Thanks to my renewed interest in vinyl I have been buying quite a bit in the past couple of years and the result was running out of shelf space and vinyl lying around on the floor - not ideal!
So I started examining some specialist and often expensive vinyl racks as I was especially keen to have a section for frequently played stuff on top displayed like a shop for browsing…
Anyway, after a bit of IKEA hacking I think I have developed the perfect solution!!!
All our old IKEA racks and bookcases were in birch and beech, neither of which IKEA make anymore, so I have chosen whitened oak which seems to blend in quite well. I may consider a wood stain if I decide it’s not close enough.
Maybe not today but I’m pretty sure that a majority of Swedish men 60+ have or have had such trays for vinyl, it was an obvious way to store vinyl during the vinyl era.
Hi Max, it’s a Kallax 4 section unit and a Kallax 2 section unit which has had half it’s depth cut by a local joinery saw. It’s tricky to fix the 2 section unit to the top of the 4 section unit as much of the Kallax isn’t chipboard but is filled with cardboard. I was going to use flat brackets on the side and back but tried wood glue and clamped it overnight and it seems ok.
Hope that helps. Total cost about £75 and I think that it’s pretty nice for that and way cheaper than any alternative option.
I am waiting the review on Soundstage ! I hope you will say if you find it better or different vs the SME 60 you reviewed too, if i remember well. @Richard.Dane heard the Acutus one day, and found it uninvolving. But it was many years ago.
Thanks French Rooster, well I can’t say I am finding it uninvolving but it is different to the SME, albeit it has many of the same qualities - huge bandwidth, inky black backgrounds and heavy engineering etc.
I don’t have a publication date yet but expect to submit it this month so Jan/Feb I would guess.