This room has 3 parts, music listening, movie sound mixing and movie picture editing.
Crazy I have 4 Dolby Atmos systems. We have 73 speakers that I can think of, not counting the 14 TVs. That sounds really over the top but it's a big house.
My Steinway Spiro/r is the most hi fi thing I own.
Hybrid, low frequency internal amp, also center channel
Paradigm B speakers (4) Ceiling (4)
Passive speakers surround also Paradigm Atmos speakers in the ceiling
JL Audio JL 113 v2 subs (2)
Shakes the house an sounds good needed for weak bass out of the 9hs
Boulder 1110 Preamp
Luxman M-10X
PS Audio Direct Stream DAC MK2
Lyngdorf Home Theater processor MK-60.2
Brain of Home Theater
Anthem MRX amps (10)
For passive surround speakers and biamping
PS Audio Perfect Wave SACD Transport
This unit is really good
PS Audio Direct Stream Power Plant 20 (2)
I had to have my house power upgraded and added circuits.
Elac Speakers Navis Series
For video editing monitors
Steinway & Sons Spiro/r Model B Grand Piano
This piano will playback nearly exactly what the original musician played the keys have 1000 points of dynamic resolution. This is the greatest HiFi system ever.
@noromance Thank you, I bought all the post equipment for a movie I haven't made yet, someday. I don't do any recording in this room I'm retired now but I started doing live sound then recording studios then production sound for movies and TV for 35 years. I haven't worked on post for a movie in a long time I just wanted to wear another hat.
Thanks for the kind words, I've changed a few things since the picture, I moved the speakers closer together, changed the equipment racks, I've got to hang some speakers for my Pro Tools system, It'll look awful, don't have any way to make it look good. Thanks.
@highend64 Thanks for the note. The Protools system is a full 7.4.1 with the MATRX Studio and HDC and a 4 x S4 control system. The speakers are all Genelec "The Ones", they are amazing every time I use them they surprise me in some way, the Avid S4 controller is very complicated but very versatile.
@jmarshak I think you're correct there should be no problem with the bass at all the amp is plenty big and designed for those drivers. I think it's my particular speakers. I did call Paradigm and they talked a few things over with me but I'm so happy with the JLs and the 9hs together I wouldn't change a thing. The 9hs with the JLs are really top drawer they sound much better than their price range would suggest. I just heard a 100k speaker and it did go to lower frequencies on its own but this combination is really special. I have the crossover a bit high at about 100Hz. I took a long time and tuned the phasing by ear.
Very interesting. I have a pair of JLs as well and absolutely love them also. But I heard the 9Hs and thought that they were very good at handling bass. I actually did not feel that they needed subs - possibly a system specific outcome!
@jmarshak Yes the JL subs add so much to the Paradigm 9hs, there should be more bass from the 9hs but I really bought them for their mid and high end. I was very disappointed at first but adding the 2 subs makes the speakers really sound good.
@jmarshak yes I was very disappointed in the 9hs low end but the mid and high end are wonderful. Now if I can get those 113s to stop humming I'll really have something.
@emergingsoul, I use PS Audio outlets, I have 2 dedicated circuits because when explosions happened at hi volumes in a movie the breakers would blow so I have now 40 amps to use. I have ok power but this stupid hum was driving me crazy so I bought 2x $10k power regenerators so I don't have to worry about power at all (my hum wasn't the power btw). I live in Eagle Idaho, it's beautiful when I look out to the lake after listening to music I can't help but to feel blessed.
@jond thanks for the kind words, I did production sound for 35, recording actors mainly. I worked on Titanic, Pearl Harbor, CSI Miami and Scorpion among others.
