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Do you build anything for your high fidelity system? If so, what do you make?

After some self assessment and introspection on my own high fidelity habits I discovered that I build or make things for my stereo/audio room. Some examples of these things are;

1 Tore out carpeting/padding/floor tiles in the addition to my house (audio room) and painted the cement floor with epoxy paint and clear coat. Placed out a Turkish area rug.

2 Made cherry wood speaker stands on wheels.

3 Had made custom speaker covers and stereo stand covers for when I am not listening to audio to keep away dust. Thanks to my seamstress....

4 Custom made Paduak wood cover (with legs) with two low speed exhaust fans for my tube amp

So curiosity got the best of me. Have you made anything for you stereo system or room? If so what did you make and why?

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petg60
1,486 posts
 

Power cables, wall outlets, cable lifters, dc filter, modified my preamp and recapped my tuner.

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danager
880 posts
 

I built speaker wire elevators using anti-vibration blocks and rubber bands & antivibration shelf by pulling out the shelf adjustment pins and sandwiching bubble wrap in-between them. 

jpmanomet
36 posts
 

I built the 14x20 listening room in 07. Built GG tube preamp, restored Dynaco ST-70,  built Crites Type B "Cornscala's", made speaker cables and interconnects with Mogami cable and made wood framed absorption panels with 2×24×48" fiberglass covered with fabric. I enjoy the rewards of DIY. 

ronboco
744 posts
 

I built my room while the speakers were being built. It was designed by Jeff at HDacoustics. 3 months of nights and weekends. Worth it! Happy listening. 

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normanthagard
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The current moving-coil phono preamp, 50-watt center channel amplifier, and 120-wpc left rear/right rear stereo amplifier (Published in Audio Xpress magazine) are all of my design and construction.  In the past, the front left/right 100-watt pure class A monoblocks were also of my design and construction (See Audio Magazine's January, February, and March 1995 issues for construction details).

Prior to purchasing McIntosh MC611 600-watt monoblocks 1-1/2 years ago, the front channel amps were ten Harmon Kardon Citation II tube amps configured by me to deliver 500 wpc, the details for which AudioXpress magazine published.

The listening room was configured in live end/dead end configuration and front 'speakers configured according to a formula I ran across, but acoustics is not my forte.  'Speakers are B&W 802D's, which are excellent in my opinion.

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