Heat your house with this piece of audiophile stupidity...
Heat your house with this piece of audiophile stupidity...
Was $650,000 — now only $490,000. Instant financing available!
Electrical upgrades to your house and installation of a new transformer on your utility pole not included!
http://elitechoice.org/2010/06/06/pivet ... power-amp/
Electrical upgrades to your house and installation of a new transformer on your utility pole not included!
http://elitechoice.org/2010/06/06/pivet ... power-amp/
- Jon Barnhardt
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Re: Heat your house with this piece of audiophile stupidity.
That's enough juice to run a BF rig big enough to do a medium sized concert. And they want to put it in your house?
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Re: Heat your house with this piece of audiophile stupidity.
"Dude! What is that in the corner of your livingroom? A nuclear power plant?"
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my BFM gear:
2 T39, 27 inch, deltalf loaded ( R.I.P )
2 T39, 27 inch, 3012lf loaded.
2 DR200 beta and asd1001 loaded.
1 Autotuba jbl gto 1002d loaded.
2 Funky looking SLA's....
1 TTLP (acting as a scratching pole for my cats...)
my BFM gear:
2 T39, 27 inch, deltalf loaded ( R.I.P )
2 T39, 27 inch, 3012lf loaded.
2 DR200 beta and asd1001 loaded.
1 Autotuba jbl gto 1002d loaded.
2 Funky looking SLA's....
1 TTLP (acting as a scratching pole for my cats...)
Re: Heat your house with this piece of audiophile stupidity.
Surely that thing will result in the most stupid of cable runs? What a horribly designed piece of shit. 

4xOT12s, 2xT39s@22", TTLS@18", 2xT60@18"
- Bill Fitzmaurice
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Re: Heat your house with this piece of audiophile stupidity.
That brings a whole new meaning to 'more money than brains'. 

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Re: Heat your house with this piece of audiophile stupidity.
Maybe he can join forces with this snake oil salesman
Re: Heat your house with this piece of audiophile stupidity.
In the picture with the guy standing next to... um that thing, The power cable and connector, spooled up at the bottom, looks just like the three phase building power for our Hyd. mule for our aircraft. 

2 - OTop8
2 - T39
8 - DR200
2 - DR250
9 - T24
6 - T45
1 - Auto Tuba
2 - T39
8 - DR200
2 - DR250
9 - T24
6 - T45
1 - Auto Tuba
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Re: Heat your house with this piece of audiophile stupidity.
"Initially priced at $650,000, the Pivetta Opera One is now at sale price of only $490,000 from HigherFi, and can be paid for in installments."
Come on guys, it's ONLY $490,000, and you can set up an installment plan for payments! That sounds pretty reasonable to me.
Come on guys, it's ONLY $490,000, and you can set up an installment plan for payments! That sounds pretty reasonable to me.

Omni 10
Omni 10.5
OmniTop 12 x 4
Wedgehorn 8 x 3
XF212
T39 @ 18" x 2
T39 @ 20" x 2
T39 @ 28" x 2
Jack 110 x 5
Jack Lite 12
XF210
XF210 (Slant only, no crossfire)
Omni 10.5
OmniTop 12 x 4
Wedgehorn 8 x 3
XF212
T39 @ 18" x 2
T39 @ 20" x 2
T39 @ 28" x 2
Jack 110 x 5
Jack Lite 12
XF210
XF210 (Slant only, no crossfire)
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Re: Heat your house with this piece of audiophile stupidity.
The Kipnis site - the snake oil link - I was losing the will to live. What a bunch of pretensious shite.
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Re: Heat your house with this piece of audiophile stupidity.
wounded horse wrote:The Kipnis site - the snake oil link - I was losing the will to live. What a bunch of pretensious shite.

At least they did a good job isolating their power supply from their rca cables

Built:
17" width 10" driver Autotuba
2 x 29" width dual Lab12 Tuba60
6 x DR250 2510/asd1001
In progress:
2 x DR250 2510/asd1001
For best results, point the loud end of the array towards the audience
17" width 10" driver Autotuba
2 x 29" width dual Lab12 Tuba60
6 x DR250 2510/asd1001
In progress:
2 x DR250 2510/asd1001
For best results, point the loud end of the array towards the audience
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Re: Heat your house with this piece of audiophile stupidity.
That Pivetta Opera One goes past "arc welder", it's more like "Hadron Collider". That's insane.
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Re: Heat your house with this piece of audiophile stupidity.
I love that, "Initially priced" Doublespeak for "whoa, no takers...."jswingchun wrote:"Initially priced at $650,000, the Pivetta Opera One is now at sale price of only $490,000 from HigherFi, and can be paid for in installments."
Come on guys, it's ONLY $490,000, and you can set up an installment plan for payments! That sounds pretty reasonable to me.
I can't seem to find one on eBay.
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Re: Heat your house with this piece of audiophile stupidity.
In other words, there are cooler ways to make up for a perceived lack of organ size.wounded horse wrote:I love that, "Initially priced" Doublespeak for "whoa, no takers...."jswingchun wrote:"Initially priced at $650,000, the Pivetta Opera One is now at sale price of only $490,000 from HigherFi, and can be paid for in installments."
Come on guys, it's ONLY $490,000, and you can set up an installment plan for payments! That sounds pretty reasonable to me.
I can't seem to find one on eBay.
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Re: Heat your house with this piece of audiophile stupidity.
So getting a Hammond was a waste of time then?el_ingeniero wrote:In other words, there are cooler ways to make up for a perceived lack of organ size.

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Re: Heat your house with this piece of audiophile stupidity.
Did I see a flux capaciter in there?
What the h&ll is a jigawatt?
What the h&ll is a jigawatt?
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