Way Cool!

Hey! I have a great idea!

How about I put my electronics and especially my turntable right in front of a six foot tall pair of 30 foot deep subwoofers!?!?

Yeah, that's the ticket!

I bet getting the time alignment right was fun, though!

Call it my bleeding heart, but isn't there anything more worthwhile he could have spent his money on? I mean, I'd spend some good money on a dream system too, maybe $50k if I had it laying around, but I'd bet he spent a good part of a million when you pay for all those contractors and the home renovations plus equipment.

And let's not even start on how ugly that shit looks in the yard! I hope he has a tall wall so his neighbors can't see or hear those things cranked. I mean, how much ambient noise do those things generate on the outside anyway?

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Call it my bleeding heart, but isn't there anything more worthwhile he could have spent his money on?

Concert tickets, even?

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Yes, time alignment in that system must be "interesting". Especially since the horn mouths seem to be rather far from each other...

Well, some people hoard trash and let it take over their lives. This is not that different.

I'm sure it sounds like pure dog shit, but I bet the feedback has to be astounding. I don't see how he gets away with having the TT and electronics even in the same room, much less in front of the sub. That piano has to resonate like all get out, IF he ever gets anywhere near the potential for bass.

Not digging the Western Electric meets Goto meets Jadis vibe at all of that speaker system, looks like a natural disaster.

The blue mercury tubes are cool, but just looking at the system, it just seems so mannered and manicured for "effects". I hope for his sake that the system sounds amazing.

As for the positioning of the components, I've seen similar positioning in Japanese systems utilizing Goto horns, big ol' Tannoys, so it might be okay. I know it's fun to think it'll sound like crap, but I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt here, that he boned up on the facts and hired real consultants who know about vintage audio and multi-horn systems. There's a popular way of doing audio rooms, proselytized by a man named Ishii-san in Japan. After completely rebuilding the room, he then usually (but not always) positions the speakers width-wise and not length-wise, and usually positions the sources - including turntables - directly in front of the listening chair. You may scoff all you want, but the guy has immaculate credentials and is very much revered as THE man in understanding acoustics in a room; check out any recent issue of Stereo Sound and you'll see an example of the Ishii-style room. The pictures are pretty but there are graphs and measurements which accompany the pics.

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Now that is awesome. And nothing to do with Ethan Winer or Ted Denney!!!!!

Thanks for posting.

John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile

I wrote about a similarly over-the-top horn-based speaker system on blog a while back.

http://audioexplorer.blogspot.com/2008/04/to-each-their-own.html

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I wrote about a similarly over-the-top horn-based speaker system on blog a while back.

http://audioexplorer.blogspot.com/2008/04/to-each-their-own.html

That was a great blog.

That system strikes me as more elegant in it's execution, but cymbals in the room? Unless Synergistic ART has expanded their line, I bet you can hear them play along with the music....by themselves!

I bet you could kill someone using that sound system.

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I wrote about a similarly over-the-top horn-based speaker system on blog a while back.

http://audioexplorer.blogspot.com/2008/04/to-each-their-own.html

That was a great blog.

That system strikes me as more elegant in it's execution, but cymbals in the room? Unless Synergistic ART has expanded their line, I bet you can hear them play along with the music....by themselves!

Thanks Buddha-

I imagine that the biggest difficulty with either one of those systems was the "leap of faith." It's a lot of work and a lot of money with no real guarantee of results. Both are really like the Spruce Goose. Who really knows if it will fly until it's fired up for the first time.