KILLER home system

laptoppop · Post by **laptoppop** » Fri Jun 27, 2003 11:02 am

Saw this on rec.audio.pro - thought it might be fun to share.

http://www.theanalogdept.com/molinier.htm

-lee-

Post by **John Sayers** » Fri Jun 27, 2003 11:26 am

WTF!!! I couldn't think of anything worse - I bet it sounds like shit - so many drivers I wonder what the imaging is like ?? I'd prefer a wall of Killatones

:)

cheers
john

barefoot · Post by **barefoot** » Fri Jun 27, 2003 11:42 am

Yeah, I guess there's a cult for everyone these days.

Looks like the guy who built this must be the Reverend Sun Myun Moon of the vinyl/tube/horn followers.

Thomas

Post by **John Sayers** » Fri Jun 27, 2003 2:55 pm

I can imagine the "come round and listen to my house" invitation

as someone once said - who wants an orchestra in your lounge room??

cheers
john

rsb · Post by **rsb** » Sat Jun 28, 2003 1:09 am

I would never claim to have Golden ears, but they are sensitive. I have a good friend that thinks home theater is synonymous with acute pain between the ears.

Maybe not to this extreme but very close.

ouch

knightfly · Post by **knightfly** » Fri Jul 04, 2003 6:41 am

Holy crap, Tim Taylor ("Home Improvement" TV show) has discovered sound - the world is DOOMED... :=)

barefoot · Post by **barefoot** » Fri Jul 04, 2003 7:49 am

Just a point.... BIG doesn't necessarily have to mean LOUD.

One very good approach to low distortion loudspeaker design is to use a large array of drivers with a lot of surface area. This way you can move the same volume of air (sound volume) with much less effort on the part of each individual component.... smaller amplitudes and greater heat dissipation resulting in reduced distortion and dynamic compression.

My problem with this system is its predilection towards compression drivers, horns, and tube amplifiers - components with a lot of snake oil hype, but rather abysmal performance specs.

Thomas

AndrewMc · Post by **AndrewMc** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 2:39 pm

That's hillarious! Like something out of Waynes World.

I guess they like it loud

knightfly · Post by **knightfly** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 2:55 pm

Yeah, I bet if you got 'em phased wrong and made the mistake of standing in front when it got turned on, they'd never find your body - (round and round he goes, and where he stops, nobody knows... :=)

Velvet Elvis · Post by **Velvet Elvis** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 8:30 am

Man... most of the guys on that site have wayyyyyyyyyy too much crap... it looks like a bunch of people with jr. high syndrome where you plug as many speakers as possible into your system... because obviously more is better

I guess I'm going to have to replace my simple home theater system with some Clair Brothers flying rig speakers and a couple tens of thousands of watts worth of Carver amps...

forget STC ratings... how much SPL can drywall take before you physically blow the back wall out of your room!?!?

Velvet Elvis