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Ok good people leaving again for about a week, be back soon. It's just practice for when you people get there, I will be good at it by then.

Morning gang Bit wet&nippy, like winter. 40 heading to maybe 57. Preparing list and buying parts for projects, all parts from china Mfg, you got to wait like hell sometimes to get the goodies, however when you save 80% on the goods, it's well worth the wait, one to four weeks. Sure as hell with this little rain we have, im going to be mowing that lawn soon. As i remember Joe was saying he liked the easy meals of quesadillas, that is pretty much weekly around here. Might be Taco Tuesday but quesadillas are far easier to slap together.

It's no shave November guys!

A couple months ago I was looking for some recommendations for a sub and receiver, being from Canada things are a lot more expensive! Well I finally pulled the trigger this morning and they should be in Nova Scotia by Friday, I ended up getting Denon x4100 and psa v1800!!! Super exited!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Afternoon Gang Taking a break shopping the web. Wife just walked in delivering a new fresh batch of snickerdoodles, great cookies that go well with Beer. Little real rain, 5Min, now it's clear and cold. welcome to Calif. Skeeters should be hatched by 6Pm. I think it's time for some Anchorsteam Beer.

Just finished my second Red Horse. Half liter bottles @ 6.9 %. Sad to say, but i'm done for the night. Had roast pig, rice, veggies, lumpia shanghai, great company... life is good. Bruce

Luckily a year on Mercury is only 88 (earth) days... while a full day on Mercury is 176 (earth) days. A full day is nearly 2 years long. Mondays' still suck... but at least you get to celebrate about 14 New Years, Birthdays & Christmases before the next Monday rolls around.

Interesting, never heard of this one. I think since iv retired iv made up for 30+ years of shaving daily, now i only shave when i leave the house with the wife. Local store, Farm runs, the Depot, local Pub, i no shave. Wife goes with me about once a week, so that puts me in places around here sometimes with six days of growth, i even say i look like hell. Depending on the "Home clothes" im wearing at the time, sometimes im walking around the Depot and some store employee is keeping an eye on me. i love it! knowing im finely making more money than most people i meet and i do nothing for a living. It's not that i do not wish to shave, it's just that i do not care. Kind of like my Farmers

Happy Tuesday gang. Starting out as a pretty day which is supposed to go to hell later with snow, etc. I think Mark's Weather Drama Queen got a transfer to Colorado. We'll see. JL ... they shouldn't take pictures of that poor man. Probably just a shy person who tries to not be noticed and hopes no one attacks him with a garden shears. Top agenda item is spraying by pest control guy so it's probably a good to just sit down and play some music. Tuesday cheers.

Hopefully not the kissing part.

A BRISK Tuesday Morning Y'all Not much Happening Here as usual Later

Maurice

I was just getting on to post. That was a heck of a game, I don't know what goop is. I read your last post, sure, I can you a good vinyl cleaner, but don't worry about it as we never really made the bet, we'll call it a gentleman's bet. I did google goop and came up with this. http://goop.com/ So if you have Gwen Paltrow, I will take her. If you take her, you'll have to talk to her.

Good early morning yet again Coffee tasting great after an Oxyclean, cleanout this morning. Trash is at the curb and my day is over.

2'sday here as well. Low 60's here this morning, beautiful. Hope everyone can coast today.

Nothing on that list affects me so I feel better.

"Nobody goes to the Hope gathering anymore, there's too many people there." --- Yogi Berra

It's been almost a month since I have posted something on the forum and it's been killing me.. I wanted my 1000th post to be somewhat special... I was going to post something like.....my Klipsch/audio journey for the last 25+ years....but I just could not get my thoughts together. I have a hard time taking my thoughts out of my head and putting them into written form. My brain just does not work good like that. Like most of my speakers and audio gear my Chorus that I'm about to tell you about come with a story... A story that I think is worthy of "My 1000th post"... So here goes..... The Chorus........ While surfing the E-bay some 8-9 years ago I came across a set of Chorus I's. They had a starting bid of 99 cents, so they caught my attention. I clicked on the pics to see some really bad looking cabs. I mean these thinks were busted. The corners were gone on most of the top of the cabs. There were only four pics just enough to show how bad they were. All four pics were taken with the grills on, so I could not see any of the horns or woofers. A very brief description that didn't tell me a whole lot. So I placed my bid and I forgot about the auction. To this day I forget how much I bid but it wasn't much. As some of you guys might know my wife and I work together. We own a small auto shop and it's just me and her. So at the shop one afternoon my wife yells in the bay at me.. "hey you won those Klipsch"..... I was really at a loss, I really forgot about the auction. I went into her office to see what she was talking about. As soon as I looked at them it "clicked". She asked me what they are, I told her they are some Bad A$$ speakers..... Now my wife loves our audio gear... she was the one that found our LaScala's some 25+ yeras ago. So we looking at these really bad looking Chorus and she said something like... are you sure you want those?? I was at a loss, I won them for less than $30.... I forget how much I got them for but it was something like 27 bucks. The auction house was down in Washington DC... Down in the hood. DC is about an hour drive for me... but I hate driving in DC. I'm thinking let me call the auction house and get the scoop on these things. Like I said there were no pics of any of the drivers and if these are just bare busted cabs I'm going to pay for them and tell them to trash em. I wanted to keep my 100% feedback on my E-bay. But I was not going to drive in that DC hell for some busted up cabs. The call went something like this.... The guy told me that they sold these Klipsch for a customer several weeks ago. They shipped them but they got damaged in the shipping. This is how they got them back. They made a claim and everyone was made whole. He said they just want to off these Klipsch to someone that could use them. He said they were 100% working before the shipping damage, but had no clue if they work now.. but all the drivers are in the cabs. I told him I would be down tonight to pick them up. They were open late into the evening so I didn't have to fight that 5-6 hour DC hell traffic. The drive down there was not to bad....it was not that deep into the DC hood like I thought it was. We pay my man for them and loaded them into van. We got back to the house around 10:00 or so. I got them into the house and had a good look at them.... they looked much worse in the pics...oh they were still ugly.... well lets hear them... a quick hook up to one of my amps. Put about 20 watts to em and I could quickly tell somethings not right. One of the woofers was blown. But the other one was 100%. Now it just so happens I had a pair of K-48's in the basement. I got them years ago for something. I forget why I got them but I have them.. I get crapp from my wife about the stuff I buy. My wife was just shaking her head when I came upstairs with the woofer. I swapped out the offending woofer and put the watts to em..... Oh my they sound great.... the wife was like holy shitt. Despite how they looked these things kicked.... The cabs were still solid... I was very happy.. The Chorus was one of the 1st klipsch speakers I heard many many years ago. My old x brother-in-law brother got four of them when they 1st came on the market. He powered them with two Carver cube's. I never forgot that sound... it blew me away.... Now I have a set for a really good price. I must now end this 1000th post.....ohhhh I'm not done... I'm just getting started on the story of these Chorus... Like I said It is really hard for me to put things into written form and my brain is killing me right now. This is just how I got these things... and I am also at my home computer and this thing is slow and if I loose this I'm going shitt a brick... I hope you like it so far.... I will continue later and I will get the wife to load some pics tomorrow at the shop. Stay tuned..... MKP :-)

Cheers to all Veterans http://www.history.com/topics/holidays/history-of-veterans-day I was part of the 5.5 Million that served during Peace Time. "I was not part of a Conflict". In the Air Force, I belonged to the 361X0 Group "Cable/Antenna Installation and Maintenance"....Another words I dug trenches and climed in Manholes to install communication cable, I also climbed poles and towers to install Antenna's, "Never quite liked poles, Gaffing out usually resulted in creosote splinters This is what took place during my time..... 1982-1983 Lebanon–On September 29, 1982, President Reagan reported the deployment of 1200 marines to serve in a temporary multinational force to facilitate the restoration of Lebanese government sovereignty. On Sept. 29, 1983, Congress passed the Multinational Force in Lebanon Resolution (P.L. 98-119) authorizing the continued participation for eighteen months. 1983 Egypt--After a Libyan plane bombed a city in Sudan on March 18, 1983, and Sudan and Egypt appealed for assistance, the United States dispatched an AWACS electronic surveillance plane to Egypt. 1983-89 Honduras–In July 1983 the United States undertook a series of exercises in Honduras that some believed might lead to conflict with Nicaragua. On March 25, 1986, unarmed U.S. military helicopters and crewmen ferried Honduran troops to the Nicaraguan border to repel Nicaraguan troops. 1983 Chad–On August 8, 1983, President Reagan reported the deployment of two AWACS electronic surveillance planes and eight F-15 fighter planes and ground logistical support forces to assist Chad against Libyan and rebel forces. 1983 Grenada–On October 25, 1983, President Reagan reported a landing on Grenada by Marines and Army airborne troops to protect lives and assist in the restoration of law and order and at the request of five members of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States. 1984 Persian Gulf–On June 5, 1984, Saudi Arabian jet fighter planes, aided by intelligence from a U.S. AWACS electronic surveillance aircraft and fueled by a U.S. KC-10 tanker, shot down two Iranian fighter planes over an area of the Persian Gulf proclaimed as a protected zone for shipping. 1985 Italy/Mediterranean–On October 10, 1985, U.S. Navy pilots intercepted an Egyptian airliner and forced it to land in Sicily. The airliner was carrying the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro who had killed an American citizen during the hijacking. 1986 Libya--On March 26, 1986, President Reagan reported to Congress that, on March 24 and 25, U.S. forces, while engaged in freedom of navigation exercises around the Gulf of Sidra, had been attacked by Libyan missiles and the United States had responded with missiles. 1986 Libya--On April 16, 1986, President Reagan reported that U.S. air and naval forces had conducted bombing strikes on terrorist facilities and military installations in Libya. 1986 Bolivia–U.S. Army personnel and aircraft assisted Bolivia in anti-drug operations. 1987-88 Persian Gulf (The Tanker War)-After the Iran-Iraq War resulted in several military incidents in the Persian Gulf, the United States increased U.S. joint military forces operations in the Persian Gulf and adopted a policy of reflagging and escorting Kuwaiti oil tankers through the Gulf. President Reagan reported that U.S. Navy ships had been fired upon or struck mines or taken other military action on September 23, October 10, and October 20, 1987 and April 19, July 4, and July 14, 1988. The United States gradually reduced its forces after a cease-fire between Iran and Iraq on August 20, 1988. 1988 Panama–In mid-March and April 1988, during a period of instability in Panama and as pressure grew for Panamanian military leader General Manuel Noriega to resign, the United States sent 1,000 troops to Panama, to “further safeguard the canal, U.S. lives, property and interests in the area.” The forces supplemented 10,000 U.S. military personnel already in Panama. 1989 Libya–On January 4, 1989, two U.S. Navy F-14 aircraft based on the U.S.S. John F. Kennedy shot down two Libyan jet fighters over the Mediterranean Sea about 70 miles north of Libya. The U.S. pilots said the Libyan planes had demonstrated hostile intentions. 1989 U.S. Invasion of Panama–On May 11, 1989, in response to General Noriega’s disregard of the results of the Panamanian election, President Bush ordered a brigade-sized force of approximately 1,900 troops to augment the estimated 11,000 U.S. forces already in the area. 1989 Andean Initiative in War on Drugs— On September 15, 1989, President Bush announced that military and law enforcement assistance would be sent to help the Andean nations of Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru combat illicit drug producers and traffickers. By mid-September there were 50-100 U.S. military advisers in Colombia in connection with transport and training in the use of military equipment, plus seven Special Forces teams of 2-12 persons to train troops in the three countries. 1989 Philippines–On December 2, 1989, President Bush reported that on December 1 U.S. fighter planes from Clark Air Base in the Philippines had assisted the Aquino government to repel a coup attempt. In addition, 100 marines were sent from the U.S. Navy base at Subic Bay to protect the U.S. Embassy in Manila. 1989-90 Panama–On December 21, 1989, President Bush reported that he had ordered U.S. military forces to Panama to protect the lives of American citizens and bring General Noriega to justice. By February 13, 1990, all the invasion forces had been withdrawn.

The University of California at Santa Barbara library has undertaken an heroic digitization effort for its world-class archive of 19th and early 20th century wax cylinder recordings, and has placed over 10,000 songs online for anyone to download, stream and re-use. http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/index.php

In my mind this is an OUTSTANDING item So I wonder if there are any collectors here because this may be more than I can handle I came across a personal account of WW2 and the Korean war 48 year Veteran Barney Baily It is all dictated on cassette tapes, My understanding is the narrator was the man he is telling stories / accounts of his time on the ground in the Wars a couple examples from the titles are Side A Crossing the Seig River, Lt Felix gets shot, Side B, Memory of being in Czec. may 8 1945, another example Baileys WW2 experience 1945, side B, songs and music of WW2 as stated MANY more So are there any collectors here that would find something like this interesting ??

That may be so but.................................... Post 75 you said you didn't like his corporate BS and basically accused him of being dishonest. Post 84 you were compelled to re-arrange his words for him. Post 103 you felt the need to tell how sincerely disappointed you were in his choice of build. Post 109 you referred to his (proposed) build as a turd. All of these things could have been left out or expressed differently to get your point across. There's been many discussions as of late of wanting to encourage new members with technical knowledge to participate in this forum. In order for the tube section to thrive we need to make new members feel welcome, not critique them right off the bat. Maynard worked hard to get this sub section into the forum and (even though I don't understand much of the technical jargon) I like it and would love to see it thrive as the synergy between tube amps and Klipsch speakers is something we all agree on. Again, technical DISCUSSION is encouraged.

OK I'm a little slow on the uptake. What (or who) got cleaned out with Oxyclean?

That's Woody Woodpecker Heads. Another crossover thread banned. Yawn. What the heck is a crossover anyways. I always thought it involved dresses, black stockings and hot steamy nights in the French Quarter of New Orleans with a guy named Maurice. What's to get so excited about. And fer crying out loud what's all these charts, graphs and plots all about. To me a chart is something Magellan used, a graph is the grease you use when dealing with city hall, and a plot is whats necessary to have a good murder mystery. There's something strange when you engineering types get all wound up about something called an inductor. And he's not even in charge of the band! Then there's these moderators. Why ban a thread because the guy who started it looking for a debate, gets it, picks up his marbles and goes home. And what the heck is a moderator anyways. Are these British 60's Mods who strut around in Go-Go boots and own refrigerators? And don't even get me started on L-pads. Who knows where in the heck part of the human body they go. So does an active crossover exercise a lot, and a passive one lays around eating bonbons? And what about all these Hertz you keep going on about. Don't the other rental companies, like Enterprise, carry the same models? Makes my head hurts, is what it does. Hey there's Maruice! "Hey Maurice, wait up!"

I got a Tiny Joy in my email, yesterday and it mentioned Turkish coffee. Hmmmm. I then decided I *needed* a backpack/survival stove, to make Turkish Coffee and an Ibrik, or facsimile, to make it in. So I went to Gander Mtn and didn't like what I found and finally Wal-mart and brought this home. Turkish coffee is interesting and I like it! Four rounded tablespoons per cup of water, add 3-ish teaspoons of sugar, heat until it foams up 3 times and decant slowly. I think the Ibrik should be a Christmas hint.

I was just getting on to post. That was a heck of a game, I don't know what goop is.I read your last post, sure, I can you a good vinyl cleaner, but don't worry about it as we never really made the bet, we'll call it a gentleman's bet. I did google goop and came up with this. http://goop.com/ So if you have Gwen Paltrow, I will take her. If you take her, you'll have to talk to her. I heard she is difficult to work with. Sent from my SM-N920P using Tapatalk

Toolshedamps: Iv been following the thread, myself in electronics since the 60s and everything Ham. Iv not "Seen It All" but dam close. I like the Design, and as with any design, Tweeks can be astounding, the fun of the hobby. Sounds like you are very willing to assist DIY builders, and man could this world use more guys like that, well done. May i just throw this out there for something for you to also consider, offer some of these Amp pieces sized and predrilled, you know, not exactly like a kit, but just some helpfull goodies for the DIYs. Of the many people iv assisted over the years, the one constant i saw was, a guy with this kind of hobby will make a space and set up a bench, invest in soldering and more than willing to learn, however iv witnessed many ready to jump on something like this, but do not have a drillpress, or wood/metalworking knowhow. so they give in and just buy assembled. My two cents Keep up the good Work/Designs/Tweeks :emotion-21:

Haaa.. mine has been on for a couple weeks now (only at night). We've already seen temps in mid-upper 20's.

So you will be doing "your thing" (which I am sure is a "trade secret") which will render it a different preamp. Correction; you are not building that preamp then. Your questions come off as accusatory. I don't know what the problem is but try to lighten up a bit if you would.

Ok let me get this straight. Perceived wisdom in building a system is to start with the speakers and go from there, fiddlin an doodlin and poking around until you got it right. So you're sitting there admiring your endeavors and listening, of course, to some righteous p-funk.. You got your amp, pre-amp, dac, cd transport, table with SUT, PUT, LOMC, clamp, brush, needle brush, and a magic eraser just in case. You've got a power cleaner the size of a bank vault, miscellaneous exotic tubes, hospital grade power cords, speaker wire woven from the pubic hair of vestal virgins, oxygen free too to boot, (it's the lack of oxygen that gives your system that "breathless" feeling), and rca's designed at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories and spun in a weightless environment aboard the space shuttle. You've got your magic pebbles sitting on top of your speakers next to your well-watered household plants, and all the wires are sitting atop sandalwood blocks carved by Buddhists monks in an ashram high in the mountains of Tibet. Then some idiot cons you into fiddling your crossover. Next thing you know, you've got to switch tweeters, then the mids don't match up well with 1/4 watt SET amplifier, so you switch that out for a push-pull, but now your bottom end needs work so you change the woofer, which throws off the values on the coupling capacitors, which requires you to add an extra quarter gram of tracking force on your cart, which causes sibilance when the Fat Lady sings. And it goes downhill from there until one day, drunk and despondent you borrow a gun from a neighbor who has a "Guns Are Our Friends" sticker on his pickup truck and blow your brains all over those well-watered plants sitting so nicely atop your speakers and those cute little magic pebbles. "Hey Maurice, wait up! What's this "pompitus of love" thing. Does it involve a pompadour, because I'm, somewhat hair challenged. Oh and..."

Amy wouldn't have locked it... *ducks*

That's a lot of corners. It couldn't be square, it would have to be a poly-cornered room with the listener in the center.

She looks just like Ronda Rousey.

Diana Krall is fantastic, and she sounds good on everything. Dave

Mine is not moving again..... Could get a second..... NOT going to Happen......... Yet Enjoy G.E.M.

She plays excellent jazz, and has a decent, but not great voice. Her band on the recordings we have are very accomplished. This music brings back pop/jazz sounds and feelings of the era when Ella and Peggy Lee we're big stars. Diana, like Harry Connick and Michael Buble offer a very nice alternative to the formulaic pop music of Katy Perry (ugh), or the over produced, over baked sound of Nashville. Diana has a mature sound, not a kid-like sound. We keep her in the rotation. Sent from my SM-T330NU using Tapatalk

First musical preferences, are musical preferences. We all like somethings in music more than others. In her favor, her recordings are very well done, as are the lyrics of many of her songs. she has a very nice voice, and conveys a certain mood in her music. She was getting popular about the same time as Norah Jones, another jazzy crooner type. Of the two I like Norah better, and as I stated here a very long time ago, I think Diana Krall reminds me more of hotel lounge singer then say a Sade. If you are not into her that's OK, and if not, that's OK too. But they are quality recordings and that alone will have appeal to those with better music systems.

If you go to Walmart, ask for watermelon cases, and then attempt to take them out of the store, there is no doubt someone will take your photo, and you will be immortalized forever on the internet, on a page that you really, really, don't want to be a part of......

This thread is being locked at the original poster''s request.

Getting Chilly damn it, I dont want to run the furnace yet. It uses to much propane

It's still Monday. http://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/smart-living/6-scientific-reasons-mondays-are-the-worst/ar-CC8W8u?li=BBgzzfc

Morning yet again gang Wife up and assisting with killing the pot of coffee. Taking a breather from project parts sourcing. Buggin the wife for Bacon, stated it's Vet week you should shower me with all things that have not killed me Yet. Weather Drama Queens keep breaking into the local programming stating rain is coming, like a tornado warning back east. Hope everyones Monday is easy.

The Bozarks do seem to be well respected. I've not heard them personally. If I knew they worked I would have thrown a few more bucks at them. For me they weren't worth taking a chance on. I've got some Chorus IIs coming this week so that's where my 'extra' cash is going.

Congrats on your 1000th post. I heard Chorus for the first time a few weeks back at Matthews. I was very impressed. Cant wait to read the next few chapters in the history of your speakers. Good to have you back, seems like the mean spirited posters are winning here lately!

Two more sheets up on the ceiling... Picked up paint to start doing the front wall. Holes are cut out around the ceiling Atmos enclosures. Two more sheets on ceiling and I'm officially at the halfway mark!!!

I have a slightly different take on this thread. I retired from band directing about a year and a half ago. Spent 30 years teaching fantastic kids and loved (almost) every minute of it! But, one of the hazards of the job is that you become a very critical listener, and it's not something that you can just leave at the office. No matter what music I was listening to, part of my brain was busy hearing the flaws, problems, and how I would make corrections. Without realizing it, I had stopped enjoying music for music's sake and was always thinking technically. About six months into retirement I caught myself listening to a song and just flat out thinking how beautiful it was, warts and all. That put a smile on my face that lasted the rest of the day! Every since then, I've been "enjoying" music more than I have in decades, because for the most part, music is an art, not a science. On the other hand, now I want better speakers!

I'm telling you guys, all you need to do is learn JavaScript. 6 months worth of hardcore javascript learnin and you can write your ticket anywhere. Next best thing is database administration. I know of multiple open positions that would be the equivalent of earning well into the 6 digit range on the west coast. Nobody wants to do it. Everybody just wants their $15 an hour.

Measuring at 40 Hz vs 20 Hz doesn't matter. The data is differential. Same driver. The really important thing is "they" sampled above, through, and below the intended passbands. The article has a picture provided, and also a reference to an AES paper on the method of measurement. Pretty cut and dry. "They" are spelled out in the first sentence of the paper. Sealed systems are even worse in this regard. Tons of research available on the topic, but not applicable in the context of this paper. No one is limiting excursion in that context, and everyone's goal is simply improved sound. At these frequencies, more is better by any right, but it's all too easy to discount the horn for how much more.

It is a bit OT but. I take a math class from time to time at Chicago's community college. I'm older than most of the professors. This community college scheme is just magnificent in that it allows citizens to build college credit a very low cost. So if the question is how the underclass can get above the minimum wage, the community colleges are part of the answer. WMcD