My wife has been begging me for a record player for as long as I have known her. I wanted to do something a bit fancier so I decided to make this for her as a surprise.

This was a great opportunity to have a place to put all of our music makin' machines. I wanted someplace to put a record player, records, a nice radio, maybe an 8-track player and something bluetooth-y like a simple receiver. I definitely wanted it to work with an Amazon Echo. The most important thing, however, was to make it easy to use. Too many times you walk up to somebodys stereo and it's next to impossible to play anything without intimate knowledge of how it is setup.

The wife tends to hate gifts that she can't understand, which is totally respectable.