I don't even want to know what the electric bill is. http://blog.audiovideointeriors.com/208great/ Picture Elements: Sony SRX-S110 Professional Video Projector Stewart 18-by-10-foot Snowmatte 1.0 Gain Laboratory-Grade Motion Picture Screen Players and Sources: Sony BDP-S1 Blu-ray Player Sony PlayStation 3 Gaming Console Toshiba HD-XA1 HD DVD Player JVC HMDH-5U D-VHS Recorder SATA Drive (72 HDTV Hours Total) Mark Levinson N° 51 DVD/CD Media Player Pioneer HLD-X0 Hi-Vision HDTV MUSE Laserdisc Player Surround Processing and Decoding: Theta Digital Generation VIII 32-bit 8x Oversampling Dual Processors (13) Amplification: Mark Levinson N° 33h Amplifiers (2) McIntosh MC-2102 Amplifiers (30) Crown Macro Reference Gold Amplifiers (3) Speakers: Snell 1800 THX Music & Cinema Reference Subwoofers (16) Snell THX Music & Cinema Reference Towers (8) MuRata ES103A Super Tweeters (10) Snell THX Music & Cinema Reference LCR-2800 Center-Channel Speakers (3)
maybe maybe not it could very well be that nothing is ever good enough for him and no matter how much he spends he is never really happy just my opinion, but i think its a bit pathetic that one would spend that much on sitting around to watch TV. Obviously he's successful and rich and we all would like that. But they are better ways to spend money....like a solid platinum toilet
the electric bill is out the wayzoo.. "AC power conditioning for the KSS is, again, done to the max. Next to the garage, there are two mammoth General Electric 13,800-volt/800-amp step-down transformers; all of the cabling is audiophile-grade wire, and every aspect of performance and presentation is scrutinized, even down to the 40-amp cryogenically treated circuit breakers for each and every component in the system."
I don't like the $6 setup but Rice's is nice. I don't like those speakers everywhere. Makes it look rather cheap even though it is not.
1. This dude is obviously a bachelor - no wife would ever accept this ugly of a setup. 2. How can you even concentrate on the picture, when there are 30 vaccuum tube Mac amps with their blue backlit power meters staring back at you (along with all the other clutter)? 3. All that money on amplification, sources and speakers, and a room that looks to be too live. The room seriously needs some treatments. You would think that the dude could hire a sound engineer to come look at his setup.
The theater looks so cluttered and unsophisticated. I also prefer Rice's setup. Or many of those theaters in the other home theater thread w/ the Batcave, Star Trek, etc.
well the screen is 18feet x 10feet and its the top of the line sony projector used for theaters, it upconverts to 4,096-by-2,160 I'm sure he watches the movies with the lights down. read the article, i have link up there. obviously he hired some people. I mean, 6 million bucks, you expect some geek squad installation fee too. The dude is obviously an audiophile. person is obsessed with sound. I would like to hear how "PLAYA's BALL by OUTKAST" sounds on it! When it comes to home theaters, I thought I'd seen it all. But nothing's come close to this. First, I'm going to try to describe the sheer magnitude of Jeremy Kipnis' theater. His Stewart Snowmatte laboratory-grade screen is the biggest I've ever seen in a home, and in the back of the theater, there's a Sony ultra-high-resolution (4,096-by-2,160) SRX-S110 digital projector. I'm looking everywhere, jotting down questions, and Kipnis sounds almost giddy talking about his theater's capabilities. He refers to his baby, the Kipnis Studio Standard (KSS), as "The Greatest Show on Earth." And from the looks of it, he may be right. While the KSS is technically an 8.8-channel audio system, it uses a lot more than eight speakers and eight subwoofers. Kipnis felt that a lone center speaker sounded a tad undernourished compared with the eight Snell THX Cinema & Music Reference towers, so he opted for three Snell LCR-2800 center-channel speakers. The original contingent of eight subs sounded "really good" but, unfortunately, didn't deliver the full earth-moving-under-your-feet effect he wanted. So, he wound up with 16 18-inch Snell subs! To balance the other frequency extreme, and for the ultimate in transient speed and transparency, the Snell speakers' treble has been augmented with MuRata ES103A super tweeters. Thus, from the deepest deep bass (10 hertz) up to the extreme high-frequency range (100 kilohertz), the KSS is the most full-range system I've ever heard—and felt. The speakers are fed by a well-balanced combination of audiophile solid-state and vacuum-tube amplifiers. The KSS is astonishing in the way it delivers power, but with 11,315 very high-quality watts on tap, that's hardly surprising. Not only can it play ungodly loud, the KSS sounds phenomenal while doing so and never hurt my tender ears. The theater is big but far from huge. Its vaulted ceiling ranges from 8 feet high at the rear end to 16 feet at the screen end of the room (which is 26.5 feet wide and 33 feet long). The 18-foot screen fulfilled my IMAX fantasies, and the projector's va-va-voom color and brilliant light were transformational. I just tried to take it all in as I scribbled notes, afraid I might miss some of the juicier details.
You've got to click the link and read the article. It's not like he just opened some catalogs and ordered a the most expensive crap he could find. He's trying to design and possibly sell the ultimate theater system with versions for the home, movie studio screening rooms, and even in actual movie theaters. It looks rough with everything out and exposed because it's like version 1.0, with bigger and better stuff still being planned.
