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Rackmounting that which should not be rackmounted
A few years ago I developed a few clever ways of rackmounting non-rackmount equipment so it could look neat in my HiFi rack enclosure.1 The goal was to have a professional-looking setup that would support input from my TV, spotify, Airplay, DJ controller and other sources while being able to drive a subwoofer with room correction and integrated crossover.
What follows is a (somewhat disjointed) cronicle of my journey to build a professional looking custom 2U rack unit to combine a DAC, input selector, streaming device and power routing for my HiFi system. Unit in situ with abandoned balanced input selectorI actually got quite far along with the selector project, but lost interest when I realised I could achieve the same thing after finding a Cambridge Audio DACMagic without spending more time. Installed with the spectrum analyser In the end I abandoned the HiFiBerry, DACMagic (and Driverack DSP) in favour of a Wiim Pro which is more reliable, and has a 12V trigger output which I wired straight to a beefy relay to turn on the power amps.
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