Look! Floor to Ceiling Audiophile Wet Dream

We saw this on Flickr and didn't even know what the majority of the stereo equipment was in the photo. Naturally we had to know so we emailed Thomas and found out what he's got going on in his living room.

The silver box on the floor is a Burmester Power amplifier 911 (2x350 Watts), while the large black speaker is one of two B&W N800 speakers. The first rack above the floor holds a Panasonic HD recorder and control unit for the Pioneeer Plasma TV shown in the photo after the jump. The middle rack holds a Burmester CD player 916, Burmester preamp 808 Mk 3, Burmester Tuner 915 and Burmester analog/digital converter 950. (If you're wondering what Burmester is, it's a German hi-fi audio manufacturer). The next rack has a Transrotor Turntable "Coinisseur", CD recorder Yamaha "CDR-HD1500", Sony DAT recorder/player 77ES and a Nakamichi cassette deck "Dragon". The top shelf has a rocket shaped lava lamp.

One more photo after the jump...

Photos: Thomas

Comments (9)

Thanks for actually following up with some info and going beyond we saw this, think it's cool, talk amongst yourself post.

posted by techgirl on October 29th 2008 at 7:15am
view techgirl's profile

You won't believe what that setup costs. Personally, audiophilia should be listed as a financially debilitating mental disorder.

posted by illegal danish on October 29th 2008 at 8:07am
view illegal danish's profile

illegal danish,
Haha! I totally agree. But hey, we all have our obsessions...

posted by lil' soso on October 29th 2008 at 8:13am
view lil' soso's profile

wow, that's a whole lotta pretty!

posted by kdkaboom on October 29th 2008 at 8:41am
view kdkaboom's profile

Though that set up is out of many (ok, most all) folks' budgets, it shows a great way to incorporate quite a bit of decent audio equipment into a room. Nice balance to the room, nice spacing of the shelves to provide negative space. Nice inspiration for those of us who aren't into boomboxes/ipod docks.

posted by ervington on October 29th 2008 at 9:35am
view ervington's profile

The speaker setup is really not optimal, especially considering the amount of money that went into the system.

posted by youngho_yoon on October 29th 2008 at 10:41am
view youngho_yoon's profile

Those cables bundled together is a big no-no in the audio world.

Good looking shelving though.

posted by spinsLPs on October 29th 2008 at 11:01am
view spinsLPs's profile

Seriously, youngho_yoon! You spend that kind of coin on that kind of sound, you better do up the room correctly. Check that HUGE radiator directly behind the left speaker- yikes! It's like each speaker has its own climate.

But hey, maybe they just haven't gotten to it yet.

And they are smokers! Indoor smokers, no less! Oh NoooooooooooooooooooooOo!

posted by maximumHOTbottom on October 29th 2008 at 11:33am
view maximumHOTbottom's profile

I haven't seen a Nak Dragon in a while!

posted by Jon_B on October 30th 2008 at 6:46am
view Jon_B's profile