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The mother of all home theaters

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desiibond
desiibond Original post #1
Nov 6, 2008 at 5:59 PM
Writer Steve Guttenberg and KSS designer Jeremy R. Kipnis sit inside the Kipnis Studio Standard

8.8-surround-channel system.
40,000 LPs; 20,000 CDs; 15,000 DVDs; 12,000 laserdiscs; 5000 HD media
30 McIntosh Tube Amplifiers
five McIntosh Amplifiers for each channel array--that's more than 500 tubes in all, plus solid-state amplification from Crown and Mark Levinson for the bass.
KSS Projection Booth: PlayStation 3, xbox 360, Nintendo Wii

Projector: Sony SRX-R110

Apple iPhone acts as the touch-screen controls for the entire system
Twin General Electric No. 868 high voltage transformers provide power to the studio
18-foot-by-10-foot Stewart Snowmatte film screen
Source: *reviews.cnet.com/2300-6740_7-43-1.html?tag=mncol;page
RCuber
RCuber #2
Nov 7, 2008 at 1:53 PM
Who is the father? :confused: :))
desiibond
Nov 7, 2008 at 3:17 PM
actually fathers: The Banū Mūsā brothers

Invented "the earliest known mechanical musical instrument", in this case a hydropowered organ which played interchangeable cylinders automatically.

:)
A
Nov 8, 2008 at 9:29 AM
WOW man...awesome...