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[CIR Engineering]

I just got back from one of my clients in Texas. He finished building a new house and has now torn into the theater. The theater is a work in progress as you can tell from the photos below, but it is coming along nicely. This theater is one of the nicest home rooms I have been in so I asked if I could take a few photos to share with the forum. Sorry about the lousy picture quality. All I had was my iPhone and not much time left at the end. I'll be back there in the Spring next year to touch up the projector once his new tubes break in.

He's not a huge Harry Potter fan, but he really likes the dining hall from the Harry Potter movies. He used that dining hall as the inspiration for his build. The chandlers and sparkling ceiling represent the floating candles from the movie, and the whole room has the right feel. He also wanted the room to look like it had been built hundreds of years ago and was now being re-purposed as a theater room. Actually, he doesn't consider the room a "theater" room per-say, it's a multi-purpose room for listening to stereo, theater, reading, or whatever.

All the equipment in the theater is super high end including the separate MBL speakers for stereo listening and then the video MBL speakers.

Here are some photos.

The first four photos are of the room from different angles. The center and rear center MBL were not yet unpacked, but you can see the two large MBL's for stereo along with the four smaller MBL's for the video tracks.









Few more angles including the G90 with fresh tubes.







Hand made custom chandeliers. These are really beautiful in person.





Several shots of the stereo dedicated MBL speakers and their subs. These speakers are works of art in themselves.













Gargoyles atop columns on sides of screen and behind seating area.





All the woodwork is very fine and custom hand carved. I especially liked the lions.



Painted mural on left side of theater to look like a window overlooking a dark evening lake.



The back corner of the room opens up into the media and memorabilia vault.



Here is something really sweet... a photo of the original five Beetles while in Germany with a pay receipt signed by all five members. One of the only known pieces of paper containing all five original members signatures!



I'll get you guys better photos when the room is finished and I am back down to touch up the new tubes in the G90. I'll bring a better camera, because what I have shown really doesn't do the room justice. It is truly stunning and easily one of the top five rooms I have ever been in.

craigr

[Curt Palme]

So I'm curious, what DO those MBL's sound like?

[Curt Palme]

So I'm curious, what DO those MBL's sound like?

[CIR Engineering]

Well Curt, as you and some others know my ears have been damaged by my auto immune disease and I no longer have the golden ear that I used to. That being said, I would have loved to have heard them, but they weren't hooked up yet

He does have a second stereo set in his living room and another smaller set in his bedroom, but I was too darn busy to listen to any of them. He had a pair of the big ones last time I was down in Texas too, but I was too busy that time when I was there to listen then as well. Actually, I did have some spare time at the end of my last trip, but the choice was that I could listen to the MBL's or take his Lamborghinis out for a test drive... I drove around the Lamborghinis

I promise, when I am there in March I will spend a long time listening to the MBLS and get back to you on that one

craigr

[Nashou66]

[CIR Engineering]

PS Curt, as you may have guessed this was the guy whose DF board was throwing codes five minutes after we put the G90 on the ceiling. That killed a lot of my free time along with about 1000 other things that went wrong and that I had to overcome during this job.

I also had to squeeze two other clients in during my five days in Texas too.

craigr

[CIR Engineering]

[Tim in Phoenix]

You gotta love speakers that look like atomic bombs!

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[Spanky Ham]

Nice looking theater except for that big ugly projector on the ceiling!

Honestly, he should paint the case to better match the decor of the room.

[the big E]

awesome room

i agree with spanky the sony needs to blend in with the rooms decor

i love the speakers being a audiophile myself i appreciate the art of audio

heck i would love to have a room like that(pondering of adding a room for the home theater even though i have one already )

the speakers i like are the vintage like the older infinity speakers(e.g. infinity's irs beta)

ps spanky email me those pics of the g70 so i can decide

[nettwerkjohn]

the amps are spectrals...

[kal]

mbl 101 X-treme Speaker System



Two towers - one with two separate drive arrays (left) and the other with six 12" subs, crossover, and amp (right). 3600 lbs, or just 400 lbs shy of 2 tons. In most houses you'd have to pay special attention to where these go or have the floor reinforced.

Price? $263K per pair. Wow!

Kal

[kal]

mbl 101 X-treme Speaker System



Two towers - one with two separate drive arrays (left) and the other with six 12" subs, crossover, and amp (right). 3600 lbs, or just 400 lbs shy of 2 tons. In most houses you'd have to pay special attention to where these go or have the floor reinforced.

Price? $263K per pair. Wow!

Kal

[jbmeyer13]

Love the library in the background. How did the image turn out given the decor and surface colors/texture?

[zaphod]

if your system wasn't in the the basement, it would be soon.

[AFryia]

Oh Oh!

With all that crystal he is bound to see rainbow effects.

I'm somewhat serious!

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