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What's the worst speaker or stereo set-up you've ever seen?

I used to do home delivery and installation work and had access to some pretty high-end homes. I was amazed at how few of these well-heeled owners had nice audio systems, although many had some nice home theaters. One home owner had a basement stereo with small Maggies hinged on a wall like cabinet doors so he could direct the sound and, I guess, tuck them away when not in use. I also saw a pair of Bose 901’s pointed the wrong way. What’s the worse set-up you’ve seen?
aewarren
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mapman
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A very high end dealer in NYC and another high but not quite as high dealer in North Jersey.

Both setups were probably defective.

I heard new Wharfdale Linton Heritage speakers on the bundled stands last week. Not sure about that. Sound was tizzy and just weird. Very disappointed.  A very mid fi A/v amp was used.   Maybe that. 
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millercarbon
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I know a guy who shall remain nameless, and I know this is hard to believe, but he has a whole bunch of speakers just spread willy-nilly around the room and that's not all, they are pointed at the wall. A total schemozzle.
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mulveling
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This was close to 20 years ago, I forget which forum it was posted to. The proud owner had a 5.1 speaker setup, all Martin Logan, in a small bedroom-type room. The rear speakers were Martin Logan towers (smaller than the fonts, but still towers), suspended by cables from the ceiling and hanging roughly horizontally to hover right above/behind the audience’s heads, above the couch smashed against the back wall.
erik_squires
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Fabio had ML?  I thought he had Infinity towers.
oldhvymec
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I saw a 25 x 40 x 8 room FULL of panel exciters around 25 or so.

NO stereo... It was like the house of mirrors at a carnival, but with sound.
Crazy sound, weird looking, no idea what the object was.. true tweaker (I think) but I mean the drug tweak... That guy was forever moving those panels around.

He was a great metal fab guy, I mean crazy good... 

He used HUGE folded horn bass units... 3-500 pounders..
That's what I was interested in.

Regards..
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