Although it's not, strictly, a Starman award, HCC's Honorary Mention goes, each year, to a home cinema install abroad that goes above and beyond what is generally expected in both cost and theme. This year there could be only one winner of such an accolade. Make it so...
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Featured: HCC #139
We wouldn’t feel we’d done our job if we didn’t take another chance to mark this most ambitious of installs; the ST Theater from Aspen’s ESC. Best Theme Theater winner in the 2006 American CEDIA Awards, this Star Trek-inspired setup, designed to the specification of a Trek-loving rock music mogul, features a 30,000 square foot space with a 40-speaker JBL sound system, a specially programmed Meridian processor, Dell server, Sony Qualia projector, Stewart 15ft screen, and Martin lighting system. Needless to say, designing and building the Enterprise-style seating, displays and fittings was a major part of the job. Cost is a closely-guarded secret, but we bet it was many millions of Quatloos. You can beam us over there any time you like, Scotty...
