the-BA : Stereo stacking

A trip up your average high street will show you a veritable wonderland of different sound, vision and hi-fi systems. A complete entertainment system could consist of loads of bits. For example, a TV, DVD, VHS, Digital TV receiver, music centre (record deck, cassette player, CD player, amplifier, tuner and speakers) and a games console! Trying to stack the whole lot so it can be easily connected is a tricky business. And as for trying to hide the massive tangle of wires …

Have you ever wondered if you could design and build a dedicated home entertainment centre?

You might like to …

• find out about the different products currently available on the market
• identify the best features from a range of the different commercial products and design and build your own centre
• design and build a storage unit for your entertainment centre; think about the various things people want: easily moveable so they can change components when they want to upgrade, strong so it doesn’t collapse, compact so it takes up minimal room, etc.
• design a method to keep all the wires and connectors neat and tidy
• think also about speaker positioning; work out the best place to put them; work out which surfaces echo most and how you could minimise echoes (why might you want to do this?).

Further links:
http://www.apollohifi.co.uk/

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