This beautiful mid century modern home aka the Snower residence was designed by Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer and posted by midcenturyhome, whose finely curated photostream I follow on Instagram.
Aside from my interest in mid century modern architecture, the Altec 604C mounted prominently in the living room caught my eye.😄
I've also seen a Fisher 50C preamp (bottom) at FLW's Fallingwater. Unfortunately, interior photography was prohibited there when I last visited. 😞
The Snower house + hifi installation was already brought to my attention in the comment section of architects, music and hifi by a blog visitor many years ago. Thank you!
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| from Dwell.com |
More Infinite Baffle Installations
I blogged about this installation before, but this picture offers another perspective of the 2-way horn speaker system installed in Case Study House #9 designed for John Entenza by Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen.
John Hilliard's home hifi system
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I'm pretty sure all these wall mounted speaker systems were formidable music reproducers! However, ever since soundstaging and imaging took precedence over sound quality, infinite baffle loading fell out of favor. 😔
Nice!
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DeleteI have a book where they describe the speaker in that last picture...
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Here's an article from Audio Magazine, March 1960, in which the system is described:
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Thanks!👍
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