My backside:
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Nice looking gear & cable management, Frank!
Either the Pass Labs amp is bigger than I imagined or the Vio is smaller. 
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You are right for both. The Pass is bulky and would measure highest in density.
The Vio is fairly compact for what it does. It has been a solid all in one. My goal was to just have that on my desk with 2 cables power & usb. Quite the opposite happened.
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Funny how that works. 
You have too much room behind that desk, if you shove everything back a few inches you can make room for more suff 
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It was re-arranging with the desk “floating” away from the wall that found me admiring the backside of my gear.
But you’re entirely right.
Hmmmmmmm…
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that’s clean!
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I guess this is a DAP with a DAC mode? Which one? Looks really nice!
IBasso DX300 
You’ll really hate my desk placement then - it’s at right angles to the wall with most of the room behind the desk. Dead simple to re-arrange cables behind my desk - I just walk around and do it. I’m too old to enjoy the contortions involved in cable management of a desk up against the wall.
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I’m of a like mind here with you. Desk is in the middle of the room, up against a window with room in front to sit and behind to wire up easily and easily walk up to the window to water the plants etc.
Not efficient use of the space, but I don’t need the space, I need an efficient work environment.
EDIT: BTW, every time I see a post on this thread, it warms my heart. It’s hella cheaper to take noise out of your system with best practice cable management than it it to throw noise filters and esoteric cables at it. (not that there’s anything wrong with esoteric cables mind you) it’s just cheaper to simply organize.
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I’d rather have my back to the wall facing into the room. Especially when wearing headphones, I don’t like people walking up behind me without knowing they are there. It comes with the bonus of easy access to the wiring.
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You and Al Capone.
Who told y-!?!?! I mean, nuh-uh! 
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My work office is like yours and my home-set up has the desk in the middle of the room. I don’t do bending or contorting either AND it allows me to use every last square inch of deskspace.
Update, 25 days later. I don’t think Audiophile time is the same as regular time. It feels like I took the previous shot a lifetime ago. (RNHP hiding under Soncoz DAC)
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Good stuff there @elementze Twisting signal cables, cheap and effective way to reduce noise. The other thing is separating signal and power wires, leaving as much space as possible between the two and if you must cross a signal and power wire, make sure they’re crossing at 90 degree angle.
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Replaced the cheap USB cable with a short 1’ Pangea cable. Also purchased a cheap red power cable to go along with the blue one I’ve had laying around for a few years.
The USB cable is meant as an upgrade obviously, but the power cables are just for looks and better cable management since the back of the stack is right out in the open for everyone to see.
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Those power cables are beautiful.
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