OT: DIY Hi Fi cases

[Chris]

Hi there,

I am currently putting together a home cinema pc. All the HTPC cases out there leave something to be desired (yes, I'm a fussy b****r), bar one, the Elonex Artisan:

Eye watering price tag aside it is only available as a complete pc, but it got me wondering - if I could get a hifi amplifier or cd player case on its own I could modify it to suit.

So the questions is, does anyone know where I might be able to get such a beast from? I know Maplin did one but that was years ago.

Cheers,

Chris

[John Rumm]

Richer Sounds...

(it may come with a low end amp or cd player as a free gift pre installed in the case - just take this out before adding your PC ;-)

[Mike]

Where are you ? The MicroDirect shops in Manchester often have some unusual specialist cases which are obviously made to test the market and so never get onto their adverts. Currently they are going through a Apple inspired coloured plastic phase again but they also have some quite nice ali units.

You might have somewhere similar near you.

[Colin Wilson]

Wow, their site is so borked it defies belief.

[Mike]

Well obviously testing it on Netscape 7.2 wasn't high up on their list of specifications !! Sort of gets there - usually.

[Chris]

Yeah, if it had been down to their website I would have given up. Someone originally told me about it in PC Pro magazine:

Chris

[Lurch]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:28:18 -0000, Colin Wilson strung together this:

Oh good, not just me then!

[Colin Wilson]

I told them so - have you ?

[Lurch]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:27:41 -0000, Colin Wilson strung together this:

Yes.

[Chris]

It has been pointed out to them via 'AV Forums' The response was 'we have a new updated web site about to go live any day'

Cheers,

Chris

[Lurch]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 22:31:55 +0000, Chris strung together this:

Fair enough, just as well I was polite then!

[Alan]

In message , Mike wrote

It doesn't work with the latest version of Opera or older versions of IE :)

[The Natural Philosopher]

From any council tip, and any secind hand shop. The world is littered with dysfunctional electronic scrap.

I picked up a ghetto blaster once to get some capacitors to repair someones metal detector. Far cheaper than buying a selection of values from Maplins etc.

I rob it now and again for the odd spare part.

[Mike]

Unfortunately that sums up the website testing of most companies nowadays. "But it works on my PC !"