Make no mistake, we've seen some pretty
astounding home theaters in our day, but it seems as if Jeremy Kipnis has not only pushed the envelope with his Kipnis Studio Standard (KSS), but flat out destroyed it. Sure, anyone with $6 million laying around could amass an impressive array of hardware, but this ISF-certified technician went the extra mile by assembling the entire system with an eye for detail -- with the intention of selling setups just like it. Just to give you an idea of what he's working with, you'll find a Sony BDP-S1 Blu-ray player, Toshiba HD-XA1 HD DVD player, Mark Levinson N° 51 DVD / CD Media Player, 30 McIntosh MC-2102 Amplifiers, 16 Snell 1800 THX Music & Cinema Reference subwoofers, 8 Snell THX Music & Cinema Reference towers, a Sony SRX-S110 4K projector and a 18- x 10-foot Stewart screen. If you think reading about it is mesmerizing, just wait 'til you hit the read link and take a look around.
posted Feb 6th 2008 4:46PM
What an UGLY set up. He could have saved $5,800,000 for a comparable kick-ass set up... with more seating too.
What an excessive waste of cash.
Funny how with all that equipment and all those pictures that I don't see ONE cable running from any of them... Even when you see the back of some of the speakers where cables are SUPPOSE to go in, you don't see any cables. Hhhhhmmmmmmm
I've just been on their website (selling these "systems")
For a company that wants to sell £3million home entertainment systems, their website hardly reflects professionalism or luxury, it looks like it's been made in FrontPage.
Actually it was built with iWeb 2.0.2.... Still does suck when it comes to being a "Premium" installer... I think all the comments above are valid. But I still wouldn't mind having one :)
Six millions freaking dollars ? This is ludicrous !
I worked for a vfx company on a 3D movie, we did have a setup with TWO digital cinema projectors (2K, not 4K, but in this class you pay more for light output than for definition), a much larger screen (30 ft wide) and id didn't cost a tenth of this absurdity.
Reading the linked article, I discovered the existence of MUSE-enabled (Hi-Vision, that is the old Japanese HDTV) LD players by Pioneer. For the love of curiosities and dead formats (and because LD was my first experience in real home theater), I wouldn't mind having one.
Dead on!
Professional mastering theaters don't cost this much. Unless he is actually pouring the concrete and making the facility this is pointless.
4k projector is $100k or so retail
1k$ bd player
.2k$ hd dvd player
10k$ screen 25'
10k$ cables
2k$ room lighting system
10k$ chairs seats and couches
25k$ room treatment, remodeling the room to make sounds and video pretty.
MAYBE 500-1000k for a full on thx theatre setup for a full size theatre.
realistically 200k
20k$ controls and intergration
20% profit and installation cost
So in reality this level of set up for a much bigger room would be 450k with a hefty profit on top.
The retard also set up TUBE amps in front of giant woofers. Tubes are vibration sensitive. His setup would be fine with solid state amps just not with tubes.
He spent $$ for the sake of spending it and didn't make the setup as Optimum as it should be for the cash spent.
@Joe:
If you look through his website, you'll find that those stands under the tube amps are vibration isolators. but as far as the vibrations that come through the air - yah i dunno how he compensates for that.
The majority of the audio is above the viewer's ear-level, regardless if bi-polarness. What a waste of money on audio alone. And on top of that he has a first-gen HD DVD Player, nice. *rolls eyes*
What a waste. You could get a nearly-equivalent experience with a lot less equipment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminishing_returns
Also, it's interesting that they opted for a circle of toed-in speakers nowhere near the walls... this really limits the best effect to a very small "sweet spot".
If I ever spent anywhere near that much money on a home theater, I'd want to be able to enjoy it with a larger group of friends than one 3-seat couch will accommodate.
I thought it is funny that the projector isn't HDCP compliant so he has it connected via Component and not HDMI!
The projector doesn't have HDCP because it was intended for commercial theater use where HDCP does not exist.
Seems like the lionshare of this whole absurdity gets spent on audio equipment. Not even the guys MIXING THE FREAKING MOVIE in the first place have nearly that much crap.
Is that real? Am I dreaming? That is pretty much the system of my DREAMS! I'd rather spend the money on the sheer audio/videoequipment than a stupid bar or seating aranggements. A couch would do it for me, all I want is the sound! (and video, but sound is my thing)
Man, if only I was a multimillionaire.
Half of that money was spent on the obsolete Blu-ray player. :-P
think before you post
i would like it even more if it had a separate 2.35:1 screen that would roll out on top of the 1.85:1 screen. also a projector that is indeed HDCP compliant.
dude could of atleast got the Toshiba HD-XA2 :)
Kindof a waste to use $ony's shitty 4K projector(ask anyone who has actually used one) in a home environment, unless you can get 4K content there really is noe point, and unless you are extremely high on the food chain technicolor and deluxe are not going to issue a key to a home system anyway. Waste, waste, waste. Save your money to float your room and by a good 1080P projector instead. By the time you can run 4K in your home (see also never, 90% of all digital cinema auditoriums are 2K) the batmobile ($ony 4K, am I wrong?) will have given up the ghost anyway. Hell Kevin Costners's setup isn't this nuts and he just uses his to get laid (or so the guy that built it says).
BTW, a wall full of albums? This guy doesn't know shit, he just knows how to spend money. The ISF cert. doesn't mean anything either, tell him to call me when he can install a real theatre, anyone worth their salt wouldn't put the amps and projectors in the room, much less a hard wood floor. Cinemas should be built in a dead room, or as near that as possible. He wants Spielberg, Lucas, Jackson(hack) and Scorsese to buy this thing, they will laugh and call him an idiot. He should've checked out a studio screening room or two before wasting his money. I give him six months till his ugly wife leaves him.
Oh, and his website says he has and 8.8 channel setup, which means he has 8 discrete subwoofer channels, even though that doesn't exist and subs are non directional.
For this much $$$ I would hire people to come to my home and act movie scenes out for me.
I wish I had $6 million to spend on a home theater because it would definitely look a lot better than this dude's. Why does he have a Sony BDPS1 and the HD XA1? Seems like he'd get the updated stuff since he just dropped that much money.
You guys. The owner isn't buying optimum home entertainment experience, he's buying I-can-afford-to-be-this-eccentric image to fit his big ego. The installer isn't designing a solution, he's trying to sell a setup to the super-rich, so the installer is going for a setup that'll impress even those who had seen it all.
Grabbing everything exotic and placing them together is a pretty easy trick. Doesn't impress me. It's a lot more difficult to design for the masses.
i agree. i would rather hide everything so it is less of a eyesore. why not just make it a stylish classy theater instead of a ugly tangle of metal? if u have that much money, why not just buy a real theater? ;)
Everyone keeps saying that they would replace this component with that, how shitty the system is and so on. And you know what? You're probably right. The problem is, you don't have $6 mil to spend, so all you can do is talk trash and criticize. And that's always easy.
It's nice, but if you want to see a real home theater check out this one on avsforums : http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=640853
This one doesn't even have a masker for the screen as far as I can tell.
That looks ridiculous. With $6 million, the set up should have been more streamlined, better seating, and better lighting. It's completely overdone, and it doesn't look comfortable at all. For that cash I would have bought my own local theater.
What an ass.
I think his main goal was to set a standard, not to spend as much money as he could. Sure, he could have gotten an equivalent system for cheaper. He could have gotten a 1080p projector instead of the 4k projector and gotten the same quality picture. But someone could have said, "Well, I have a 4K projector, it has 4 times the resolution that yours does". Then it would be sub-standard compared to this other home theater system. Kipnis wanted to set a standard, so he wasn't going to skimp on the quality.