We’re having a new home built. Both my wife and the builder want the hi fi boxes inside of a ‘closet’ that he’s happy to custom build. In our current room, 2 racks, 4-levels each (Naim Fraim) are off to the side next to one of the speakers. Personally, I would be happy to recover the floor space lost to 2 racks. Turntable (Rega P10) sits on top of one of the racks, and it's happy there.
As in our current home, there will be a fireplace on an outer wall and the natural place for the speakers will be on either side. But if I don’t have to take up so much space IN the room with 2 racks next to one of the speakers…fine with me! And this closet would be relatively close to the speakers; it'll cost me a few thousand in new longer speaker cables.
Any of you with this type of arrangement? Any photos? Any pro's or con's? If the builder can find the space, which I think he can, he can build whatever we want. Can have nice doors (that won’t jar and thus skip an LP), nice lighting, and we can run conduit for speaker cables. And run ethernet in.
I'm Googling for stuff like this, but dont see much online, on Pinterest, etc.
My original plan was to trade in the 7 Naim boxes for a nice integrated/streamer/phono stage 3-box system, but if he can fit all this into a closet it'd be just fine. I do enjoy my current system.
As in our current home, there will be a fireplace on an outer wall and the natural place for the speakers will be on either side. But if I don’t have to take up so much space IN the room with 2 racks next to one of the speakers…fine with me! And this closet would be relatively close to the speakers; it'll cost me a few thousand in new longer speaker cables.
Any of you with this type of arrangement? Any photos? Any pro's or con's? If the builder can find the space, which I think he can, he can build whatever we want. Can have nice doors (that won’t jar and thus skip an LP), nice lighting, and we can run conduit for speaker cables. And run ethernet in.
I'm Googling for stuff like this, but dont see much online, on Pinterest, etc.
My original plan was to trade in the 7 Naim boxes for a nice integrated/streamer/phono stage 3-box system, but if he can fit all this into a closet it'd be just fine. I do enjoy my current system.