Do you prefer under counter racks slanted or straight?

i like to see the faceplates and not to have to bend my head down/out of monitor sweetspot too much. thats why i like the mastering desks where the faceplates are on top of the tabledesk.

Slanted. Easier to see from a seated position.

My shitty eye balls like slanted

Those Audiorax ones look pretty darn good.

Even a slight angle makes things so much easier. The space doesn't matter when I'm having to contort myself to see certain things.

I’ll contradict everyone straight, easier to load, don’t have to think about chassis depth, cable organization with rear rails.

If you go slant a trick I learned long ago and I believe Ward believes is my moment of genius, put a drawer in the otherwise wasted space at the bottom instead of a kick plate.

Nah, it’s just an old road warrior who knows each and every square inch is a very very valuable commodity.

Require, no but we always appreciate a picture of your addiction. Now if I ever get this amp rack done I shall post a pics to show the magic of rear rails and cable organization . I just keep revising the rear panel layout🤪

You might if I mixed up the photos on my phone, and the wife would kill me in my sleep

The Idea for the kick plate drawer idea came about many years ago when a guy I had built a bunch of 24u racks for had 3u shelves at the bottom of each rack and ran out of rack space. Rather than go the route of building all new racks I built 4 4 u racks that were an inch less in depth and we bolted them to the bottom of his 4 racks. We moved the 3 u drawers and his Tripplet rack mount outlet strips to the bottom racks plus a cable tie bar to the back to support the power cords. 
it took him 3 years to fill those extra 16 spaces.
The funny thing is I was in the hospital when he decided he needed 2 more racks, he waited 6 months before he asked a cabinet builder to copy them. When I was out of the coma and just starting to talk he came to visit and felt guilty for having someone else copy the design. I had to tell him it wasn’t a problem, I needed to learn to walk and use a fork again long before using a table saw again. 18 months later I built him 6 new 32 space with our base design with one major change rather than building “boxes” we used an open side frame with removable side panels. The open area of the frames were designed so a Penn Elcom lacing strip would fit for cable ties.

Slant is cool, but also then you've got to build the whole desk. My 3 RU x 3 wide rack sits on an IKEA table - easy. If I were doing a slanted rack, would need to commit and combine the rack and tabletop.

For the shorter spaces, Penn-Elcomm makes a 1RU that has brush-fibers in it that's perfect for wrangling cables and keeping things neat. Or add Funklogic panels so that if you have people in the control room who need to turn knobs, you can have them use the "producer's master channel..." Or make your own. Demo labels give you indie cred...