Architectural Digest finally shows audio gear!


ghasley

@twoleftears If you look closely at the above photo of Harry Bosch's system, you can see the interconnects.Google "Harry Bosch house", you will see the power cable on his MX110...

If you've been around movie sets, they tear down and reset for scenes sometimes multiple times per day. In some scenes wire is clearly visible, others they will be set up static. The thing about Jay-Z's office system is that it is in fact a working system. Interior designers WILL spend alot of the client's money hiding cables, running them through walls, the floors, in invisible troughs....

Great post. I know from experience in owning the O/93 that when people place speakers in this way they are sacrificing a good portion of the performance they are paying for. Then I walk in to my house after work to find my wife dancing and singing to music. It doesn't seem to make any difference if she is listening our stereo or the little JBL bluetooth speaker on the kitchen counter. She is grabbed by the rhythm or the lyrics and thoroughly enjoys either. On top of that she knows when I change the EL34's to KT77's (why did you put those in again?) 

We might never know if Jay Z appreciated the easy to drive O/96 because they can plummet the depths of 25hz with 1/2 watt, or if his designer found the shape and color, or JD easy to work with. I'd like to think he appreciates them as I would, but then I think to each his own, he has his reasons. That and it's obvious that he has never heard my Verity Otello's. 🤣

I haven't looked closely, but is that McIntosh gear actually playing in the TV show or is it more likely sound-over or whatever they call it?

@bjesien in some of the Bosch episodes, the tubes are lit and the turntable spinning. With that said, its a 99% chance that the music is overlayed rather than the system ouput mic'd.