Most of my electronics are in a pine cabinet my father built around the time I was born - 1954 - for our family's first TV. It used to have a front panel with little cut-outs for the TV's controls. I've removed that, but otherwise the cabinet has been in more-or-less continuous use for nearly the whole history of home audio-video systems.
One of my sons crashed his trike into one of the cabinet doors about 25 years ago. We repaired it. Between the floor-standing speakers there's now a gorgeous coffee table he (my son) later built from African mahogany. Payback.
The listening room is in a log structure that dates back at least to the Civil War (based on a newspaper fragment found in the chinking). The walls are about a foot thick. The floor slopes down slightly; the walls aren't perfectly straight and parallel. This probably is a good thing for acoustics. REW shows a nearly flat FR from about 15 Hz to 15+ KHz, without any room treatments other than furniture and carpet.
One of my sons crashed his trike into one of the cabinet doors about 25 years ago. We repaired it. Between the floor-standing speakers there's now a gorgeous coffee table he (my son) later built from African mahogany. Payback.
The listening room is in a log structure that dates back at least to the Civil War (based on a newspaper fragment found in the chinking). The walls are about a foot thick. The floor slopes down slightly; the walls aren't perfectly straight and parallel. This probably is a good thing for acoustics. REW shows a nearly flat FR from about 15 Hz to 15+ KHz, without any room treatments other than furniture and carpet.