Me too… Red and Green, my favorite colors!
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Perhaps we will need to setup a woodworking category on the forum 
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@Dan Did you make the vinyl storage? Did you do under mount or side mount sliders for the drawers? I am planning one now but I worry about the weight of the drawers with undermounts.
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Hi Matt,
I designed the record cabinet but hired out the build. Everything in it takes into account for the huge weight it will has to carry.
The carcase sides and back are 1 1/2” thick veneered plywood. The drawers use Blum undermount slides sufficient to hold 70 lbs, much more than they will have. The drawers are self-closing and work flawlessly, even when full extended they have no droop. The draws themselves are 3/"4” thick.
The front is solid walnut that had to be specially selected to match the veneer on the plywood.
It is all mounted on a wheels in a steel frame, with screw out stabilizer feet.
I’ve had people with decades of experience in professional woodworking marvel at the quality of the build.
It’s a beast, a good beast 
Dan
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@Dan that’s gorgeous. The craftsman did beautiful work. Aligning those fronts was no easy task. Bravo!
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Wow wow wow. That really is a stunning piece. Good build and design 
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Hello Dan,
Im doing some rearranging of my system soon and I was wondering if you tried running your Hurricane power cables direct to your amps before running them through the AQ conditioners? I have the latest power conditioner from Synergistic Research (PowerCell 8) and I’m about to add an AQ Hurricane HC for my Gryphon Amp. Currently, the amp is plugged directly to the wall which is a dedicated line. I tend to belive that a direct power connection is best for amps, but I’m open to trying other configurations.
Hi Mike,
I never made that comparison. I don’t connect my hifi electronics directly to the outlet because I live in Central Florida 
I am right next door to the lightning capital of the USA!
However, keep in mind that the outlets on the Niagara marked “High Power” do not go through an isolation transformer. They are directly, i.e. galvanically, connected to the outlet the Niagara is plugged into. You typically do not want an amplifier plugged into an isolation transformer, so this is a good thing.
The Niagara uses a different kind of circuit to clean up the High Power sockets than the other sockets (which are on an isolation transformer). However that circuitry is not as effective as the circuitry used on the other sockets (which are limited to 5 amps).
Also the High Power sockets can source 90 amps of current for a cycle or so… even though you plug the Niagara into a 15 or 20 amp circuit which could never source that much current.
BTW, the circuity that protects against voltage surges does not go in series with power, so it does not break the galvanic connection from the amp to the wall socket (through the Niagara).
Dan.