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Im going for 5 outta 6 and really dont even need that. Have no great need, im just fine, planned retirement for the last 40+ years, nothing could be better. Note to Worker Bee's, save, Buy stock, Invest, buy used cars/trucks/homes, no reason to buy much new. @62 you will thank me.

Didn't help much so I'll try one more. That Wally World pic was so tough to look at, I decided to post a pic of an unusual-looking, horn loaded speaker to see if I can get the burn out of my retinas. .

That Wally World pic was so tough to look at, I decided to post a pic of an unusual-looking, horn loaded speaker to see if I can get the burn out of my retinas. .

I remember this picture of PWK investigating those large Western Electric horns similar to that previous picture....... At first I thought he was measuring for a new Khorn top hat, then I saw this picture of PWK and Jim Hunter with this monster horn. .

I have never wanted a drink that bad in my life.

a post i saw a while ago on facebook.... TexasDeputy [OP] Supporting Member Member # 16316 Join Date Nov 2010 Location Texas Posts 10,439 Liked 13189 times I was kicked out of WalMart My wife insisted that I, her recently retired deputy sheriff husband, accompany her on her trips to Wal-Mart. Unfortunately, like most men, I found shopping boring and preferred to get in and get out. Equally unfortunately, the wife is like most women; she loved to browse. Yesterday she received the following letter from the local Wal-Mart. Dear Mrs. Texas Deputy, Over the past six months, your husband has been causing quite a commotion in our store. We cannot tolerate this behavior and have been forced to ban both of you from the store. Our complaints against Mr. Texas are listed below and are documented by our video surveillance cameras. #1 June 15: Took 24 boxes of condoms and randomly put them in people's carts when they weren't looking. #2 July 2: Set all the alarm clocks in Housewares to go off at 5-minute intervals. #3 July 7: Made a trail of tomato juice on the floor leading to the women's restroom. #4 July 19: Walked up to an employee and told her in an official voice, "Code 3 in Housewares. Get on it right away." #5 August 4: Went to the Service Desk and tried to put a bag of M&M's on layaway. #6 August 14: Moved a "CAUTION - WET FLOOR" sign to a carpeted area. #7 August 15: Set up a tent in the camping department and told other shoppers he'd invite them in if they would bring pillows and blankets from the bedding department. #8 August 23: When a clerk asked if they could help him he began crying and screamed, "Why can't you people just leave me alone?" #9 September 4: Looked right into the security camera and used it as a mirror while he picked his nose. #10 September 10: While handling guns in the hunting department, he asked the clerk where the antidepressants were. #11 October 3: Darted around the store suspiciously while loudly humming the "Mission Impossible" theme. #12 October 6: In the auto department, he practiced his "Madonna look" by using different sized funnels. #13 October 18: Hid in a clothing rack and when people browsed through, yelled "PICK ME! PICK ME!" #14 October 21: When an announcement came over the loud speaker, he assumed a fetal position and screamed "OH NO! IT'S THOSE VOICES AGAIN!" #15 October 21: Placed fake severed hand from Halloween aisle under bag of frozen food in grocery department And last, but not least. #16 October 23: Went into a fitting room, shut the door, waited awhile, then yelled very loudly, "Hey! There's notoilet paper in here!" ----------- Now, I am no longer welcome in Walmart. I guess that I will have to buy my cheap Federal Champion 9mm and .45, or my WWB somewhere else. Isn't it great that Academy price matches?

If the BOSS is going to post your pictures, I would recommend to just watch the calorie intake and don't be like this guy with the Wal-Mart pool.

I've never made a martini that way.

Yuck.....Remind's me of the Banana Show in Okinawa.

Morning all..... Will be working on 2nd cup in just a few minutes...... slow start today....we were up too late last night... We got home late and the time we got all washed up it was after 11:00.... Looks like no body won the Power Ball......might have to buy a ticket......man with kind of coin I could buy some MORE KLIPSCH...... and a bunch of stuff....... it wouldn't be a problem going to Hope, hell I could buy Hope... lol lol I found these in my closet.... I've had these a looooong time.....check out that "cool cat" on the box....he's the shitt....lol lol Check in later MKP :-)

^^^^^^^1st you put a pic of me with my back pack.......now you post a pic in my under wear.....^^^^^^ Stop it....woman.... MKP :-)

NO, cats don't belong in a pile of scrap! What's wrong with you? I guess I should have said UNDER a pile of scrap Ya know Carl, my cat Stoney didn't care for your "where it belongs" comment......but he did laugh at "UNDER a pile of scrap"MKP :-)

Evening gang...... Man I think this is the first time I posted here this week......damn work taking too much of my time... Well winter has finally arrived....been really cold all week....shop heater working overtime. It stays warmer in my bay than it does in the Boss's office... yesterday it didn't get past 45° in her office. Today she went out and got her self a new heater... She also got a coffee pot for the shop. So we had a coffee later in the day....it was good to have that hot coffee mmmmmmm..... Hey Chuck congrats on that 1000th post... Check in later...... MKP :-)

Evening gang I must remember when eating dinner and surfing, not to look at the CCC thread till im done. That Wally World Pic is not conduisive with my proper digestion of this killer Bison Meatloaf dinner the wife presented me with

Only at Walmart

Help me Carl..... Damn Jeep snuck in the Honda shop...... lol lol MKP :-)

^^^^^Did I miss the fun part about the lottery?^^^^^^^

Stony needs to detox from the cat nip.

I didn't just see that.

Thanks! so which means for my speaker, there is no pairing/integration process for all 4 drivers. Klipsch just puts all 4 woofers from assembly line together and they are all independently replaceable. This is less complicated than I expected for a speaker making process. The tech that goes into making those four speakers work with each other is actually more complicated than you think, but what everybody said above is correct. Any OEM Klipsch part is spec'd to exactly match the one it is replacing. They are not "paired" in any special way. Even though there are four identical mid/bass drivers, the two on the inside have a different crossover point than the two on the outside. It is this exact extra step that makes your RC-64 II one of the finest centers in the Klipsch universe. Congrats on a fine purchase! And just for information purposes (I'm not picking on you) the dimple is on the dust cap, not the actual cone material. It is perfectly fine as a functional driver, I would hang on to it in case you ever need another one, which I doubt you will. +++ And guys, cut Mr. Antwone a little slack here. This RC-64 II is his baby, and he's looking for some validation that his baby is OK. I would too.

Nothing worse than a wilting cactus prosthesis if you ask me.

I am so glad this thread was started so we can all talk about it. Now I can buy a lottery ticket and justify the purchase as "entertainment." Otherwise it's just gambling.

We grease ours every month or two with the recommended synthetic grease. Ours are about 8 years old and we've never had a seal failure.

They make your shop so much bigger. No more banging doors or squeezing yourself into cars to avoid the lift posts either. Is the technology better on them? We use to replace the seals about once a year on those. I do know what you mean about having the extra room. Speaking of working on jeeps, i pulled the front drive shaft out of mine today, so i can replace the ujoints. What do you know, it starts to snow.Sent from my SM-N920P using Tapatalk

The small but healthy resurgence in popularity of vinyl records is completely consistent with a renewed preference for motion pictures to be made on film, photographic stills made on film, renewed interest in packfilm cameras (ex: Polaroid and Fuji), slow real food movement, and printed books. All of this has at least one motif in common, and that is what I have come to call the "precious factor." It's a desire to invest in authenticity which can be held, felt, smelled, and most of all treasured. It's hard to be in love with a file of bits on a computer. Compare that to how special people treat their prized possessions. Do you have any prized possessions? If not, you may not be a gatherer or collector. I think you will find that people who line up behind records, film and books, are by nature those who treasure certain kinds of possessions. I've never met anyone who treasured a file. In simple language, people can love records, paper photographs, reels of 8mm film, polaroids and books. Hold it, turn it over, enjoy the feel, the look, the sound of it. It is tangible. It feels like an proper investment in goods. You can put trust in the LP that five years from now, you can pull it out play it. Likewise the book. The kind of trust I refer to is an emotional trust, not a statistical one. Files don't engender emotional trust. A book feels like it will last your lifetime. The view that doesn't apply is the straight technology view. X is better than Y when measured...blah, blah, blah. That's not really the right scale to compare say, LPs and CDs. Besides which, those who prefer vinyl think that it sounds better regardless of contemporary measurements. I know many people who report more reading enjoyment from a book, than a Kindle file. And this is because all experiences are multi-dimensional, and at least a few dimensions are psychological. We are not robots. You can dig deeper yet and discover there is a fairly significant technology backlash in western culture. And that no doubt plays a part. I'm not in any way suggesting anyone should go out and buy records and books. Because if you were one of those people, you'd already be doing that. They are mostly people who never quite left the launching pad for "digital world." The inched forward, but kept a foot in the hard copy world. Finding the New World to be less than promised, they just reversed course, or backed up. I think the people I've followed in this like the ability to own small treasures that are real and tangible and trustworthy. It looks like it is a growing phenomenon.

I remember this picture of PWK investigating those large Western Electric horns similar to that previous picture....... At first I thought he was measuring for a new Khorn top hat, then I saw this picture of PWK and Jim Hunter with this monster horn. . "Yea yea yea I know Paul.... we'll spray foam all over the outside of it and there'll be no resonance"

When it leaves your shop, make sure the CD player has a RaP disc in it. They will never know where it came from..... Dont have any Rap CDs available? Go ask those car lot guys, they get that kind of crap all the time in the used car business maybe they saved a few.....

Hey, just to clarify an earlier point, the speaker with narrower pattern is perfectly capable of casting a very wide image. Think about it this way: a wider dispersion speaker, even one with textbook perfect off axis behavior like the KEF, will necessarily involve local acoustics to a greater degree. When implemented properly, speakers with narrower patterns sidestep early reflections, allowing them to pull off a striking facsimile of near-field type sound quality, where the sonic ambient cues from the source, rather than your local acoustics, paints the image in your mind's eye. If the recording was done in a large venue and captured a lot of the reflected sound, the resulting image will be quite wide.

I would stop working the daily grind job... Pay off house, buy a nicer car.... But not a fleet of ferrari's... Just a pair of nice cars for me and the Mrs. Then... I would use the money to open a not-for-profit school that strives to actually educate. Bring back shop classes, art, band, cooking, and your normal sciences , math , and English.

Daily rant: The problem is half of America doesn't have any money left over at the end of the week, let alone would they ever be able to buy a home. It's insane how living paycheck to paycheck has become the norm for half of our citizens. I'm not saying folks being poor isn't entirely their fault. I grew up on welfare, but put myself through college with grants and a few loans, got my engineering degree and have a decent job. But, my sister also went to college (mainly cause her degree doesn't pay much and she wanted to make a difference so took a low paying non-for profit job to do that), and lives paycheck to paycheck. I see lots of folks who graduated college working at best buy and other places making $10-11/hour! I made more than that when I was 19 and that was 18 years ago. I have to wonder why folks think it's ok to pay their employees a wage that is not livable, etc... But, I also have to wonder why the nice kid at best buy thought history would be a great major with a sound financial future. No way can HALF the workforce do everything you list when they can't even pay rent on time. This next generation is truly SOL. People have to learn to stop picking their degree and job based on what feels good (what happened to going to the career center and just picking one that paid a decent starting wage that's how I picked mine), and be willing to either learn a trade that pays well or study a major that will require a lot of their free time but pays off in a few years. This is basic common sense, and can be modeled in excel in less than an hour using simple techniques like net present value. If said major isn't likely to pay off, how about you pick a different one? We aren't teaching kids how to think financially sound and be resourceful and it will eventually kill our economy. To make things worse, there are poor kids like I was who are doubly screwed as most of their parents are dirt bags, they have no one to learn from or look up to, and no one telling them to go to college. To make matters most school systems are completely SOL and broken, but no one cares since they move out of the city in the nice suburbs (where I live). Then you have dip !@#$ on fox news who make a million a year saying how we should essentially stop feeding these kids who are on welfare. Don't get me wrong, I used to be a big time republican, but the stuff I hear my ex party spout is none-sense. Like trickle down economics: um no, if folks don't make enough money to live, they aren't going to buy any goods duh... More tax breaks for the rich, umm no most of them get their income taxed at the capital gains tax rate which is much lower than mine... etc... I will vote for Rand Paul though.

I've had a laser turntable for years. It's called a CD PLAYER. +++ The answer to "why is vinyl making a comeback" is, who knows for sure? Since it's certainly not for the technology I think it's emotional and nostalgic for the older generation. It brings us a feeling of times gone by. As today's population gets older they have more disposable income and can now afford some of the more expensive things they couldn't have as a kid, Dual turntables, Bang & Olfson, et al. I would bet the B side of my last 45 RPM that the demographic for buying those things is over 50 and very few of the millennials are buying them.

This technology (laser reading of black vinyl phonograph records) really shows what Joseph Campbell used to call "getting lost in the metaphor"--it's the typically nearly religious aspects of a technology and time which become the parts of our post-modern society that "feel better" rather than are actually better. Don't get lost in the metaphor or you'll find yourself paying $15K for turntables...instead of focusing on things that really matter like better loudspeakers and room acoustics (...and better mastered music ). Chris

Morning gang Wet, windy, 44, tolerable. Good day to continue the rest period. Coffee is good today, thought id try and just lighten it up a tad, it seems to have worked, better flavor Major Dickinsons Whole Bean, ground up, then split half&half with Folgers columbian. This was advised by a Chef at the Hyatt sometime back. Still aquiring a few parts for Mr Crow project #2, Servo is in a box and waiting for birth. No hurry, would really like to get these EAW stacks outta here, but if i yank them, then i cannot Demo them for the sale. So im kind of stuck on the MCM project. Off to the Bay and Etsy, my Fav Bot part shopping areas.

That Wally World pic was so tough to look at, I decided to post a pic of an unusual-looking, horn loaded speaker to see if I can get the burn out of my retinas. . I need one more...O:-)

He does look stoney.

Oh boy. So now it's class warfare. "God help me I do love it so."

Wait, I thought you loved me? WTF

If there were no wal-marts would they all just go away?

Hannes welcome to the forum! There is so much I love about this thread! First of all the fact that at your age you have such great taste in gear and that people like us at various decades of experience, but sharing your passion are chiming in! I think Mark wins with his pic of that setup of audio hairblowing Nirvana - with the encouraging reminder of this is where you are headed! Also there is the nostalgic element many of us probably share from your post also - we all remember our first "real" setup, mine was given to me by my parents at age 16 for Christmas and I think my mother has few greater regrets. (Turn that DOWN!!!) I think you have already received some good advice on things you can try - definitely see if you can get your sub separated from the floor - the bass is your bleed over enemy #1 (& always will be). Good luck tinkering with different layouts and most of all - enjoy it anyway!

to avoid being scooped, avoid risk by posting about a purchase only AFTER it has been secured. It has happened.

Afternoon yet again Wife must have had the same thought, she's making Bison Meatloaf and halfway through the Bottle of wine. Sooo, Guinness Blonde and Choc covered raisens Im starting to feel the need for a road trip

Too prick-ly?

Ugh...at least give me 9 more years to say that. I'd at least be 19 then.

Afternoon gang Up from Nap, cold, wet outside, kind of reminds me of winter when we used to have them. Chips & Salsa king, spicey bean/corn salsa, ready for a Brewski. Salsa King filled my request of Pickled Eggs, bought three, took one out to the farmer as per his request. And yep, they are just like the one's we used to see sitting in the Bar(s). Will keep the other two jars in the fridge as instructed for one month Min, then time to munch them. These are sold as "Cold Packed" and his pickled goods are to be refergerated. something to do with his health permit. Ah, just remembered the wife has a new wine, i better go check on that.......

Looks for some used folding Gymnastics/Gym mats and hang them on walls and ceiling. Then hang bed comforters and/or cotton blankets over that to knock out echo's and reverbs from the slick mats. Prob the cheapest way out and maybe the most effective

http://www.acousticfields.com/quarter-wavelength-rule/ Interesting read on this type of stuff. "We have built rooms for clients that have two 8″ thick walls of poured concrete separated by another 6″ of air space and can still measure 30 Hz. wave activity on the outside of the wall. Trapping “bass” does not exist."

It happens.......................... Usually it's someone else's fault though. It's the preferred method by far.

You need to decouple the sub from the floor. That won't stop bass waves from passing through the walls but it will help eliminate mechanical vibration from transferring from the sub to the floor and surrounding areas. You can use dense foam or rubber. A way to make a cheap isolator is to cut 2 tennis balls in half, turn them upside down and put a piece of plywood over it to make a platform for the sub to sit on. Put each half of a ball on each corner.

Haha….that's hilarious! Iv'e heard there's a cure for that Yeah, pills. Farmers must really like them, comes up in their conversations all the time. Been offered them many times, no need, as of yet, as far as i know........

Welcom hanhau, you ask good questions. Your drawing in Post #1 is very helpful. There are some things you can change that will help a lot to make the sound better to you and more quiet to your sister. The first thing to understand is that sound gets softer the further away it is. Get the speakers as close to your ears as possible, within 1m or so. I suggest you change your speakers to make them all closer together. You now have them on opposite walls. I am guessing the two places for listening is your computer desk and your bed. Put them closer to the desk and get the surround speakers away from your sister's bedroom wall. You might consider using 3 speakers in the front as Left Center Right or L/C/R and not have surround speakers. You will still get excellent sound. This is called a 3.1 setup and I use one in my house for TV listening even though nobody else can hear it except my wife and me. My other major suggestion is to put the sub UNDER the desk where you are sitting. Even at low sound levels it will sound good to you, and the sub is further away from your sister's room. That is my suggestion for changing the speaker and sub placement. Others will help you in what is called room treatment.