I have had Peter Swain with me for the last few hours to set up my brand new LP12/ARO/Troika, NAIT50, and Falcon LS3/5A living room system. The plinth and the speaker cabinets are lovely soft cherry wood.
I’m playing the ‘Anniversary Edition’ LP of ‘Abbey Road’.
I can’t believe the prodigious bass output of these tiny bookshelf loudspeakers - it all sounds quite amazing!
It’s a strongly built (steel and oak) table, built for me - expressly for my ‘other’ LP12 - by a very clever man in London.
You can see from the grain in the wood that he has inverted each of the four pieces of wood, so that any warping or twisting of the pieces will - effectively - cancel each other out.
I listen to ‘Revolution 9’ about once every ten years to remind myself what a dreadful waste of almost a full LP side it is.
If Apple offered a three sided 2LP set with an etching on the fourth side (viz recent three-sided 2LP sets from Bruce Springsteen and others), I’d happily go for that.