Teachers Pet!!!It's my understanding that the only way to get a Pass Labs forum member card is to be jested by Zen Mod a bare minimum of two to three dozen timesI'll get there someday. We all gotta start somewhere.
Noooo!
There must be a better way.
A Pass amp does not deserve a cobbled appearance.
Will trade 9' of old Seattle rail lb/lb for some nice extruded aluminum. 2:1? 3:1? The unavoidable foray into diy anodizing would be a nice bonus
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It's my understanding that the only way to get a Pass Labs forum member card is to be jested by Zen Mod a bare minimum of two to three dozen times
(1) Buy a Rawson Amp
(2) Instant badge when DIYAudio'rs find about it.
IMHO, the only way you could get away with it is if some parts of such furniture are replaceable or if there are some gaps in it that allow airflow.
I brought up the 77 inch OLED in the den as my deal with my wife.... She owns the den and I sort of own the living room. We have quite a few very nice items of furniture and I would never think of drilling a hole in them... except for the two vintage units that either (a) have removable bottom floors or (b) have an open back -stereo console. I did clean up the wires in the den... sort of.
Can you make a deal with your wife?
I also described how I got away with stuffing audio in a credenza/console, see above, but the furniture was easy to modify without making permanent alterations -well, I did gut the old audio stuff in the stereo console.
Can you get a different piece of furniture to hold your equipment?
But, I don't know how you can reconcile nice furniture with a class A amp hidden inside. Can you disassemble the amp or install water cooling so the heat sinks can be moved outside?
It's an extremely difficult compromise you got in your hands.
How about nice diamonds?
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I made this specifically to match our living room furniture so I could keep my headphone system next to my chair even matched heights. The reaction I got in a stern voice was "that is not going to work" I replied that she would just need to get used to it because that is where it was going. It still it sits where I put it and she is accustomed to it now. So maybe as Zen was right, You gotta fight for your right to party
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I'm going to try a vertical mount of the AS-3218 also. I designed a 3D 'mount' that simply cradles the transformer and printed it out of TPU (thermal polyurethane) so it's squishy and compliant. I found this inexpensive steel pipe strap that has a rubber guard that should hold the transformer tightly in the cradle mount. Design might need a few tweaks, but thought I'd share a pic as the 6 hour print just wrapped up. I'm think I'm gonna go with lip down on the plate, and drill larger holes (with wire guards) for the mains lines to run under it from back to front.
