The 6 Million Dollar Home Theater system

[audtatious]

To have that much money to blow....

http://www.kipnis-studios.com/....html

[0wn3r]

To have that much money to blow....

http://www.kipnis-studios.com/....html

looking at the pictures i wasn't impressed....i could definitely blow the $ in better places

[HashiriyaS14]

I'm looking at that stuff and I just have no idea how that could ever add up to $6 million.

Those McIntosh amps are maybe $5-8k apiece, the projector *might* be $75,000.....I don't know about the speakers but I mean c'mon, they're Snells, not Goldmunds. The DVD player is a TOSHIBA? Where's the Krell or Meridian hardware?

He's making a big deal out of the screen.....and I'm sure it's nice, but ultimately a screen is just a big white sheet, it's no big deal. It can't be THAT expensive.

I think that's a load of crap, at least in regards to the price. I'd love to see a spec/price sheet.

AFAIK, the most expensive speaker system in the world is the Kharma Grand Enigma Reference. It is an internally amplified 30 kilowatt (i.e. 30,000 watts) STEREO system and I have no idea what it's practical applicaiton would be:

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/too...0.php



P.S. Are those Mac amps tubes or are my eyes decieving me? Why in the world would anyone ever run a home theater system (i.e. digital source components) with tubes?

[Eikon]

let's check some prices:

Projector:Sony srx-s110: $102,000

Screen:

Players:Sony bdp-s1 blu ray: $1000Sony PS3: $600Toshiba HD-XA1 HDDVD: $400JVC HMDH-5U VHS player: $500SATA drive: $300 (max for a HD?)Mark Levinson N. 51 CD player: $18,000 (limited edition collectable release)Pioneer MUSE laserdisk player: $5000

Processors:Thetadigital Gen VIII (13 of them): $7500 each x 13: $97,500

Amplification:Mark Levinson No. 33h (2 of them): $33,000 for 2McIntosh MC2102 amp (30 of them): $4200 x 30: $126,000Crown Macro Referance Gold (3 of them): Most exp. I could find was $7800: $23400

Speakers:Snell 1800 Sub (30 of them): $2500 each: $75,000Snell reference tower (8 of them): $15,000 each: $120,000MuRata ES103a tweeter (10 of them): $2500 each: $25,000Snell LCR-2800 center channel (3 of them) $25,000 each: $75,000

The screen was custom made I guess? $100k?

My total is just over $800k.

A crazy sum of money.. but a far cry from $6 mil!

edit-- check out the link to the official web-site. http://kipnis-studios.com/The_....html

He's spent a few dollars on the room itself.. plus all the power supply, etc..

Can't fathom having money like that to piss away. Must be fun!

[MinisterofDOOM]

Why? 6 MILLION? No.

I could have 20 Ferrari 599s for that. Screw the home theater. I wouldn't care about watching anything in the theater if I had a different color Ferrari for every day of the month.

[xekushnr]

That HAS to include the cost of designing, building, all building materials, and decorating to come even CLOSE to $6 million. Even then I'm sure he used the highest prices he could find, then rounded up.