Boxes! Boxes! Boxes!!!

Posted by: Greg Beatty on 08 July 2003

Nope - I'm not writing about box upgrades, or boxes v. stand upgrades, or even setting your kit on top of boxes instead of proper stands.

Nope - something much more mundane than all that hi brow stuff.

Question to the Fora:

What do you do with all of the boxes that the boxes (and stands) arrive in?

Every box I have bought comes in a box and now my storage room is overflowing with boxes!!! LP12 box, Allae boxes, boxes for the ProAcs I've not sold yet...

When selling second-hand, having the original packaging seems a plus and facilitates shipping. So I'm loath to part with them.

Do you keep them all???

I've heard that the LP12 box with packaging costs $100 to replace - yikes!

And the boxes for the Allaes are rather large...

In fact, the truth is that the boxes for the boxes take up considerably more room than the boxes themselves (!).

I'm feeling rather boxed in at the moment.

What do YOU do???

- Greg "Boxed In" B

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Posted on: 10 July 2003 by domfjbrown

Is that the Cambridge with the "error counter" display on it? If so - cool...

Yep, attics sure are hot right now - had to go in the roof for a box last night and nearly died of heat stroke...

All my boxes are in the roof in Reading, or in the garage in Exeter. I don't bother wrapping them in bin bags though - although that's a pretty damn good idea...

When the music's over turn out the lights

Posted on: 10 July 2003 by John3

Isn't this forum great. 28 posts about empty cardboard boxes!

Posted on: 10 July 2003 by Greg Beatty

...we DID generate 28 PAGES about speakers, which are mostly empty boxes

- GregB

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Posted on: 11 July 2003 by Nigel Cavendish

Six Hundred Quid to replace boxes for Ten and a Half Thousand Quid (retail) Speakers seems like...

Someone should be ashamed.

cheers

Nigel

Posted on: 11 July 2003 by Greg Beatty

...have you SEEN the boxes and associated bits to protect the megabuck speakers as they travel all over the globe?

- GregB

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Posted on: 11 July 2003 by Nigel Cavendish

No, but they must be mahogany or something, lined with burr walnut?

cheers

Nigel

Posted on: 11 July 2003 by Rico

quote:
On the other hand she has stopped noticing all of the new black boxes elsewhere in the house.

Works pretty good for me. I'm keeping my boxes.

Arthur

that's absolutely brilliant. I will engage a soils engineer and architect, and commission a garage immediately - it will be the end of my upgrade woes. If only I'd thought of that one sooner!

"552 DBL's here I come!"

Rico - SM/Mullet Audio

Posted on: 11 July 2003 by undertone

When the boxes became too much for the house, I simply moved them to my warehouse ( I own the company). After a while, they started to take up too much space there, so I did what any forward thinking audiophile would do, I found and rented a larger warehouse and moved my company!

Posted on: 14 July 2003 by Greg Beatty

I don't have DBLs, but second Dozy's idea.

The projection tele forum I visit does the same sort of thing. You need special cables to hook the tele to your tele so you can modify how the tele works. The cables are a bugger to make so there are several sets and people add their name to a thread if they want a cable forwarded to them. Each person pays the post to send to the next person.

- GregB

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Posted on: 14 July 2003 by Eric Barry

I know of someone at Thiel whose full-time employment is the design of packaging. And with cheap speakers I understand the most expensive bit (perhaps second after the cabinets) is the box!

--Eric

Posted on: 15 July 2003 by Greg Beatty

Opps!!!

That should have been, "hook the computer to the tele..."

- GregB

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