If you won the lottery, how much would you spend on an entertainment room? Probably less than music producer Jeremy Kipnis. He has put a cool $6 million into his “home theater”.
What do you get for $6 Million? How about a Stewart Snowmatte laboratory-grade screen, a Sony ultra-high-resolution 4,096 x 2,160 digital projector, 30 amplifiers (!), 16 subwoofers, 10 tweeters and 8 tower speakers
The home theater, which he calls “Kipnis’ outer limits theater”, is an 8.8 channel channel audio system (although there are a lot more speaker than that) and delivers a frequency response of 10Hz to 100 kHz.
The amplifiers are a combo of audiophile tube and solid state technology, and can deliver a mind-blowing 11,000 watts of power into audio geek level speakers.
The room is 33 feet long, 26.5 feet wide and goes from 8 feet high in the back to an 18 foot high screen at the other screen end of the room.
Of course even the power conditioners is top-notch (13,800 volt step-down transformers), and even all the cabling is super high end, right to the cryogenically-treated breakers. He isn’t using the same $1.80 HDMI cable (really, it’s that cheap) that we mere mortals tend to buy.
Oh ya, and did I say it only seats 3?
Here’s a partial list of the gear he’s using:
Video
Sony SRX-S110 Professional Video Projector
Stewart 18-by-10-foot Snowmatte 1.0 Gain Laboratory-Grade Motion Picture Screen
Players
Sony BDP-S1 Blu-ray Player
Sony PlayStation 3 Gaming Console
Toshiba HD-XA1 HD DVD Player
JVC HMDH-5U D-VHS Recorder
Hard drive that holds 72 hours of HDTV
Mark Levinson N° 51 DVD/CD Media Player
Pioneer HLD-X0 Hi-Vision HDTV MUSE Laserdisc Player
Amps
McIntosh MC-2102 Amplifiers (30)
Crown Macro Reference Gold Amplifiers (3)
Mark Levinson N° 33h Amplifiers (2)
Speakers
MuRata ES103A Super Tweeters (10)
Snell THX Music & Cinema Reference LCR-2800 Center-Channel Speakers (3)
Snell 1800 THX Music & Cinema Reference Subwoofers (16)
Snell THX Music & Cinema Reference Towers (8)
Surround Processing and Decoding
Theta Digital Generation VIII 32-bit 8x Oversampling Dual Processors (13)
Man, I would love to listen to something like this or this on that stereo system !
More info on their home theater (they sell these things too) can be found here (warning, slow, ugly site alert.)
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i asked my mum to give me 4 dollars to buy a headphone….she says now i should get a job….after 10 days she gave me 5 dollars on my birthday ^.^ i am lucky to have a mum like her. we are poor but we live happy. ^.^
Pshhh.. I’d rather use my iphone with bose Headphones.
I love home theater system and but sorry to say i don;’t have any at my home because it comes expensive and i can’t afford it. I have seen many expensive home audio products here – mcintoshlabs.com
Can it be built to not look like a post cold war NORAD type command center? Bet it sounds great though…..
He’s Not a fool…. So what your saying is that you should take clean water put it down a rusty pipe and drink it? No it makes perfect sense in order to transfer shows fast and high quality you would want to have the best cabling to take from the best Driver w/e it may be to the best Display duh or else you might as well not have spent thee money in the first place
You are right! “Absolutely Ridiculous Home Theater”! That
Kipnis system looks is my style for sure. As for the conversation about over-paying for HDMI cables I am with the side that thinks over-paying for a Monster brand is foolish. Look at the specs and match them.
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Wow, all those albums could acutally work as a diffusor, which would help the overall sound of the room. He would have stack the albums so all the edges to line up with each other.
Yes there are many diffences between HDMI cables.Do you need a 60 Hz or 120 or 240 Hz? Double sheided or triple sheided? Is it running in a wall or not? Some are gas injected. How many Gpgs are you in need of? 2.23 gpgs , 4.95 gpgs ,10.2 gpgs or 15.8 gpgs.? 8 bit of or 8 to 16 bit of color? So on and so on.Each will bring a difference price.
Do you need a 1.4 for a 3D blu ray and 3D tv?
These are the things to take into consideration when buying a HDMI cable.
Greetings:
I am the creator and designer of an entirely new level of Ultimate Home Theaters in the world – The Kipnis Studio Standard (KSS) – including the copyrighted Ciné Beta design seen, above.
With between 8.8 – 12.12 channels of sound, and composed of as many as 16 subwoofers, 96 speaker drivers, and a video resolution more than four times that of Full HD (1080P); 4K = 10 Megapixels: this is the most immersive Home Theater experience one can own, today and tomorrow.
Accommodated within dedicated, custom built double height rooms 28.5 x 36 feet in size and larger, a 64,000+ watt Surround Sound System fills the space with sound that’s truly worthy of worship. Capable of entertaining anywhere from between 10 – 100 people at a time, the KSS Ciné Beta Home Theater System lies in the middle of a range of Home Theater design and integration solutions that gets even more extravagant with the KSS Ciné Alpha Stadium system.
For those with more modest tastes and budget, but also and equally as much desire for Ultimate Picture and Sound presentation quality, Ciné Gamma and even a Ciné Delta Home Theater System design is available starting at a mere $10,000. No matter what your requirements are, the Kipnis Studio Standard (KSS) will create the most immersive, enjoyable, and memorable media experience possible – even in 3D!
Please come to our website and then send us an email with your Home Theater specifications. You will be amazed at what we can do!
Cheers –
Jeremy
Kipnis Studios – Ultimate Home Theater Design Solutions
http://www.Kipnis-Studios.com
— Winner of the 2009 & 2010 Guinness World Records —
Copyright 2010 by Kipnis Studios (KSS) / All Photography by Robert Wright
I must say: Wow! This guy probably never goes to the movies. 🙂 Anyone that spends this kind of money on HT, is ok in my book.
Keith Forrest
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A lot of money don’t necessarily assure the best quality. If you know what you’re doing you can have a cheap home theater system offering the best quality. I’m not talking about million dollar equipment, but equpment available on the internet. It’s just a matter of knowing where to look and finding the best deals.
Don’t know what kind of shitty tv you have, but on my Samsung LED tv, i can see a huge difference between cheap HDMI and more expensive HDMI.
I get the best result with high quality cables with component in.
Oh the DUSTING! D:
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Don’t know why Brian (above) doesn’t think jitter is a tech term in the world of audio for video — it’s certainly an often published spec of AD and DA converters. Jitter, oversimply put, is most often associated with poor digital converter clocking — and one of the most likely sources of it is NOT cheap digital cables but, rather, the slaving of one converter to another via wordclock. Sadly, there’s no way around that if you are syncing one converter to another. Some folks have bought into a marketing myth that you can supposedly improve a given converter’s clocking by slaving IT to a “better” clock source — but in actuality, that simply requires the slaved converter’s internal clock circuit to work HARDER at the more difficult job of using a phase locked loop in order to continually readjust the timing of the slaved converter so that it more closely matches the master clock.
Increased jitter can also result from the use of improper digital cable lengths. Most commercially available digital cables are properly made to basic spec. But there has been at least one “ultra-premium” cable vendor who floated a line of extra long digital cables with the thoroughly misguided marketing slogan: “longer is better.” Which, in this case, is simply not true.
Six million bucks for gear — but not one penny for acoustic design and treatment?
Ought to get some crazy early reflection with that sweetly polished floor…
This stuff cracks me the heck up.
LMAO this was my exact thought – 6 million in a room with a hardwood floor 🙂 Probably sounds like a train wreck no matter what is playing LOL 🙂 Just goes to show you that money dont buy taste, style, intelligence or common sense LOL what a moron 🙂
Amazing!
It’s amazing that so many people find the gall to criticize someone who actually has the funds to build something bigger and better than their own dreams.
I can only imagine it’s because their ‘best’ doesn’t give them braqging rights anymore, which is the only reason people spend more money on a stereo system than a car or house.
Admit it. You’re jealous!
thats the ugly truth man.People are just jealous
Crazy man
I have been working in Film, TV and radio for almost 25 years, and I can guarantee you that NO editing facility or radio or TV station uses high-end cabling. ANY HDMI cable that meets minimum spec and passes a signal will work the same. Digital is either on or off. The “Jitter” (not a technical term that I know in movie land) that most of you see is not a matter of cheap cabling. It is a matter of poor decoding of over-compressed signals by your receiver or display.
the most important consideration in the design and complete set up of your home theater is the size of the room.
the home theater speakers and the other components of your home theater may need to consider the size of the room. Too small rooms for your home theater may not require so many speakers.
In order for you to avoid making mistakes in your choice of home theater equipments including home theater speakers, and home theater furniture, you may require the services of a home theater designer.
U people are all crazy
wow
using monster cable as a reference
the last few years, monster was doing its name credit by sueing every company on earth named monster.
I wouldnt take their word for anything
plus, you think monster are going to admit their cables are overpriced and overspec’d?
there a producer of cable.
not really an independent source, imo.
go with quality cable, not necessarily monster.
Re: Ryan’s comments.
His reference is the Monster Cable website, the biggest manufacturer of absurdly overpriced cabling in the world. Need we say more?
By the way, the website doesn’t even prove the point. It just spouts a bunch of unsupported conjecture that cheap cables MIGHT not perform as well. Well guess what? They Do! No INDEPENDENT review has ever found a difference in short run HDMI cables. Save your money. Good quality 6 ft. HDMI cables are readily available for less than $10.
http://www.monstercable.com/hdmi/the_facts_on_hdmi.asp ……click on performance testing, its called an eye pattern test. it shows the difference between low/ high bandwith HDMI CABLES. there is a big difference. What is the bandwith for a 1080p source???? 4.95 GBPS. what do most of the cheap cables you screw your systems with transfer???? the average is 1.73 GBPS. now you are getting a distorted 1080i. although it could be do to your tin/ copper(if you’re lucky) conductors. ONE of the reasons hdmi cables can get expensive is the conductor they use. good ones use silver conductors, are dielectric gas injected (N2) for insulation, etc. so next tiome you say all hdmi’s are the same take the test. take a deep breath and let it out. now tighten a belt around your neck and take another breath. not so easy. not so easy for a DIGITAL signal to pass thru a straw vs a fire hose. and if you don’t think silver makes a difference as a conductor i have an experiment with a toaster and a bathtub.
@The Ear
All competent HDMI cables are capable of transmitting well over the maximum bandwidth needed for 1080p and 7.1 channels of lossless audio, which makes your argument of “too much data” irrelevant. Alternatively, if you’re going to spend $6M on home theater, the last thing to skimp on should be room accoustics: Get the record shelf out of the room!
To Pam:
At absolute zero all molecular motion does not have enough energy for transference to other systems, so there is no data loss because no data transmission is possible!!!
In digital cabling, error correction due to wiring loss is handled at the lowest levels of the circuitry. The higher levels where the actual audio data are encoded at the source and decoded at the destination, are impervious to the losses inherent in cabling. To misunderstand this is to completely miss the boat on the fundamental benefits of digital technology.
Greetings!
Kipnis Studios will be concluding formal public demonstrations of The Kipnis Studio Standard (KSS) – Ciné Beta Screening Room on Saturday, September 6th, 2008.
Anyone interested in a complete, hand-tailored tour should feel free to contact me through our website:
http://www.Kipnis-Studios.com
Cheers and Thanks for Looking –
Jeremy
Kipnis Studios
Contributing Editor – http://www.HomeTheaterReview.com
Just for the record, I can’t make heads or tails out of “The Ear”‘s response. Is there some sort of link to a reference in there, or just a reference to a youtube video telling us to buy more expensive cable.
In the end, you summed it up well, however. There is no difference in a short run HDMI cable, however if you have an expensive system you should buy expensive cables so as not to “cut corners”. Well, OK, then!
AweSomE #^_^#
Wait, why did he get a blu-ray player when he had a ps3?
@Charles –
…gotta have it handed to you on a silver platter, huh?
I’m sure you intended to say “ridiculis (meant to be spelled like ludicris!)” using the letter “i” instead of “u.” Silly, I know, but I’m a sucker for details. So, on that note, check out this, which clearly illustrates that not all 2 meter (or 6 foot) HDMI cables are the same.
Here’s a pertinent excerpt:
“The argument goes like this: it may all be 1’s and 0’s, but what is being sent over that cable is electric current. When too much data is sent over a shabby cable, the device on the other end can’t tell what is a 1 and what is a 0. The end result is video that is either jittery, full of digital snow, or flat-out not there.”
Here’s another and a video of the gizmodo-style Monster Cable test with additional explanation.
Pam’s explanation is not ridiculous, but perhaps a little too incomplete for your depth of understanding and lack of thoroughness in your research. If you haven’t already, read the “Error Correction” information that Joel left in his message under
Principles of Digital Audio
In conclusion, while most normal earthlings won’t notice the difference between one 6 foot HDMI cable and the next, if you’re going to spend $6M on a home theater, the last place you want to cut corners is in your cabling, even in the digital realm.
Still waiting for the link (Pam) that shows ANY difference in performance between a cheap HDMI cable and a ridiculously expensive one (at least in reasonable short runs).
Anyway, your explanation is ridiculus (meant to be spelled like ludicrus!).
You say that all cables have digital signal loss, then you go on to say that “you either
receive a digital signal or not”.
Bingo! You got it now! Again, please enlighten us with ANY independent test anywhere that shows a difference in signal performance between short run HDMI cables. I’m waiting…
i want this.
Interesting comment on cable length… so I suppose if you had a longer distance to run your cable than 6m, it might be worth spending a little more.
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The amount of errors on such a short run are slim to none and would almost always be fully correctable not masked so the net effect of an improved error rate (if there was any which is rather doubtful) is going to be zero.
Unless he is an industry insider and has access to 4K digital cinema files the projector is a waste. Oh wait, there is no DCI-compliant server listed so, no, he can’t do that either. Maybe split screen 4 HD grade images but that’s sure not something that would interest me. He would have been better off getting a DLP cinema projector @ 2K resolution for the far better looking picture.
Frankly, for that kind of money he should have constructed a small projection booth with 35mm and 16mm film projection to supplement the digital stuff. You can often obtain used prints that circulate among private collectors. Or with his bucks he can just rent from the non-theatrical rental houses like Swank. Going old school can be a lot of fun and very satisfying.
@Pam: Hahahahaha. You call HIM an idiot and then use the name of a stupid rapper in place of simple correct english…talk about the pot calling the kettle black…
*ludicrous*
thanks Dave
You know “ludacris” isn’t a real word, right?
@Charles- I agree with Pam (except I don’t think you’re an idiot) that error corrections occur at every stage of the digital process. Here’s a link explaining a bit about error correction.Principles of Digital Audio
Anyway, the basic idea is that any audio system is only as good as it’s weakest link. (If you have 2mil wrapped up in speakers, don’t use phone cable to hook them to your amp.) At least this guy can say his weakest link isn’t in his cabling. 🙂
Charles,
You’re an idiot. There is definitely signal degradation over a cable, any cable or wire for that matter. There is even error correction for the tiny spaces that digital information has to travel inside of a microchip. The reason you either receive a digital signal or not, is inherent on whether there is enough information for the error correction processor to reconstruct the missing pieces of data. There either is, or isn’t. But to assume under any circumstances, except super-conductors at absolute zero kelvin, that there is no data loss, or noise from other cables, is ludacris and terribly mal-informed.
Way to call someone an idiot when they are right. What you know about analog cables doesn’t apply. HDMI cables all transmit an uncompressed digital signal (100% quality). Signal does not degrade because it isn’t compressed, this is a fact. If the cable isn’t failing, there is no quality loss at all. You’re just another sucker Pam, but go ahead and keep spending extra on your magical monster cables.
“All the claims about differences in picture quality are remnants of the analog days, which were barely valid then and not at all valid now. There is no way for different cables to create a different color temperature, change the contrast ratio, or anything else picture quality-wise.” -CNET
Just read this – http://www.mint.com/blog/trends/the-rip1/
Joel,
What’s your source of this information that there is signal loss in a 6 foot HDMI cable that needs to be “corrected”?
The benefit of digital signalling is that there is NO signal loss unless it’s total signal loss. The signal can only be a 0 or a 1. No one has EVER shown any signal loss in a 6 foot HDMI cable, regardless of how much or how little that cable cost.
@Samuel-Of course, digital signal is… well digital.
However, there is signal loss in cabling that the processor has to correct. This is built into all digital electronics, and is called error correcting.
Good cables reduce the amount of error correction that the audio processor has to do, which in turn gives a more “true” sound. Will you or I be able to tell? Probably not, but if you’re going to spend 6mil on a theater, why not, right?
@JB-As far as the audio tests, there have also been tests done that suggest the higher quality the audio, the more brain activity, and not necessarily from the part of the brain that processes audio, but from the part that controls emotion.
Anyway, don’t want to be a nag, just want to put in my two cents.
“audiophile” that one word tells me this guy is a fool and a moron. anyone can look up the dozens of scientific tests done to this “super-high end” audiophile components, and guess what? they don’t do a damn thing, other than make some other guy more wealthy.
when you’re worth $500 mil, $10 mil for a home theater is like us normal guys spending $1,000…………so it’s all relative. If I was worth $500 mil, I’d have the same home theater as JK!!
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I WONDER IF THE FALCON COULD USE SOME AUDIO UPGRADES?? LooL361
Really? And how much does his high-end HDMI cable improve his DIGITAL signal. A fool and his money….
My sent up is better and cost more, I made everything out of solid Gold and seats four.