member system photos???

We are have a much longer trip to the ocean than we did last year. Now, it's a 5 minute car ride (15 minutes by bike). We use to (in our last place) walk down the block. Yep, that is the ocean. Our new place required some major compromises in the way of my rig set up. I am happier than I have ever been, rig wise, but my set up is not acoustically near ideal, but sounds wonderful, never-the-less, and looks great in its' new crib. Bottom line? My wife isn't driven me nuts anymore with speakers sitting out in the living room, and all the other stuff. She's happy and it translate to more musical enjoyment for me. Life and sound are good now. 3000 sq feet or 20,000 sq feet: couldn't live in it if I couldn't get to the beach in 30 minutes. I'm an inveterate beach bum....peace, warren

Great post up above by Tireguy. Nice to see him post again.

We paid $59K when we bought it many years ago.

Let's update that and say it's now $259K. What amazes me is, how can you even build a home for that amount I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area, where housing prices are in the stratosphere, but even if I scraped my lot and put up a new 2500 sf home, it would cost in the neighborhood of $600K to build. Are construction costs so much less in other parts of the country?

So Newbee, where are your system pics? ;)
Arthur

Aball, I was wondering when some one would ask. I lack a digital camera. I'm still a film addict. Go figure, I'm still a tube addict as well. Besides who ever pays any attention to the advise of a newbee anyway. :-)

Short of building a room from scratch, designed for an audio system, you have to be pretty lucky to get a room of the right size and dimensions to start with; I have had dedicated listening rooms in several of my houses- the best actually involved the least tweaking-- it was in an old brownstone with high ceilings, real plaster and lathe walls and wide plank, very sturdy floors. At that time, I had Crosby Quads running, and they didn't energize the room the way the horn speakers I currently use, do.
My current room, while 'dedicated,' is itself a compromise- oddly shaped walls and eaves in the ceilings- it is a room at the top of an old house- and I have had to add bass traps, corner traps, a diffuser along one wall and all of it has made a difference, but the room is still not ideal.
As to equipment fixation, I think you are probably right- otherwise, most of the postings here would be about music, not about whether the X unit is better than the Y unit. I admit to being an equipment junkie- but, whatever the budget, there is no question that 'tweaking,' 'positioning,' cable 'dressing' and all the other major and minor things that go into setting up and 'adjusting' the system are the key to getting the most out of this stuff. I enjoy that part as well...