Bundling wire?

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john5220

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I've read on this site that its a good idea to not run wires together during wire management. Mainly, don't run power wires and speaker wires together. Assuming I'm going to separate speaker and power wires, what wires are OK to run in close proximity to each other?

TIA for your responses.
 
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Please give a lot more detail about your question, for example is this new build equipment? is it Tube (Valve) or SS eqpt? are you modifying or repairing some existing equipment? Please give any other relevant information, such as manufacturer and model of equipment.
 
john5220 said:
what wires are OK to run in close proximity to each other?
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Well leading into the back of a unit you'll be in close proximity so that's unavoidable. So it's a good start to have good cables and IC to help shield them in the first place.

One thing I rout last is my turntable IC, and if a stand alone stage is used, don't cross the input output.
 
To clarify, its all SS. I have just basic speaker wire and interconnects. My plan is to run those plastic tubes from the back of the 3 Marantz receivers I have....one tube for speaker wires and one for power cords. Should interconnect cables from the TT and CD player be run separately or can they safely be run in the speaker or interconnect tubes.

Hope this clarifies.
 
4-2-7 said:
One thing I rout last is my turntable IC, and if a stand alone stage is used, don't cross the input output.
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john5220 said:
Should interconnect cables from the TT and CD player be run separately or can they safely be run in the speaker or interconnect tubes.
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Turntable IC are your most susceptible IC to noise and hum of your system, they should be by themselves and loose, able to be moved and draped in a safe location.
 
My studio has 5 systems in it. The interconnects and power cords are all over the place. Chaos is good. There are no issues. However, if you use poorly shielded cables, their might be........
 
When it is convenient or if I'm not too lazy, I will separate cables based on voltage. I believe cable TV, HDTV broadcasts, and FM antennae lines are the most susceptible to interference due to extremely low voltages. So I make an effort to at least separate them as best I can. But honestly, as waynerN points out, I don't think it's that important for the average person to separate most other cables. Just use decent cables (like Bluejeans cables or equivalent).
 
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WaynerN said:
Way over the top.
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Not if you value your system, sound, presentation, ascetics and attention to detail. I don't think anyone can judge over the top, should we judge below the top?

Maybe a little reading why all McIntosh flagship preamp are multi box design as well as any others that do the same thing with there design.
 
Well, I didn't start in audio yesterday and I can tell you with experience, that there is way too much emphasis placed on cable management in these kinds of installs. Unless you are using really crappy interconnects, or your equipment isn't very well grounded (internally) or shielded (externally), it just doesn't make much difference. My mess behind my systems is all over the place and like I said before, there is order with chaos. There are few if any wires that parallel each other, they all go any which way and the results are low noise (this is my vinyl and FM systems).

Making wires neat and orderly is actually a bad idea in my opinion. I don't really care what McIntosh does.
 
WaynerN said:
Making wires neat and orderly is actually a bad idea in my opinion. I don't really care what McIntosh does.
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Well if anyone seen my system it's not neat and orderly either, bundling the wires up, like the title says isn't the best thing because they need to be separated. A shame I guess you don't care about signal to noise ratio and how it's done and combated in audio components.

Have a nice Thanksgiving WaynerN
 
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