So sad to hear what happened after his death this year.. they took it apart and pawned for a total of maybe 100k tops... kinda sad..

I was blessed with the opportunity to have experienced Mr Fritz system. The closest sound I have experienced is when attending a concert at the Royal Opera House and even then I have my doubts of which sounds better.

Useless

i'll probably never live long enough to listen all of them

Just imagine the cost and hassle when somebody spills something on one of these carpets. Just imagine what it would take to get these cleaned.

RAREST OF RARE PERSON

Shame he spent a million dollars on speakers and didn't spend a few hundred bucks on scientific journals pointing out the significant flaws in vinyl vs. digital sound. He never even drank the high-res audio kool aid!

WHole system sold at auction for 150k. The speakers should for 10k all 3.

lol

It’s all gone now except the room, sold off at his death for pennies on the dollar. Clearly his wife didn’t care about the man’s life passion.

i have a 16 foot ceiling, but i'm using klipsch speakers and they sound full

No Led Zeppelin? wtf

and im over here with my emotiva ta1 and sony sscs5's in a spare bedroom

Why does this stuff happen to good people

Love this thank you

The process with family is as rewarding as the result

RIP Ken... 😞

A+ !

A few things to this: First of all do whatever you like. I couldn't justify doing anything like this in front of others or myself. A few things always surprise me. First of all you can enjoy music without spending a fortune. It's a weird assumption that loving and enjoying music means you have to spend a lot of money. Not at all. If you love it so much maybe learn an instrument and some music theory. Then why do those people listen to records? They are pretty much the worst choice when it comes to audio quality. No matter the amount of trickery you do with your turn table. And why are those people always old, which means they have rather bad ears already. It will always remain a mystery to me.

I want to build the best stereo setup! *sets up 3 speakers*

I fabricated my first piece of "audio equipment" when I was seven, a square of aluminum foil, a straight pin held in place with candle wax, the tip of the pin placed in the groove of a record, my homemade device actually played music, albeit with a very "tinny timbre"! I went on in life, to design and fabricate almost every type of audio equipment utilized in the recording and reproduction of music, in fact I won an Emmy for a live recording of the opera Faust. If you wish to see the final result of all of this effort in life, search KZbin with the following: "JBL Synthesis creator", you will see two videos describing the very first, fully-engineered audio reproduction facility on the planet! David Riddle P.S., Please see my other eight KZbin videos by searching: howtohomelife.

He seems a really nice bloke 😊

It's good an all, but can it beat Edifiers in price to performance?

thats just so no word at all

lees ik nou dat deze man aan A.l.S lijd . een on omkeerbaar ziekte 😥 mijn schoonmoeder is daar aan overleden. wens deze man heel veel sterkte en veel genieten van zijn muziek .

en ik woon ook nog kleiner. wat soberder en geniet van goede muziek 👌

ik vraag mij af wat voor baan heeft hij gehad. ik heb genoten van deze uit zending het is ook mijn hobby en ook mijn smaak. alleen ik ben niet zo kapitaal krachtig als deze man en lekker genieten. ik hou ook nog eens van antieke klokken . en goede muziek . ik woon in Amsterdam en heb de zelfde leeftijd .

I dont know about the sound of his system but the decoration of the room, man... awful

Why foes the brain havr to be comparatively ugly and vulgar. Why arnt the components disassembled and thier working mechanisms repackaged and/or the interface for the mechanisms reconfigured and redesigned to be a central component, much like the chairs at the focal point? A standard lamp, overhead lighting blind or other integrated art piece, contain enclosed and hidden cameras / sensors to monitor and record head/eye tracking. A glance to a particular area could initiate the settings /adjustments available for a desired component component to become visible in that area. Ie ; A transparent display screen or water water vapour hologram activates, or better yet the display interface is an art piece also and the use of cymatics and/or harmonics is employed to use nature for representing the component settings / controls / operation. And while eye tracking identifies the users intention to access a particular component for monitoring or adjusting operational performances, the means of engaging the interface could be done by touch sensitive sensors embedded in the chairs armrest. While this approach isn't for every interface of the infrastructure, it would be a worthy means of incorporating the main controls into the artwork and focal point of the creation

yeah but is it 950,000 times better than my laptop speakers? diminishing returns my friend.

RIP Mr Ken Fritz, sadly they sold your HIFI off for peanuts

This Guy speaks passion that is more hifi than most of hifi music.

I’ve too grown up hooked on stereo systems since the 1st day I heard one at 5yrs old. Today I’m 71 years years young and I must say that I’m truly moved by the documentary about Ken Fritz. I was amazed with his engineering knowledge of so many diverse areas from listening room design to speaker design, to turntable and amplification design. Unfortunately, it came with a cost to his family. I too have a passion with all my albums and many different systems set up in my home. I found that the family thing was a challenge that was something I needed to master. Mr Ken Fritz, I believe that I really understand you. You built your “SWAN SONG” dream including your perfect listening room. All the time while I was watching your Documentary, I thought that this room, this sound system, should never part. If I knew of this man’s achievements had past, I would have purchased the home for a good price and set it up to achieve his wish and his final legacy. Well it wasn’t to be. I ran across his Documentary on August 14, 2024. It has moved me so much. Well, Mr Ken Fritz, I will say this… “YOU’RE IN PARADISE LISTENING TO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SOUNDING-SYSTEM THAT IS BEYOND THIS WORLD ALONG WITH AN INFINITE AMOUT OF JOY. GOD BLESS YOU & I HOPE KURT WILL GROW TO UNDERSTAND YOU AND LET GO OF THE PAST, AND HE MAY WISH YOU LOVE. - SPINMAN

Only a fool would be impressed by this enough to call it the "worlds best" such a ridiculous statement.

It’s good this was made before he sadly passed.

Wonderful. But how many hours a day can we devote to music? How right is it to give a lot of money? Since none of us are bats, we cannot hear all the sounds. people either listen to music or hi-fi. No matter how much money we spend in our wallet, is it worth buying these systems for the 10% or 20% sound difference? One day we will die and all good things will leave us. No matter what kind of system we have, the important thing is music; Pay attention to how the music makes you feel, not which hi-fi you listen to.

probably should have read Shelley's Ozymandias before spending millions that could have helped his family on some electronics that go bad. his kids had every reason to sell his junk

The most amazing people are: Ken fritz Luca Iaconi stewart MudbrainsTV diy there passion is UNMATCHED!!!

If you put a commercial grade audio system into a massively built room it can hardly be a surprise that you get audio that sounds exactly like a concert hall or theatre. Impressive in terms of seeing something like this in a private property but hardly anything special in technical or engineering terms. The reality is that once you get past the cost of the speaker mechanisms, the rest of the money is spent on creating good looking bits of furniture. Having a hobby that you totally love is great, but the reality is that a couple of thousand dollar system would sound just as good to the vast majority of people. Fascinating to see where obsession can lead when money isn’t a factor.

You Stereo Setup is only as Good as Your Ears. . We are not Bats . 😂

All Ken asked was that his system remain intact for future generations to enjoy: His heirs auctioned if off in pieces. kzbin.info/www/bejne/apeze6Cpmbdqmpo

Yes

My father died of ALS. My heart goes out to his family.

This guy is what those cable shiesters dream of being. RIP.

Shouldn't the turntable be in an acoustically isolated separate room from the speakers? That room should probably be sealed to avoid dust too.

To think all of this got sold for just 150k at auction . NEWWWMAN!!

Pointless, specially when human hearing decays as we age.

Sadly, his system was sold at auction and broken up to various buyers. You would have had to buy the house to get the system!

So sad to hear that his kids sold his life achievement for 156K USD.... He spent more than a million 😢

Sometimes I’m bewildered. All that money could buy years of season passes to hear an orchestra in a major city. Nothing beats hearing a LIVE orchestra in person.