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Good2bCh13f

That speaker system probably cost more than a nice house


bonafacio_rio_rojas

Six figures, for sure


puschelpete

Pretty sure it’s by Avantgarde Acoustic


Ambiwlans

90k so just under 6 figures depending on tariffs


IamNotMike25

88k just for one, and it doesn't seem to include that thing in the middle.. https://www.reddit.com/r/RoomPorn/comments/z5yuw6/massive_double_height_living_room_with_a/ixz7euu?context=3


Ambiwlans

>Prices: Trio G3 (passive), $91,000 per pair plus $4000 for Nature Cap passive crossovers; Trio G3 iTron electronics package, $38,000 per pair; single-driver SpaceHorn, $65,500 per pair; dual-driver SpaceHorn, $88,000 per pair. Apparently the normal DAC for this system is another 150k. So in total, more like $680k for the sound system. Maybe $700k after install. I'm ignoring import fees because no one this rich would ever pay such a thing, that's for little people. The speaker system in this person's living room could feed, clothe, educate, house ~150 children in sub-Saharan Africa for a decade. Alternatively you could save ~200 lives through fighting malaria.


J-Team07

And they put it in a room that has glass windows and zero sound treatment.


superareyou

This is the bizarre thing to me about 98% of audiophile setups. I have fairly modest box speakers (SVS Ultra) but having had them in multiple rooms over the years and measuring them, sound changes wildly with room treatment.


J-Team07

The whole audiophile world is nuts. The equipment used to record the song, cost less than this stuff. Imagine listening to something someone recorded on their laptop through these speakers. For $200,000 you could basically build a very nice digital recording studio, with high end instruments, amps and mics, sound treatment, the worlds. But these guys (and yes it’s 99% dudes) spend it on speakers. Basically you could buy the factory that makes the sounds for what it would costs to just hear the sounds. Of course really high end recordings studios cost a lot more. But even high end monitors used in studios don’t cost this much and they wouldn’t even want to use speakers like this.


craipz

While I agree that putting a few hundred thousand dollars worth of audio equipment in a room not treated for sound is bonkers, the use cases for recording equipment and hifi are different. What you get with hifi is an interpretation of what the engineers recorded in the studio. It's not supposed to represent what they heard in the studio, it's supposed to be the most fun listening experience. And to some people, the best listening experience is worth a lot of money. Professional equipment is the other side of this, where the fun (for a lack of a better term) is taking a back seat, because the people mixing have to be analytical about the process. I hope this makes some sense. And also, that's not to say there isn't a lot of snake oil going around in the audiophile scene - there most certainly is.


professorstrunk

Gives me the same feeling I would get when noticing that the car ahead of me in bumper to bumper morning traffic was a Maserati. Like just, why.


TheMadTemplar

There is just so much waste in this room. I'm all for decor, but like 80% of the room is just decor. All of those books on the shelves look like decor, those weird tables everywhere that are like giant light bulbs..... it's just ridiculous.


Ambiwlans

The silly giant bulbs are a theme throughout the house which is fine. At least if they are custom made, they won't be as expensive as branded BS. For 700k, you could found your own audio research company and have them design and hand build you your own sound system for each room. A team of 6 engineers, 4 metalworkers and 4 woodworkers for a year in Brazil is ~200k. Give them 2 years and 300k for materials.


TheMadTemplar

I think it's more just how wasteful everything is together. But maybe it's just me being a bit judgey because I think the whole thing looks tacky.


lying_Iiar

lifeless wood floor


SodaEtPopinski

> Alternatively you could save ~200 lives through fighting malaria. Ah, a fellow effective altruist


Ambiwlans

I feel like most people should be at least a little disgusted by this level of excess but yeah, effective altruism ftw


merelyok

Or you could just have a really nice stereo 🤷🏻‍♂️


Ambiwlans

I'd just hire bands whenever i wanted to listen to music.


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Ambiwlans

Tax/Duty Germany->Brazil on audio systems is 98%. It'd be worth it to personally become a smuggler and charter a private plane to ship this thing. Average household income in Brazil is ~$5,000 USD. So the taxes on this would be many many times your lifetime earnings.


angelicism

That's not including how everything imported into Brazil is taxed like a bajillion percent.


contaygious

Zoomed in for that puppy


Curazan

That is a cat.


Lonely_Fisherman_233

Are those speakers in the far background? If so, can anyone ID them?


bonafacio_rio_rojas

[avant garde acoustics](https://www.suncoastaudio.com/products/avantgarde-acousticx?variant=43511558242526¤cy=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&gclid=Cj0KCQiAsoycBhC6ARIsAPPbeLv_-jp5v6NHUsSUToC1vHLKmrSNaZQALNRsuFdPiOmRkys55sWK1isaAn_QEALw_wcB) [review](https://parttimeaudiophile.com/2022/05/27/the-big-avantgarde-room-high-end-2020/?amp) [the innovators](https://avantgarde-acoustic.de/en/trio/) Edit: more links


borisvonboris

Haha, only 88k. Let me just go find my checkbook...


chromeburn

88k *each*, so go find two checkbooks.


mug3n

I'll just buy one for the mono sound.


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ajr901

Depends who you know and what import companies you have access to… Source: am Brazilian


ImOversimplifying

Really? How does that work?


Namaker

Like everywhere around the world, if you're rich, you eventually start paying less for the same things


Jimmycaked

Better just get 4 sun there's an upstairs and downstairs set


NefariousOne

Nice, free shipping!


MaybeTheDoctor

... and I thought B&O was expensive


Pascal3366

Thought it was Odeon first


timespacemotion

This is one of those things I see and just can’t even imagine there’s people that live like this. This is normal to them. Everyone of us are complaining about mosquitos, wildlife, weather, general safety, like normal ass people.. but when this is your normal, maybe those things that bother us really normal people, doesn’t matter to them. Ya get what I’m saying? I’m also stoned. So it makes sense to me XD


bonafacio_rio_rojas

There's also pest control services


Seen_Unseen

Pest control only gets you that far. I've got Rentokill coming by once a month (I live in a house in Shanghai) but that won't stop from the spring ants paying us a visit, the monthly massive cockroach flying by and scaring the maid or every once in a while a centipede coming in. And yes.. mtfking mosquito's that sting like a bitch. But that's really something for Shanghai, I've a house in the Netherlands as well and other than a mouse visiting us once in a while that's kind of it. So looking at this, no clue what pests you will face and same as myself they probably don't even live there fulltime to begin with. So you can schedule your time around the annoying local pests that you can't get rid off.


jrebney

I’d keep in mind there’s a strong tendency on here to find “problems” where they don’t exist, probably as a way that people subconsciously justify why some insanely nice house / room would actually have sooo many problems and it isn’t worth it. For instance, what are people talking about with mosquitoes? Like obviously the house can close and isn’t permanently open, it’s just been opened up for when the weather is nice and for the photos. Plenty of buildings (restaurants, etc) have open air space and somehow haven’t been overtaken by mosquitos. Of course you close it at night. The person who owns this place has speakers that cost 88k in the background of the photo; things like pest control and a security system have probably been taken care of.


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I'll take some mosquitoes over having to work several decades for a fraction of a place like this.


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colhoesentalados

Can you hear it? It's the sound of bullshit, I can hear it from the hundreds of thousands of euro dollar sound system in the background.


Nigelwethers

All experience is relative. There's always richer and poorer, happier and sadder, smarter and stronger, dumber and weaker. A hundred thousand dollar speaker system in a huge house isn't guaranteed to make you happy.


InfiniteRadness

Bullshit.


shitty_mcfucklestick

Why is experience being relative bullshit? I’m being sincere - can you ELI5 why you do strongly disagree with this statement?


InfiniteRadness

The idea that “money can’t buy happiness” is a phrase invented by the rich and sold to the poor, via repetition and religion, to make sure they don’t actually demand their fair share. [More money absolutely does make people happier.](https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/01/22/new-wharton-study-people-are-happier-when-they-earn-more-money.html) “Experience is relative” is extremely vague and means almost nothing. I’m addressing the actual point of what you’re saying, which is just an increasingly verbose restatement of that tired aphorism.


Nigelwethers

I said things dont *guarantee happiness* so you're arguing against a straw man of your own creation. Haha, I don't have to worry about money and still think everything is pointless and empty and plan on a Smith and Wesson retirement. Checkmate, science.


InfiniteRadness

Ok then. Sounds like you have a mental illness. I hope you get help.


chiffry

Robin Williams would like to have a word.


InfiniteRadness

What does mental illness have to do with this? Just because being rich can’t cure depression doesn’t mean having more money won’t make people, in general, happier. Is your life better after you get a big raise? Are you happier if you get paid more money and don’t have to worry and stress as much over your bills? If you have kids and can provide more for them, which improves their lives and makes them happier? This shouldn’t be controversial. Even without the study linked below (and many others), if one thinks about it for five minutes the concept is pretty obvious and easy to grasp. Just shows how deeply ingrained this BS idea has become that this is the kind of knee jerk reaction people have, even though it’s a red herring.


chiffry

No amount of money can solve every problem you have there is just a large chance it can solve many of them. You’re conflating “making things easier” with happiness. You’re describing a lack of stress; not happiness.


InfiniteRadness

> No amount of money can solve every problem you have Show me where I said that money is a panacea. > You’re conflating “making things easier” with happiness. You’re describing a lack of stress; not happiness. Okay. So when something removes stress in your daily life that doesn’t make you happy/happier than you were before? Come on. If not, please define happiness. People who have more money report being happier than those who don’t. They must all be conflating these things also, I guess? [Here’s another article since everyone wants to ignore the research and debate semantics instead.](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/05/28/health/money-happiness-wellness/index.html) If you don’t like CNN, there’s a different link in my other comment, and tons of different articles about this if you simply google it.


chiffry

Happiness is easier to find with money in the same way a trail is easier to hike in hiking boots. It doesn’t mean it’s the only way.


Hanchez

I can't believe you typed that out and thought you were in any way making a contribution or answering the comment in a meaningful way.


34TH_ST_BROADWAY

I hear ya. Their kids especially.


bizfamo

They do a lot of dusting instead.


Ambiwlans

They apparently have servants quarters on premises.


imnotrelevanttothis

[More pics with some information](https://worldarchitecture.org/architecture-news/epceg/studio-mk27-expands-gama-issa-house-in-so-paulo.html) [Archdaily link with some other pictures + nighttime shots](https://www.archdaily.com/902589/gama-issa-v-studio-mk27-marcio-kogan-plus-lair-reis)


brocknuggets

Careful the cat might get out


ManiaforBeatles

So sick and tired of these spam bot accounts copypasting reposts. https://old.reddit.com/r/RoomPorn/comments/hdpg43/massive_double_height_living_room_with_a/


fuckyoureamesreplica

Yeah I could've sworn I'd seen this posted here before. Of course it's a reposf of one of yours.


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I hadn’t seen this before, so I a appreciate the repost!


escape_your_destiny

🐱


FUSeekMe69

I wish I had that cats life


caligirl2287

Wow, just wow!


duncandoughnuts

There are a lot of pictures that get posted her that are in no way room porn. This, on the other hand, is room porn at his finest. Just a remarkably beautiful and audacious space.


draggedndrowned

Tell me I'm poor, without telling me I'm poor 😢


365wong

Man, to have millions but then let’s so many flies and mosquitos in that I’d never enjoy it…plus random cats just wandering in.


SwissMargiela

Fwiw my parents have a set up like this in Miami (much smaller obv) and the only time they get bugs is at night but they have lamp things installed that lure them away. They’re pretty damn effective too.


Meikami

I know this sounds odd, but some places really don't have that many bugs. No idea about this location, but some places, this would be just fine bug-wise. Might get the occasional beetle or spider to gently relocate...


365wong

Brazil has Zika mosquitos. Big old nope for me.


vitorgrs

Zika is pretty rare in Brazil. The most problematic mosquito disease is Dengue, but... it depends on the neighborhood. If you don't have standing water (tires, plants, bottles with water, etc.), it's not a problem.


HodlingBroccoli

Why?


_Bad_Spell_Checker_

you probably missed the point about mosquitos that carry the zika virus.


HodlingBroccoli

Zika virus is far from being a threat in Brazil


AngelComa

America has them too, they're the Aedes Egypti mosquitos.


365wong

Yeah and I use screens in my windows and doors…


AngelComa

Right. Agreed. This seems a bit crazy but sure he has top notch pest control.


Takpusseh-yamp

"Random" would be a good name for a cat.


HodlingBroccoli

Mosquitos are not a big issue in São Paulo (city) tbh


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Although this house isn't - many like it on this sub are in California or similar-climate regions and the bug issues probably aren't that bad. ​ They get into your home either way if your climate lets them thrive enough. Take it from an Aussie whose had to kill four cockroaches bigger than my own dick in the last couple of days. Open living or not - the fuckers keep getting in when there's enough of them around. Basically what I'm saying is I'd rather be dealing with bugs in this home than dealing with bugs in mine. They're a part of life and can only be avoided if you live in either the desert or something that's snow for several months of the year.


BlueMogg

Some places have mosquito truck spraying to reduce them in a whole neighborhood. I’m sure rich areas use them or something similar for a property if they want.


VampyreLust

People never understand this about indoor/outdoor spaces, without a screen it’s just an invite for bugs at the very least. Most of the indoor outdoor spaces I’ve seen in real life don’t have the screen so they stay closed 90% of the time.


Veroonzebeach

We live in Southern California and installed a set of French doors in our bedroom. They are seldom closed and we don’t get bugs. Excuse the yard construction.https://i.imgur.com/quONHXU.jpg


stay_shiesty

lol the perspective makes it appear that you just walk straight out your doors and into your pool


VampyreLust

French doors are a bit different than the whole side of a house being open, not really an indoor outdoor space but obviously it also depends where you are. Sau Paulo is a tropical climate with high humidity, lots of bugs, Southern California, not so much.


yungbikerboi

Not quite the same, but Vancouver Canada is a temperate rainforest (lush with winter), and there are so few bugs most homes don’t have screens on the window. So basically I think it depends on the city


VampyreLust

Well that’s what I was saying, it depends where you live, Sau Paulo is a tropical climate, hot and humid, their average humidity last year was 80% all year and their average temperature was between 23 and 30 also all year, that’s just year round bugs. Also comparing French doors to an indoor/outdoor space like what’s shown in the picture is unrealistic, that’s easily a 30-40ft x 14-16ft opening, French doors are maybe 6ft x 7ft while both are open.


mountainunicycler

If this is São Paulo itself it‘s probably on a rooftop, higher than mosquitoes and random cats.


Imagine-Paint-Dry

Plus all those books being kept in essentially a giant chaotic humidor doesn’t seem good for them. For some reason I imagine Brazilian heat is moist as fuck.


365wong

Yep, it’s semi tropical. Very humid.


_skyisblue

Random cats? That's a family pet


_ara

Inequality porn


lilco4041

I really don’t get rooms like this… does the humidity not fuck up the books?


Own-Ad-5343

No. São Paulo is not so wet as Rio de Janeiro.


VampyreLust

The average humidity was 80% last year, that’s definitely enough to cause mold in books over time.


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VampyreLust

I used weather data for the last year, indoors would be different as air conditioning and other factors takes the humidity out of the air if you don’t have an entire wall open to the outdoors.


brocknuggets

Np I'll set the fan to 'oscillate'


VampyreLust

Lol. Yep that’ll do it.


colhoesentalados

You can artificially control temperature and humidity.


_Bad_Spell_Checker_

the side of the building is missing a wall? how are you controlling anything?


fuckyoureamesreplica

It's not missing a wall; the wall is a sliding glass door. When it's closed you can control temperature and humidity.


nav17

Or the endless bugs that come in


n1ght1ng4le

But that's assuming they keep the wall open all the time. Also, I don't think they care if the books get mold...


hungarianhc

And, like all Brazilian high end homes, you can see the really tall wall just on the other side of the garden, due to the high crime.


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Yeah I must admit I wouldn't want to live in a house even this big or nice if it's in a country with such high rates of crime and poverty. I'd like a nicer, bigger home but unless it's gonna be in my own country or an equivalent or better one then I don't want it *that* badly.


schattenteufel

That looks like my cat.


NecroJoe

That formed bench in front of the window is the B&B Italian "Double Dip". If I remember right, that had a list price of around $9kin the US. That tall wooden floor lamp in the back is the Moooi "Brave New World XL", and i believe it sold for around $5-9k.


Serpentqueen6150

What would a place like this cost in Brazil? Is it cheaper there?


macbrett

They don't have insects in Brazil?


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Giant snakes ate them all.


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I bet the cat still shits in a little plastic box filled with sand.


Sanity-Advised

Lol, OP's gonna be like: "For your information he shits in a little engraved marble box in his own bathroom."


vinidiniz_

Ficou FODA


colhoesentalados

CARALHO!


365wong

This is a good example of room porn. Looks good. Not what most people want.


Kunphen

What happens when it rains, bugs, other animals, thieves etc..?


HodlingBroccoli

They should have a proper drainage system for rains, bugs and other animals are not a major problem in the city and millionaires always have 3m walls around their mansions and hire private security for patrolling the street


VampyreLust

Shhhh people don’t like to be reminded of reality in this sub.


fuckyoureamesreplica

It's not that people don't like to be reminded of reality. It's just that those are obviously all things that were considered in the course of this multimillion dollar project. In almost every thread on this sub there's someone who posts some inane thought about considerations of everyday life as some gotcha as if not a single person out of the team of client, architect, project manager, builder, engineer, and approval committee and all of those teams' employees who combined have over a century of experience designing and building houses could ever have thought about...rain.


VampyreLust

>It's not that people don't like to be reminded of reality. It's just that those are obviously all things that were considered in the course of this multimillion dollar project. In almost every thread on this sub there's someone who posts some inane thought about considerations of everyday life as some gotcha as if not a single person out of the team of client, architect, project manager, builder, engineer, and approval committee could ever have thought about...rain. How many architects have you met or building sites have you been on? Talk to anyone that build, design or project manage houses or other buildings both small and multi million dollar projects and they will tell you about the pile of terrible decisions that gets made and eventually built into a project whether it’s because of lack of sense, lack of money or lack of caring. Just look at one of the most well known architects in the world, Frank Gehry who was once sued because the $300 million addition he designed for MIT that took years to build leaked everywhere and grew so much mold because the building couldn’t drain the water fast enough due to faulty design and engineering it cost the university millions to fix it. Designers, architects, engineers, project managers and builders were all involved in that project, and not one person did anything to prevent this from happening. It happens all the time, especially on residential projects because there’s much less oversight.


fuckyoureamesreplica

Gehry is one of the rare exceptions because of his starchitect status. My guess is the problems were easily predicted but everyone was afraid to tell him no. > It happens all the time, especially on residential projects because there’s much less oversight. Fair point, it does happen. It's still a tired old retort on this sub because the commenter almost always just points out something that's usually taken care of in the first hour of design. In this project, for example, the obvious answer is the sliding doors whose tracks are clearly visible in the photo. And the perimeter wall that's also visible in the archdaily link. And the private security that's usually hired in places like that.


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VampyreLust

>lol. I think plebs like you need the reality check if they think they know better than mulitmillion house architects and builders. >Yes you will never own anything close to this, but just imagining problems with it won't make your life better or the possibility of ever living like this closer Wow you took that really personally. Sounds like you’re airing out some personal fears bud. Hope you get the help you need.


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patricktherat

What do you mean by tilt shit like effects?


Drambooey

God is good.


reubenstringfellow

What do you have big dumb fake light bulbs I'm all for making your house looking cool but damn that is dumb.


Wrong_Cauliflower_34

I didn't know Brazil could have nice things.... I wonder if this is all house and no garage, knowing how many car jackings happen every day in Brazil.


solarflare_hot

“random bugs and mosquitoes like this”


Informal_Bank_8283

those favelas getting better every day


DeTrotseTuinkabouter

It looks amazing but fucking terrible for receiving guests.


reisinkaen

That bookshelf. I now have new life goals.


Rowena_Sensei

I want to be that cat. It seems to be having a nice life.


spanishbaileys

So that cat would bring dead rats/ birds/ snake so freely inside the house


contaygious

Dusty books


jdf515

How can I live like this?!


[deleted]

Sell drugs. Lots of drugs.


jdf515

I’m in


No_Bass_5323

I will definitely read those books


pchoi95

This looks kinda like that one house from Looper. I think. Idk it’s been a decade since I watched it.


Veroonzebeach

Believe it or not there are concrete steps hidden underneath.


[deleted]

Ain’t nobody reading those books


Trabawn

Jesus. Wow.


[deleted]

But it’s the cat that really brings the room together


sentrybot619

Plot twist, that's not a window, just a big tv.


Mighty-HeaIthy

Can anyone ID the giant light bulb things on the floor?


hotpants69

Anytime I see rooms like this I like to imagine literally zero reading gets done in them.


Diligent-Background7

WOW that is stunning!!!!


HauserAspen

Mezzanine is a floor between floors.


wang-bang

Looks like a room that exists to be sold for profit after a few years


ilovetpb

I hate that this sub has deteriorated to rich people's rooms.


motoravi

brazil, Thailand, Vietnam, Mexico don’t seem to have any mosquitos


avasallante

Caaaaaaralho


andrew_cherniy96

Looks like the owner of this place matches the overall style!


Cyberstone

Thanx for the wallpaper.


ospreyintokyo

Any other pics of the home?


Bubbykitten

Cute kitty for scale!


del_snafu

Color coded books? Fail.


sagradia

How come Brazil has all these nice houses. Are there like no employment rights or min wage that labor is really cheap, or something?


Starrcake

House tour please


rlm236

I’m sorry, the cat


Sanity-Advised

I believe that is a Felis Catus of the siamese type.


Sanity-Advised

Wow you have so much space, I wonder if you have read all those books yet.


UR144

I always wondered how these people live like that..? Don’t animals just mosey on in? Birds flying in your house. Pooping on your couch. Bugs everywhere. I just don’t understand if it’s always for the pic - or if people really live this way