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Morning all. Half a day of work today and off the rest of the week as I get ready for Hope. I'm on cruise control already.

What did you get, JlG or Genie, maybe even Skyjack. Let me know what you think.

Morning gang Laptop sittin here on here on the Bar w/cables (the only way it works) Expresso and a Banana split, i love these 24Hr casino Bars, could get spoiled. Wife is finely sleeping instead of spending, nice break. Thinking about breakfast, something w/crab sounds good. 60 foot highboy rented for the next few days, lighting (LEDHO) to be installed.

I've found that the Diana Krall Love Scenes (DTS) and SInatra at the Sands (DVD-A) discs have essentially the same symptom. I had to really tune up the individual channel EQ for each loudspeaker, for each driver channel, and really scrub the overall 5.1 channel gains to get these two discs sounding good and not too reverberant. I now use these two discs as test discs whenever I make a change in the system to check for any irregularities that I may have introduced.

What did you get, JlG or Genie, maybe even Skyjack. Let me know what you think. JIG, i hate those sissors, i like the boom arm and wide stance of the JIGs P>S> duct tape to seal up that damm beeper!

Ok, so I don't drink coffee....and my cables are pedestrian Mogami.... For you coffee lovers, my wife has a girlfriend. The gal has more money than sense. When her mother passed, she received some inheritance. Of this money, she spent $250,000 on a fancier than fancy diamond ring (my wife helped her select the mounting and stone) I digress.... Anyways, she had a fancy coffee machine (Jura Impressa F9) that she was going to replace. Saying something like "I don't even know if it works". My wife saw it and said that SHE'D take it....after all, she's got a husband that can "fix anything" (very tongue in cheek) So it arrived. I found several aspects of this machine annoying. First: I was unable to simply go to the internet to get a schematic of it. Second: it uses Torx head screws. Fine, I have Torx drivers. Third: On the rear of it, the back panel is held on with four oval head screws. Not a slot, not a phillips but an essentially round (slightly ovaled) pin that sticks out. It requires a special screw driver. Fourth: They wanted something like $15/$20 for the special screw driver, they also wanted something like $40 for the manual My wife said this was an approximate $1,500 coffee maker and I should go ahead and get the screw driver and manual. I said I don't need the manual....taking it apart is easy. I'll know once I get it apart if I need the manual to figure out how to get it back together. I'll wait. As for that ornery oval head set of screws.... I've got a tight grip and some good pliers that will bite onto them and I'll let persistence prevail. Ok, so I get the machine apart. Seems it was leaking in several places. Cutting to the chase, the front of the machine has the output spouts. Behind them was a pile up of coffee "muck" preventing the liquid from simply passing through to the cup below. Cleaned that out, put it back together and it was still leaking. There is a pressure regulator in there, much like you might have on a propane tank though of course, much smaller. This was leaking. Ordered a new pressure regulator ($50) slapped it all together and it works like a charm. Didn't have to buy a service manual, didn't have to buy the special oval head wrench and the wife is absolutely nutty over her new coffee. Says she looks for excuses to make some every day. This thing holds the beans and water so with a touch of a button, will take it from the grinder to the cup. She would have never bought something as fancy as this. (nor would I for her) She is however, in coffee heaven right now.

Hey folks... on a fast (for me) track today but wanted to check in. Outdoor carpeting project looks great. Should be good for many years. Flip flopping week for weather so painting projects are on hold for a few days. Mark..try some of that crab on the banana split. You might pioneer a new food trend! Later ..............

I can see the expense of going to the better versions of Audyssey (Rudy has and has reported much better performance than the out-of-the-box version) if you change your setup configuration fairly often and don't have active crossovers. I also note that there are many folks that are seemingly hesitant to use REW and a calibrated microphone. However, my real satisfaction has been to deeply understand what is happening in-room acoustically by using REW. I feel that I wouldn't have achieved the setup performance that I have by having Audyssey do it for me, and certainly wouldn't have understood what I do now. (YMMV.) To drift back to the topic of this thread, I've found that many hard-to-listen-to multichannel discs do much better once you get the kinks out of your setup. I've also been amazed at how discerning our ears (my wife's and mine) have become once everything gets dialed in. That work getting everything set up has led to my excursions using Audacity to remaster most of my two-channel music. And yes...most two channel music needs to be "unmastered" from what those mastering bozos have done to it -- especially my classical discs and solo instruments--like solo piano or violin, etc. It's actually a crime to see and hear what they've done and why all the tinkering in the world with our setups won't make these tracks sound like real life - you wind up having to remaster--trust me. I'm up to about 4000 tracks remastered now, and have about 2-4 times that many left to do in my collection. I've learned a whole lot thus far. Interestingly, the tracks that I usually don't have to do anything to are from multichannel discs. That's a significant reason why I've preferred listening to them over two-channel tracks. The problem is--there aren't very many truly multichannel discs out there (that haven't been "upsampled" and synthetically divided into 5.1 from two channel recordings).

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I bet it sounds nice, but it looks like a urinal turned sideways.

You can use an extraction tool to get the dts files out, then use foobar2000 to convert them to flac. I think I used DVD decrypter in the past to extract the dts audio, but can't remember now.

Elijah Wood tweeted us last night with a picture of his Klipsch La Scala and the Klipsch Hobbit t-shirt! For those wondering, we don't pay for Elijah to use La Scalas. He's just a big fan who tweeted us one day about it. Apparently, he is a big-time audiophile. Check out the tubes!

im still waiting to see these 100,000$ focals

I bet a lot of you guys look at those empty shells and see nothing but potential.

if me and youths' setup had a baby that would be it!

Way to go.... I've had mine for about a year now. I went from KLF20's to RF7ii. Every day when I turn them on I still can't believe there mine. It was the best choice I've made in a long time. Enjoy and post Pictures. Alain Well... I did not get this up fast enough. Great looking system

Way cool. Do you use it expressly for espresso?

PWK's Jubilee and me....

In that neck of the woods I like the A's. Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter, and all the rest from those incredible 70's teams provide a legacy even to me the recent Giants teams just can't match.

i am very impressed. its easily the best klipsch sub i have heard. but that isn't saying a ton. it has really clean output. keeps up just fine in my room. very tactile. i haven't measured how low it plays in my room but I'm guessing below 20z. its a good sub for sure. and it matches

Awesome. You will love it. IMO, a template on how to record music. Doesn't hurt that they are master musicians. Bill

It's always a good idea to not post publicly about something you're looking at or planning to buy until you have them in your possession. There are people that like to help you out by informing the seller what their item is 'really' worth. Keith

(Sigh) Like this, Carl... Dave

The scoop is these are very good speakers and the price is good too, assuming they are in decent shape. I use the KLF-30;s in my HT. The main diff between the 20's and 30's from what I can tell is that the 30's use 2 12" woofers and the 20's use 2 10" woofers. Some folks prefer the 20's.

except for the handles, these look nice. http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/ele/4948805118.html

This is a great movie and one of my all time favorites.

booooooring Tinniiiiiii-tus. I was kind of surprised at your demo disc though, I felt it was pretty muted at -20. Some of the dialogue was a strain to understand it. Most anything else I put in is louder, on many things its really all I care for myself and the kids will usually complain if it is louder.

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Good tip! I have a pawn shop nearby that has 100's of BR's for 4.00 each. I stop by about every other week and grab some good deals. Also, if you save this to your browser / favorites, you can check daily deals thru Amazon... http://www.blu-ray.com/deals/?sortby=day&category=bluray

Why wait, it might be a while Send him some moolah and enjoy it now.

Yep, a one day drive at best, however i still have a pair of the last ones i bought sittin in my pantry, and NO use for them. Thought id hang on to these for future use someday. Scallas are everywhere out here on the CL Daily. (and 50% of the time, cheaper than these). Right now im sitting in a bar in a casino in Reno, should check out the local CL for something to do.

Minermark These are in your neck of the woods.

Ive seen small cracks in the drywall in some areas... mainly due to LF effects, sw115 is to blame.

Want to see first hand what happened to the USSR check this website for thier super high quality and superb style.... http://www.soviet-power.com/

I guess I'm like Mr. Klipsch in that respect.

I’m a fan of the hot stuff as well -- I’ll have to catch him on a good day and get a bottle. Surely, he’ll hook up a fellow member of Raider Nation. Quite the breadth of talent on this forum. If anyone needs any interesting comments to use at cocktail parties or at work -- let me know.

Dont leave em naked with dogs or small children! Or cats as far as thats concerned. Its not IF it happens, only a matter of WHEN it happens. Now you can always put the kids, dogs and cats to bed, break out the wine and take those covers off for a quickie, put put em back on when thru!

Well done … hope you get many hours of enjoyment.

If you're local, walk slow, there's still over 6 days left on auction

I love that line from the movie The Guardian where the bar lady says that growing old is “earned."

Reminds me of another one so, will tell later,lol It was Bigstewman's aunt that rock salted... Lol

Jacinta-My Name is Jacinta. Incredible female vocals Diana Krall-The Girl in the Other Room. Also female jazz vocals Dire Straits-Brothers in Arms. Breathtaking recording-used to demo audiophile systems at shows. All on SACD

Back to the OT... watched Wreck It Ralph in 3D last night. Lots of fun! Way better than 2D. Unfortunately many of the scenes were fairly dark which isn't the greatest for 3D viewing but the rest of it made up for it.

Either that or maby a marine spar varnish, it can take the UV and be polished like that and it's made for wood. This is it on top our outside tiki bar and it not polished, and about a years wear and tear, it's great stuff.

I'm not at all educated like many on this board. I read threads like the "going to Mars" one and others, am VERY impressed with the intelligence of many here. WAY beyond mine. But I humbly yet strongly have a comment on this current China thread, that much applies to other Communist/ or "Recently Communist" (ha ha ya funny Your heart of your government is still the same as it was for years) Here ya go - And if I get blackballed. I DON'T CARE. IMHO, WHENEVER a government restricts association with a Loving God, and I'm NOT even mandating Christian alone, you end up with a hot mess of S**T. Feed our lovely Dogs crap, limited quality control, ship us unhealthy foods, etc. and etc. Like an above said, No soul. No one to ultimately answer to. My Parents and Grandparents fled from Communism in Europe. Crap - they had $ and assets. They left with their clothes and one suitcase each to live in the USA. My opinion, Lars

The scoop is grab them and ask questions later. These are superb speakers. At that price someone will beat you to them that know about the Legend series of speakers.

I wonder what other celebs are genuine Klipsch fans. Would be awesome to know.

Back in the Golden Era, when 20 Watts was considered "a lot of power", there were many viable horn loudspeaker designs. I haven't heard most of them, so I cannot comment from personal experience about their sound quality, but I have read reports that many of them sounded very good indeed -- perhaps even better than the Klipschorn. And the University Classic is often mentioned as one of the finer designs. So why did the Klipschorn survive and all of the others disappear? My opinion, and it is only my opinion, is that those other horn loudspeakers were just plain ugly. In fact, the only horn speakers that appear as "beautiful" to me are the top-line Klipschorn, and the JBL Paragon. I do not know why the Paragon disappeared, and even the Klipschorn is a rare item nowadays. Ah, you say, but doesn't sound quality trump appearance? Well, just consider how often WAF is discussed right here in the Forums.

Maybe it'll be more of a Palladium type design!