Your Private Audio Museum

Hi CW-
I would add some to my existing rig just for static display.
Or maybe place a nice table in the vicinity of your rig with a couple amps (tube) on it.
I bought some real nice steel shelves I mounted on my listening room wall about 14" down from the ceiling.
Im just starting to collect vintage tube radios and the shelves are for the radios.
I have 1 empty shelf (bottom) in my rack and I have my busted but mint Mistubishi DA-A10-DC vintage mid '70s, super cool looking amp on the empty shelf.I figure its too unique looking to not show plus it adds 35-40lbs of weight to my rack.
I have some Dynaco A-1 speakers I picked up at the Salvation army for $5/pair.
The cabinets were rough but the grill covers and drivers are mint.The grill covers still have the little dynaco gold badge on them.They sell on ebay for $7/pair,more than I paid for the speakers.:~)
I removed the covers (glued on) and using very course sand paper I rounded all edges and corners to the max totally eliminating a box looking speaker.I then primed them.painted them black them sprayed them with black granite textured paint.
They look AWESOME and sound pretty good too.
Im trying to figure out a way to integrate them into my system without botching the soundstaging of my main speakers,but still be able to use them now and then without having to move them.
I hope some of this helps CW and this is a fun thread.
CW,what gear do you want to display?
dave

It keeps filling up under my bed and my wife keeps complaint about them. It seems I will have to put them back on ebay some day but the problem is... I am a really good shopper but very very... lazy as a seller.

I have lot's of equipment i never sold or traded in when I 'upgraded' including:

Quad 57's, in bad need of a restoration

old Quad mono tube amps, later SS tuner

Old panasonic SP-10 TT, on Music and Sound plinth

ARC-Dual 75a, refreshed, recapped and retubed, doing yeoman's
duty as the rear channel surround amp in a HT set up;

Decca Ribbon tweeters;

Sequerra Ribbon tweeters;

various passive crossovers, cartridges (van de Hul, Grado, Sumiko cheapies, etc.)

Some of the stuff (the Quad amps) is on display in the listening room- other stuff just gets boxed and stored.

None of this was acquired as a 'collectible' but instead was used in the day, and is now no longer in use. But, the few
dollars I could get on sale or trade is not worth the trouble of getting rid of it; hence, the '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

After 18 years of living with my disease my wife had enough and split. I knew it was over when she asked me to "dismantle" my sound room. She even sold the nice little system I gave her on ebay. I could not fault her, after all, 40 or so components (mostly vintage high-end) is a bit much.
Afterwards I dated someone much younger than me for awhile. She even asked me out, I never would have approached her. When she saw my sound room she asked me, "what is all this stuff?". I said it was a "stereo". She was flabergasted and said she never knew stereos like this existed. She said she never knew how good music could sound on a good system.
When I was her age everyone wanted a "stereo." It usually consisted of a receiver, turntable and speakers. There were at least 12 audio stores in the Providence area. Now all teenagers care about are computers (for games), MP3 players and maybe video and all the trimmings. I feel so old. It hurts when your favorite pastime makes you a freak.