Close-Up: Miper's High End Touch of Classy

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Ah, man pads. How we love them despite their sheer impracticality. Everything including the high end B&W speakers, turntables, and drool-worthy Hi-Fi equipment keeps us all scratching our heads on how one man can afford such luxuries. Mipers, "All I have is a dog, so..." Yeah, we get the idea. So with all space saving ideals aside, come join us in admiring a modern-contemporary retreat any man (or woman!) could rest easy in...

Sacrificing his dining room and knocking down some walls, he creates a dual-living room; one dedicated to a home theater for movies and TV, the other for nothing but his top-notch audio gear.

On his audio room walls, he displays original oil paintings of Frank Zappa and Bob Dylan, both whom oversee his collection of B&W 802D speakers, Classé amps, and PROJECT turntables.

A bunch of wall-mounted custom bookshelves are the main attraction on the side walls, filled with cassette tapes, DVDs, and vinyl records.

In the other room, he has a Denon receiver connected to a HTPC (home theater PC) that's connected to the 5.1 B&W speaker system with wires nicely hidden within the walls. We really dig the charcoal painted middle pillar, which act as the center point of the house (and righteously so), but it is the attention to detail with every technological aspect of the home that really gives it a personality of its own.

So yes, it's obvious he's a media lover. And yes, it's probably the least child-friendly (heck, maybe even wife-friendly) place we can think of. That said, we can't imagine a better place to kick back after a long hard day doing what we do and enjoying some nice Zappa on vinyl...

(Images: Miper)

I'm a girl and this has me drooling.

posted by mlleErica on May 13th 2009 at 4:07pm
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Wow. I would NEVER leave home...unless it's to the record store.

posted by MCBfly on May 13th 2009 at 5:07pm
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What coffee table is that?

posted by Jesikka on May 13th 2009 at 5:25pm
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Would be awesome if the photo's were tagged with descriptions. There are some very cool things in this room.

posted by Derek on May 13th 2009 at 5:28pm
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I'm with mlleErica, another girl... also drooling.
This is definitely wife friendly... and if your wife doesn't think so, she's probably defective. (kidding!) :P

posted by sparkle on May 13th 2009 at 5:33pm
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So uhm sparkle... *rawr*

posted by ekoshyun on May 13th 2009 at 5:45pm
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Every time I see a room that is totally ME and MY STYLE on Unpluggd/Apartment Therapy, whoever has posted it has put some label on it that says "MAN". What is this, the Dark Ages? Medieval times? Is having a job or wearing pants a "man thing" too??? When are these sexist posters going to realize that women are just as obsessed with awesome, high quality, innovative electronics/media and the display/arrangement of it as men are??? Notice half the comments are always from women who love it and are put off by the suggestion that we're not supposed to by the "man" label. Enough already!!!

posted by wipstar7 on May 13th 2009 at 6:29pm
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Haha! umm... *meow?*

posted by sparkle on May 13th 2009 at 6:32pm
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wipstar7, it's not really all that sexist. It's a man pad... cause a MAN lives there.

posted by sparkle on May 13th 2009 at 6:44pm
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B&W speakers...Classe components..drool!

posted by cscamp20 on May 13th 2009 at 7:48pm
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Here's a link to the original gallery of photos, there might be some picture tags there.

Text in Swedish, photos in Jealousy.

http://www.minhembio.com/miper/1039

posted by Enitime on May 13th 2009 at 7:53pm
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What is that wall to the right of the television (in the last photo)? Is it a rock installation? Is it wallpaper? What is it? I love it! (from yet another girl)

posted by MaeEast on May 14th 2009 at 7:55am
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Nice gear! We need more audiophile content on AT.

posted by paulg on May 14th 2009 at 9:09am
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I think the spaces are great, although I would have removed the pillar, if possible, and combined the two rooms. Why can't great audio and video live together in the same system and space?

posted by John H on May 14th 2009 at 9:25am
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This is nice and all, but what really makes this a pad of class is the Zappa photo above the stereo system.

posted by Brian D on May 14th 2009 at 10:09am
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Awesome. I love dedicated listening spaces like that. Alas with the baby my evenings of kicking back in the theater and listening to Blue and Metal have given way to listening on headphones (open floor plans aren't friendly to mixing sleeping babies and Sleep).

posted by Max on May 14th 2009 at 11:35am
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i'd trade my wife but not my son for this pad. ooowee, HOT.

posted by thedirtyshow on May 14th 2009 at 8:31pm
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What kind of plants are those (the stick ones and the one on the table)?

posted by m1st3rfoo on May 19th 2009 at 1:55am
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