@@Rhapsody-Out-West It is very beautiful. This is the first time to watch your videos. Steely Dan was the draw. I liked what I heard. I do not know any better, but I have to ask, so please don't get too upset if I ask stupid questions. Is the cloud hanging from the ceiling wrapped in sound deadening fabric? Do I actually see a carpeted floor? Are the walls of the room covered with something that will absorb and prevent sound from bouncing around the room? Great video. Thank you.
thanks for listening… the room was acoustically remodeled in 2017. I hired Bonnie Schnitta Ph.D. of SoundSense LLC (NYC) to do the modeling via her algorithms and we built to her specs. The goal was a warm, normal looking room with acoustics hidden behind fabric covered walls. Another goal was we wanted to keep the view out into the forest. there is a lot to go over. i plan to put together a video describing the build. the room was gutted to the studs so we had some constraints including the fact the room does not “close”. it is also not a full rectangle and there are niches in the walls not equal depths. it is definitely more muted than bare sheetrock walls but which provides a calm focused sound without losing all the reverberant queues. the space does not feel “dead” but there is no ringing from a hand clap either.
Beautiful room...& the sound is fantastic! Truly a superb audio system. Even thru a CZcams video it sounds excellent. Great job matching your components together.
System sounds great - very thoughtfully selected gear. The room is the star of the show here, I think! If only we could all be so lucky with a room like this.
Thanks for inviting us for some Steely Dan in your living room. The Vyger Atlantis sounded good even on my MacBook speakers. Would love to hear Diamond Dust by the late Jeff Beck on your system.
Not sure which AlsyVox I heard at RMAF 2019 but they were awesome. No video could do them Justice. I’m sure it’s surreal in person. Awesome speakers and equipment in an awesome space.
Very nice room… Heard this take via iPhone using inears. Compared it to Amazon Ultra HD, the same way. Than streamed it to my equipment and took also a clip of it. Than compared again, same way. Interestingly i discovered a reverb in your listening room. 😂 Thank you very much for this experience. 🙏 Best wishes from Germany 👋🏻
Vraiment superbe ❤ quelle sonorités douces et fluides, j'adore Steely Dan sur vos enceintes, je m'abonne, toutes mes félicitations pour votre système hors normes et vraiment très agréable 😍
@@Rhapsody-Out-West j'ai déjà essayé le fichier hi-res et il manque quelque chose, ça va pas dans les enceintes, je vais acheter le vinyle pour voir si c'est mieux! Superbe votre platine !
@@Rhapsody-Out-West In all seriousness, I truly adore it. The room, while beautiful itself, lends a big hand to that excellent sound quality. The drums seem "live", as though the drummer is there, in the flesh playing. Great "decay" giving that crisp yet rich texture to the music that was recorded so meticulously in the superior analog of yester-year. And your system, which I often refer to the components as a "rig", deserves more than a one-syllable slang term with which to describe therefore, I shall call it a "Hi-Fi entity" if I may. Kudos, good sir! Well done and thank you for sharing!
@@frankblacks.45 thank you. I am blessed to have and enjoy my “rig”(😎) and room. Your comments re the room are affirming - spending $$ to acoustically design a room isn’t like a component you can swap out. It has a reasonable amount of risk. That some of the rooms goodness comes through the iPhone recorded video I think is wonderful! Thanks again.
Most likely, you are right. I am experience this right now by my self. As better the equipment, as more details you hear, as more hungry you are for more details. Greetings from Hamburg Germany
Thank you. LED lighting sucks ass - trying to match lights to dimmer switches can really mess with your mind - I still have some lamps that “strobe” at random times. Then there is the whole color temperature (degrees kelvin) and color rendering index (CRI) to contend with. LEDs don’t really emit much light in the red part of the spectrum so when they dim they don’t get more “orange” like incandescent so when dim everything can take on a gastly cadaver gray. Yuk!
Hoping to compare to the UHQR 45rpm when finally released by Analogue Productions. This is from the MCA Audiophile pressing, considered to be one of the best pressings of this classic LP.
I have the UHQR and I am in the process of comparing them. The UHQR is dead quiet so you are compelled to turn up the volume, i would be happy living with the MCA 1/2 speed master or the UHQR.
Thanks so much sir, for wanting to share your passion with us. Do you take requests? If so, I would like to hear Imaginary Voyage or Egocentric Molecules from the Jean Luc Ponty Live Album. God Bless 🙏
Wonderful presentation and SPACE! We are on the same page here, lighting, atmosphere and MINIMAL 'stuff' in the listening space. Mine is 18x24', even less in it then yours. Back lighting on the front wall, Martin Logans giving that translucent effect. All audio gear right at the coffee table within arms' reach, no need for remotes. It's great fun isn't it ? Thanks again for showing yours! 🙂
That room doesn't even look real. It looks like someone dreamed it up and rendered it with AI. Very clean aesthetic. I would love to sit there and listen to music. You are a lucky man.
If only……I had the 💰 Great interior design for this pristine audio system👍🏼👍🏼😍. I can only imagine the vibes sitting in the sweet spot, after a shot of Cuervo Gold while enjoying some “real” fine Columbian🧐🥴👍🏼
The “fine columbian” has grown much too strong for this old dude, and the Cuervo has been replaced with fermented grape juice. But a nice 🍷and some jazz does put a nice ending on the day. Cheers!
I have all the new UHQR Steely Dan. The Gaucho is not significantly better than the 33rpm 1/2 speed mastered MCA Audiophile pressing - maybe a wee bit here and there. One of the benefits of a 45 is less inner groove distortion but I have linear tracking air-bearing Vision tonearm on the VYGER turntable so isn’t a factor. I’m glad to have a new very great pressing in the 45.
Nice room. Nice punchy low end. Top end is as muffled as my original pressing. Guess that was in the master. I'm going to come back to this in a few weeks once my sub has been commissioned and see how mine compares.
Besides my appreciation for your beautiful audio gear set-up and listening room, what's the brand-name of the (wooden) vinyl storage boxes and how do I best get them ? Greetings from the Netherlands !
one of the goals when I had the room acoustically remodeled was to keep the view. the sound engineer said she can work with one reflective surface, so the glass does not impact the sonics negatively instead it was part of the design.
@@Rhapsody-Out-West Yes, treating the back wall minimize the problem of the glass but I see now you have curtains behind the speakers son in the night that is dark you can close them to get a bit better image.
there is no lack of a good stereo image. the curtains have a special acoustic liner. I don’t like the sound with the curtains drawn especially with dipoles, plus the room loses some sparkle and gets too damped.
Absolutely gorgeous listening room what speakers are those. Try listening to the new QVR Steely Dan reissues even at $150 best reissues I have ever heard
For these videos the camera is on a tripod in my listening chair. I tried to mimic the position of my head. I’m no professional youtube’r just sharing for fun. (Thanks for the kind words re: the room.)
Back when music was still being made.
that's a beautiful listening room.
Thank you
@@Rhapsody-Out-West Not going to lie, I'm jealous! 😁
@@Rhapsody-Out-West
It is very beautiful. This is the first time to watch your videos. Steely Dan was the draw. I liked what I heard. I do not know any better, but I have to ask, so please don't get too upset if I ask stupid questions.
Is the cloud hanging from the ceiling wrapped in sound deadening fabric? Do I actually see a carpeted floor? Are the walls of the room covered with something that will absorb and prevent sound from bouncing around the room?
Great video. Thank you.
thanks for listening… the room was acoustically remodeled in 2017. I hired Bonnie Schnitta Ph.D. of SoundSense LLC (NYC) to do the modeling via her algorithms and we built to her specs. The goal was a warm, normal looking room with acoustics hidden behind fabric covered walls. Another goal was we wanted to keep the view out into the forest. there is a lot to go over. i plan to put together a video describing the build. the room was gutted to the studs so we had some constraints including the fact the room does not “close”. it is also not a full rectangle and there are niches in the walls not equal depths. it is definitely more muted than bare sheetrock walls but which provides a calm focused sound without losing all the reverberant queues. the space does not feel “dead” but there is no ringing from a hand clap either.
Sounds great through my 1/4 inch cell phone speaker.
right?
Glad u said it before me.....
I would never leave that room . Fantastic
ㅎㅎㅎㅎ me Too!
Steely Dan, the way I want to hear it. Gorgeous. Thank you.
Awesome setup...beautiful room...great music...Thanks for sharing!
hear this often. it is always both. listening music with high end equipement is just fun and meditation.....
Major money investment in that listening room. Very nice
it is a silly expensive hobby for sure. I say I can enjoy music on a car radio, but a well sorted rig sure is fun.
Beautiful room...& the sound is fantastic! Truly a superb audio system. Even thru a CZcams video it sounds excellent. Great job matching your components together.
Thank you!
Oh, that bad boy has some clean punch on the kick drum.
Roger Nichols, legendary! RIP.
Killer setup…so glad my iPad can reproduce and resolve this recording!
steely dan baby..all there music awsome i like your taste in music we grew up with the best music..
I don’t get it, sterile arrangements
steely dan sounds nice but as a musical act lack in every way.
System sounds great - very thoughtfully selected gear. The room is the star of the show here, I think! If only we could all be so lucky with a room like this.
thanks for the kind words, the roomnot inlynlooks good but feels good too - a warm, welcoming place to enjoy music
Thanks for this wonderful visual and sonic gift.👍
Glad you like it!
This might possibly be the most beautiful system/room I have seen.
That is a very kind thing to say, thank you!
Aww, man, that looks feels and sounds like the perfect escapism. Bravo
😮 WOW
muy nice
Very Nice!
Thanks for inviting us for some Steely Dan in your living room. The Vyger Atlantis sounded good even on my MacBook speakers. Would love to hear Diamond Dust by the late Jeff Beck on your system.
It's missing a massive bean bag chair on a riser. And a Liquid Light show.
lol.
Lovely room !!
👍😎
My dream room 😅
Not sure which AlsyVox I heard at RMAF 2019 but they were awesome.
No video could do them Justice. I’m sure it’s surreal in person.
Awesome speakers and equipment in an awesome space.
Thank you.
Fu*king sick!
Very dynamic
I would love to have such a beautiful and wonderful sounding listening room! ❤🎶👂👍🙂
Thanks for listening
Beautiful song to go with your beautiful audio system, and your relaxing room. NICE!
BRINGS BACK MEMORIES !
Very impressive !
Holy cow ! Amazing room and system.
Scary
So nice, thanks!
Steely Dan is always a go to when I'm testing my sound system - nice!
Listen to that kick drum making its presence known! Lovely.
That’s amazing!
Spectacular top to bottom 😁
Wow! So cool!
Pure awesomeness!! ❤️
Bello/Magnifico.😱😱😱😱😱😱🧨😯
Stunning
Wow thanks for sharing.
Very nice room…
Heard this take via iPhone using inears. Compared it to Amazon Ultra HD, the same way. Than streamed it to my equipment and took also a clip of it.
Than compared again, same way. Interestingly i discovered a reverb in your listening room. 😂
Thank you very much for this experience. 🙏
Best wishes from Germany 👋🏻
Glad you had some fun with it, 👍
Thanks for sharing
What a room. Just beautiful. Congrats
Thanks for your kind words.
Awesome! Truly Awesome
Thank you! Cheers!
I have the same pressing, I purchased it back in 1981.
It is a well recorded track, it sounds great on my rig too, its a good track for demo's
demo's what?
Outstanding
thanks!
TOP NOTCH!
Sounds great!!!
thank you
At first I thought that was a huge fish tank 😮
🤪
😂😂😂
I did too haha
Same here😂😅
Such a well recorded track.
Oh wow!
Vraiment superbe ❤ quelle sonorités douces et fluides, j'adore Steely Dan sur vos enceintes, je m'abonne, toutes mes félicitations pour votre système hors normes et vraiment très agréable 😍
Merci Laurent
@@Rhapsody-Out-West j'ai déjà essayé le fichier hi-res et il manque quelque chose, ça va pas dans les enceintes, je vais acheter le vinyle pour voir si c'est mieux! Superbe votre platine !
Wow...just wow !! A litlle piece of heaven. Lovely !!
Greetings from Argentina !
Australia is not the only place “down under”, so nice to read your comment. thank you
Super clean & crisp. Lovely.
tavi.
Thank you so much 😊
That's like...beautiful, man.
Glad you like it!
@@Rhapsody-Out-West In all seriousness, I truly adore it.
The room, while beautiful itself, lends a big hand to that excellent sound quality. The drums seem "live", as though the drummer is there, in the flesh playing.
Great "decay" giving that crisp yet rich texture to the music that was recorded so meticulously in the superior analog of yester-year.
And your system, which I often refer to the components as a "rig", deserves more than a one-syllable slang term with which to describe therefore, I shall call it a "Hi-Fi entity" if I may.
Kudos, good sir! Well done and thank you for sharing!
@@frankblacks.45 thank you. I am blessed to have and enjoy my “rig”(😎) and room. Your comments re the room are affirming - spending $$ to acoustically design a room isn’t like a component you can swap out. It has a reasonable amount of risk. That some of the rooms goodness comes through the iPhone recorded video I think is wonderful! Thanks again.
Beautiful system Bob.
thanks a bunch!
Beautiful room and setup Bob!
It not nothing! But fun. Thanks for chiming in
Their Best LP- system-killer system--vinyl rules!- beautiful room- , back drop-- kudo's Sir
Thank you
Excellent presentation.
👍
Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment.”
OK
Most likely, you are right. I am experience this right now by my self. As better the equipment, as more details you hear, as more hungry you are for more details. Greetings from Hamburg Germany
Yes and it's wonderful!
Jealous are we?
@@Rhapsody-Out-West @user-wj3 blah blah blah hasn't a clue.
Very lovely ceiling lights and all the other lights too😊
Thank you. LED lighting sucks ass - trying to match lights to dimmer switches can really mess with your mind - I still have some lamps that “strobe” at random times. Then there is the whole color temperature (degrees kelvin) and color rendering index (CRI) to contend with. LEDs don’t really emit much light in the red part of the spectrum so when they dim they don’t get more “orange” like incandescent so when dim everything can take on a gastly cadaver gray. Yuk!
@@Rhapsody-Out-West Where did you purchase the speaker spot lights?
@@rongermeaux3153 look for “Olafus spot lights” on Amazon
I'm stoned.....sounds great on my pixil
system is awsome ..i like music chanelling through a good system..
Thanks for the kind words.
Nice.
Thank you! Cheers!
Next stop ✋️ Caravaggio 😊
You have the nicest listening room I've ever seen and the music is not bad either. 😎
Thank you so much for the kind words. 🙂
Smoothness of mercury flowing sound...
Hoping to compare to the UHQR 45rpm when finally released by Analogue Productions. This is from the MCA Audiophile pressing, considered to be one of the best pressings of this classic LP.
I have the UHQR and I am in the process of comparing them. The UHQR is dead quiet so you are compelled to turn up the volume, i would be happy living with the MCA 1/2 speed master or the UHQR.
Sounds great on CZcams
I agree with the others. Your setup is so awesome. Lots of thought went into it and it looks and sounds it.
Thank you
sweet....👍
Thanks so much sir, for wanting to share your passion with us. Do you take requests? If so, I would like to hear Imaginary Voyage or Egocentric Molecules from the Jean Luc Ponty Live Album.
God Bless 🙏
I shall see if I can’t find this on Qobuz… I know I don’t have the LP.
Wonderful presentation and SPACE! We are on the same page here, lighting, atmosphere and MINIMAL 'stuff' in the listening space. Mine is 18x24', even less in it then yours. Back lighting on the front wall, Martin Logans giving that translucent effect. All audio gear right at the coffee table within arms' reach, no need for remotes. It's great fun isn't it ? Thanks again for showing yours! 🙂
sounds like you have a rig that makes you smile, perfect! 👍
If the rest of the house is at that level, wow!
thank you. we are very blessed (thanks God) to have a wonderful home.
The equipment I've not heard of. Nice recording of your system.
That room doesn't even look real. It looks like someone dreamed it up and rendered it with AI. Very clean aesthetic. I would love to sit there and listen to music. You are a lucky man.
Thanks for the kind words. We are blessed.
One of the best-produced albums ever. I'm sure your system sounded superb in that lovely room but CZcams ruined the sound by the time it arrived here.
Yep.Sadly no way to capture the in-room experience it really is fun!
I remember that Steely Dan song on the radio back in 1980 I think.
LP dropped in November of 1980 if I recall. Classic!
@Rhapsody-Out-West That's right. I think it's about Aretha Franklin too. Her name appears in the lyrics.
The only thing missing is a bourbon and water to kick back with 😊
Larry Carlton on lead guitar
If only……I had the 💰 Great interior design for this pristine audio system👍🏼👍🏼😍. I can only imagine the vibes sitting in the sweet spot, after a shot of Cuervo Gold while enjoying some “real” fine Columbian🧐🥴👍🏼
The “fine columbian” has grown much too strong for this old dude, and the Cuervo has been replaced with fermented grape juice. But a nice 🍷and some jazz does put a nice ending on the day. Cheers!
I need to make more money so I can have a room like this
😎
Get the new UHQR pressing of Gaucho. You will be happy and so will Chad.
I have all the new UHQR Steely Dan. The Gaucho is not significantly better than the 33rpm 1/2 speed mastered MCA Audiophile pressing - maybe a wee bit here and there. One of the benefits of a 45 is less inner groove distortion but I have linear tracking air-bearing Vision tonearm on the VYGER turntable so isn’t a factor. I’m glad to have a new very great pressing in the 45.
Nice room. Nice punchy low end. Top end is as muffled as my original pressing. Guess that was in the master. I'm going to come back to this in a few weeks once my sub has been commissioned and see how mine compares.
Rock on!
Nice planars! :)
Thank you
Besides my appreciation for your beautiful audio gear set-up and listening room, what's the brand-name of the (wooden) vinyl storage boxes and how do I best get them ? Greetings from the Netherlands !
custom made, simple design with dovetail joinery for strength. any woodworker can make some up, a couple of friends have copied them.
@@Rhapsody-Out-West Aha, that's why I cannot find such nice storage solution on the internet. Thanks for your quick and clear response 👌👌
I'm waiting for The Absolute Sound's review..... I'm pretty sure they're going to " Kill It " in the review.
Lovely sound, what video cam n mic were used to record? 👍
nothing fancy, I used my iPhone 13 pro max
Great song. Those record crates are nice. May i ask where you got them from? or did you make them?.
custom made.
@@Rhapsody-Out-West Very nice. Always wondered what would look good for a table top solution that would be easy to access.
Lovely forest In your backyard
we are blessed with an amazing view
Donald Fagen would approve!!!!
Wow would I be thrilled if he had a listen and gave a nod of approval 🤗
Beautiful room, one question, do you get image with all those glasses behind the speakers ?
one of the goals when I had the room acoustically remodeled was to keep the view. the sound engineer said she can work with one reflective surface, so the glass does not impact the sonics negatively instead it was part of the design.
@@Rhapsody-Out-West Yes, treating the back wall minimize the problem of the glass but I see now you have curtains behind the speakers son in the night that is dark you can close them to get a bit better image.
@@Rhapsody-Out-West By the way I suppose you have a Hana cartridge and a JL subwoofer to help those ribbon loudspeakers
@@Rhapsody-Out-West For me that is one of the best LP's ever, another is Brothers in Arms, Pink Floyd The Wall
there is no lack of a good stereo image. the curtains have a special acoustic liner. I don’t like the sound with the curtains drawn especially with dipoles, plus the room loses some sparkle and gets too damped.
I need a doobie
Absolutely gorgeous listening room what speakers are those. Try listening to the new QVR Steely Dan reissues even at $150
best reissues I have ever heard
Thanks, I pre-ordered the Dan catalog so have been getting them as released. Big Dan fan myself. I’ll post the UHQR snip soon.
@@Rhapsody-Out-West
Yea with your system it’s a must have
Very lovely room where do you sit down?
For these videos the camera is on a tripod in my listening chair. I tried to mimic the position of my head. I’m no professional youtube’r just sharing for fun. (Thanks for the kind words re: the room.)
To have that fine colombian from back then
🤪😎
Dipoles are the only loudspeakers that sounds good on CZcams sound demos. Probably due to far less side wall interactions.
Shame those early recordings don't have all the Recording quality they deserve
Great set up, but I’m not getting the benefit through my iPhone.