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chuckg · 04-22-2008, 03:00 PM

Greetings, and welcome to our humble abode. I read with great interest the article on your KSS, and found myself entranced by the very notion of it. I'm so disappointed, as you must also be, at the "i-podding" of sound. The trend seems to have been to lower the quality as much as possible, in order to cram a great quantity of it onto a tiny, and tinny, little stick.

How refreshing to see a behemoth intended purely for attaining AV nirvana! My own search for an acceptable system has resulted in a moderate quality array whose cost was three orders of magnitude lower than KSS, but it fit my budget, and pleases me greatly.

I do have a couple of questions (from a tin-eared audio drudge) Why the super tweeters? I have never had a live demonstration, but I wonder if they are indeed palpable. Second, I may have this wrong, but are your speakers arranged in a perfect octagon? I wonder how that works with the "standard" array of speakers in an irregular hexagon. What audio processing re-arranges the channels to conform to the octagon?

Thanks, and please do keep up the fight for quality!

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04-22-2008, 03:00 PM	#4 of 16
chuckg Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Local Time: 02:25 AM Local Date: 07-24-2008 Posts: 553	Re: Kipnis Studio Standard Discussion Thread with Jeremy Kipnis Greetings, and welcome to our humble abode. I read with great interest the article on your KSS, and found myself entranced by the very notion of it. I'm so disappointed, as you must also be, at the "i-podding" of sound. The trend seems to have been to lower the quality as much as possible, in order to cram a great quantity of it onto a tiny, and tinny, little stick. How refreshing to see a behemoth intended purely for attaining AV nirvana! My own search for an acceptable system has resulted in a moderate quality array whose cost was three orders of magnitude lower than KSS, but it fit my budget, and pleases me greatly. I do have a couple of questions (from a tin-eared audio drudge) Why the super tweeters? I have never had a live demonstration, but I wonder if they are indeed palpable. Second, I may have this wrong, but are your speakers arranged in a perfect octagon? I wonder how that works with the "standard" array of speakers in an irregular hexagon. What audio processing re-arranges the channels to conform to the octagon? Thanks, and please do keep up the fight for quality! --ignore the man behind the curtain