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In Reply to: Re: Call me assassin (or is it asinine)...... posted by Alan Pregozen on August 9, 2005 at 16:55:29:
Correction. Being a complete novice (and an idiot) when in comes to working with wood I incorrectly said that I used "some sort of a circular saw" to hack out a back portion of the cabinet. I double checked and I used a Black and Decker "jigsaw". A jigsaw, of course, takes a lot less skill and far less dangerous than a circular saw.
Robert C. Lang
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A skilled craftsman probably would have used a hole saw to cut out rounded corners of an otherwise rectangular openning and then used a jigsaw guided by a straight-edged jig to cut the sides of the rectangular openning but that level of care would be out of character for me. Hey! When did this morph into the woodworking asylum?
This is the antithesis of a woodworking asylum. But I have one more tidbit to share. Truth be told I, in fact, did start out with a saw hole to launch my assault on the cabinet.Here's what happen. It all came to a head when I received my new EMM Labs gear that I had been anxiously waiting for the previous 8 weeks or so. I installed the new gear, that because of the solid back of the cabinet, and because it was multi-channel which made things exponentially more complicated, took hours to complete. The only thing I had to do was to connect the power cords to the EMM Labs gear and listen to some glorious music.
That's when Murphy called. The EMM Labs came with two huge Kimber Power cords and I could not get them through the "cable slot" in the back of the cabinet. I almost hit the roof. I was so near yet so far. I had no way to plug in the power.
The following day a friend of mine came to my rescue with a saw hole drill attachment, much like I suspect a locksmith would use to drill a large hole for a lock or door handle. That enabled me to plug in the new gear.
A few days later I said, "screw it" I'm knocking out this cursed back wall. I bought the jigsaw and used the newly made screw holes from which to launch my assault on the cabinet back.
An oversize power cord connector led me to commence drilling operations too. More importantly, how do you like your EMM Labs gear? How does it compare to the Sony SCD-1 (or how does the Sony SCD-1 compare to it)? Currently, I am in repair purgatory with my Sony SCD XA777ES.
At some point I will get around to doing a "review" of the EMM Labs combo. I find doing such write ups extremely difficult particularly since I'm not comfortably fluent with audiophile descriptions which are themselves not very meaningful or helpful.I will say that the EMM Labs combo, for me, is worth every single nickel that I paid for it both for two-channel and for the main reason I chose it over competitors, multi-channel playback. I'm not about to diss the SCD-1 like many have. It has been a tremendously fine performer in my system. And if I did not want to try to get more close to a real musical experience with multi-channel the SCD-1 would still be my SACD player. I will say that I have found several very revealing and distinct music passages that, for me, show that the EMM Labs turns it up a notch in its ability to reveal detail in a way that is not possible with the SCD-1.
Robert C. Lang
Started with jigsaws to enlarge holes; in one case I just removed the whole back panel. Then I relegated the entertainment center to the master bedroom after I moved.I've since graduated to circular saws to build wooden stage/riser in my HT "toy room". I may try my hand at carpet installer/hacker-extraordinaire or do the sane thing and higher a professional.
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