Despite FedExs best effort to prevent it's arrival, and destroy it, I just got my AS5 stand today.
They tried to deliver it around noon today but I wasn't home, so once I got home and got the door hanger I called to make sure it was available at their shipping center to pickup. They confirmed it was available and they were open until 7:15pm. Out the door I go, I get there and the guy tells me, sorry it is at the other FedEx office 15 minutes away, but they are for another 45 minutes (7:00pm) I get directions and head on my way, crawling through evening freeway traffic. I get there and tell them what the guy at the first place told me, and they immediately said, nope, it's not here, it's at the main FedEx office at the airport 5 minutes away, and they are open until 7:30pm. Again, I get directions and head out. I get there and see they have already pulled the box and have it on the counter. As the gal is scanning the package and getting ready for my signature I comment on how the box has seen WAY better days. She said "Yep, that happens all the time. That is what you get when they put something heavy in a weak box." I asked her to put a note in that the box was damaged, as I feared the stuff inside didn't make it intact. Who knows if she did or not. As I carried it to the car, I could hear and feel parts moving around in the box and I was sure it was going to be a mess.
I got home and started opening it up, I took pictures of the box before opening it so I could show them what it looked like if there was a problem, about half of the staples were already ripped out of the box, but once I got the lid off I could see that as with the speakers Axiom packed it very well. I went through everything and it all appeared to be just fine.
I started assembling it, and I could say they could give you a little more instructions that just a basic diagram. The biggest problem I had getting it together was there was WAY too much paint in the threads. I had to take it back apart and clean the threads to get it to screw together and tighten up.
Now my biggest issue is that my receiver is about 7.75" tall but there is only 7.5" between the shelves, and I wanted to put a phonograph on the top. (Axiom: any chance of selling some longer tubes to space a shelf out more? I can get all-thread easily, but I don't know where to get the aluminum tubes from.)
Failing that, can anyone recomend a slide-out-tray to put a turntable on? Failing even that, can anyone recommend a 1/2 way decent turntable that can be operated in 7.5 inches of space? (Mine is an older 'linear' techics, so the lid is an integral part.)
Michael
