This is one of my favorite videos. I Love seeing other systems. High end is not what other people say it is... it’s what we love and build our systems and get true enjoyment of music from our systems. One of life’s greatest pleasures is the enjoyment of music.
It’s cool to see other people’s creativity when it comes to there enjoyment of music . I feel there is no wrong or right . It’s the feeling you get when you sit down AND listen to your tunes in your setup of choice
I really love seeing these pictures. Some of the vintage items, I've owned, sold, or repaired. It's wonderful to see the new as well as the vintage. As the Marvelous Stan Lee used to say ... Excelsior!
YES ! thanks for including my home made speakers ! As the second one ! They sound alive ! JBL and years of me tweaking! And the mini speakers are 3/4” walnut. No big deal
Why in the hell would anyone give this a thumbs down !!! Okay its a free world and your entitled to your own options . All I say to those whom give thumbs down ..YOUR VERY ...VERY SAD PEOPLE !!! By Far these are Steve's finest videos he creates absolutely love it . Peace Out from London ,UK
Love the room where the two kids play. Trains and HiFi. Ha! Also, it’s good to see that dad lets his son get right into the mix of his gear. Made to be used!
The pure GENIUS of tuning the room with a kid's train set. I'M NOT WORTHY.. LOL. Kidding aside, I'd like to be the Audiophile version of Guy Fiery. Just cruising the country to spend an afternoon with the owners of these rooms. Congratulations to all. Thanks for bringing this to us Steve.
Hey Steve! Keith here in Southern California. I really liked this segment. It’s so fun seeing people proud of their gear. I feel the same about mine. A lot of people out there cannot understand the enjoyment music can bring played on two channel stereo system (or on a good mono system). We can! Anyways, I really like your videos. It’s all about having fun. Your videos are fun (and educational). I’d like to submit a pic of my gear in the next couple months or when you do this segment again. Until then, keep the videos coming. They’re great.
Nice seeing that there are other people like me that Love Stereo equipment and Cats, and mine never touches speaker grills with claws, more than I can say about leather couches and chairs thrown in trash.
Video idea : talking about your experience with ear/hearing problems in the past, as a music lover I think there’s really nothing worse and how you dealt with it
@@davidfromamerica1871 glad your still enjoying it! I’m 23 and my right ear just felt clogged up and muffled but I got it checked out and got a hearing test but they said I was fine , but it really affected the way I listened to music I couldn’t enjoy it , this went on for 3 months and it’s finally clearing up , no idea what it was but I wouldn’t wish it on anyone ! Stay safe
I lost hearing due to big guns in the service. If you need hearing aids, work with a good audiologist to rind a hearing aid that works for you. Some hearing aids have a "Music" setting. Not perfect but pretty darn good. With digital technology, they can tune your listening curve to make music pleasant. For instance if you have a sensitivity to high end brightness or harshness, they can lower those frequencies. The second thing at least for me was to make the system mellow. No metal dome tweeters, neutral electronic and speakers that some other people might find not bright enough. For example, ELAC DRB 62 debut reference or Dynaudio Evoke line of speakers. Even cables can make a difference, I avoid silver plated copper. In my experience add brightness. People are different, you just need to work with it. One last thing. If you have allergies that can effect your hearing, clog your hearing canal. Medicine can keep that clear. Dr. Audio.
Very inspiring pictures! Really beautiful stuff. One thing I noted, at least visually a lot of speakers seem to be disproportionally big for the room. Maybe sonically is ok... Very cool pictures, loved the opening hidden light one. The only thing that could beat this is to hear the systems. I was going to say that the enthusiasm shown is infectious... but I think I should find a better word 😅
With work meetings all being on video conference these days, I'm always checking out the background to see if I can spy any audio gear. These videos scratch my kit voyeuristic itch a treat. Thanks Steve and all contributors.
All these system look outstanding !! Love watching your videos. Just started doing some videos on my simple Marantz Wharfedale Rega setup. Have to send some pictures in soon. Build my Turntable Stand out of Blanks of wood for guitar bodies and Baseball Bats. Very pleased with the results.
Indeed Re the B&O BeoVox' ... its not too often when I'm familiar with loudspeakers that SteveMo has never seen before. Quite distinctive, I knew them immediately.
All the vintage equipment reminds me of Barzilay wall systems that used to advertise in Audio and High Fidelity magazines. A friend just took one down in mint condition and could not find someone to buy it. I really wanted it but didn't have a place in the house for it.
Snuffed again. LOL I know my system is meh and my photos are bleh but it is all about staking my claim as one who loves every sound he can squeeze out of his system. Thanks for all you do Steve. You are the Sir Edmond Percival Hillary for all of us who would decide to test ourselves against the most demanding of enthusiast endeavors. The spinning, streaming, playing, tuning, balancing, tweaking, adjusting, amplifying, processing, converting, compiling, hearing, listening and debating all things Sonic other than hedgehogs. Knowing full well that we can recognise a song or composed piece of music through a myriad of differing drivers and that we can neatly, sweetly and ever so discreetly hear the felt from a piano hammer compressing into itself as it strikes a string and reverberates. And we can determine that it's Lightnin Hopkins grinding his axe on an old mono shellac through a brass Gramaphone or we can almost count the windings around the low E string as a modern electric guitar virtuoso slides up and down the fretboard grabbing cord after cord. And as ZZ Top so eloquently put it.... "working from one end to the other....AND ALL POINTS IN BETWEEN!" It's not the system we hear but our own ears no matter how clear fear deafness is near as they peer the sonic frontier like pioneer seers that jeer the thin veneer and smear the profiteers claiming to revere their peers yet they interfere crying insincere crocodile tears if it's clear they didn't adhere like cashiers for the profiteers.
When is the next time, I wanted to send you pictures to share and see what you think 🤔 I would like to suggest that you do this every week these are great and shows such a diversity of systems for all budgets!
Here is my system. Do you see a weakness? Cornwall IVs, Pioneer SX1280, Rega P8, Sony M555ES CD player, Douk preamp. My room is 12 x 24 and full of furniture. 0:02
Talking about seriously good hifi. Is it possible to review equipment from Oswald Mills Audio (OMA). Always looking forward to your honest and interesting reviews Steve.
Very pretty eye candy. But only one photo showed Wall Treatments and Bass Traps. And in that system, the foam "egg crate" style is used. This material does almost nothing as demonstrated through measurements reported in several places. I consider reducing resonant behavior and secondary reflections just as important as choice of an amp. For about $5K, one can do a very good job at reducing frequency response and time errors, especially in the bass and mid-bass (70Hz to 700Hz). That's less than one spends on an "audiophile" power amp. The addition of scatterers on the wall behind the listening position will reduce reflections and most importantly, improve imaging. I was very pleasantly surprised after I had installed my wall absorbers and scatterers and corner traps.
Working on doing something like this for you. Well not like THIS maybe! I'm setting up a new place and the last few weeks have been agonising what equipment to get. Second home, smaller rooms don't want to go nuts. Ran into a few brick walls. Equipment I want isn't sold here. Trials are out of the question. Equipment I do find I've never heard of. But then I found a Harman Kardon 930 Twin Power on Ebay. Have put in a bid - buying on ebay is kinda Russian Roulette as no idea if you'll get a racehorse or a dead dog. But I think going retro is the best idea for me. Now to find speakers (eyeing some Celestion Ditton 240s). Just frustrating trying to do this without seeing or hearing. You have any knowledge about 1970s H/K sound? And Celestion?
Steve Gutenberg didn't know your from Brooklyn, with you being from New York City I know you shop at the B&H store in Manhattan. Where do you get your audio gear.
Hi Steve, would you be able to recommend what floor-standing tower speakers are the best for listening to music, specifically listening to vinyl? I’m looking for some around the $1000-$2000 range, thank you!
They say I-O-TA-V-X and I’m waiting for your opinion on this one as it is supposed to be a great bang for the buck, very neutral and may be bridged to its amplifier pal the PA3, to get to a more muscular 100W presentation as they say.... ;-) up until now I cannot find anything at this combo price range to make sure that I will get as much as possible out of my in coming KEF Q550. Any recommendations until then? 😊
Still more bookshelf speakers on stands taking up just as much room as a floor-stander would!! 4 years now as a newbie audiophile, still don't get it, still never had a satisfactory explanation why you would choose that route! ?????
IKR? By the time you spend the money on good bookshelf speakers and good stands, could have had the floorstanders, that’s what I did. There’s a misconception that floorstanders can be to much speaker for the room, don’t understand that one either.
Floor standers can be expensive, at least the bookshelf’s are in a optimal position for best audio delivery instead of being on a bookshelf or hung on a wall, two installations which I deeply detest.
Imaging and soundstaging... My preference is towards large, powerfully dynamic speakers. However, small, capable, well executed two ways, that are properly set up can perform a disappearing act that's often a challenge for larger baffle fronts. Smaller standmounts are easier to physically locate/set up just perfectly.
There’s two very good replies to your question here. Imagining, soundstage and the speakers ability to disappear. When you hear that done well it’s difficult to listen to mainstream floorstanders. The other factor is if you live in the UK or Europe living rooms are much smaller so people’s expectations are somewhat different. Delicacy and articulacy win over PA sound pressure levels and huge bass. I’ve tried a few times over the last 30 years to find a big lump of a floorstander as they do sometimes look impressive. They just never cut it sound wise. Cheers Ps. There’s another reason people prefer standpoints over floorstanders. Speed.
@@jim586 I'm not in anyway anti-bookshelf in fact I have bookshelf speakers in three other rooms in my house! Imaginging err.. maybe I guess but better soundstage from a bookshelf I find a bit bemusing! For my main system I would never consider a bookshelf speaker . Maybe it's slightly dependent on the kind of music you generally listen to! And hey we certainly don't all see the world in the same way so why would we all hear it the same! 😉
This is one of my favorite videos. I Love seeing other systems. High end is not what other people say it is... it’s what we love and build our systems and get true enjoyment of music from our systems. One of life’s greatest pleasures is the enjoyment of music.
Exactly ...
Mr. Guttenberg, hope you make this a regular feature. Fun to see other's systems!
Thanks, it is a regular feature that I do every few months, check the playlist to see more of the stuff!
It’s cool to see other people’s creativity when it comes to there enjoyment of music . I feel there is no wrong or right . It’s the feeling you get when you sit down AND listen to your tunes in your setup of choice
There are audiophiles all around the world. Love it!
I really love seeing these pictures. Some of the vintage items, I've owned, sold, or repaired. It's wonderful to see the new as well as the vintage.
As the Marvelous Stan Lee used to say ... Excelsior!
YES ! thanks for including my home made speakers ! As the second one ! They sound alive ! JBL and years of me tweaking!
And the mini speakers are 3/4” walnut. No big deal
Wow! Thanks for showing my system!
Adrian
Why in the hell would anyone give this a thumbs down !!! Okay its a free world and your entitled to your own options . All I say to those whom give thumbs down ..YOUR VERY ...VERY SAD PEOPLE !!! By Far these are Steve's finest videos he creates absolutely love it . Peace Out from London ,UK
Just gave it a thumbs down! I just love being ironic!
8:02 in , is my system! I have a vintage audio TH-cam channel...My Own Devices. Thanks, Steve.
I love that guy who lets his son build his trains!!!
Nice! Love the photos and the DIY stuff.
Thank you for showing my system at 8.52! Greetings from Argentina
Love the room where the two kids play. Trains and HiFi. Ha! Also, it’s good to see that dad lets his son get right into the mix of his gear. Made to be used!
The pure GENIUS of tuning the room with a kid's train set. I'M NOT WORTHY.. LOL. Kidding aside, I'd like to be the Audiophile version of Guy Fiery. Just cruising the country to spend an afternoon with the owners of these rooms. Congratulations to all. Thanks for bringing this to us Steve.
Love the reel to reel. You can't beat them for tape
Copenhagen here. Another great video from you Steve. Thanks for showing all these fantastic set ups. Have a wonderful weekend with wifey. 💕
That RCA horn system, wow!
Hey Steve! Keith here in Southern California. I really liked this segment. It’s so fun seeing people proud of their gear. I feel the same about mine. A lot of people out there cannot understand the enjoyment music can bring played on two channel stereo system (or on a good mono system). We can! Anyways, I really like your videos. It’s all about having fun. Your videos are fun (and educational). I’d like to submit a pic of my gear in the next couple months or when you do this segment again. Until then, keep the videos coming. They’re great.
Seeing these systems makes me realize dang, I need to clean my house!
Clean your system instead (especially connections and interconnects). I just did and it made one hell of a difference
Awesome video. It's 3 am and now this video makes me wanna listen to my stereo. Cheers everybody. Stay safe
Nice seeing that there are other people like me that Love Stereo equipment and Cats, and mine never touches speaker grills with claws, more than I can say about leather couches and chairs thrown in trash.
Lots of marvels here! Thanks for sharing, folks.
This is awesome Steve! Hopefully I’ll be paying close enough attention to get my vintage set up in the next installment!
Such amazing viewers systems, steve knocked this out the park, love his show, knowbody does this better, ya just gotta love what he does.
So great. I even love the variety of furniture. Sometimes the super-basic racks are little bit of a letdown, so nice work y'all!
Video idea : talking about your experience with ear/hearing problems in the past, as a music lover I think there’s really nothing worse and how you dealt with it
@@davidfromamerica1871 glad your still enjoying it! I’m 23 and my right ear just felt clogged up and muffled but I got it checked out and got a hearing test but they said I was fine , but it really affected the way I listened to music I couldn’t enjoy it , this went on for 3 months and it’s finally clearing up , no idea what it was but I wouldn’t wish it on anyone ! Stay safe
@@shanec6664 Nothing more wonderful than when something degrading your quality of life clears up by itself.
@@thegrimyeaper I’d stopped buying records and everything , Then I stopped caring and it just went away , it was crazy
I lost hearing due to big guns in the service. If you need hearing aids, work with a good audiologist to rind a hearing aid that works for you. Some hearing aids have a "Music" setting. Not perfect but pretty darn good. With digital technology, they can tune your listening curve to make music pleasant. For instance if you have a sensitivity to high end brightness or harshness, they can lower those frequencies. The second thing at least for me was to make the system mellow. No metal dome tweeters, neutral electronic and speakers that some other people might find not bright enough. For example, ELAC DRB 62 debut reference or Dynaudio Evoke line of speakers. Even cables can make a difference, I avoid silver plated copper. In my experience add brightness. People are different, you just need to work with it. One last thing. If you have allergies that can effect your hearing, clog your hearing canal. Medicine can keep that clear. Dr. Audio.
@Jingle Nuts I should have noted that in my experience, silver plated copper Digital Coax cables are very good. Just my experience.
Love love seeing these different stereo systems more more Steve
Very inspiring pictures! Really beautiful stuff.
One thing I noted, at least visually a lot of speakers seem to be disproportionally big for the room. Maybe sonically is ok...
Very cool pictures, loved the opening hidden light one. The only thing that could beat this is to hear the systems.
I was going to say that the enthusiasm shown is infectious... but I think I should find a better word 😅
Thanks Steve for doing this, I'll be sending in a photo the next go around...
With work meetings all being on video conference these days, I'm always checking out the background to see if I can spy any audio gear. These videos scratch my kit voyeuristic itch a treat. Thanks Steve and all contributors.
All these system look outstanding !! Love watching your videos. Just started doing some videos on my simple Marantz Wharfedale Rega setup. Have to send some pictures in soon. Build my Turntable Stand out of Blanks of wood for guitar bodies and Baseball Bats. Very pleased with the results.
You got my name right, Steve! Thanks for showing my hifi. Love your show and seeing everyone's cool stuff!
Oh good, I am relieved! Thanks again for the picture!
Wow, those Goldmunds must worth as much as the house
3:35 Now that's just downright cozy.
Indeed
Re the B&O BeoVox' ... its not too often when I'm familiar with loudspeakers that SteveMo has never seen before.
Quite distinctive, I knew them immediately.
That LS/50 system made me wonder how a pair of large LS-50 would sound. Like big as the source point 10. They looked huge in that pic
Love this! Thanks Steve it's a blast to see these systems!
All the vintage equipment reminds me of Barzilay wall systems that used to advertise in Audio and High Fidelity magazines. A friend just took one down in mint condition and could not find someone to buy it. I really wanted it but didn't have a place in the house for it.
They must have removed the roof to get that RCA system in the house, that's insane 🤪
Lowered it with a rescue helicopter 😂
I designed my home to house such things. And RCA designed the horn to fit a standard 36"w doorway.
@@kloss213
Wow, that is insane 👍
Amazing audio gear Loved the mono console kuddoos
Interesting to see the various different systems...
Very fun video Steve!!
OK Steve, between your reviews and Jay iyagi's I decided to get the Hegel H190 and I just ordered the LRS+ from Magnepan. Thanks!
Snuffed again. LOL
I know my system is meh and my photos are bleh but it is all about staking my claim as one who loves every sound he can squeeze out of his system. Thanks for all you do Steve. You are the Sir Edmond Percival Hillary for all of us who would decide to test ourselves against the most demanding of enthusiast endeavors.
The spinning, streaming, playing, tuning, balancing, tweaking, adjusting, amplifying, processing, converting, compiling, hearing, listening and debating all things Sonic other than hedgehogs.
Knowing full well that we can recognise a song or composed piece of music through a myriad of differing drivers and that we can neatly, sweetly and ever so discreetly hear the felt from a piano hammer compressing into itself as it strikes a string and reverberates. And we can determine that it's Lightnin Hopkins grinding his axe on an old mono shellac through a brass Gramaphone or we can almost count the windings around the low E string as a modern electric guitar virtuoso slides up and down the fretboard grabbing cord after cord.
And as ZZ Top so eloquently put it....
"working from one end to the other....AND ALL POINTS IN BETWEEN!"
It's not the system we hear but our own ears no matter how clear fear deafness is near as they peer the sonic frontier like pioneer seers that jeer the thin veneer and smear the profiteers claiming to revere their peers yet they interfere crying insincere crocodile tears if it's clear they didn't adhere like cashiers for the profiteers.
Finn! You can write!! Thanks for being here.
@@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac
😊
One of my favorite features on here.
When is the next time, I wanted to send you pictures to share and see what you think 🤔 I would like to suggest that you do this every week these are great and shows such a diversity of systems for all budgets!
I love these videos of viewer’s systems. You could do an entire Channel of just those. 😆
Love the content Steve awesome idea
I love these episodes.
Vintage can be awesome BUT you REALLY gotta know what you're doing!
Awesome.... Good morning from Singapore
I like that collage. Is that Robyn’s work?
Advents! My first good speakers.
6:29 Dang! That reminds me of the speaker in Back to the Future that blew Michael J. Fox across the room. 🤣
Good morning Steve from San Antonio Texas
This is about so much more than sound quality. My system sounds good but looks almost invisible in my room. (I'm very envious!)
Here is my system. Do you see a weakness? Cornwall IVs, Pioneer SX1280, Rega P8, Sony M555ES CD player, Douk preamp. My room is 12 x 24 and full of furniture. 0:02
Love your videos, Steve.
Thanks for watching!
I NEED that Schiit stack at 11:54 OMG!
Hi again dude. In case you have not come across it, Emmanuel Santarromana Mètropolitain. The track Opèra is totally there. Play it you will see.
Some great systems in nice homes. I didn't know there were mono enthusiasts.
Awesome setups
Very cool! Thanks
hifi schmi fi - i need that train set! the rigs; vive la difference!
Brilliant.. Bar raised yet again.. cheers Steve. 🏴🎱🐙🙏
John must be from Texas where everything is bigger!
Wisconsin
Excellent!
The mono is cool 10:30
Good staff!
Great systems! Seems like Zu is a popular speaker brand.
And Roxy and Patti in the same photo!
Love your subbscriber pic sessions!
...and a nice Schiit Stack.
very nice, great systems
Talking about seriously good hifi. Is it possible to review equipment from Oswald Mills Audio (OMA). Always looking forward to your honest and interesting reviews Steve.
And the Winner is ZU!
people have really crazy sound caves ;-)
Very pretty eye candy. But only one photo showed Wall Treatments and Bass Traps. And in that system, the foam "egg crate" style is used. This material does almost nothing as demonstrated through measurements reported in several places. I consider reducing resonant behavior and secondary reflections just as important as choice of an amp. For about $5K, one can do a very good job at reducing frequency response and time errors, especially in the bass and mid-bass (70Hz to 700Hz). That's less than one spends on an "audiophile" power amp. The addition of scatterers on the wall behind the listening position will reduce reflections and most importantly, improve imaging. I was very pleasantly surprised after I had installed my wall absorbers and scatterers and corner traps.
Quietest shirt of 2021
Interesting pics.
nice! thanks for sharing.
Very Nice!
Cal Tjader! Soul Sauce, baby!
I was concerned when you said "Kitty" and "nice Schiit stack" in the same sentence.
Love this videos...
Damn !! I missed out on my photo!! Next time..
Working on doing something like this for you. Well not like THIS maybe! I'm setting up a new place and the last few weeks have been agonising what equipment to get. Second home, smaller rooms don't want to go nuts. Ran into a few brick walls. Equipment I want isn't sold here. Trials are out of the question. Equipment I do find I've never heard of. But then I found a Harman Kardon 930 Twin Power on Ebay. Have put in a bid - buying on ebay is kinda Russian Roulette as no idea if you'll get a racehorse or a dead dog. But I think going retro is the best idea for me. Now to find speakers (eyeing some Celestion Ditton 240s). Just frustrating trying to do this without seeing or hearing. You have any knowledge about 1970s H/K sound? And Celestion?
Whish Stevewould highlight Ohm Walsh speakers sometime.
always love me some good hardware pr0n. Thanks for sharing!
Steve Gutenberg didn't know your from Brooklyn, with you being from New York City I know you shop at the B&H store in Manhattan. Where do you get your audio gear.
Interesting. Thanks.
Hi Steve, would you be able to recommend what floor-standing tower speakers are the best for listening to music, specifically listening to vinyl? I’m looking for some around the $1000-$2000 range, thank you!
$2K Tekton 2-10 Perfect Set , Around $1.3K KEF Q750
@@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac How would the Kefs compare to a Klipsch tower like the rp8000f?
Thank you, Steve. How do I submit my system photo's to you?
Cheers
Rob
Send JPEGs and a complete description of the system, very important in one email! Audiophiliac@mail.com
They say I-O-TA-V-X and I’m waiting for your opinion on this one as it is supposed to be a great bang for the buck, very neutral and may be bridged to its amplifier pal the PA3, to get to a more muscular 100W presentation as they say.... ;-) up until now I cannot find anything at this combo price range to make sure that I will get as much as possible out of my in coming KEF Q550. Any recommendations until then? 😊
love these vids
Nice
Can you please make a review about the FiiO ka3 dac
How do I showcase my system. I haven’t found many kindred audiophiles in Utah
Still more bookshelf speakers on stands taking up just as much room as a floor-stander would!! 4 years now as a newbie audiophile, still don't get it, still never had a satisfactory explanation why you would choose that route! ?????
IKR? By the time you spend the money on good bookshelf speakers and good stands, could have had the floorstanders, that’s what I did. There’s a misconception that floorstanders can be to much speaker for the room, don’t understand that one either.
Floor standers can be expensive, at least the bookshelf’s are in a optimal position for best audio delivery instead of being on a bookshelf or hung on a wall, two installations which I deeply detest.
Imaging and soundstaging...
My preference is towards large, powerfully dynamic speakers.
However, small, capable, well executed two ways, that are properly set up can perform a disappearing act that's often a challenge for larger baffle fronts.
Smaller standmounts are easier to physically locate/set up just perfectly.
There’s two very good replies to your question here.
Imagining, soundstage and the speakers ability to disappear.
When you hear that done well it’s difficult to listen to mainstream floorstanders.
The other factor is if you live in the UK or Europe living rooms are much smaller so people’s expectations are somewhat different. Delicacy and articulacy win over PA sound pressure levels and huge bass.
I’ve tried a few times over the last 30 years to find a big lump of a floorstander as they do sometimes look impressive. They just never cut it sound wise.
Cheers
Ps. There’s another reason people prefer standpoints over floorstanders. Speed.
@@jim586 I'm not in anyway anti-bookshelf in fact I have bookshelf speakers in three other rooms in my house! Imaginging err.. maybe I guess but better soundstage from a bookshelf I find a bit bemusing! For my main system I would never consider a bookshelf speaker . Maybe it's slightly dependent on the kind of music you generally listen to! And hey we certainly don't all see the world in the same way so why would we all hear it the same! 😉
What do you think about the GOOGLE Speakers?
Not much, but I reviewed the Google max on my blog for CNET
*crazily good