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Good morning- Rain has turned to snow as I savor a cup of Cadillac Coffee and read The Detroit Free Press. I belelive a switch to Ghiradelli Premuim Hot Cocoa with homemade marshmallows is in order.

This is such an amazing picture and maybe something like this could be my "home theater" if I spent my $2 lottery winnings on a power ball ticket. .

Its hard to return hookers and blow. Some of the hookers left me this morning. I am so hurt, they had me believing that they really loved me.

Its hard to return hookers and blow. Yes…but the memories! (Or mammary)

Its hard to return hookers and blow.

Winter arrived here too. It was 55 yesterday, now it's 22, windchill is -5. We did get 1 inch of snow!

This is a test to determine why this #%£¥*~?€ iPad insists upon rotating attached photos. This is only a test. Had this been a real emergency, you would have been instructed to get under your desk, cover your head and KYAGB.

I wasn't supposed to see these until Tuesday, next week but, I had them held for pick up and as luck would have it. I received a phone call to come get them. I couldn't wait. Hooked them up on the same stands that I have, just to get them cooking. OMG! These are some serious speakers. Tremendous in the room presence, they play way bigger and go lower than their size/specs would suggest. I am in complete awe once again. I just can not believe it. Please, please, please do not mention the floor standing P39-F speakers to me, I'll die.

I already bought my ticket for Wednesday. Now I have to figure out how to spend 1.3 billion instead of 800 million. JJK

Just looked at the news on-line.....NO WINNER jackpot to rise to 1.3 Billion Looks like we can keep MKPs thread alive for another three or four days Welp, i suppose i'll go look up the numbers and see if i got my five outta six.

If it's not me I hope it's the lady friend......if not her then one of you

On behalf of the elderly, orphans and widows, I thank thee (and thy wife). +++ The Powerball web site finally updated from 800 to 900 million. If you take the cash option it now stands at $558. Fed taxes will take another 35% as personal income and the state will take its share.

Ran out of likes today But on the plus side I fixed one of the prettier spinach pies of late and oh so tasty.......

Made a brief mention in the Powerball thread about a stray dog. Last night, had a stray puppy turn up at our front door. Poor guy was drooling blood on an "icky" level. Not bad enough that it seemed he needed emergency attention, but bad enough that it pooled when he was laying down. Has a flea-collar on, but no collar per se' and, no tags. (found out today, no chip either) Brought him inside, tried to feed/water him....he avoided the food and tried to drink. The water picked up the blood and looked like bloody water. Well, I guess it WAS bloody water. Took him out on a leash before bed and he went potty both ways which I took as a good thing. Got up this morning about 6:00 and took him out again. This time he wet a bush....which again, I took as a good thing. Got him to my vet unannounced. I got there as they opened and they had not yet checked their voice messages so didn't know I called last night to say I was going to drop him by. Left him there....vet called me around 2:00 today. I'm still a bit confused but it seems the poor pups tongue was pretty torn up. Torn up to the point that he can't eat and can't drink (even though we THOUGHT he was drinking, vet said he didn't get much) Vet says feeding tube for a couple days so he gets food. Maybe an IV for hydration. Tongue might heal....might not (dog might still need to be put down) Said he would also check for heartworms/other first so that we don't fix the dog's mouth and a heart worm kill him. How much? "Hmmm..... probably anywhere between $600 and $1,000" (sigh) Do it. He's a cute guy. Just about knee high. Vet thinks he's about 5 months old give/take. Sure hate to have him put down. Would like to give him a fair shot at a good life. Don't need another dog (have 3 plus a cat and all were.....strays) Guess we'll see. If he survives and we get him back, maybe I'll post a picture of him and take suggestions for names....UNLESS I of course, win the lottery, then his azz is mine and I'm naming him Lucky AND, already told the wife, we'll build another house here on the farm and give him his own room.

Well after many years of someday... I finally bought my first pair of Klipsch speakers, a pair of walnut Heresy III's. Over the years I have lusted after my own pair. I remember when I was a kid in the 70's reading an article where the writer was miking things around his house (I don't remember the reason), he got distracted and inadvertently left things set up. He had a Klipsch horn as part of the setup, and someone came to visit. When his mike picked up the car door closing, he was astonished and went on to write a great deal how it sounded EXACTLY like a car door closing. That description of the faithful representation of the sound is what started my interest. Later in life mid to late 80's I was in the Navy and the BX had some pretty high end stuff LaScalla's included, a friend of mine had the money and got a pair, I loved those speakers. I often quote him "If you want to dissipate power, buy a toaster, if you want to hear music, buy Klipsch". Well the Polks I could afford during that period finally gave up the ghost so I replaced them with the Heresy's and a REL T9. They are breaking in as we speak. These are for the living room system. I have to say they sound good. The size has not put the wife off too much I originally thought LaScalla but with the space constraints the Heresy's made more sense. I have to admit the look on her face would have been priceless! They are being driven by a Pioneer receiver (for now) and I'm looking for a nice tube something to put in front them. My main system consists of BAT VK-5SE pre, and VK 60 amp Dunlavy towers, but these sound nice, and affords the opportunity to play music softly and sound good. Thanks for being here and i hope to contribute soon. Ric

No one may have won the big jackpot, but we drew the powerball + one match which was good for $4. We're happy.

The bottom attached And here is how it looks with the front panel on. I found two issues that i will have to keep an eye on, on the next build. Sent from my SM-N920P using Tapatalk

My Samsung does it, I just rotate it. Unless I pull from my library. My HTC one never did it. Kind of a pita.

This thing might be up to 2 billion by the next drawing….I might have to buy a ticket They were selling tickets at a rate of 1.5 million per minute last night.

Bad taste in music too

get your wings

(Lots of hyphens in that title...I like it... I bet this topic has your full and undivided attention if you're here reading this.) So let's get into the basic idea: crossing the ideas of Mr. Roy Delgado and Mr. Tom Danley on horn design, namely using a K-402 as the basis of a multiple-entry horn design--like the Unity Horn design of Sound Physics Labs. The Synergy Horn of Mr. Danley is still patented (US8284976), but this design reuses the exact physical design of the Unity horn (US6411718--expired). If you cross the woofers over at the first notch frequency, there is no patent infringement. The K-402-MEH is a cross between the K-402 horn used on Roy's Jubilee (the real secret of the Jubilee, IMO) and the multiple-entry horn design of Tom Danley. So neither of these topics are controlled by legalities except of course the names that may be copyrighted by Klipsch and Danley Sound Labs, so I'll just refer to this new design as my "New Center" design, since I'm currently using it between two 2-way Jubilees as a center loudspeaker. What am I really talking about? Perhaps some pictures will help: The horn itself with drivers attached: So the first question is: why? That's pretty easy: I needed a better center loudspeaker between my Jubilees, but the size of another Jubilee is not possible to accommodate in my room. So I reused the horn profile of the most important horn--the high frequency K-402 horn used in the Jubilee--in a full range loudspeaker design. How can you do that? Isn't the K-402 just a HF horn? Well, the answer is: no, it isn't only a high frequency horn. We'll get to that in more detail as time goes by. Suffice it to say that the K-402 is used, unchanged, in the KPT-305 mid-bass module used by the 4-way behind-the-screen cinema systems. This module goes down to about 200 Hz using only a puny 8" driver that Klipsch provides. So the K-402 horn is good from at least 200 Hz to 20 kHz. I was needing more low end than just 200 Hz, so I decided to try my hand at a multiple entry design that reuses the aperture of the K-402 for both the bass woofers and the apex-mounted 2" compression driver. How does that work? Basically, you take two or more woofers and mount them on the sides of the back of a K-402 horn and provide through holes through the side of the horn at the right places to provide a secondary entry point for the bass frequencies, while the rest of the horn behaves like a K-402 horn with 2" compression driver. Two for one, basically. No Jubilee bass bin is used. Besides the fact that the Jubilee bass bin is exceptionally large, by itself, as a center loudspeaker, it just isn't possible to use the Jubilee bass bin in my case. But I still wanted everything else that I get from my Jubilees on either side, and I want this center loudspeaker to seamlessly integrate in terms of its timbre, coverage angles, and in all other sonic performance areas. In addition I get a few things that I don't get with the Jubilees: 1) point source loudspeaker performance (more on this topic later). [This is a big deal that Danley has been capitalizing on of late. Using separate horns for each way of loudspeaker has interesting issues that few people typically think about.] 2) I avoid the issue of dual-mouth bass bin polars at the crossover frequency that the Jubilee bass bin has. In fact I get the same polars all the way through the crossover region--something that is an issue for the Jubilee (refer to the EASE data for the Jubilee). I get full polar coverage up to and through 600 Hz and above. The Jubilee bass bin has issues starting at 200-300 Hz in this area due to its two bass bin mouths. 3) I don't have any folds in the horn. The advantages of this are many, and have been discussed in detail in the forum threads many times. 4) The cost of the center loudspeaker is about 1/3 of a full-up Jubilee. This isn't a trivial point to consider. It's also much less cost than Danley Synergies. 5) I don't need a corner of the room in the center of my setup to get good bass response, like the corner-located Jubilees need. Danley Synergies also have an issue in this regard (except the SH-96). EDIT (21 March 2019): a more recent measurement at ±1 dB resolution using new PEQs, Danley-style crossover filters, and tri-amped. The compression driver is a BMS4592ND (dual diaphragm) making the K-402-MEH a three-way design. Note the -3 dB frequency on the low end (16.5 Hz): EDIT 7 November 2021: There is a new 2 inch compression driver on the market that makes the job of the woofers easier and produces an even better result--the Celestion Axi2050: More REW measurements, like spectrograms, harmonic distortion, can be found on this page: A discussion of MEH crossover filters (focusing on the Danley SH-50 design): Polar performance is summarized in this plot (normalized curves to the on-axis response, 10-60 degrees off axis from centerline, or otherwise stated...20-120 degrees included angle) (EDIT 25 Oct. 2018: These polar response plots will be updated soon to reflect a more successful crossover filter overlap scheme): EDIT (4 March 2018): A normalized spectrogram of the horizontal polar performance using OmniMic (freeware): The -6 dB point is the blue-green color in this plot. This is spectacular directional performance down to 100 Hz, which is solely due to the dimensions of the K-402 mouth. This is significantly lower than the nominal polar cutoff frequencies for virtually all other horns used in home consumer environments. The effect of having such low frequency directivity available is outstanding in-room performance and ability to couple to the boundaries without polar lobing effects much more effectively than even the Jubilee bass bin. This is outstanding polar directivity performance that I have not seen in any other loudspeaker. 6) All of these advantages will also work even better for those that might want to use this design instead of Jubilees in the corners--except in a package that is about 1/3 the size of a Jubilee--essentially the same volume and form factor as a La Scala II, and about the same weight (190-200 lbs). 7) You can use this loudspeaker in a vertical orientation--like the difference between a regular and vertical Cornwall--without having to change out the internal baffle. The horizontal coverage can then be 60 degrees instead of 100 degrees. Ceiling bounce issues can be controlled at the loudspeaker in this orientation. Etc. Why doesn't Klipsch do that already? Probably because the Jubilee is aimed at the Cinema marketplace, which requires much higher average SPL. Secondary to this have been the patent issues that have more recently been resolved by the expiration of the controlling patent. Why not use a Danley Synergy Horn instead? Well, price for one. And all the Danley products are designed for PA use - even higher SPL than Cinema. This means that the requirements that they have been designed to don't match the needs of the home hi-fi enthusiast, like myself. Additionally, the K-402 horn is a better horn than the Danley dual-flare conical horns, in terms of polar control and coverage angles. The Danley Synergies used at home have been the SH-50 or SH-60 designs, which have about half the horizontal coverage angle that I need in my listening room, and they have insufficient low frequency headroom relative to the modified K-402 with two 15" woofers. You would have to buy two Danley SH-96s to have two stereo loudspeakers, and those units apparently go for $8363(US) each--they have 11 drivers in each cabinet which is neither necessary nor useful for the home hi-fi enthusiast, and those drivers cost real money. This K-402 design is much more "fit for purpose" than any of the current Danley designs. Danley SH-96 Polars: Danley SH-50 polars: Chris

RB -5 ii arrived Wed with no damage. Have had some time with these and I gotta say, these are plain ol fun speakers. Having never owned any Klipsch before, i wasnt sure what to expect. They had plenty of good reviews and you guys here spoke highly of them, but ya never really know till ya hear em. Good size, 17 x 9 x 10 and 22 lbs ea, they are stout. Knock test revealed a solid thud. 8" woof and 6" horn. Big rear port, so i had to move forward a couple of inches. These have the best bass i have ever heard from a bookie. Also a nice mid bass kick that is fast and accurate. I expected the horn to sound shrill, but its actually rather laid back, almost too much so.. Comparing with the B&W CDM 1nt, they held their own. Much better bass, but lacked the sweet mids and airy highs that the B&Ws possess. That said, its a fine sounding speaker on its own. They have a seductive quality that is enjoyable, with zero fatigue. Also, these speakers image like crazy. Most vocals are dead center and sound like center channel in playing. Love that. Overall solid presentation and well worth the 265.00 delivered from Colorado, Thanks again MATTser! Having a lot of fun with these speakers. A LOT of energy in these things. 8 ohm, super easy to drive and a palpable bass at low volume. These would be a solid choice if you need a near full range sound from a bookie. I did a lot of listening through the Marantz NA 7004 both CD and FLAC files, into the Onkyo TX SR 705, in "Pure A" mode, bypassing all calibration and no subs. Just a well blended sound that could do a smidge better with the mids, especially vocals, and could have a tad more air and bloom from the highs. Overall though a solid well rounded speaker for not a lot of cash. Im keepin em!

Even after they experienced your power balls?

The Bengals?

Now that the purse is going to be even larger, I've changed my plans. I'll buy the Bengals, fire everyone... fit the stadium with Klipsch speakers (KP600's if I can pry them from others hands) and we'll all just have a party there. I'll even provide the (Cincinnati) Chili for Old Timer/Sugar... he seems to like cinnamon or, was it beans? I guess he could like beans, it's others around him that might find that objectionable?

Fantastic! Now I can suspend reality and live in my winner's fantasy world for another four days.

1.3 , plan on buying tickets by noon.

Steelers win! Lady friend is a Steelers fan.....from Wheeling not far away and she had the powerball #13 But none of the other five

Yup that about sums it up, with a pair of Jubilees and some fine tunes. My cousin introduced me to Heavy Metal back in the early 90s, that has to be one of my favorite scenes. The whole flick was great. I have looked for Taarna for years.

Oh no...I already started spending my winnings. Now what?

I've watched that play 100 times, and yes it was a fumble…And, I don't see this as a team choke. I see this as a couple of players that were incredibly selfish and out of control that cost their team the game which is even more disgraceful.

Nope, just having a cup of joe. Contemplating going down and picking up the basement.

I seem to remember a night where two alien “junkies” consumed large quantities of plutonium nyborg while piloting a space ship. While trying to land the ship on a space station, one alien says to the other, ““It’s like, you know your perspective is fuc*ed so you just gotta let your hands work the controls as if you’re straight.” Yup that about sums it up, with a pair of Jubilees and some fine tunes. My cousin introduced me to Heavy Metal back in the early 90s, that has to be one of my favorite scenes.

I am. Six nothing, Steelers over the Bengals at halftime. (I am Steelers fan)

Hey congrats! Let us know your impressions as you put them through their paces. I'm convinced that part of the reason they rarely change hands is because those that have them wouldn't give them up for much of anything.

The dog or the second wife? I can stand dogs 24/7

The dog or the second wife?

No problem, i'll be more than happy to sell you some after you get you piece of that fat lotto!

You're a good man, giving this dog a shot at a good life.

Maybe your state.

Hate to disappoint everyone but we stopped and got a ticket on the way home, it's over now, so if nothing else thanks for the donation to the state.

Champagne is-a-Chillin ! This for two reasons: 1. Drinkin during the draw and the party is ON! 2. Have so much in me it wont matter to lose!

I found the Chorus to be the most power hungry Klipsch speaker I ever owned. That said even with a weak amp the KG4 should sound kinda dumb next to a properly functioning Chorus.

Mark, and The Boss, I'm sorry to hear about your Dad. I lost my Mom a couple years ago, prayers and good vibes sent your way. He sounds like he was a great guy, give your Mom an extra strong hug.

I like diversity.

Condolences mkp and boss. I lost my dad a year ago November. The grieving and adjustment to this new normal is defintiely a process. You have a unique dynamic with the Alzheimer's. Blessings on you and your family right now. You are in my prayers.

And the "Leading Man finely shows up! Yes Oldtimer and i appear to be the only followers of this Less than B- movie. All iv ever seen by the way were clips, thank god i got off light one that one The odds of getting attacked by a shark are one in 11.5 million; although, I suspect during Sharknado week on SiFy those odds dramatically decrease to maybe 1.5 in 2. Jerry Springer, gone! And mostly forgotten? Matt Lauer gone! And mostly forgotten? .

.....afternoon friends.... I thought I would cross post a photo of what is happening 'round here.... A screen shot from the Longfellow Theatre.. Currently taking in a LIVE all French concert from Berlin (my Digital Concert Hall subscription) stream... Have the laptop hooked to a brand new DAC feeding into the audio system in here. And the first time ever, run the HDMI video directly into the Visio big screen.... All very cool, and right now intermission and an interview with the choral conductor for what is coming up next... Faure' Requiem ;0)

New tires for the Pacer.