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| Home Theater, Audio and Video News Cost No Object Music Room Shames Mortal AudiophilesDiscuss Cost No Object Music Room Shames Mortal Audiophiles in the General Shack Area forum; Cost No Object Music Room Shames Mortal Audiophiles A friend tipped me off to this amazing music room built into a barn or guest house. Follow the link ... |
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| Cost No Object Music Room Shames Mortal Audiophiles ![]() A friend tipped me off to this amazing music room built into a barn or guest house. Follow the link for loads of pics of five-figure turntables, loudspeakers, tube amps, CD players and cables. This guy has really bought into the “cables and isolation accessories make a difference” with interconnects and speaker cables that resemble vacuum cleaners, ceramic cable lifters (I guess DIY cable lifter kegger cups wouldn’t blend well with surrounding décor) and tank-like turntable isolation rack sitting on top of a granite tile (which I assume must be twice as thick as normal granite judging by the overbuilt quality of the rest of the room). As impressive as the audio system components is the acoustic construction of the room, all built-in scalloped acoustic chambers on the walls and ceiling. I love the floor to high ceiling LP and CD storage that he needs those elementary school library rolling step stools to reach the highest shelf. Too bad he’s not listening to phase and time coherent loudspeakers. All that money spent on massaging the perfect signal through four carat phono cartridges, preamps, amps and cables only to have the listening experience mangled by the loudspeaker. Heh, if you can hear the difference (I would hope this system to be punishingly revealing). What a Fortress of Solitude (Auditude?). What’s this guy escaping from? (Not to judge, I’m just overcome with envy.) Tags: Audiophile Home Audio Electronics Room SetupAudiophile, Home Audio Electronics, Room Setup Link to Article | ||||
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| Re: Cost No Object Music Room Shames Mortal Audiophiles :holycow: :holycow: :holycow: :holycow: :holycow: I can't even muster up a dream about anything that nice... ![]() | ||||
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| Re: Cost No Object Music Room Shames Mortal Audiophiles Wow, he doesn't even let his wires touch the floor :holycow: If you don't have a BFD for your sub, get one fast! If you don't have REW, get it now! | ||||
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| Re: Cost No Object Music Room Shames Mortal Audiophiles Nice job hiding the electric screen, I can't even see the seam in the ceiling where it drops down from. ![]() | ||||
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| Re: Cost No Object Music Room Shames Mortal Audiophiles What makes you think there is a screen? It's a audio listening room. I don't see anything but two channel source and two speaker towers. | ||||
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| Re: Cost No Object Music Room Shames Mortal Audiophiles Sorry, Being a Home Theater guy, I always see where the screen SHOULD BE in these fancy 2 channel listening rooms. I get an "F" for my execution of making a joke there. (Also get an "F" in spelling, I just noticed I misspelled 'ceiling') I'll go back and fix that.... | ||||
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| Re: Cost No Object Music Room Shames Mortal Audiophiles A system like that, playing back “snap, crackle, pop” vinyl. What a waste. Those purple stranded power cables look dangerous to me. Regards, Wayne | ||||
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| Re: Cost No Object Music Room Shames Mortal Audiophiles I guess that if you're making a million or two a year, you need to spend it on something. Must be a bit strange though to have to go out to the barn to listen to music. Bob | ||||
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| Re: Cost No Object Music Room Shames Mortal Audiophiles I'm not entirely sure which speakers those are, but why wouldn't they be phase/time coherent? Also, there's two camps on phase/time coherence, just like with cables. I myself have yet to see any scientific experiments that indicate phase/time coherence, within the tolerances we'd find in well made speakers, makes an audible difference. Plus, it looks like the tweeters are offset from the midrange and bass drivers anyway, which would imply some sort of effort towards phase/time coherence. And I don't know why you'd expect vinyl to create snaps, crackles, and pops. ??? If he's taking care of his records and using a well made cartridge on a very stable transport I don't think any of those mechanical artifacts would show up. Purple power cables look fine to me too, since the only danger would be from someone stepping on them, and I don't think anyone's going to do that without getting shot. The braided lines may actually make their electromagnetic field less of an issue as well, although that'd just be a guess as to what sort of marketing they're sold under. ![]() Anyway, as far as I can tell it's an excellent no-compromise setup although I do think there's a fair amount of snake oil in there. | ||||
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| Re: Cost No Object Music Room Shames Mortal Audiophiles As a complete non-believer in many of the audio "tweaks" out there, I think I'd probably end up using every crazy tweak, including those dumm (sic) pebbles, in a room like that. Not that that room isn't completely over the top though.. I'd love to have a listen. JCD | ||||
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