Let's dream. . . if you won a big Lotto jackpot, how would your audio change?

Me, I would buy my most immediate neighbor's house which has been vacant five years (daughter of the owner grew up here, is wealthy, lives in Seattle, and doesn't want to sell now that her parents are both gone) which has a fantastic huge living room with a wall of floor to ceiling windows looking out on the forest across from our street. I'd set this windows up with heavy drapes that could be closed, room treatment, and get a pair of the Torii Monos and maybe a Manley 300B preamp and Bob's latest HR-2 speakers and play around with digital and analog front ends for a while til I found the ones I liked the most.

This would make my wife happy, I'd let her do what she wanted with this house and have my listening world just up the road. I'd leave my current main system in place here in the house.

Your ideas?

Yes, lots of options is not the most comfortable situation!

hdrider, I hear you. I love being in front of my system and hate to leave home! It's nice to do so, and fabulous to return.

That sounds like a good space to be in. Too bad I have never found a woman who would share such a space with me and put up with the necessary audio environment and would listen as I would want to, so I need to have a separate listening space as I need a partner in life.

Nice ideas.

I would build a stage in the backyard, a small amphitheater.
Every night I would hire a different band.
Maybe the occasional residency.

During the day, while I slept, the band would get set. The show would start around 7pm, end around 10pm. After all, the neighbors have to sleep. After 10pm the band would tear down and go to their next show.

Of course, the entire affair, daily, would be catered.
All of it would get posted on social media, monetized.

Nice, right?

I thought about this a little more. I was being too conservative with my spending of massive amounts of cash! Might as well spread the love around.

New plan:
I'm still sticking with a designed from the ground up listening room, or perhaps we should call it a Listening Salon (Just to sound more upscale).

Then I would take a wheelbarrow full of cash up to East Peoria and start throwing stacks of $100's at Steve to get him to develop his most outrageous sound system ever.
I figure at about a half a million he would start getting some pretty good ideas!
I'm thinking that something bespoke is closer to my style anyway.

I would probably do the same thing with several designers because I have a problem listening to the same system every day.
"Consistency keeps the lights on, but variety turns the engine."

Last day of vacation down the Jersey Shore.  Staring at the bay and it’s dead silent.  Not even a kayak on the water.  Listening to some Spanish guitar music.  

I would buy this old English castle in the next town over that’s on protected land and has been for sale for like 10 years.  Renovate it structurally without changing its character.  One wing of the castle would be strictly turned into a music recording studio.  Another section would be utilized as a space for high school and colleges to perform intimate concerts for up-and-coming artists to generate funds for the music program.   The third section would be a small jazz café  spinning vinyl for guests to grab light fare.  

The butler’s house that sits off to the left would be my own personal studio that I would convert into my open space garage to house a few cars that I’ve always wanted to own…Lotus Caterham 7, 1987 Buick Grand National GNX, a GMC Typhoon, a new Mercedes G Wagon, and a Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano.  Part of the space would be an enclosed dedicated listening room to have a cigar with my closest friends while playing music through Steve’s Zen Torii Monos and a pair of Tannoy Canterbury’s.  Lastly….The Azimut Seadeck 57 ft. yacht would sit at my house down the shore on the bay.  

Here’s a few photos for fun.

Donnie,

By the time the Caterham with the Ford Engines came on the scene, they were supposedly more reliable than the original Lotus 7’s.  I was in a Caterham as a passenger at the racetrack, and it blew my doors off how well they handled.  Definitely a raw sports car for sure.  I’ve tracked my Lotus Esprit…and it’s way more refined but a different experience.

I’ve owned various Toyota’s for the past 30 years, and absolutely love them.   The are bulletproof IMO.  I used to tow my Yamaha Wave Raider with an old Camry, and it ran for like 180,000 miles.  My current Camry and Highlander both have over 100k miles, leak no oil, consume zero antifreeze, blow cold air, and run great.  Toyotas for the win as well.