Burmester's room featured a surround-sound system that was amazingly smooth-sounding and coherent. The system included prototypes of the 007 surround-sound processor and 961 center-channel speaker. The rest of the system consisted of the B 99 Reference speakers as mains ($47,780/pair), 949 Mk 2 speakers as surrounds ($22,120/pair), 969 CD transport ($27,930), a stereo TOP-LINE 911 Mk 3 amp for the rears ($18,710), monoblocks for the fronts, BASIC-LINE 933 Mk 2 power conditioner ($5650), and Burmester's own cables. Jeff Fritz, who writes the "Surrrounded!" column on multichannel music for SoundStage!, commented as only he can: "You pay a load of money, but you get a load of sound."