Voyager HiFi Credenza
A vintage hi-fi experience built for discovery.
Since August 1977 a single gold record has been flying aboard the Voyager probe. It’s out past our solar system now.
Musical discovery works the same way. You have to travel outside your own spheres of influence to hear what’s out there, and what few have found yet.
In the eighties my dad made a rare splurge on a Fisher home stereo. Record player, cassette deck, hundred-watt receiver, thirteen-inch woofers. Glass door, flip-up lid. I found his teenage record collection on that thing — Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, Motown. It blew my mind. Up to then I knew Bon Jovi and Michael Jackson. I also figured out how to run a Sega Genesis through it and play Sonic 2 at full volume.
Years later he let me move it into my bedroom, where I was recording on a four-track. It became the heart of the room.
The Voyager is that cabinet taken up to level 11. Turntable on top, components behind glass, records where you can reach them.
I have a lot of respect for the care that goes into hi-fi. But I want the entertaining part back, without the surgical Mona-Lisa-behind-glass thing. Let’s bring back the fun.
Features
- Solid hardwood construction
- Mortise and tenon joinery
- Engineered for seasonal wood movement
- Heavy-duty oil and hardwax finish
- Steel frame base in rustic black
Specs
- 50w × 21d × 36h top
- Record player top
- 2 adjustable shelves for receiver, CD, cassette
- 1 fixed shelf at the bottom
- Rear cable management
Standard pricing in sun-tanned poplar. Also available in oak, walnut, reclaimed, and apocalyptic black with walnut.
- Timeline & Payment
- Shipping
- Wood Care
Custom Premium Timelines are 2-3 months from payment.
You can pay in full at checkout if the build you want is here. You will be contacted as things progress.
If you want to reserve with partial payment, get in touch and we'll set it up as 60% down — which secures your place in the seasonal building schedule — and 40% plus shipping on completion, once you've approved the finished photos.
Shipping
Freight is quoted by the width of the piece.
- 30–39w" — $450 fully insured crated freight, inside delivery to garage · $750 full service white glove
- 40–60w" — $750 fully insured crated freight, inside delivery to garage · $1,150 full service white glove
- 61–94w" — $950 standard insured freight, liftgate and placed inside garage · $1,450 full service white glove
- 95" and over — quoted per piece
Standard freight includes full value insurance and a custom-made crate with an easy-open side hatch.
Full service white glove adds inside room delivery, base assembly, and removal of the crate and all packaging from your premises.Solid wood moves. Every piece is built from solid hardwood, not veneer or engineered panel, and solid wood responds to the room it lives in. It expands slightly in humid months and contracts in dry ones. Our joinery is designed to allow that movement rather than fight it — breadboard ends, floating panels and bolt-on bases all exist for this reason. A hairline seasonal gap that opens and closes is the material behaving correctly.
Day to day. Wipe with a soft dry or barely damp cloth. Blot spills as they happen rather than letting them stand. Skip anything with ammonia, bleach, silicone or wax polish — silicone in particular builds a film that makes refinishing difficult later. Use trivets under hot dishes and something absorbent under anything wet or sweating.
The finish. Hardwax oil, not polyurethane. It sits in the wood rather than on top of it, so the surface still feels like wood and repairs invisibly — a scratch can be spot-treated without stripping the whole top. Refresh high-use areas with a light coat of hardwax oil when the surface starts to look thirsty, roughly every year or two on a dining table, less on a desk. We'll tell you exactly what we used on your piece.
Reclaimed and salvaged wood. Nail holes, checks, insect tracks, old bolt scars and color variation are the record of where the wood has already been. We stabilize anything structural and leave the rest. No two pieces are alike, and photographs of one build won't predict the exact character of yours.
Sun-tanned poplar is poplar left in the California sun until it turns honey and chocolate — a color change in the wood itself, not a stain. It will continue to deepen slightly for the first months in your home, then settle.
Steel bases. Blackened steel is a chemical patina, hand-finished and sealed. Raw sealed steel keeps the mill surface under a clear coat. Both wipe clean with a dry cloth. Avoid abrasives, which will cut through the seal.
Built to be repaired. Mortise and tenon joinery, bolt-on bases and an oil finish all mean this furniture can be taken apart, refinished and put back into service decades from now. That's the point. If something ever needs attention, contact us — we'd rather fix it than see it replaced.