What you you do with small electronic accessories?

[Gigantic]

As I've built my system, I seem to have acquired a number of small devices, starting with a phono preamp, then a DAC, an amp switcher and an HDMI audio stripper along with assorted wall warts and cables. They're awkward- their small size creates clutter and light weight makes them a challenge to keep in place. My system is sitting atop an AV credenza, with my turntable on the left, a power amp sitting on risers atop my center channel speaker and my disc transport and amp sitting on the right, with my media and another amp below, inside the cabinet. That leaves the accessories stashed behind the amp and receiver, entangled amongst the interconnects and speaker wires; they're so light they're easily knocked off the back, into the space behind the credenza. It's neat from the front, but looking behind at the rat's nest of cables, interconnects, wires and devices, it's a mess.

There has to be a better solution.

How are you all storing/stashing/displaying your assorted electronics that don't fit the standard component dimensions?

 

[gadget73]

I really only have one, but I have the same issue. Don't have a good solution either. Its a small project box with my subsonic filter in it. It sits on top of my preamp unless it gets knocked behind it for some reason. I've considered buying a rack size case to rebuild it in and just putting it under the preamp, but thats effort and money. I also thought of making a multi-purpose box in that config. I'd like some more inputs and signal routing abilities, so I could build that into a larger case along with the filter but I haven't really put serious thought into it.

 

[playittwice]

I have used Velcro w/great success. Easily removable and doesn’t look gaudy. It doesn’t take much to hold those small/lightweight components in place.

 

[RVT1K]

I have used Velcro w/great success. Easily removable and doesn’t look gaudy. It doesn’t take much to hold those small/lightweight components in place.

That's a great idea..I may be borrowing that one.

 

[Capitol C]

I put my surge protector, raspberry Pi/DA combo (for streaming), and a small class D amp for running speakers in another part of the house on the bottom shelf since I don't need access to them. (My Yamaha receiver has an independently-controlled line-level output which feeds the class D amp. I leave the class D amp on all the time with a fixed volume.) Maybe you can hide a lot of your stuff inside a cabinet. I also spent some time twist-tying power cords to one leg of rack and line-level cables to another leg to get rid of the rats next. Withe a credenza, there may be nothing to twist-tie to, but you might find braided split cable sheathing to be useful for grouping wires, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NVQXB9F/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1.