Your Private Audio Museum

Glad you guys like this thread - the ultimate anti WAF thread.

The integrated amp was a Yamaha A-1 which further to Joeylawn's comment was all about the LIGHTS, in this case, mysteriously glowing colored lights.

I can also relate to Whart's comment -- I have an old Yamaha T-2 that I never use, a Naim Nait integrated amp, a pair of Genelec powered mini monitors (for when my big rig was in storage) and a few other things knocking around.

For my "museum" I think what I would really like is for these things to be operable, most importantly perhaps to LIGHT UP, to otherwise fit neatly on bookshelves and in an ideal world to hide the wires behind a bookcase or something.

Then, all of these components could be rotated in and out of the guest bedrooms for historically accurate systems.

How does that sound for the private audio museum?

Obviously after I submit this post, I should get on the phone with a psychiatrist and/or a divorce lawyer.

cheers

cwlondon

Your Private Audio Museum AKA Audiophile CONFESSIONS....

A few years ago, I noticed a Marantz receiver on ebay in seemingly perfect condition. Now I have no particular thing about Marantz and in fact I think I have never owned a Marantz component.

But then, a stirring of one of my oldest audiophile memories...when I had only a plastic, staticky Soundesign "stereo" in my own bedroom, I was invited over to my neighbors house, circa 1977, where I was at first flattered and excited to be hanging around the older kids, but then I was terrified and mesmerized....

to see giant pitchers of beer being poured....a curious smoke in the air....both mixed with the smell of cedar wood dust and linseed oil from the garage where there had been making tall cylindrical devices....

All of this, accompanied by the sounds of Gentle Giant, Jan Hammer, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock..

WOW this didnt sound like the Beatles! or the Partridge Family?!?!?!?

As I moved closer to the sound, I saw it: the MARANTZ receiver, high on a shelf, glowly softly in blue and white against the silver, perhaps the beginning of my neurosis...

So 25 years later, I just had to have that receiver.

It sat on a shelf in my office for 3 years, plugged into the wall to light up, but without speakers or a source component.

Last year, I moved it to my library, where I now use it with the DVD player and TV. Its wonderful, warm sounding, and the lights are soothing. Even my wife likes it.

The babysitter, thinking she is being polite, turns it off with the cable box and TV when she prepares to leave at night.

I get angry when she turns it off. I confess.