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Making a lamp roast, on the spit, at my parents. Starbucks in hand.

Now we know which came first!

So, I took advantage of the big discounts on Palladiums and ordered a set of P-37’s, along with the center and surrounds in Merlot. I did not order the sub as it is just too big for me and I already had the RT-10D, which is excellent and compact. The Palladiums replace KLF-20s/C7 and KSP-S6 surrounds. They arrived roughly a couple weeks ago. I am driving them with a Denon AVR-X6200W, and I use Audessey room correction. After many years of tinkering, I had my KLF-20’s really, really dialed into my room and they sounded beyond excellent. My expectations for the Palladiums were better looks, slightly better mids/highs, slightly better imaging, and significantly better center integration/matching. I had my doubts about bass, but given I am running a good sub, I was confident I could get the bass dialed in and would be at least as good. In short, my hope was that these would provide the best sound I have ever heard. (No pressure, haha). The first thing to happen was that my RT-10D subwoofer inexplicably died right at the beginning, so it is in the shop, and I am without sub. When I first turned them on (no sub, no Audessey), I immediately noticed that the P’s had potential, mids/highs were smoother and clearer, and I was very surprised by the quality of the bass. But I knew I had some work to do to get the P’s dialed into my room. Now, I have to say again, the previous KLF-20s were really dialed in, so I had a good idea of the sound I was expecting. After two weeks and probably 20 hours of adjusting speaker positions, running Audessey, dozens of times, with multiple Audessey mic patterns, multiple speaker positions, and driving my wife crazy, last night it finally clicked. And Oh. My. God. It was goose-bump-city all evening. Yes, this is the best sound I have ever achieved in my house. Here are my a few tracks that I use to know if I am dialed in: Blue Ray: I use the movie “Battleship”. This movie has tremendous sound effects. When the alien ship breaks up and slams into earth, the explosion effects are supreme. When a piece of the alien ship slams into a glass skyscraper the explosions and smashing glass is incredible. I expect this to improve when I get my sub back, but I am pleasantly surprised how good the P’s perform without the sub. Music: Mark Knopfler – Album: Golden Heart, Track: Golden Heart. This song has some delicate guitar, delicate vocals, along with bass note that has always been a challenge to get sounding perfect in my room. Greg Brown – Album: Down In There, Track: Hillbilly Girl. This song has acoustic guitar, a delicate deep simple drum beat, and vocals that that will sound grating/awful if my midrange is not dialed in. Yarn – Album: Yarn, Track: Listen Up Sweetheart. This song has acoustic bass, steel guitar, mandolin, gentle snare drum and a certain spaciousness that I look for. Many others, but I use the above ones because I am very familiar with them and they tell me when something ain’t right. Overall happy camper here! Pics:

The passive is a port-- they are typically used where port tubes would be too long for the enclosure. The RSW's still command a great resale value, maybe you'd be better off selling it as is and replacing it with something that suites your tastes a little better?

Happy Easter!

good morning!!! HAPPY EASTER!!! found this pic and HAD to share.... most of you probably remember these days....

Morning gang... A happy Easter to all..... We are all going up to moms for dinner this afternoon.... between The BOSS and my eldest daughter they are doing the dinner thing... Just like most holiday dinners, this is one of those day that I do what ever The BOSS tells me to do Coffee all done... just getting my shitt together.... A good day to all.. MKP :-)

It should be enlightening though.

His parents might be shocked at his main course.

Please be sure to unplug the lamp first

Easter breakfast is done, Belgian waffles, sausage links, eggs, and coffee. Now to the garage for the next project.

Happy Easter everyone. Don't eat (or drink) too much

20 lb ham in the oven, 2nd pot of coffee brewing and another Easter feast coming. Hope everyone has a great day!

Patently waiting for the Easterbunny

Spent the day over at a friends house playing poker today, he lives in a townhouse and a neighbor pulled up in a new/used Acura/Honda Civic clone bumping the tunes so i had to see what was going on of course. Had a look to see what was going on with the music and ended up helping the guy out, ended up fixing the passenger door cable that was unhooked from the latch mechanism and then hooked up the subwoofer properly. It was a Kicker 15" in a ported cabinet and a 3000 watt jippo amplifier i ended up bridging the amp and checking all the wiring just for good measure. the sound still had no kick. Must have been Pyramid watt rating i guess. Guy barely spoke english and i tried to sell him some minor upgrades or at least something people would not laugh at but the language barrier got in the way for the most part. So much for making a few bucks. The Drop ceiling subwoofer build for the local A/V company got back with me yesterday at least and said i have their business for any further custom work. Said the build went above and beyond anything they expected and construction was excellent. This was coming from a company that imported everything from England at much more expense, made me feel good about my work at least. Time for some hot coffee, enough beer for one day. Maybe melt into the recliner for a while. :emotion-44: Kind of beat.

Buying (assuming they're not beat up, they looked good in the pics)a pair off CL next Sunday. They have new Crites tweeter diaphragms too. These are the first parts in my move from. 5.1 HT system to a dedicated 2.1 system. No questions yet, just wanted to express my happiness. They guys is selling them because his wife didn't like the look. I hope my wife does.... -Derek

Porting the cabinet will probably remove too much volume to make any improvement in sound and without having access to T/S parameters outcome would a guess at best. If you need something to run with your La Scala set look into adding a proper horn sub to make your bass seamless.

Do your rolling papers get soggy? Always, had to switch to a pipe, it's still very tough to light. Chicken done and hamburgers cooking now, pork and beans with plenty of bacon cooking, potato salad done with regular salad for the rabbit people.

Happy Easter to All. Just getting up and around, hey its only 9am out here. Coffee brewing, first cup down. Going to barbeque/grill a couple whole chickens later, maybe throw on a couple steaks near the end. It'll be just me and the better half today(I think) so plenty of leftovers, yum. Without getting too religious for the forum, God Bless you all this Resurrection Sunday.

Well more like what my kids got yesterday. We replied to an ad where some folks had rescued an abandoned puppy. After a couple of weeks of canvessing the area, media notices, vet check for chip we are now th eparents to this...this...some breed of dog. Beagle face, shepard coloring, big azz feet and long legs (never will figure this rotated stuff out)

Smoking chicken, hamburgers hot dogs, nothing fancy also potatoesalad and regular salad. Just the rest of the family coming over. Of course coffee was first.before even lighting the smoker.. Everyone have a good day.

Watt's the chances that it cooks properly?

This is my guy.

I cannot tell you how hammered I got in there. It was Alabama GA weekend.

Looks like Tuna, Missouri......right up the road from dtel's place.

It always feels good when someone appreciates your work, makes it worthwhile.

It looks like Savannah to me but I haven't been there in a long time.

Name that city.

It's made by bose, it only does mid ranges for the most part .

Don't mess up a nice sub. if you want something easy build a Marty cube or the Dayton UM 18 sealed. This way you can get a good price off the RSW sub.

RSW15 is "tight" compared to most front speakers, but not compared to a La Scala, Belle, or Khorn. I know what you mean, because my Klipschorns are "tighter" than my RSW15. Is your RSW15 positioned as recommended in the manual (in a corner fairly close to the walls)? With music I find it sometimes helps to cross over to the RSW15 at 40 Hz, letting the Khorns do their "tight" best down to there. . With some music I don't use the sub at all. In my room (according to Audyssey) my Khorns are at F3 (-3 dB) at 40 Hz, but continue to generate bass to 24 Hz (according to REW measurements). With movies I set the bass management Xover to 80 Hz, and the LPF for LFE to 120 Hz, as recommended by the movie industry.

Good food served at Goose Island brewery right here in Chicago as well.

Hmmm? I think next weekend I will make a blank, solid plate to replace the passive with and seal it up. See how it sounds. A completely and easily reversible trial. My car subs got me to thinking about this. They are in sealed enclosures as well. I suppose making a vented port would really not accomplish much on the RSW. Good rainy day project... Thanks, Matt ♪ ♫ ♪

Stop running the bid up

Is it to early in the day for an Easter beer. Sent from my SM-N920P using Tapatalk

Do your rolling papers get soggy?

What wattage was the lamp?

Cute little guy. Good for you for giving that puppy a good life.

I love Savannah, what is name of that dueling piano bar?

It is Savannah. Funny how horse drawn carriages narrow it down quite a bit.

That's what i was thinking or Charleston ?

Received the XPA 5 from Scrappy today and I think I got a hernia too. I'm not sure, but I think he put a huge chunk of lead inside. Thanks Scrappy! Now I need to hook the BHSOB up, as soon as I catch my breath.

Next weeks lotto numbers.

Well its afternoon somewhere on earth already

Well in my opinion Stoney is a shoo in. But..... What do you think amout Donald Duck or Miss Piggy? Any other Cartoon Stars?

She doesn't have to worry about being picked up by the fuzz

turn up the bass and the pancakes can flip themselves!

When testing amplifiers and loudspeakers for EnjoyTheMusic.com, I always play a crescendo of full orchestra music. No other type of music has full audible frequency response range, highest dynamic range, widest sound pressure levels and most instruments all playing at the same time! These characteristics are extremely hard for amplifier and speaker combinations to reproduce and MOST dont. They compress and distort the notes and sounds together like puree vegetable juice. Really wanna hear what your stereo cant do? Play all-out, high-energy full symphony orchestra.