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Virginia Hudson
9,2007 what did men do in their deception
Electronic hideout?
You know, when they "work.
"What are you doing in there?
"I asked my husband, a writer, about the office he rented near our apartment.
He said, "write.
"Look at '24', read Baseball Digest, listen to Steve Wangda. ”O. K.
But that's him.
Lighting by high
Def kaleidoscope, exotic speakers on both sides, wrapped in yottabytes of audio-visual data, other techniques
Isolated men must use their time to do more important things.
It could be nuclear fusion, tundra analysis, or tornado prevention.
Men always have a personal retreat.
Anti-corrosion or woodpaneled —
Full of concert memorabilia, professional trophies and esoteric collectibles.
Women have always been confused by them.
After all, they lack red
Currant candles and yoga gear related to real my time.
The classic male hideout is a musty captain's dorm with all the brass and wood polish, featuring billiards, tobacco, Brandy, books and maps.
Another confusing worldly pastime is solitaire.
Bill Clinton's tray
Dining table indulgence and John pilpen Morgan's main pastime, he ignored the rare books and priceless prints in his exquisite Manhattan private library and turned to a one-handed card game.
But men have also used sound for more than half a century.
Fifty years ago, Meyer Berger described the emerging high in this magazine. fidelity boys.
Berger's description of the crowd also applies to the 2007 technology enthusiasts currently integrating the digital space by installing Sony braavias --
As Sony chairman Howard Stringer recently said, "watching grass grow is fundamentally exciting ". AdvertisementHi-
Berger wrote in 1953: "The humble listener likes his music in the living room and in the heat --
Their main pursuit is not music, but extreme sound.
Lowest bass
The highest biting note, caught trembling before it takes off indefinitely.
"People's current pursuit of unlimited voice and vision is likely to be as fanatical as after World War II.
In those days, the veterans who came back were reexcited about radar and sonar, who had completed a crash course in sound engineering.
Keir Keightley, a media research professor at the University of Xi'an, described in detail men's desire for precision technology.
He said Berger and others had stirred up the post-war desire. it-
On the one hand is their own hobbies, on the other hand is to escape from the family.
In one of the 1996 articles entitled "reject it!
She screamed: gender, family space and 1948-
1959, "Keightley discussed the suburban floor plan of 1950.
Opening up for unity
The planning and design of the market segments, as well as the new "family room" that makes television a group affair, denies the privacy of men and pushes it into a comprehensive
Time keeping role
Men in the Middle Ages were deprived of their father's favorite library or smoking room and found themselves exposed, uncomfortable and eager for the space of fantasy.
As Ricky Jervis said, if you give a man a choice, in an open
Planning the office, there was a lot of air, light and social activities, and there was a room that was damp, suffocating, with no windows, with locks, and he always took the closet.
Herman Melville is in Moby-
Dick "described the near
Sailors stand on the masthead watching suicidal depression desperate for privacy.
Ishmael muses, "You can't put shelves or drawers in your body, and you can't put your watch in a handy closet any more --coat.
But that was the days of the past.
By providing immersion and later "surround sound", the stereo system cleverly allows people to create virtual rooms in their own body, mind and hearing organs.
Think of groovy on the 20 th.
The century father sat in a chair, and his head was doubled by a huge earphone.
He happily shut out the noise and demands of his family life.
Keightley even found a 1954 issue high-fidelity magazine in which a satirize writer imagined the palliative care of a sodomy husband: a custom
He was basically sitting in a speaker, soundproofing, shutting out the kids and the nitpicking wife.
Despite the emphasis on connectivity in contemporary technology, advertising (over isolation)
True Audio-Visual fanatics, and they usually include high
In their system, the speed of the Internet continues to focus on the lonely fun of technology.
On weekdays, they may
Mail and Web surfing, but when they are in this area, they use the internet mainly for Netflix and audio
Video message board.
Why are these connoisseurs satisfied with the low
Play online video or audio on a computer that lacks basic bass?
These early adapters led an amazingand-
Amazing brigade: people who often use these words to describe family entertainment. Good high-
Def is almost always amazing;
The extreme of multi-channel audio is amazing.
The whole system with ridiculously high prices, when elegantly arranged and ignited on all cylinders, another job is: get sick.
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"Ten years ago, the audio/video system was not able to compete with the worst movie theaters," Singer's utopian remarks wrote on the Sound site. end home-
Entertainment sites in Manhattan
"Today, they can be better than any one.
Such a store now
Luxury audio and video apartments and houses, including the oddin Supreme reference cable system, a series of interconnect and cables that make "each note itself and all other notes sound more authentic in the background. . .
Not only in terms of time and speed, but also in terms of harmonic structure, speed and time texture.
"Put These cables on almost any other device, and the singer's voice guarantees that you will hear" the sound equivalent to taking water from a rock or nectar.
"Look at sky's latest internal website for audio video --the-
Limit digital life.
Guest rooms are decorated in suede and leather, with shades ranging from beige to Bergel (
Some people have a red accent)
Plasma TV, so-
Called "reference" speaker, invisible
Floor wiring and customizationmade built-ins.
The space costs half a million dollars.
Los Angeles casting director Joseph Middleton speculated that he had spent less than £ 500 in his tech Paradise ", he built a building by the pool with curtains leading by French doors.
But his assistant supervised the project so he couldn't be sure.
"We do the best in every department," Middleton told me . ". “A 90-inch Da-
"Lite screen, B & W speakers, Toshiba projectors," he said . ".
"Bosch dishwasher, Viking wine cooler, Miele espresso maker, Addams home pinball, electric darts, ice maker.
But while the device gives Middleton the pleasure of "feeling more about the movie" and "being in the center of things", it also confuses him.
Unlike post-war tech fans, he is not an amateur who reads stereo magazines and likes to repair and adjust himself;
He just likes to be high-
Faithful sight and sound.
Middleton found out from time to time that he had to call his friends, change subtitles for foreign films, or guide him through his technology maze.
"The number of components I have may be difficult," he sighed . ".
"We're talking about more than just DVD players --
All games: consoles, GameCube consoles, X-Box, Wii.
And then you're talking about everything-
Game dance things, cars, wheels.
I think I need a chart.
All of these extensions and remote controls are clearly not something that one can handle alone.
For others who Design private spaces, they invite wives and girlfriends to consult the decor.
Audio Video inside even with the latest hi-Oasis of science fiction: his-and-
She features "her style, his performance.
"Are men with women?
Shared room?
It sounds like a dangerous trend.
Recommended entrance this week --
Air Entertainment: to promote jealousy and confusion, the latest A/V exterior is now shown inside the audio video --
High by the charming pool-
High definitionfidelity.
Their center is usually a house.
Outdoor plasma TV you can watch in lightning, thunder and downpour.
If you choose
Audio Video inside.
Decoration: BRIC countries-a-
The brac of classic Manly research is well worth a look: eBay's selection of vintage globes, maps and atlases reminds people of the ways of fantasy and loneliness of the past.
So called Cram Scope-O-
Recently, a globe with Jim Beam ter came out for 99 cents.
Refresh your memory of Petrograd, Zairian and the real rich China. eBay.
ComMOS DEF: Do you care how your TV and your decor work?
Don't you know when it will be "simulated sunset?
If that's the case, you probably haven't really been enthusiastic enough about the video yet
Core message board.
On the other hand, if the showdown between HD and Blu
Ray pays more attention to you than the upcoming primary, and your Bible is waiting for you: HDTVmagazine. com.
A version of the article appears on the print on page 638 of the New York edition with the title: stereo sanctuary.
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