Power Cable Tidy Up

[Mike-B]

As a bit of a tidy cable obsessive (not that you’d notice) this post might interest the few like-minded obsessives.

I originally designed and made my rack/cabinet with a hidden location for the power board and to pull out the board for easy plug/socket access. Unfortunately my current cables are a bit too short to do this properly. Plus they are a hotchpotch of odds and sods.

So new cable ordered, Supra LoRad (MKII) 2.5 & 1.5
I’ve made the cable lengths for the power board to pull out and return cleanly and enable unrestricted access to plugs and sockets.

2x Supra LoRad 2.5mm + BG Permaplug 13A + leGO IEC-320
2x Supra LoRad 1.5mm + PowerLine Lite plugs + Martin Kaiser IEC-320

Pics show the end result

And before anyone calls the Cable Sound Police, this is not about SQ.
But I have to say it has improved so that has to be the effect of LoRad.

Anyone brave enough to show your tidy cables ???

[Ebor]

@Mike-B

Anyone brave enough to show your tidy cables

Brave enough, yes.

Do I have any tidy cables to show you? Yeah, that would be a no.

Let me know if you want to see my untidy cables and I’ll be glad to oblige.

[Skeptikal]

[Mike-B]

Hi @Skeptikal, we’ve seen your socket picture a few times, but tell me, if it ‘lives’ on the carpet, is it in or out of sight.
My power board lives out of sight behind a drop-down door in my rack/cabinet. Out of sight it might be, but it still needs to be tidy to satify my OTD, plus untidy 'lecy amps & volts plays havoc with ohms law.

[Skeptikal]

Hi
@Mike-B
The little block is in view just to the side of the rack.
Yours is neat being hidden but I can’t get them under the rack.

[Mike-B]

I built the rack with the drop-down door specifically for the untidy stuff, it hides the power board and two unmentionable PSU’s.

[feeling_zen]

Invisible and tidy are not the same thing.

[glos_olly]

Hidden and invisible aren’t the same thing either

[Mike-B]

You guys just don’t understand !!!
A Tidy Cable Obsessive gets a huge amount of satisfaction making it tidy and then hiding it.

[feeling_zen]

Haha. Mine are very tidy but the engineer in me whispers, “don’t hide them. They’ll be too hard to get at when you need to unplug something.”

I’ve done the whole meticulously dressed and hidden as you build up the rack thing before. It’s initially satisfying. Then you need to change something and satisfaction turns to “Doh!”

[Mike-B]

Ah yeah but …. I include some obsessive planning for those inevitable D’oh events.

[traveler]

ha the goold old cable neurotism…
the only solution to get rid of it: less equipment

[Mike-B]

I’m surprised the Cable Sound Police haven’t shown up yet.

[Edmund-of-Essex]

Hi, Mike, I am standing in for the cable police, they have been to the factory visit. Practical question………

If you want to use the sockets that are currently not used on your middle right hand block in the picture, how can you be sure there is enough space to insert a new plug?

[Mike-B]

Simplz …. either of

or

[Edmund-of-Essex]

Hi Mike, Thanks, given the title of this thread I was pretty certain you would have all the angles covered , but it is great to have confirmation. As an OCD sufferer myself, I am in fact a lot happier about your cable arrangement now you have clarified.

[Mike-B]

I’ve used the 90 degree angled Furutech in the power board in the past
I still have it in use now, it’s my wall socket plug, routing the 4.0mm H07RN-F cable off the wall into the trucking.
(helpless obsessive)

[kend]

My home made block

and for the times when you don’t want to see it

[Mike-B]

Neat job @kend.
But keep your head down and look out for the power purists, they will be hounding you because your sockets are switched, audiophiles must have unswitched.

[Skeptikal]

@Mike-B

Neat job @kend.
But keep your head down and look out for the power purists, they will be hounding you because your sockets are switched, audiophiles must have unswitched.

As I was typing.