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...but I freely admit to shedding tears when listening to great music, well performed, and well recorded. I've recently been told I am not a real audiophile as I am happy with what I hear and am not continually jonzin for something "better." Just finished listening the Sheffield 1986 "Moscow Sessions" recording of the Tchaikovsky 5th. Peter Ilich would probably have been the first to say he wasn't a Bach, Beethoven, or Brahms...after all, he characterized his best known work, the 1812, as "rather noisy." However, this recording, orchestra, and conductor had the tears rolling down my face as raw emotional power of Tchaikovsky's final movement filled the room. It's why I listen. Why do you listen? Dave

This guy scared me half to death yesterday, although I'm sure I did the same for him (her?). Canon 60D, f5.6, ISO 800 (nearly 6 pm, overcast), 300mm focal length, exp 1/80 sec.

Close your eyes and you'll never know the difference. That's what got me through high school.

Hi this is my first post so go easy on me I have just bought a pair of heresy III which I like a lot,with them having 99db sens is there such thing as using an amp with too much power ? the power amp I have is audio research vs110 which is 100 watt per side, is this too much ? i know at low volume there will be just a few watts or so being used so is the extra power a waste ?,i only play music at a lowish volume I notice a lot of heresy owners use SET amps with them are these low power amps as good as they say... oracle delphi mk4 morche up4 audio technica oc9 DNM 3c/twin audio research vs110 klipcsh heresy 3 (on steel stands) thanks

Please excuse this lengthy attempt at a review of sorts. I have been lucky enough to have around an ampsandsound.com SE amp Little Ben and an ampsandsound.com push pull Stereo 15. I do not have the technical experience to go into and fully understand what makes these amps different other than the basic differences. I won't go into the specifics of comparing the tube choices that Justin gave me when he sent the amps. My system is a bi-amped active crossover two way consisting of Jubilee clone cabs with Crites drivers on the bottom and Dave Harris's Eliptrac 400 horn with an Faital HF200 on top. The crossover point is 500 Hz with 24db slopes. I had been listening for about a week to the system with the Stereo 15 connected to the Jub cabs and the Little Ben connected to the Eliptrac horns. The arrangement was quite pleasing as my system images well and the SE treated vocals, strings and percussion with a delicacy that let the music be the star. Rock guitar and EDM didn't wow me, but was good enough to keep listening. But I kept playing classical and jazz favorites and was enjoying them a great deal. Yesterday my tech guy came over and we played amp round robin and began to try different configurations. First we took my Audio by Van Alstine Synergy 240 and put it on the Jub cabs and kept the Little Ben on the HF horns. The AVA is a state of the art solid state amp that dampens the bass drivers better and thus the bass is tighter and cleaner when you turn up the volume. I had anticipated it would end up on the bottoms as I had them there before and was quite pleased. Impressions of the Little Ben on the HF remained the same. We then switched out the Little Ben SE for the push pull Stereo 15 on the HF horns. This is where the comparison gets tricky as both are very pleasing. The Stereo 15 seemed to attack transients faster and reveal more detail with percussive sounds, guitar and cymbals. I then played a low definition MP3 that I know irritates my ears and while the Little Ben allowed me to enjoy that track the Stereo 15 revealed the annoyance more. My tech and I agreed that analogue classical and jazz would be quite pleasing with the Little Ben or the Stereo 15. The acid test was when we put the Stereo 15 on the Jubs and put the Synergy 240 on the HF horns. The tech listened for 10 seconds and then said it sounds like almost any decent SS amp but that it was lifeless and thin compared to the either the Little Ben or the Stereo 15. We played rock and classical for only the next ten minutes as we both were eager to get the Stereo 15 back on the HF horns to re immerse ourselves in the warmth of tubes. Then later Saturday night after attending a Vanderbilt men's basketball game against Arkansas where the good guys lost and then going to see my Predators lose to the Ducks I was looking for a music pick me up. I hooked up the Stereo 15 to a pair of KEF 140 monitors that were my #1 speakers before I discovered horns. They are 2 way and very flat but not very efficient. I played a classical piece with a lot of transients and dynamic range where detail and volume are needed to reproduce the piece. The sound was warm, detailed with no irritants. Even my low res MP3 was listenable. I tried the same with my Synergy 240 and while there was nothing wrong, it wasn't as pleasing on the same classical piece and my low res MP3 was again unlistenable. Rock and roll was about the same on both with maybe a slight edge to the Synergy 240 on Led Zep's Celebration Day live concert. But again the Stereo 15 played the Led Zep with great enjoyment as well as EDM and pop. All in all I would say the Stereo 15 plays the breadth of styles very well. And its just plain more fun anyway, I do not write reviews for a living and I didn't stay in an Holiday Inn Express so please excuse my attempt to describe what I heard. If there are any questions I would be happy to answer.

I have been living with my heresy III for a week and Im quite happy with them excellent midrange etc, I am waiting for a pair of steel speaker stands to arrive but have them on breeze blocks at the moment about 17 inch high,I found that when they were sat on the floor on there slanted plinths that the sound had no real soundstage but was much better off the floor there is a loss of some bass but not to much,is it true that the heresy mid and treble give more output(louder) than the bass to sound more balanced on the floor ? as there dose seam a bit more presence on the mid and treble areas while on stands,do any of you guys use them on stands ? thanks

Can't or won't? Either/Or.... Interesting. People seem all too willing to learn more about improving their audio reproduction systems yet won't endeavor to learn more about the purpose for them in the first place.Ok then "can't", I'm always willing to learn.

Pretty bike! What's the sissy bar for? Looks like a one seater.

I feel the same way, and same goes for capturing the emotion of the audience, it is the highest honor an musician can hope for. Larry, I enjoy Tchaikosvsky very much, but only some of his music do I truly love and enjoy listening to repeatedly. His 1812 Overture is a favorite, I enjoy it so much that I paid a stupid price just to get virgin sealed copy by MFSL. Pink Floyd's "Final Cut" is another LP that I thoroughly enjoy. With me, the one thing that's for certain, is if I own a copy on vinyl, you can darn sure the music draws on my emotions.

You can reduce the harshness by going to a second order or steeper filter section for the squawker. It reduces the energy being unloaded into the throat of horn, and fixes the problem. If you listen loud, there is no other "fix". If you change the horn and stay with a stock crossover, it will still overload and sound like garbage at live (loud) listening levels. Don't let anyone convince you that changing capacitors or components will fix this problem, it won't.

I listen for the love of it, purely for the love. And I find it impossible to watch this without my eyes swelling up and sheading tears..... http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=il+silenzio+trumpet+solo&qpvt=il+silenzio+trumpet+solo&FORM=VDRE#view=detail&mid=90D672191B62777F728190D672191B62777F7281 It's absolutely beautiful, and I wish I could hug this little girl. The emotion is over whelming for me.... yep, I'm a wusssy and proud of it.

I say for brewing the best I've had is a Chemex. It takes a bit of patience but in my opinion the best cup of coffee I've been able to make at home. I typically go with a french press though being able to just pour the water and walk away is usually easier fro me and my schedule. The key to the Chemex is to follow their instructions. I've done small boutique roaster beans all the way to good old Folgers in the Chemex and its the best with either. Super round full flavor with absolutely no bitterness.

That obviously means a ton. duh.

All the locking? I think I've only locked 2 threads lately. And they were both about the same thing.

This place is not too bad,,AUDIOKARMA IS WORSE,,SNAKEOIL AUDIO IS EXTREEMLY BAAAAD IN A LIBRAL WAY...

Are you feeling OK Mark? You have shown some lapses lately, such as when you asked another member so politely to contribute to a thread when he already had.

The tragedy of war evokes strong emotions. 1812 is a classic, of course, but there are more modern pieces of music that are just as strong. Roads to Moscow is a song I can only listen to occasionally. The slide show with this clip is overly literal, but still effective. Al Stewart - Roads to Moscow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_ZG6tRGMYk Another strong, but less specific, song is Brothers in Arms. The album of the same name is one of the first to be completely recorded and produced in the digital domain, and is marked DDD to show it. It was produced as a CD and cassette, and four of the five songs on Side 1 of the LP were shortened to fit. The Side 2 songs, including the title song, are all full-length. I listened to the LP just before posting this, and the sound is really good. Dire Straights - Brothers in Arms: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu4oy1IRTh8 These mist covered mountains Are a home for me now But my home is the lowlands And always will be Someday you'll return to Your valleys and your farms And you'll no longer burn To be brothers in arms Through these fields of destruction Baptisms of fire I've witnessed your suffrin' As the battles raged higher And though they did hurt me so bad In the fear and alarm You did not desert me My brothers in arms There's so many different worlds So many different suns And we have just one world But we live in different ones Now the sun's gone to Hell And the Moon's riding high Let me bid you farewell Every man has to die But it's written in the starlight And every line on your palm We're fools to make war On our brothers in arms

That must be a new genre of music...lol...... It's like country music only more localized

I'm not sure I like that definition. I think I'm enthusiastic about music. Klipsch gets me closer to the music. I think we're all here because of Klipsch and how these speakers have extended our appreciation for music/sonic performance. My comment was to infer that I believe Mallette to be an audiophile, and the quote is from Webster's. Many here have a different opinion/definition, or better ears, but our pursuit of this hobby finds us all in the same "room" and listening. Pretty cool.

Canyonman lives in N.O. also and just added a sub(s) to his 2 channel system. You should hit him up.

That must be a new genre of music...lol......

Crikey, mate. Looking at your system I am at a loss. What do your buddies have that your system doesn't? I find it hard to believe that La Scala's wouldn't do strings as well as a Klipschorn and I know I am happy. You certain your source material isn't at fault? Your playback chain looks pretty awesome to me. Dave

Nice pics in your gallery.

Thank you. My first laugh of the day

TRVTH I salute you, sir. That's the gist of it, isn't it? Can't wait for science to explain music. Dve

Mravinsky was a really great conductor, not located in the best part of the world to be fully appreciated in the West in his day. Under his direction, the LPhil was very vigorous, extraordinarily precise, interpretatively among the best -- almost Toscaninian. This is borne out in an audio-only recording on YouTube that demonstrates how good he and the orchestra were: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coAKPPiDfHg I guess in the rather limited comparisons I've done, I've felt the Mravinsky-LPO performances were the best.

mdeneen, I sent you a friend request. :-)

To compete with your Cornwall's at higher volumes you're going to need at least one high output 15". A horn sub would be a good alternative to compliment your mains.

What if the first two were to mate? Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dang, those are my favorites... Michael Bolton Garth Brooks Travis Twitt

"Here I am selling my Sansui AU-D9 amplifier. The amplifier is in great working shape. The only issue with it is in the phono stage which has a buzz when a turntable is connected. The volume control operates smoothly with no static. The input selector and the mm/mc buttons will need to be lubricated. Overall it's a very nice amp. Sound output is equal on both channels. Cosmetically it shows very well with a few scratches on the faceplate. The cabinet is in good condition with minimal scratches. Asking $85 obo. Feel free to email or text me with any questions. 678-526-3234" This is not Sansui's TOTL, but for $85 OBO - I would try it

T'was cold and very clear last night.....

Look at the difficult time this thread has had getting people to talk about pros, cons, & experience with basic tube testing equipment. He would probably need to join some type of electronic equipment/tube circut design forum. pros? cons? Any thoughts on various models that have reasonable availability and price? The more I get into the First Watt clones, the more I don't understand, but it seems that understanding the operating curves in matching those devices would be interesting and beneficial to the amp. Seems like it is almost impossible and really expensive to find a Tek 576. What about those Haggerman models? Even then a person would need to buy a scope. I'm not sure what is out there that would be accurate and affordable to the hobbyist. http://www.haglabs.com/vacutrace.html I've often wondered about this DIY unit to build. http://www.dos4ever.com/uTracer3/uTracer3.html

I don’t believe that the Triplett 3444A is a laboratory model and will have precision issues similar as other service testers (although the precision may be somewhat tighter). I believe that the RCA WT100A may be a laboratory model, but it will be extremely rare and costly and nearly impossible to find a qualified tech to work on it. If my budget and involvement would warrant the Amplitrex AT-1000, that would be my choice. However, I’ve been pulled in too many different directions wanting to explore both tube and solid state simple circuit amplifiers and in learning about other aspects of the “chain of audio” from the recorded signal to how it reaches my ear. The most common testers you will find in these various secondary markets are service testers and as mentioned, most do not test in real world operating conditions, but perform more of a proportional test. The tube is essentially tested at an operating voltage below tube specifications on the tube data sheet values. If the test results are proportionally close to the tube data sheet value, the tube is considered good. Then we have the calibration issue where the better testers have a calibrated precision of an accuracy of +/- 10%; therefore, you have a range of 20% from high to low. The cheaper tube testers can typically be +/- 15% calibrated precision of accuracy. Now we have a 30% range from high to low. All tube testers will require maintenance and calibration periodically. However, it seems that the number of qualified technicians has decreased in the last several years and the techs still performing services seem to be back-logged for several months. I started out with the B&K and still use it, but when I wanted to upgrade, I focused on a few tester models that I believed to be of the higher quality and had flexibility in the tests that could be performed. Actually, another reason I ended up with the 539b/c model was that it was one of the higher end models of service tester in the Hickok line, there are multiple tests (i.e. shorts, leakage tests, gas test, multiple operating voltages and plate voltages, etc.), upgrading was available to increase the precision somewhat, and you can still find a lot of documentation on the model. I guess if I had free reign to spend your money and didn’t want to take an intermediate step (i.e. Hickok 600A), I would go with the Amplitrex. An intermediate step can be productive if a person takes the time to learn about what they are doing and what they want to do. The problem I see is that many people end up making lateral moves and just keep repeating the same intermediate step.

will post some pics soon as I get my camera ,there black thanks thanks for the reply's lads

Made me think of wide angle Tennessee 2010 for Christmas, Michael let me play with his 10 MM lens.

2001 Ford Crown Victoria LX Class... 75000 actual miles, still a nice car...& paid for...Thank you.