Sadly he has been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease and may only have a few years to live now, according to the end of the documentary. Apparently he invites anyone to listen to his vinyl though. Hopefully his listening room could be turned into a kind of museum after his death - I'd like to be able to listen to those speakers one day.
I think he builds the grandfather clocks himself. There's a photo in there of him building some kind of grandfather clocks anyway.
Probably a descendant of pharaohs.
On another forum (I think it was Steve Hoffman's forum), people who visited his listening room said that the clocks seem to be muted when the system is on. Apparently he invites anyone who emails him to visit and listen with him, although he's very ill at the moment.I remember seeing this, don't remember all the details, but I'm guessing he didn't do much in terms of measurements. Also the part about gluing and pouring concrete/rebar all over the place, quietest A/C, etc., and then having some huge grandfather clocks swinging all the time and rattling your teeth when they chime threw me off (did he mention taking them out when he listens or something?). That is some commitment to spending money and effort though
I was interested about this too, and found some discussions where Ken himself said that he only uses the centre and surround channels for home theatre. Considering the enormous undertaking I almost hoped that he made use of the whole system for music too, but apparently not. I really liked the movie, very fascinating.
It seems to be a "traditional" line array, no "shading business" going on...
