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Re: cabinet design questions- speaker location, fans
Welcome to the Forum, Steve!
1. I’ve had mine both above and below. Just angle it towards the seating. When you get engrossed in a program you won’t be paying any attention to it anyway.
2. You didn’t mention of the cabinets will be fully enclosed (i.e., with doors). You probably won’t need ventilation unless it’s fully enclosed. As Robert alluded, a fan should be configured to exhaust hot air out of the cabinet. Depending on how your gear is situated, however, there may be locations preferable to a top-of-the-cabinet. In the cabinet I used to use, I had the receiver on the bottom shelf, and the rest of the gear on shelves above it. Since the receiver is the only heat-generating device, I installed a exhaust fan behind it in the rear panel of the cabinet. Hot air was blocked by the shelf above the receiver, and pulled out before it could rise up to the other components above. If I had installed the fan at the top of the cabinet, there would have still an accumulation of heat between the shelves where the receiver was located. This way the receiver was kept cool, while above the receiver things got only mildly warm.
Regards,
Wayne A. Pflughaupt
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