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Tried a recipe I saw on FB.....posted last night but will post it here as well. Next time add more butter and cook longer at higher temperature. Cheers Gents.....and Christy

I just told the wife, that in 2021 I am either purchasing a 75th aniversary pair of Klipschorns or Jubilees. She said ok, I just wanted to go on record that she agreed to it.

Just got in a little while ago from the Hospice Foundation Crawfish Cook Off that dtel mentioned earlier today. Had a great time. Sixty different booths, all with their own secret crawfish boiling recipes! I think dtel hit almost everyone of them, together with a couple of the Budweiser booths! It rained for two or three days straight here, so the ground was very muddy. Rain held off until about the last forty minutes today. Of course, when you mix alcohol, good music and mud in south Louisiana you have a party. Two lines formed and people started sliding in the mud on the wet field! The last band of the day, Rockin' Dopsie and the Zydeco Twisters brought down the house. As a tribute to the rain and the mud the band did a rendition of Jimmy Hendrix at Woodstock. The guitar player rocked it. At the end of the song Rockin' Dopsie came down off the stage and joined the "mud sliders". He jumped right in the line and took a couple of slides in the mud!!!! What a performer and all around fun guy. If you haven't heard his music, you are missing out. If you get the chance to see a live performance, do it! They are awesome! Hopefully, dtel will upload a couple of pics of the event.

Have not had a drop in 5 weeks, next week in Reno, Count on it. I will be done flying for some time after next week, time to look for a house.

Dinner for two....... Remembering our bud Boxx......

My 2015's at the factory in January of this year.

The info I got was likely a 75th.

you pilots … always acting responsible.

Elden & Christy … just don’t get drunk and try to etch yourselves some tattoos.

If Christy is making them you'll certainly be impressed. The glasses are a "joint" effort between dtel and I. We will be etching them this week and shipping by week's end.

Afternoon Gang Hey this thing is working great here!, im parked and hooked up behind Bob's Diner at his invite for the week. Wife is happy, she can simply walk 60' and get any food/drink item she wants. No more sleeping with the smell of Wasp killer. Ask the guy if i could keep using his Golf Cart wile staying up at the Diner, he just say's, id like to make a couple of clocks out of a couple of your props from your new "collection", told him to take whatever he wanted, he took two, so i thought this would be a good time to mess with his hospitality, 14 props lined up on the wall, i walked over and took two, told him you make these into clocks for me and you can have ALL of them, his wife dam near fainted and he gave me a hug. I still have more props through out the hanger, cool to make someone day Time for Dinner/Iced Tea, no Coffee tonight

Factory tour:

Yes the crawfish festival was really good, after I get some pic's together I will add some, I tried probably 75% at least of the 60 cooking teams, some a couple of times. The music was really good and the rain held out except for about the last hour, but it did not stop anyone.

Morning gang Letting the wife sleep in. Shuffled myself out to get a cup a few min ago, Bob has a To-Go container waiting for me. Told Bob im letting the wife sleep in, and im going back to surf the Sat system, (just found Porn) what a hoot! Looks like this Sat system has a Full subscription and im going to flip every dam one of them

8 hrs would not be enough for my "Normal" retired lifestyle. A smiddgen of the Duggans in my Coffee, every cup, every morning. Two Guinness's or Corona's in the afternoon, (everyday). Single Malt Nip now and again. The word "Pickled" or "Saturated" comes to mind.......

Found out NC has fire ants today, apparently walked onto a nest and found a hundred or so on and in my shoe stinging my foot, did not take long to get those shoes off and crush some ants, got about 15 - 20 sting marks a search of the net shows a good way to kill them bastards off is douse the mound with some baking powder and dump some 20% acidic vinegar on that, going to practice me some ant genocide..........................useless beasties they are........................

That would be awesome if they had 70th anniversary Klipshorns in the Palladium Zebra wood veneers.

Seadog, you did an awesome job documenting the event! Looking at the pics makes me realize just how awesome these gatherings are. It was so great seeing old friends and meeting new ones. Looking at these pics also makes me realize just how blessed we are to have been introduced to Rodney! Rodney and his friends were really so gracious to have us as their guests. I'm still overwhelmed! Can't wait to go back!!!!

I sure did enjoy these last few sets of pictures the most! The shot of Rodney, his momma, and his daughter together is really nice, I missed that his momma was with us on Friday. Seadog, do you think we could come up with the names between us and label them for those who missed it or did not get to know everybody?? I sure enjoyed getting to meet all of yawl! Roger

A photo of my headphones that don't get used because I prefer speakers

Look at speakers in the same price range from other manufacturers. Heritage is hand made in the USA.

Attached the laser badges today, and will be partying with them tonight! They sound great, and have many compliments from my neighbors who saw them when they first arrived in their very pitiful state.....Thanks everyone for your help and advice along the way.

After picking Eriks brain (thanks!) I decided to take the plunge and order this pre. It's a Transcendant Sounds grounded grid preamp. It will be paired with one of Justins Stereo 15's and my Cornscalas in my "bedroom 3" system. I'm still working on the system as far as a source goes but I've listened enough to give a couple impressions.

Certainly not jaw dropping compared the RF7ii Center. I think my wife would go ahead and spontaneously combust if I were to mention a 4 ft wide center. She was kind a smoking when I got the RC64ii and the Lil Wrecker LOL. . Puts a new twist on smoking hot!

Looks good Tarheel. That looks like a recipe I tried off the internet a few months ago for the potatoes, it was good, the kids asked for it again which is unusual, it really helped to get flavor into the potato.

I would sure hope so, if my pilot was drinking I would sure hope I had way more them him.

This forum's own Andy, aka HDBR Builder posted the following in another forum at: http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/hug/messages/13/136733.html Obituaries DEATHS FOR FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2008 Friday, July 18, 2008 9:36 AM CDT THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Gary G. Shinall, 65, of The Woodlands, Texas died Wednesday. Gary Shinall 2335 Hickory Hollow Spring, Texas 77386 http://forums. klipsch.com/forums/t/40215.aspx?PageIndex=10 HDBRbuilder is a ex-Klipsch employee: ---------------- On 4/22/2004 8:07:36 PM HDBRbuilder wrote: I talked to Mr. Shinall on the phone this afternoon. Here is the scoop from our short conversation. He sounds like a really nice guy. He is about 60 years old. He lost his long-time job to corporate pull-out to overseas not that long ago. Even when he was working, he built speakers as a sideline thing and has been doing it for over 30 years. In the 1960's he made a few trips to visit with PWK. He told PWK that he intended to build himself a pair of K-horn copies, because he couldn't afford to buy factory made ones and he thought they were the best speakers made. He bought the drivers and such from PWK for his original copies. Later on in the 1960's, he contacted PWK again and told him he wanted another set of drivers and horns, because he was gonna build a copy of the LaScala for a center channel between his home-built K-horns...BUT he was gonna change the design of the LaScala somewhat so that the cabinet matched up aesthetically with his K-horn copies. PWK sold him the drivers and asked him to send some pictures of what he built. He sent the pictures to PWK, and was very surprised to see the Belle Klipsch come out a year or so later looking very much like the center-channel speaker he had built. He told me that he took great pride in the fact that PWK might have used his re-work of the LaScala cabinet design to base the aesthetics of the Belle Klipsch speaker upon. He did NOT claim to have invented the Belle Klipsch speaker, he just stated that it looked very much like his LaScala re-work design, and he was proud that PWK liked its basic appearance so much that he "adopted" it for the Belle Klipsch. He has a 3000 square foot shop with a little showroom built into it. He just builds the speakers and puts them into the showroom so that people can listen to them, and if they want them, he will sell them. He said he has been doing this for many years as a sideline and hobby. Most of what he sold over the years was made for people who had heard his speakers and wanted a pair for themselves...basically a "word-of-mouth" advertising thing. I asked him if he intended to expand into a full-blown operation, he said no. He said that he is too old to do anything like that...and he intends to keep things as they are. His midrange horns are welded up out of sheet aluminum by himself, with welded-on brackets for the drivers to mount to. His XT200 model is built in the same basic aesthetics as the K-horn is (but is NOT triangular in its rear for corner use), with a top-housing containing the tweeter/s and midrange horn, and the lower portion of the cabinet is basically the equivalent of two stacked separate heresy-type sealed cabinets with one 12" short-throw woofer in each one...IOW a large cabinet, with a horizontal divider in it creating the equivalent of two Heresy cabinets in interior volume....sort of a super Heresy. He said the mid-horn is a 600Hz one for that speaker, whereas the midhorn for his K-horn copy is a 400Hz horn. He uses no MDF in his builds, only quality 3/4" plywood. For his smaller speaker, he builds them with butt joints out of a luan-veneered plywood, then veneers over the cabinet's plywood withpaper-backed veneer, because it is easier for him than trying to get chip-free miter-cuts using the thin veneers found on TODAY's black walnut-veneered plywood. He prefers the Luan for a good substrate to apply that veneer to because it "grips" the adhesive so well. He told me that he recently put up a website because somebody had suggested he do so. His website got the attention of Audiogon folks, who in turn got its attention on this forum. He is aware of this thread, and has read it. He sounded hurt about it...and doesn't really understand why he is getting "bashed" so much on this forum. He feels that he is just trying to make a long-time hobby of his pay for itself and show a bit of profit...especially important now that his job left these shores. I asked him if he had any help or expected to need to hire anybody for his little business. He said that he didn't want to deal with employees and all that, and it would remain a one-man operation as a sideline. He lamented that on occasion he gets a handful of special-orders, but trying to get them out in the high quality build he is proud of causes him to stay up late at night in order to meet the delivery time he gives the customer. He keeps his operation's sales primarily within a small radius of the shop because he normally delivers them himself or the buyer comes to pick them up. I suggested that in his website he give full credit to PWK for his cornerhorn model design. I think he intends to do so. He said he has had lots of emails ever since this thread began and he can't get anything done AND properly answer all the emails he has at the same time, but he will do his best. He said he answered 25 emails last night alone! This is what went on in the conversation with him. I will NOT comment on any ethics involved or anything else. Everybody has their own set of ethics and everybody has their own sense of right or wrong. It is not up to me to make those parameters for anybody else. He has a great respect for PWK and his speaker designs...that much was obvious to me...and for ME, that is enough! Anybody else on this forum trying to turn a hobby into something that can support itself and maybe make a bit of profit on the side? Just a thought. ----------------

Cool looking cups, I like the design and color.

I want Chorus II's soooo bad!

If you go to the specifications tab it shows more detail that will clarify a 2 inch diaphragm, not the throat exit. "K-55-X 2" (5.08cm) Phenolic diaphragm compression driver"

Settle down down son. Morning folks, breakfast down the hatch working on second cup. Do you guys who drink the lighter roasted coffees find any of them to have a full bodied flavor. I would try some of them, but I like a bold flavor. I finally figured out the play list on Spotify, I have been creating some good ones this morning. Now have Guns N' Roses Sweet Child of MIne, don't know what is up next as I have it on random. One thing I am getting more of a liking to is head phones. I may just have get a headphone system going, problem is my computer is acting. I have been fitting some sort of bug that wont go away. Last night I was trying some programs that Wvu had tried, but they didn't work and just seemed to bog my computer down. Now my ram is back to using up to 70 percent. I need to get this figured out. Its raining today so no baseball practice, supposed to go to grandmas for a fish fry. Well have a good one folks, I'll check in later.

To each their own, but can you expand on why you hold that opinion? if you took a poll from k-horn owners everybody would vote that the B style is the best looking. OK most everybody OK that didn't really answer my question. Why do YOU hold that opinion? What makes "B" best looking to you? I'm just curious.

not everyone on here is a penny pincher. and many people now days with the internet research klipsch speakers and get directed to this site. so reading reviews from the few of us who are willing to cough up the dough is what helps sales and gets the word out

Until you test a 3-prong outlet, there's no guarantee they are grounded...

That is a mighty fine lookin potato you have there.

Maybe we should try to compile everyone's photos (in full resolution of course) onto one disc for the attendees? Could also include any phone video clips anyone may have. I know dtel was shooting a lot of photos also. Production and mailing costs would be minimal.

That's my favorite too. We don't get to see stars like that in the big city! BTW, I borrowed dtel's tripod for that one (thanks dtel).

I thought the average American made about 26 to 27K and the average HOUSEHOLD income was 49 to 50K? 2/3 of the US make less than 41K. I agree with what you are saying Mark, but I thought it was even worse when it come to individual wages.

Seadog, great pics my friend!!! So cool seeing pics of us making great memories...... Kevin

Thanks Christy. The photos provide a glimpse of what the event was like - but honestly, I think everyone who attended would agree that you really had to be there to understand how great this gathering turned out to be.

A midrange that digs down to 200hz. Nice!

Trust me, it's married thing.

Exactly, I seem to remember another thread where you had provided links as a few in that thread did not want to believe it. I tried to present actual numbers from various surveys as support in other part of my overall post in relation to an overall wealth shift. I fully understand the various releases in the press and the typical message sent such as the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research indicating that the recession ended in 2009; and the 2009 TIME magazine issue that indicated "More Quickly Than It Began, The Banking Crisis Is Over." Even President Barack Obama indicated in early 2010 that, "the markets are now stabilized, and we've recovered most of the money we spent on the banks." Why did we need to even help them pay off the bad derivative bets, the bad credit default swap bets, the bad reps and warranties instead of letting them just take it up the *** and lose their companies for poor choices? Why didn't we let the bankruptcy courts do their job and maybe the DOJ would have got to several earlier? I suspect that too big to fail may have more to do with not upsetting the remaining derivative bets that total over 4 quadrillion dollars. The statistics below will show how these bailouts were not targeted to help the vast majority of the US citizens in any way. Of course, who can forget the news during March 2009 where the New York Times new headlines indicated that "Most stock markets around the world are at least 75 percent higher than they were then. Financial stocks, which led the markets down, have also led them up." I’m pleased that you know a multitude of people that have 401Ks that completely rebounded and are better off today than before the crash. However, the studies do not support that assertion for the significant majority of the population, not only in the US but around the world. Rather than attempt to work with the high-level impact again, I’ll try something at the household level. Note that the distribution of household incomes in the United States has become more unequal during the post-2008 economic recovery. The link below shows that income inequality in the United States has grown from 2005 to 2012 in more than 2 out of 3 metropolitan areas. The article in the link below also indicates that in 248 of the 357 metro areas examined in the report study released by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, average (per household) incomes rose more quickly than median (point where half are below and half are above) incomes from 2005 to 2012. Among the key findings is that the jobs gained in the recovery paid an average of 23 percent less than those lost. And in most metro areas, income inequality appears to have worsened. In four metro areas — Albany, Ga., Ithaca, N.Y., Dalton, Ga., and Pascagoula, Miss. — the gap between growth in average incomes and growth in median incomes was greater than 15 percentage points. Albany led the list, posting a 2 percent rise in average incomes and a 16.4 percent decline in median incomes. The trend, the report estimates, are likely to continue. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/08/11/income-inequality-seems-to-be-rising-in-more-than-2-in-3-metro-areas/ A new US Census Bureau report that focuses on changes in household wealth shows that the median household's net worth fell from $106,591 in 2005 to $68,839 in 2011 for the third quintile of the US population. Note that the third quintile would also be the median point for the entire population. In addition, the chart below breaks out the data into 5 quintiles. If you look at the chart above, you will notice that the median net worth of the top 20% divided by the median of the second 20% was 39.8 in 2000. Today, the calculation shows 86.8. In addition, the latter group lost practically 56% of its wealth and the overall wealth of the bottom 20% fell from negative $915 (net debt position) to negative $6,029 (net debt position). Or, think about it this way, the median American in that poorest group saw their debt increase more than 6 and a half times. While it is clearly evident that people in the top 20% lost a fair-sized portion of assets in the downturn, they are currently above where they were in 2000. However, the median household in the middle quintile is still worse off than they were in 2000. In the second quintile, the median household only has half the wealth it did in 2000. There again, the bottom quintile's median household is far deeper in debt. Well, all I can say is shame on all quintiles for such behavior, except we apparently should applaud the fifth quintile and maybe the fourth quintile, as quintiles one through three all should have made better decisions and learned how to break with societal conventions and ignore the system. I would hope that this US Census data better shows my earlier point that many US citizens have not recovered from the credit crisis and probably never will. I guess those running our higher education systems are now in the same boat grabbing at the capital that investment banks and private equity are dangling in front of them. Another point, however, please note the lack of fundamental changes in banking and financial markets. Some have noticed and it worries many market participants while the hedge funds salivate. Mark is correct as derivative bets total 4 quadrillion dollars and continue to rise. What is the solution? Should we let Wall Street continue to run amok and scold the lower quintiles of the population for being swayed and making poor decisions again? Or, should be re-implement reasonable underwriting standards and unwind all of these high-stakes Wall Street bets? Or, something else?

Thanks! i had found someone who would do it for free in Colorado, but your link is local to me!

I'm the ugly guy.

Evening Gang Dessert in the RV wile trying to figure out this Sat system, some kind of "Auto Locate" button somewhere. Wife says we either find a movie or we are going into town, cabin fever i think she has. Bob says he's going to fire up his expresso machine here in a few min, looks like we are in for a treat. Off for more of that Choc cake....dam.

Much easier than doing it yourself: http://www.goldeneardigital.com/digitizing-sacds.html

If Christy is making them you'll certainly be impressed.

More photos from Hope (I was traveling all week on business, so I was not able post many photos until now). Lunch at the factory:

Yes, these only came in a black vinyl wrap finish. I used one of these between my Chorus II's for a couple years and was quite happy with it. I actually prefer the KV-4 over the Academy and KLF-C7. Price seems very reasonable if the cabinet is in decent shape, good luck with the sale!