Well I bought a sacrificial case.....and will start to work on the hardware side of this over the next few weeks. Stole the idea from others but look forward to it anyway. Interesting project.
I picked this model for my case. Floor standing was an option but just too big for my taste. I really wanted to focus on audio only.
Plan to replace the pushbutton and dial area with a small touch screen interface and retain the lower buttons for on/off and volume control.
Not sure what I am doing with the speakers just yet but likely will have 1 internal and rear-facing outputs for external as well.
I have created my own skins before (see MusicServer 5 thread) but might use portions of rika's since the retro styling is makes sense.
Comments and ideas welcome.