World’s largest Ikea store to open at Mall of Asia in 2020

Most people have that one Ikea item they lust after. For me, and for the longest time, it was the Aptitlig butcher’s block. Yeah, yeah. I drew some quizzical looks from my girlfriend as I made a beeline to the kitchen area of every Ikea store we visited (Yokohama and Hong Kong) to get my hands on those bamboo beauties. No, no. I don’t use them to carve meat up. Those Aptitligs went straight to the audio rack because, as many audiophiles have found out, slabs made of bamboo make excellent isolation platforms for turntables. Don’t make me explain how. They just do: less vibration, tighter bass, more focused imaging. Vintage Technics 1200 Mk2 turntables on top of the Aptitligs instead of symmetrical cuts of liempo.

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