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How to Choose a Media Console for High-End Audio Equipment
Most media furniture is designed around a television. If yours also has to hold an amplifier, a receiver and a turntable, a different set of measurements decides whether it works.
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Media Console Ventilation: How Much Airflow Does AV Equipment Need?
Enclosed electronics get warm. The useful question is not how hot, it is whether the warm air has a route out of the cabinet.
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Media Console Cable Management for High-End Audio and Home Theater
Good cable management is not about hiding wire. It is about being able to change one component in five minutes, two years from now.
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How Deep Should a Media Console Be for an AV Receiver or Amplifier?
The depth on a spec sheet is the depth of the box. The depth you need is the box plus everything you plug into the back of it.
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Solid Wood vs MDF Media Consoles: What Actually Matters
Solid wood is not automatically better and MDF is not automatically bad. They fail differently, and the failure modes are what should decide it.
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When Should You Order a Custom Media Console?
Custom is not about wanting something special. It is about a room or a rack that a standard rectangle does not fit.
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What Makes a Media Console Audiophile-Friendly?
A console becomes audiophile-friendly when it is designed around the components rather than around the screen that sits on top.
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How to Choose a Media Console for a Turntable and Audio Components
A turntable asks two things of furniture that nothing else in the rack does: it has to be level and steady, and you have to be able to reach it.
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American-Made Solid Wood Media Consoles: What to Look For
"Made in the USA" is a claim about where the work happened. These are the questions that check it.
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Choosing a Media Console for Large Power Amplifiers
A power amplifier is the heaviest, hottest and deepest thing in most systems. Site it first and build the rest of the layout around it.
Still not sure which one fits?
Send the make and model of your components and the space you have. Brian will tell you which console works, or what would have to change.