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Morning Gang Survived another night in Twister Alley Venturing into St Louis this morning, must hit the goodwill stores, this is where we score kiddies sleeping bags, and quilts, they make for great shipping blankets and way cheaper than any others. We get back home and donate them right back to goodwill, at a small tax write off of course

Saw a red or grey fox near here. Saw same one or other 6 months ago in the same place. Popped a premature tab this am instead of tomorrow night after shift. Guess the shine talk then fellows. AKDave, may be having no snow on the roof from the subwoofer or woofers. Like your postings keeping us informed of the great white north Greetings for sure! Time to lay me down for the count.

If you are asking that much money, the least you could do is clean them up nicely.

Thanks Ibiz,I have a call in. hopefully I score Speaking of scoring HAWKS WIN!!!!!! Mark

No Coffee this evening, a slight Buzz will do for the run across the parking lot. Raining and the wife just came down to the motel office and informed me of a twister warning.....cool, we will now walk back over to the Pub, if im going to be wiped out in a Twister, I want the news caster to simply state, "They were in the right place and never felt a thing"

Afternoon gang Checked in to La Quinta, Maryland Heights. Pretty fancy name for a motel in the Industrial District of S/W St Lou. Cruised by the Uhaul rental joint where im supposed to pick up a trailer in the morning, no trailers today, not one anywhere. Could be an interesting Monday morning I'll think about this later, meanwile Hooters!, guy's got to eat ya know.....

Looking at new cars in an asphalt lot and left the Volvo running. Returned and the temp read out said 118 degrees. Air temp 95. Too hot for June. Jake in the AC with overhead fan as well.

Morning, second day in a roe for coffee with Duggans. Lets see plans for the day, mow the lawn, homework, maybe clean the Jeep out. Will time to do my Sunday ritual and go through CLs, and the forums. Oh crap, wife just asked me to help with the grocery list.

"These clearly have been wired by someone very knowledgeable as they are very efficient and sound fantastic" I didnt know wiring made them efficient AND the police showed up Mark

Back later if we don't get sucked outta MO!!!

Check out the wineries in Hermann MO if so inclined. Stonehill makes a couple good ones and the history is interesting. Missouri was the 2nd largest wine producer in the nation before prohibition. Stonehill was the 3rd largest producer in the world. Lot of fun German celebrations in that town! Been there, done that and a hundred bucks lighter

These acts of outrageous creativity makes me proud to be Happa...

No more BS section? I was almost never there, but lots of folks liked it, and it kept a lot of politico stuff off the main boards, which was why Klipsch Corp. started it int he first place. Now I guess it's been sanitized by the resident school marms. I'd say more but someone once told me to never unload your true feelings after two drinks... ...wait until you've finished the bottle!

https://video-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hvideo-xap1/v/t42.1790-2/11156522_10153137940269404_618255502_n.mp4?oh=11a2aa9afe53fd7f47a2cdf756f0f818&oe=557DB13A

I just completed this project doing a number of mods to my 77 La Scalas. During the last two years I built the La Scala risers for bass extension, added the ALK CSW crossovers to replace the aging AA crossovers, and I replaced the K77 horns with the Eliptrac DE120 also from ALK. Thanks Al K. for the recommendations, it was spot on. While doing this, I measured the incremental improvements in each mod to make sure that there was actually a measurable improvement. Chart showing frequency response improvements below. I can say now after the fact that I am really happy with all of the mods. I still have a little work to get to my perfect 2 channel setup, but the work I did hear in 2 years eliminated about 90% of the gap between where I was - to where I want to be. For the frequency testing I used a Studio Six Digital iTestMic which is a calibrated test mic equivalent to having a pro Type 2-class test & measurement mic. The mic is $200 from Audio Control. It plugs into the iPad directly and bypasses the mic on the iPad. Also on the iPad you run an app from the same company called Audio Tools. It is a $20 purchase on iTunes. The Audio Tools app has a number of applications, the ones I use the most are FFT, Real Time Analyzer, SPL Meter, and Signal Generator. The SPL Meter for home theater setup beats the radio shack analog meters hands down. I got much better results with that application and the iTestMic. When you buy an app in iTunes, you get the use of that application on up to 5 physical devices that are tied to the iTunes account. When I bought Audio Tools app, I have access to it on all 5 Apple devices I own. That allows me to run pink noise on the Signal Generator on 1 iPad and feed that through the stereo by using a standard RCA input into an unused preamp input from the iPad headphone output. I run a second iPad with the iTestMic running the Audio Tools FFT application to measure the results. With Signal Generator you can do sweeps, specific frequencies in a sine wave or square wave, white noise, and pink noise. I used pink noise for my tests which is equal intensity across the entire spectrum 20-20,000 hz on the signal generator application. Ideally the graph resulting from the Audio Tools FFT application would be a straight line representing exactly the same frequency response generated from the La Scalas across all frequencies 20-20,0000hz as heard by the iTestMic and the FFT application. My testing was as simple as setting up the volume on the amp, running pink noise on the signal generator at a pre set volume, putting test microphone on a tripod connected to second iPad running FFT, and testing each configuration one after the other without changing anything. I used the screen capture capability of the iPad to capture the frequency response in a jpeg image. I did get some coaching from Andrew at Digital Six Studio, I can share the details for FFT setup if you want them. Keep in mind these results are specific to my room. My stereo in your room could be perfect, or it could sound horrible. Also keep in mind low frequency measurement is dependent upon where the microphone is physically positioned. Move the microphone around the room, you change the measurement. Here is a picture of the testing setup: I built my risers a little different. I shortened the riser by 3/8” so I can place a grill using the same speaker cloth material as the material covering the tweeter and horns. BTW, I am looking for some black Heritage #17 cloth if anyone has any. Eventually I will make the grills and hold that in place with small neodymium magnets. I also used the Precision Port flared 4” port tubes from Parts Express. I started with the port tubes at 8” instead of the recommended 7”. I can always shorten them, but to my ears the 8” sounds like a good compromise between the lower frequencies and the fast bass response I am used to in my La Scalas. Interestingly with the flared ports, if you want an 8” port, you actually make the tube structure 9” because they do not count the second flare on the inside as part of the tube length. I also used ¾ dowels to add support around the doghouse. You can see the Precision Port 4” flared port I used at Parts Express, it is part number 268-352. You can also Google 268-352 and see it that way. I have switched back and forth several times. To make it easy to switch back to stock, I chose to put the sealing foam that goes between La Scala and riser on the bottom of the La Scala speaker itself. Then I can place the stock speaker on the original plywood base, or I place the speaker on my riser. I can clearly hear a loss in the low end without the risers, although with the test information you can see that the differences are not huge, they are measurable, and to my ear the difference is greater than indicated in the graph. Keep in mind that I listen 10 ft behind where the test microphone is placed, this could account for hearing a bigger improvement than is depicted on the graph because the bass response may be greater at that listening location. Here is a picture of the riser build. This shows the inside of the riser before I put top on with the doghouse cutout. The top is glued to those dowel sticks as well. It is pretty solid when all put together. The epoxy I used is really good stuff, we race wood boats made with it and it lasts for 10s of years running at or over 100 mph on the water. Here is a picture of the finished speaker and riser: If you want the information on the finish used on the risers, you can find that at: https://community.klipsch.com/index.php?/topic/148545-any-consumer-black-lacquer-spray-paint-that-matches-lascala/ I took measurements after each mod, but probably the best one is the comparison between the stock speaker and all the mods. To do that I had to do a photo shop modification of the stock measurement in one layer and the last measurement in a second layer with both graphs visible. This is where the differences are really apparent. The pink line is the original stock measurement, and the white line is the measurement after all the mods. The CWS cross over gives you the capability to bump both the tweeter and the squawker up by 1db increments. I currently have the squawker set to 1db above the factory preset of -6db I can see a spike at above 650-700 hz that I might be able to fix by pulling the squawker down to -6db. I will get to that eventually, but I suspect that while I might fix that anomaly, I might create other problems. I set the Eliptrac DE120 tweeter as high as it would go. You can see its better than it was, but I still have an anomaly I would like to fix at 7k where it steeply drops off then comes back at 8k. I like a hot tweeter, and this is getting close to perfect. I used to not like any recordings I had without adjusting the treble, but now depending on the recording I am pretty happy with it totally flat with the tone controls out of the music path. If I could get a little more out of the tweeter, I would probably like all my recordings without treble, that is why I am thinking if I can fix that 7k drop off, it might be perfect for me. Looking for any suggestions on flattening out between 7k and 8k. Let me know if you have any questions. I certainly have a lot more data, but I tried to keep this as brief as possible, otherwise it would be a pretty long and potentially boring read.

http://stlouis.craigslist.org/ele/5073144336.html No affil. I'm pretty sure these are 4's.

I offered the lend mwells the forte until I found him another pair. My friend won't need a pair for a couple months. He declined, no worries. If anyone wants to let me know what they are looking for - type, model, finish, price range - your location - how far they are willing to drive. - email I will happily keep an eye out. Then, if a deal comes up in the area, I can email directly and quickly. Deals like this one go FAST, so if you see an email you will need to act quickly. I have done this for many people and offered this on the forum before. Some people have benefited greatly. Send me a PM if interested.

Ugggh found my lost bass. Wired one of the Daytons out of phase when I put them in the box. Huge change ,as big a pain it was to get this first one built it was WORTH it.

Regurgitated carrot juice.

Music is like Junk. One man's junk is another man's gold.

Babymetal rules!!!!

The B&C DE-85TN and B&C DE-750TN work well. The Faital Pro HF-200 is also a good candidate. I have not had much success with Selenium Dave

One heck of a deal. Hope someone here gets em!

When people say it is still available if still posted, in most cases that means they will take the posting down when its sold and they are reminded to take it down. Usually the reminder is getting bombed by emails. And OPUS doesnt have a radar system., he uses searchtempest and has auto refresh on 30 seconds. He sit glued to his chair in front of his computer waiting to pounce Mark

Ok Dudder, we will be at Tim's place of Business around 10AM Monday. Ya got 24Hrs and counting, lets see what wizardry you can pull off to get them horns Breakfast at the truckstop/local Diner. Road time..............

Pfffft , never has the devils music been so adorable You think that's bad ? Try this on for size .

All horn lenses are hard to find on the used market. McCauley also made them. http://www.ebay.com/itm/JBL-2395-lens-/221797426825?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item33a4282689#ht_41wt_1022 The last pair of 2395 lenses went for about $600. It is not that hard to make the flat ones out of aluminum sheet, or fiberglass circuitboard material. Out of PCB material any color may be ordered, or you could have them in copper (or flashed in gold).

Long time fan of Luc Besson & his many projects. This is my favorite film from him. It might be my favorite role for Jean Reno too. Excellent cast, great acting, cool story.

Got first one home,couldn't help myself took the tops off the cornscala and set it on top. Had to listen. Question the Daytons are not rated as high as the Crites woofer ,is there a way to move a tap on the Crites. Cornscala xover to get back the db I am losing? I will be calling Bob Monday to check with him. The jamboree is now my front left with a cornscala for front right. Should have the new top hats done by next week, my idea is working out pretty good so far. Loving the sound so far but everyone in the house is napping so can't put any power to them yet. Will post another pic in just a few.

Now Im beginning to understand why everyone in the state has a Belly. The food these southerners eat is fresh and fantastic, pretty dam reasonable too Wine venture today: http://www.stonehillwinery.com/ And of course wile at the winery an employee tells us about a "New" Distillery that just opened up http://pinckneybend.com/?age-verified=8f60a1d39e No Headaches as of yet :emotion-21:

We push these with a SET or a pp ASL el34 amp

I did, from Fed Ex. About fours ago I shipped a pair of RB-5's to Jeff Tubbs in Arkansas and the woofers ended up crumpled. Jeff sent detailed photos of the speakers and the superb packing job and Fed Ex still managed to damage them. I filed a claim within two hours of Jeff receiving the package and talked to a Fed Ex rep on the phone. About a week and a half later, I got a call from the rep informing me that the claim was approved and I was refunded the original cost of shipping of the speakers to Jeff and new woofers from Klipsch including shipping to Jeff. All totaled refund was about $235.00 which covered all expenses with about $50.00 to spare. Bill

It would be interesting to see a graph and see if the mains are causing a cancellation problem with the subs. Symmetrical subs will reinforce the same peaks and dips.

something is funky with your setup. I don't think that things are power starved because if they were, you're breaking would trip or you have a bad breaker and things aren't tripping but you should still be getting the juice the setup needs. Your setup isn't out of the ordinary or outlandish by any means and many of us are running similar setups and usually on the same breaker which helps to eliminate groundloops with your subs. The first thing i would do is as stated above, make sure everything is in phase correctly and ensure that your settings on your subs are exactly the same. The less settings you apply while troubleshooting the better. The next part is to open up the settings on your processor and try not to place restrictions (keep stuff on full range). The point of this is to see if your signals are good to everything and its not some stupid setting that gets tripped because of another setting. Test the setup and if its all kosher, you can start to dial in your settings one at a time and checking. Also, make sure you use the same quality test media that you know is tried and true and you know what things are supposed to sound like. What is the point of swapping media because you aren't comparing apples to apples. This is the best starting place. If you are still having issues, its time to switch circuits and move the whole setup. Yes, its a beotch but its troubleshooting. I spent 3-4 months troubleshooting my first power amp setup to find out that my XPA-5 had floor noise that i didn't like and was the sole culprit of my issue. Sometimes things are just that stupid simple.

I have Cornwalls, tucked into the corners (custom bass bins, gasp), with a 3wpc SEP tube amp. That setup plays everything I throw at it without breaking a sweat, up to and including deadmau5.* Very musical, very revealing, very pleasing to me. *in near field listening, at max 95dB

It is not boring by any means. I am not familiar with your software package but do you have a means to run an impedance measure? This can help you fine tune the port length or stuffing. Also, in the original recommendation by DJK on the ported design, he advocated using a filter at the lowest frequencies. IIRC, this was to limit the driver excursion and to also boost the bass a bit. Have you implemented that or are you planning to? Most folks forget that part of the design. Anyhow, congratulations and good luck, I admire folks who actually are willing to measure the results of their mods, -Tom -

i think only the first year of production or so was. pretty sure the sub i sold you as well as every single one i own has a big fat made in the usa stamped on them

Pics and observations: I like the finish better than the Hsu Amp knobs with the "clicks" are a lot easier to adjust when trying to get the volume right for audyssey, and trying to hit a certain spot in general Prefer the matte finish to the Hsu. Hsu shows touch spots from an arm or hand, FV15HP does not Love that it is slightly smaller Think the full face cover (can't see ports) looks better, especially with dust The way it was packed with images on how to unpack was well thought out Fit in finish over all seem to be a step (slight) over that of the Hsu Beefy power cord

I don't think so. The RSW15 is one rock solid, punchy, fast, and loud sub that does wonders with music and can hold it's own with HT. Though, I do hope the new R-115SW is a good one. It may not ever have legendary status like the RSW15 but from the reviews I have read, Klipsch has done a pretty good job with this one. Bill

And here she is in her new home. I'm happy to say she is safe and sound and getting along with the RF7 ii just fine. It didnt take long to notice a difference either and I dont mean over powering bass. It blended perfectly. We popped in a movie and I noticed a difference right away. Then played some music on the Oppo via USB and the moment I played a song I was very familiar with, it was great. This sub has opened my mids and is exactly what I was missing and never had with my Sub 12. Thank you again Carl, it wouldve taken me all day to figure out how to hook it up and a lot of phone calls to you. I have never had a setup like this and thankful you took the time to teach me. I'm just so used to a sub with a plate amp and this one aint quite like that. It even passed the WAF factor. Edit: The pic is blurry, I had to resize it. Said file was too big on initial attempt.

Nice size room, it's nice starting from a blank canvas huh? Keep the pics coming, I like these threads