Comments on: Man Wall costs $15K — worth every penny

By: FULMTL

FULMTL — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:43:33 +0000

pfft this is maybe the man wall over 5 years ago, who has flat screens that small now, and LCDs at that (time for LED buddy). And wood? What man wants something that looks like its from the 70’s? Its all about modern clean looks now and this setup is garbage.
DVDS? its all about streaming high def now.

By: Album Rock for the World » Blog Archive » Computers suck day 2

Album Rock for the World » Blog Archive » Computers suck day 2 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:27:37 +0000

[...] I am only a casual sports fan. I mean….all I need is the final score and maybe a brief highlight reel. I rarely, if ever, watch a whole game of any sport. Having said all that…..GOD I’d love to have a man wall. [...]

By: Mankhool

Mankhool — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:41:07 +0000

I think the wine rack needs to be a wine cooler – actually that could go where the keg lives. What is a keg?

By: thebonafortuna

thebonafortuna — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:28:05 +0000

That thing should just be the door of a giant fridge. It could be built into future homes as a structural support. Children would dance around it, wives would cry, and men would stop going to work. We would all become gadget bloggers and society as we know it would crumble.

By: Aaron R.

Aaron R. — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:27:46 +0000

Seriously?… I count no more than $5K worth of equipment in there, so unless that’s a $10K shelving unit, which looks very unlikely…. here’s how you should spend your $15K.

For $15K I’d better be getting some pretty slick components… not Panasonic and Vizio.

A ManWall is a great idea, but here’s how I would do it.. if you have $15K for a man wall, just let me know.

I’d hire a craftsman to build out a custom shelving unit into my wall. I’d purchase a set of B&W Nautilus shelf speakers and a Carver sub (~$5K), maybe some Spectral amps, or Carver amp and pre-amp, I’d want a few slick LCD screens.. Samsung seem to be nice… plus, the LCD screens in the shelf are just for show, because I’d put in a Sharp 1080UB projector and tab tension screen ($4K) to come down over the man shelf (mid level projector with high lever picture)… then of course you need a kegerator… but shouldn’t there also be a media server? So then I need a MAC … some solid AV cabling (blue jean cables are great), a scrolling ticker is just lame and distracting so I’ll cut that… and of course you’ll want a network attached storage device, 5tb’s should do fine ($2K)… now at this point I’m probably over my $15K but….

Add a little bit of thought and class to your $15K and you’ll go from a red neck AV setup to a sophisticated man inspired audiophile getup with a bit of shenanigans thrown in.

I’ll let ya’ll see my own dude inspired setup when finished!

By: Niall Murtagh

Niall Murtagh — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:23:04 +0000

Brilliant – my sentiments exactly. A big old fridge/freezer would be the order of the day. Wine rack…oh dear..know your audience.

By: Radar

Radar — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:59:45 +0000

Why do you need the ticker on top, when ever sports channel I watch has so many tickers going they distract you from watching the event. And then the local channel will throw up a weather alert to cover the ticker so you can’t read it, so then maybe the ticker is a good idea after all. Nevermind.

By: Titus

Titus — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:47:51 +0000

Just why does the man wall have a wine rack? Unless you have strippers over and you are feeding them the cheap stuff, the last think I think I will ever here is: “let me get another glass of that Chardonnay” while the Giants and Eagles are fighting it out. Man wall aka sports center with a wine rack???

By: eattrn

eattrn — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:41:41 +0000

I want a secret room behind it.

By: Karen521

Karen521 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:50:59 +0000

This looks like the perfect wall for my brother in law, who has the best man space I’ve ever seen. He has a whole wall for building his mini helicopters and such, and a separate TV room.

By: Karen521

Karen521 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:50:40 +0000

This looks like the perfect wall for my brother in law, who has the best man space I've ever seen. He has a whole wall for building his mini helicopters and such, and a separate TV room. Karen

By: Peter Ha

Peter Ha — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:29:24 +0000

I’d estimate the DIY version would cost at least $8500 and that’s on the cheap.

By: Peter Ha

Peter Ha — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:18:31 +0000

Kind of looks like the old Patriots helmet, too.

By: Pishabh Badmaash

Pishabh Badmaash — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:16:58 +0000

WTF? There’s a Houston Oilers mini-helmut sitting there!!!

By: Eric Foor

Eric Foor — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:11:28 +0000

I probably wouldn’t even use half of that stuff. But I’ll be damned if I don’t purchase it when I get the money!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:57:10 +0000

Nice, but you could do it yourself for only a few thousand.

By: JOSH

JOSH — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:47:01 +0000

SOLD!