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Progress: Before Now And a close up of giving the farmer(s) someplace to sit/charge their iphone(s) It's just their local River fishing Boat

New pot for the evening, again talking about coffee. Not much planned around here. Son had his tonsils out yesterday, so it's r&r for us. Maybe some cranberry and vodka for me. Then some work in the basement. Hopefully will have the bar roughed in this weekend.

Rhetor, I think you may be starting 2015 with a new domestic job. A healthy and prosperous New Year to all of you.

From Jake and Tarheel

Happy New Years Eve! Glad to see the condition and symptoms have an official name...Earitis I may have to create a work and reward program to visit the Forum Garage Sale & Alerts sections, only after I have earned it. My priorities have been a little off whack but I have not exceeded a 150 mile round trip gig, yet. Where is the Audio Aholics thread? "Hello, my name is Todd, and I 'm an Audio Aholic. I think I may have Earlitis." There I admitted I have a problem. I feel much better and feel I deserve to crank some tunes and have a drink. Everyone, have a safe New Years Eve and a healthy and prosperous 2015!

Everyone, please bow your heads for a moment of silent prayer for me. I am going in to clean both bathrooms, sinks, and toilets. I have not done that since I was young kid in the army. The lovely wife is at work and I am here at home. So I think I will just get my pressure washer out and see what happens! It will do 3200 psi. I just have to figure out which nozzle would be appropriate. ;-)

dude. don't make promises you can't keep. that's just wrong.

I want to thank you all for promoting me to “Legendary” status…although not sure what that says about all of you folks. I promise to use this power for good and not evil. Regards, Steve

Considering the thread topic is a secret, I'd have to agree with you. We could be on topic and not know it.

Good Afternoon, not much going on here just finished a war game with the boys (they got airforce blow guns for Christmas, They use nerf darts but man those things fly and can sting. Safety Goggles Required ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17yUp_Ych5w

Morning Gang New day, new year. Second cup, still collecting brain cells. Appears most survived the evening

I survived the two bathroom deep cleaning yesterday with lungs in tact. Lovely wife came home from work and thanked me over and over. She said in front of my mother, "I have never had any man clean a house for me like that before." (To be fair to me, we have only been married for 17 years). I responded, "Well, I have never been a kept man before with the woman as the primary breadwinner nor have I ever been somebody's trophy husband before." I hope I have not set a precedent, unless it is to only clean the bathrooms once every 17 years!

Happy New Year, all! Duder, hope your son is doing better with the tonsils out. Rough way to start the new year for a kid. Non-scientific studies reveal Popsicles and PS4 promote faster healing--I read that on the Internet somewhere, so it must be true! ;-)

Floor drain? Plan foiled again. Guess I use a mop, rather, scrub brush. And 4 or 5 of the 20 different cleaners my wife has stashed under the kitchen sink. Cover me . . . I am going in. "Incoming!" don’t mix chemicals … that can be toxic to breathe. One cleaner is enough.

Hopefully you have a floor drain.

dude. don't make promises you can't keep. that's just wrong. True, you do have a reputation to uphold, not even considering the raider stuff.

Same thing I cooked last night but with 10 here will have to cook again tonight. Going to make a fire outside by the bar, maby I can talk them into hotdogs on the fire ? Going for second cup right now, as soon as I press enter.......

Oh gag me with a spoon already guys...come on!... The ARE rare and hard to find for $1650. Much less rare and hard to find for $1200.

Kanpai

uh, yeah... not beating my chest. Just doing a very common forum thing, and that is attempting to keep a topic on-topic. OK, here's a riddle that, when solved, may get you more information before the 6th:. Gillette Steamboat #1 Bozo the Clown Chuck Noll Not much to this one.....The Gillette corp was formed in Boston. Voxx to acquire Boston Acoustics from D&M Holdings for undisclosed amount and stock options. Steamboat #1 did happen on the Little Red, but steam boating wasn't actually considered an implemented travel accomplishment until used on the Mississippi river in a Tennessee location and was dubbed the Southern Belle. Hence the release and bring back of the Klipsch Belle now known as the Belle II. Bozo the clown started in Chicago for Capital records but his rights were bought out by Hermon Scott in the mid 50's that also founded HH Scott and is also from the Boston Area. Voxx to purchase controlling ownership of HH Scott from Emerson electronics in resurrecting tube audio movement. Pfff. Chuck Noll was literally the coach known as "the man of steel" and also known as having the biggest hoedown disco parties of the 70's. He became such a fanatic about Turntables he had a huge hidden investment from a shell corp that was widely unknown until the 1980's. This shell company turned out to have ties to a Chinese corp that was funding a plot to collapse the integration of the Cassette revolution. This Chinese corp finally purchased the company and right to none less than the DUAL company of Germany. Oh yeah, this Chinese corp owns the assembly plants in China where Klipsch products are assembled and are intending on building a turntable with a Klipsch badge branding it.

Good afternoon Gang Back from the farm run(s) Real Bear not getting talked into staying for the start of their 3 day party, told everyone id be back around Fri/Sat Brewin a Pot of Straight Major Dickinsons Blend, got the Duggans, gettin a cup NOW! And working on the Boat Dash, pic to follow, just about done with the (mounted) layout

$97.50 to have the lap top scrubbed up and a free antivirus installed but I'm back. LF is coming over and we are going to a fundraiser dinner and dance for the Shrine club. Prime rib on the menu. May sneak one for Jake. Its cold for these old southern bones. If I wasn't such a fun guy I would stay home....safe and warm. Have a small bottle of Jack black to take and a lady driver to get me home. Getting ready for a cup to help me make it till midnight. Cheers Gents......and be safe. Talk again next year.

Same thing I cooked last night but with 10 here will have to cook again tonight. Going to make a fire outside by the bar, maby I can talk them into hotdogs on the fire ?...... You can probably talk them into dogs, if you get the stuff to also do s'mores. And if you had s'mores, myself, I would skip the dogs! Doing both, so no cooking for me, I don't know why but I love dogs. On the outside of the bar we have stainless coat hangers straightened except for the end curve, they stay hanging in one spot as it's a regular thing to do this in the winter, much less in summer. The wood is all ready and set up just needs to be lit when ready so I have nothing to do the rest of the day. Got a smoker, a nice grill, and a big fire pit just off the porch. I am always foraging the forest floor around the house for marshmallow and dog sticks. Note to self: forage the house for stainless steel coat hangers. Thanks for the tip. :-)

our safety monitor (Oldtimer) beat me to the punch…take his advice, he’s right.

Be careful mixing. Use lots of ventilation.

Floor drain? Plan foiled again. Guess I use a mop, rather, scrub brush. And 4 or 5 of the 20 different cleaners my wife has stashed under the kitchen sink. Cover me . . . I am going in. "Incoming!"

Oh Chad, The original content to this thread is really played out, it kind of Bores me at this point and I doubt that there aren't others with the same perspective at this Point! Let Audiovox have their little secret until they decides to launch it....show of hands, who cares??? I for one made a few guesses, but I for one will not be excited unless it has to do with Jubilee or Heritage and I sure don't see that as a good financial descision. I bought my mom an RF-7 surround system and didn't get excited when the RF-7IIs came out and a TOTALLY new RF series is going to excite me less than Paladium as NONE of it is Paul Wilbur Klipsch for me! Lock the thread if you need to bang on your chest but that is sure as heck (not the appropriate word here) NOT how Amy would handle it.... but do what ever gives you that great New Years feeling. Roger

and I traded 2 walnut and 1 mahogany Belle for a pair of 83s and a 64; sigh!

Travel time and expenses would be brutal. And all else involved.....

I just finished watching this. It was good. Apparently, many cancers are genetic (which is no surprise, itself), but as of recent years, the ability to single-out specific genetic defects which cause specific, known cancers has blossomed to the extent of narrowing down new cancers each month. Once the defects are found, Big Rx is finding medicines to treat them. So far, 3 cures have been found for 3 common cancers. These are 100% cures. No guess-work required. 100's more cures are in the works. Very impressive! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_vZ9_fLr40

Congrats and welcome to the forum. How are you planning to use them? They are great for two channel or HT. What other supporting gear do you have?

I actually had a pair of unmodified Cornwalls here that I picked up for a forum member. Had them out in the room and hooked to my 2 channel system. They sounded great. I'm sure with your mods and equipment they are awesome. The problem that I had with K Horns was that they had awesome (I mean AWESOME!!) dynamics, but the imaging was weird. I didn't realize what it was until I read the PWK paper on the "hole" in the center. If you get far back I think it goes away, but the imaging was a horseshoe shape and kind of flat. This was with stock drivers, and ALK crossovers, then triamped with all the fancy digital processing. The Palladiums do not do this, but they are small (mine are the 38's and 37's so even smaller than the 39s, about the size of RF7s) and do not have that huge impact of the K Horns, although they do dynamics very well. In any event, they are still great speakers and I hate to see any potential Klipsch customers skip them and buy B&Ws or Revels because of this forum. I really think that they are better because 100 or 200 wpc on a standard 15 amp circuit will drive them just fine.

You walked across the street again, didn't you?

Just stumbled onto your story. Wonderful! While there were a couple of others, I also was rather isolated in HS spending my time in Allied and Lafayette catalogs dreaming of things I couldn't afford. You reminded me of my first attempt to improve a system. My mother had an RCA console, quite modest. It had two oval speakers with "whizzer" cone. I'd noted they were precisely the size of the speakers in a Voice of Music portable at school, but that system had a separate tweeter. I bet, successfully, that not a soul would ever note the difference if I did a switcheroo. They didn't. However, the improvement in my mom's system was noticeable and I was on the road to upgrades for life. Of course, for those of us of my age, we were lucky to ride the general audio craze that preceded HT for a couple of decades. Our expertise was prized by many and we were the gurus who were welcome everywhere as those who could help people beat the neighbors in the stereo game. Alas, we are alone again in our pursuit as the fickle masses now engage in a race for more speakers in the ceiling and wherever, and the ever larger and still flat as a pancake video screen at which they stare entranced except when their attention is distracted to the incoming text messages. But, for some of us, as the motto of my college music fraternity said "kaliboei kahleis psychen" (though I may have butchered the English spelling) "Music charms the soul." Dave

Jim, I'll repeat what I've been saying on here lately. Before you plop down cash, consider renting some less expensive cables from the Cable Company (they charge 5%- not much when dealing with a $150 cable). Then, do your own blind listening test by having your wife, or one of your kids, switch cables (using a really crappy, generic cable as your control) without your knowing what you are listening to. The results will be enlightening. There are 2 main issues with interconnects (other than durability). One is the amount of shielding, and the other the capacitance. A cable with, say, 50% shielding may allow noise to enter the system if it is routed near the AC power cords (something which should never be done under any circumstances). Those with 100% shielding will be more "forgiving." The other is the capacitance which, if the run is very long and the capacitance very high, may cause a little high frequency rolloff (with a 3 foot length it's unlikely to be a problem anyway). In audio, as with many other things, you need to experience this yourself because no one can have any idea what you are hearing or how your brain processes the information. Maynard

Klipsch Chorus II Speakers in Oiled Walnut. Speakers Have Been Re-Sanded/Stained/&Tung-Oiled to Near Showroom Condition. One Speaker Does Have Some Scratches. Once Re-Sanded & Stained They Blend Into the Veneer. Look At My Photos. http://newyork.craigslist.org/lgi/ele/4827419987.html No affiliation.

Klipsch Beans in an easy open can?

Join me and eat some Sushi....

That really grinds my gears...

what is the temp mark? california cold down here…headed out this morning and was in the 40s

Maybe klipsch is going into the black blanket market

I think the quest for the RC64 is on! Might as well do it right.

I personally think you'd be a fool to sell these, I've never heard a better sounding speaker than my 30's...ever!!!!

It has taken me three attempts and two days to write this and I am still only able to post a semi literate rambling. I did not know OB well, nothing beyond his posts, but I know well the battle he fought and lost. I can only hope as his time here came to a close, he was able to know peace and rest. I pray his family do not rehash decisions made and options selected to look for ways to second guess their choices, although knowing this battle I am sure they will. That is the final lingereing insult this disease deals family members, horror thoughts about choices made. RIP OB we will miss you and one day I hope to meet you on the other side. R/Jim

I just wanted everyone to know that if a chanal quits there are 2-2.5V in the sub.

Yes, and use Quick Blow fuses, not slow blowing.