Ferrari collector's home theater

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Check-out this setup... :D

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Not bad but on the second setup I don't see anywhere I would be willing to rest my feet. All the speakers in the world wouldn't fix that.

The first one looks good enough, but I wonder how much use those machines get? To each his own.
 
If you have enough money for ferrari collection in your HT , why would you have such an average display device :confused: .
In my opinion you must have 9" CRT Projection to be taken as a serious analog afficianado.
Like my Visual dynamics reference 9 , 9500 ultra here , for true better than cinema pictures . His audio looks kick ass compared to mine tho , I'm half deaf so don't really get the point .:smile:

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Those are the Wilson Audio Grad Slam/X2 Alexandria series speakers. This customized set probably cost the guy the price of a new NSX.

Not to mention the turn table, speaker and connection wires, those probably cost him the price of a S2000.

This guy is not only a Ferrari enthusiast, he is a serious audiophile.

AND the system is set up by Definitive Audio of Bellevue Washington, and some of the guys used to work with me when I lived in Bellevue while working in the audio business. Great advertisement!!! Great find.
 
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robr said:
sorry, that's just obnoxious. i'd much rather have everything hidden. cant wait for turbo2go to comment on this one :)
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OK since you asked. :biggrin: I think its another case of selling a lot of fancy audio gear where the gear and the money spent overshadow actual performance goals. The equipment is nice, but this is far from a dedicated room, a well treated or designed room... therefore the gear is complete overkill IMO, but if you have money to burn...

As for the turntable, the SME arm, the carbon fiber cables... what can I say. Its a great way to get someone to spend their money. If I had money to burn maybe I would buy some of this for my family room but I wouldn't expect any sort of performance for the money I just blew. It would be a case of buying nice gear like buying a nice watch. It won't keep time any better than a cheap watch but it will make you feel good.

Vance those are not Wilson Grand SLAMM speakers, those are no longer made, they are the Alexandrias as stated in the article.

I think that second pic is from Widescreen Review magazine's testing room. That is not a single system, it is multiple systems in one room.

We've built several custom speakers for customers painted to match their cars and logos. I was seriously thinking of making an NSX speaker with some nice details on it.
 
Sound system aside , my question still begs . Why do most "home theaters" concentrate there efforts mainly toward the sound system only ?? when 70% of the experience is in the visuals :confused:

BTW IMHO The best turntable on earth is the Technics SP10-MkII with upgraded tonearm , mine sits in the shed in a box , have to pull it out to tell arm brand ,SME rings a bell :rolleyes:
 
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SweetChuck said:
my question still begs . Why do most "home theaters" concentrate there efforts mainly toward the sound system only ?? when 70% of the experience is in the visuals :confused:
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I am not sure where you get that from, but most theaters I see are very weak as far as the sound system goes. That weakness mainly comes from a total lack of thought given to room acoustics, not gear. Everyone always talks about their gear but its pretty meaningless when the room, which is at least 50% of the sound, sounds like $hit.

If by "visuals" you meant the looks of the room, I think people do spend money on that and often the equipment suffers. In any theater the first order of business should always be taking care of the room setup. That includes room acoustics and how the screen/video is setup (colors, distances, etc). once those are correct then you pick gear.

All this high-end stuff with the thick cables made of plutonium and the high-end analog guys saying there is more "air around the instruments" with their turntables, all this super expensive gear "matched" by the golden ears of high-end music shops is all BS to me. Choosing one cable over another to tame the sonics of a type of amp or matching a certain amp to a certain speaker for the most part I don't buy at all. They have made a science out of nothing... and of course then they are the authority. All equipment should be neutral and perform its tasks without any additions or subtractions. And even then we are splitting hairs over unimportant stuff. This is why I got out of the retail business long ago. I do work for real people now that want an experience not for some tweaky geeks that want to spend all their time reading what I think are goofy high-end magazines and discussing the "tonality" of speaker wire over the internet.
 

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