Well here's an unusual listening room for $45k speakers

eric the red · « **on:** 30 Dec 2005, 12:43 pm »

Does this look like a garage to anyone else and are those not quads under the covers on the right side?? Doesn't that look like a lot of $$$ gear on the table?? I wonder if that's a Stillpoint Magic lamp on the Levinson gear???

http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?spkrfull&1140128534

PhilNYC · « **Reply #1 on:** 30 Dec 2005, 03:31 pm »

Maybe he's married, and it's the only place his wife will let him keep all his toys...

Gordy · « **Reply #2 on:** 30 Dec 2005, 05:10 pm »

I kinda like that tree/lamp thing... can anyone out there reverse engineer it???

nathanm · « **Reply #3 on:** 30 Dec 2005, 05:23 pm »

Well you know, a guy's gotta have that boombox in his garage for when he's working on the car, doing some sanding or painting a door or something!

ss397 · « **Reply #4 on:** 30 Dec 2005, 05:32 pm »

that is just the garage system, the big stuff is inside.

ctviggen · « **Reply #5 on:** 30 Dec 2005, 06:20 pm »

I like that tree! Yeah, that's the system he/she uses when waxing the Porsche. These are what are in the inside system:

http://www.marklevinson.com/products/overview.asp?cat=pa&prod=no33h

By the way, anyone see/hear these things? I used to listen to a system that had them -- each monoblock weighs 220 pounds! The 33s were even bigger. Supposedly, someone (rumored at the time to be a doctor) bought five of the 33s for his HT system. Talk about overkill.

Phil · « **Reply #6 on:** 30 Dec 2005, 06:28 pm »

oh, come on now. He/she isn't waxing anything. He/she is sitting in the Porsche when listening (top down, of course). The listening height is perfect.

Notice that the tree has one of those tuning thingies running along the entire length. I though folks only used these on power cords, but I suppose you could tune the lighting level too.

ctviggen · « **Reply #7 on:** 30 Dec 2005, 06:35 pm »

That's true -- they pay someone to wax the Porsche/Mercedes AMG. Speaking of nice garages, anyone see the Cribs with Shaquille's house in Florida? Talk about nice garages! His had some kind of rock (marble?) floor. His garage is nicer (and bigger than) my house. He had a kick butt home theater, too.

nathanm · « **Reply #8 on:** 30 Dec 2005, 07:31 pm »

Quote from: ctviggen

I like that tree! Yeah, that's the system he/she uses when waxing the Porsche. These are what are in the inside system:

http://www.marklevinson.com/products/overview.asp?cat=pa&prod=no33h

By the way, anyone see/hear these things? I used to listen to a system that had them -- each monoblock weighs 220 pounds! The 33s were even bigger. Supposedly, someone (rumored at the time to be a doctor) bought five of the 33s for his HT system. Talk about overkill.

Those amps always looked like a computer case to me. And actually the Zalman TNN-500AF silent PC case could pass for an audiophilish monoblock:

(and way cheaper than a Mark Levinson amp!

)

eric the red · « **Reply #9 on:** 31 Dec 2005, 02:31 am »

Quote from: nathanm

Well you know, a guy's gotta have that boombox in his garage for when he's working on the car, doing some sanding or painting a door or something!

ctviggen · « **Reply #10 on:** 31 Dec 2005, 02:42 am »

I can't say that I've ever been enamored of a computer case before, but that one kicks booty.

nathanm · « **Reply #11 on:** 31 Dec 2005, 04:01 am »

Yep, it's drool-inducing stuff. Check out http://www.zalmanusa.com for the fully polished golden heatpipe and anodized gear-porn goodness. I always wondered why they can have totally noiseless audio power amps with ginormous heatsinks then why not computers?

eric the red · « **Reply #12 on:** 31 Dec 2005, 06:07 am »

Quote from: ctviggen

I can't say that I've ever been enamored of a computer case before, but that one kicks booty.

The feet on the case look like poofy dogs who wear ribbons' feet to me for some strange reason but then maybe I've had a few too many beers tonite...

Folsom · « **Reply #13 on:** 31 Dec 2005, 06:54 am »

htttp://www.frozencpu.com would be the place to buy computer stuff, at least specialty items, not components.

LordCloud · « **Reply #14 on:** 1 Jan 2006, 12:14 pm »

Quote from: ctviggen

By the way, anyone see/hear these things? I used to listen to a system that had them -- each monoblock weighs 220 pounds! The 33s were even bigger. Supposedly, someone (rumored at the time to be a doctor) bought five of the 33s for his HT system. Talk about overkill.

I heard a system a while back that had one 33h on each driver of a pair of B&W Nautilus (the original Nautilus) speakers, along with Levinson Reference everything else, and a Goldmund turntable.