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I was out in the desert this past weekend... I only had my Camera phone with me though.

This guy is my Great Great Grandfather LOL! He was born 1836. How old is he here? Another classic with a mule!

This isn't the great setting of the farmhouse with mule (so classic), but this could be the oldest photograph we have preserved in my family. Great-great-great-great grandma, dated 1856. I haven't tackled touching it up yet. I kind of like the oldness look of it, anyway. I actually have a few images of great-greats from the late 1800s. I love that my family kept them all these years... it's interesting to see how photography has changed - some are on hard coated glass instead of paper. I think it's nerdily cool, anyway.

Gotta love old photographs. Especially ones with the family mule! This photo from approx. 1915, shows my grandmother center right in her early teens.

Boom! When you say ideally what you want, it makes it easier for else to guide you. Don't settle. Buy what you want. If you have to wait for used or good deals then so be it. But get the rf-7ii and rc-64ii if that is what you want. Otherwise your just wasting money like the rest of us have over the years. There is gonna be a new reference series this year hopefully so the rf-7ii set will be "last years model" and should start to be found more used as well as clearance prices. So I'd say be patient and get what you really want. Just cause two rc-62's have the same amount of woofers I can assure you they aren't the same drivers. And they REALLY aren't the same high frequency driver. That's where the huge difference is bet weeny the 62 and 64.

I'm guilty of being a looker...

From today's 175 mile motorcycle ride... Filling up in Lawrenceville, Pa. Keuka Lake, Hammondsport, NY

It's a boy!

beeker is bringing a guest; is anyone else? I need to know for the BBQ.

Well, that is a choice I did not need to make but I have heard that the pre has more of an affect tube sound wise than the amp does provided that you have a qualified ty amp to back it up,

Very classic photo for the time period. Eveyone was proud of their possesions, and rightly so. I have a picture of family, also taken in front of their house, with all the furniture moved out to be in the pic. I need to get them scanned. Bruce

Amy, How it may have looked back in the day.....

Yes, these "Heavy" 1" Throat Drivers are four bolt. Nope, the DH1A has a 2 inch throat. (1.94 inches to be exact) Bruce Hey Bruce: if you remove the nose cup of the DH1A, which is held on by bolts which are covered but the cork composite gasket the real exit of a DH1A is 1.4 inches. Which id very good these days given the number of nice 1.4 inch horns. In my Case I have fitted Karlson K-Tubes made of a simple roll of writing paper. The nose cup extends the 1.4" throat to 1.94" (nominal 2" exit). Always nice to know that you have options and the DH1A is truly one of the super drivers out there today. Best regards Moray James.

Whoa, what a great piece of history! Who is he to you? that was my father... Jules Schumacher.

old photographs are simply outstanding... I get a real kick out of looking at old family pictures, specially those of other families. how about an old photo and newspaper article...

Yes, these "Heavy" 1" Throat Drivers are four bolt. Nope, the DH1A has a 2 inch throat. (1.94 inches to be exact) Bruce

Thanks guys, today is looking better, a good rest is what I needed. I hate it when the long post that took forever to type gets lost when you hit the post button! Oh well it saved you all a sappy post, you are luckyl

Yes he did. My ex. wife and I were there as PWK's and Valerie's guest. Everything he wrote about in his papers and Dope From Hope he actually did, including swithching from Tubes to SS amps (heard those too). This is why a LaScala with a Tuba Horn sub is the ideal choice. Better bass, and the ability to put the speakers where you need them, although the Khorn takes up less floor space. The Cornwall's "big bass" is a peak in the 80-90 Hz. range. The superiority of horn bass has nothing to do with number crunching. When set up right, it makes all direct radiator bass, including Cornwalls, sound mushy instead of tight, even though you can use the same woofer, your ears will tell you as soon as you put a Cornwall next to a Khorn, or better yet, a Jubilee bass bin (twin motors, more cone area/less cone motion. IOW, more powerful). When you consider that "normal" cone motion is reduced to about 1 mm (39/1,000th of an inch), with the same drive voltage, guess which one responds FASTER for the shorter distance on the same frequency? It's pretty intuitive and the main reason why bass horns have superior TRANSIENT response and lower distortion because of the lower power/cone motion required to achieve it.

It's a year older than I am and looks a w h o l e lot better.

I'd offer to pay shipping and give those homeless orphans a loving environment to grow old in.

Yeah well that was well over 30+ years ago, don't think iv had Kahlua since my younger days.

A fresh pot is now done and I have poured in Heavy Dose of Duggans, just the first the cup, many to follow.....it's Decalf........

I guess I missed the panel discussion. Unless they're extremely thick, acoustic panels won't help much with bass. Corner traps will work best.

Gotcha. I just didn't follow at first. I have rigid fiberglass acoustic panels to do that with already. I wanted to get the new sub in before determining the placement for panels. The room is not bad in the front already. 8ft diameter beanbag that is 3ft thick of shredded foam and baffled ceiling do a pretty good job already. Leaning panels at the first reflection point don't seem to make any difference. The back of the room by the pool table and the corner by the foosball will definitely get treatments. Bass trap in the corner for sure. Since the audio in the room is changing I will finish that before any panels are placed.

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That was random. I didn't catch the reference either, but it IS early.

Beautiful work as usual Justin. I envy Your Abilities to produce products with this type quality. Very Talented indeed

lol I spend way to much on her already , I bought her a Klipsch SB 120 yesterday to go with her new TV . okay maybe it as for me

Could you post a picture of your setup, Max2? Sure thing. You just want speaker placement? Left and right walls and as much of the room as you can - including ceiling. I got a few pics in and my camera battery died. I did manage to get one of how far mine are out of the corners. The dove tail ceiling is just a little too low to pull off a corner placement. The room is far from ideal from all the furniture and clutter alone.

Crap, if you were local I'd be all over these...

I believe they do, as per the spec sheet.

congratulations! here is the pipe foam on my K's... it made a significant difference.

Do these have 4 bolts to attach to the horn ? If so I think theses will fit the 402.

Is there a reason why your only giving them a day, maybe wait it out a week.

Are you currently using the Pioneer's onboard DAC's? How does it sound? If your Pioneer has a quality analog section it probably won't noticeably degrade the signal from a quality DAC. Now if you purchase a $1000.00+ DAC, it might be of better quality than the Pioneer's DAC's. You really won't be able to know until you try. Bill

Wow, too easy. Even a man might be able to handle it. I will definitely try the taters, onion rings maybe. Thanks a lot Tiger

I had not heard of ML subs either until I auditioned one. ML speakers are a different breed and amazing in the electrostatic category. All of the lower ML subs are so, so and overpriced. But the Descent i (3 balanced and powered10" woofers) and the Depth i (3 powered 8" woofers) are amazingly musical and go low for HT. The Depth i was too much sub for my RF82s but blend as well with the K-horns set too large, since the ML sub digs deeper . . . a nice compliment. So, I am looking for a pre-owned second one to put in the HT as my last addition. It will come in time. So, are you using a supplemental sub with your K-horns? Have a pair of k-horns alone in the basement workshop for 2 channel there and no sub needed for that setup.

I'll get the blueprints and give them to the wife for xmas.......maybe I can get out of buying that Lexus after all.

Heresy II and Heresy III speakers work fine as centre or surround speakers with La Scalas. However, a Belle centre is much better than any model of Heresy, and La Scala surrounds are much better than Heresy II or III surrounds. Use what fits your budget and space constraints. For me, the ideal is an all-Jubilee system, with an all-JubScala II system in second place, and all-La Scala II system in third place. For most people, at some point budget priorities enter the picture, like in whether to buy better speakers or a better car, since buying both at once might be stretching things.

Kahlua is too sweet. Don't care for anything sweet in my cuppa Joe. Whiskey, si, Kahlua, no. Dave

I'm hooked on Spotify. Everything Amy says is true and the sq is very good.

Not so fast my friend.

I think it was in Condimentophile Magazine, although admittedly the test subjects were all English.

Everybody seems to be pushing you toward used. If I had the funds, I'd certainly buy new. There's nothing like that new speaker smell. You'd also be helping out Klipsch.

We put the STADIUM up against the $3000 McIntosh piece and it simply destroys it. We took our time and we got it right. The electonics were done several months before the launch - usually the critical path in a program like this - and we spent most of that time perfecting the fit and finish and delved into the minutia of tweaking firmware to make sure that setting it up and running it is like second nature. Connecting the STADIUM to your WiFi is now as simple as connecting your iPhone to the USB and pushing a button - the STADIUM gets the WiFi credentials from your iPhone (or Touch or iPad) and connects itself to your home router. I've hade a Beta system at home for about 6 months now - we've been testing electronics and firmware for over a year now - and I'm jealous that I don't have a Production or at least a Pre-Production unit... the fit and finish is that much better... but even the Beta is "not to shabby". We ran two separate Beta builds and two separate Pre-Production runs; to say that we fussed over this one would be an understatement. The cabinet is cast aluminum, quite expensive and very rigid, yet the construction is such that it is acoutically dead when you rap it with your knuckles.The tweeter is the titanium LTS unit from the Reference line. The midrange also operates in compression and is an aluminum dome. By doing this, excursion and therefore the distortion is ruduced in the critical midrange. The system is tri-amplified (six amplifier channels) with all the signal processing done in the digital domain. Pick the unit up, and you will realize that it has quite a heft to it, about 30 pounds worth, in fact. A new feature in the Klipsch Air app allows me to adjust tone controls to match my placement and room acoustics. Now, more often that not, it is what I listen to at home. Except for the fact that can charge and play music over my iPhone's USB cable, it's not "a dock" in any sense of the word - it is my go-to home music system that, if needed, can also go to any room of my house.

very cool. Greg does beautiful work.

Congrats to Greg!