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Working it out! Getting set up for Watermelon Festival in hope, AR. Raising money for the museum. More pics to come!!!

Cool pics. 55 is a great number.

The view down our driveway. Is this a good sign?

Thanks Ceptorman, he really enjoys the game.

Yes. It means the earth will not be destroyed by a flood ever again.

I'll be glad when it warms up a little! JK….it was 80 and 97% humidity at 6am this morning.

Windy too

Not quite as nice out today.

Conduit tube into roof pulled out, meter box pulled about two feet away from mount, roof will need repair, and it looks like rain this weekend. Makes me think usnret drove by and jettisoned the poltergeist.

Hang on OT......borrow a telephone pole from JL The major renovation occupying my summer is about done. LF has a mighty fine looking place now. Photos to follow soon. Found some good and some not so good contractors but "Hawkeye" also known as Tarheel kept folks in line. She keeps asking for one of my R2Rs We covered the walls with grass cloth in the A/V room. Carpet on the floor so we will see how it sounds. I get to furnish the pool room. Has a nice Brunswick table that will need to be tuned and leveled. Heading out to dinner with mi amigo from LA before he heads off to Germany/Holland for a vacation after filming the movie "Six". LF will be staying at her new place for the first time tonight. That's it for now....requerdos los anchovies........

No sir, not good at all. May be close to Miller Time soon oldtimer...

Transformers just blew up, the pole by the house is in splinters, in 102 degree heat. Definitely not good.

Here is to hoping weather is good for upcoming festival in Hope... Love my watermelon! Maybe there will be some music under that tent...

Dad's memorial service was held this morning. Very upbeat. A genuine celebration of a life well lived.

Yessir, rainy day here since Monday off and on. Brother in Steinhatchee has had 20 inches so far. Cape San Blas getting it now and points west like Beaumont. Shopped yesterday and drinking some New England Breakfast Blend. Mowing will wait till next week. Have everything we need, but can always think of something else. Carl has the idea...... Cheers!

Yea but Chuck its only the 10th

My thoughts exactly!

True that! ^^

The pole is reduced to a stump! Next pole in line gone too.

Excellent Chris! I was kind of hoping you would chime in as I was writing that! I don't think many of us know the actual causes of the issues we are hoping to change by changing crossovers. For some, it is throwing darts in the dark hoping to get lucky. Playing with different crossovers and different capacitors has results that are usually full of pros and cons. I have found that using different capacitors results in slightly different sound and some are more pleasing than others over all. Another point is that some of us have different goals... Some folks might want good sound throughout most of the room while I care mostly about just where my head is (insert joke here). My biggest challenge now is fixing my room (or moving and starting over). My equipment is capable of much better sound if I could just get the room set right. I've heard way better sound from a non-EQ'd system but in a meticulously set up room. I'm not opposed to trying a little high quality EQ but I'm thinking that I've got bigger problems to solve... Like how do I get some of that <junk> out of my room?

Very cool! Hope it's a "fruitful" venture!

There are at least three really good reasons for this: 1) First and foremost, and as you now know, the mastering of the music tracks typically rolls off bass by 1-3 dB/octave below 100 Hz, and sometimes as high as 800 Hz, and accentuates highs...sometimes by as much as 15-20 dB boost over the typical 1/f cumulative SPL curve. This is correctable if you unmaster your recordings and the results, at least in my experience, are like the difference between the living and the dead. It's truly the most spectacular thing that I've found to help the sound of your favorite music. (...And why others aren't doing it--big time--for themselves is one of the biggest mysteries that I've encountered in this pastime.) 2) Most loudspeakers have irregularities in their controlled directivity that requires "salt-and-pepper" EQ to reduce the effects of wide-vs.-narrow coverages in the midrange band (about 200-2000 Hz). Once you hear the differences in horn coverage in a room under controlled conditions (such as the difference between a K-400 and a K-402, for instance), you'll understand why controlled coverage angles throughout the midrange passband is critical. Time misalignments also show up as coverage issues due to the disturbances in the polar lobes around the crossover frequency bands--which can be quite large in the case of the older Klipsch Heritage loudspeakers between the midrange and tweeter (~2-9 kHz). 3) Most people don't spend much time controlling the early midrange reflections in their room (sidewalls, front wall clutter, coffee tables, equipment racks, etc.) so these early midrange reflections add to the direct path acoustic energy to make the midrange sound irregular and unbalanced. I found that a lot of people are looking to their passive crossover networks to fix the above issues. The passive crossover networks can't fix it, however. All the passive crossover network can do is to perform some sort of EQ that the owners think isn't really there...and perhaps reduce the width of the crossover pass bands to a minimum. But the polar lobe issues are still there...especially in the crossover pass bands (including the "z" axis time misalignments), the music played still has the mastering problems mentioned, and the midrange nearfield reflections are still unbalancing the listening experience. Chris

I really miss the header we had at the top that showed the most recent posts W/ the immediately recognizable avatars. By my recollection, there was showing approx 20+ of them. It showed, to me , in my opinion, the recent activity much better than the stack on the right side, without immediately recognizable avatars, AND, less than the 20+ approx I recall. Don't mean to be troublesome, just my feelings. And, it seems to me overall activity - postings - has decreased. Still diminished excitement for me anyway. Lars

I've got sick all of the sudden yesterday after working outside in the heat for the morning. so i spent the evening curled up on the couch and watched looper and project almanac. both movies i enjoyed. today i called in sick since i had a fever this morning. watched a movie called fighting with chaning tatum and terrance howard. it was descent. then after i got out of bed i watched the olympics for half the day on the couch. then before the wife and kid got home and the house got all crazy i watched godzilla. all of this was watched on the new theater upstairs. i can't get over how amazing these speakers are. they aren't going anywhere unless someone comes over and HAS to have them and wants to give me what i think they are worth. but 4 movies for me would normally take 2-4 weeks to watch depending on date nights.

Lol! That would require writing a book. The synopsis would be that I have people that I trust listen. I listen to various cuts of music that I have collected over the years and i also "listen" to what the speaker and measurements tell me.

It's now really official and we can begin to talk about it. So much to tell you all, and so much is in the works, but here is a start. http://www.klipsch.com/news/klipsch-announces-non-profit-to-manage-klipsch-audio-history-museum

Klipsch Klipschorn Vintage Speakers; Walnut; Excellent Working Pair

Ive been there before. Bummer dude. Sent from my SM-N920P using Tapatalk

First things first. When you say you refurb'd the KHorns what do you mean? Just cosmetics? Do all the drivers work? What do you not like about the sound? There must be a reason you acquired them. With 30' between L and R you will probably need a center channel (the LaScala)even just for '2 channel' listening of vinyl/CDs to fill the 'hole in the middle', just MHO. That Kenwood should be able to drive the KHorns just fine as long as there is nothing wrong with it. When your listening to 2 channel do you know if the center channel puts out any signal? Is its level adjustable independent of the L and R? I am looking for a 'Dope from Hope' paper that explains the center channel but alas all the 'Dope from Hope' stuff is gone or dang hard to find. I'm going to ask about this in another thread. Welcome to the forum

I love to EQ a pure analog signal.

I don't have that many socks...

This has happened to me before. I also thought I blew I brand new 15'' Dayton Audio subwoofer when in reality I didnt install it with a good gasket and it was vibrating against the box. My wife gets mad now though because she will come into our music room and I will have socks and t-shirts jammed into our sliding closet doors etc.

Wow, a dramatic improvement this AM (30+ seconds --> 1-2 seconds response time). Thanks Chad! I thought the sluggish response was going to eventually kill the forum. Now the performance seems to be back to pre-software-update time delays and the functionality is greater than before (IMHO). Chris

Can Bob still get the GE caps ????? I thought he said he was unable to get them before. I got some for my Ks long time ago.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MY those are pretty...................what was the clear coat you used? You should sell that grill kit ....I tried to mock that up on mine and decided it was to much trouble and could not decide on the angles for the dog house. How did you sand the A part of dog house so well?? I spent days trying to sand next to that flat piece where the angle meets the back straight piece and back deep where your hand hardly fits.. I finally said that's good enough and went with it. lol

I don't think mike or I would disagree with this at all. Btw. Ask kev how much his "sweet spot" has increased.

Excellent. Celebrate the man he was.

Yeah don't get those. If that interests you, either 4 ceiling speakers, or RP-280FA's since you're getting RP-280F's anyway. They're nicer than normal towers with the modules.

Keep it simple, let the avr pick the XO. Without measurement, you will be just guessing and have no ideal of what is going on with the frequency response. The avr is doing 100's of things to get the sound right. Running this Atmos system, I'm XO over at 100 Hz and so what, lol. Nothing magic in setting the lowest XO point as possible.

The horn in a cf4 was exposed to the back wave of the woofers so damping the horn walls was a logical solution.

And that beaming can be made quite apparent when you have two acoustic sources covering the overlap band as is the case with shallow slope filters.

This was our Arkansas sunset last night. Can't wait for y'all to join us.

How could you use a set of speakers for 5 hours and decide that's enough? ...unless they're absolutely awful. They look like they're the perfect size for the room.

I agree 100%. Distortion from primary reflection point echos are the quickest way to destroy imaging and realism. The whole point of compression drivers and horns is to move very little and thus keep distortion to a minimum but if you are hearing your speaker and then the echo from your wall you throw all that engineering out the window. Once you have the basic principles taken care of such as near field reflections, comb filtering and keeping the bass controlled the rest is a matter of taste and a balance of absorption and diffusion.

Great work on the deck MG Hey Carl I think I see you in a chair on the beach....is that you with the bath robe or the speedo Enjoyed the photos Neil

I think they are virtually the same except that the 356BEE is modular and you can add or exchange out modules(DAC, phono preamp). Bill

Let me try to clarify my thoughts because I see many answers that seem to indicate some feel that there is a priority of attributes (frequency, dynamics, etc....) and imaging is one of them to choose from also. Imaging is a result/measure of and not really a choice. Imaging is a result of each of many attributes of a signal/recording being combined by our ear/brain to form an image. There seems to be a direct correlation that every time each of these are reproduced more accurately and preserved and delivered to the listener through the direct path combined/integrated with the room's acoustical path(filter) the imaging will be perceived in a much more realistic and pleasant way. It's not a matter of if someone is has reached a point of happiness or compromise that they can live with for aesthetic or other reasons. Imaging perception is an audible measuring method to know when you are getting the maximum performance from your loudspeaker, room acoustics and their integration. The new room I'm working on now is a good example of this. As I bring the room acoustics into proper balance and optimize the integration of the loudspeaker into the room the results are perceived in the improved imaging and the listener position becomes much less critical of being in the optimum position. If you want the best of any attributes on your list of priorities then Imaging can and should be used as a tool to measure/monitor your progress as you optimize your system/room. miketn

Forte II hands down. Nicer and better built cabs, better mid horn, higher resale. On a component list Fortes have a larger tweeter magnet and the larger (15 in) passive plays deeper. The tractrix horn has much less distortion than the older horn in the T-5000. I am the original owner of tangent 400s and love them, and have done a whole list of mods even sold Forte 1s and kept the tangents. But would grab Forte 2s or Chorus 2 in a heart beat if I can find them close enough.

Tubes done right are truly Great!