Wow. I don’t get it. A million bucks to reveal the limitations of the CD format? OK, so he has a couple SACD’s and Blu-Ray probably sounds great, but how many albums that you want to listen to are available on SACD and Blu-Ray?

Must be nice to be rich & be able to waste so much money.

For that type of money, couldn’t they have at least run the cabling a little neater behind the equipment stand?  I’m sure it sounds great though.

I couldn’t agree more with Igor’s comment about the rat’s nest of cabling.

This is living proof that a fool and his money are soon parted. I could show him a system a quarter of the cost or less that is far more musically involving and satisfying and not limited to Blu-Ray and the quickly dying format SACD. Goldmund gear has always been absurdly overpriced.

What a rip off! I mean seriously, doesn’t this guy know that Goldmund is nothing but overrated, overly thick chassised, mediocre stuff. For $150,000-200,000 he could have had a world class system. And digital only- shows that he has zero understanding of what he bought, its just some weird ego system with its ridiculous power rating. 5 watts is all that a great system needs- period. And of course analog source material, digital is a waste of time.

I wouldn’t be so harsh on Goldmund, it is very good sounding equipment.  Aaron is right, a system of this level should be using the highest quality source material of which CD/Blu Ray/SACD are not.  Goldmund did at one time make one hell of a good turntable by the way.

Whatever you think of Trump, he does have style. This “man cave” does not. It’s an ugly POS designed by a man who apparently thinks there is no limit to how audio quality is correlated with how much money you spend. Perhpas he should have spent $2 million and gone with 30,000 watts of power for an even truer sonic experience?

Kudos to Goldmund on their fleecing ability.

No acoustic treatment, just bare walls. Not a lot of expertise was employed here.

Components aside, I’m more curious as to his lack of thought process regarding acoustics. I don’t have to hear it to already know for a fact it has serious problems, just based on those two photos of the room itself.

“The Mimesis 32 processor is capable of outputting 32 channels in a 96kHz 24-bit high-resolution digital format”

That’s it? Oh and goldmund gear is all snake oil, just have a look at their rebadged poor performing blu ray player lol.