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Com'n home soon after school son; we got some lifting to do...somehow?

Answered a FB market page and a guy that I worked with in the 80's shows up with a pair of HBR IIs

Epiphone Les Paul pro.

I haven't used any of my audio equipment in several years. For the past 2 weeks I've been playing my surround KSP-300 speakers in a temporary 2-channel set-up.Yesterday I thought about the spare KSP-300 speaker that has been wrapped in a sheet under my bed for 15 years or so (not in the closet, btw). Drug it out and wired it up. Warmed up the amp for about 5 minutes and started a CD. Sounds fantastic. Got about 5 hours playing time on it/them now. These things are built like a brick s*it house. I re-remember why I thought they would be the last speakers that I would ever buy. The KSP-400's are even better. I still appreciate the help that I received from Klipsch Tech Support years ago. Back around the Cannon/Phillips era. They went above and beyond the call to help me and I haven't forgotten it. If I ever do buy more speakers I know where I'll go. Thanks Klipsch folk.

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@wvu80 I hate it when you are right. This is what happens to me when I have to wait a week. I would have ordered it already, but @jjptkd ambushed me with those vertical RC-7. He knows how much I love my RC-7 which I got from him anyway, and dangling two more in the form of towers was just cruel. But you are entirely right. I said I was done and I am done. No more looking. You have done your good deed for the day, so just knock off early and get a start on the weekend. p.s. edited to include @bkevind. Thanks to you too. You guys have been so helpful. Without all the help I have gotten here, my system would be a mess of on-wall speakers with a $300 receiver. Or I would have a better system but no idea why.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/close-to-the-edge-yes/76105?ean=0081227971571

yes fragile

Epic cf3, version 1. Anybody want a pair of rf7 in New England? Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

I originally had a midlevel Onkyo TX-SR705 AVR driving my RF-63 setup and it sounded better than anything I had ever owned. I added a B&K Reference 4430 200w/ch 3-channel amplifier to the mix and it sounded much better. More control, better punch, more presence. Added a matching B&K EX4420 200w/ch 2-channel amp to the system and it stepped it up another notch. Bought an older flagship NAD T773 AVR at a pawn shop just to flip and pocket some $$$ and slid it in where the Onkyo was. Wow, did not expect such an improvement. Bigger soundstage, better imaging, greater detail. Replaced the B&K amps with Acurus and added a Revel B15 subwoofer and it literally took my system to another dimension. Loved the NAD AVR so much I replaced it with an NAD preamp/processor and still used the Acurus amps. Still more improvement across the board. Added an SVS SB13 Plus and now my room was pressurized. Added a pair of Klipsch RT-10ds and I am where I am and am very pleased. My point here, let your system evolve over time. Look for the deals(used, new, refurbished, etc.) and you will eventually be content. Bill

I recall some of y'all talking about things written in the dead space at the end of the music. My DSOTM from `73 has gene on it in cursive on one side. Animals from `77 has banjo on it. Great tunes for doing something I haven't smoked in decades.

As some of may know I've been trying to find a pair of Chorus 1's for a little over 2 years now local to me in the Seattle area without any luck. I grew so frustrated and impatient that I actually assembled my own creation with a mixture of parts that ended up being closer to a hybrid Pro CornScala / Heritage Inspired 362, details are in another thread. Long story short as I was adding the finishing touches to my 362 build a pair of empty Chorus 1 cabinets became available in Portland, a short 6 hour round trip from my house so I dropped everything and went and picked them up. I just finished assembling them a day or two ago and have been enjoying them ever since so figured I'd post a few pictures of the project so here it goes. Parts include titanium tweeters, NOS k-52-H mid diaphragms, Crites rebuilt Chorus II crossovers and new k-45 woofers. All horns / drivers input cups have gasket tape and I added egg crate acoustic foam inside the cabinets. The paint job turned out much nicer than I could have imagined, not perfect but very nice!

Can't find anything on-line about Audyssey? Gack! The bigger problem is there is so much stuff it's hard to read it all. Here is the AVSforum.com Audyssey Official Thread with nearly 5,000 comments. Good luck sifting through that thread! (do read the FAQ) http://www.avsforum.com/forum/90-receivers-amps-processors/2376770-official-audyssey-thread-part-ii.html +++ Audyssey calibrates your system to Reference level, which is 82 db in most AVRs (sometimes 80). Unless you are listening at Reference levels the sound can be a little thin IMO. It's perfect balance at Reference Levels. I have two AVRs with Audyssey, a med level and high level version. I always use Dynamic EQ. Lately I have been using Dynamic Loudness in the Marantz SR6011 and found it adds much more "body" to lower level listening, especially TV audio. You might try turning on Dynamic Loudness and try the three levels of compression (light, medium, heavy), decide for yourself if it helps. Edit: I would point out that @Davis commented he does NOT use Dynamic Volume. That is the opinion of the majority who run Audyssey, including me until just lately. I've had Audyssey in an AVR for 3 years and it was only in the last few weeks I decided to turn it on and play with the various compression levels.

Sure I think you were made for that part.

I can’t wait for the movie. Can I play the non-technical old guy?

Not very much, probably. If I had to guess requirements were written by a non-technical, old guy, who knew very little about what a web browser was; let alone software development best practices. Those requirements were RFQed and the slickest talking, lowest bidder won. They threw out all sorts of technical words that were hot at the time but even they did not understand. The old dude from the government was wowed even though his gut told him this was a just a used car salesman with an expense account. Shocked that he won the bid the know-nothing Project Manage now had to find someone to actually do the work....though he did not really know what that work was. He called a head hunter the pretended to specialize in technical placement. When the PM got the estimate of how much a "programmer" cost he started to panic based on his (terrible) estimate of hours required and the low ball bid he won with. So he contacted someone that specialized in cheap programming. This is the only guy in the chain that knew the story. He knew it was a fairly simple task but he could sell it as a monumental endeavor. The PM went back to the gov. guy who was ready to retire and just wanted it off his plate. He was told about scope creep, moving targets and changing requirements. The gov guy modded the contract and gave the PM 3X what he originally bid (making him the highest bidder after the fact). The PM still worried about not delivering gave all that money to the one guy that knew what was up. The guy in the know either hired a person fresh out of college with a BS in computer science with English has her second language or offshored it to one of two huge places in India. Either way the fresh faced woman out of college (willing to take any work way below market price to keep her visa going) or the guys in India (chained to computers for 20 hours a day) did not have a full grasp of the English language and its fine nuance. However, it is by no means their fault or problem. The guy pocketing all the money didn't care because he knew the PM and the Gov guy were too ignorant to see the corners cut. The gov. took delivery and it all worked sort of okay. But they never tested it so they never saw the error messages in question. Neil @DizRotus comes along and says that message does not even makes sense. Because it doesn't. It made sense if you were reading it on the written page and translating it to your native language in your head. But there was no basic QC to say lets word smith this just a bit. It will only take 3 minutes. The programming is solid, but the words on the page are not. The college grad/Indian guys did the best they cold given the information they had. Nobody did the up front leg work to call out what should happen at each path the software takes. The PM got a promotion, the gov. guy retired with a pension and the guy who actually understood the game got all the money; while the programmers that did the work said....I thought this was a high paying industry, what happened the last 20 years?

I know how you feel, I would be out in the Gulf. That's funny

I'd like those... but I feel in love with my solid copper connectors.

I love fragile.....it's was one of my first prog albums . That I listened too.....thanks to my neighbor the other 3 ...wish you were here , trick of the tail , and in the court of the crimson king ! It changed my life back in 78....

@Full Range Don't we all !! Forgot to mention that until recently I didn't comprehend your signature. I've experienced that so-in-so now and understand completely.

Your funny...Brisket...The whole Brisket done low and slow... after a cook I separate the flat from the point...I make burnt ends from the point

Thanks bro, that's not too bad. Trying the google thing now, but I use hostsmvps on my pc and it slows the search down taking out the hundreds of characters prior to the actual link.

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Now there is a man with his head on straight. Even though I'm strictly a dry rub man myself, the vinegar-based sauces in North Carolina, when done right, are absolutely wonderful. I've never understood why brown sugar, or mustard, come to think of it, are allowed within 100 miles of any decent barbecue. No wonder there's so many missing teeth in the South.

maybe stick in the record stores Brown spot....

Like that pale bowling ball look on your copy @dirtmudd!

I will join in...

This is reassuring. The State of Michigan can't even write a decent explanation for why their site is unable to accept online sales tax payments. Note it's not quantified to return after the passage of some certain time period, but invites a return "sometime." I wonder how much the author of this is paid.

Not as intricate as yours but I kind of did the same thing by doing a block diagram for my system.

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Yes RIP. Here's to a little hair of the dog! Hope you're doing well Chuck, well as good as you can under the circumstances.

Something tells me that those speakers will not score too high on the waf.

Yeah I hear ya. I suppose I should just get a decent smoker and start the trial and error process until I find a method I can repeat.

Virtually all cinema (professional) installations are using active DSP crossovers and EQ. Mark1101 has used DSP crossovers with his MWM stacks at home, along with a few others here. One of the issues that I've experienced with DSP amplifiers (i.e., the Crown XTi series) is that the amplifiers don't sound very good above subwoofer frequencies. I actually recommend a separate DSP crossover of good quality like a Xilica XP-4080 or XP-8080 instead of buying the amplifiers built in. Fidelity will typically be much higher than the DSP PA amplifiers, in my experience, and you'll usually wind up saving money overall--because you probably will only need one DSP crossover plus your DSP subwoofer amplifier. I have a bi-amped front three and use only one unit--a Xilica XP8080. Then you can mix and match amplifiers without worrying about DSP crossover filters and EQ, only relative amplifier gain. When you start breaking up the audible frequency bands into 2-4 separately amplified "ways" per surround or stereo channel, the less power that you need. Remember that you're currently probably throwing away 25%-50% of your current power into the resistive and lossy reactive elements in your passive crossovers. You will get something like a 2x improvement in effective power to the drivers using DSP crossovers and separate amplifiers--that you might not have experienced yet. I use 45 watt/channel on each channel of the bi-amped Jubs (15 watts with the First Watt F3 amplifier on the compression drivers), the bi-amped center K-402-MEH, and the surround Cornwalls. This is plenty for my uses. Each doubling (or halving) of output power from the means a change of only 3 dB (maximum) of output SPL, if you recall. Chris

speak of the devil....

When I do use bbq sauce, this is one of my favorites..... very easy to make.

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brother John where are you buying vinyl...

Here are the settings that I used for my JuBelle consisting of Beyma CP25 tweeter, K-510/K-69-A and Belle bass bin.

It was worth a shot!

RT did a show at an outdoor venue here in Chattanooga a few years ago... a free show. I've been a fan for years.

Funny that you mention that Bill. I was talking to my bud bluesboy out on the west coast and mentioned that some guys on the forum had said I should have the top down on the bubble at 50 degrees. I told him maybe at 60 degrees

Her is mine! Also Koa.

No kidding what are people thinking with khorns in a basement!?!?

And how it looks lit up now with the front all redone.

Atlanta Dragway 1986

You are a lucky man to find a pair of RB-75s. They are the best reference book shelf ever made (just saying) Great find. George

@Maximus89 I used Minwax wood finish penetrating stain, a coat of Weathered Oak 270 followed by a coat of Classic Gray 271. Given a second chance I would experiment by mixing the two stains together in different proportions rather than using two separate applications. It is finished with Polycrylic clear satin. The fabric is Wichelt 18 Count Lambswool Linen Fabric and is a dead ringer by my eye. Thanks