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I need to play some of Old Blue Eyes very very early records as I have a handful that were handed down to me

Mongrel Bob Seger System Capitol Records:

Ellington Jazz Party Columbia Records:

Home outside movies are Just Fun....

Getting ready for twenty 13 year old guests for my daughter's birthday.

As promised listed below are my Fortes II. I also forgot to mention that I had the passive radiators reconed/repaired by Simply Speakers. Again, not sure that I am selling them, all I am trying to do is get an idea of what is a reasonable price for them. I have spent a bit of money to bring these Fortes where they are and I curious if I am could recoup my costs.

Morning all... Thank you all for the birthday wishes.... Yes 54 this year..... We have the same Chef when we go. He is quite the clown always drinking a beer and carrying on with us. and yes he puts on a good show with his cutlery skills and the FIRE... yea yea Fire Thank you Mookie and yes the good time has/is carried into the weekend. We had some friends over last night and it was the 1st night we spent on the deck. Got all the Tiki torches out and @oldtimer favorite Tiki god statues. After some time on the deck we watched The Accountant. Our friends hadn't seen that. The BOSS and I watched it a week or two ago and really liked it. WoW Mike that looks awesome. What movie did you all watch? OK my coffee buds gonna just took The BOSS her 1st cup. Getting my day rolling... don't know what I'll get into today.... gonna sip on some coffee and ponder my thoughts Later all... MKP :-)

Good evening FR ! It is morning and time to start the coffee..........those look like good Sinatra pics!.......... Y ou need 'Come Fly With Me' AND, 'Come Dance With Me' both of which are pretty popular here in the states... ESPECIALLY if you are into dancing with your wife How long before you turn in for bed ? I'll be around..... Hope to post later this evening.....lots to do around the home today... ............Gary

Evening gang Relaxing after a Farm / Boat maint day, appears will do the same for my sunday. MKP survived his BD i see....so far

Thanks Billy, I have read some MEAN spirited comments about Klipsch and the use of 'plastic' with the newer speakers INCLUDING the RP series.. Well, I can tell you, the fit and finish of the 'polymer resin' is beautiful to look at. Durable, doesn't need waxing and is just fine with me... If one moves up to the next in the Reference series (RF) you can get the real veneer and made in Hope... The RF-3 due out in the fall will share the new Tractrix horn from the RP, an upgrade for that model. So, you get twin 10" drivers, a couple inches taller cab of real veneer. Also costs MORE then TWICE the RP... Klipsch is right on target with the Tractrix horn.... Don't mean to hijack Full Range's forum, but I just found something I have never seen before... here is a quote... " We had a mission for the brand new Klipsch Reference Premiere line: blow the doors off the expectations of our loyal following, and get our fans so close to their music they can touch it. We have melded our engineering expertise and state of the art technology together to produce a loudspeaker line that will have people falling in love with their music again! " How true!

Yes you really do need to! Enjoying the music and very happy Gary is here with his collection, on his Dual. This last as, have been debating climate issue: Canned Heat Future Blues Liberty Records:

I needed a way apart from excel to make a record of my collection Then all the info about that album is available and auto imported If need be the list can be downloaded to text and stored in your computer Its a win win for me

just activated my account..

Woo I have to play my copy at some time - It's the import version ( for me ) To much choice could be considered a curse

..............back side photo............ Sounds great thought the new Reference Premier's

Good evening friends here in Full Range's place..............over in RTM enjoying this lovely classic from Larry Fast, a copy I bought back in the day, dated 1979.... Front cover....

Listening to The Texas Tenors - Thru 60TH KHORNS, MAC MC-275, C-22 all tube! Out of this world as we know it!! WE MUST KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE & MOVING AHEAD!!!! Go pick cans on the side of road or whatever it takes to go forward. Do it MY WAY or ANY WAY!!!

Thanks Gary. I'm not sure how you feel about marriage but I like to marry my pasta with the sauce instead of a topper. Especially noodles of that shape were just meant to carry and absorb such a nice sauce. It looks great though, trust me, I wouldn't send it back, lol.

Let us keep the sprit alive that PWK started years ago. I am playing 60TH KHORNS at this point in time! You would think that you are in the sweetest spot in the world !!!! Rock on to all FREEWIIL - RUSH !!!!

............and a MUST HAVE at my table......

and besides all that, LOVELY spacious yard

Wow, I've never seen a vertical trampoline.....that will be interesting. Insurance paid up?

Received my amps and sound little ben tube amp today from joshnich. UPS did an excellent job packing it. I look forward to testing it out.

Morning gang Donut / Farm / Boat work for the day. Boston tickets have arrived Dodge feels dam fine on the road with new skins 90s, feels like it i better send mark his birthday cake....PM

@MORE KLIPSCH PLEASE Happy late birthday! Hope you had a good one and it carries over into the weekend!

Morning gang. Happy birthday Mark....54? Was the Japanese restaurant the kind that give you the cutlery show? Those are interesting. Beautiful weather here in the midwest, sunny and 84 later today.

I'm a day late but happy birthday MKP. Dinner with family and friends and a good day at the shop. Well done! Heading out at 7:30 for breakfast with friends from junior high, high school, little league base ball, and the neighborhood.

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done time too eat !!

Beauties!

I guess that's what happens when ya run a Ferrari with an F-350 Cummins turbo diesel.

Ended up with a Denon x2300w. Got Best Buy to price match for $499. Another guy was in their magnolia show room looking at the same receiver and told him I got it for $499 out the door, he was happy as hell because he was going to pay the retail price of $799. Thanks for everyone's help and suggestions Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Definitely interested in some Forte II sweetness!

Thanks guys, I am considering selling the following from my collection. Forte II - Walnut Oiled 8/9 out of 10 for body, Adjustments from stock - Crites XO, titanium tweeter diaphragms, brushed aluminum furniture legs (really helps with the WAF). KG4 - Walnut Oiled 7/8 out of 10 for body. No Adjustments from stock SW12ii - Black Oak 8/9 out of 10 for sides, 5/10 for top. I sanded the black off the veneer and was able to restain the veneer to a Walnut oil comparable match. Location: DFW Pics: Forthcoming.

I like the way the packaging in the bottom photo looks like a Happy Face.

We're glad to have you as a member here, Wolfbane. You may be more at home with us than you realize. All donations are non-political and heartily accepted. As a kid, I saw Groucho smoke many-a-cigar. I always thought he was a genius. SSH

If on a hard floor a thick entry mat can help reduce vibration from coupling to floor...might help w the house shake. Currrnt bid still 64 w 30 shipping....mmmhmm. think how easy the 2nd would be

I have quite a few Classical records to get to eventually

Everytime I play a record it is entered into the Discogs database and my collection catalogue Funnily enough - The version I placed it under is the same as on your link

try the dead wax

I can't find any info on the sleeve or label apart from Marketed by Charisma UK and Manufactured and distributed by Phonogram Ltd 1980

My version is a single record and has that newer inner sleeve and face image on the record label The record label and the inner sleeve both say - 1980 From the info on the links The re issue has Green writing on the front cover Peter Gabriel The original has Yellow writing

Circa 1980 on the label

A belated Happy Birthday MKP @MORE KLIPSCH PLEASE and a happy day today also. Next year it will be Happy Birthday and TGIF,

Hey now, not nice to lump us all in one group. I am always in the group that suggests the largest speaker you can "afford" and find them used to save even more $$$. As far as the RP-250 system, I have heard more than once that they can hold their own very well in a small to medium room just like their past generation RF-52II system. I do think many suggest the RP-260F because they are right in the middle as the sweet spot model with their 6.5 woofers and taller height. Don't regret, just enjoy. Bill

Evening all, Just got back from a great dinner with The BOSS, youngest daughter, son, his girlfriend, my mom and dad, and two of our good friends. It was a birthday celebration for me and my youngest daughter. My eldest daughter stop in the restaurant with my two grand kids just to say hi. We had dinner at this Japanese steak house that we go to quite a bit. We know most off the staff & owner so we don't have to behave. Also had a good day at the shop. yea Carl... work has been picking up quite a bit. and I'm good with one or two jobs a day. It just get real scary when I see only one or two jobs booked for the week..... that aint enough even for a one man shop. I've stopped trying to figure it out and just enjoy the fact that we have traffic through our drive. For real.... My busiest month ever at the shop has been a December. Go figure, I don't know how or why. It used to be that tax return time and the beginning of summer "was" the busiest time but it's just not so any more. Right OK...... later MKP :-)

Hey guys so I decided to test out my Grado SR80's through these speakers because the headphone jack is amped, and when i plug them in I noticed that even with the headphones plugged in there was some sound coming from the speakers. I thought it might be the headphone cable being to thick and tried a slender one, but still same problem. I just wanna see if anyone else has encountered this.

I would REALLY like to have a tube integrated for my cabin system, KG2s. But I at least want it reliable.

Another YouTube of Forte III in walnut or cherry.

If I read the OP's query right, he's asking if the latest version of the Khorn sounds better than an older version and if folks having modified their older units has any bearing on Klipsch's design/engineering shop. The answer is a qualified,,,No. While the fellas at Klipsch are always tinkering and making improvements to the Khorn, it has remained basically the same design and thus sounds very similar to older models. I doubt the folks at Klipsch are much influenced by all the tweaking and mods going on through the years - especially those mods that dramatically alter the design and/or are too costly. IMO, what keeps the Khorn going and viable in the fickle audio market is PWK's original bass bin design (and quite possibly his greatest contribution to the SOTA of audio). 60+ years ago, Paul set about designing a speaker that would reproduce the full spectrum of sound of an orchestra in anyone's living room. The bugaboo was reproducing the lower register in the most realistic and economical way and Paul figured out how to fold a horn into a compact box that would utilize the listeners' walls to complete the design and provide deep, solid bass down to the mid 30Hz range in a practical package. After creating the bass bin, PWK's task was to add the top end and to accomplish that, he had to make some necessary compromises to keep the final product viable and affordable. In keeping with his practical approach, he used common, economical parts throughout, most of which have held up quite well over the decades but over that period, better components have been found to improve the Khorn's sound. That's where the tweakers come in.... I equate it (the klipschead phenomena) to something like a late 60's Nova. The Nova was offered as a practical and economical car and while Chevy did make some changes over the years, they were nothing like what a motivated gear head would consider. Upgraded parts and wholesale modifications turned the practical Nova into a high performance machine that often barely resembled what originally came out of the factory. The Khorn is a very practical application of PWK's design that allows for a lot of fairly easy modifications that can greatly improve its performance. Over the years, many mods have been tried out on the Khorn, mainly because its such an easy speaker to play with and most mods are reversible. While false corners, more bracing and better woofers will improve the bass bin to some extent, the crossover and especially the 'top hat' seem to be the areas that provide the most 'bang-for-the-buck' improvements. I tried 5 xovers with Khorns (3 passive, 2 active). One passive, I built myself and 2 were ALK's design and build and all sounded better than the AK-2 xover that originally came with the Khorns. The active xovers allowed me to truly customize the signal going to each driver and that was the best approach for my purposes. I also went through the modification chain with the top hat including dynamatting the midhorn and rewiring but eventually I decided that the best improvement was to replace the top hat altogether. By changing out the horn and driver, I was able to go with a 2-way design and cut off the bass bins below 200Hz thus lowering some of the inherent distortions of the horn. I went even further and tried several bass options against the Khorn's bass bin (Onken, BDdesign, JBL and various subs) but found the Khorn to be the most satisfying in my set up. The benefits of the horn (efficiency, fast transients, low distortion) outweighed its inherent colorations and size constraints and gave me what I consider to be more realistic representation in the bottom end. It seems as though PWK and the fellas at Klipsch have applied much of the same approach I was aiming for in their Jubilee design so perhaps they do occasionally have a response to the legions of tweakers out here.