There are some trends in hifi that we can see reflected here on the forum, such as reducing box count. With this perhaps comes a shift away from the dedicated hifi rack to using more traditional furniture.
Please show us what traditional furniture you are using to house your hifi if you are not using a dedicated hifi rack. Let’s see those sideboards, credenzas, storage units, coffee tables etc . . .
Custom built for Mrs Q’s system by my cabinet maker…
Hi @ChrisG
That might be winning hands down so far. Wow!!
Thanks, obviously the “low mass but rigid” turntable support hadn’t caught on at this point!
This is mine, it’s an Ercol prototype for a two tier pebble table that never made it to production. Having three legs makes it very rigid.
Big fan of the look of “proper furniture” over hifi racks. Although I wouldn’t say that a Fraim is not in my future at some point…
Main system on a Swoon sideboard.
Second system on a reclaimed set of 1940s bank drawers.The first costs maybe more than all your boxes?
Here’s a quick snap of our new sideboard / cabinet, which was bought into our house - this room - mostly to accommodate Naim audio pieces…
For this room, this purpose, we went on a journey and looked at lots of ideas. Our instinct was to find a nice piece of “mid century” furniture and adapt it to our needs. We also looked at what others had done before, @1GiantLeap @Adikt @crispyduck @JohnnyReggie @Klout10 @Sandy8 , and others. Also, considered USM Modular, CLIC, IKEA Besta, lots of “ready made” products that might suit.
The way we use ours…
A little background information…
This custom furniture was supplied from “Pickawood”, ( as an alternative, also Tylko do same), who can supply any shape or size and colour, based on their various template solutions as a start point.
Our own start point - for design inspiration - was this “scandi inspired piece”, which wasn’t 100% perfect for our needs, so we recreated something similar with Pickawood.
Here is the final design - exact details confirmed prior to production - which was supplied and delivered as “flat pack” and assembled at home. Very nicely made and thoroughly recommend this firm.
Hope this helps anyone considering a more contemporary piece, for accommodating AV items, including maybe a TV on the top surface too.
BW
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For a long time I’ve made my system fit into the living environment. The last time I had a Target rack was in student digs in Oxford with Exposure pre/power.
IKEA Expedit with first Guru Jrs on loan from James at TomTom as there was a delay in my ordered walnut pair arriving.
Spendor Classic 4/5 were good but different to the Gurus that I had sold to finance the Spendors.
Onyx, Nytech, Enleum and a few others came and went. The Nait 2 went as well but another was bought a few years later (silly boy).
Current and final(?) set up (NN50 hidden away).
The sideboard is also Swoon.
@badlyread Beautifully done.
Muc Off chamois crème for the win
