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Morning Gang!

A photo of my wife's seafood gumbo! Wish you could taste it!

What's up guys.......hope everyone is good. Man oh man it's been crazy at the shop this week. We have not got home before 9:00 all week. I gotta jump on it while it's there cuz the bottom could fall out anytime. I gotta get back into training agian.....but just so busy with work and stuff. I'll go throuh phases where I train 5-6 days a week. Then work and life will just take over. Oh well......that just how it is. So our family is still adjusting to our new pets. We just got two Cornish Rex cats. One is a year old the other is four months. We have four cats total. The Cornish Rex cats are not like your regular old house cat. These guys are crazy.....just like our house. We got our 1st Rex cats about 20 some years ago. We lost the last one about 4 years ago. So for the last year we have been kicking around getting some more.......so we did..........when people come over for the first time, the two things they say are" why do you have so many speakers and.........what is that.........is that a cat" Take care all :-)

it's a big "F" ing bone :-) Round here a thousand is referred to as a "dime". Having done a few pro bono criminal cases, a dime has a different meaning to me. Careful who you use the word "dime" with (e.g., Hey officer, I was just held up and they took my dime."

AKdave, glad your dad's fight is over and he can rest, glad you had time together, you did good.

Is nothing sacred?

40's, windy and wet outside here today. 60's in the house as the heater is still broken. Opened a fresh bag of Kona and thought about Hawaii as I ate breakfast. Got warmed from the inside out. Hated to leave for work.

Morning Gang Thursday, Drizzle/rain, 60s. Should prep for Friday Dryer install, yeah like that is a lot of work, yank the old one and throw to the curb Retirement: "Never Do Today What Will Keep Till Tomorrow"

Tarheel, take those lessons!! You've nothing to lose and will probably have some fun learning a few chords. Who knows ... next thing we know you may be in Nashville or at Carnegie Hall. Another cold day in Colorado. May have to venture out today ... but nothing "invigorating" about it!! Back later ....

Looks tasty JL.....put that on my list. 1. Dinner at JL's A crispness in the air this morning that was absent yesterday. 32 degrees forecasted for Saturday morning. Wish I could say the cold air invigorates me but it just makes me cold Anyone hear from akdave? LF has 7 guitars so I am thinking I should take a lesson. I've told myself and others for so long that I have no musical ability without ever confirming that statement. Time to find out. YouTube has beginner lessons....any other ideas? Maybe my bud Steve (BigStewMan) out on the left coast will respond. For all my fellow retiree's it's Thursday and still November! Cheers Gents

We wish we cold taste it also, better go kiss your wife !

Wish I could too. We had chicken/sausage gumbo tonight.

1,000 bucks = 1 kilobuck

Trust me you won't have any video problems. Show them this and ask if they see any problems lol.

it's a big "F" ing bone :-)thanks for the"like" on that one. But that's my wifes. She reads all your guys posts. She is in the office on the shop computer and I am out in the bay on my scan-tool tablet.She came in the bay and said just that "if a bone is $100 then a $1000 is a big F ing bone" .......man I lmao.....so I had to drop it on you guys. She if funny. She still raggs me about this Klipsch forum.......and the kids too.......they all say" what do your Klipsch friends say"......then my youngest daughter found out that I spoke with a woman on here (Amy) there was h*ll to pay. I know I have only been around a few months.... but you guy are all I got.......H*LL I got more friends here than I do in life... lol lol Check in later gotta work :-) "She still raggs me about this Klipsch forum.......and the kids too.......they all say" what do your Klipsch friends say" Just tell the interested parties, Klipsch Speakers ARE, cheaper than kids. Wife see's me in the cave surfin or whatever on the Pc, and ask you on the Form? yes dear, they are way more reasonable than Pub friends. cost less too. Somehow i did something right a few years back, built her system FIRST, seems ever since then, i can do NO wrong or spend too much. she is quite happy with her system.

Just tell them we said your lucky to have them around you all the time, well it's true, AND that you need more speakers. Well friends that are around all the time can get to be a pain in the butt, I got picked up yesterday to volunteer to help bring donated furniture to the VFW hall, turned out to be like 6 hours of moving office furniture. But it was a good cause, to help veterans, it was the least I could do. Your doing great

Sorry for your loss Dave.

it's a big "F" ing bone :-)thanks for the"like" on that one. But that's my wifes. She reads all your guys posts. She is in the office on the shop computer and I am out in the bay on my scan-tool tablet.She came in the bay and said just that "if a bone is $100 then a $1000 is a big F ing bone" .......man I lmao.....so I had to drop it on you guys. She if funny. She still raggs me about this Klipsch forum.......and the kids too.......they all say" what do your Klipsch friends say"......then my youngest daughter found out that I spoke with a woman on here (Amy) there was h*ll to pay. I know I have only been around a few months.... but you guy are all I got.......H*LL I got more friends here than I do in life... lol lol Check in later gotta work :-)

dtel, consider yourself very lucky. I broke out the flannel lined jeans, coats, hats and gloves last week and it's not going to get above freezing here till Wednesday. 20 degrees below normal and teens at night. Been so busy splitting wood, not sure how much we have. At lest 4 full cords, all harvested from the property. Been heating the shack with two wood stoves for the last 12 years, alternating between basement and main floor. Just cut up several pounds of stew beef and have it slow cooking in a Griswold Dutch oven on top of the basement stove. I'll post a pic later this afternoon when it is done. Pulls apart and makes great beef sandwiches.

I don't know what the problem is. I have my shorts on and I think its colder here (34 right now). Now I'm 50+ lbs overweight. Maybe that helps me in this case.

This sucks, I had to go in the closet and dig out a pair of jeans from last winter to work in the yard, no shorts today.

Allright then. He ought not a done that, mmm hmm.

http://www.whathifi.com/forum/home-cinema/dts-hd-master-audio-vs-dolby-truehd Dolby True HD is about 4 dB louder IIRC (and I can't find the thread where this is discussed in more detail). All three formats are lossless, so the difference to the user is the position of his/her volume control knob only. Perhaps the "dialog normalization" of Dolby (not adjustable by the user) might be higher or lower based on what the manufacturer chose. Apparently, DTS-HD MA is clearly winning the movie soundtrack war. If I were you, I'd try listening to the PCM track on your Marley disc, especially if it is better than 48 kHz sampling rate.

i left work early when my emotiva stealth dc-1 was delivered. scarfed down dinner and gave the mandatory "family attention time" and then raced off to my office to hook things up and listen. i'll likely repeat that process when my new emotiva amp arrives, and then my aletheia networks.

Scrappy is right. I always thought having 3 identical speakers was unnecessary and maybe over-hyped. Not anymore. Having a LaScala as a center was a HUGE improvement over the RC-64 (and it's an awesome center channel). With three identical speakers, with all three tweeters aligned, it's absolutely seamless across the huge sound stage. One of the main reasons people can't use an identical speaker as a center is because the TV is in the way. The AT screen solves that issue and allows for perfect anchoring of sound directly where the action is taking place on the screen.

I can tell you who doesn't like at screens. Videophiles. Simple. Just like some guys think speakers sound better with grills off. It's just a preference. They want is as pure as possible and at screens do lose a bit of light compared to a non at. But today's projectors totally make up for that. When I am in my theater I wanna feel like I am at the movies. And show me a movie theater that has speakers out to the side and a center under or over the screen. The experience to me doesn't get any better than at. Plus like you mentioned you can have all matching speakers behind the wall. Go at, sell your 64 buy a third rf-7ii, run em all full range like you like and the NEVER look back.

I just typed out seven paragraphs outlining my impressions of Seymour AT material. Than my iPad froze and I lost it. So, I'm just gonna say it's awesome, well worth the money and I wouldn't go another direction.

The only reason I can see someone talking you out of an AT screen is if the ones they sell are not AT. Mine is spandex and I am very pleased with it. I can definitely see the difference in quality in the Seymore fabric, but have yet to see it in action. I went from a 100" non-AT to 130" AT and will NEVER go back. I firmly believe that the larger the screen the more important it is to go AT. Even at 100" it was easy to notice the center sound coming from below the screen even though it was as close as it could get to the screen. The Center channel at the same height as the mains anchors the sound directly in the center of the screen where it should be. Much more realistic, especially if watching from a short distance. I have not noticed sound quality issues at all, but my mains are outside the screen with only the center concealed.

Yes Dave.....my thoughts are with you....take care :-)

I don't know what the problem is. I have my shorts on and I think its colder here (34 right now). Now I'm 50+ lbs overweight. Maybe that helps me in this case. I am probably 50 lbs overweight also at 6'3" and 255, but the older I get the more of a sissy I become with cold weather. If I dress right I am fine but I prefer shorts and nothing else, I'm just spoiled I guess.

Yes a busy time for you Dave. You have my sympathy. Do enjoy life and the little one.

akdave, you have had a busy last month!!! I hope you have a SLOWER holidays enjoying your new bundle of life!

Morning all - coffee is decent this morning - trying some Newmans blend left here by company over the weekend. Laid dad to rest last week, definitely tough, glad he's not fighting cancer anymore - will and do miss him terribly. Baby #2 just flipped the one month mark and now we settle in to the new normal. Winter is delayed in south central alaska. We had a huge storm headed our way last week and Im told it headed south - you are all welcome for the arctic blast! :-) Still in the forties during the day here - a little warm for our norms. Back to work - have a great day!

Before and after.

Here is some stuff I have figured out over time... I am by NO MEANS even close to an expert or authority. This is just some stuff I have learned that may be helpful. There are different theories on how to correctly measure the length of a folded horn, but a folded horn is the length of a non-folded horn that has been folded. I like to measure from the centerline of each section to get horn length. A horn of this type will be tuned at a quarter wavelength. If you want to tune to 55Hz for instance, then you would take the speed of sound divided by 55Hz then divided by four. 1,125 / 55 / 4 = 5.1ft.. You can discover the tuning frequency of an existing horn by measuring the length, multiplying by for and dividing that into 1,125. [eg: 1,125 / (6.5' X 4) = 43.3Hz] There are also half wavelength horns and even huge full wavelength horns. The tutorial I like best is here: http://www.hometheatershack.com/forums/diy-subwoofers-general-discussion/36532-hornresp-dum-hmm-everyone.html

Sweet. I didn't help much at all. As I recall, Carl had it right... Now go do donuts in the school parking lot to make sure you got all the power back.

Excellent!

it's a big "F" ing bone :-) Round here a thousand is referred to as a "dime".

The guy next to my shop does mail boxes....like big ones in housing deelopments and he gets all kinds of pallets. Yes they do burn good. I use them for my backyard fires also.

it's a big "F" ing bone :-)

It got cold enough here for us to turn our central heat on last night. Every 3 or 4 years the stupid furnace decides to puke up a circuit board so.........no heat. Coffee was good this morning though.

That's a major tear and cannot be fixed. It actually has ruined that speaker, and probably the other one too. I would get rid of them. I'll give you your $400 investment……as an act of kindness Oh, and welcome.

This belongs in the power tools thread. Somebody got themselves a nail gun, then smoked crack.

Looks like the Quarter Pies are doing what they are supposed to do. Where are you crossing to the JBL's?

I think mid Jan would be good. The only downside is if anyone wants to sell anything the crowd might be lite on cash after the holidays. I'd be up for a Dec bash too so whatever everyone wants to do is cool by me.

The guys I have talked to were more concerned about video performance than audio, they said the perforations kill some of the resolution. Plus, yeah they like to sell huge and pretty speakers and weren't big on ugly ones that were meant to be hidden. Hiding $22,000 Revels behind an A/T screen doesn't make much sense. Both guys carried these. I like seeing my speakers but at the same time I don't like having a different center channel that is lower in height.

These could probably be had pretty cheap. Set of Klipsch home speakers

I just talked to Audio Ventures in Milwaukee about this, and the owner stated there is only one speaker for the 800. And, he said it is all original. Mixed signals here.... And by the way, I wasn't trying to hijack this sale at all, just trying to get more info to help out. (Wish I had the corners, but I don't...)

If the deal had to be signed right then and there then I applaud Plant for walking away. He doesn't need the money and 48 hours to think it over shouldn't have been denied by the promoters; they should have allowed him the time.