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Happy TGIF evening my friends.... Looks like things are going well, and happy B'day from our home to your mom's, I trust she had a wonderful evening out ((0; Ok, I am taking a night off from RTM, as it is CRUNCH TIME for the Los Vegas show!! We have a rehearsal Saturday afternoon which never happens, but due to the SNOW storm Monday, we had to reschedule... So, working in the studio tonight. Here is my new rig which is identical to what is being rented and delivered to the SunCoast Hotel/Casino on the 21st. That is the actual setlist printout for the Diamond Mountain show for Saturday 23rd... NEWS! Today, I spoke with Kenny our front man, and he talked with the movie producer and it seems that Neil Diamond just may show up!!!! If he does, he will be asked to join Kenny on our stage to sing Solitary Man which is the second to the last tune of the show... I just know the audience will go ballistic over this, and we will all be beside ourselves for sure ((((0: .....and for sure, King Errissin (Neil's) percussionist will be with us for the finale singing his own music with Kenny, a very cool tune called "Mountains of Love" .. I believe the full cast from the movie including the Vegas Gospel choir will join us once again. This is just too cool to believe !! Here is the 'symphonic' gear for the show... Enjoy your evening everyone...

Afternoon all..... Fresh cylinder heads from the machine shop.... Block and tops of pistons cleaned up....getting ready to install heads... MKP :-)

this is the kit I was talking about, it is made by Mcguiuars and actually has two different grits of sand paper! Rog

On really faded headlight lenses, some people use sandpaper to remove the haze. Then gradually work your way up to the super fine grit. There is a kit that has the sandpaper disk and applicator you hook to your drill.

youtube said to try salt and baking soda paste on the plastic vu meters. Not much difference. Polished afterwards with car wax. Scratch still evident but it's nice and shiny

Opening day was a huge success. The temp at game time was 38 and it zoomed up to 42, but the sun made it feel warmer, as did the 4-0 defeat of the Yankees. Snow flurries were just starting during the top of the 9th. I was unable to attach photos to a post from the game. Apparently, I had to clear some server space by deleting photos from old posts.

I get it...I live it too... I don't like the drugs, but the drugs like me.....

Weird weather day today, it was raining, sleeting, snow, then falling slush. Sounds wonderful huh. I'm ready for spring

This thread will not get locked, but those who violate the terms of service and continue with personal attacks will be issued warning points. This is the second warning by a moderator in this thread. Knock it off.

Morning gang.... Getting ready to roll out to the shop...... I got the Pilot in before we rolled out yesterday..... Picked the heads up from the machine shop.....they look really good.... the head repair was a bit more than I thought it would be. But my guys at this machine shop do some super good work. Ya know it's been years and I mean years since I've had to take anything to the machine shop for engine work. So I think I'm out or touch of reality of how much machine work really is. I think the last time I took a 4 cylinder head in for a valve job it was around 200 bucks.... My two V-6 heads were almost 600 bucks and I supplied all the 12 bent exhaust valves ..... Now they are Honda V-tec heads and there is a whole lot going on in that valve train.......anyway it is what it is.... I'm just glad it'll be going back together this week..... Yea Carl your right it is time to get that thing running....... There just so little "free" time..... we still got so much going on with The BOSS's mom and the passing of her dad....it's just never ending.... but things are coming around... Thanks guys for all the birthday wishes to my mom..... yea we had a good time at dinner last night. It was just me, The BOSS ,my dad and my mom and my youngest daughter stopped just to say hi... good times for sure Tigerman....really cool stuff my man........ keep us posted for sure....Ya know The BOSS has been keeping up on all the posts hear and she said to me "hey Tigerman is up in Mass, that's not too far away.... we should go and see him and his band"....... yea that would be cool... Chuck..... glad you got your R2R back...... good luck getting those scratches out.... Neil.... glad you had a good time at opening day..... man it's been years since I've been to a ball game... Rog...... Good to hear your helping your friend out.... Hey depression is some tough shitt.... I've been known to get my head real deep up in my a$$ now and then..... We all need our friends to help pull it out... All my other friends.... have a great day and weekend..... Will check in later with some pics... MKP :-)

You go Aaron...... Keep us posted my man...... MKP :-)

Yes. If you go to "My Settings" and then "Manage Attachments" you can see how much of 100mb allowed space you have available. It's also easy to delete older attachments. As Carl mentioned, at least some posts that were migrated from older platform had triplicate attachments, which hogged storage space. Phone photos are often smaller files than camera photos. My new phone takes hi-res photos that need to be resized to be attached.

Morning gang, soccer and baseball this morning, then down to the lake to prep for the up coming camping season. Did you do this after the new site migration? I had to as there were several duplicates of my old photos for some reason. Also, I noticed that photos taken with my phone and posted via tapatalk do not take as much space.

I prefer to employ 72 large breasted virgins fresh from the Black Forest. They can lie on their backs and string the cables securely from breast to breast in such a way that said cables never actually touch the ground.

Very good news there Chuck, sorry about the added blemishes! I dislike that sort of stuff ! Scratches on the meter may rub down with an auto clear coat scratch remover. I have a couple of products that work well for this. The key is to create HEAT be rubbing and it will soften the plastic and help round over the scratch edges, or remove it completely. Let us know how it comes out. Ok, back to music work here.................

DUDE! Glad you got it back! You can go to any auto parts store and get a kit for polishing car headlights, that will take care of the scratch in your VU meter lens. As for wood work, that would require pictures and covered to death on this forum in the past. It will all depend on how deep they are Rog

Got my R2R back today. The good is it seems to work okay. The bad some light scratches on the top of the wood case and a slight scratch on one VU meter. Was missing the take up reel so I had to take 1800 feet of tape off a reel to try it out. Actually walked down my road with the reel in hand and the other end of the tape tied to a tree Hooked it up to a similar vintage Pioneer SX-950 and it sounds okay. The tape was recorded at the slowest speed 3 3/4 ips so nothing special. So now I have 3 R2Rs Suggestions on how to hide/remove the light scratches?

MKP, I hope that you and your mom had a good time and made a great memory for you my friend A blessed Friday to everybody! I'm headed out to a bar with a depressed buddy of mine... Rog

Off all weekend and almost time to stop the coffee and typing and get something done, but been sitting in front of the screen for a few hours and listening to some Clapton at the moment so maybe just a few more minutes.

Yep happy birthday MKP's mom.....

If you are going to do any testing squirt a couple drops of oil between the piston and cylinder walls then turn it over a bit to distribute the oil. Dry or oil soaked rings will give you a false reading, just for a heads up

Looks like those cylinder sleeves are scored up pretty good, hope it doesn't blow oil past the rings with those refreshed heads. Have fun finishing up your project. Since you have a leak down tester, that would be a good thing to do when you get those heads bolted down. If you need a bottom end rebuild, you would know before you get everything put back together.

Tool Shed Audio is second to NONE, IMO of course. I currently have two TSA units with 2 more custom mono blocks being built as we speak (mid May arrival). TS Matt's builds are the cats meow! the twins3 (Medium).jpg Matt ♪ ♫ ♪ I agree! Top notch for there intended purpose and gorgeous to boot! I wish I could hire him to do some of his cosmetic talents on a custom one off basis myself!

Oh ya! Do you guys think those jubillee things would be better than the La Scalla's? Pretty sure I already know the answer to that one, just trying to be sure. Calling Richard (Coytee)

Someone got bit by the Upgraditis bug

I just took them out of the box and sat the 402s on top of the Cornscals to get a perspective of how they will look. This is the 1st time I have seen these horns in person... They are definitely "Man Size".

Woke up this morning to another April snow, great. Coffee is still good, but looks like I'll have to spend another day working inside and have to listen to music and then watch the Masters, crap.

Once he started talking about how he had traveled around the world and people thanked him...I stopped caring. Self pretentious jaggoff.

I will bring down the price to $225.00 shipped for Klipsch members. This is still the only place I have them listed, if they hit ebay they will be higher. These are about as close to new as used can get. The RS-3 ll is second in line behind the RS-7 and really is an awesome surround speaker. Photos now added below

I have never had the flu shot but my sister got it one year and almost immediately got the worst case of the flu she'd ever had. I can't remember the last time I had a bad case of the flu and I sure have never had pneumonia before. I am not one to really get sick much and when I have it's never been all that bad, before this. My mother died at 86, my father at 91, he was 10 years older than her. Dad was an engineer at North American Rockwell he was very involved in NASA and helped to put the first Nasa rocket in the air as well as the first and last man on the moon and yes to the doubters we really did put men on the moon. My dad was very proud of his work with NASA. As a kid I got to see much of Nasa's space program up close. My oldest brother was a big part of the space shuttle program, he's 75 now.

You should not only elevate your cables, but sit below them. It is best to put them about 6.5 feet off the floor, and arrange them in the shape of triangle (from the power amp to each of the two front speakers, and with a cable across between those two speakers, which is connected to nothing on either end ... this is arrangement is called "tri-wiring"). Of course, wear a pyramid on your head. If you wear glasses, like the individual in the video, be careful to not turn your head while listening, because reflection of the lenses will adversely affect the imaging. One way to prevent this is to use a head clamp. Clamps made of titanium get good reviews, but those that are gold plated restore the warmth of the music. As Linn recommends, do not have a telephone, or anything else with a diaphragm, in the room that may vibrate in response to the sound waves. Listeners can hold their breath to prevent their own diaphragm from moving, no matter how high the SPL.

I had a near death experience once. At the right time, I called out the wrong name. Glad you're still on the right side of the dirt.

Happy Friday All, Well its supposed to rain on and off all weekend here in sunny southern California. Time to get some inside chores done. Leaky shower valve to replace, leaky kitchen faucet also needs replacing. Hope I can get a least one of these tasks done without breaking 10 other things. Hard water sucks! Plumbing sucks! Took my wife to the airport yesterday, she's off to see and take care of her Mom in Peru. MIL is still not back to normal after her fall last June. On the brighter side I picked up a third RSW-15 on the way back from the airport. Perhaps I can also get that puppy cleaned up and into the house this weekend. Cheers

The guy almost dies, and what - comment about his Quasi - Mullett.? ? ? Sheesh. Good lookin guy for 58. Lars

ROTFLMBO!!! I nearly spit out my ice cream when I read that! You're just lucky don't own me a new computer screen!

I can actually hear his voice echoing off the walls.

Love to try some of the amps. Setting all those wires up on little stands reminds me of witchcraft or voodoo.

Don't you just want to push one of them down like domino's? He should probably turn the heat up too, then he could remove that stupid scarf and vest. LOL

Morning all... Yessssss............it's Friday.............I don't what the hell that means, cuz I'm working at the shop all the time...... but I like Fridays and it's not like I get paid every Friday. The BOSS makes me sign a check once a month. Then she just take the check It's my moms birthday today. We will be going out for dinner tonight. Not a whole lot going on at the shop today.... Got a few cars to work on for the used car maggots. So it'll be an early day.... I will get the Pilot in the shop before I leave tonight... gonna start putting it back together. Will be picking the cylinder heads up from the machine shop this morning. OK.... Check-in later..... A good Friday to all MKP :-)

Who needs google when you have a turntable and Jeff Beck lp's?

I've had my Mac MC2105 and MX113 for just under 20 years. The AM tuner has been giving me grief for a while and a noisy phono channel recently gave me enough reason to send the MX113 to Terry. Knowing the history of my MC2105 back to the 80s, I knew it never had been serviced, so I knew the caps were overdue for replacement in it, too. My gear arrived at Terry's house on March 1st and I picked it up at FedEx today. Everything you've read about Terry is spot on: he's kind, thorough, incredibly good at his craft, and reasonably priced. Both pieces were treated to his audio path upgrade and Terry includes some personalized notes with his work. He noted that a previous FM tuner repair to my 113 was done incorrectly (this repair was done by a WELL known Milwaukee-area McIntosh guy), which plagued my tuning capabilities for the last 8-9 years. He also pinpointed the problem with my phono channel, which now is dead quiet. After updates, my 2105 benched at 140 WPC in Terry's shop. It's a completely different sounding amp, which is taking a little bit to get used to. It's like a veil has been taken off my speakers, but it's more pronounced than the improvement from crossover recapping. I've dreamed of having my McIntosh equipment gone through by Terry for YEARS, but held off out of fear of the equipment breaking in transit and thinking the cost would be more than I could afford. FedEx handled my factory boxes with care and the trip to TN and back to WI was completed without issue. On the cost side of things, even with shipping, Terry is competitive with local Milwaukee-area shops. AND IT'S TERRY EFFING DEWICK DOING THE WORK! Three things to beware of: I caught Terry at the best time, coming off his winter vacation. I coordinated the date to have my gear arrive with his back to work date, so my gear was on the bench within a few weeks. When I called last summer, Terry was 120 days out, which is much more common. For me, the time away from the McIntosh was time for me to play with a Marantz unit I've had in a closet. Two, Terry has at least one cat. If a few stray cat hairs in your box will give you fits, just pretend they're not there. Lastly, I think Terry or his wife might be a smoker. I have a good nose and noticed a faint, but noticeable, scent of smoke on my gear when it returned. It's nothing like the stink of some of the gear I've purchased from estates over the years, but it needs to be mentioned. Would it stop me from sending gear to Terry? Absolutely not, as I know it'll diminish quickly. So, friends, the bottom line is if you have some Mac gear that hasn't been recapped or professionally gone through, do not hesitate to send it to Terry DeWick. I think you'll be blown away by how reasonable it is to have this stuff gone through. I don't want to talk prices in a post, but feel free to PM and I'll share both invoices if it'll convince you to have some work done. Enough typing, I have music to listen to Jeff

Selling my modded Khorns, volti crossovers, B&C dcm 50 mid drivers, PRV polyimide tweeters, Crites cast woofers, Edgar tractrix midrange horns. Original tops including drivers and k400 horns come with. I'm located between Watertown and Clayton NY in the town of Pamela. Thanks

Why would Tom mind making more cases???

Oh...... wait a minute!!!! Those were the Chours ii's that fell out my car last week.... I'll PM you my address so you can get them back to me Really cool story..... That my man is one hell of a find..... The Chorus and Chorus ii's are one of favorite Klipsch.... Welcome to the forum..... MKP :-)

I have never had the flu shot but my sister got it one year and almost immediately got the worst case of the flu she'd ever had. I can't remember the last time I had a bad case of the flu and I sure have never had pneumonia before. I am not one to really get sick much and when I have it's never been all that bad, before this. My mother died at 86, my father at 91, he was 10 years older than her. Dad was an engineer at North American Rockwell he was very involved in NASA and helped to put the first Nasa rocket in the air as well as the first and last man on the moon and yes to the doubters we really did put men on the moon. My dad was very proud of his work with NASA. As a kid I got to see much of Nasa's space program up close. My oldest brother was a big part of the space shuttle program, he's 75 now. You cannot get the flu from an in-activated virus (a flu vaccine). If you sister was sick with the flu (i.e. same strain) after getting a flu shot she was in already in process of getting sick before the vaccine took effect (i.e. less than 14 days post vaccine). She also cannot get pregnant from a public restroom's toilet seat. You might want to compare notes with her to give her some understanding of just how ill you can really get from a seasonal flu virus.

Must of gotten at least 20 shots while in the hospital some even in my stomach, blood pressure and temperature checked about every 3 hours even though it was always good.pills galore Tamiflu, Potassium supplements and others. electrical cables and monitors all over my chest at all times, IV in one hand and always on several different oxygen masks that were as uncomfortable as can be, two kat scans, x rays every morning about 4 AM, weighed every morning at about 6 AM they must have taken about 1/2 a quart of blood from me everyday though none was ever put back in. Nurses or doctors doing something to me about every 2 hrs. Absolutely NO SLEEP. Only good thing I had about 30 very cute & sexy little nurses all in their 20's while I as in the hospital. I had to ask and be escorted to the bathroom every time. I believe you are missing the point (get it). If you'd gotten a preventative Flu Shot early in the Fall of 2015 you would not have got the flu this year. If you had not got the flu you would not have had this very subject to post here. I learned I was not actually immortal at age 29, my father found out he was not immortal at 91. Guess who was the most surprised? Once you'd had a single serious bout of pneumonia, especially double pneumonia, you are at a higher risk of future reoccurence.

I'm glad you're still here, 58 is too young to go, plus you need to make it to a Pilgrimage!

Look up dork in the dictionary and this guy's picture is in the illustration.

In full disclosure I am looking for the best sound possible. The means to get there is unknown to me at this time. Maybe I have arrived. AS you know I had a P/P 25 watt EL84 mono block set up. It sound a smidgen better than the yammy 1030... but only on a very few songs. 3 days and 3 sets of ears could not tell one from the other. 1. I have no idea who else sells tubes or SS that I could try other than the Pass30.8. Six moons review of that amp simply said ( in my words here) the 30.8 is over the top good. And that was against mega buck tube and SS Power AMPS. Like the review I linked to above, and my electronics background, prove that listening at 1 watt you need at least 20 more to pull from during dynamic passes. I am not up to building anything. Mike Sanders of QS fame and Nelson Pass are far more accomplished than I in that realm. There is nothing wrong with having a 30 watt SS amp playing at one 1 watt. With out question some music will dig into the 25 watt mark. That is the reason for that pass 30.8 At Best buy they have $50,000 worth of Mac amp preamp etc playing into $15,000 martin logans. Horrible compared to my khorns. When my K horns were puiing 1 watt the ML's were pulling 75. Point is the 30.8 power wise is certainly not to much power. If I never use the last 5 or so watts, all the better. The more power you pull from any amp, the more distortion it makes. I love my horns because they address the issue of efficiency. The Folded Bass is a wonder of the universe. ( there may be others, but they will cost way WAY more than what I paid for these 20+ yr old Khorns. I do not want or need to spend ~4 Large on a used 30.8. But if the sound is way better, then that is good. Same thing goes for tubes. I would try A&S casablancas but once you buy they are yours. NOT going to happen for me. I would posit to say, your definition of the sound you are looking for is not specific enough. "I am looking for the best sound possible” is a purely subjective call and if you interview 15 people and ask them to specifically describe “best sound” and what it means to them, you will probably get 15 very different answers. For example, some people look specifically to measurements as an “objective” tool to help them determine “accuracy,” which may be an important aspect of their “best sound.” However, “accurate” to what benchmark? Are we looking for accuracy when compared to the original studio session, accuracy in relation to the engineer’s mix, accuracy in reproducing “compression,” accurate in reproducing the tone or timbre of certain instruments, or accurate in that a Fender Stratocaster doesn’t sound like a poorly tuned banjo, or something else? Also, if audio gear is “too accurate” it will reveal every flaw in the recording itself and every flaw in the audio gear chain. Given “human nature” being what it is, people then tend to jump to unfounded conclusions that it must be the “amplifier” or the “speaker” (in general, people have been notorious for blaming the Klipsch speaker for poor recordings and poor choices in audio gear), which in turn, tends to impact the sales levels of the item. Others would claim that more bass, more punch, and more excitement from playing music is the “best sound.” Given the state of over-compression in music, the most accurate gear is not necessarily the best in playing heavily processed rock music and expecting more bass and more punch. Think of it this way, sometimes, a person just can’t make a cartoon look real by using a high resolution television. Some claim that a nice crisp high frequency is what they look for as being instrumental in the best sound, while others believe that the crisp high frequency makes for an etched and mechanical listening experience. In general, I believe that most manufacturers (especially those making mass-produced products) will go to extraordinary lengths to “claim” accuracy, to give consumers some level of “assurance” they are buying products that are accurate since the general consumer wouldn’t want their friends questioning them on why they bought an “inaccurate” stereo system (whatever that actually means). Personally, I’ve put together various systems to meet different listening objectives. For example, I’ve tailored a system for the bedroom that will create a surreal, lush and romantic tonal experience for my girlfriend rather than have an “accurate” system playing poor recordings, piercing her ear drums to the point where she has a headache and killing the mood. Another system involves my Klipschorns and is designed around a very detailed and highly resolving system of very minor details that are captured in good recordings where the criteria of very low noise and very low distortion levels using equipment with very linear circuits that need either none, or very little negative feedback. This system is my "evolution" system for experimentation where I swap various tube and solid state based components in an out of this system. My Jubilees are in another fairly resolving system that will probably also end up doing home theater duties, in addition to the two channel listening when I move to a bigger space. These are extremes on the continuum for me, but I have also put together other more general systems that fall somewhere in the middle of my continuum for general listening, general entertaining and occasional parties.