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  1. I hope it was marinated in THC barbeque seasoning... http://eatyourcannabis.com/bbq-cannabis-sauce/
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  2. Hello Paul and friends, just stopped by this evening (our time zone ) to see what was cookin' here in vinyl heaven... This weekend I will be adding my 'spins' here as always from the RTM division... Enjoy the evening OR morning if you are in Australia
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  3. Cooked a couple of racks of St. Louis style ribs. Took one to a friend that had chemo today. Took a coconut custard pie too.
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  4. ---- so we, and yourself, will be Slackers? I thought those already existed right here ---?!
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  5. My brother left for Beaumont with a truck and boat full of water at about midnight. I reckon he will be there around 1600. He is planning on bringing back some dogs too from what I hear.
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  6. Hello everyone! I recently had my LaScalas re veneered and I have decided to put a top grill on them. I ordered the grill cloth at the link below. I had to order 2 yards of it as a minimum. I surely do not need that for two top grills. Anyway putting this up here to see if anyone else is interested in the left overs. I am hoping there is at least one 72x36 solid piece left if not more. If there isn't I really need to go and work on my DIY skills . Will update this post more as its delivered and I finish the grills if there is any interest. This will be Free! I just want it out of my house once I'm finished and I don't want to throw it away. Link to the cloth. On the drop down tab its the p-9000. Ill post pictures of the sample I received tonight. https://acousticalsolutions.com/product/acoustone-amplifier-grille-cloth/ I personally think it looks like the 70th Anniversary cloth. Thanks, Graham
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  7. I just made a small donation to the American Red Cross for victims of Harvey. Best wishes to all Texans and those here from the Klipsch forums who have been effected by this epic storm.
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  8. Should clear soon. or maybe not. We are setting up to assist with transit aircraft, vehicles and provisions.
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  9. Meanwhile at the ranch it's coming down sideways.
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  10. Gotta smile. We've had 24 inches in 3 days and 12 more on the way and we're not as bad as other areas.
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  11. Hey Simon, Bi-amping your mains(?) won't help you unless you can use a delay to time align the HF to the woofer and you can bypass the internal crossover. It requires a crossover with the delay built in. Does your receiver have that capability? Most modern Klipsch are setup to bi-wire. I don't believe it has any sonic benefit as long as your speaker wires are large enough, others will disagree. Bi-amping is used in Pro Audio to get more power to the speaker array, but you don't really need that, either.
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  12. Hi All! Looking for advice to build the best possible sound experience for an upcoming event I'm organizing. At my disposal are 6 pairs of Klipschorns, a pair of Industrial split LaScalas, and a pair of "Keystone" 18" folded-horn subwoofers that measure about the height and width of the bass bin of a Klipschorn, and stack nicely under the LSI's. I have false corners for the Khorns and risers for the top hats, to bring the high end above guests' heads. The event is a dance-focused evening inspired by the Mancuso Loft parties in NYC. All vinyl, songs played start to finish and a wide journey of genres. Room dimensions are 40 feet by 60 feet, with 12 foot ceilings, and a main dance floor area of 32' by 32'. The goal is an immersive-as-possible sound field surrounding the dance floor, while trying to avoid major combing issues or conflict between the horns. The attached file shows the scale of the room and the Khorn's and LSI's for reference. My knowledge of live speaker placement is low- would love some suggestions or best practises to make this an incredible experience for our guests.
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  13. https://parkersburg.craigslist.org/ele/d/klipsch-klipschorn-khorn-pair/6273316783.html
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  14. Yep, someone else from AK sent me the same link, and it looks like it may be a good one for information, and possible sourcing. Thanks.
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  15. Used the digital optical for the r-15pm and get a nice rca for the sub. You don't have to go crazy on paying hundreds of dollars for cables. I make mine with rg6 cable the type with 100-% cooper center core wire and 100% cooper shielded wire Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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  16. The Escalade is still a disappointment. You think you know a guy!
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  17. And local being where? Oh and I rotated your image. Do I get a discount?
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  18. I'll take a stab at this...It may not be that they want the specific Cornwall low end, having heard Cornwalls, and then having heard LS, they just want more of a lower end with La Scalas. I'm sure this will get me flamed, but personally to me the whole Cornscala thing is way over blown and over complicated. Adding a good horn loaded sub as Jason pointed out above, is (to me) really the ideal "solution"....if you want to call it that. I do not use a sub, and I don't miss a sub. I use EQ if I need it, but most of the time, I don't. I love the pure La Scala sound.
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  19. Wouldn't those look fabulous with a bit of oil and elbow grease!
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  20. Some of our clients, who are safely out of harm's way, have the temerity to complain about shipping delays caused by Harvey. I just want to shake them and scream, "You're complaining about the inconvenience of a delay receiving stuff, while people are losing lives and homes."
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  21. It means that alerts without an attached photo are not as useful as those that include a photo from the listing. Listings are frequently deleted. Without a photo, the thread becomes worthless.
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  22. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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  23. Not many of those in SE TX.
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  24. It just started raining at my house. First rain in a couple of weeks. I wish all of you there in TX the best of luck. Keith
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  25. Hello everyone i see your points and i am very impressed. The more i think about it the more i see you are right and i think that if i had seen this projectthougts myself on the forum a time ago i probably had react te same as you. This is what i am going to do: first i'm going to listen for a while to the set, as it is brand new it need playtime to give the sound a good change when i think i still need more bass i can always add a (good and fast ) sub. Which is the best (of couse from Klipsch) for adding to the laScala II. ? All best regards Koos
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  26. We always took 2 at a time. Watching 6'+ teenage boys cram themselves into the back seat of the F'bird was comical, but they still preferred that car to any other.
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  27. No kidding. If I had a pair of LS II's, I'd definitely want to keep them intact. But doesn't the top hat separate from the lower section? It only seems logical that "IF" a person is wanting the LS II high section sound but with different bass, you'd just build a pair of bass cabinets and leave the folded horn bin alone. Then nothing is torn up and ruined. But that's just me personally.
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  28. That is a great story, thanks for sharing such a character building moment. The drivers Ed cars around here now have so many decals and advertising on them they look like NASCAR.
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  29. In 1975 I was a teacher and assistant wrestling coach at Annapolis High School in Annapolis, MD. I also taught drivers-ed. One of the cars assigned to me was a Buick Apollo with the 350. It was totaled while I was driving on Duke of Gloucester St. The streets are narrow, with buildings right up to the street. I was stopped at a red light. The stop-line was several car lengths from the intersection. The light turned green, so I proceeded into the blind intersection. A drunk physician in a Tempest ran the red light from my left, slammed into the brand new Buick and then came to rest against a brick building. The sodden doctor was trying to start his car when a fireman reached in to grab his keys. He was ticketed, but it was embarrassing standing in the street next to a spanking new wrecked car with a "Student Driver" sign on it. The worst part was that students who knew me suddenly materialized to join the gawkers. The good part is that I was just blocks from my apartment, so I walked home.
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  30. Part of the charm of the La Scala is the precision of the horn loaded bass. It is true that the bass rolls off below abut 50 or 60 Hz, but it is CLEAN and TIGHT! I'd bet that a good subwoofer, crossed over at about 60 Hz and a La Scala would preserve the La Scala's clean mid bass attack and the extension of the sub's deep bass would be a better combination than is found in a Cornscala. This might be especially true with a horn loaded sub.
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  31. And HEAVY. They have no place in a storm though. I had to be sure to hang them off a joist.
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  32. The penthouse set the bar pretty high. I don't know if you're digs would measure up.
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  33. I ordered from Bob Crites and he knew what was needed for the AAs. They are Sonicaps.
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  34. Looks like it, when it's really windy there is nothing pleasant about the sound.
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  36. Thanks for the photo MPK, that would be the one.... Another tid bit.............that 'shaker' hood scoop which was functional in 1973... Sadly, in the 1974 version, GM CLOSED it OFF ! Reason stated? The intake noise at WOT produced by the mighty QuadraJet 'exceeded' the drive-by DB limits !!!!!! Can you imagine ?? That 500 CID Caddy was earlier then the Pontiac SD motor.... But, it seems that Davis agrees with me on the Firebird SD...
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  37. No 'ghetto' hub caps, they were the color matching rally wheels. Cant really see them too good in that photo. Knew it was heavier as I had both hard top and convertible at the same time and it was obvious when driving. 72's weren't as bad as what followed with regards to the smog crap, went crazy from 73 on. My oldest brother had a mid 70's (75, 76?) cutlass with a 350 that was a real dog. My hard top looked exactly like the one in Diz's post. When I got my first job out of college, I received a company car and put that one into a buddy's shop and we stripped it down to bear metal and cut out all the rust areas, added a black vinyl top and white pin stripes with the very dark green paint. Looked nice. If you could get past the green color, the interior was almost as nice (just toooo darn much green)
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  38. Weller 12 has just been upgraded to Critically Endangered.
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  40. That's a lot of water... hope some drains before round 2! Stay safe out there!
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  41. This discussion is getting to where I am bowing out you gentlemen have a wonderful day Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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  42. Why don't you just build a pair of complete cabinets from scratch and not tear up the LS II cabinets? (or maybe that's your intention) Overall, that's called a Cornscala since it's a sealed bass bin and then the mid horn from the LS and Klipschorn being used. You could just use the parts from the LS II's and save the cabinets somewhere.
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  43. I have quite the collection so be watching as I post
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  44. I'd recommend moving the Khorns back to be within a 3-4 feet of the corners and move the center LSI/sub to be in-line with them. This will give you perhaps another 1/2 octave of distributed bass without having to EQ low frequencies up. This will keep the woofer voice coils cool. I'm not sure that you'll need any more pairs of Khorns for that space, unless you're planning to be playing well above 100 dB on the dance floor. If so, then you can move two more Khorns to the rear corners and use the AVP approach (mentioned below) or use some sort of delay/attenuation on those rear control channels. How are you going to mix/balance the different channels from your stereo source? For instance, how are you going to blend that center channel? [A cheap way to do it: use a fairly good A/V preamp to drive the channels across the front--since it will give you the most flexibility in matrix fill options. If you would like to use more than two Khorns and the LSI/sub, then the AVP will help out (for instance...using an "all channel stereo" mode for the extra side channels) without having to run two loudspeakers on one amplifier channel. If the AVP has room correction software such as Audyssey or YPAO, etc., you can balance things a bit hours before the event starts. Khorns oftentimes have a bit of boom in the 90-190 Hz band--dependent on room placement--that a good AVP can smooth out.] If you instead have access to rented pro mixing gear and venue balancing software/analyzers/mixers, that might work even better--especially if using DSP loudspeaker processors, etc., but it's quite a bit more complex to set up. This type of gear can control the in-room frequency response from each channel with more control granularity, and provide even more visibility into what is occurring acoustically in-room. Are you using good infrasonic filters for the turntable input channel to the phono preamp? If so that will decrease the need for extra amplifier power to track record warps which can really sap the amplifier channel power if not controlled well. It also keeps the woofer voice coils much cooler. Chris
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  45. What are you using to drive the speakers? Also, we want pictures. Welcome and good luck
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  46. Awesome! When I mentioned Transformers, I was actually thinking of the intro with the Stars, my young son loves that and laughs every time. Really, every action movie has some great sweeping surround, it's just not usually as simple as put in X and play track Y, but there are some of those. WOW is one of the very best for surround sound, in fact really subwoofers even moreso, one of my top hits i've been collecting the "best" of surround sound home theater in blu-ray form for many months now all i can tell you is a friend endlessly argues (with no backup at all) that he thinks streaming is as good as blu-ray. I laugh and remind him, um yeah but you still are using old school connections that DON'T EVEN ALLOW for Master Audio HD tracks...I think he is using the S-cable still. Is that what they're called I don't even remember it's so outdated....Blu-Ray beats any and all broadcast forms imo, even 4K. I have a 4K TV and high end broadcast, and even streaming 4k from Netflix or Amazon doesn't cut it. Blu-Ray is SUPERIOR to that still imo. Bottom line is COMPRESSION, there is no way they can ever send us all the data in a blu-ray streaming and do so for everyone across the country at a reasonable cost....thus they compress the SXXX out of everything and often make it suck. As one friend here at the forum puts it, they even go so far as to lop off the top and bottom end of many movies....you'll "know" what a movie should sound like, put on your system and laugh and say wait are the subs on? Yes? Oh it's another sxxx recording. Truth is...as you are learning (and I am too, very much) that what you heard BEFORE was sxxx, not now. Now the quality of your playback is good enough that you can tell when something sucks, or is subpar. Even worse, as someone growing up in the 80's and 90's, most music then and before was recorded rather poorly....and thus, when you play it back in your system, it may kind of suck! And then you'll hear a remastered version in 5.1 or 7.1 and you'll freak going....ah my system is just fine it's the recording that sucks. That whole concept of moving up the quality of your playback is very, very exciting and something few people understand or bother to do. People watch what, on average 4+ hours of TV a day but don't bother to calibrate the sound...or the picture? Yuck. Lazy and uninformed.... I've owned Gravity for a while on blu-ray and no matter what else you do, for $9 on Amazon, get it, it's the best pinpoint sound recording to date imo. However having said that, the sound quality is still decent enough coming through cable or streaming to get the effect. I saw Gravity in the IMAX theater in 3D, a very empty theater (the only way I do it), and then I watched it at home on cable, then on blu-ray multiple times, I know that track! -- In the theater, IMAX tuned as good as can be, me sitting in the middle. The sound in a theater is massive, much more powerful sounding in a big theater. But that first 20 minutes consists of mostly talk, with some music from Clooney's radio. That intro starts it, where there's a sizzling shimmering tone that is the same tone they use later when the ISS is breaking up. First remember this -- although you may have a 7.1 system, and the theater may have also, really the way these are recorded is to sound like a perfect 5.1 system, even if using 7.1. So there were really only 4 places to listen to (this is all, non-Atmos mind you) -- front left, front right, back left, and back right. Now, I'm talking sitting probably 30 or 40 feet from the back surrounds. YET during the movie, it sounded like someone in the row behind me was talking, almost whispering directly in my ear. THAT good. And at home it is the same. 4 precise points, although believe it or not, the back left is not used much in this instance, has much to do with the position of the shuttle, earth and our viewpoint. Believe it or not -- you likely wouldn't know this -- that first 12 minutes or so right up until the ISS explodes is actually ONE CONTINUOUS SHOT. It wasn't actually shot that way of course, but watch it again and you'll see it...they spent I think 3 years filming this movie and that intro was the Oscar winner. NOW...to complicate it further, I believe that Gravity was one of the first Atmos movies and certainly the first to win an Oscar. So with an Atmos system, there is even more to consider as the height was carefully controlled in this movie relative to the viewing. Anyway...get the blu-ray already! You've been thinking about that too long, if you don't have Amazon Prime let me know I'll send you a copy and you can decide if it's worth sending me $9 I found the first four transformer movies on ebay for I think $16 total....bought a "set" that had 3 of the 4 for $12...and had happened somehow to buy the other one for $4 elsewhere before that, making a complete set. That's how to get sets or larger lots of blurays...get them on ebay. But singles are often as cheap on amazon when shipping is included. A few other top action titles that show off surround: > Edge of Tomorrow > Twister > Battleship > Mad Max Fury Road > For an interesting and cheap 7.1 "music" blu-ray, the Doors Movie. Amazing to hear those older songs mastered into 7.1 > 300 > Olympus has Fallen / London has Fallen > Kill Bill Vol 1 and 2 Plenty more if you want recommendations. As for DTS vs Dolby, they are two COMPANIES, and have built differing codecs for how their sound is coded and then decoded. In general, DTS was WAY better years ago, and today imo is still a bit better. So given the choice, DTS is a slightly better coding, but when it comes to Master Audio, I doubt there's much difference you can hear, both are uncompressed. OK the ceiling....all the answers are already here in this forum. Search a bit or ask about it, but each question you have is a thread here that's been discussed recently. Many people asking about what is needed for Atmos -- you need to google the manual and read it - I have, and I doubt I'll ever get it! But reading it told me the answers to most of what you're asking. 14 foot ceiling is their ideal spec, but it works in most ceilings. In ceiling is considered by those discussing it here (and MLO, who sells it) to be superior for effect. Most have said that 2 speakers for Atmos is not enough, you want more. 4 perhaps. As I had mentioned before, make sure if SOUNDPROOFING that it will achieve the desired effect. Sound control within the room to sound good is easy...soundproofing to keep sound from leaving the room is much, much more difficult and expensive, but is done frequently. Believe it or not -- the very best in surround sound still comes from games. XBOX or PS4 will demonstrate this well, but omg some games the sound is insanely impressive, and immersive. Most movies assume the viewer is looking at the screen and the action...some games do too. But others assume more that you are "in" the game, so that where you sit is in the battlefield, or in the environment. This causes there to be much more obvious and severe surround sound that can be absolutely astounding. Battlefield, Call of Duty, Steep, Far Cry, Grand Theft Auto are but a few of the truly remarkable ones. You know your surround sound is working well when you pause it, or crinckle your ear thinking either someone is calling you or you heard a sound elsewhere in the house..and really it was in the recording. Getting "fooled" is the very best compliment you can give your system. Same goes for a sub and integration....I blindfold someone and bring them into either theater and play anything they want, they could never, ever tell where the subs are, not even close. Really well integrated systems are seamless and amazing. You're already there my friend! What is your real name....let me know or PM me, I'm curious...and my name is Rob
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