sammi needham : cogitate

After many many years of using an old metal K&D shed shelving unit for a tv stand, the upgrade has finally happened. It feels like the end of something, the last piece of furniture in the loungeroom was still used at ahousenearyou. I even packed it up and bought it over to Melbourne when i moved. It will now be relegated to either the bin, or some sort of under-cover shelving in a cupboard somewhere in the study.

There’s a few holes at the moment, but the cabling is much more simplified now and almost completely invisible. There was a massively ugly pile of AV cables and powerboards before. And i don’t exactly mind cables, but even for me it was ugly as hell. Assuming that is, that hell is in fact ugly.

However the new thing is awesome. It’s a Stax from Freedom. It’s actually two pieces that con be configured in multiple ways, but it turns out that the gap between the two units is the absolute perfect size for the sub woofer to slot into. The sub has gone from looking like a heavy eye-sore sitting in a place that it didn’t seem to belong, into an almost invisible block in the new entertainment unit. The centre speaker fits snugly under the telly and there’s some good holes for a new media centre PC.