I am not really interested in Hi-Fi. Take me home.
The room
31ft x 19ft. Dedicated to this purpose. It is acoustically dead. The air handler vents are oversize, and the louvers are special models to reduce turbulence. The electricity is separate from the rest of the house. The end you are seeing with the shelves is underground, and the house is on a dead end just above the James River, and we have no neighbors.
You can hear your heart beat ... if it is still beating.
The toys
SACD: Onkyo SP502. It's cheap. It works. The analog output is converted to 24bit/96KHz digital.
Blu-ray: Sony basic player sold by Costco. The transport is incredibly quiet, and it makes a good digital disc spinner. The room is so quiet that I can hear the discs spin in the other transports I have tried.
Bits: Apple TV
Volume, Balance and EQ: Behringer Ultracurve
Crossover: Behrigner Ultradrive (54Hz @ 48dB/octave)
Headphones: Sennheiser HD650 and HD600. I spend a lot of time listening via headphones.
Amplifier: Slightly modified (by me) Quad 99.
Speakers: Celestion SL700SE pair #512, expertly refurbished by Tim Stinson.
Subwoofer: Meridian M2500, with a 20Hz, 48dB/octave, high pass filter. If you have heard even one recording made in Henry Wood Hall, you know why this sub-sonic exclusion zone is needed.
TV: Doubles as a sound absorption device. The rear of the TV is covered with RPG diffusors.
Tweaks
Late 20th century Maneki Neko that a friend picked up for a dollar in Hong Kong just after the handover. Since Maneki Neko are Japanese, this one from Hong Kong is obviously a fake. I also have an origami unicorn and a miniature Budda ornament. Keep in mind that Blade Runner was a movie, so this is also a fake.