Those who know us may know us as pretty easy going music lovers. My dad, who lives with us, is soon to be 94. He got me started on this hobby of mine when I was 10. That God-darned Sony reel to reel with the bi-directional head, well, let me tell ya, if that don't get you kick started at a tender young age, nothing will.
I mentioned to my wife this evening about my correspondence on this site and the idea of having another get-to-gether. She's pretty excited about that as well as the prospect of reinventing a pair of LS9's. LS9's? She really liked you audio geeks. Go figure.
My ~15 X 18 ft room is open to the whole house. It's a step down into the room but that's it. When we shopped for a house, audio was on our minds. Of course the rest of the house turned out to be a complete and total turd, but at least I got the 2 dedicated circuits installed to my 2 channel audio room as a priority.
We have a family room which I hung a LED TV above the fireplace and since fires have been outlawed in SJ, the fireplace now holds a 7 channel Arcam amp, a Marantz AV7005, an Oppo BDP83SE, wired ethernet, AC and cableplant all hidden within the confines inside the fireplace.
Glad it never rains in San Jose