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garyfritz · Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 12026 Location: Fort Collins, CO

I'd like to ask that idiot "professor" if she "actually needs that amount of education to have a good life. There are uneducated people. There are ignorant people. There are serious educational concerns, and she's just not addressing that."

Stupid b***h.

perisoft · Joined: 29 Aug 2007 Posts: 2920 Location: Ithaca, NY

Ah, the old "children are starving" fallacy - also known colloquially as a 'false alternative'.

If there was a direct, either-or choice between Mr. Chase possessing a large dwelling, and a solution to world hunger, the esteemed professor might have a point. However, the argument as presented requires either that, or an assumption that everyone will be required to live while consuming precisely the 'correct' amount of... well, consumables - a level which, presumably, matches the professor's economic footprint.

Unfortunately, it seems fairly obvious that there is no practical way to get everyone in the world to match their lifestyles. That's just not very... human.

If the professor had argued that, as an individual, Mr. Chase should be reconsidering his personal charitable contribution given his income, then she'd have been an ignorant busybody. The implication that his particular housing project indicates a failure of overall social policy, however, smacks either of willful stupidity or self-aggrandizing showmanship. Deciding which it is is an exercise best left to the reader...

JustGreg · Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 3098 Location: Kenosha, WI

rabies_70 · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:14 pm Post subject:

OK let me retract my earlier obviously mis informed statement

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6637

Regardless of cost this is one cool HT ! Laughing

ronholm · Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Posts: 12111

achase · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 3:54 am Post subject:

Ridebreck · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 4:09 am Post subject:

So what kind of seating are you planning on furnishing that killer space with? You going with more of the regular-style theater seats or something along the line of Berklines?

Very impressive pad, I must say, man.

ecrabb · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:23 am Post subject:

I hope you don't mind Arnold, but I took the liberty of converting the 5 separate MS TIFFs into a PDF w/5 pages so anyone who isn't using a Windows box can also see the speaker info you posted.

For those who haven't peeked yet, the 3 mains assemblies weigh in at almost 450 pounds (202 kg) EACH. Shocked

Each main also stands just short of 6 feet (182 cm) tall.

1350 pounds of main loudspeakers, a giant projector to light a huge screen, concrete tiers, and a dedicated transformer with four separate service drops to the house. What's not to love about this project??!!?

Smile

SC

achase · Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:15 am Post subject:

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6637

Put some extra padding in those seats for those two and a half hour movies ! Wink

NewbieDAN · Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 1:20 am Post subject:

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6637

Just glad you could talk the wife into the HT ! Thumbs Up

JustGreg · Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 3098 Location: Kenosha, WI

So Arnold....I've got the nads to come out and ask it.....are we going to see a forum invite to an HT meet down the road some time? Invite enough of us and make attendance contingent upon installation of your own seat and that'll take care of that to-do list item. Mr. Green

Put the HT geeks to work! Laughing

Fantastic project you have. What a fun adventure it must be to take on a project as large as your home and grounds.

Greg

achase · Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 3:00 am Post subject:

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6637

What format war ? No way !!! I'm still Buying HD-DVD just in case ! Wink

Alaric · Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 10:16 am Post subject:

Hi There,

Stunning scale of set-up there....Its fairly mindblowing having a read through some of the details, its also nice to seem someone of means and an interest in the hobby....I've read a lot of 'wow' type magazine articles that have some nice kit in places but its been installed for them and they don't really understand whats going on. You certainly seem to have a grasp on what you want to do and achive and a passion and thats cool.

As for cables, i've never gone that esoteric, but i've played with some of the brands and had a go at making my own and so far i've seen remarkably little difference. My current set-up uses Cat5 based cabling !

a friend a while back had some Klipschorns and they certainly sounded nice and fast, I'd have time for those...I'm curious about the HPS4000, though some of the site claims remind me of Bose (bending physics), I'm also not so sure i apriciate the Orchestra equivolency factor either....maybe sheer power doesn't factor in so much for me, but then i've only 5 sets in my HT (though we had 8 people...i would say you can never have enough seats...but at 103 your probably safe Shocked

). It would be interesting to hear a set-up, but i doubt there are any in the UK.

Cya,
Lee

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6637

Was wondering what the interior of the finished HT might look like ? A link to a few designs by John Allen .

http://www.hps4000.com/pages/theatres_.html

achase · Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 7:56 pm Post subject:

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 8:27 pm Post subject: