{"id":590,"date":"2016-01-03T21:50:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T21:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/words.deviating.net\/?p=590"},"modified":"2016-01-03T21:51:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T21:51:05","slug":"stereo-cabinet-hacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/words.deviating.net\/?p=590","title":{"rendered":"Stereo Cabinet Hacking"},"content":{"rendered":"

This one is for my pal Edison, who sold me a terrific new receiver when I moved (at the old house I owned the speakers but my buddy owned the actual head end) and much to my dismay I learned that the antique furniture piece I had planned to use as the enclosure was just a hair too narrow…<\/p>\n

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Now that might look totally unfeasible, but as it turns out — upon closer inspection — we’re really talking about less than a quarter inch of difficulty. \u00a0Lining up one edge exactly and then inspecting the other confirms this…<\/p>\n

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Edison informed me that it was only out of sheer dumb luck that my old roommate’s receiver had fit in here. \u00a0Almost all modern units conform to a uniform size standard and I was going to be pretty screwed, no matter what model I selected. \u00a0I debated removing the face plate and trimming it down a bit, then hit on a better solution… it was time for me to break out the belt sander!<\/p>\n

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It might look ugly in the moment there, but actually once the job was done, very little of that additional craftsmanship\u00a0is visible once the receiver is in place…<\/p>\n

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I have to say, overall I’m pretty pleased with how this all turned out. \u00a0One day I’ll probably get around to rubbing a bit of wood stain inside where I sanded down the inner side panel, but for now I’m just super happy that the old, wooden end table (which I found moldering in the corner of a used furniture shop back in Philly and then brought back from the dead) gets to still be with me in my living room.<\/p>\n

Thanks for the great unit, Edison. \u00a0Got it all hooked up and I’ll be dialing in the speakers with the setup microphone this weekend, once I get a cable for the sub.<\/p>\n

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This one is for my pal Edison, who sold me a terrific new receiver when I moved (at the old house I owned the speakers but my buddy owned the actual head end) and much to my dismay I learned that the antique furniture piece I had planned to use as the enclosure was just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/words.deviating.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/words.deviating.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/words.deviating.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/words.deviating.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/words.deviating.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/words.deviating.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"https:\/\/words.deviating.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/words.deviating.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/words.deviating.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/words.deviating.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}