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A great Turntable stand with Record Storage.

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A great Turntable stand with Record Storage. The Victrola Cabinet

There is another thread else where about a rather overpriced and seemingly flimsy turntable stand "Kick Starter" project. There is a better choice.

There is already a beautiful, heavy piece of furniture to store records which has a place for your turntable. They are surprisingly cheap and there are bunches of then available, The Victrola cabinet; they come in all kinds of styles, have heavy sold wood construction, in a variety of woods, Red Oak being very popular because at that time, 100 are so years ago, that was the cheapest to purchase. These where made into the 1920's. As you see below they come with hinged covers for the TT, or flat tops to place your Victrola on. I had one years ago, Oak and solid as a tree stump. The Hinged top cabinets are mostly available minus the the Victrola player so you are not going to be desecrating an antique to mount your modern TT The only issue you will have is getting one who's record storage area can accommodate modern LP records, The 78rpm disc's of the time where smaller in diameter. The one I had, which was much like the lower photograph, could.

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What is sweet about these cabinets, if you have children, or grand children, is they have locks which keep sticky hands at bay. :D
 
The main problem would be to find one in condition shown on these pictures. Othewise cost of refinishing by custom furniture shop may exceed price of most NEW TT (or generally audio gear) stands. This old style won't work well with contemporary interrior design either.
 
Making a Victrola into a record cabinet and turntable stand means you have to ruin a Victrola though. I'm way too much of a preservationist to be able to do that. Re-purposing a rancid fruit juice cabinet though, I can get into that.
 
How about one of these Lane furniture record cabinets? Got this one at the SA about a month ago. My friend picked one up this past weekend on CL, so they are around. The thing is rock solid and totally stable with the front pulled down. Only downside is that you can't really open it with a record playing, it skips when you do.

 
I grew up with a Victrola as moms stereo cab. Record changer up top and Rat Shack SA 101 for power. Large 12" tube type coax speakers. All her records stored in the bottom. 1.5 watts of blistering power!

That's both channels.:D
 
Ken Boyd said:
I always thought of the second one as tiger oak.
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It's stained rift cut oak...the door is anyway. I can't tell from the picture if it's white or red, or fumed or not. I just finished doing a job that involved flat cut fumed White Oak flooring and it looked nothing like that.

Back in my teens I made a component/TT stand that also held records. It was almost ideal in that the records stored below the equipment provided ballast for stability but also damped resonances within the wood panels of the stand. It sounded pretty good to these tender ears but I hadn't yet really begun my audiophile journey.:)
 
These are great. Strong sturdy and come with brackets to attach to the walls comes in 5 colors $59 Canadian. Fits record perfectly. Available in different number of squares also. Holds aprox 400 records. Comes from IKEA.


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