My recently purchased, older (2002 vintage) monoblock amplifiers note, in their very extensive manual, that they should never be placed three feet or less from each other. The same applies to the monoblocks and the "source'.I recall very old school warnings about this, long ago, and I'm pretty sure that it related to EMI interference concerns. However,I thought that it had, more or less, disappeared as a modern day issue.I know that the power amplifier that I was using prior to receiving the monoblocks, as well as the two before it, were located no more than six inches from the preamp, with zero problems.
I would very much like to place the monoblocks, on either side of my very large DAC, on the top shelf of my audio furniture. That would require I place the preamp underneath them, probably only about a foot, to 18 inches away, although separated by a fairly heavy wooden shelf assembly. Would this indeed be a problem, as the manual suggests? The alternative is leaving the monoblocks on butcherblock platforms out in front of the audio shelf unit, and it really clutters up the room, and makes it look overwhelmed by too much spread out audio gear.
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My recently purchased, older (2002 vintage) monoblock amplifiers note, in their very extensive manual, that they should never be placed three feet or less from each other. The same applies to the monoblocks and the "source'.I recall very old school warnings about this, long ago, and I'm pretty sure that it related to EMI interference concerns. However,I thought that it had, more or less, disappeared as a modern day issue.I know that the power amplifier that I was using prior to receiving the monoblocks, as well as the two before it, were located no more than six inches from the preamp, with zero problems.
I would very much like to place the monoblocks, on either side of my very large DAC, on the top shelf of my audio furniture. That would require I place the preamp underneath them, probably only about a foot, to 18 inches away, although separated by a fairly heavy wooden shelf assembly. Would this indeed be a problem, as the manual suggests? The alternative is leaving the monoblocks on butcherblock platforms out in front of the audio shelf unit, and it really clutters up the room, and makes it look overwhelmed by too much spread out audio gear.
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