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

I've made two sets of speakers... I use walmut wood and B&W speaker drivers... they sound great. I would like to say though that you only save a couple of hundred dollars from buying B&W used... of course, you have new drivers.

We bought a house on the lake that needed a lot of attention. With that in mind I rebuilt the entire house. Almost 6 inches of closed cell spray foam in the floors. Closed cell foam in the exterior walls. Open cell foam in the attic and layer acoustic batting on all trusses from one end of the house to the other. All interior walls are insulated. Used cork floors throughout the house. Used all double pain low e impact windows. Also cut the entire top off of the fire place stereo rack and rebuilt the top to fit the equipment. I did all of the things to this house that I always wanted to do to every house that I lived in. This one gave me the opportunity as it needed rehab. Acoustic bliss!

I usually don’t mess with stuff but I couldn’t justify spending $$$ on a rack so I modified my Pottery Barn end table into a HiFi rack using thick slabs of reclaimed wood to fabricate a shelf for my Dac/Streamer and a plinth for the amp to sit upon. Anti-vibration material (Herbies Audio Lab) is fitted under the shelf, amp slab and the table/rack feet. I think it turned out rather well!

I design Build a  lot of things including

My House

Turntable Stand

Sound Panels

Roller Block Footers

PAST PROJECTS

Home entertainment center

TT Sand Box

Loaded Horn Speakers for PA

I made a vodka and tonic to use while listening.