Comments on: From the Flickr Pool: Stereo Madness http://toolmonger.com/2008/01/23/from-the-flickr-pool-stereo-madness/ All tools. All the time. Your source for news, information, and reviews of hand tools, power tools, and tools of all kinds. Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:04:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Steve Thompson http://toolmonger.com/2008/01/23/from-the-flickr-pool-stereo-madness/#comment-210962 Steve Thompson Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:18:18 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2008/01/23/from-the-flickr-pool-stereo-madness/#comment-210962 Hey, thanks for posting my pics. Yea, the room looks a little embarrassing, but you should see it now! I built the speakers between Christmas and New Years - a time I took off to lay new maple hardwood floors over the patchwork floor the previous owners left for me under their carpet. Unfortunately the flooring was backordered and I dug out a speaker project I started (i.e. bought the components for) about three years prior. The HiFi system will sit opposite my home theater wall that I built about a couple of months or so ago. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/supergimp/2217227148/in/pool-toolmonger) Sit one way in the room - 7.1 sit the other - retro stereo. Oh, and with a NAD 3020 vintage amp, speakers that I built and a turntable that a client gave me in barter I'll have a modest audiophile system with no component over $200. Next project is the HiFi rack. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/supergimp/2216450761/in/pool-toolmonger/) I have two sheets of sapele ply in the garage waiting to be cut and banded with maple. The uprights are 5/8" allthread with standard 5/8" nuts and washers, capped with acorn nuts. I only have a rendering right now. BTW, the speaker finish is stolen directly from Norm, with a few component alterations given what I had on hand and Rockler had on their shelf. And the allthread based HiFi rack idea I stole from tnt-audio.com. Hey, thanks for posting my pics. Yea, the room looks a little embarrassing, but you should see it now! I built the speakers between Christmas and New Years - a time I took off to lay new maple hardwood floors over the patchwork floor the previous owners left for me under their carpet. Unfortunately the flooring was backordered and I dug out a speaker project I started (i.e. bought the components for) about three years prior. The HiFi system will sit opposite my home theater wall that I built about a couple of months or so ago. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/supergimp/2217227148/in/pool-toolmonger) Sit one way in the room - 7.1 sit the other - retro stereo. Oh, and with a NAD 3020 vintage amp, speakers that I built and a turntable that a client gave me in barter I’ll have a modest audiophile system with no component over $200.

Next project is the HiFi rack. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/supergimp/2216450761/in/pool-toolmonger/) I have two sheets of sapele ply in the garage waiting to be cut and banded with maple. The uprights are 5/8″ allthread with standard 5/8″ nuts and washers, capped with acorn nuts. I only have a rendering right now.

BTW, the speaker finish is stolen directly from Norm, with a few component alterations given what I had on hand and Rockler had on their shelf. And the allthread based HiFi rack idea I stole from tnt-audio.com.

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