I've had this idea for years, what do you think?
mantis
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One day I would like to build a museum.
What would it be like? Well read on.
I want to build a Audio video museum. You would come in and start at the very beginning of replay systems. Learning about how they where built, who where the Pioneers and how we got to where we are now.
I would have a full wire history, why better wire was thought of, who started it all, who is the very best at it and how all others have grown over the years etc.
A Speaker journey from the earliest models to todays amazing offerings.
A amp journey that would take you through a full learning and touching experience. Learn why famous Amp builders etc.
A full Home Theater journey where you would learn how Dolby Surround was introduced and how it became Prop Logic then DD and so forth. How DTS and Sony got into the picture etc.
I would have rooms you would walk into during the tour that you would sit on furniture from that time period and listen to music and systems all wired and working the way they where supposed to be then and now.
I would have glass cases with remarkable gear in it to look at and learn about. This could be a place for all fans of home replay systems to come again and again.
One day I would love to make this real.
What would it be like? Well read on.
I want to build a Audio video museum. You would come in and start at the very beginning of replay systems. Learning about how they where built, who where the Pioneers and how we got to where we are now.
I would have a full wire history, why better wire was thought of, who started it all, who is the very best at it and how all others have grown over the years etc.
A Speaker journey from the earliest models to todays amazing offerings.
A amp journey that would take you through a full learning and touching experience. Learn why famous Amp builders etc.
A full Home Theater journey where you would learn how Dolby Surround was introduced and how it became Prop Logic then DD and so forth. How DTS and Sony got into the picture etc.
I would have rooms you would walk into during the tour that you would sit on furniture from that time period and listen to music and systems all wired and working the way they where supposed to be then and now.
I would have glass cases with remarkable gear in it to look at and learn about. This could be a place for all fans of home replay systems to come again and again.
One day I would love to make this real.
Dan
My personal quest is to save to world of bad audio, one thread at a time.
My personal quest is to save to world of bad audio, one thread at a time.
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Very cool idea.2-ch System: Parasound P/LD 2000 pre, Parasound HCA-1000 amp, Parasound T/DQ Tuner, Phase Technology PC-100 Tower speakers, Technics SL-1600 Turntable, Denon 2910 SACD/CD player, Peachtree DAC iT and X1asynchorus USB converter, HSU VTF-3 subwoofer.
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... of course... the last exhibit has to be a little phone and a pair of earbuds...
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If you do it, you've GOT to have a special wing of the museum called "Do Cables Really Matter?" And then prove that, once and for all, they do. Or do not.TV: 65" Samsung QLED 4K
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You need to devote an entire room to the remarkable story of Vladimir Zworykin, who for all practical purposes, was the inventor of television.Family Room, Innuos Statement streamer (Roon Core) with Morrow Audio USB cable to McIntosh MC 2700 pre with DC2 Digital Audio Module; AQ Sky XLRs to CAT 600.2 dualmono amp, Morrow Elite Speaker Cables to NOLA Baby Grand Reference Gold 3 speakers. Power source for all components: Silver Circle Audio Pure Power One with dedicated 20 amp circuit to main panel.
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I would visit said museum.
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Interesting idea that would FAIL market testing big time, so I hope you win the lottery and have the cash to make it happen because otherwise there would be no way to keep it open! And only a lot of balding, bear-belly, T-shirt and Mom jeans wearing (barely fitting) 40 somethings and above would ever make the trek! lol
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Interesting idea that would FAIL market testing big time, so I hope you win the lottery and have the cash to make it happen because otherwise there would be no way to keep it open! And only a lot of balding, bear-belly, T-shirt and Mom jeans wearing (barely fitting) 40 somethings and above would ever make the trek! lol
cnh
Ouch, but probably correct, would have to be located near other museum type or rock-n-roll HOF
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I would have glass cases with remarkable gear in it to look at and learn about. This could be a place for all fans of home replay systems to come again and again.
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Hmmm....and in that last glass case, at the very end....rest an Ipod. Tour is over.
Dan, nobody cares bro, isn't that painfully obvious by now ? Except for a few in the niche markets of Audio, the rest are happy with Ipods, earbuds, and streaming music to a 300 buck AVR.HT SYSTEM-
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Not quite an open museum, but damn close.
http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/the-worlds-number-one-audiophile/Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
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Don't for get Farnsworth he had a lot to do with early television.
I have an example of an early sub woofer called at that time an acoustical labyrinth, with woofers that used leather for the surround, Stromberg Carlson 1936. it vents facing the floor, I have a "mostly" working color tv from 1961 as well, with the remote. if you have a forklift we could put that in the museum as wellThere is no cure....
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I'd go.
Would you have a special wing dedicated to the quality audio research and accomplishments of Dr. Amar Bose?
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If you do it, you've GOT to have a special wing of the museum called "Do Cables Really Matter?" And then prove that, once and for all, they do. Or do not.
This wing could be a tunnel that gets smaller and smaller towards the end with the high-end cables...For Sale 2019:
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should charge a high and higher charges as the tunnel gets smaller tooThere is no cure....
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... just don't forget Philo T. Farnsworth...Moose68Bash wrote: »You need to devote an entire room to the remarkable story of Vladimir Zworykin, who for all practical purposes, was the inventor of television.
(EDIT: ahh, someone else remembered ol' Philo, too... good!)txcoastal1 wrote: »Ouch, but probably correct, would have to be located near other museum type or rock-n-roll HOF
Could operate as non-profit w/grants etc
hmm... R&R HOF... not a bad idea... opportunities for cross-promotion...
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Not quite an open museum, but damn close.
http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/the-worlds-number-one-audiophile/
That is quite cool. OP: maybe contact tv and audio companies. It could be done. IF you have the organizational skills and can talk turkey I bet you could get quite a few companies on board with this.HT/2Channel: Emotiva MMC-1, Adcom GFA-555II, Polk SDA 3.1's, Teac TN-300 TT, Polk Center and Sub.
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There are myriad small/private museums in the US. Some of them are extremely modest; some of those are extremely interesting.
Here's an in-between example, not quite on topic but still related to media/the fine arts... related to... ;-)
www.museumofbadart.org
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Not quite an open museum, but damn close.
http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/the-worlds-number-one-audiophile/
Wow, that's quite a collection! Though I don't know how complete it is, I mean I didn't see ANY Bose or Emo gear.... -
thr twp tv pioneers did steal ideas from each other buy we would not have it as we know it, i have a nigh vision gen 0 from farnsworth that is a bit complicated, it's NOS and i store it in the box to protect the photo cathode from light as i am told on the old ones can degrade in light. I have a B/W reel to reel video recorder i could add as well, of it would be great ballast for a boat, some of the neat things can be had for free if you know the right shows. i know it's all crap to us, but we tend to be the oddities that save this crap so others can enjoy and joke about laster, history needs to be keept even is it's just that red jvc camcorder from the movie" back to the future", mine still works with the battery subbed, first gen iPods i think a few should be saved as well
I dont know if it's my dragon hording kicking in but a few people should save that crapThere is no cure....
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When Farnsworth developed early tv, RCA made him an offer.
When he said no, RCA tied him up with lawyers for years.
He ended up broke, and gave in. Looks like RCA and Microsoft
share common business models."The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson -
sucks2beme wrote: »When Farnsworth developed early tv, RCA made him an offer.
When he said no, RCA tied him up with lawyers for years.
He ended up broke, and gave in. Looks like RCA and Microsoft
share common business models.
Microsoft's - and even Apple - have got nothin' on Sarnoff and RCA...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/technology/bigdream/masarnoff2.html
http://fecha.org/armstrong.htm
Poor Gen. Armstong - inventor of FM radio as we know it to this day - was driven to suicide by Sarnoff's practices... -
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LOL Man caves over the years....I'd be in.Salk SoundScape 8's * Audio Research Reference 3 * Bottlehead Eros Phono * Park's Audio Budgie SUT * Krell KSA-250 * Harmonic Technology Pro 9+ * Signature Series Sonore Music Server w/Deux PS * Roon * Gustard R26 DAC / Singxer SU-6 DDC * Heavy Plinth Lenco L75 Idler Drive * AA MG-1 Linear Air Bearing Arm * AT33PTG/II & Denon 103R * Richard Gray 600S * NHT B-12d subs * GIK Acoustic Treatments * Sennheiser HD650 *
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Great idea, just keep PFB out. That would be like inviting a Brahma Bull into a china shop filled with Ming Vases.The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD
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Well I think this idea is pure genius Dan, if there was ever a place it would be on my map as one of the top ten museums to visit.
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mhardy6647 wrote: »... of course... the last exhibit has to be a little phone and a pair of earbuds...
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nooshinjohn wrote: »Great idea, just keep PFB out. That would be like inviting a Brahma Bull into a china shop filled with Ming Vases.
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Hopefully it has a large Victrola room, that is where all the cool people will hang out.Vinyl, the final frontier...
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Indeed. Excellent.
Perhaps they'll have a Webster wire recorder, too. How frightfully infra-dig that would be. -
Interesting idea that would FAIL market testing big time, so I hope you win the lottery and have the cash to make it happen because otherwise there would be no way to keep it open! And only a lot of balding, bear-belly, T-shirt and Mom jeans wearing (barely fitting) 40 somethings and above would ever make the trek! lol
The last glass case should have a group photo of everybody BUT the above-mentioned niche (but with beer guts, not bear guts).
