Perhaps we should stick with midfi...

Definitely a troll. Most of his equipment listed in his four systems is bargain bin and EBay deals. He mentions things like "bright and airy highs", "nice boomy bass" and "amp has no highs and lows". He raves about a $79 Sony sub. So, do you think a guy with a house full of yard sale finds is going to go out and blow 60 large on Krell and Macintosh? Not unless he hit the lottery and someone talked him into it. Judging from his system comments he would be perfectly happy listening to a boom box.

I don't even think these systems are in the same house. One is thrown together, things piled on it, crappy cords and wires. The other is perfectly arranged, speakers are towed in, good cords, well dusted, etc. I've been in many homes, and if the common rooms look lived in the whole house looks lived in. If the common areas are immaculate, then the rest of the house will look immaculate. I think that picture of the high end system was taken in a dealers show room or someone else home.

The carpet is not the same in both rooms. One room has a light grey carpet and the other has a off white throw carpet over soltio tiles. If you zoom, the profile of the baseboards is different. The room with the B&W speakers has a "show room" vibe to it. Having been in thousands of homes over my life time and quite a few Hi-Fi show rooms, this is my opinion.

Your listening room is well kept because you have a lot of respect and care for your hobby. I imaging you dust and vacuum on a regular basis in your listening room. Also, you have great respect for your equipment no matter what room it's in.

Well, both pictures were taken by the same camera, a Panasonic DMC-FZ30 and uploaded to photo bucket on the same day, 8/17 at 11:54pm. On both my calibrated NEC LCD3090W-BK-SV and Dell UltraSharp 3007WFP-HC monitors the carpets look different. Though, the wall plates do look consistent. The dark edge appears to be a step. Could the B&W system be in the basement? Maybe an addition. Yes, I could be wrong and I also enjoyed playing detective.

The concrete in the drive way is old and pitted. It has been patched in several areas. There are some stains on the concrete. The garage door is just standard aluminum; nothing special. The bike has dirt on it and shows signs of use and wear. So, what part of the country are soltio tiles popular? Southwest? Also, I'd guest that the house is in a subdivision, and a lower end one judging buy the untrimmed window (drywall jams).

Having said that, when I purchased a home in a subdivision about ten years ago, I requested drywall jams because the builder wanted $400 to trim each window. It cost me less that $40 a window and took less than two hours which including installation of the sill, jams, trim and prime and painting. There are 14 windows in my home for a savings of over $5000. Also, from the road, my home looks like an unassuming saltbox colonial; inside it's a different story.

The pictures of the bike are taken with the same camera as the two audio systems.

I think Gonglee3 needs to chime in and shed some light on the details. It's been a pleasant distraction playing detective.

Douglas Schroeder,

My reasoning was that the overwhelming majority of homes use the same baseboards throughout. When doing renovations/additions, people take great pains to match baseboards, trim, etc. That being said, some people do just go over to Home Depot and buy what's available/cheapest. I made an observation. If I was wrong, I'll be the first to admit it.