Six Million Dollar Home Theater Design

6 mil just for a home theater system!! That’s a huge amount man! Spend such a high amount of money, the theater, screen and the sound system must be incredible! That would make you never step into cinema anymore. Because it would be far better than the cinema. Let’s check it out how awesome it is!

Jeremy Kipnis’ theater, His Stewart Snowmatte laboratory-grade screen is the biggest I’ve ever seen in a home, and in the back of the theater, there’s a Sony ultra-high-resolution (4,096-by-2,160) SRX-S110 digital projector. While the KSS is technically an 8.8-channel audio system, it uses a lot more than eight speakers and eight sub-woofers. Kipnis felt that a lone center speaker sounded a tad undernourished compared with the eight Snell THX Cinema & Music Reference towers, so he opted for three Snell LCR-2800 center-channel speakers.

The original contingent of eight subs sounded “really good” but, unfortunately, didn’t deliver the full earth-moving-under-your-feet effect he wanted. So, he wound up with 16 18-inch Snell subs! To balance the other frequency extreme, and for the ultimate in transient speed and transparency, the Snell speakers’ treble has been augmented with MuRata ES103A super tweeters. The speakers are fed by a well-balanced combination of audiophile solid-state and vacuum-tube amplifiers. The KSS is astonishing in the way it delivers power, but with 11,315 very high-quality watts on tap, that’s hardly surprising.

AC power conditioning for the KSS is, again, done to the max. Next to the garage, there are two mammoth General Electric 13,800-volt/800-amp step-down transformers; all of the cabling is audiophile-grade wire, and every aspect of performance and presentation is scrutinized, even down to the 40-amp cryogenically treated circuit breakers for each and every component in the system.

Kipnis in the early 1990s when he worked for Chesky Records as an engineer/producer. When he started his own classical music label, Epiphany Recordings Limited. Hooked on video at an early age, he was the first on his block to buy a laserdisc player in 1980 and went on to amass a huge collection of players and discs. He watched them on one of the very first projectors in the market, the Kloss NovaBeam Model 1, with a 6.5-foot curved silver screen in his Redding, Connecticut, home, where he still resides. The projector’s legendary inventor, Henry Kloss, was a neighbor and good friend of Kipnis’ parents, so you might say the seeds of the KSS were planted long ago. The man’s passions run deep.

Kipnis saids, “I’ve been watching movies since I was four on really big screens in movie theaters, and three years ago, those experiences inspired me to design a home theater with the absolute best picture and sound.”

Partial Equipment List for the Kipnis Studio Standard Beta CinE:

Picture Elements:

Sony SRX-S110 Professional Video Projector

Stewart 18-by-10-foot Snowmatte 1.0 Gain Laboratory-Grade Motion Picture Screen

Players and Sources:

Sony BDP-S1 Blu-ray Player

Sony PlayStation 3 Gaming Console

Toshiba HD-XA1 HD DVD Player

JVC HMDH-5U D-VHS Recorder

SATA Drive (72 HDTV Hours Total)

Mark Levinson N° 51 DVD/CD Media Player

Pioneer HLD-X0 Hi-Vision HDTV MUSE Laserdisc Player

Amplification:

Mark Levinson N° 33h Amplifiers (2)

McIntosh MC-2102 Amplifiers (30)

Crown Macro Reference Gold Amplifiers (3)

Speakers:

Snell 1800 THX Music & Cinema Reference Subwoofers (16)

Snell THX Music & Cinema Reference Towers (8)

MuRata ES103A Super Tweeters (10)

Snell THX Music & Cinema Reference LCR-2800 Center-Channel Speakers (3)

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