[kelly]

I'm not much of a tweaker. I'm kind of the anti-DarkAngel ... which somehow doesn't exactly make me an angel. I don't have any cones vibration pods or sandbags or anything.

What I do have is one standard Salamander audio rack that is now filled to the brim with components. In fact, it's overfilled by just a little.

The odd piece out in my case is an outboard power supply for the tube output stage of my CD player. It has a shiney chrome transformer on top of a black aluminum box that unfortunately just takes up too much veritcal space. So I have it... sitting on my carpet next to the rack.

I realize now that some of the more serious tweakers are shrieking in horror, but how bad is this? I know the player itself needs as stable a platform as possible, but does the power supply? Would it be worth my while to stop by a Home Depot or something to pick up some kind of block to sit it on? I can't really afford another rack for a while.

 

[Budgie]

I would put it on a cheap slab of something or a board, just to be certain it has good air flow, if it has vents on the bottom.

 

[kelly]

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Originally posted by Budgie I would put it on a cheap slab of something or a board, just to be certain it has good air flow, if it has vents on the bottom.

No vents - and the transformer sticking out of the top is what gets the warmest.

 

[RickG]

Kelly, if you're that concerned and you want to get out cheap, why not just pick up a cinder block or two?

 

[HighwayStar]

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Originally posted by RickG Kelly, if you're that concerned and you want to get out cheap, why not just pick up a cinder block or two?

That's the first thing I thought of. Then I thought of all the stripped cars I've seen up on cinder blocks... nah...

 

[puppyslugg]

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...I thought of all the stripped cars I've seen up on cinder blocks... nah...

Seen on cinder blocks by you or placed on cinder blocks by you?

 

[HighwayStar]

Just another form of DIY my friend

kelly, how bout some spikes just to get it off the carpet. Wouldn't crush the carpet as much as blocks or such.

 

[nebuchadnezzar]

what are the dimensions of the power supply?
if it's not too big an aluminum or steel plate would look nice...onlinemetals
and would be fairly inexpensive...

 

[Orpheus]

...rug's probably the best tweak there is.

just gotta write how you heard a "huge soundstage... phenomenol imaging... striking highs, thumping lows....." heh he. i bet you everyone would start doing it then.

but seriously.... i think i agree with Budgie... even though you think most oh the heat is on top, it wouldn't hurt to have better circulation in any case.