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Ok coffee friends, here is a little Atlantic coastline scene for you......just a single, got to run out for a nice dinner in an old farmhouse about 15 minutes from where we are staying... More later.... Enjoy your evening everyone... .....Gary

Morning Gang Tarheel that name Hatteras, ah-ha, Cape Hatteras, name stuck with me over the years, had to Google it to see why it was buggin me. Dad's first slighty "Used" boat in the 70s, docked in newport, had a lot of good times on that boat and never went farther than Catalina. chick magnet. http://www.hatterasyachts.com/index.html Up and first cup, need to rest up from the farm work, really want a CornDog but do not feel like doing the walk. Nothing planned, maybe work on the Last McM BassBin a little. Rain spotty throughout Ca, nothing here. looks like 75 today, i like it just fiine

Hello again my friends.... Just back from a simply fantastic dinner, upscale offerings, greeted at the door by both parents of the owner, server was wonderful, we gave a 25% tip.... Wine was from Australia, an old vine Zin... Here is a photo of the lighthouse with some ocean horizon included ;0)

Nice Gary! Enjoying your photos and write up. Sounds like a fun trip and I would have liked to been there for the dinner and vino. I'm sure you have seen the Hatteras light house on your trips to the OBX. Well Gents it's down right chilly here this morning. Wore a medium weight jacket to walk the Jakester. Guess it will be some football today to see if LF's pick (Broncos) win. Don't follow the sport much but I do like wings and good beer. Today I'm going for the hottest. The bar folks have warned me but I have to see for myself. Hell I ate the Chernobyl wings at Hilton Head and the Three Mile Island wings as well. Reading the "Hardware" thread this morning. That's a trip in itself. Last day worker bees.....wring the most out of it. Put it on minermarks tab Cheers Ladies and Gents

Good morning from once again from Maine...............Breakfast in the farmhouse calling, then we head out to the kitchen outlet store in Kittery and then head home... OT, that bird kill scene is a familiar one.... How about a Mourning Dove on my deck railing, fully splayed open and gutted! I have some great closeup shots of the Red tailed Hawk that was part of that.... I actually got up on my roof and got about 10 feet from it before it took off. Well, this happens, part of having bird feeders and such.... Oh, yes, that was cinnamon french toast on my plate.... Today will be something different, everything is made fresh and local here, always tasty Thats it for now, time to start the checkout process (loading the suv)..... More when we arrive home.................glad you liked some of the photos so far, got more! ...................enjoy your day, ...... Gary

Nice gull. I wish I had a picture of a scene I saw in a parking lot of a hawk eating a pigeon on the top of someone's suv. Feathers and blood all over the roof!

HA! Get a load of this gull....(looks to be a two year old Herring gul) on the roof of that car! This one was rather friendly, I gave it a few pieces of my raspberry scone and it would venture within a few feet of me.. Ok, heading to the rack for the night..... Next post much later in the day when we arrive back home... Good night from Ogunquit Maine......zzzzzzzzzzz

I just picked up a pair of Emotiva XPA-1 mono amps today from the Emotiva jadedesign site. Can't wait to get them! https://emotiva.com/products/amplifiers/xpa-1

Good evening everyone....... We are back from a long day of travel further up north to pursue a lighthouse. Ended up at Pemaquid Point... Just found they have a webcam!, if I knew that, I could have had you all tune in and I would give you all a wave hello ... Anyway, got some great photos from down on the rocks, with gulls, smallish waves splashing about and an infinite view of the sea! Had my DSLR also, took many photos of the distant RAIN falling out over the ocean. Also, a wedding had taken place and the bride and groom, along with a small wedding party came out from a door at the bottom of the lighthouse! You can tour this thing right up inside where the working lamp is!, and I saw them all walking around the multi-faceted lens. Chris and I had been up there a few years ago... Last year, we stopped at another lighthouse complete with ELECTRONIC FOG HORNS. I took a movie of that, also the de-commissioned original air horns and compressor room with hearing protection warnings everywhere.....fun stuff OH, and there was a wedding going on there too! Guess it is popular along the coast to have weddings in lighthouses.... Ok, my iPad is charging right now, and I will try to get some photos from the sea coast etc. ...stand by... ......Gary PS. Great Luther on reviving the flat screen... My co-worker tossed out a fairly new 50" Vizio because it went black, no LED power, no nothing! They had a powersurge during a storm, so you can probably figure out what may have happened.. Bought a Samsung to replace it, no problems with it yet...

Maron had a heart attack last Saturday, and then another one while he was in the hospital. They have had him in a medically induced coma for the past week. Please pray for him in his hours of darkness, that he can come back and lovingly skewer all of us once again. He is one of the last gray haired eminences with ties to all of PWK's wrecking crew of tin foil hat experimenters.

You missed my point on the free advice being worth every penny! I was saying it is easy to come by and worth as much as you paid for it! Do whatever you think will work for you. There have been many good suggestions, you just need to pick one and go. I like Jim's idea of slow down and figure it out but now you have added the new dimension of time is of the essence. My last bit of "free advice" is: buy a bigger house and keep all of the speakers!

The output and response of each speaker will be different if one is enclosed in a corner and one is not. You can build false walls or enclose them to fix this. BUT......if you buy a set of Jubilee's you won't have to mess with this plus you will have one of the absolute best sounding speakers you can purchase today. Plan on hanging several large sound panels with those tall ceilings, you're gonna have some serious reverb and echo depending on the shape and openings in the room. Worry about the electronics later, but what you have mentioned should sound terrific. Take it from a K-horn owner, consider the Jubs, they're on a different level

I believe the youngest we have seen marked on a bottle / description was 80 years... Else 100 to 150 years so far....

Hard to give good advice when you don't know what you want to do with them. With this much damage to the wood, a clear coat or stain or coat of paint wont hide enough of the damage. These pigs need several applications of lipstick and possibly some perfume as well. The hard work you have done so far will look best with the Duratex finish that will hide most of the problem areas and will give you at least one style that looks finished. A style many find desirable.($36 @ PE including roller) A frat house did this to them and another frat house would be excited to get a functional road ready pair. There are plenty of frats in Columbia! If you want to take it a step further, bring them to my shop and we can wrap the perimeter in aluminum in less than an hour. Man cave (frat) approved look. Just trying to find more work for you since you flew through the first 20 stages of this process. All of this free advice is worth every penny!

Yes, it was a design spec flaw. I already had some of the replacement caps available from repairing my 52" Samsung.

EDIT: 12/07/15 at 08:16 At the impassioned request of wvu80, the title was changed back to the original Freudian slip. I'd like to take credit for an intentionally clever pun, but that would be a lie. The typo was the result of fat fingers on an iPad. MSU beats Michigan again. Both teams played well. The officiating was horrible, but equally so. I'm not sure either team is great, but then who is? Ohio State has not yet convinced me that they're #1. EDIT: 10/18/15 This thread is now immunized against hi-jacking. Any college football posts are encouraged. EDIT: 11/22/15 Given the results of 11/21/15, I predict the following: Clemson; Alabama; B1G winner (unless Michigan); and Notre Dame.

The cente is the most important speaker in a multichannel setup for HT. The RC 64 II will compliment the RF 7 II's and is the best choice. With the speaker not that far a part, a phantom center is well worht trying.

If your mostly watching HT or movies, most people say the center is the most important speaker of the system.

That is one fantastic photo!

What counts as "old?"

Since this is the Klipsch forum guess it is time to post PWK's ideas on this subject.

Well, no matter what I decide, the fact remains. I have a fully functioning pair of vintage La Scala speakers that I paid $229 for. That my friends, I can live with

Horns = satin black That part is easy. Enclosures, I am not a fan of the black LS but that would probably be the easiest thing to do. I do think you should put some kind of finish on there, as a new purchaser of a affordable LS is probably not going to want to DIY on a new speaker, I think he wants to plug it in and use it. If you do go with black, I'd use paint instead of Duratex. Cheaper. If you have leftover Duratex then use it because that would be cheaper. That being said, does it look OK without a finish? It seems to me there is a decorator LS that is unfinished that is highly desirable. If you do go to the time and expense of adding a finish, you should price the speakers so you can recoup that cost. Doc A Decorator would be raw from the factory, not a speaker stripped of its finish. RB Decorators of any model are popular, IDK about highly desirable, they look their best when the patina had turned them a darker, almost golden color If you're going to flip them, why refinish them at all? You limit the potential buyers to the color you choose. Let them buy them stripped, working correctly and let them do what makes them happy Mark

I bought some Raw Birch LaScalas that had not been treated since the '84. I simply got some mineral oil and spread it all over the wood then let them marinate for about an hour before wiping dry. They now have a beautiful glow to them and its not necessarily a permanent option.

I believe that was a common issue with some of the samsung tvs.Sent from my SM-N920P using Tapatalk

I was given non-working 42" Samsung flatscreen yesterday. I spent an hour this morning pulling the power supply board and replacing some bad caps. Works like a champ now. It had been professionally calibrated. The picture is awesome. I love freebies.

Good morning once again..... Ceptor, we are still formulating a little trip today..... Looks like a lighthouse will be visited.... (0; Duder, thanks for the compliment, you paint a nice picture as well........many a snowmobile trip to Vermont and New Hamphire over the years fits your description ... Ok, just a couple of photos.........now, for what ever reason, the fall color is not in full here, while at home it is spectacular right now... Anyway, here is the sign out front with various fall colors..., and another of some large pumpkins , ....and for staying with the forum theme, a nice dark roast in the correct mug....., all for the moment, more later on. Enjoy your Saturday everyone.... .......Gary

I've got another post on this; however, since I don't have this one in the Talkin' Tubes forum, many years ago there was an unusual class of tubes designed for the sweep circuits in tube-type TV sets that have substantially large reserve current capability; hence the name “sweep tubes” was coined. While sweep tubes are no longer made and some versions are getting much harder to find, there are examples that are still quite common. The sweep tubes can put out huge power levels and still have substantial reserve capability. Pete Millett’s Engineer’s amplifier [also known as a “Distortion-cancelling Push-Pull" (“DCPP”) amp], uses these unusual sweep tubes. If following Pete Millett's actual design, the DCPP amplifier is actually a 2-stage push-pull pentode design with the output stage biased so it will remain in Class A1 operations until somewhere over 10 watts where it then enters Class AB1. The input/driver stage uses a pair of 6CB6 pentodes in a differential amp configuration using a silicon CCS in the tail. In Pete's design, the output stage uses 12-pin compactron TV sweep tubes, such as the 6JN6 (no plate caps required) or 6JM6/6GV5 (plate caps are required), which have a 17.5 watt plate dissipation. Here is a link to Pete Millett's page where more information on the DCPP amp can be found. http://www.pmillett.com/dcpp.htm Several years ago when Pete Millett started to sell PCBs with his DCPP circuit, George of DIY Audio Tubelab fame, decided to test the upper limits for power in relation to these sweep tubes. George used a power supply that would generate 650 volts at 1.7 amps and plugged in his samples of sweep tubes. The amplifier generated 250 WPC in this configuration with a 2,500 ohm load. Not satisfied, he decided to wire both channels in parallel through a common OPT set for 1,250 ohms and lo and behold; this combination generated 504 watts at 5% distortion and 525 watts at clipping. I bought a PCB but had not done much in the way of putting together my parts list when I found a completed version of the DCPP amplifier come up for sale for slightly less than the parts would have cost me from my preliminary estimates. Here is my Pete Millet DCPP amplifier. My DCPP amp uses the 6JN6 sweep tubes for output and is nowhere near George’s 504 WPC. My amplifier does the 20 WPC that Pete originally designed it for; and at that output, the sweep tubes will probably last a few life-times at that abuse-rate. .

I'm submitting this thread to have a progress log of Jamboree bass-bin. the first single cabinet is a try I still don't know if my way of building it will result good or not. probably does. I'm gonna use MDF for the first sample. sure the final will be BB plywood. it's just a prototype. here are two pictures of cuts we did today: I'll keep you posted. thanks for watching. I'm still looking for a pair of K402 with no luck in sight

I switched back to valve amps in the late 70's. Push-pull triodes, pentodes, and SET from the likes of McIntosh, Audio Research, Wright Sound Labs & Luxman. Five to 10 years ago I wouldn't be saying this. My advice is to dump the Scott. Ultimately I would recommend a direct digital DAC integrated amplifier like the NAD C390DD or M2 (using HDMI not USB - M2 doesn't have HDMI) which is obviously beyond your budget considerations. Why not try a NAD D7050 ($800) or D3020 ($400). Crutchfield has a 60 day return policy and in my experience platinum quality customer service. I was ready to jump on some McIntosh MC501 or MC1.2K/C2200/2300 until I heard a NAD C390DD in my system, three different ones in fact. They all sounded exactly the same. The tube stuff actually sounded grainy by comparison.

We 1.5% appreciate your answers. (did I do the math right enough to make that joke work?) +++ Edit: I agree with others directly upstream ^^^, get the best center speaker you can, even if it means you have to get slightly less powerful L/R speakers.

That is a good question. The center channel works in conjunction with the mains(and surrounds, subwoofer) but being in the center, it ties that impact to the screen. The mains handle the majority of the films musical score which in my opinion, is a very important aspect of the HT experience. Hence, quality front and right main speakers are crucial to the experience. Bill

Got 4 sheets hung on ceiling. Couple gaps larger than I'd wished for -- but free help from the wife & mother-in-law holding 5/8 over their heads... While I hold and screw.... I can't complain. Nothing some GreenGlue caulk & mud/tape won't fix.

A phantom center is a compromise. For movies, the center pins the dialog to the screen, no mater where you are sitting. With phantom center, it depends on where you sit and the dialog are not as clear to my ears, so yes spending on a rc64ii is definitely better than on an amp.

Cool! I have the EML mesh plate 45 and the EML Globe 45 (rather than risk shipping I picked up in person at tubesusa in NY when I worked on a job close to that area); however, I have not heard the EML solid plate 45. I have not done any comparisons between mesh and globe since I run them in different amps. Here is a picture of my mesh plates in my Electra-Fidelity silver 45 amp, but I can only find pictures of the underside of my Yamamoto A-08S and can't seem to find my pictures of the top side of the amp with the globes. Here are a couple of pictures of the underside of my Yamamoto A-08S amplifier that was a kit build. I've wanted to rewire it, but the guy I bought it from did not have the instructions or schematic and voltages and I have not been able to track any of this down. I suppose at some point I will take voltage measurements and just try to draw it out then rewire. .

If you have the time, and I know you don't have much of it, I say fill the cracks and voids with bondo, fiberglass, or wood filler, sand them smooth and paint them. Jimjimbo's look great painted. I think that would yield the best return on your investment.

If you plan to just clearcoat them i like spar varnish, good stuff. Better than Poly Needs good ventilation when applying and drying.

They work, done...

Again, what's the hurry? Take your time. IMHO clear coat is a mistake right now

Black Duratex. Hides many sins, looks sharp to me for this type of speaker, not living room furniture. Jim's look great, follow his lead. Like DizR, I have used on boomboxes and liked the result. I think the next owner would be looking for this type of finish. Unfinished will look like you gave up and then you would only get low ball offers. Just my opinion.

Now see I didn't know that about dtel. But then there was that exploratory trip that was rumored to be about a gender reassignment procedure

If you're buying Khorns new, you might consider the "Khorn II" and get the Jubilee. I think you could get it for fewer dollars and it will sound better. Other factors are involved as most people (actively) biamp them but you can also get a passive for them. They were PWK's last project and his attempt to take the Khorn back to a 2-way speaker.

Here are some pics, sorry it took so long!!! Badly in need of veneer....

Bon Secour River

missed this one the other day….happy birthday Ryan.

he's going to have that stuff for a long time.

It was a strange evening; clear sky with low small black clouds flying by. Looks like a Batman movie.

Yep they can surprise us at times, My wife has done the same thing a couple times after years of showing ZERO interest, Careful we dont create monsters

A happy birthday wish to you......have a great day....... MKP :-)