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Home Theater: What can $6 million buy you?

by Daniel Wolfe Posted in Cool, Gadgets, Home Theater, Movies

To take an opening line from the original author of this post, when it comes to home theaters, I thought I had seen it all. Well, all that was worthy of my critical (yet practical – see: ‘egzak’) eyes… But this, well, THIS, I had never seen until early 2008. Yeah yeah, I know the date because the article is from February 2008 – whatever!

The $6-Million Home Theater Setup: Who Wants One?

The giant Stewart Snowmatte screen isn’t all that’s impressive! There’s also the Sony ultra-high-resolution (4,096-by-2,160) SRX-S110 digital projector – this bad boy is on my “Need/Want” list, too! Just not sure if it’s a “need” or a “want” yet… Outfitted primarily with Snell speakers, Jeremy Kipnis’ $6 million home theater setup is an 8.8 system – that’s right, 8 speakers and 8 subwoofers. Although there are really more than 8 speakers. He has THREE center speakers, as he felt that just the one center was being too overpowered by the eight Snell THX Cinema & Music Reference towers he has surrounding the room.

Two mega-transformers out by the garage are required to power this thing!

This beast of a “home” theater is powered by two humongous General Electric 13,800-volt/800-amp step-down transformers next to Kipnis’ garage.

The giant Stewart Snowmatte screen isnt all thats impressive!

Amplified by two Mark Levinson N° 33h Amplifiers, thirty (yes, that is 30) McIntosh MC-2102 Amplifiers, and three Crown Macro Reference Gold Amplifiers, 13 Theta Digital Generation VIII 32-bit 8x Oversampling Dual Processors run the show.

Aplified to the max!

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  1. 3 Responses to “Home Theater: What can $6 million buy you?”

  2. By Dan R on May 8, 2009

    That setup is simply insane. But does he have a laserdisc player in there?

  3. By Wood Shelf  on Oct 19, 2010

    home theater systems made by Panasonic are the best in my opinion, they sounded great~~`

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