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Subject: Re: [motm] Rack Rails -> "C" shaped cases

From: ixqy@...
Date: 2001-02-21

In a message dated 2/21/01 12:49:31 AM Central Standard Time, elhardt@...
writes:

> >>Of all the designs I've seen or heard about, I have to admit (as
> humiliating as it is to do) I like Bradley's the best. I've always
preferred
>
> that "C" shape to a standard straight or sloped cabinet.<<
>
> "C" shaped cases can look impressive. It makes you feel like your
piloting
> a
> spaceship. But you have to be careful about too much of a C shape.
> Otherwise you get cables dangling down like spagetti too far infront of
the
> synth and cable piling up on the bottom modules, and also possibly nudging
> knobs. It's not neccessarily as practical as it seems.

With the C shape angles, I wonder if the cables' metal housing at the bottom
of an upper row would interfere with the top most knobs of the row directly
below ? The C shape is pretty neat though.

Andrew Sanchez