Whoooa!!!

[Kingrex]

We made an offer on a second propery. In the end we backed out. During the contingency time I drew up a house draft. Laid out the floor plans. My system will eventually be darn close to what is seen here. A Boulder integrated amp near a central island fireplace with a couple bookshelf speakers and a couple subs placed as side coffee tables. And I will be happy as can be. I noted the room looks like a advertisement because it is tasteful and attractive. Something that botters me about my current setup. My current is a bit in your face for a living room audio system.

 

[Al M.]

My wife would like this room because the wires and electronics are out of sight. There are a lot of hard surfaces in the room so I wonder about sound quality.

I wonder about that too for those reasons. I wouldn't bet any money on good sound there, for sure.

 

[BlueFox]

I bet it sounds fine, just not optimum. Bring them closer together, upgrade the speaker wire, and enjoy. Assuming they aren’t being powered by a 100 watt AVR.

 

[Kingrex]

I might venture a guess the owner doesn't care that much. He bought a nice system and it plays great background music and entertains guests at parties. I sometimes wonder how many high end systems are in my geographic region. Only 10 or so people in Seattle post on these forums. Maybe 40 members in the PNWAS. But there are enough audio shops to say more than 50 people bought a decent stereo. And I bet for the most part they are totally content with it.

If I had not had issues with the first Rega gear I bought. As in it worked correct out of the box. I may never have upgraded a thing. I may have been totally content with my speakers neatly spaced in my room with a sever in my office playing digital. Issues forced me to seek answers and I fell down a hole. In reality, my stereo was fun to listen to when it worked. I had no idea all the stress one could bring upon themselves obsessing over the last 5%.

 

[u-sound]

I might venture a guess the owner doesn't care that much

my guess would be completely different.
i think the man was thinking VERY longtime and it was a painful big investment for him and probably his wife as well.
taking photos outside, from the installing process, the details from the footers.....the excitement certainly is there.
to put the equipement in the room behind the frontwall is the best you can do soundwise and also visually if you dont like to look at the gear. and obviously the owner are into aesthetics.
as for the speaker placement....the application here is to satisfay a larger group / bigger place.
sure, you trade in the one and only sweetspot and loose 3d staging.
close to the wall wont hurt here anymore and the m2 is not something that will boom.
i think it is very well done.
understatement score: 100/100
woahaaa

 

[Q3Di]

Looks like the owner is using a pair of Devialet amps installed below the bookshelf.
Wondering how the Devialet pairing with Magico.

 

[Bart001]

I recently moved to a new house and while I now have a dedicated room (which sounds great btw), I find myself spending majority of my time in the family room as it is adjacent to the dining room and kitchen in an open floorplan. So I started thinking to put an audio system there with JBL or Magico and an integrated, along with a few acoustic panels given that the room seemingly has a lot of reflective surfaces.

We're building a new home and because we spend so much time currently in our kitchen (new home has an open kitchen/family room floorplan), the hi fi is going in the family room despite it not being an acoustically optimal "listening room." But it's our real life listening room.

I could have built a dedicated listening room in the basement, but I'd never want to use it I know. My wife and I listen together much of the time. We can enjoy the music in the kitchen/family room. The nice basement space will be a gym

 

[Bart001]

as others have said, looks 'purdy' but knowing the the $$ spent on those puppies I'm sure we all could give them a much better set up to which they deserve.

I'm in the camp of "we have to live in our homes" and I think that the room is lovely (its a matter of taste of course) and I'd be delighted to own M2's in such a room.

We love our music at home, but I will never have a "dedicated listening room" that's not part of the LIVING area of our home. That requires some sacrifices; based on our tastes, yes the hi fi is in a room with "too much" hard surfaces. So be it. It sounds wonderful, we love it, we're glad we own it, and thus there is no "much better setup" for us.

 

[Calvin]

I'm in the camp of "we have to live in our homes" and I think that the room is lovely (its a matter of taste of course) and I'd be delighted to own M2's in such a room.

We love our music at home, but I will never have a "dedicated listening room" that's not part of the LIVING area of our home. That requires some sacrifices; based on our tastes, yes the hi fi is in a room with "too much" hard surfaces. So be it. It sounds wonderful, we love it, we're glad we own it, and thus there is no "much better setup" for us.

I think the room looks awesome too. My wife even loves it - important as we are hopefully headed the same direction but with M3s.

 

[Bart001]

I think the room looks awesome too. My wife even loves it - important as we are hopefully headed the same direction but with M3s.

I view the new home as a chance to move up from our A3's but at the moment the home is costing more than planned (gee - never saw that coming right?!?!?) and so I have delayed thinking about new speakers until after we're living in the home for a while. These A3's please us every time we listen and thus no hurry! I've always been a "value shopper" and the A's definitely ping the value shopper in me!

 

[Calvin]

I view the new home as a chance to move up from our A3's but at the moment the home is costing more than planned (gee - never saw that coming right?!?!?) and so I have delayed thinking about new speakers until after we're living in the home for a while. These A3's please us every time we listen and thus no hurry! I've always been a "value shopper" and the A's definitely ping the value shopper in me!

Congrats on your new home. We just moved into our new home last Thanksgiving. By the time we did all the add-ons - it's spendy - and we're already thinking about another new one...

The A3s, which I own as well, are exceptional. I really enjoy them. I could choose to just be satisfied with them and not purchase the M3s at all. But ...

 

[Bart001]

I listened to M2's locally - really enjoyed them. That was about 5 months ago or so. Back home - not sad we still own the A3's. Yes I'm sure it'll happen sometime, but the test of coming home and still liking what we own is test that was passed even after listening to the M2's. Thank goodness!