Bloke spends $3.4 million on home cinema
A BLOKE deep in the heart of Texas has spent more than $3.4 million to equip a room in his house with flashy home cinema gear.
It took electronic systems firm Texas Integrated Systems nearly three years to install the cinema in the unnamed bloke's home. It has won the "Installation of the Year" award from Home Entertainment magazine.
The cinema room boasts 24-karat gold gilding, hand embroidered fabric seats and genuine antique candle holders throughout. On the whole it looks a little tacky.
However there are twenty-four 12-inch subwoofers, CAT/MBX speakers running the sound system. The 40 foot wide images are projected using a a 200 pound, three foot long Runco MBX-1 projector which can also produce thirty-eight distinct audio zones.
The cheapest speakers in the rig cost two grand a pair.
Movies sound great on the thing, but then again if you plonk an ordinary CD into the system it sounds fantastic too. However for $3.4 million one has to wonder what else you could buy and still have an amazing system. µ
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The referenced article / story is from January 2007. Living on the cutting edge Nick?
Seems that people with no taste and loads of dosh still get the advantage on prime-time.
By the way, could someone remind what the use is of having 24 speakers when Dolby only manages 7 channels ?
So where are the spinning rims, neon glowing lights, pimp cane, pimp hat, and the grillz? I'm disappointed in the lack of finish in this build.
With so many subwoofers, you can produce deeper sounds with more volume, and keep the sound more even throughout the room. For each octave you go down (cutting the frequency in half), you have to push 4 times as much air to get the same volume.

A 12" sub will start to drop off somewhere around 15-20 Hz (many will advertise lower than they can really perform). However, while we aren't very good at it, a typical human ear can still hear loud sounds down around 5 Hz and your body will pick up noise as low as 2 Hz.

If you want to get from 18Hz to 3 Hz you need to push 36x as much air, and going from 20 Hz to 2 Hz requires 100x as much air, which is why, if you're spending 3.4 million on A/V equipment, you would want a very large number of subwoofers. However, I'm not sure why you would want it all to look so ugly.
... but, it can't help you become stylish.

I bet his amps go up to 11.
that screen looks a little small for a cinema... maybe he couldve bought a bigger one with $3.4million?
In Indonesia the rich audiophile use up to 2 billion rupiah for A Audio ROOM. But I still lose many time comparing this.