Shortly after launching HIFI / MPLS, two sisters living in California reached out to me with a request - they wanted to design and build their dad a turntable for his 70th birthday, which he was celebrating in early July. After getting a chance to speak with the two about their father, I discovered he had a love for the zest of life - he lived in Sun Valley Idaho, was a huge fan of the outdoors and had a passion for being physically active in skiing, scuba diving, hiking and other outdoor activities. He also had a love for exotic woods, which they requested I incorporate as well.

Throughout the conversation and my subsequent sketching thereafter, I kept coming back to the power of both Sun Valley and his love for outdoor activities. I felt these two things compelled a turntable form that was dynamic in nature - one that would break out of the boxy form of a typical plinth to become something that was imbued with an aesthetic of motion.