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January 23, 2008 7:30 AM PST

Get comfy in Alberto Frias' $16,000 iPod bed!

by Steve Guttenberg
(Credit: Alberto Frias)

Got a chuckle out of Wes Phillips Stereophile blog yesterday. His take on Alberto Frias' $16,000 Transport perceptual pod bed caught my eye. The Transport comes equipped with a set of Anthony Gallo Acoustics' Nucleus Micro speakers and subwoofer, so it probably sounds pretty decent. The pod also offers a sensual environment with a temperature-controlled waterbed and LED light show. The hand-made Transport Pod Bed is available in two sizes -- six and eight feet in diameter. Standard exterior colors are white or black high gloss gel coat finishes. The Transport can be experienced and ordered at Twentieth, a modern furnishings and design store in Beverly Hills.

Steve Guttenberg is a frequent contributor to magazines and Web sites including Home Entertainment, Playback, and Ultimate AV. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network, and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.
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by aquariumdrinker January 23, 2008 8:26 AM PST
STEVE!!!!!

This is completely unrelated to your post, but I can't figure out how else to get a hold of you. I was wondering if you could do a special post for me.

I want to know what your top 10 or so favorite recordings are. I'm talking about the best recording jobs in your opinion. Not musical greatness, recording greatness. I always find lists of the greatest albums of all time, but never the greatest recordings. As a budding audiophile, I would really like to know your opinion. I want to know what you put in when you want to hear a great recording.

Umm....that bed looks neat. There now this is semi-related to your post.
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by The Kipnis Studios January 23, 2008 4:56 PM PST
I agree!

Steve - What would be your all time best top 10 recordings (not albums)?

I like the bed too - maybe I will build an 8.8 surround sound system inside it and put the Sony SRX-S220 behind a translucent Stewart Screen in front of it!

The world's greatest bedroom screening experience :-)

Cheers -

Jeremy


www.Kipnis-Studios.com
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by Colie Brice January 23, 2008 5:15 PM PST
Hey Steve! The bed's cool :)

In my opinion, recording quality doesn't mean jack if the music's not there. As you know, I spent years working as the marketing guy at Classic Records and Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, two of the better known audiophile labels. I believe that sound quality should serve the song and the performance, not the other way around.

Colie Brice
http://coiebrice.com
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by moretroops January 23, 2008 7:09 PM PST
Steve!!!

I'm just wondering, what are your favorite mattresses? I have a Sealy w/dual spring core and quadrafome layering at the baseboard and foot. Do you think that rig (circa 1996) will be considered the "golden age" of spring mattresses? Also, your thoughts on high end futons -- will they (can they?) match the snoozestage you get from a vintage sack of hay?

Btw, I still have a working waterbed w/oak paneling.
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by make_or_break January 24, 2008 11:29 PM PST
So THAT'S what the inside of a Tic-Tac looks like...
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Ex movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has more or less successfully hitched his future to home theater, but he still pines for the clickity-clack of 35 MM projectors and all the stale popcorn he could eat. Between projectionist gigs he worked as a high-end audio salesman for sixteen years, and produced records for an audiophile label. Oh, and one more thing, nothing annoys Steve more than being confused with the other Steve Guttenberg, the washed-up Police Academy actor. The wordsmith Guttenberg is a frequent contributor to a number of magazines and websites including Home Entertainment, Playback, and Ultimate AV. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.

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