I know I’m a lucky boy haha
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Is the tree on the left or on the right sight? Both glowing…
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Shelf, however, reshuffled……
First time posting for me in this thread. I’m showing off my new stereo cabinets.
I commissioned my two sons to make these cabinets, since I have never seen a cabinet design (or anything in a shop) that fitted with the decor of the house - or my wife’s and my taste. Both sons have design degrees: one works primarily in metal, the other in wood.
The cabinets are constructed of ply pre-veneered with crown-cut American oak. The facings are Japanese (red) oak, cut from an old bedhead. Almost all joins are mitred and glued; the only metal fastenings used are in the bases.
The spacers between the cabinets started life as stainless steel tube. The facets on them are CNC-milled. Similarly, the discs on the top cabinet in each stack are slices of stainless steel rod with a criss-cross pattern milled into them.
The cabinets can be stacked however one chooses.
As you may have observed if you’ve read this far, my Naim gear is old. Besides loving how it sounds, I really like the look of chrome bumper and olive gear. The amplifier with the brushed aluminum faceplate is a Roberts STA-100s, circa 1980. It sounds pretty good too.
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Cool custom cabinet 
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Great to see a Roberts amp. IIRC these were one of the few non-Naim integrated amps of the day able to drive Linn Saras. Somewhere I have a a Roberts STA-50 awaiting repair to the speaker connectors.
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Wow. It hadn’t occurred to me that the Roberts brand would be known of outside New Zealand.
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They are certainly a rare thing to find here in the UK.
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Looks very well put together and is very pleasing on the eye too👏🏻
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Excellent. Like those.
Radio your only source?
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Remember those early Naim’s coming out of NZ Richard under license
I think from memory lots of issues with them
Harry use to tell me about them
Yes, built by Avalon from kits of parts from the UK (based on NAC22 and NAP120), and using locally sourced casework pieces (U shaped alloy clamshells) - the NAC225 and NAP125. From what I gather they deviated from what JV required, and didn’t perform as they ought to have done, so the deal was brought to an end, and on his trips to NZ he and Chris Murphy would spend time trying to put them right.
An image of them from the 'net;
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@LR. I have a number of amplifiers in rotation, all which have survived over some years and which I have grown to be fond off for different reasons. Others have quickly been sold off. The N50 will stay.
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Delightful, looks very nice, well done!
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The casework is uncannily like that found on the DNM 2A series of pre-amps from Denis Morecroft. Or is it the other way around?
Radio is my primary source. I have Radio New Zealand Concert on for many hours a day. The FM transmitter is only a kilometre or two away and I get excellent reception with the most basic of aerials.
I also have a couple of streamer/DACs. These aren’t in the photos. I’d moved just enough gear into the cabinets to take a few photos.
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