We have had a great time building this with Chris and McIntosh over the last year - and we're not done! We wanted to share the story of taking this from an idea, to a reality, and showing what it really takes to put together something of this scale. We couldn't be happier that Chris is enjoying not only the system, but all of the other touches we've helped put into his home (We really hope to go back and do some deep dives into the gun room and the other features of the home). If you want some more insights on all of the nitty-gritty tech specs watch this short playlist where we dive into it: th-cam.com/play/PLXOlktLHYl7NjF4czOi8JhCWrCEtvt1Fa.html
In 2023 i went to a Hi-Fi show in Sydney AU and was privileged to listen to a $200,00 AU McIntosh stereo system. The first time I ever heard a record playing with NO crackle or hiss! My surround sound cd I brought with me was played on it and sounded AWESOME!!!! You are a lucky man. God bless you and your family.
Very happy for you. I'm 60 and I also love music. I have to have music playing all the time. Fingers crossed that Bose keeps McIntosh an amazing company.
The system looks amazing, and I'm guessing it also sounds amazing. Just an observation from my perspective: It looks like the room could benefit from some sound treatment.
Beautiful system! Our McIntosh / Bob Carver system accomplishes 5 goals. 1. Powerful; 2. Easy to operate; 3. Accurate; 4. Technology thru the ages (phono, cassette, reel to reel, CD, DVD audio, SACD, BluRay audio, streaming Hi resolution, Spatial Audio, home theater, and finally 6 gaming systems including a Vive virtual reality computer) 5. Aesthetically pleasing which holds its value. Disregard the haters out there. Our fam cannot be happier. Enjoy the music my friend…powerfully, accurately,….and loudly 😁😎🎶🎶🔊🔊🔊
No. When I sold my high end audio store, which had been Levinson dealer of the year back when it meant something, plus did a lot of Classe and Audio Research, I was sent to McIntosh school. What a nightmare. Among many other things we were told they don't listen to products during the design process, measurement only, and shown how to do rigged demos. Their offerings were bettered by less expensive pieces from Audio Research (Harmon had destroyed Levinson by then). Our sales trainer, once the biggest Mac dealer in the country, bragged that the only sound he cared about was the cash register. I think it's hysterical that Bose recently acquired them. In fairness their construction quality is very good and they do more than most in house.
@@alexkane84 Don't tell me what to do. They're the worst company I've ever dealt with in this industry. I spent 3 days in hell with them. I seriously doubt that you have anything besides walking through shows in terms of experience and that's all but meaningless. I've taken their stuff home and compared it against 3 different fine lines. Mac came in last. I assume you either own it or are a dealer. When Levinson crashed there was great speculation who would take their place. No one that Iknow of guessed it would be a line that had totally fallen behind from their glory days. Bye.
@@rickmilam413 Not surprised at how you feel, but can I ask you this … the customer in this video heard a system that blew him away right? Was that real or BS ? From your experience and years in the business what did we see happen? Now I did pay attention to the customers own words when he said that all he had at home were basic systems etc and he did lean hard on the install company and felt he was being very demanding. Now look, I can read into that alone and say that he felt hustled. That he was very inexperienced to start with and it’s easy to get a guy like that who also has tons of doe! You’ve been on both sides so what’s your take on this? How could the Mac system in nyc blow him away if it isn’t the bomb best of the best out there? Respectfully what did this vid make you think from the customers words and reactions? Typical novice etc…?
WOW I'm absolutely blown away almost speechless what a dream come true! The McIntosh Equipment well what can I say just Unbelievable Beautiful Products!! Enjoy every second of it you've earned it!!!❤
@Creative-Audio ... Amazing shots to choose from too. Someone there has a hod grasp of videography / production. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to more.
What a incredible journey for excellent sound. Kudos to a great job of customer service and telling a great audio story! I think these are some of the 1st PS2K Powered Subwoofers
We didn't want to make a claim we weren't sure of - but we do believe this was the first pair of PS2Ks in a home at the time of installation. (Pair is the important factor here) (Stay tuned for even more additions that we hope are a first as well in the upcoming weeks!)
Wow I would love to hear those subs. Thing is for 50k it probably won’t outperform a 5k dual 18’ jtr captivator 4000. Id rather have 10 captivators for 50k than one of macs subs. Still amazing I love those. Wow with those meters on the bottom of those subs it makes them look so cool. And the woofers are so shiny wow Great system man
My dad's system was all McIntosh tube components. Sadly, they had to be sold, but if I ever end up in the position where I can, I'd love to do something like this.
I don't want to offend anyone, but before you dream about good sound, you need to muffle the room, there are special materials, otherwise it will be nonsense
Seeing the thumbnail "$500,000 Audio System" which yea is crazy. But in the world of uber high fi, $500k is nothing lol. Not that my broke ass could afford anything remotely close but still crazy that $500k is a drop in the bucket with what is available when there are several just speakers alone in the million mark as well as other audio components individually costing several hundreds of thousands each. Regardless, this is a beautiful and stunning setup I could only dream of and I hope you know how fortunate you are to be able to experience something like this when there is so many of us that can only dream.
I am 1,000% sure that if you do a blind test in the system for 500,000 and for 5,000 people simply won’t be able to tell the difference, and marketing is also not bad, selling audio equipment for the price of a Boeing wing 😁
@@Riga_Style I agree, 99% of those people couldn't tell a difference. Reminds me of that old video from, I think it was the 90s, where a room of audiophiles compared speaker wire costing thousands of dollars to metal coat hangers and no one could really tell a difference with a few even choosing the coat hangers as sounding better.
He did good financially but he seemed lonely. He mentioned his wife is gone and didn't mention any kids? Maybe he has some, I hope he does. But yeah I would love his set up, house and all.
At one point, this guy likely fought crime at night. Apparently wealthy, maybe single, who can build heavy equipment and casually speak fluent Spanish 🤔 Tell Nightwing I said hello for me, thanks! 😂
Most people wouldn’t notice the difference between a $500,000 system vs a $10,000 system if you set it up right. Waste of money and when you want to sell the way overpriced system the market is very small. The only people smiling from ear to ear is the sales guy.
@@pugrallye23 i have a decent sized room, it was like 400-450 to buy 8 foot rolls of 4" triangle foam, and it creates a dead no reflection treatment when you wrap just about the whole room with it. would make a huge difference. you can tell the owner of that system doesn't actually listen to it a lot or even loud. he just owns a nice system. nobody who listens to loud music would ever tolerate a reflective room like that.
That’s assuming it’s not built into the walls. If he’s got the money to buy this system he certainly could have altered the room. But I’m just playing devils advocate because it doesn’t look treated.
No carpet room, no room treatments, racks those sit on not that great, need separate copper Romex to independent breakers on electrical panel and upgraded outlet plugs. Looks like Mcintosh sold the most gear to make the most money versus optimizing the area for the system itself.
9 additional 20 amp circuits for a total of 10 on that wall. Two triple outlet banks behind each 2000 watt amp, 1 behind each sub, and two behind the cabinet for all the components.
The MEN220 Room Correction System is an amazing piece of kit - and specifically designed to help get incredible stereo sound when off axis or in rooms with difficult design. While not included in our video as it was more about Chris and the journey - ListenUp has a great video with Ricardo from the House of Sound that dives into how incredible results can be obtained with less than ideal architecture. th-cam.com/video/w19czxv8Gok/w-d-xo.html
Finding happiness on 1600 acres of natural beauty has been TOUGH? wow . Happiness and sound are strictly subjective , however this set up seems to indicate the opposite . very sad indeed
When your spending this much money people with kiss your butt,bottom line,and if I can interject I would have invested in MBL electronics instead if I had the money much more reliability over time for a investment like this
McIntosh today is absolute junk. Overpriced, poor quality, garbage. I have a million dollar system - tried McIntosh as a surround amp and it was defective. Sent it back for repair under warranty and it was sent back with a completely fabricated work order and they had just swapped channels, so the defective channel was now another channel. Never buying McIntosh again. Real high-end components are Nagra, DarTZeel, and many others.
I guess what you are missing is the aesthetics. Very good sound and bad ass look. Let me tell you, his set up looked banging. JTR is about the sound but look like doo doo. People want the look as well.
@@chadnliz2k11 lol. house long paid off. 100k invested. 100k in cash. 3 new cars paid in cash. i have been into hifi for 40 years. 99% of so called high end kit is junk. been there done that mofo. just buy cheap kit and enjoy the music. this dudes room is terrible anyway. no matter how much the idiot spends on kit it'll never sound any good in that room. he just buys that crap coz it looks good.
@@TascamTascam no it doesnt. price has nothing to do with sound quality ok. money thrown at kit imho just brings in more brightness. this kit will sound shite in that big echoey room anyway. the dude has chronic ocd and only bought it coz it looks good. come back 5 years time see if he still has it? almost certainly no. box swappers are all not right in their heads. its a shrink they need not more stupid boxes
I had some McIntosh équipement, many time some problem. It is good, but the price for the quality is too high. You paid for the name, and now many equipment are made in China. Now is cheapest.
Creative Audio did a outstanding job on this build. Might I recommend a selection of music to enjoy on this incredible sound system. th-cam.com/video/uOnoqA4NMVA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=H0mq7DbN_SPru4jS I would very much consider this a 'concept mix' similar to Dark Side of the Moon that tells a brilliant 'Heroes Journey' story to listener. The tracks hold a larger purpose or meaning collectively than they do individually much like the human consciousness. "This is, as I said, my basic metaphysical assumption, which I won't conceal from you. That existence is musical in nature. That is to say that it is not serious. It is the play of all kinds of patterns". - Alan Watts
We have had a great time building this with Chris and McIntosh over the last year - and we're not done! We wanted to share the story of taking this from an idea, to a reality, and showing what it really takes to put together something of this scale. We couldn't be happier that Chris is enjoying not only the system, but all of the other touches we've helped put into his home (We really hope to go back and do some deep dives into the gun room and the other features of the home). If you want some more insights on all of the nitty-gritty tech specs watch this short playlist where we dive into it: th-cam.com/play/PLXOlktLHYl7NjF4czOi8JhCWrCEtvt1Fa.html
Looks purty, large open floor 😮
Is that so? How do you know?😅
Does McIntosh make Blu-ray DVD players?
Overrated overpriced overhyped ripoff
In 2023 i went to a Hi-Fi show in Sydney AU and was privileged to listen to a $200,00 AU McIntosh stereo system. The first time I ever heard a record playing with NO crackle or hiss! My surround sound cd I brought with me was played on it and sounded AWESOME!!!!
You are a lucky man.
God bless you and your family.
Living a man's dream. Building stuff, uses heavy equipment, fixes stuff, has a killer sound system! Oh and has lovely dogs too.
AND he shoots his guns and rides his Harley
Killer sound system yes. Rest of that crap , no. Don’t want to go near heavy equipment or fix shit.
Very happy for you. I'm 60 and I also love music. I have to have music playing all the time. Fingers crossed that Bose keeps McIntosh an amazing company.
...and keeps them in New York!
Guns and audio - I can relate. Both hobbies are loads of fun.
I’m going to go and spend an extra $2 on the lottery to get my dream house built with this set up in it!!!👍🏾👍🏾
The system looks amazing, and I'm guessing it also sounds amazing. Just an observation from my perspective: It looks like the room could benefit from some sound treatment.
Beautiful system! Our McIntosh / Bob Carver system accomplishes 5 goals. 1. Powerful; 2. Easy to operate; 3. Accurate; 4. Technology thru the ages (phono, cassette, reel to reel, CD, DVD audio, SACD, BluRay audio, streaming Hi resolution, Spatial Audio, home theater, and finally 6 gaming systems including a Vive virtual reality computer) 5. Aesthetically pleasing which holds its value.
Disregard the haters out there. Our fam cannot be happier. Enjoy the music my friend…powerfully, accurately,….and loudly 😁😎🎶🎶🔊🔊🔊
Nice, this is the experience that one should have. Enjoy!
No. When I sold my high end audio store, which had been Levinson dealer of the year back when it meant something, plus did a lot of Classe and Audio Research, I was sent to McIntosh school. What a nightmare. Among many other things we were told they don't listen to products during the design process, measurement only, and shown how to do rigged demos. Their offerings were bettered by less expensive pieces from Audio Research (Harmon had destroyed Levinson by then). Our sales trainer, once the biggest Mac dealer in the country, bragged that the only sound he cared about was the cash register. I think it's hysterical that Bose recently acquired them. In fairness their construction quality is very good and they do more than most in house.
Don’t hate . This is an incredible system and McIntosh amps are still amazing against any of the best
@@alexkane84 Don't tell me what to do. They're the worst company I've ever dealt with in this industry. I spent 3 days in hell with them. I seriously doubt that you have anything besides walking through shows in terms of experience and that's all but meaningless. I've taken their stuff home and compared it against 3 different fine lines. Mac came in last. I assume you either own it or are a dealer. When Levinson crashed there was great speculation who would take their place. No one that Iknow of guessed it would be a line that had totally fallen behind from their glory days. Bye.
@@rickmilam413
Not surprised at how you feel, but can I ask you this … the customer in this video heard a system that blew him away right? Was that real or BS ? From your experience and years in the business what did we see happen? Now I did pay attention to the customers own words when he said that all he had at home were basic systems etc and he did lean hard on the install company and felt he was being very demanding. Now look, I can read into that alone and say that he felt hustled. That he was very inexperienced to start with and it’s easy to get a guy like that who also has tons of doe! You’ve been on both sides so what’s your take on this? How could the Mac system in nyc blow him away if it isn’t the bomb best of the best out there? Respectfully what did this vid make you think from the customers words and reactions? Typical novice etc…?
WOW I'm absolutely blown away almost speechless what a dream come true! The McIntosh Equipment well what can I say just Unbelievable Beautiful Products!!
Enjoy every second of it you've earned it!!!❤
Wow.. You are my HERO!!! This is an AWESOME sound system! But, as a big game hunter.... I love your property setup in Missouri! FANTASTIC!
Very, very well produced video. Great story telling. Decor matching sound panels?
Yea.. Kudos on this. Video turned out great. 🎉🎉
Our media team has toiled through hours of footage from months of work to put together a story we feel is worth sharing. Thank you for the kind words.
@Creative-Audio ... Amazing shots to choose from too. Someone there has a hod grasp of videography / production.
Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to more.
WOW x a million. Congratulations. Thanks for sharing.
Looks amazing! I would like to hear that system. ❤
As a DJ, I would love to rock out on that system. Those speaker is a sick!!
What a incredible journey for excellent sound. Kudos to a great job of customer service and telling a great audio story! I think these are some of the 1st PS2K Powered Subwoofers
We didn't want to make a claim we weren't sure of - but we do believe this was the first pair of PS2Ks in a home at the time of installation. (Pair is the important factor here) (Stay tuned for even more additions that we hope are a first as well in the upcoming weeks!)
Unreal - a two channel masterpiece with built in home theatre. Unbelievable
🤩
Welcome to Mc Bosintosh!
Stunning ,all the best from Norway
Wow I would love to hear those subs. Thing is for 50k it probably won’t outperform a 5k dual 18’ jtr captivator 4000. Id rather have 10 captivators for 50k than one of macs subs. Still amazing I love those. Wow with those meters on the bottom of those subs it makes them look so cool. And the woofers are so shiny wow Great system man
Love McIntosh!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I want this. If I can ever afford it, I will be in touch with you!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
He and I are much alike. You can feel his spirit. Please stay healthy and continue to be blessed my man. 🙏🏽
Great video the Bose McIntosh looks good 🎉❤
Ok perfect troll way to kicks us Mac fans while we are down.
beautiful system!!
Very Nice and my Man must be a super millionaire for this system.
Nice Bose setup, bro.
Less audio more treadmill😅 Mcintosh is awesome😍
Brilliant. Wow. Lovely set up. Crazy nice..
Thank you for the kind words!
Congratulations!
My dad's system was all McIntosh tube components. Sadly, they had to be sold, but if I ever end up in the position where I can, I'd love to do something like this.
That's incredible!
WoW VERY impressive....
You can either have all of this, or a couple of kids and college. I may have made the wrong choice.
Enjoy your music my friend. You might have been a bit hasty, but no matter..take it easy and have fun
Epic setup! If I may ask, what is the ball park cost? Thanks.
Just one of those sub woofer towers cost $50,000. So I suspect north of $500k. But I'm sure it sounds great.
$500 k approx
Maybe fix the room acoustics first :)
Got to have sound in the gun room! 😂
I like this guy’s F’in style! All or Nothing!
More money than sense. No way that dude needs that set up in his reddeck world. He'd be good with a $2000 system from Best Buy.
Please, please take the Turntable off the sliding drawer! You’re making the whole table vibrate.
I would love to hear your system, I bet it is amazing. I love guns too!
Wonder what will become of McIntosh under Bose.
The new Bose McIntosh🤣🤣🤣
I don't want to offend anyone, but before you dream about good sound, you need to muffle the room, there are special materials, otherwise it will be nonsense
Wait until uncle Sam sees this vid and some jealous intern at the IRS decides to audit your finances !
Huh ?
Seeing the thumbnail "$500,000 Audio System" which yea is crazy. But in the world of uber high fi, $500k is nothing lol. Not that my broke ass could afford anything remotely close but still crazy that $500k is a drop in the bucket with what is available when there are several just speakers alone in the million mark as well as other audio components individually costing several hundreds of thousands each. Regardless, this is a beautiful and stunning setup I could only dream of and I hope you know how fortunate you are to be able to experience something like this when there is so many of us that can only dream.
I am 1,000% sure that if you do a blind test in the system for 500,000 and for 5,000 people simply won’t be able to tell the difference, and marketing is also not bad, selling audio equipment for the price of a Boeing wing 😁
@@Riga_Style I agree, 99% of those people couldn't tell a difference. Reminds me of that old video from, I think it was the 90s, where a room of audiophiles compared speaker wire costing thousands of dollars to metal coat hangers and no one could really tell a difference with a few even choosing the coat hangers as sounding better.
He needs a bigger tv for this amazing system
Pretty much all TVs looks small next to 7-foot tall tower speakers - His is an 83" OLED.
💰 is 👑
man you did good in life
He did good financially but he seemed lonely. He mentioned his wife is gone and didn't mention any kids? Maybe he has some, I hope he does. But yeah I would love his set up, house and all.
Nice 👌
Never would think he would like Evelyn champagne king, who I love by the way
🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩👍👍👍👍👍 vivement que je gagne a la loterie !!!😄
That's a whole lot of buttons.
Not really a fan of Bose stuff, it's only a matter of time until we see McIntosh branded Bluetooth beach speakers in pink.
You don't need sound absorption with the wall of sound.
At one point, this guy likely fought crime at night. Apparently wealthy, maybe single, who can build heavy equipment and casually speak fluent Spanish 🤔 Tell Nightwing I said hello for me, thanks! 😂
If I could I would, big fan of McIntosh. But I will just have to settle for my $250,000 Sound / Theater system....
Ill stick with my Marantz powered Andrew Jones speakers.
Most people wouldn’t notice the difference between a $500,000 system vs a $10,000 system if you set it up right. Waste of money and when you want to sell the way overpriced system the market is very small. The only people smiling from ear to ear is the sales guy.
this is cool, but the first room they were listening in IS ABSOLUTELY not treated and must have sounded horrible and over echo'd
Exactly what I was going to say as well - so much hardware, and no room treatment? Seems a bit pointless to me….
preach
@@pugrallye23 i have a decent sized room, it was like 400-450 to buy 8 foot rolls of 4" triangle foam, and it creates a dead no reflection treatment when you wrap just about the whole room with it. would make a huge difference. you can tell the owner of that system doesn't actually listen to it a lot or even loud. he just owns a nice system. nobody who listens to loud music would ever tolerate a reflective room like that.
That’s assuming it’s not built into the walls. If he’s got the money to buy this system he certainly could have altered the room. But I’m just playing devils advocate because it doesn’t look treated.
Can be integrated into the walls too, keep that in mind.
Bose is the schiit
For that money I am confident you could have a lot better sound than with McIntosh equipment.
But as long as you are happy it’s fine.
It's everyone's choosing what's makes you happy.Like THE KING SAID ONCE ELVIS IF YOU DONT HAVE HAPPINESS YOU AINT GOT NOTHING...
Dont you mean the bose/mac system.
not bad
i am happier with my $25 blue tooth Altec Lansing mini speakers....saving$ 499,975 and lots of stress-free audio life
The turntable is on a slider? Really?
just because its expensive doesnt mean its good
can i come by for a scotch pleeeeease?!
The sky is the limit if you have the money to indulge. You pay for what you hear.
the ultimate has no lamps for us....
At the price of a small mansion😂😂😂
Can I have one please 😂
Very rare people can buy these things
Incredibly ridiculous!
A good splash of snake oil in this video.
$250000.00 @ least. Way out my budget.
No carpet room, no room treatments, racks those sit on not that great, need separate copper Romex to independent breakers on electrical panel and upgraded outlet plugs. Looks like Mcintosh sold the most gear to make the most money versus optimizing the area for the system itself.
9 additional 20 amp circuits for a total of 10 on that wall. Two triple outlet banks behind each 2000 watt amp, 1 behind each sub, and two behind the cabinet for all the components.
The MEN220 Room Correction System is an amazing piece of kit - and specifically designed to help get incredible stereo sound when off axis or in rooms with difficult design. While not included in our video as it was more about Chris and the journey - ListenUp has a great video with Ricardo from the House of Sound that dives into how incredible results can be obtained with less than ideal architecture. th-cam.com/video/w19czxv8Gok/w-d-xo.html
Shut up hater
8 huge ass amps for 4 speakers? How loud is this dude listening? There should be 20 speakers for that many amps lol
If we wanna be silly - Each XRT2.1K tower technically contains 81 drivers. 😂
Finding happiness on 1600 acres of natural beauty has been TOUGH?
wow .
Happiness and sound are strictly subjective , however this set up seems to indicate the opposite . very sad indeed
It’s absolutely too much expensive for the sound result…
All that money and drinking from plastic in his own house 🤦♂️ Tell me your American without telling me…
average products at unreasonably high prices
Over 1 minute in and life story only. Bye bye. Learn to show yourself if you intend to appear on camera.
When your spending this much money people with kiss your butt,bottom line,and if I can interject I would have invested in MBL electronics instead if I had the money much more reliability over time for a investment like this
My dream system is not a McBose…
What s pile of garbage
all that money, and all those echos. SMH
McIntosh today is absolute junk. Overpriced, poor quality, garbage.
I have a million dollar system - tried McIntosh as a surround amp and it was defective. Sent it back for repair under warranty and it was sent back with a completely fabricated work order and they had just swapped channels, so the defective channel was now another channel. Never buying McIntosh again.
Real high-end components are Nagra, DarTZeel, and many others.
SRY TO SAY! but 1 or 2 jtr captivator subs, would destroy these subs in performance!! and goes alot lower, than only 20hz
This is a system of finesse, I’m sure the JTR’s are awesome this is just something else, I own Mac system as well and it’s just a different sound.
ASCENDO the The32 SUB PRO pushes as much air per maximum stroke as fifteen standard 18" subwoofer lol.
I guess what you are missing is the aesthetics. Very good sound and bad ass look. Let me tell you, his set up looked banging. JTR is about the sound but look like doo doo. People want the look as well.
I Whant To Hear The Soundsystem!
Not U Talking 👎
Pass do not need to see this guy flex for ten minutes....not worth it
ocd in overdrive here. real music lovers dont have stupid over priced junk like this. spend that money on the music not the kit.
Says the person who can’t afford it. You are wrong. Equipment like this makes it much better
You sound poor
I can afford it and McIntosh is junk.
@@chadnliz2k11 lol. house long paid off. 100k invested. 100k in cash. 3 new cars paid in cash. i have been into hifi for 40 years. 99% of so called high end kit is junk. been there done that mofo. just buy cheap kit and enjoy the music.
this dudes room is terrible anyway. no matter how much the idiot spends on kit it'll never sound any good in that room. he just buys that crap coz it looks good.
@@TascamTascam no it doesnt. price has nothing to do with sound quality ok. money thrown at kit imho just brings in more brightness. this kit will sound shite in that big echoey room anyway. the dude has chronic ocd and only bought it coz it looks good. come back 5 years time see if he still has it?
almost certainly no. box swappers are all not right in their heads. its a shrink they need not more stupid boxes
That first dude should've mounted the TV on the ceiling.
I had some McIntosh équipement, many time some problem. It is good, but the price for the quality is too high. You paid for the name, and now many equipment are made in China. Now is cheapest.
Creative Audio did a outstanding job on this build. Might I recommend a selection of music to enjoy on this incredible sound system.
th-cam.com/video/uOnoqA4NMVA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=H0mq7DbN_SPru4jS
I would very much consider this a 'concept mix' similar to Dark Side of the Moon that tells a brilliant 'Heroes Journey' story to listener. The tracks hold a larger purpose or meaning collectively than they do individually much like the human consciousness.
"This is, as I said, my basic metaphysical assumption, which I won't conceal from you. That existence is musical in nature. That is to say that it is not serious. It is the play of all kinds of patterns". - Alan Watts