member system photos???

07-07-06: Plato
Grant, I'm glad I don't live in your neighborhood ! How are the taxes? Do you live in NJ or CA? Does that 1400 sq ft include the bathroom and garage? :)

CA. SF includes bathrooms, but not garage.

Proper audio set-up and attractive home decor in dual use rooms is not an easy task. Compromises are required. At least they are in my home in LA where $700,000 buys a 1400/Sq.Ft house in my neighborhood.

We do our best.

Yep, me too! California living at its finest! Just fortunate to get me a dedicated listening room which was one of the requirement I have to my better half during our house hunting days.

But the weather is great ain't it?

Sure some of our systems and mine are not set-up ideal, we have small houses wives and family considerations but we also have a love for music and trying to get equipment that represents it best, if some can do better please try, but for those of us who cant....well give us the old "Ata Boy" because we keep this hobby rolling us much as the next guy.

I've given up on the holy grail, one of the reason's I don't post much these
days. I rather enjoy music, with friend, comfortably then have a single chair,
set up in an equipment worshiping enivroment. So its not
"optimal" but its still damn good, and honestly I'd rather spend
time listening to music then tweaking and endlessly adjusting.

The older I get the more I believe most audiophiles are gearheads who use
the music as an excuse to get cool toys, or rather cooler toys then their
friends. Its an ego driven hobby, comes as a shock its 99% full of men - wow!
Having listened with countless audiophiles on all level's most are pretty inept
when it comes to discerning the not so subtle differences we listen for, when
in fact the differences are often so subtle your mood changes the way you
hear sound more then the equipment does. Musicians who are trained to play
VERY well, those are the people who impress me as audiophiles, the ones who
can appreciate the subtle details between a good and great performance that
would not be detected with out a good system.... now I'm ranting...

So why don't more of us have an audio shrine??? Because we haven't lost our
minds yet, and that's a very good thing.

FWIW my wife has the whole house except for the living room which I have set up as a music room and decorated it to accomodate music/audio. But - there is always a but - it has to not call attention to itself. No bass traps, echo busters, etc. As some one said, life and audio is full of compromises! :-)
Newbee (System | Threads | Answers)

That's exactly our situation: living room/audio room. Gear is in a nice cabinet off on a side wall. Carpet, nice drapes, some decorative home made absorption panels on the rear wall. No bass traps, echo busters or the like. We like the way it looks, and we like the way it sounds. I'm certain it could sound better with some diffusion on the ceiling and some corner panels.

It sounds like your son did OK in SF. Our home is a 1941 post-war cracker box in an eclectic San Fernando Valley neighborhood. We've fixed it up nicely, and have no burning desire to move as we believe we'd have to pay double to get a worthwhile upgrade.