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Naperville, I'm following. Good to see fellow enthusiasts on occasion.

Here's a couple of new fall color pictures I shot today. One in the morning, and one in the evening...

Fall - October 16, 2014

No dumb questions here. Love banana plugs. As often as I swap speakers around, it really makes it easy to A/B between speakers.

Never worry about sounding stupid, ask the questions, I have set the bar extremely low, your good.

Well some of you know i recently sold my RF-63 theater in search of something else for my living room. i knew of only one thing i wanted for sure. something very pretty to look at. i really wanted a ribbon setup but wasn't sure i could afford one. and i was looking a a few different brands. Salk, Ascend made the cut due to their ribbon offerings and then focal 800 series made the cut due to their price. well as much as i kept looking at the focal for the price i kept getting drawn back to the salks due to the gorgeous offerings they had. plus i had heard them once and knew they sounded amazing. well i finally found some salks that were across the country and they guy was offering only local pickup. so i made a post on facebook and my father in law just so happened to be heading towards kansas city. i made a call and then bought the speakers. they were picked up and survived the trip in the back of a truck with a camper shell. i only bought the front three as that is what the seller had. not sure what he had for rears if any at all. so without any more talking here are a few pics if my new Salk SongTower RT's and SongCenter RT:

Eddie Cramer tweet page: https://twitter.com/KlipschAudio/status/520702041530716160

One doesn't need to have direct experience w/ a speaker to know that direct radiators have much lower dynamic limits than horns. It's physics, not conjecture.

I'm a lifelong Cardinals fan, but the Giants deserved to win the NLCS. Congrats guys.

These are Craig's, which are very similar to Jan's. Jan has a very nice set of Universals which I built him about a year ago, but he much prefers the Jupiter build. This is pretty much where I'm at too, the Jupiters are just killer

It will be interesting to follow this. I wonder if the additive has any negative effect on any of the plumbing or fittings?

maybe this forum is boxx’s play toy? if i had his money, i’d burn mine. Play toy? I'm more like Wimpy.... I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today...

I'm officially jealous. Have a great time all and post some pics!!! Wish I could be there. Sounds like a great time is brewing.

Nothing beats Aligator clips

Hahaha http://denver.craigslist.org/ele/4698375153.html

Good looking sub!

Saturday night we are going to find out if Ceptorman, ssh, ClaudeJ1, Sancho Panza are right about Notre Dame being in the final four. I hope they're right; I'm sick of Jameis Winston.

Way to Cornblock wstrickland1 guys. LOL

there ya go above. i was in the middle of typing them

Thanks for the rundown! Sounds like if I really wanted some heresy, I should just buy one of the pairs near me for $350.

I hope you get a good plankin tonight as well!

That would be my worry as well along with dribbling it down the side of the vehicle and melting the paint. I remember an urban legend going around maybe in the 80's. It was putting moth balls in the tank for increased mileage.

Bottom line. That's what matters.

There could be only one fatality a year from anything and those numbers sound acceptable. Unless you are the ONE. Don't be the ONE.

I'll take a shot The autoformer input is usually 0 - 5. This would equate to C - -0 on this one. With this one, one can move the non-common input to decrease the attenuation by 1 or 2 dB. I assume both connections on the output side of the autoformer are moveable, to adjust the mid attenuation to taste. That looks like a plastic spool for the inductor, or just a plastic cap to hold it down with a brass screw. A steel screw would disrupt the magnetic field inside the coil. The tweeter is probably needs no attenuation, therefore no need for l-pad resistors. But hey...I'm still learning! Mike

I don't see hair standing big dynamics coming from those speakers. They may sound fantastic at tea party levels, but impact, shear realism....might as well hook up the old set of Advents from the 80's.

http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/acetone.asp

That opening is a bit alarming, I have never heard that much output from my F20s. I wonder how many subs it as killed.Good flick. many. There is a whole thread about it on Avs. Lol. Poor subwoofers.

Interesting experiment. Sometimes the old half tank thing can lie. I will be waiting to see how it does when the tank is lower. I'd think Acetone would clean the injectors. It might improve atomization of the fuel. It may also raise the octane. If it increases mileage, it should be one of those factors. A common misconception is that higher octane is more combustible or flammable. The reverse is true. Regular gas is more volatile and prone to preignition, which means the explosion is occurring from pressure and heat before the spark plug fires. If you get preignition, you put higher octane in.

I kinda get where you are going with that. With an electronic crossover, you can very quickly change crossover slopes or even disable LP/HP filtering. It is just as easy to change the crossover point. That is beneficial, because you can instantly hear if it is more pleasing. I was tuning a set of Heresy's to a single THT, and what I found was that I liked the Heresy crossed over at 40Hz with a very steep 48db/octave slope. The sub was crossed at something like 55Hz, with a less steep 12db/octave slope. This really did allow the Heresy to hit bass notes a LOT harder (with the sub off you could definitely tell). Point of note: I may be wrong, but I did some experimenting last night trying to find out what the common low bass notes there are in hip-hop and rap songs. I do not listen to that stuff, but my son does. What I found is that those low notes are 50Hz. That surprised me. Go check it out. For instance, the modern song 'Bang Bang' which seems to go really low is actually banging away at 51Hz. Does that surprise anybody else? I always thought it was in the 30's...

Most of the potential market did not know SACDs existed, thanks to a lack of advertising.

We should all fail as well as you Peter.

Whatever you do try not to make a lot of stupid post (for years) then go out of town for a while, you might find your a moderator when you get back ! It has happened .

Congratulations San Francisco Giants … Respect to The City.

And if you have heritage speakers this is what I use. 4pcs Y to Banana Plug Spade Adapter Marantz Mcintosh Amplifier MC30 MC275 Fork

Way to go Morse!

Yea, the NFL was nice enough to roll back Monday and Thursday night games to 8:25...big deal.

I don't know what went wrong previously, but it's working now. However, it appears that it will not play FLAC or MKV files, so is of little practical use OK it turns out that my 5 year old NAS doesn't serve FLAC via UPnP, which is why it doesn't show on the 751 D'oh!

Along with Andrew Luck.

That's fine just let me know if you want in the future. Yes, Bruce Dern a mighty good role in the movie.

True but I doubt anyone on earth could hear a difference in a blind test.

I use banana plugs myself for everything, it's never given me an issue.

Two days and counting to the Klipschster's GTG!!! click the monkey and go bananas

thank you. This is helpful. As I said, my sub provides plenty of bass so not a real issue. If that were true, we'd all be using 42s...

To the OP, the term "BEST" is an elusive one? Cost, bandwidth, cubic feet of space, transient response, flatness, for 8, 10, 12, 15, or 18" driver? One driver or two? My Quarter Pie horns fill a corner completely (no wasted air space), is only 17" tall, which allows for various sizes and positions of a midrange/treble horn. It uses up 17.8 cubic feet of space, worst case. vs. 22.25 cubic feet for the Beck horn. The Beck horn has 3 folds for 270 degrees vs. one fold (90 degrees) for my QP. Guess which one will have the the better upper bass/mid clarity if the same driver is used? Also the QP uses only 11 pieces of wood with only 11 and 45 degree angles vs. 15 with lots of different angles, so QP is much easier to build. I'm just sayin'..................what is "BEST" for one person may not be so for another.

OP - There are no stupid questions just stupid answers.

pictures please

Lol

What I can say is this: Klipsch has no current plans to release a sub that is better than the R-115SW at this time. We feel extremely confident that this is a great subwoofer, and it was even built with RF-7 systems in mind. It's that good, especially at the price point it's at. It really opens up the door for economically adding a dual-subwoofer setup that doesn't sacrifice on quality, in any regard. These are seriously bad-*** subs.