$1,000,000.00 Home Theatre

[JimShaw]

I came across photos of a $1,000,000.00 home theater in a Georgia mansion

Too many to post is the reason for the link

http://www.bestfloorsrus.com/hometheatre.htm




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[brap88]

Wow good find!! That is the nicest HT i have ever seen.

[JimShaw]

Originally Posted by brap88

Wow good find!! That is the nicest HT i have ever seen.

All it take is $$$$$ and lots of it

[crackinhedz]

The owner's Blu-ray player is a Goldmund-Eidos Reference player with a cost of $135,000.00

Hey didn't audioholics do a review of this player only to find a Sony PS3 inside a custom chasis??


Awesome theater, saw this the other day over on the Electronichouse.com site.

[crackinhedz]

its scary to think the player costs almost as much as my house!!!

[Finmaan]

That looks so sweet ,major bucks!

[Saturnas]

For some reason, I don't like this theatre. Theatre looks big, screen looks small, and the overall design looks more like drama theatre and not film theatre...

I have seen a lot cooler theatres on blu-ray community and for a lot less $. But yeah, thats my own personal opinion

[lifevicarious]

That seems like an awfully big theater for not so big of a screen. I never understood why people make these grandiose theaters with a 100" screen. (I admit I don't know how big this screen is but it's certainly not big enough!)

[ZoetMB]

Some years ago, I attended a party in New York that included a home theatre that was featured in a book on home theatres.

When the owner of the house proudly showed off the theatre, he didn't know how to get it working -- he had to call his son down to turn it on.

What that told me was that this was all for show and that they hardly ever actually used the thing.

When I see many of these home theatres, there's one side of me that says "wow!" and is very envious and there's another side of me that sees some sad old rich guy sitting by himself watching some bad movie in his luxurious basement. And the reality was while the theatre and lobby was incredible, the projection quality really sucked, although this was before the advent of most good HD equipment.

I see that the house that contains the theatre in this post is for sale (for a mere $17 million), which tells me that maybe this guy ran out of money.. I won't be shedding any tears.

Here's a link to the guy who has designed a bunch of home theatres for some famous people, including the one which I saw: http://www.tktheaters.com/

[JamesN]

To put things into perspective:

The house is on the market for $17M. The home theater is valued at $1M -- that's roughly 6% of the home's value.

If someone had a $150K home and spent $9K on their HT (6%), would that seem decadent?

I would be willing to bet that there are HTs on this very site that are more than 6% of the value of the homes in which they reside.

[Bluyoda]

Meh. I bet that Goldmund BD player is slow as hell. It isn't even profile 2.0.

Only obscenely wealthy people with no taste buy such a thing.

They should have given the money to charity, or protecting forests instead.

The screen is way too small.

I agree with some of the other here, that many of the HTs on this site easily surpass the one linked.

Maybe because people here know what really matters?

AQ+PQ.

[Aerodude73]

Beautiful HT yes, but, the Screen "does" appear kind of small for the Huge room size. It'd be nice to have some specs on the gear involved.

[Flatnate]

Yeah that screen does look kinda small, for that many rows. Looks like a pretty long throw too. I bet the projector is some 3 chip 720p DLP that was state of the art when it was built.

Maybe I could get enough for the Goldmund blu-ray player on Audiogon to pay for a new Oppo BDP-95. LOL.

That kind of room deserves the new Sim2 Teatro 80 or a DPI 3D reference Titan or something like that.

Last I'd have to have that statue outside modified, you know so my head is on it instead.


Side note, did anyone think that the screen in the DIY write up in this months Home Theater magazine also looked ridiculously small? Article stated it was 77 inches and I couldn't help but think "why"?

[Uniquely]

Originally Posted by Saturnas

For some reason, I don't like this theatre. Theatre looks big, screen looks small, and the overall design looks more like drama theatre and not film theatre...

I have seen a lot cooler theatres on blu-ray community and for a lot less $. But yeah, thats my own personal opinion

I agree with you. I think the biggest advantage a home theater has over a commercial theater is the ability to create the visual and audio sweet spot around the few viewers you will have in your home. I think this allows us to have a better experience with a MUCH smaller investment. That advantage is completely lost in a theater of this size, and now the only advantage it has over a commercial theater is that you don't have to travel to it.

[Beta Man]

Originally Posted by Flatnate

Yeah that screen does look kinda small, for that many rows. Looks like a pretty long throw too. I bet the projector is some 3 chip 720p DLP that was state of the art when it was built.

I didn't comment until now because my biggest complaint with the link to the "theater" was lack of details....

What speakers, power/processing, and projector?


I don't think I'd make assumptions that the guy is selling the house because he fell on hard times.... or that the presentation is anything but fantastic..... There really just isn't enough information to tell what's going on.

135K for a BD player.... I guess if you got the money and someone told you it was worth it, then why not.... Not that I'd ever justify that, but anyone who has an Oppo that was $500, connected to $5,000 worth of other "stuff" then they're doing the same thing this guy did, but on a smaller scale.... so it's easy for you to say he's an idiot.... but someone else may question why you didn't get the Spark-O-Matic BD player, and then get a nicer AVR, or nicer speakers, or a T.V. that was a couple inches bigger.... etc.


It's tough to tell what size the screen is, but that room is MASSIVE....

I wonder how much of that $1M figure falls into the actual room such as lights, seating, building, etc.... because those theater seats are probably worth about as much as my house.

[Aerodude73]

Not to mention what the price of admission might be from the guy manning the "ticket booth..."

[MaCruz]

No more pictures?

It's a nice room overall, but I want to see everything so I can do this....

[Canada]

I only have one thing to say, diminishing returns!

I wonder if it has an Oppo under the chassis like the Lexicon did.

Was it the Lexicon?

[roar]

Originally Posted by ZoetMB

Some years ago, I attended a party in New York that included a home theatre that was featured in a book on home theatres.

When the owner of the house proudly showed off the theatre, he didn't know how to get it working -- he had to call his son down to turn it on.

What that told me was that this was all for show and that they hardly ever actually used the thing.

When I see many of these home theatres, there's one side of me that says "wow!" and is very envious and there's another side of me that sees some sad old rich guy sitting by himself watching some bad movie in his luxurious basement. And the reality was while the theatre and lobby was incredible, the projection quality really sucked, although this was before the advent of most good HD equipment.

I see that the house that contains the theatre in this post is for sale (for a mere $17 million), which tells me that maybe this guy ran out of money.. I won't be shedding any tears.

Here's a link to the guy who has designed a bunch of home theatres for some famous people, including the one which I saw: http://www.tktheaters.com/

Theo used to have a column in sound and vision I believe, though what he produces isn't always to my tastes and has never been in my budget I did enjoy the read, I have a feeling he would be a joy to chat with I could only imagine the stories he could tell.

[househead]

Originally Posted by Saturnas

For some reason, I don't like this theatre. Theatre looks big, screen looks small, and the overall design looks more like drama theatre and not film theatre...

I have seen a lot cooler theatres on blu-ray community and for a lot less $. But yeah, thats my own personal opinion

+1

From that back row it doesn't seem like the picture would be immersive. May be the angles though.