stuny Posted July 11, 2006 Share #1 Posted July 11, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) ...and I wish they were mine. A number of us Forum members are into high end audio, but my friend pictured here is farther into it than anyone I know. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted July 11, 2006 Posted July 11, 2006 Hi stuny, Take a look here His are bigger than yours.... I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
Guest maddin Posted July 11, 2006 Share #2 Posted July 11, 2006 i love the pillows under the ceiling as high tech solution to avoid echoes:D Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrewer Posted July 11, 2006 Share #3 Posted July 11, 2006 Big Dunleavy's??? It's been a while since I was really into this...but I do see tubes, and that is a very, very good thing! Stuart, I'll bet you even that piece of acoustic paneling hanging crooked on the wall is that way on purpose: because it sounds better that way! And lots of vinyl over here, too. Another good sign! Thanks for sharing! I hope you and Barb are not living above, below, or on any side of this, uh-hum, audiophile! Allan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wbesz Posted July 11, 2006 Share #4 Posted July 11, 2006 Wow, most interesting photo. He must be a single guy, surely? Are those flat panels at the rear Quad electro-accoustics? (Something I have always wanted but could never afford) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted July 11, 2006 Author Share #5 Posted July 11, 2006 Martin - The "pillows" do impact the sound, which is astonishing both due to the equipment and all the set-up (including things like those pillows). Alan - Pretty good guess, but these are the top of the line Alons (Carl Marchisoto of Dalhquist fame). I wouldn't be surprised if the angled foam is intentional, but in the midst of the astonishing sound and equipment I never noticed it to comment. A few months earlier my friend found a CD he hated that another friend always wanted to play, so he slipped it behind another peice of foam off-camera to the right. I claimed to hear the difference it caused (which I did not). William - Yes, he is single, and no those are not Quads (I hope you've heard Quads set-up right) -- they are foam accoustic panels. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest maddin Posted July 12, 2006 Share #6 Posted July 12, 2006 stuart: i wasn't mocking:D - i am a believer, too. luckily my listening room is by far less challenging. cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted July 13, 2006 Author Share #7 Posted July 13, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) Martin - I didn't perceive it as mocking. Of course us high end audio types frequently hear mocking of what we know we hear. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hm1912 Posted July 13, 2006 Share #8 Posted July 13, 2006 An impressive collection of sound equipment, but not very aesthetically arranged... which is a pity. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrewer Posted July 13, 2006 Share #9 Posted July 13, 2006 ...but not very aesthetically arranged... which is a pity. True, on the latter; but it looks good acoustically, which I'm sure is all that matters to this fellow. What has piqued my interest, as this photo keeps surfacing, are the three narrow black pedestals in the midground. The one in the middle looks like it has a bather, of all things, sitting on it! What are those things? Have you ever seen anything like that before in audio-dom Stuart? And another thing: how about a photo of the "golden-eared" maestro also? I hope he's not "camera-shy"! Wondering.... Allan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted July 13, 2006 Author Share #10 Posted July 13, 2006 Allan - Yes, that is an amusing, small bather. And yes, the sound of this room is astonishing -- better than any reproduced music I've ever heard, and by a comfortable margin. The three columns that look like spare speaker stands actually improve the sound of the room, too, though neither of us has a clue why this is so. At one point, while taking several photos in the room my friend went upstairs for a bit. I moved one of those columns so that I could brace my D2 on it for another shot, just as he was coming down the stairs. The look on his face told me that I was glad I precisely marked the spot where the colum had been, and that these things were probably important to the sound. We marked the spots for all three, moved them into an adjacent room, and heard the soundfield suffer in their absense. And yes, my friend is a bit camera shy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael-IIIf Posted July 13, 2006 Share #11 Posted July 13, 2006 William B. - They look like Quad ESLs to me, although why they are hanging on a wall intrigues me. I understood they were supposed to be used in the middle of a room only. Presumably they are "spares". Stuart - It looks like hours of fun could be had in this room - just looking through his record collection alone. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted July 13, 2006 Author Share #12 Posted July 13, 2006 Michael - They aren't Quads (all models of which were bigger, and needed space around them). They are accoustic panels. And it was great fun. His LP collection is immense, continuing along the left wall to well behind, him, as well as filling the wall directly behind him. However, his digital playback gear is so good that selected CDs and SACDs sounded wonderful. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wbesz Posted July 13, 2006 Share #13 Posted July 13, 2006 Stuart, those large columns are not turned inwards enough, are they? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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