[blueworm]

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Originally Posted by soundboy Here's the article at enjoythemusic.com with Rachel Weisz.

That is a very "imaginative" way of reviewing a piece of gear.
I am sure that if it was for real the author would be more discrete about publishing it on the web.
I could be wrong.
Anyway if made me read it from start to finish

 

[insomniac]

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Originally Posted by Tuberoller Chicago Bulls coach Scott Skiles is a head-fi member(he won't tell me his handle) and has a Bel Canto universal CDP,HD650/Cardas Combo and at least three amps including a Raptor.

That's awesome! I wonder if we can figure out his handle.

 

[newmanoc]

Eric Clapton owns AVI gear (the company proudly passed this info along to their distributor, who is located in my area). Interestingly, he doesn't own their highest end stuff, but rather just bought an integrated that runs for around $3,500. It is a very nice integrated, though. No idea what speakers he is using - perhaps AVI as well.

 

[JMT]

Herb Alpert apparently owns a pair of Von Schweikert VR-11s:

From Von Schweikert's website:
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Famous clients include Alan Menken, winner of seven Academy Awards for film scores; Herb Alpert of A&M Records; MTV Studios; Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs; JVC of America (Hollywood video screening room); Sheffield Sound Labs; Stan Ricker Mastering; Chris Huston (recording engineer for Led Zeplin, The Who, Young Rascals, Pattie LaBelle, etc); and more than 40 professional recording studios around the world.

 

[Avanti]

I have also seen a documentary about Fabio, it was made by a swedish tv channel in 2004. Anyways, he says most of his stuff is from Krell, total value, about 3 million dollars

I took some screen captures:

 

[soundboy]

Looks like Fabio's listening room is a lot smaller than the one shown in Stereophile. Maybe this is his "secondary system"?

 

[Avanti]

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Originally Posted by soundboy Looks like Fabio's listening room is a lot smaller than the one shown in Stereophile. Maybe this is his "secondary system"?

It looked quite large to me, a few pictures of the room:

 

[Wmcmanus]

I can't tell from the pics, but I remember reading that Fabio uses the Martin Logan Statement E2 speaker system.

Edit! New pics posted while I was posting! Those look more like the original ML "Statements" (wide electrostat panels with bass towers to the far sides). They kind of look like Sound Labs as well. Perhaps he's gone through several of the top contenders.

That looks like a *VERY* wide electric screen above the audio setup. I'm sure there is a projector lift behind our view that also drops down, no doubt controlled by a Creston or the like, along with all of the lighting options.

Extremely poor window treatments (if that's what you call them!) and no real evidence of room treatments for acoustics. Glass coffee table as the first reflective surface?!?! Eww!!!

The shock!!! The horror!!! Obviously, he had just gotten into the hobby at this point...

 

[Borat]

Fabio's face killed a bird.

 

[soundboy]

The place Fabio had in Stereophile was waaaaaaaay bigger.

Also looks like he now has carpeted floors. The place had in Stereophile had ceramic or marble tiles.

 

[Jahn]

New Spokesmodel pic for Head-fi?

 

[rsaavedra]

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Originally Posted by Avanti Anyways, he says most of his stuff is from Krell, total value, about 3 million dollars

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Originally Posted by Avanti

Arrgggggg, I want three million dollars!!!!

Agree the acoustics in that room can very likely be improved (at least slightly) easily. If I understand from the other pictures, the rear channels are MASSIVE woofer towers, and are quite close to the seats compared to the fronts. Krell equipment most likely has electronic distance compensation, but still, that config is not ideal for achieving a large and even sweet spot.
If that's just a 2 channel rig with just subwoofers in the four corners then still I think doing optimal time adjustments on the bass with the different subwoofer distances to the sweet spot is probably tricky and not ideal. Easier to simply have a larger room, and all speakers at exactly same distance from the sweet spot. Also, all those woofer towers right at the corners might simply magnify some room nodes. (However those are really tall towers, at least there shouldn't be node issues related to the height of the room.)

The coffee table is probably not too big an issue being that far from the fronts, but I would take it out, or at least have a cloth on it. There are photographs and things on flat surfaces on the room which could simply rattle (they might be glued or might have some blue tack though, who knows). Details details. Little things in any room could easily spoil a wonderful sound.


Anyway just babbling. If he is an audiophile and spent that much on his rig he might have paid for some proffesional tuning/adjustments. I would expect some team of Krell specialists should help (and charge) the customer to set up that kind of rig optimally.

 

[Avanti]

Fabio says that each amp is like 500kg/1100lb, he used a forklift to get it in...

 

[rsaavedra]

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Originally Posted by Avanti Fabio says that each amp is like 500kg/1100lb, he used a forklift to get it in...

Consider this rig weighs 1000 kgs just in amps. Add maybe another 1500Kg for the rest of the rig, so possibly 2500 kg in total. Maybe more, maybe less. At 2500kg, and at $3MM, that's $1200 per kilogram! You know one kilogram of gold (one golf-ball sized sphere of gold weighs about 1kg) is worth ~ $12500. So this rig costs approximately 10% of its (massive) weight in pure gold!!!

 

[rsaavedra]

To get back on topic, in this link to Ultimate Ears there's a list of professional artists using UE's products. To name just a few: Madonna, Metallica, Rolling Stones, U2, etc.

Btw I have always wondered what kind of audio rig Madonna might have.