100 Reasons to go to IKEA

[trondareo]

Your wife loves to go to IKEA, right? Well here we can collect all the reasons for you to eagerly participate in her shopping interests. I´m not sure we can manage 100 reasons, but let´s have a go!

I´ll start the count to one hundred, by presenting my inspiration for a trip to IKEA today:


#1: Spherical salad bowl speakers posted Here The kitchen department just got a lot more interesting

[wa4htz]

My favorite so far:

EXPEDIT Shelving units. They are perfect for LP storage. The cubes are deeper than the records, something which I have found hard to find except in the expensive made-for-LP units.

Ken

[trondareo]

Reason #3 Spherical candle holder, called NÄSSJÖ. It fits perfectly as a base for a GU-32 dual tetrode power tube. It is thin walled aluminum so there is room for electronics inside. Diameter: 14 cm Height: 11 cm
Get your inspiration here: Electronluv

Reason #4 NÄSSJÖ in a smaller version suitable for a driver tube such as the 12AT7 in this case. Lets say you had an RCA connector in the bottom and a volume knob in the front.

Then mount the whole thing to a polished chassis containing transformers etc.

[Ouroboros]

Hey, they look like just the things for the top electrode in a DIY Van der Graaf generator!
(apart from the fact that I guess they have a flat base)

[trondareo]

Actually they have a cylindrical hole in the bottom as well for larger "candles", like maybe 6c33c´s.

[soundchaser001]

Originally Posted by wa4htz

My favorite so far:

EXPEDIT Shelving units. They are perfect for LP storage. The cubes are deeper than the records, something which I have found hard to find except in the expensive made-for-LP units.

Ken

+1 for the EXPEDIT. I have the 4 X 2 turned horizontally and braced at the back for stability. Love it.

I'll also add:

Reason #5: BILLY wall shelves for CD storage.

Matt

[Hompie Dompie]

#6: Pronomen kitchen worktop, used as a baffle for open baffle speakers. (see Are you (open) baffled yet?)

[johnr66]

Originally Posted by soundchaser001

+1 for the EXPEDIT. I have the 4 X 2 turned horizontally and braced at the back for stability. Love it.

I'll also add:

Reason #5: BILLY wall shelves for CD storage.

Matt

Just put together a Billy shelf for my brother over the weekend.

[trondareo]

Ah yes, I have seen some counter tops used over on the Hawthorne Silver Iris site as well!

Reason #7 I used stainless steel shelf brackets for new feet on my Magnepan SMGa´s
This was some years ago, and this model of bracket has since been replaced by other interesting candidates.

#8 And by the way I made speaker cable stoppers out of Grundtal clothes hangers that I mounted on top of the Maggies new feet. I just used two sizes of round file and filed into the cylinder on the hanger. It has a threaded plastic core, which the top screws into. After you have made a slot, use a slightly larger file to cut back the steel surround so it doesn't cut into the wire. The top is used to skrew down the cable.

[Franz Gysi]

Sekin from IKEA

IKEA | Servierschüsseln, -platten & Tabletts | Servierplatten & -schüsseln | SEKIN | Servierschüssel

Could be used as conical fronthorn (remove bottom) for 4 to 5" speakers.

Or, reversed, as open baffle for the nearfield.

Franz