Hak Foo
Active Member
When I got my first oversized reciever, I decided to retire my old stereo cabinet. It shook if you looked at it wrong and consumed a mile of vertical space despite not holding much gear. I plunked everything on a tempered glass table and have been spending months looking for one of those classic glass-front cabinets, like existed by the millions back in the day, to hold my gear. I turned down a modern take on it, since I was holding out for glass and wheels, and didn't want to spend $130 to hold $70 worth of mostly thrift-store gear.
I knew from day 1 that my receivers wouldn't fit; they're 50cm wide and the standard is closer to 17.5 inches. But I figured that most everyone else in the industry had agreed on that standard enough to make it work. I could always switch to my HK or NAD if I had to use components of a matching width.
I finally found what looked like my grail at a local thrift shop-- a 'Made in Japan' Fisher cabinet with glass top and front. 15 bucks. So I took it home, cleaned it up, and escorted it to my second-floor room. Of course, nothing's ever that easy.
Okay, first I'll put in my turntable since I have the glass top off anyway. Ooh... won't fit. Maybe it's just unusually wide, although really it isn't. Then I double check with my tape deck. Nope. Turns out the brains trust at Sanyo Fisher decided to make a cabinet with 16-inch-wide openings. None of my gear fits. It probably only ever fit that specific system it was sold with. While I had seen some crap-tier offerings that were permanently built into the rack (Yorx and similar stuff), I figured anything where you could remove the components was probably built with an assumption that you would replace them with others, potentially from other brands.
Just wanted to blow off; I'm sure I'm not the only one who had this problem.
I knew from day 1 that my receivers wouldn't fit; they're 50cm wide and the standard is closer to 17.5 inches. But I figured that most everyone else in the industry had agreed on that standard enough to make it work. I could always switch to my HK or NAD if I had to use components of a matching width.
I finally found what looked like my grail at a local thrift shop-- a 'Made in Japan' Fisher cabinet with glass top and front. 15 bucks. So I took it home, cleaned it up, and escorted it to my second-floor room. Of course, nothing's ever that easy.
Okay, first I'll put in my turntable since I have the glass top off anyway. Ooh... won't fit. Maybe it's just unusually wide, although really it isn't. Then I double check with my tape deck. Nope. Turns out the brains trust at Sanyo Fisher decided to make a cabinet with 16-inch-wide openings. None of my gear fits. It probably only ever fit that specific system it was sold with. While I had seen some crap-tier offerings that were permanently built into the rack (Yorx and similar stuff), I figured anything where you could remove the components was probably built with an assumption that you would replace them with others, potentially from other brands.
Just wanted to blow off; I'm sure I'm not the only one who had this problem.