Enjoy Movie At Home For Just $750,000

What good is life anyway if a guy can’t kick back and watch a good movie, even once, on a $750,000 home-theater system?

I had my chance. It lasted about 20 minutes, time only for a few film clips. But I got the general idea.

The Wilson family of Provo, Utah, threw together this system and called it Ultimate Home Cinema for all the senses to experience at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Under the designer’s hand of David Wilson, the family business produces some finely sculpted, exotically priced audio loudspeakers.

And to show that good audio equipment intended for music reproduction isn’t out of place in a home theater, the Wilsons used amplification and surround processing by Krell, a Runco projector, a Faroudja line quadrupler and Transparent Reference XL cables with the speakers Wilson.

This was not home-theater-in-a-box. The Faroudja line quadrupler, for example, goes for $25,000. The Runco 980 projector costs $20,000. One KSA-300 amplifier by Krell costs $9,500.

To these, the Wilsons added the Watt 5/Puppy 5.1 ($16,290 a pair) as the center and surround speakers, the X-1/Grand Slamm ($67,500 a pair) as left-right speakers and two X-S subwoofers ($19,950 each). The speakers alone in this system cost about $132,000.

Quite a show. Lesser equipment can make the walls tremble, the floors rumble, too. So maybe the Ultimate Home Cinema is the best home theater money can buy. With a little work, it might even make a decent sound system.