Why Don’t You Post Your System on Your Profile?

"Why not just use google maps, or Zillow to locate areas with large estates and find a house with a ten car garage."

That works too except that it won't reveal exactly what is in the home.

You see, I have known three different people who had their entire home audio systems stolen, and I have heard of many more over the years. The funniest theft I know of happened during a party when everybody got quite wasted out in the back yard, and the thief just waltzed out with the living room system.

My home insurer strongly suggested I insure my system against fire and theft. Call me paranoid.

@bolong 

Let’s just suggest that your posts on this thread are just a prank.  You certainly don’t want to avoid posting your system on one hand and then suggest it is because your system is so very valuable.

You don’t have to be paranoid to use insurance.  I always lock my doors and am careful as to who I associate with, so being careful is just being prudent/responsible.

My system is mid-fi by the standards here, and I still would not like to have it stolen

"I always lock my doors and am careful as to who I associate with."

Read your statement again. You're being, if anything, more paranoid than I am.

@vonhelmholtz …”Your concern seems to me to be a difficult way for thieves to target wealthy individuals…”

+1 Not a realistic concern.

High end equipment weighs a ton. Not exactly ideal to extract, transport and fence. Also, a lot of us are retired and don’t leave  home often, have security systems… 

My friends systems were heavy enough, but carting components out to a car or truck - well, even the old codgers here manage to pull that off. Speakers maybe not so much, but I would not be heartened to come home from a vacation and see only my speakers in my living room.

This conversation has now become officially silly.