turntable source (like me), sometimes moving the rack further away from speakers has its own benefit. IME, much more of the problematic stray energy is structure-borne, not air-borne. If you use subwoofers w/ vinyl - good luck lol.

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For long XLRs, I don’t go crazy on the exotics. I hit up the used market for whatever of the older-line Audioquest 5m - 6m cables I can find, preferably with air tubes. These use good quality metals, and don’t mess with the sound in any particularly vexing way. Their older copper models like: King Cobra, Jaguar, Panther, Columbia, Colorado, Water, Earth - are all very good, and still sound good in long runs. I don’t need their expensive new lines’ "Zero" tech. On shorter runs and if I feel like splurging - sure, I love silver.

King Cobra, Jaguar, Panther, Columbia, Colorado, Water, Earth

Sounds like a jungle. 

Yep @yoyoyaya, Townshend was playing a 6-sting Rickenbacker in ’68, but I seem to recall him taking it of for the last song, smashing a cheaper guitar instead. He rammed the headstock into the speaker cabinet, which if memory serves me was a Hi Watt. The speaker cabinet may have been a dummy, no drivers inside. The guitar made quite a racket, though.

John Entwistle was still playing a Fender bass, and proved himself to be an amazing player. Massive tone too, the best electric bass I’ve ever heard live. And then there was Keith Moon. A possessed madman I tells ya!

The show in '69 was them performing the whole Tommy album, no smashing of instruments.

My components sit directly on the vinyl tile covered concrete basement floor. It's a huge pain for the turntable but great for everything else. No vibration issues, no wobbly and expensive racks and no acoustic complications.