Amir, you can make it attractive to suit your decorative taste.
- Put something nice to block the view of the inner tube.
- Buy nice looking wood slabs, make your own, pain them, piano lustre, etc.
- Nice looking egg holders, but it not need to be...shop around for well designed small cups with high level of attractiveness.
- Marbles, steel ones, silver ones, tiger eyes, ...they come in all flavors and beauty.
You don't have to stick with ugliness for only five bucks; follow the same directives but with an accent on very sweet decor friendly looks incorporated with the rest of your rig, even if it costs twenty bucks. Be inventive, imaginative, creative...reach to the bargain stores for your material.
Say you spend $100 for your own home-made isolation platform that you put under your $10,000 turntable and that you improve your sound quality radically.
And another one for your CD transport.
Here's one thing we never talk about: We look @ a state-of-the-art analog rig with gorgeous loudspeakers and amps, etc.
But we don't talk about not looking and just listening to the music; because the high level of attraction in high end audio is the good looks of the room with the gear.
The nicest looking home theater rooms are the ones with invisibility of all the audio/video gear and speakers. Only the room remains highly inviting and pleasing.
An ultra high-end stereo only setup we see everything, even the boa constrictors (speaker wires):
But it's the music flow that truly captivates the human spirit and emotions, and not the impressive looking gear.
Some high end rooms they have all the gear on a side wall, only the speakers with green plants and a nice painting are on stage...up front.
The two mono amps can be on the floor, that's fine.
* The first pic above is a power cable, the second a power cord. ...Roughly 27 pounds a foot.
Anyway, it's good to have your turntable and CD transport away from your speakers...they don't have to be in the middle between them;
we can break free from conventional audio habits and advance in music to our ears where it counts more than our eyes.
I say all this only to emphasize quality sound over quality looks. Get the sound first, inner tube, then make it attractive second.
