CurtPalme.com Home Theater Forum

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 4:16 pm Post subject:

Huh? You and I? No, never! Very Happy

Ya know, there is a difference. Guys like Peter will jump on different bandwagons as trends come and go. You and I, we'd walk a mile for a Camel...err.... CRT projector.

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"I chose to ignore thee therefore: you are not." The opposite of "I think therefore I am." Thumbs Up

Cliffy

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 2:43 pm Post subject:

Yo Cliff, check out this thread:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=822442

Read Peter's response about him bitching about some clown calling himself the Film God. (I think Pete's jealous because someone is infringing on his territory). Then read Dizzman's response to Peter's post. Hysterical! Very Happy

Jesse S · Joined: 12 May 2007 Posts: 209 Location: Etobicoke

Maybe he can't use a digital cam but the pictures of his projected image look terrible. Colors are muted and lacking the subtle shading differences like a crt. Looks really soft too.

And what a retarded website. He needs to take a web design course.

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ecrabb · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:30 pm Post subject:

Nice. I liked his oh-so-convincing response to the above, too:

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:57 pm Post subject:

His big claim to fame a few years ago was installing the HT for some pro football guy. He's riding the coattails of that install. I'm sure he knows what he's doing, at least to some degree, but for some reason the +20K guys put up mostly with his crap. I think only because he works with these high end sets that not a lot of people in the HT industry get to play with.

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ecrabb · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:26 pm Post subject:

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Person99 · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 4899 Location: Flower Mound, TX

Spanky Ham · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5643 Location: Comedy Central

I will make this about the theater.

First, this is probably one of the most expensive homes I have ever been in. It is in a gated community on the bay in Coral Gables. This house is easily over $10 million. Once inside, Peter took me and his friend back to the theater. I believe the theater structure was already constructed, so Peter just had the room to work with instead of a clean sheet of paper. The room is fairly narrow with rising seat platforms. He had the equipment in a closet in the back of the room by the pj. The pj was in a little space above and beside the bathroom, which is behind the theater. The room is covered in blue fabric and wood accents. The chairs were light colored.

I believe his equipment list is Dynaudio speakers, Denon head unit, Blu-ray player, Levinson amps, Barco DLP pj, SMX automated masking screen and TRW fan. He mentioned he had a budget and I think he blew it on the pj. Of course the fan is $10k. Smile

I know there is more to the equipment list, but you can probably find it on his thread.

As for the performance, I thought the picture was one of the best I have seen. I was looking for blurring and artifacts, but I didn't see any. He says he is getting huge ANSI, but I am not so sure. I would love to see the measurements. There is some debate whether going beyond a certain ANSI number matters. Without an A/B, I can't say. His room did have the light colored chairs and I did see some reflections coming from the walls and ceiling. I am not sure if it matters as there was excellent detail. He told me he was getting around 19 ft/lmbs. I must say brightness is addicting and I do believe it masks the issue of relatively low on/off. Out of probably the dozen clips I watched, only "2001" was were I really missed on/off. Even in this movie, I could see where most would be happy with the performance but not a CRTer. Smile

Peter swears ANSI is more important than on/off, but I think they both have their place. If this thing had 100k to 1 on/off, then it would have almost no weaknesses. Of course, it better for the price. Smile

On the audio side, I am with Curt. The Dynaudios were nice, but at what cost. Peter has always loved these speakers. I would probably have went with Jon Marsh's Modula Neos at $500 a pop. For the sub, I would have went IB with the TRW filling in the very bottom. With good Belden cable, the whole install could have been less than $20k. To go the ultimate route, I might have gotten Mark Seaton or the like to design a custom audio solution.

edit - One thing I want to add is that seeing this pj was great, but I would love to A/B it. I was thinking that a blend might be a good option to compete with this setup. With the size of the screen (15 ft?), I don't think a blend could match the brightness. It would be interesting if it could match or beat it in overall presentation though. Considering the cost of the Barco, it would be possible to try a Torus and the accompanying complexity that goes along with it.

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drice1234 · Joined: 07 Oct 2006 Posts: 1309 Location: Allen, Texas

While we're picking on him the spelling is "utilization" with a z not an s

Spanky Ham · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5643 Location: Comedy Central

I agree that his website sucks just like Jeremy's Kipnis Studio website. Both of these guys are one man gangs and my guess is that to get the jobs they are going after they aren't getting them off the web. My competitors websites are worse than mine, but they are better bullsh.... I mean salesman than me.

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