When designing my place (inside a steel building), I built this wall about 2 feet thick. Then framed out these cubbies with a sliding shelf for each piece of equipment. Finished the front with brushed aluminum I made up from flat stock.
I Just thought you might like to see a different type of setup.
Awesome looking setup!
Just FYI- you should always slack the tape away from the heads when you power it up or down. Electrical spikes can easily make it onto the tape, and then you have a pop or a dropout every time you play that spot. Keeping tape tension also leaves the dancer arm calling for torque the moment it is powered up.
An A-3340 was my first tape machine in 1987. First prosumer deck to offer “Simul-Sync”. I learned how to record on one of those. What awesome memories!