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Heat your house with this piece of audiophile stupidity...

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 9:35 am
by Bob G
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/

Re: Heat your house with this piece of audiophile stupidity.

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 9:45 am
by Jon Barnhardt
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?

Re: Heat your house with this piece of audiophile stupidity.

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 2:53 pm
by Patrick Mos
"Dude! What is that in the corner of your livingroom? A nuclear power plant?"

Re: Heat your house with this piece of audiophile stupidity.

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 5:01 pm
by 88h88
Surely that thing will result in the most stupid of cable runs? What a horribly designed piece of shit. :slap:

Re: Heat your house with this piece of audiophile stupidity.

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 5:25 pm
by Bill Fitzmaurice
That brings a whole new meaning to 'more money than brains'. :noob:

Re: Heat your house with this piece of audiophile stupidity.

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 11:17 pm
by el_ingeniero
Maybe he can join forces with this snake oil salesman

Re: Heat your house with this piece of audiophile stupidity.

Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 6:00 am
by J_Dunavin
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. :shock:

Re: Heat your house with this piece of audiophile stupidity.

Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 12:56 pm
by jswingchun
"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. :mrgreen:

Re: Heat your house with this piece of audiophile stupidity.

Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 1:29 pm
by wounded horse
The Kipnis site - the snake oil link - I was losing the will to live. What a bunch of pretensious shite.

Re: Heat your house with this piece of audiophile stupidity.

Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 6:35 pm
by CoronaOperator
wounded horse wrote:The Kipnis site - the snake oil link - I was losing the will to live. What a bunch of pretensious shite.
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At least they did a good job isolating their power supply from their rca cables :clap:

Re: Heat your house with this piece of audiophile stupidity.

Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 8:08 pm
by bassmonster
That Pivetta Opera One goes past "arc welder", it's more like "Hadron Collider". That's insane.

Re: Heat your house with this piece of audiophile stupidity.

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 3:30 am
by wounded horse
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. :mrgreen:
I love that, "Initially priced" Doublespeak for "whoa, no takers...."

I can't seem to find one on eBay.

Re: Heat your house with this piece of audiophile stupidity.

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 3:06 pm
by el_ingeniero
wounded horse wrote:
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. :mrgreen:
I love that, "Initially priced" Doublespeak for "whoa, no takers...."

I can't seem to find one on eBay.
In other words, there are cooler ways to make up for a perceived lack of organ size.

Re: Heat your house with this piece of audiophile stupidity.

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 3:11 pm
by Harley
el_ingeniero wrote:In other words, there are cooler ways to make up for a perceived lack of organ size.
So getting a Hammond was a waste of time then? :mrgreen:

Re: Heat your house with this piece of audiophile stupidity.

Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 12:37 am
by Steve Regier
Did I see a flux capaciter in there?

What the h&ll is a jigawatt?