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Kipnis Studios · 04-24-2008, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by chuckg

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!

Most often, a 5.1, 6.1, or 7.1 surround system is ubiquitous in today's screening rooms and movie theaters, as is the use of three identical two or three-way loudspeakers, placed behind the perforated motion picture screen. The surround speakers are almost always a two-way design, utilize different drivers than those behind the screen, and are located out in the auditorium above the audience and toward the ceiling; sometimes in a stadium type theater the surround speakers will be diagonally arrayed on the side walls. The results are that some speakers are better sounding than others and all are at different distances away from listener, no matter where they are seated.

The Kipnis Studio Standard uniquely features a cutting-edge 8.8 surround sound system, fueled by a specially modified Theta Casablanca III and 13 very special Generation VIII D/As. The speaker arrays consist of hand matched and calibrated orchestral groups of Snell THX-Music & Cinema Reference Loudspeakers (designed by Kevin Voecks especially for George Lucas and Tomlinson Holman as their very first THX Home Loudspeaker System). These consist of the following categories and quantities: 10 - Full Range Towers, 10 - Murata Super Tweeters, 3 - Full Range Center Channels, and 16 - 18" subwoofers, laid out in a perfectly octagonal, equidistant configuration around the centrally located viewer / listener. With a frequency range of 10 - 102,500 Hertz, and the ability to play both extremely loud (125 dB/SPL) and soft sounds (near 0 dB/SPL) in perfect proportion to each other, both music, film, and television (not to mention video games) can offer a totally immersive, three-dimensional aural reproduction of the source that is as authentic and realistic as "being there". Together, the KSS loudspeaker array offers unsurpassed transparency and fidelity from any source you choose to listen to or view.

A KSS 8.8 Hexagonal Surround Sound System necessarily features 96 separate speaker drivers powered by 36 amplifiers (50 are in my design specifications for this sized room and seating requirements). By using this many hand matched amplifiers with hand picked tubes, I achieve a previously unheard level of fidelity, where each and every mix offers a noticeably different character, features its own authentic sound space which changes from scene to scene (or track to track), and which is reproducable at accurate and realistic listening levels under ultra quiet (NR. < 4 dB/SPL) acoustically controlled (< 3 ms at all audible frequencies) listening conditions.

Cheers -

Jeremy

www.Kipnis-Studios.com

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