Garfish: This probably won't do you any good, but maybe it will. I am moving my gear (except the speakers:-) to a hallway closet that is just off the living room. The closet runs behind the front speaker wall (just behind the speakers) and I will run my speaker cable through the wall to the speakers. A gentleman emailed me about a Radio Shack signal "relay" device (approx $50.00) that will pick up the signal from my remote control and convirt it to an infrared signal which will then penetrate the closet. I will have to run a power line or two to the closet or just use extension cords perhaps from Kevin Haskell if he will make them (which could be ran through the wall as well). Sounds impractical but the closet is just a couple of steps further than the gears current location. Right now it is 8' away to the side in a cabinet. Every time that I have tried moving the gear (source included) inbetween or close to the side of and behind a speaker the vibration messes up the sound too much in my situation.
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Jhljazz's thread on ringing heatsinks rang a bell with me too. I've noticed that "ringing" phenomenom with heatsinks too, but never tried to correct for it. Conventional thinking suggests that the best place to put a stereo or dual mono amp is on center between speakers so speaker cables can be minimum length-- and dual monos right next to speakers. Well, it seems to me that these locations also would have the highest sonic vibration potential, and this may cause a degradation of music quality due to amp vibrations??? I have to decide soon whether to place my McCormack DNA-2DX amp between the speakers (to get about 6 ft. cable runs) or leave it in my stereo stand, where it's sort of protected from sonic energy, and live with my present 14 ft. cables. I'd like to actually try it, but 5 meter ICs are expensive (Syn. Res. Phase II). Any thoughts or experiences with this? Thanks. Craig.