OTHER TECH

When installer Jack Schroeder bought 52 acres of land in southeastern Wisconsin a few years ago, the previous owner had one request. Having spent 45 years planting and maintaining the thousands of trees on the property, building rocks walls, and creating miles of trails, essentially turning it into a vast park, he asked Jack to keep the land intact and development-fee. Jack has gladly honored that request, even as developers have greedily gobbled up the surrounding area, filling it with tract housing.

Maintaining the property continues to be a labor of love for Jack and his wife, who co-own their Milwaukee installation business, Sound Designs. But, when they took over the land, Jack found himself with a massive barn and nothing to store there but his lawn mower. So he decided to turn it into a high-end party space, filling it with heaping stacks of NHT speakers and McIntosh electronics (above).

You'll find 30 Evolution M6 monitor speakers there, complemented by 30 thunderous Evolution 12-inch subwoofers. And all those drivers are powered by a prodigious mound of McIntosh electronics that includes an array of amps - two 1,200-watt monoblocks and a 500-watt monoblock, two 600-watt, one 400-watt, and one 250-watt stereo amp, plus a 200-watt-per-channel five-channel amp, pumping out over 5,000 watts in all. (There's also a McIntosh MX119 surround processor.) Twenty dedicated amp circuits keep all the gear healthy and safe.