Look Here: Audiophiliac viewers' insanely great systems
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Part One of a Two Part Series, come back Sunday for more! Thanks to everyone who submitted images, you guys are great!
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The guy found those Bowers and Wilkins speakers in his storage room? Gee, I thought I was lucky when I found my old Tonka Toy front loader from the '70s in my storage room.
Funny how the original box can be worth as much as the toy. Who kept the boxes?
@@garyizzard839 Not me, I was surprised I still had my old front loader fully intact, we used to blow them up with M-80's.
Yeah I've got a truck buried in the garage somewhere. And somebody's got a Lagonda 1920s buried in a garage being at least 40 years at least can't find the owner
Time to check my storage room....
got my front loader in 75. 5 years later got my first BB gun and well I needed a nice target.
1:37 "First of all; he's got a LOT of Schitt" has to be one of my favorite lines this year
Classic joke that never gets old! 👌
What an amazing set of systems. I just wanted to thank the entire Audiophiliac community for sharing. Hope you all have an amazing weekend and happy independence day from my family to yours!
A younger friend of mine is just starting to get into audio and recently came into possession of a family member's receiver, speakers and turntable from the early 90s. I'm helping him clean it up and getting it to sound good again. Seeing these systems is so much fun----just remember we all started somewhere.
Ya, and your friend is starting out *way* better than I did! 😂
Woho, I made the cut. Jokes aside, what amazing setups!
My humble living room home theater pales in comparison. Great work everyone!
Stay safe and have a great summer !
Peter
Stockholm, Sweden
You deserved to make it. Even though I’m not a home theater type I like many of the elements you incorporated. Steve mentioned your self made “bench” I’m also working on a racking scheme using a redwood plank. What is the artwork on the back wall? Love the color it brings into the room. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
You are blessed with what you have, sir!
Also, you know how to make a good photograph. : )
@@bluesfish55m51 Wow, I’m impressed that you noticed the posters and thank you for noticing,
They are poster from several Studio Ghibli movies, and I bought them from Etsy.com
www.etsy.com/se-en/listing/780572123/ghibli-studio-16-poster-set-inspired-by?ref=shop_home_active_12&sca=1
I selected the dimension Ribba that fits in the IKEA frame Ribba.
Picture of my wall of Ghibli:
www.minhembio.com/bilder/hq/?pic_id=516695.jpg
Regarding the bench. This is a simple, yet I think an elegant solution. I went to a home depot and bought a 25mm thick countertop in oak wood and had it cut to the dimensions I wanted. Then I bought adjustable metal legs that I attached on the two countertops and then simply stacked those on top of each other. Simple, airy solution that can change over time if need be. I found it neat to have the legs for the bottom shelf to be attached a bit in and not directly at the edges of the bottom shelf to make it seem like the shelf if “floating in midair”.
Metal legs:
www.bauhaus.se/media/catalog/product/cache/9d0f0c8eb514963e1fda0eb95b4bf3ab/0/1/0102256V.jpg
Close-up of my media bench:
www.minhembio.com/bilder/hq/?pic_id=516596.jpg
Some more pictures of my Living room:
www.minhembio.com/arcspin
Here’s a bonus question:
In my sofa I have a pillowcase (actually two pillow cases) with a carpet pattern from an iconic horror movie, which movie?
@@HareDeLune Thank you, and yes. I'm fortunate to have the means to be able to pursuit my dream setup in my living room.
And I'm blessed to have a spouse that says, -do what you have to,
as long as it gets good!
Have a lovely weekend.
@@PeterEidegren
Answer: The Shining!
Sorry to take over your other reply (and also apologies to Bluesfish55 M), but when I heard Studio Ghibli my ears perked up!
I am a big fan of Studio Ghibli and have all of the films, except for Tales of Earthsea. I will add it, eventually.
One of my favorites is actually 'Whisper of the Heart'.
Thanks for posting your "wall of Ghibli"!
I hope you don't mind, I downloaded a copy to add to the art collection on my phone. : )
If you have not read the original manga for Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, I highly, highly recommend it!
I have the entire eight volume set in large format. It goes way beyond the scope of the film in story telling and character development.
Interesting to note: The famous French artist Moebius did an illustration of Nausicaä:
i.pinimg.com/originals/70/38/57/7038570226fae842a0d763edab2cc83c.jpg
Also, some years ago a group of people built a real, working version of Nausicaä's Möwe glider!
Here is a video of a test flight:
m.ua-cam.com/video/HI8E6Uxuzns/v-deo.html
There are also other videos of it on YT.
Have you seen the Studio Ghibli Museum in Japan?
They have a lifesize statue of one of the robots from 'Castle in the Sky':
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Again, I must apologize for my rudeness, but it is great to find another Studio Ghibli fan! : D
The B&W Nautilus are amazing. What a find. 👍
I’ve always wanted a pair, but I wonder how they stack up against more modern speakers. However if I found a pair lying around I’d snaffle them up straight away!
@@jonnyk15 I was going to purchase a pair but I bought a house instead. 😀
@@jonnyk15 they sound bloody incredible ! all drivers have the same sound signature and the active crossover matched to within .5 db -the 802 that i heard around the same time were rubbish compared to these, that guy's family must be loaded to have these in storage
Looks like a mutated snail and sounds crappy. I've heard these years ago
@@jonnyk15 Best B&W speakers ever made and much better than most high-end I have heard.
"...and probably a microphone..." Nice Steve ;). Great to see what folk are using out there, thx for the vid!
Man oh man! If only. I'm in awe of my little Dali Spektor 5's and Onkyo receiver! One day I'll get there. Don't we all just dream of a dream stereo hifi system?
Hi Steve, my name is Joe Subia (44yrs old but audiophile since the age of 12yrs old no fib lol). I live in Miami Fl. I just wanted to acknowledge you today. Your contribution to the audiophile community is priceless to say the least. Your wealth of knowledge and wisdom carefully trickle down to solid and effective advice for those in need of a little direction. You my friend are a gem. Thank you
Oh and my set up , a combination of vintage and more updated speakers. Not top end but offers me hours of super clean, crisp and fatigue free listening.
Main speakers: Klipsch RF-82 ll powered by twin Rotel RB-971 ll (bridged) amplifiers
Center Channel: RC-64 powered by NAD 902 amplifier (bridged)
Rear speakers: Klipsch RF-42 ll powered by NAD 2140 amplifier
Dual Velodyne F-1200-D subwoofers.
Processor: B&K Reference 50 S2
Power conditioner: Acoustic Research PW103
RCA cables: all monster cable
Speaker connections via mediabridge ultra series fast lock connectors.
Amplifier connections via Installgear gold banana plugs
Speaker cable: Installgear 14 awg
Headphones: Bowers&Wilkins PX5 and Klipsch T5 True wireless earbuds.
REL subwoofers to replace velodynes soon! Cheers to everyone! Stay safe.
Found a pair of B&W Nautilus?! What?! Poor thing didn’t have the crossovers though. lol. What a find!
Beautiful systems! Thanks to everyone for the pics, and thanks to Steve for putting em up!
“And maybe a microphone...” I see whatcha did there, Steve. I couldn’t have resisted either.
I wish I could audition every single one of these systems.. fantastic!
Found B&W Nautilus speakers!?? My friend’s wife believes that he found his $35,000 fishing boat.
does she need a bridge , i've got one forsale
Hey Charles is listening to / watching Steve Hackett with his Gibson Les Paul Goldtop Guitar! My son and I went to see Hackett Live the day before we went into two months of shelter in place. Better times. Hackett is an amazing musician keeping Prog alive.
For a taste of Hackett search up the vid for Los Endos live at the RAH
Ha! That was my thought too. Saw that Les Paul, looked at the face and was like, "Man. That sure looks like Steve Hackett!" Yeah, caught him a couple of years ago. He was great!
Nice looking systems !!! Thanks
Steve and friends 😆
Nice HiFi systems from your audiophiles viewers. Congratulations from Portugal to all.
“Two turntables....and probably a microphone..”. Aww man that got me!
Thanks for including my set-up, Steve (from 4:25). Nice to see that pro cinema speakers and tapped horn subs are given some consideration - they're not the most common additions in audiophilia (but very much worth it, to my ears).
Btw., the Blue Cheese Audio "Roquefort" name of my DAC/preamp is legit, but yeah, could've fooled me too :)
Yes, I have read about the Roquefort. It is, indeed, legit! : D
Happy to see more Scandinavians on this channel!
Have a great weekend,
//Peter from Sweden
@@PeterEidegren Thanks, Peter - likewise :)
A great weekend to you too.
So I took the dogs for their walk today and I thought I'd catch up with Steve's show and suddenly my system picture is in the show, very cool! And congratulations to everyone, specially the guy that found the $50K speakers laying around!!
By the way, I recently purchased a pair of mid 80's Wharfedale Diamond 3 speakers for under $100 and I want to say that I almost like their performance better than my Elac towers. I guess the point is that is not always about the money you spend but about the right fit for the system and the room...
Great selection. Love the headphone stand @ 10:58 in top left corner!
I enjoyed watching what other people have in stereo equipment. I really like the Nautilus speakers.
I'm 16 and my setup is comprised of a pair of Klipsch kg2.5s a Carver receiver 900 powering them. For audio I have a project/one dr-331 turntable with an unknown acutex cartridge on it. I also have a denon drw-580 cassette deck and a Sony dvp-cx995v CD player. For streaming I have an Amazon echo input. It's not much and it's probably not worthy of the show but I thought I'd share my humble setup.
Thanks for sharing. Merely owning expensive gear doesn't make anyone a better audiophile. It's more about an appreciation for sound and music.
can't get enough of these systems. the thought process of how they are put together. also the clean and open look of some of this gear is something that i can only aspire to, love my stuff, but it is not presented as well as it could.
Bonus points for dogs in the photos!
redstarwraith Can they be considered room treatments?
@@cunningtim I thought they were woofers...
I’m running a sultan pre-amp, with G-One mono’s, thru Ajax cables. My source is the Evian Dac. Speakers are Kert horns in Chevrolet blue. It doesn’t sound great because I made all the names up :-)
Haha ha ha ooh my sides
Gary Izzard Tears rolling down my face as I wrote this too...
I tend to prefer Acme cables😎
Gary Lawrence
OMG, my stomach hurts from laughing, Gary! Hahaha! Perfect.
The funny thing is that at first I was thinking, damn, I don’t know many HiFi brands and thought I’d at least heard of most.
That was ace
Thanks for the shout out Steve...
I have an old Pioneer 626 and it sounds great. I need to drag it back out of storage and find a place to use it.
Nice setup everyone. I can't wait to see part 2.
Some really great set ups. Happy to see some system integrity and lack of clutter for a change these music systems. Can't wait to see the next batch.
Those B&W Nautilus Speakers are a work of art!
Dogs playing poker kind of art.
I remember seing those b&ws in hi fi mags years back
🎶 "They ain't no cure for the Summertime views!" 🎶
I love seeing all of these rooms. Nice set ups all!
Man, I gotta look in my family storage room.
Probably just full of schitt...
Beautiful systems.
9:15 "He has two turntables... _(and probably a microphone)_ " +1 for the Beck reference
Personally I'm hoping it was a Jazzmatazz/Guru reference but I'll take it either way. I mean, if Beck made music with 2 turntables and a microphone then I'd let him slide but...
Finally, someone (David from Charleston WV) who owns at least one piece of gear I thought to be one of the best preamps of all time. I owned the Audible Illusions M3A, and with PSB Stratus Gold i speakers, and a vintage McIntosh MC2205. What a setup. Still loving your M3A David? You can upgrade to the newest model fairly inexpensively, but I have no idea how the newer Audible gear sounds.
Very cool; clearly some real passion and dedication to listening out there!
Enjoy your videos emensely!!
Six stars!!
Very inspiring!
I would seriously consider those GR Research kit speakers shown in one of the first arrangements if I didn't aleady have my Maggies.
Greetings to all fellow audiophiles ☆
Another fantastic viewer systems video! I was doing some equipment rearranging and I wasn't able to send a photo in so please do another one of these down the road so that I can participate, too.
Audio equipment is the only narcotic I'll ever need. Steve, I'll give you credit for showing the system with the Metallica tour poster and the Trooper beer. But all great pics/systems. This is a real good idea.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Excellent show Steve!
Thanks.
Those are some serious systems!! AND some interesting stories!
I dig this. Good inspiration!
At about 5:30 I think the turntable was a Pioneer PL 12D, rather than a PL 120. I have a ton of old equipment, it's often amazing how long it lasts before requiring repair. Also amazing how difficult it is to get old, non-tube electronics repaired properly. I have mini bookshelf speakers 40 years old, that have been used 8+ hours a day with original tweeters.
That third image... Amazing
I see all of this nice equipment....it makes me want to go get Canton floor standing speakers....time to start my research...
The old "Parent's Storage" ploy, eh?
A clean house is a sign of a dirty mind. OK I am just jealous you guys have very clean houses.
😁😁😁😆😆
Wow, a pair of Nautilus... I only got to hear a pair once at a trade day at a UK trade show in the early 90’s, amazing things and crazily expensive...
I have seen and heard the B&W Nautilus many years ago.... wow wow wow
Im well jell
I love these!!! Keep them coming!!!
Ya ! Hey mom where are my nautilus speakers ? (Mom) i put them in the storage room !
Hey Steve I love my home stereo system but I recently got into collecting headphones for when I can't listen to my speakers. I often see all of your headphones in the background of your videos. I was curious what kind of stand you are using or if you have any other ideas for storing/showing off a lot of headphones. Thank you.
The answer you seek lies here:
m.ua-cam.com/video/ALjyCmmXWDc/v-deo.html
Wow you asked for HIGH quality pics, and these are a step up from previous efforts! Great systems, but I still see a lack of room treatments in many cases..... Often I see Thousands of dollars of gear surrounded by hard bare walls. What a waste of quality gear. Thanks Steve for focusing on it when it's there.
Nice systems
But are they optimized: a) for speaker placement relative to walls and corners and b) for microphony between components and the shelves they are on. Probably in most cases, the systems are on dirty AC as well. Just a wild assed guess.
Another thing that makes me wonder all the time is why components need to be in between speakers. Yes, the lead from a power amp to a speaker better be short. But still.
No, not critique. Just wondering what help these people had, to get their systems where they are today. And what drove them.
I wonder how many people have sent in a car system picture!
Zero no one did
@@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac Aww too bad, would've been nice to see how an "audiophile" car audio system looks like!
@@QoraxAudio Most high-end cars have high-end sound systems. Bentley has Naim, Mercedes AMG has Burmeister, Aston martin has Bang & Olufsen, Jaguar has Bowers & Wilkins, Lexus has Mark Levinson, Pagani has Sonus Faber, etc...
I think there are some naim systems going into cruiser style yachts too
Listening on pioneer not shitt thank you for giving us all a kick to listen to the love every artist needs deserved. Listening. That Shit is stupid.
Many fun setups to listen to.
$50000 b&w speakers. Seemingly no room treatment. TV from 2008. Oh, audiophiles...Please stop.
En Joshi-Godrez weren’t they $50k each when new?
Those speakers Are Insaane... Now a days they comes in midnight blue, black and silver @ $60k
not to mention no decent source components, CD player, turntable, reel to reel.
All I have are onkyos from 1990 and prior. Cause there still affordable and you can still get parts for them. This stuff is out of my price range.
The guy found the Bw speakers in his storage room man maybe he was a good boy and Santa rewarded him
The lack of treatment in most of these rooms really defeats the systems in them. The positioning of speakers in most is merely aesthetic. I find it interesting that the same people invest in amp stands, isolated shelves etc. then place a speaker or sub in a corner or backed against a wall and point them at a wall (or 20 other reflective sufaces) a few feet away. What I'm saying is, audiophiliacs in general seem more driven by the desire to own products than the actual sonics they achieve because their systems would sound 100 times better if they put 5 mins thought into the room instead of buying more shiny things. You could custom make a pile of tasteful rock wool, softwood framed isolation panels with a fabric of your choice to match your decor for a 10th of what some of these people spent on an RCA cable but they can hear the difference in the cable but not the room right?
Thats my 2 pence from a music producer and budding audiophile and don't get me wrong, I love shiny things too.
I'm gonna hire a storage lock up just in case anyone wants to leave me a set of B&W Nautilus speakers one day!!!
With all due respect.........an audiophile system with its main piece a huge TV set......for me true audiophile is just 2 channel that's all
Thats how i have mine. Tv in the middle. For me now its just tv or 2 channel hi fi listening. Its a space
Thing
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Summertime (High-Quality Audio)
ua-cam.com/video/WCPxO9vpLZY/v-deo.html
processed using NPDT Process
#ellafitzgerald
#louisarmstrong
#summertime
#highquality
#npdtprocess
8:06 i recommend removing the dobro & violin hanging on the wall. Those have got to start resonating at high speaker volumes! BTW i had a guitar EXACTLY like that one.
The Nautilus speakers are around £55,000! In bloody storage?! Jammy bugger!
Some nice system steve👍
Yikes! If I came downstairs every morning to seeing those B&W Nautilus speakers, daily psychotherapy would be on my calendar. Maybe the occasional electroshock.
After I tried to stop laughing.
Andy Warhol would have embraced them. Definitely the Buck Rogers school of design.
Hi Steve
And probably a microphone. I see what you did there!!
I would like to go to his house and "find the speakers" too :)
Pioneer PL 12 D turntable (not 120). I just got a new belt for mine; haven't put it on yet.
7:37 .... ispy a *PONO* ...... good man!
All nice systems!
Very nice 👍
Haha, that first B&W system was doing so well until you got to the Mac Mini computer! Those things are noise factories!
I owned a Mac Mini a few years back. It had 8-bit mono sound output and couldn’t supply HD video to the TV fast enough. It worked fine for email and light Internet browsing until the crappy HDD died.
Paul from PS Audio explains it better
ua-cam.com/video/dqxn0rD9yy4/v-deo.html
@@alarife109 Paul is a little behind the curve with his use of that mac mini. I would not use the mac mini as a music streamer. I would (and have) go with something designed specifically for streaming audio. I am, btw, a happy PS Audio customer. I own the Sprout100.
Oh by the way - my basic rig - all second hand - set me back less than 500 bucks!
I'll take some pictures when I'm done with the re-arrangement of the room
when Steve said the second system had a lot of s**t in it, I first thought "that's not very nice" but then I realised he was taking about the maker. 😀😀
Hmm Steve Hackett.. 👏
Keep three headphones and donate the rest. Got to de clutter my friend.
Does anyone now the tube amp at about 10:00 on the bottom of that picture?
Ive tried but I'll never get my system into one of these videos - Im a NYer just like the audiophiliac, and you can't make a pretty photo out of a shoebox of an apartment crammed with books, art, records and gear. Good sound but looks a hot mess. Worst of all, SIP means everyone is home and working from home, so vanishingly small time for audio!
What are the spec's on that Poodle?
Epic
one day one day i'll have my 4 tube amps bi-amped to who knows what?
I want to submit a photo of my system, but my listening room always looks like a bomb hit it.
Why don't you give us more than a glimpse of Rasberry Pie?
www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/?variant=raspberry-pi-4-model-b-8gb
Here is a good review from Darko: ua-cam.com/video/3BUjj2mZ4o0/v-deo.html
Yeah. I knew Darko had covered it. DAarko didn't give too much detail though. How bout some pointers on where to get educated on making it do cool high end audio magic. Somethink like what Parks Audio did with his new high tech Puffin preamp. That's a device audiophiles can either love or hate but it's got programming to help make your turntable system do magical things. Maybe programmer audiophiles can give us more of this magic with RP.
@@joybrucebruce3377 Agreed. Personally, I think Raspberry Pi is a cheap computer which was created for console gaming and school settings. In my opinion, Pi has no business being in the world of audiophile. That it might be another technological avenue... yes. But nothing traditionally.
Hi Steve,
Have you made any video on the speakers in the range of $ 200 or less ?
Thanks,
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@@HareDeLune Thank you for the help !
What do you think about Bose 161 speaker ?
@@Upekha001
I have never heard the Bose 161. Sorry.
I had some Bose 301's back in the late Seventies, when Bose speakers were made from wood.
As I understand it, not long after that, production moved to China. Then, the cabinets were made from plastic. A poor choice for speaker cabinet material.
The same thing happened to the speaker brand I replaced the Bose with: Cambridge Soundworks.
By the way, I had to get rid of the Bose because after about ten years, the tweeters faded and they didn't sound good at all anymore.
If you want my recommendation for an affordable, yet fantastic sounding speaker, I highly recommend the Gallo Acoustics Micro SE.
Here is Steve's review of them from Cnet:
www.cnet.com/news/gallo-micro-se-how-can-a-speaker-this-small-sound-this-good/
Here is the website: www.roundsound.com
They are best used with at least one subwoofer, however.
Unless all you listen to is chamber music with violins. : )
Good luck! : D
@@HareDeLune Thanks D !
For " Gallo" ( $239) , i will need a subwoofer as per Steve's article. which will make the buying out of my reach. Upon recommendation of Steve, I am looking for Fluance Ai 40 ( $ 200 ). But it is not available online. All the website says " unavailable". I have checked fluance website there too its not available. Any idea where could i buy that ?
@@Upekha001
I am sorry but I do not know many places to buy audio products online.
I can remember one place from long ago.
www.audioadvisor.com
However, I have no idea if they carry that brand or not.
I wish for you the best of luck in your endeavors. : )
Not falling for this again he never puts mine in 😔
Larry Niles what
What's with the ramps ? with the studio monitor speakers
Gik Acoustics Bass Traps.
Where it's at!
All the equipment on the floor makes me nervous.
Get rid of the wife ASAP, keep those Altec Monitors and resto-mod them..
He "found" $70K speakers... nice.
The 2nd guys system is alot of Schitt.
you should wear a turtle neck
It behooves why the so called great speaker systems are nothing more than eye candy for those who like that sort of thing. Great speakers perform audibly not necessarily visually. What some people spend money on is a joke beyond belief. Bottom line is all speakers work on the same principles and are all subject to the same inherent problems of I.M. and phase distortions. No exceptions.
What's with Scott having his vinyl stacked up on each other? Enjoy the warping in years to come my friend. At least that will fit in with the 'vintage' appeal.
I think those Nautilus speakers were in the Batman and Robin movie, most everything of bad taste was!
B.S!