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I finally found the rug that I want for my music room. A Persian Kashan. What do you think?

Schu has been scanning WalMart wallet photos again. At least he picked a good one.

Well, I have to say it's true....there really is nothing quite like a Smokin' Mary. Once again thanks Mark. It's like a bbq and bloody mary all in one. In fact on the label it suggests an option is to use it as a bbq marinade. First try was just the simple version, later I'll start trying additional variations. This would be the perfect thing getting started in the morning when doing a long bbq, like pork shoulder or brisket. Exactly the right thing to get you going.

Started when i was a youngin, when finding myself entrenched in an organisation , i look to see what is at the end? what is a cool goal as long as im here? This is how i picked up the Sailor of the month Gig. I can hang many places, as most of you could also. I have hung out with worse people, as most of you have also. I can hang with people in other hobby's, as most of you can also. But how many people do you come across that think pizzing off the Neighbors is a good thing? We are indeed a select group. Even in our hobby, those AudioGon (among many) stick-up-their-azz, $45K Mac Amp guy's, Freak when you tell-em "Let's Crank It". This Cult is Fun. "Likes" are fun, i'll keep collecting them, just like pizzed off neighbors Hey this was fun, must be gooood coffee this morning, Rant's dont happen often on this end.......

Okay which one of you boys won the $403 million. Location wise it could have been Ben?

You have a new nickname, #2.

Evening gang Fresh 1/2 pot of coffee + The Duggans. Rv work continues, after the rain has stopped for a few days. Farmers are partying, like every dam day, everything is Mudd, levie is holding on the Feather River so far. Lot of water leaching through. farmers party different farm everyday. They have nothing to do, drink, shoot squirrels, drink.

I do like that name "Allen Wrench", but alas it is not to be.....

We have a mutual agreement... I do all the cooking outdoors, she does all the cooking indoors. I don't encroach on her domain and she doesn't trespass on mine. After 25+ years,it seems to be working...

Really ties the room together...

Yes but he was named that before the tool was named

Wouldn't twenty of these monsters constitute a Tiny House neighborhood of their own??!!

This part is purely subjective so mod would be the appropriate term I would think.

Yea.....and where the Hell did Roger go?....get back in here man. Oh wait.....I bet he has a backache from all those non heritage KP600's!!!!

I've never had an issue crapping Rogers threads nor he mine. Carry on.

Morning gang "Charlies Cafe" / Costco / Pub Flyby

^^^^^ OK I confess - it wasn't me.

You haven't been to my house. It's only 2 channel...........but 5 way. Plenty of speakers and amplifiers to make you happy.

I finished about two thirds of my gift from mark before I thought to cut it some (its real thick). Used a little V8 and then a splash of the optional "hot sauce". Bien! I found two to be my limit.....its SPICY.

So NC takes out Louisville 74-63, and right on cue, Villanova loses to Butler 74-66, opening up that 4th #1 seed. DizRotus, are you really that smart, or did you just stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night?

I am not a number. I am a free man...

^^^^^ Ain't that the shitts ---

Beings how you do NOT give "Likes", i still must comp once in a wile. i could not allow 14998 "Likes" to sit there all night. Now you can wake up to 15K, You're Welcome #2.

This specific program has worked for my parents over the last 53 years and counting. Friends sometimes ask me how they make it work, and my response is usually something along these lines: "Sometimes he still chases her around the kitchen, and every once in awhile, she lets him catch her."

hands down, by far, the funniest school i ever attended. Started one fire as nozzle man...had to peel off from the smoke, went to back and worked my up to nozzle man again. Nobody could take the smoke for long. That was a cool place. They’d create a fire and say “go put it out.” we got a lot in common brother.

When i make a Smokin Mary's, i add just a couple drops of Baker Bros. all i drink is ONE!

" Firefighting School on Treasure Island " Yep i passed through there myself. Placed in a room with smoldering cotton bedding and see how long you could take it

Come to think of it...

I think so... the ol ball and chain

I actually wish we did more of that at the gatherings. I really enjoy listening to the different topologies.

Certain brands and formulations went through some bad times for sure. They could probably come up with better tape with todays technolgy. Just like they could likely come up with a better 'plastic' for LPs (and I don't mean - it's a CD). Bruce

This thread reminds me of the "old" Forum. Most of us could get a rise at least every few days about a post. Lively and impassioned discourse is a symptom of health here, in my opinion. It's the sort of passion that draws us to Hope. I hope to see you all there this year. It's our heritage. SSH

https://www.monoprice.com/product?c_id=102&cp_id=10236&cs_id=1023603&p_id=5871&seq=1&format=2 This is 75' from Monoprice, they seem to be out of 50' currently. This is the good quad shielded RG6. It's a little stiff. But $14 for a75' high quality cable? You could not buy the material to make it yourself for that.

Right at a week since receiving Justin's massaged Pass Amp Camp single ended Class A monoblocks with dual regulated power supplies. Safe to say that these amps perform Way above their price point and would easily compete at twice their price point. Graveyard quiet through the Big 402 horn, Class A articulate, far more bottom than 6 watts of typical solid state generally provides. Not only the simple genius of a Pass single ended design but incorporating dual power supplies which I believe put Justin's signature to these. In fact he said it required a fair amount work to find the right balance of amp and power supply for proper operation. Apparently the kit amps alone leave something on the table until proper regulated power is supplied. And they are as cute as a bug! The damn power supplies are twice their size and weight. Very little heat for Class A, easy to live with. As I have found with other Class A designs they do not put as much meat on the bone as my full bodied Dennis Had KT66 single ended nor the total lite up nature of a Wright 2a3 DHT but damn close to both, somewhere in between. A closer tilt to the 2a3 than Had's more gentle, extremely pleasant KT66, following the sonic footsteps from his years with Cary. Thanks to Justin for his assurance these are good match with my Jubes and Klipsch in general and a more than far value to sound ratio. And they play on ----

If you're thinking about buying a pair of floorstanding speakers in the next few days, you could ****** up a free sub. The promo code and sub varies depending on which pair you buy. No afil. http://www.klipsch.com/reference-speaker-sale

----- I imagine Bullshitt and a slam of the door?

I think he moved 20 cabinets yesterday. Last I heard from him he was on his way to borrow a trailer as the 18 wheeler wouldn't get close enough to his house.

How about those Tar Heels?

The amount of misinformation here about R2R is astounding. As I go back to MagnaCorders and acetate tape and continue to work in that medium archiving PWK's personal tape collection for the Klipsch Heritage Museum Association, I feel like I have at least a little experience in that area. I have transferred stereo tapes made in 1954 that are superior in sound quality to 95% of the recordings made in recent years in all regards, with the possible exception of signal to noise which is still so low as to be irrelevant compared to the presence, detail, and imaging of these masterpieces. It has only been in the past decade that the Smithsonian began to set standards for the use of digital media for archiving because they were totally satisfied with magnetic tape as being the most reliable long-term medium available. PWK's tapes were not "babied" in controlled conditions for a large part of their life. My own tapes spent decades in Texas attics and still show no signs of deterioration. Granted, the acetates from PWK and my collection as well have become VERY brittle and curled...but handled carefully on a top of the line deck the sound as good as new. There are still engineers (I believe Mapleshade is a major proponent) who master on nothing but magnetic tape. I do not have a bias (as it were) towards any medium and judge only by the results. Dave

A nice very true tape story. In 1969 I had a cheapo Ampex 1/4" machine with pre-amps built in and two Shure multi directional microphones (50HZ to 15KHZ) placed three feet in front of each K-horn at tweeter level. I recorded a Christmas party (also on 16mm film) without much thought of anything. On play back the position and level of all the voices was absolutely uncanny down to inches in accuracy no matter where you were standing in the room. The phone rang and two of us got up to answer it and there was no one on the line and we remembered that the phone rang during the recording. The room was "L" shaped with all kinds of openings to the kitchen and hallway. That's when I realized how important that phasing was in a recording. I always think that if you can simulate the exact size of the recording studio phasing the results would be astounding. Now the mics and deck are gone but the K-horns and Cornwall are still here. JJK

We lost a world-class drummer on Saturday. I'll be listening to his work this evening. The man is gone but the music lives.

You know we ain't normal. We are in a niche of a niche of a niche product wise. Once you hear a Klipsch pro cinema that taste/sounds like the best hi-fi you've ever heard it is hard to go back. We aren't the target of any marketing department LOL.... That being said I like watching what is happening and the Forte III is cool. That mid horn is really cool.

Yea, but I follow what Mark1101 is saying. The thing is, if you listen to some of Roy's modern day horn inventions/creations....... You are screwed .......trying to find the love in the "home speakers". I've heard all the Heritage stuff .......like everyone else here..... and heard most of the pro stuff.......a lot. It is time the pro stuff bleeds into the home stuff IMO but I won't lose sleep over it otherwise. It isn't a complaint....just a longtime wish. Klipsch business model is way over our heads and then there is the respect of PWK. I won't make bones with Klipsch on what they call stuff.....just offer me some home stuff that I will be willing to buy new. I don't have any urge left to buy new a LSII, Klipschorn, Heresy, Cornwall at the current design. It just isn't for me. Forte with a new designed midhorn.........call it my wallet biopsy

I have the capability of running all 3 of the amp configurations through Khorns, La Scala's and another pair (currently Cornwalls). 1 amp to 1 pair of speakers through a switch I had custom made. My initial impression is this.....the 225 is the best, most musical amp I own. The 7591 power tubes provide a low end that is pretty surprising. As described above, the clarity from top to bottom is amazing. Don't get me wrong, the MC30's are absolutely terrific, but they sound slightly veiled compared to the 225, and that may very well be because of the "newness" of the 225, but the tube set is all vintage high end, as are all of my Mc amps. The soundstage and instrument placement through the 225 is fantastic. Can you tell that I like it?

Hi Dave, I'm basically asking the same question - I have no idea if it's superior or not. The unit on the left is the old T2A, which looks just as diminutive next to my UT 3670, which is built on a larger frame.

There's a dude in Plano that has been trying to sell TSCM's on craigslist for a couple of years now. He'll usually start out around $2k for the pair and gradually drop down to $1500. Then they'll disappear and relist for the the higher price. He's posted them here before and got huffy when challenged on price, explaining the intricate nature of the top end driver configuration and associated cost. They're not a common speaker, least of all in the DFW area, but I'm working purely on assumption.

There is no selection for "never".

I almost feel bad for saying this, but I was trying to multitask while reading this thread. I sort of got "they sound crappy and look awful" out of it. Of course I immediately re-read it, and I actually laughed out loud when I realized what it said. Great looking setup brother !! Bryant