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wicked stuff. although in this case i think this is far too much. i mean having like 30 high powered amplifiers around you must create a massive amount of electric radiation and is probably even hazardous. im sure that this guy glows when you switch the light off. also - imagine the hum of all those amps which obviously must have some sort of transformators and posibly even fans. and then the fans of the screen projector. and surely the room is so sealed shut that when you put everything on it must sound like during 2001 space odyssey. besides - i don't think i could ever be happy about such harware because i simply don't listen to the right music. i mean all this gear and audiophilism has some sense when you listen to classical stuff or jazz records that were recorded directly to vinyl without any digital conversion. but listening some autechre on this stuff would probably not enhance your listening experience. probably it would lower it because you would start to hear bad audio converters, cheap chinese resistors in the machine drum, rob sneezing that went through unshielded cables. |
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It's a waste of money. He should have saved money on equipment and spent it on a consultant who knows what they're doing. There are a number of mistakes in what he has done, which should be obvious to anyone as unskilled as a Sound On Sound reader. I would also like to use my standard audiophile attack mechanism and mention "diminishing returns". Can the difference between a 4mil and 6mil setup be perceived in a double blind test? |
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what mistakes do you mean ? |
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Well the most obvious one to me is placing power amps in front of subwoofers. Electronic circuits can pick up vibrations. This is called microphony. The subs will be blasting out massive sound pressure waves at low frequency. These will be picked up by the power amps by vibration of the wires, PCBs, etc. The individual amplifiers inside the amps, be they FETs, transistors, valves, etc are all supplied with a DC power supply. In circuitry the DC supply is decoupled by inductors and capacitors to eliminate AC components. This makes the amplifer more stable and less likely to suffer from distortion. Since the subwoofer operates with low frequencies, when these are picked up by the amp they are much harder to filter out or decouple. This is because they are much closer to DC (i.e. zero Hz) than higher frequencies of tweeters, etc. Low frequency noise is a big problem in electronics compared to higher frequencies. By placing the amps so close and infront of the subs, he is bound to get massive amounts of microphony, even if the amps are on special absorbing feet. The other problem is that the amps are infront of the speakers! Does it sound like a good idea to block the path of sound with objects? Let's not mention the book shelves shall we? The room looks like is has no acoustic treatment or design. If you stuck that stuff in a big echo chamber would it sound good? Room design is a huge part and to my (totally untrained) eye, it looks like he hasn't had it specially designed. (I've not read the text so maybe I'm wrong on this one) Finally, the biggest mistake is not having more room for people. Films should be a social experience with friends. If I had such a facility I would invite friends round and watch a film with them, not just me and the her and a big empty soulless room. |
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He spent so much on it, he couldn't afford to pay anyone to design his . Would you buy something from that? |
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vinyls |
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i just realised that his wife will never really experience the full surround thing because she's too short and the sofa blocks the sound for her from the back |
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I just hope that the amps are intended to be hidden and this is just to make a flashy photo. |
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Lets keep it in perspective chaps, given the current value of the US dollar, this is less than £3,000,000. |
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Will that thing play my 100mb divx episodes of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace? |
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I just watched a video of Woody Allen getting "drilled" by J L Godard. They talk a little about MOVIES on the smaller screen. Me? I'd really like those speakers that look like brass horns. Two of them, please! |
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Fuck it - Where is the popcorn machine? |
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Like 's stuff? |
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LAME |
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Yeah, that's the style I'm talking about. It only makes sense that music speakers should be shaped like horns. (?) I really like . |
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well he's experimenting. maybe when he figures out how to do it right, it will only cost like $5million. Then anyone who would have bought the system for $6million can now give $1million to charity. |
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