He has and I should know. You have no ideas how.much expense and 1000 s of hours of listening and tweaking went onto these pieces. A BMW car costs a fraction.of it's retail price to make but they to have to include development costs.
Asking a question here on tape is worth a ton more than a crappy recording of what clearly is the antithesis to or at least recording audio through a video medium for youtube playback, is the antithesis to pure "beyond perfect/beyond analogue" unique sonic experience. I would love to hear my own voice, played back to me from that system. Maybe I might sound decent
Definitely not true. This setup requires the purest, most refined oils from at least a dozen of the rarest Turkish vipers. This level of sonic quality simply can not be achieved without such a miraculous liquid.
@Analog Planet In terms of how well it can produce audio, I agree that its diminishing returns but the price being put towards the cabinetry, design, etc.) tends to just be relative to the build materials and I can see why It hit 2mil
tripjet999 your satellite speakers are on geosynchronous orbit, but remember, on a clear night you can hear forever! But only on a clear night! Good luck! 😆👎
Wow! I can't get over how great this system sounds. To the deep penetrating lows, the articulate mids and ear piercing highs. The musical selection "We Have A Prophet" by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir was near perfect bringing out everything this system has to offer. It sounds even better than my $8,000,000 set up which runs on 22 deep cycle marine batteries.
& a nice country club membership to finish delusions of grandeur! I'd rather crank my carefully selected home theater assembly of Kenwood, Pioneer, Panasonic, Kef, JBL, Polk, Bose, MTX & Audiosource. 7.2 with power overload! Approx 1170 wrms total! 😄😄👍 My neighbors love it too!!
When you ask the man a question, and assuming you're actually interested in the reply, let him finish. Beats cutting him off repeatedly. Some might even find that rude...
Mm, I realise - I just found it hard to take seriously the idea that a battery bank could offer any discernible benefit over a competently engineered mains power supply...other than extravagance, perhaps. :) One imagines the electrons being hand-picked and individually polished before being put into service..
Yes, indeed one does imagine the benefits of cherry picked, top of their class, (we are talking Suma Cum Laude electrons from the University of "Coulombia" here). Elite electrons that don't have to ride the 50-60 cycles per second dirty wave picking up the trash.
yup, I've heard them. Perfect fit and finish, excellent build quality, profound sound reproduction bordering at times toward the uncanny, perfect internal seperation of individual instruments and voices that almost seems surreal. Lastly, the time alignment especially when heard with instruments and voices placed together, is impeccable and knows few if any peers. The downside is the astronomical price for these beautiful works of art in music reproduction, which will be a deal breaker for most of us, but I still love them because of their high benchmark in raising the bar of truth in musical performance.
I'd love to hear something like this in person. I'll never be able to afford it, but it would be really cool to check it out. I don't really understand why they have speakers though that go into ranges above what humans can hear.
Not to mention that our hearing is optimal when we are teenagers -who can hear 20-20kHZ- before we exposed ourselves to loud noises and music. From then on we lose our frequency range.
+lizichell2 Yeah what were they thinking, it doesn't match the cheap ikea furniture that multimillionaires have... Luxury products always go the extra mile on presentation.
lizichell2 Well you can probably buy the drivers, tricky part would be making a replica cabinet. I think the whole system is $2M, the speakers are probably still very expensive though. You buy a pair, then make your replica and sell the originals :P
I have personally listened through these and I without a doubt can say they are the best speakers In the world and they aren't really made for domestic use so of course you won't be able to afford it
MrStarkToYou These are exactly made for domestic use, they're not part of a PA system. These speakers are designed and made for people that are enthusiastic about excellent natural musical sound quality that can afford and purchase them for their own homes. Those people will mainly have them in a specially designed sound room but still it will be at home in a domestic setting.
They dressed up a 5.000 dollar setup, and sell it for 2.000.000???? If I had that kind of money I'd pay someone to dress up my system, to my own specific liking. That way it'd be unique, and personal, it would match my furniture, and it would probably be a lot cheaper..
I've seen quite a few of so called "high-end audiophile" systems in UA-cam videos, with tons of money spent on the equipment, but they are showcased many times in rooms that acoustically would pose a problem with the sound imaging. I feel if you're going to spend that kind of money on a system, please put some effort into the room the music is going to be played and listened to, as well. If you're really into reproducing the best possible sound experience, then you really need a proper room to play it in. Just my 2 cents worth, take it or leave it.
Well you cant really ship the proper hifi room designed for this system around the world to showcase at a convention and building a mobile one would be a flat waste of money
Nice to hear an audiophile making sense, and using only visual embellishment to enhance the product...not mumbo jumbo. I can only imagine how good this system must sound. I knew once the use of Vitavox drivers was mentioned that these are as fine as they come. I'd settle for less extravagant detailing ;)
The way he makes it sound like 70% of the price is the cabinets and not the actual audio hardware. I wonder if those horns and speakers would perform the same if not better in a budget casing. Probably not hahaha
@@medo6067 You know do you? I expect your an expert in electronics and acoustic playback. I suspect that You are also a good quality recording engineer. What successful Acoustic Design Company do you own?
Why would I want my system to look like a Rolls Royce interior? It probably sounds ok, but looks pretentiously overdone... and quite ugly in my opinion.
I agree. I much rather have it look like mid century modern herman miller furniture. Like JBL L300s for example. They look really sleek and sound like a million dollars.
Imagine winning the lottery, and after having spent years saving, and slowly upgrading your system until you had it at a point where you enjoyed it immensely, those treasured years of progressively improved listening would go down the drain if you were to buy this straight off the bat after a lottery win. The satisfaction of working hard to buy that next upgrade would suddenly mean nothing because everything would sound incredible. This to me is impressive engineering, but even if I had the money I would not buy it. Moreover it looks rather pretentious and overly ostentatious compared to some traditional Hi-Fi set ups, which aesthetically, look far more palatable, to me, at least. Just my two cents.
I wouldn't buy this system. Its way too big and the speakers are ugly. I would buy something much smaller and affordable. Some of my winnings would go to a noble cause charity.
Unfortunately there are communities of people who forget completely about live music and go beyond ridiculous expenses to get the "best possible listening", spending loads of money on equipment that they would never hear the difference from. It's the sort of people who have a pono for listening on the bus with their 192Khz sampled "masterpieces" from a badly mastered album. I say, save the money in your budget, get something that promises what it does, has a high value compared to cost, and spend the rest on a live concert. Rant over.
Bachify well mastered recordings at 192/24 will sound better on the bus. There are also communities of imbeciles who think MP3 is transparent to a high resolution source. So not sure what is your point.
It's not impossible that it sounded pants. Different scale but still silly money: I was lucky to listen to £4000 / speaker stereo setup with a rack of 4-6 expansive ass gizmoz feeding it and it sounded crap compared to my frequency matched Pioneer S-A4SPT-PM Pure Malt speakers in a circa 19'x15'x8'' room.
Say what you like about these unfeasibly expensive speakers, but you can't fault Kevin's passion for music. I know this was a labour of love for him and if he sells them to people who can afford them then good luck to him. I have bought many (much less expensive) items from Kevin and he's a true gentleman with a great knowledge of Hi-Fi and music.
"...and we're playing it all in a thin-walled hotel conference room, where the noise coming in from every surrounding room will render most of this stuff totally pointless."
@@aden5706 Shit. I've only got $300 or so into my system I put together from a mix of used and new parts (brand new wires, LP60 turntable, and speakers combined with second hand receiver and 5-Disc CD changer) and I'm happy with it.
@@CryptidProductions There's absolutely nothing wrong with budget systems in the 300 dollar range. I've seen people put together monster budget systems from donated amplifiers, speakers, things that they could get for cheap that rock the house. Just need to know what to look for in terms of sound systems. Being able to sort somewhat good items from the downright ugly and cheap garbage.
@@aden5706 absolutely true. Sometimes it's a matter of being patient enough to wait for the right piece to come along! My HTS cost just about $425 & is a 7.2 1170 rms total & is all nice quality equipment.😊
***** Oh no doubt. I'm not new to high end audio. I'm now on the professional side of the business. Video and audio confrence room technology. But I did work in sales, design and installation at 2 high end stores for 13-14yrs. It's been a hobby of mine since I was 13, so over half my life. My fiance thinks I'm nuts because I have 4 systems set up in my house and various other speakers and equipment laying around lol. Ranging from huge B&W's (Matrix 800's) with high power amps. To, single driver, rear loaded horns (Hedlund Horn's) driven by single ended triode, 300b mono's. Never had a 8 track though lol.
***** I just picked up a vintage pair of Klipsch Heresy's. I'm suprised at the sound of them. It's nothing spectacular but, they are better than I thought. Right now they are being driven by a custom built 2A3 amp, also accepts 45 tubes @ a whopping 1.5 watts! lol. Years ago I had the Heresy II and didn't like them, way too bright. I didn't have the SET amps back then, only a Krell and a rebuilt/modded Stereo 70. Maybe that's why? But I feel it's more the speakers than the amps. I feel the old Klipsch are better than the new. I sold Klipsch during my entire HiFi career and I was never a huge fan. Although I've owned 8 to 10 pairs over the years. I get great deals, play with them for a while then sell them.
Such a system without a room Treatment it seems that this system has been build to impressionate people that have no expertise in the high end audio field....
Found the keyboard kommando internet expert who thinks he knows more than the people who own and make the stuff he's criticizing. They are at an audio convention! 2 days to set up, can't choose the room and have to work with what is there, tear it down 2 days later and take it home and you want room treatments! Did you see the size of the room? YOu can play football in it and the back wall is too far fo r room treatments. You don't even know if they'd be allowed to hang anything on the walls. They are probably better off using speaker placement to direct the "bad" out to the back and any expert knows proprer placement eliminates the need for room treatments in all but the oddest shaped rooms.
The irony is, anyone who could conceivably afford this most likely would have no idea what to do with it... probably never even listen to it... (i.e totally pointless unless you have a properly acoustically treated listening environment)
I'm being a troll aren't!... I apologise, don't mean to be; I promise.... I'm sure they do! (possibly jealousy on my part I admit, although personally I'm ok listening on much, much lower end gear....)
With not much money and bad ears, I've faked (not well) being an entry-level audiophile for over 30 years. Audiophilia never ceases to amaze me. I bet a manufacturer could get a pretty box of some exotic Brazilian wood or carbon fiber/aluminum blend for only a couple hundred dollars, throw in $1,000 worth of electronic bits and pieces and sell it to some audiofools for $100,000. "There's a sucker born every minute" P.T. Barnum
yeah right ... i think people buy this stuff to impress other people "look i made it" ... i dont think anybody will buy them because of the sound quality or beacause they actually need them
i'm not envious, im curious dude ;) ... and the people you met are music producer und use those for production or what ... cmon this is just fkn waisted luxury, this things should stand in museums and not in some Oligarch's living rooms ... this 2 mil $, they spent for speakers, are actually taken from people who really need it ... for food and surviving ... of course capitalists like you (and me) think they deserve it, because they earned the money ... but thats not true - nobody should have that much money, while half of the earth population is living in poverty and kids are dieing from hunger every day... there are enough natural resources for everyone to survive and live ... but there is no such natural thing as money... and people who make that much money so they can afford something like this speaker system, are just stealing resources from the poor ones for shit like this
+Michael Fremer You are showing off a $2,000,000.00 sound system, without allowing anyone to hear it, you are impressed at its cost, and all your doing is showing off its capabilities of performance, without anyone being invited to hear that performance. I don't care if cost a billion dollars, if I can't be allowed to hear it, it means nothing to me, except to those who love to get off on expensive looking and I stress looking equipment as there was no offering of any chance to hear it. Why else would I wish to watch? So you can waste my time with specs?
I'm just gonna say this the amount of passion put into this system is huge. For the people saying that it is too expensive it is mainly for large hotels and places that have the money, moreover the people who say it sounds equivalent to a £10K speaker you have clearly never heard these speakers
This comments for all the people moaning about this system. Would you say the same thing about Rolex, Bugatti, Saville Row Suits, Mulberry and Claridges? If so its probably a class thing so you wouldn't understand products like this.
Gary Freeman yes, I would. I would say the same thing, it's your money and you get to do what you like with it, and I get to laugh at you and criticize you for it. Cars though are a bit different, I will say. A nice car you can get a lot out of, whereas many hundred grand+ dollar speakers sound worse than ones that are a few grand. In the car world, cars are more likely to perform better if they are really expensive than speakers are.
It's all Stupid. For that in of money you can get all the homeless people you step over (and sometimes on smh) that sit outside your million dollar mansion. As well as feed a big village. Or at the very least HIRE the humans who actually play the instruments this shitty system tries to replicate. I swear I hate Humans...smh
Stacey Pit yup its stupid like people buying iphones, ipads and macs :) throwing ridiculous money for a phone when they can have old nokias for a Buck .Right?? :)
Makes me proud to be British. When it comes to stratospheric cost, extreme luxury and engineering that only a few people can afford Britain excels and is still a world leader
The level of vitriol in these comments is sickening and a clear case of sour grapes. Get over it, no one is asking you to buy this system!! Do 2 million dollar speakers sound obscene to me? Sure they do but so do 3 million dollar cars, 20 million dollars apartments and on and on, but clearly there's a market for buyers in this category. Who cares!! Enjoy what you can afford and stop slamming those who can afford what you can't.
No, a two million dollar stereo system is not obscene. People who could easily afford this spend a LOT more money on way more foolish things. It's beautiful, will match the other fine furniture in the house, and sounds great. This is not meant for one who has 4 million dollars, and wants a spectacular system. I love music, audio equipment, fine furniture and craftsmanship and all, but I wouldn't spend half my stack on something like this, (if I had $4Mil, as of now, I'm calling a $200 phono cartridge my big audio upgrade for the year). This system is a luxury for those who probably have $20 million and up. A world most of us can't even fathom as much as we all think we can, as we all fantasize about it.
there is no such thing as $2000000 high end system. That much money won't add anything to the sound quality unless you build an anechoic chamber room lol
More like an idiot with too much money end system. You can buy a pair of of $700.00 towers and be fine, hell even some $ 200-300.00 towers sound better than $3000.00 speakers!
With this system you can hear the salesman laughing all the way to the bank in very high fidelity.
Heh... to be fair it does look like a very tasty setup. But that price tag!
I doubt theres a salesman involved Tom.
No salesman just Kevin. He has dedicated 30 years to get to this level of quality.
He has and I should know. You have no ideas how.much expense and 1000 s of hours of listening and tweaking went onto these pieces. A BMW car costs a fraction.of it's retail price to make but they to have to include development costs.
THE MODERN WORLD LOVES LIES AND HOAXES EH BRIAN STELTER ,THE IDIOT OF THE VILLAGE
Needs a little more cow bell.
Doesn't everything?
You don’t know how funny this comment is
Wow, we almost had a listen until he was interrupted. Thanks. Loves the sound of his own voice more than a 2 mil system. Nice job Ace.
Asking a question here on tape is worth a ton more than a crappy recording of what clearly is the antithesis to or at least recording audio through a video medium for youtube playback, is the antithesis to pure "beyond perfect/beyond analogue" unique sonic experience.
I would love to hear my own voice, played back to me from that system. Maybe I might sound decent
Fingerprints on the badge. I changed my mind, I don't want it
This sounds amazing through my Logitech computer speakers!
So your speakers magically sounds better in this video...?
Oh, tommy ;)
Lol
sounds even more amazing through my mobile phone speaker
And the sarcasm reads so much better on screen as well;)
I especially like the unobtainium capacitors.
And don't forget the quantum superlux resistors.
The hydrocillator and the interoceter built into each amp are the key to the quality of the sound.
and the froobulator spungus springs
I didn't see the girdle spring.
LMAO! Crazy man!
$2 million for speakers, you think you'd have a shelf for the CD cases....
Username checks out
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Who would want a shelf full of CDs surrounding a good looking hifi system?
i had the same thought.. moron slobs
It's in a hotel room, doofus.
$2M??? That´s just crazy!I would NEVER spend more than $1M on audio equpment!
COWARD!!!!!!!!
If you'd spend a million, you'd spend two
Me personally I would never spend more than 900 thousand on audio equipment, 1 million is a bit much
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amzing how you need $2 mil worth of home stereo to reproduced bands that were mixed on $50k speakers (if you're lucky)
Well, anything is available to those with more money than sense.
You passed the point of diminishing returns about $1.9 million ago.
Definitely not true. This setup requires the purest, most refined oils from at least a dozen of the rarest Turkish vipers. This level of sonic quality simply can not be achieved without such a miraculous liquid.
David Schwartz wow! A snake oil comment. You are an original genius!
David Schwartz internet comment of the 21st century right here ⬆⬆🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝⬆⬆
@Analog Planet In terms of how well it can produce audio, I agree that its diminishing returns but the price being put towards the cabinetry, design, etc.) tends to just be relative to the build materials and I can see why It hit 2mil
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For $2,000,000 you can just hire live bands to play for you and get perfect sound.
They might be a bit unresponsive in thier current state.
this is not the purpose...
Brian you hit the nail on the head...
Hell....you can get the Rolling Stones for $1,000,000. For $2,000,000 you can get em for the whole weekend. Now that's what I call a bargain!
Obviously this is for people who have 4 million, not just 2.
$2,000,000 sound heard through $5 Bluetooth headphones. Sounds awesome guys 🤘😎
Ah! for the old days when a pair of Klipsch Horns and a Dynaco ST70 was all that was needed for musical satisfaction!!!
"Could we listen to..."
"Oh, Lord, NO, we can't actually play any music through all this. Something might be damaged."
"which is the satellite speaker..."
For THAT price, it better fly to the moon and back!
tripjet999 like you could get your own little satellite sent to space for about that price lol
tripjet999 your satellite speakers are on geosynchronous orbit, but remember, on a clear night you can hear forever!
But only on a clear night!
Good luck! 😆👎
Wow! I can't get over how great this system sounds. To the deep penetrating lows, the articulate mids and ear piercing highs. The musical selection "We Have A Prophet" by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir was near perfect bringing out everything this system has to offer. It sounds even better than my $8,000,000 set up which runs on 22 deep cycle marine batteries.
Are you fucking kidding?????
@@johnpetrakis379 Dear Johnny Boy are you really that fucking stupid to ask?
You should try the seaweed mod.
For that money I could buy a great house,outstanding sound system,two cars and every record I could ever want.
yup.
Yes and the guy who owns this system can do that as well and more.
& a nice country club membership to finish delusions of grandeur!
I'd rather crank my carefully selected home theater assembly of Kenwood, Pioneer, Panasonic, Kef, JBL, Polk, Bose, MTX & Audiosource.
7.2 with power overload! Approx 1170 wrms total! 😄😄👍
My neighbors love it too!!
Yeah but you wouldn't have this system....so someone else would be ahead of you. Your missing the whole point.
Or a Koenigsegg Regera
I can't afford to keep on watching this video !!!
LMAO!
Oh. Since i'm more than 40 years old, i can hear my tinitus now even better.
Is it just me or does a British accent literally increase the value of anything being sold x 10^2?
SNAKE OIL GETS ALMOST NICE WITH THE HAUGHTY BRITISH ACCENT MISTER!!!!!!
No
No. And I'm British..
@@bolsesolheim7469 That, my friend is nowhere near haughty. Wink!
It's just you.
I'll wait until the chinese make knock offs of these for $2,000.
yes and its going to be a knock off worth nothing...cheers mate!
they make pretty good knock offs of certain things. If they look anywhere near this I'll take them.
good luck with that...
Better than being you and not being able to afford them period. I'm not sure why you'd care, since either way it wouldn't cost you a cent.
He's just pointing out how much of a douchebag you are being. And that didn't cost him anything either
Very interesting - thanks for sharing it with us, Michael!
When you ask the man a question, and assuming you're actually interested in the reply, let him finish. Beats cutting him off repeatedly. Some might even find that rude...
"Obviously it's a benefit having your own electrons." I'm not sure he was joking.
Totally not joking. He was referring to the banks of batteries that is powering this system
Mm, I realise - I just found it hard to take seriously the idea that a battery bank could offer any discernible benefit over a competently engineered mains power supply...other than extravagance, perhaps. :) One imagines the electrons being hand-picked and individually polished before being put into service..
Yes, indeed one does imagine the benefits of cherry picked, top of their class, (we are talking Suma Cum Laude electrons from the University of "Coulombia" here). Elite electrons that don't have to ride the 50-60 cycles per second dirty wave picking up the trash.
It would with incompetently engineered amplifiers that have a poor power supply rejection ratio
So this is a battery sale with some speakers thrown in?
Beautifully engineered and assembled! Would love to hear Slayer- Reign In Blood on it!
The interviewer is definitely the wrong guy for this type of quality audio.
This is what I have. But I'm only running the sub at 50% so it doesn't chuff on the Arby's commercial. Got it all hooked up to a sweet Hisense 4K
yup, I've heard them. Perfect fit and finish, excellent build quality, profound sound reproduction bordering at times toward the uncanny, perfect internal seperation of individual instruments and voices that almost seems surreal. Lastly, the time alignment especially when heard with instruments and voices placed together, is impeccable and knows few if any peers. The downside is the astronomical price for these beautiful works of art in music reproduction, which will be a deal breaker for most of us, but I still love them because of their high benchmark in raising the bar of truth in musical performance.
Could the "bar of truth" simply be listening to a group of performers live for far less?
@@mustardketchup you right lemme call john lennon to sing for me real quick
Mr. Fremer never disappoints. His system is not far behind lol.
If i had that amount of money i would surely buy it! No question. Beautiful!
I'd love to hear something like this in person. I'll never be able to afford it, but it would be really cool to check it out. I don't really understand why they have speakers though that go into ranges above what humans can hear.
Not to mention that our hearing is optimal when we are teenagers -who can hear 20-20kHZ- before we exposed ourselves to loud noises and music. From then on we lose our frequency range.
That's just the thing I need to play my Best of Tiny Tim LP which I picked up at the goodwill store. It's a b it scratched up but what the hey.
Sounded amazing. What a demo!
Oswalds Mill Audio vs Living Voice.....that would be a great video
get rid of all the fancy gold and bronze and over embellished cabinetry and you probably end up with about a grand's worth of drivers.
+lizichell2 Yeah what were they thinking, it doesn't match the cheap ikea furniture that multimillionaires have...
Luxury products always go the extra mile on presentation.
i'm only saying that because I want one but cant afford it :(
lizichell2 Well you can probably buy the drivers, tricky part would be making a replica cabinet.
I think the whole system is $2M, the speakers are probably still very expensive though. You buy a pair, then make your replica and sell the originals :P
that's it. It's a fine piece of work
bassl0va "You buy a pair, then make your ..." YOU IDIOT ,
buy for $2MIL ???? sure dummy go quick , RUN
A well trained sales person he knows his script training lolol
I still would not buy it .
Dave30867 and in five years it'll be defunkted. Great if you have the $'s and like to chop and change but, aren't really serious about THE MUSIC.
you can't afford it, anyways
CabinDoor we can all make a bet.
I have personally listened through these and I without a doubt can say they are the best speakers In the world and they aren't really made for domestic use so of course you won't be able to afford it
MrStarkToYou These are exactly made for domestic use, they're not part of a PA system. These speakers are designed and made for people that are enthusiastic about excellent natural musical sound quality that can afford and purchase them for their own homes. Those people will mainly have them in a specially designed sound room but still it will be at home in a domestic setting.
Great to see quality workmanship from England Thanks for the video
They dressed up a 5.000 dollar setup, and sell it for 2.000.000????
If I had that kind of money I'd pay someone to dress up my system, to my own specific liking.
That way it'd be unique, and personal, it would match my furniture, and it would probably be a lot cheaper..
2 Mil and the sub only extends to 30hz?
AluminumHaste buy seperste sub then..
OR, for less money get Genesis Louspeakers 1.1 system, which is FLAT to 16hz and sounds way better, and is probably louder.
AluminumHaste how i know ? have u tried both ?
my phone speakers go that low lol
Quake 4 Life!
I've seen quite a few of so called "high-end audiophile" systems in UA-cam videos, with tons of money spent on the equipment, but they are showcased many times in rooms that acoustically would pose a problem with the sound imaging. I feel if you're going to spend that kind of money on a system, please put some effort into the room the music is going to be played and listened to, as well. If you're really into reproducing the best possible sound experience, then you really need a proper room to play it in. Just my 2 cents worth, take it or leave it.
Well you cant really ship the proper hifi room designed for this system around the world to showcase at a convention and building a mobile one would be a flat waste of money
It is an impressive sound, and the craftsmanship is insanely good.
Nice to hear an audiophile making sense, and using only visual embellishment to enhance the product...not mumbo jumbo. I can only imagine how good this system must sound. I knew once the use of Vitavox drivers was mentioned that these are as fine as they come. I'd settle for less extravagant detailing ;)
The way he makes it sound like 70% of the price is the cabinets and not the actual audio hardware. I wonder if those horns and speakers would perform the same if not better in a budget casing. Probably not hahaha
At this price point it has to look expensive, so therefore all the handcrafted lacquered wool lol but yes good point
believe it or not they will sound the same. It's all gimmicks
Obviously you're not rich.
Probably not mate. A lot of blokes with 50 year old Rim Drive turntables, emphasis the plinth and mounting of the hardware.
@@medo6067 You know do you? I expect your an expert in electronics and acoustic playback. I suspect that You are also a good quality recording engineer.
What successful Acoustic Design Company do you own?
"Alright, well how about some music?" [cut]
Aargh!!
Oh! It's not for music, it's to brag about your disposable income! Probably tone deaf!! 😆
I'd love to audition it for 2 hours then say, "Sorry but I'd need more portability from a battery powered system" and walk out.
"They have a lock so that maids and children can't touch them" :-))
There's more furniture than speakers...
Why would I want my system to look like a Rolls Royce interior? It probably sounds ok, but looks pretentiously overdone... and quite ugly in my opinion.
I agree. I much rather have it look like mid century modern herman miller furniture. Like JBL L300s for example. They look really sleek and sound like a million dollars.
I bet a Rolls Royce Phantom has better audio system
Just a that moment you could see the blood drain from Michael’s face, when he knew his Wilson speakers were shite.
Best suited for playing EDM @128kb mp3 over Bluetooth
I believe in the sound of the living voice and also believe that the money has to be alive...! ;-)
So youre telling me that the quality and precision of your system is greater than that of pretty much any recording studio. Whats the point?
Precisely... If your input sucks, why bother paying $2M to hear it.
pro audio and home audio are different animals.
Who said a recording studio sounds good? It's there to do a lot of jobs. Not to only listen to the final result.
Wimbo 9 studios have reference monitors(speakers), you want professional audio when mixing and mastering. You should know this because your so smart.
I hear if you buy this system, the seller will throw in a free opera house for you to listen to it in!
i would play dub reggae tbh
would fit perfectly in a 'bioshock' setpiece.
Imagine winning the lottery, and after having spent years saving, and slowly upgrading your system until you had it at a point where you enjoyed it immensely, those treasured years of progressively improved listening would go down the drain if you were to buy this straight off the bat after a lottery win. The satisfaction of working hard to buy that next upgrade would suddenly mean nothing because everything would sound incredible. This to me is impressive engineering, but even if I had the money I would not buy it. Moreover it looks rather pretentious and overly ostentatious compared to some traditional Hi-Fi set ups, which aesthetically, look far more palatable, to me, at least. Just my two cents.
+Butt Head I wouldn't buy it because it's ugly and huge and complicated. I would buy a nice system, just not this one or anything close to $2 million.
Shit I could easily live without. If I won the lottery I'd rather donate the equivalent of what this monstrosity costs to a children's hospice.
I wouldn't buy this system. Its way too big and the speakers are ugly. I would buy something much smaller and affordable. Some of my winnings would go to a noble cause charity.
Unfortunately there are communities of people who forget completely about live music and go beyond ridiculous expenses to get the "best possible listening", spending loads of money on equipment that they would never hear the difference from. It's the sort of people who have a pono for listening on the bus with their 192Khz sampled "masterpieces" from a badly mastered album. I say, save the money in your budget, get something that promises what it does, has a high value compared to cost, and spend the rest on a live concert. Rant over.
Bachify well mastered recordings at 192/24 will sound better on the bus. There are also communities of imbeciles who think MP3 is transparent to a high resolution source. So not sure what is your point.
A million Reichmarks to drown out the thumping and cries from the "toy" in the basement.
I would put the fence around the speakers when friends come around LOL
OK, so you're presenting us with a $2,000,000 sound system and you don't even let us hear it. Thanks for nothing.
It's not impossible that it sounded pants. Different scale but still silly money: I was lucky to listen to £4000 / speaker stereo setup with a rack of 4-6 expansive ass gizmoz feeding it and it sounded crap compared to my frequency matched Pioneer S-A4SPT-PM Pure Malt speakers in a circa 19'x15'x8'' room.
Say what you like about these unfeasibly expensive speakers, but you can't fault Kevin's passion for music. I know this was a labour of love for him and if he sells them to people who can afford them then good luck to him. I have bought many (much less expensive) items from Kevin and he's a true gentleman with a great knowledge of Hi-Fi and music.
I believe that totally Kevin is such a great person and he puts all his passion into his speakers and systems
2 mil speaker system and couldn't hire an interior designer or a skip for that carpet.
"...and we're playing it all in a thin-walled hotel conference room, where the noise coming in from every surrounding room will render most of this stuff totally pointless."
Would be funny if it catches on fire.
lol that's so wicked
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@BigChap J cause that's where there eardrums go.
Out there ass! 😆
beautiful system and nice video. The ending was a bit of an anti-climax though.
two million dollar stereo, shit strewn all over like in my bedroom, priceless.
Ask a question but dont let him finish answering... The system is beautiful!!
For that money I would want a sub going at least to 16Hz
@@aden5706 Shit. I've only got $300 or so into my system I put together from a mix of used and new parts (brand new wires, LP60 turntable, and speakers combined with second hand receiver and 5-Disc CD changer) and I'm happy with it.
@@CryptidProductions There's absolutely nothing wrong with budget systems in the 300 dollar range. I've seen people put together monster budget systems from donated amplifiers, speakers, things that they could get for cheap that rock the house. Just need to know what to look for in terms of sound systems. Being able to sort somewhat good items from the downright ugly and cheap garbage.
@@aden5706 absolutely true. Sometimes it's a matter of being patient enough to wait for the right piece to come along!
My HTS cost just about $425 & is a 7.2 1170 rms total & is all nice quality equipment.😊
that power supply is the mother or all pretentiousness considering the 60dB of range on even the best vinyl records
I can imagine SACDs and ''hi res'' audio sound phenominal on it though. I do still love vinyl records though.
+Michael Fremer I bet my Foghat 8 Tracks would sound really good. :)
+musmann LMAO well-played!
***** Oh no doubt. I'm not new to high end audio. I'm now on the professional side of the business. Video and audio confrence room technology. But I did work in sales, design and installation at 2 high end stores for 13-14yrs. It's been a hobby of mine since I was 13, so over half my life. My fiance thinks I'm nuts because I have 4 systems set up in my house and various other speakers and equipment laying around lol. Ranging from huge B&W's (Matrix 800's) with high power amps. To, single driver, rear loaded horns (Hedlund Horn's) driven by single ended triode, 300b mono's. Never had a 8 track though lol.
***** I just picked up a vintage pair of Klipsch Heresy's. I'm suprised at the sound of them. It's nothing spectacular but, they are better than I thought. Right now they are being driven by a custom built 2A3 amp, also accepts 45 tubes @ a whopping 1.5 watts! lol. Years ago I had the Heresy II and didn't like them, way too bright. I didn't have the SET amps back then, only a Krell and a rebuilt/modded Stereo 70. Maybe that's why? But I feel it's more the speakers than the amps. I feel the old Klipsch are better than the new. I sold Klipsch during my entire HiFi career and I was never a huge fan. Although I've owned 8 to 10 pairs over the years. I get great deals, play with them for a while then sell them.
"It's amazing how it matters even if you can't hear it." Audio-Phool. Ha Ha Ha Ha
Always wondered the Power needed for systems like this and how to achieve it.
Maybe there is ongoing crowdfunding to Power on the System and send also at least some input via Microphone "one, two, three ..."
Does it sound any better than a Dansette?
LOL, LOL, that is imperial
'It takes 2 or 3 days to settle down'. 'It benefits from having its own electrons'. GTFO
Yeah , a load of shit.
Using this system is like taking a Boeing 747 to go buy your groceries.
What are those beautiful loudspeakers called please?!
Thanx 👍
Such a system without a room Treatment it seems that this system has been build to impressionate people that have no expertise in the high end audio field....
all right
you CAN AGREE that it would be very much better with a room specially paired with the whole system however nice system!
It is impressionative
Found the keyboard kommando internet expert who thinks he knows more than the people who own and make the stuff he's criticizing. They are at an audio convention! 2 days to set up, can't choose the room and have to work with what is there, tear it down 2 days later and take it home and you want room treatments! Did you see the size of the room? YOu can play football in it and the back wall is too far fo r room treatments. You don't even know if they'd be allowed to hang anything on the walls. They are probably better off using speaker placement to direct the "bad" out to the back and any expert knows proprer placement eliminates the need for room treatments in all but the oddest shaped rooms.
The million dollar home audio system is dead. Long live the 2 million dollar audio system!
He was about to play some music and then got interrupted again. Let the system play.
The tag line “without diamonds” would help
The irony is, anyone who could conceivably afford this most likely would have no idea what to do with it... probably never even listen to it... (i.e totally pointless unless you have a properly acoustically treated listening environment)
I'm being a troll aren't!... I apologise, don't mean to be; I promise.... I'm sure they do! (possibly jealousy on my part I admit, although personally I'm ok listening on much, much lower end gear....)
There's an AudioFOOL born every minute..
With not much money and bad ears, I've faked (not well) being an entry-level audiophile for over 30 years. Audiophilia never ceases to amaze me. I bet a manufacturer could get a pretty box of some exotic Brazilian wood or carbon fiber/aluminum blend for only a couple hundred dollars, throw in $1,000 worth of electronic bits and pieces and sell it to some audiofools for $100,000. "There's a sucker born every minute" P.T. Barnum
They already do there’s a place that sells consoles for thousands of dollars just because of the wood they are made from…
I just press play on my $300 phone and voila music
My point is not everyone in their life time will be able to afford a $2million sensation so we'll just live with what we have.
who the fuck need those?
yeah right ... i think people buy this stuff to impress other people "look i made it" ... i dont think anybody will buy them because of the sound quality or beacause they actually need them
i'm not envious, im curious dude ;) ... and the people you met are music producer und use those for production or what ... cmon this is just fkn waisted luxury, this things should stand in museums and not in some Oligarch's living rooms ...
this 2 mil $, they spent for speakers, are actually taken from people who really need it ... for food and surviving ... of course capitalists like you (and me) think they deserve it, because they earned the money ... but thats not true - nobody should have that much money, while half of the earth population is living in poverty and kids are dieing from hunger every day...
there are enough natural resources for everyone to survive and live ... but there is no such natural thing as money... and people who make that much money so they can afford something like this speaker system, are just stealing resources from the poor ones for shit like this
People who are all money no brains.
Analog Planet there you go.
What good is this without the music, showoffs?
+Michael Fremer
You are showing off a $2,000,000.00 sound system, without allowing anyone to hear it, you are impressed at its cost, and all your doing is showing off its capabilities of performance, without anyone being invited to hear that performance. I don't care if cost a billion dollars, if I can't be allowed to hear it, it means nothing to me, except to those who love to get off on expensive looking and I stress looking equipment as there was no offering of any chance to hear it. Why else would I wish to watch? So you can waste my time with specs?
it's gonna sound like anything else on youtube man, youtube uses a compression system so it defeats the purpose.. not really the point here
Just like my system in my double-wide!
I'm just gonna say this the amount of passion put into this system is huge. For the people saying that it is too expensive it is mainly for large hotels and places that have the money, moreover the people who say it sounds equivalent to a £10K speaker you have clearly never heard these speakers
There is a lot of billionaires in Thailand For them this is just a treat You buy yourself
Gorgeous but not worth 2 million freaking dollars.
all systems above 5k or so are a joke
This comments for all the people moaning about this system. Would you say the same thing about Rolex, Bugatti, Saville Row Suits, Mulberry and Claridges? If so its probably a class thing so you wouldn't understand products like this.
Exactly!
Gary Freeman yes, I would. I would say the same thing, it's your money and you get to do what you like with it, and I get to laugh at you and criticize you for it. Cars though are a bit different, I will say. A nice car you can get a lot out of, whereas many hundred grand+ dollar speakers sound worse than ones that are a few grand. In the car world, cars are more likely to perform better if they are really expensive than speakers are.
Bugatti's differences aren't imaginary. Faux-snobbery or not.
It's all Stupid. For that in of money you can get all the homeless people you step over (and sometimes on smh) that sit outside your million dollar mansion. As well as feed a big village. Or at the very least HIRE the humans who actually play the instruments this shitty system tries to replicate. I swear I hate Humans...smh
Stacey Pit yup its stupid like people buying iphones, ipads and macs :) throwing ridiculous money for a phone when they can have old nokias for a Buck .Right?? :)
Besides being a good camping stereo itll power your fridge and laptop. Theres probably a gold plated power inverter as an optional extra.
Nicely arranged CD collection on the floor.
Makes me proud to be British. When it comes to stratospheric cost, extreme luxury and engineering that only a few people can afford Britain excels and is still a world leader
+phr tao well said :)
hahahaa
Proud because of overpriced?
British products are nice, but they always break down and fall apart. ie, your shitty British junk vehicles. But they look cool though!!
The level of vitriol in these comments is sickening and a clear case of sour grapes. Get over it, no one is asking you to buy this system!! Do 2 million dollar speakers sound obscene to me? Sure they do but so do 3 million dollar cars, 20 million dollars apartments and on and on, but clearly there's a market for buyers in this category. Who cares!! Enjoy what you can afford and stop slamming those who can afford what you can't.
No, a two million dollar stereo system is not obscene. People who could easily afford this spend a LOT more money on way more foolish things. It's beautiful, will match the other fine furniture in the house, and sounds great. This is not meant for one who has 4 million dollars, and wants a spectacular system. I love music, audio equipment, fine furniture and craftsmanship and all, but I wouldn't spend half my stack on something like this, (if I had $4Mil, as of now, I'm calling a $200 phono cartridge my big audio upgrade for the year). This system is a luxury for those who probably have $20 million and up. A world most of us can't even fathom as much as we all think we can, as we all fantasize about it.
Yes, but us AUDIO ENGINEERS know this guy is selling pure snake oil. That's why most of us are complaining.
The best part of that room is the carpet.
That's pure comedy right here.
Looks tacky
To play crappy vinyl records on such an high-end system....
there is no such thing as $2000000 high end system. That much money won't add anything to the sound quality unless you build an anechoic chamber room lol
Anecchoic chamber at JBL is 150K
More like an idiot with too much money end system. You can buy a pair of of $700.00 towers and be fine, hell even some $ 200-300.00 towers sound better than $3000.00 speakers!
Not saying I don't believe this, but where did you get that figure? Specifically for JBL ? (Love JBL so purely curious!)
LP's sound better than CD's, obviously you don't know what you are talking about.
The looks sound amazing
I'v got an old Amstrad amp and a Garrard SP25 turntable.
Will it work with these speakers :-)
When he swung with camera straight to the FRONT of speakers I got a bit of wood blimy that is a pair of speakers.