Mike's Barn.

WHOA!!! Way to go Mike, nicest room and kit I’ve ever seen.  Probably wouldn’t tink muck of my bedroom rig consisting of a bluesound node 2i and Topping DAC. 
 

Worst camera work ever! 

I have a cabin in the woods set up for an outdoor concert, if needed...nothing all that rich about it...But, if the coyotes and bugs don’t get ya, the ferocity of its sound might be greater than the Berghain Panorama club in Berlin.

(No brand name snobbery, geriatric jazz or chesky crap...just the right type of gear for the job)

Rich people have different barns than me. Aint life grand?

Found it completely unwatchable, may be worst camera work ever. Camera jerking all over the place, can't focus on the equipment as he describes the setup!

Rich people have different barns than me. Aint life grand?

Mike’s Virtual System.  Look at how many unique views.

Mike used to regularly participate in discussions here on AudiogoN in the early years - as did many other very knowledgeable audiophiles.

I know Mike through several phone conversations over the years. He’s a nice man, very generous with his time. My take-away is that even if you have a blue-sky project with virtually unlimited resources, it takes living with a system in a room to effectively dial it in.

I found this to be true with a somewhat more modest set up that started in NY- I was very familiar with the core of the system, but when I moved, and had a larger dedicated room, I was able to take advantage of what I knew about the system, its strengths and weaknesses, to take advantage of the longer, deeper room. Though I made some changes by adding more subwoofers, went to a different type of cartridge and improved the TT isolation, a lot had to do with set up.

I also did a big isolation transformer before the gear was installed just to do as much as I could to eliminate gremlins in the power.

I think Mike is to be applauded for his commitment. I know he welcomes people to his place to listen and his enthusiasm is infectious. The other thing that is notable is that Mike doesn’t profess deep technical knowledge, but knows who to tap for that. And, he’s willing to make changes, not simply to churn gear but to seek that last iota. At some point, I hope to visit him, I know that his is one of the systems that a lot of audiophiles consider to be a very high peak, but it isn’t just about all the top notch gear- it is the integration of that gear into the room, along with the synergies that he must have found a long the way. My two pesos.

Why is it so bright? Some sort of HDR setting?

Predictably, he moved closer to nearfield...the limitation of his pure (as can be) phase confused stereo channel soundfield must have hit somewhere.

So much wasted effort with the tape deck crap...when Levinson’s masterclass creates that sound better easy as pie from a simple hires file.

Just another vanity video. Impressive gear, though! If I were single, my listening room would look similar. I'm not, so it doesn't. 

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His camera skills are similar to his communication when he was on this forum...choppy!

It looks like an interesting system but whoever made the video needs to hire a camera man.  It's borderline unwatchable.