Renting out your audio room


Over the years Ive collected a quite a few pair of speakers, amps, not big on cables, a preamp or two and also some cd players.

Has anyone thought or tried to rent out some building space and set up about 3 or 4 listening rooms or even some ht stuff? for a person to come listen to music, watch a dvd or even sat radio? use some really nice equipment without having to pay $$$ for a hi end setup or for musical enjoyment. I know I would spend money doing something like this.

If you could properly manage and promote this personally you could keep and try limitless setups in your house for evaluation.

but space, rent, insurance, staffing, and remodel and interiorand equipment cost .

but what could you get away with renting for an hour. could do on contract basis and get guaranteed income?

Just something thats been rolling around in the head? (could be small rocks too )

Kelton
kelton
Actually, I do rent out my audio room. I have a couple of recording studios that use it to proof their master CDs before going to print. In almost every case, they have found something wrong with their CD that they did not hear on their own setup.

The whole trick is making sure your system (room, speakers, amps, cables, etc.) is much better than what they have. It is actually not too hard finding better speakers or amps than most of the recording studios but it often is extremely hard making sure your room is better than theirs. For me to reproduce my room somewhere else (like in an office space), my estimate is that it would cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $60k (that is strictly for the room remodeling and acoustical treatment, not the stuff that goes in it like speakers, amps, etc.). The start-up cost makes it totally impractical for most people but works in my special case.

Julian
I think they have something similar already. It's called being a dealer. (Hi Viggen ;^)
What about leasing hipriced audio?I thought about this much think it would work some of the stuff is priced as hi as a car anyway and most folks keep there gear well.