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A year ago you would have thought your brother was trying to kill you if he cooked every night and told you NO fast food. You have got to be healthier, could be what's making you feel odd ?

i dont....but I do love beer....! but with the legal paper work... 24 hours without drugs or alcohol... before I can be with Gia..... and I'm always with Gia... I'm not into drugs ..and don't care about them.... but I would like a nice ice cold one.... so I made my choice....and it's simple....

BSM has often regaled us with his stories of blowing up entire city blocks in an attempt to boil water.

Ever sold something to someone and felt good about it? Let go of my Carver system to a gent who was a true fan of his gear. Wife & daughter(in Martial arts uniform) accompanied him into our home around 9pm to take a look at the system. He really only wanted the amp but being a fan decided to take both the pre & power amp. He sent a text later thanking me and told me how he purchased a brand new Bob Carver home theater amp back in the day when it came out. Had it for all of one hour when he set it up on his stereo rack and somehow took a nose dive. Breaking it! Well he sent it off the Carver repair and after they heard what happened they charged him nothing. You read that right. Nothing, to get it back to new. That's a class act. He could have been S.O.L. but the company took care of him. You don't hear about that too often now days. First time I accepted a cash/check from a sale of a CL add too. Great family.

Mine has been hacked, all the really stupid post are from the bad guys.

Hi BSM fast food is shrimp, steak or fish. Saute some veggies while the protein is thawing. Takes a few minutes to cook the "meat". You are eating good in 15min and for less than a trip to McD's.

good choice ...

Is your password, password?

Schu, thanks for the compliment. I take all the credit for making the wood look like that!! It runs about $14-$15 a square foot! Ain't cheap for sure. walnut and cherry run $4-$5 SF. Update. Got two coats of poly on last night. This veneer really absorbs the poly. I have decided to fill the gaps/cracks which God put in this veneer. No offense God!!!! Attached two pics.

--- now I understand why my Del Taco shares have taken the plunge they have ?!? Come on BSM, belly up to the bar ?!?

drive it like you stole it...

Gonna give y'all a break today. Fixin' to go fishing. Just waiting for it to warm up a little. About 35` when I got up.

My personal view is that it is your own hearing acclimatizing to a new sound and the result of noodling around with room placement. More often than not a pair of speakers will be adjusted several times with regards to placement fine tuning over a week or so before they seem to “break in”. A large woofer might “loosen” up after a short period of time, although I have never experienced this.

Thanks to all, The KG 4s are dramatically better than the KG 3.5s. Special appreciation to Mark for making it happen!

Have I missed any Lily updates @Rxonmymind?

I love my cast iron cookware. Griswold sells for more than others but there are others that are just as good and Wagner bought Griswold in the 50s. Favorite Piqua ware is lighter than ether of the other two but preforms the same just easier to handle. Wardway was cast iron produced by Wagner for Montgomery Wards. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

You really need to try and cook something when he's working. It's not hard, there are millions of recipes online with instructions, find something easy that you two would like and try it, all you have to know how to do is read and maby measure. I know, you can burn water, but I know your smarter than that, now if you just don't want to, that's a different thing.

Peace of mind and a beautiful sound, cant be bad, I'm so happy i bought these they are sublime - Truly! Sent from my LG-H990 using Tapatalk

he only cooks on his days off -- i’ve been eating a lot of sandwiches, eggs, and cereal.

Bingo, as Paul79 said, some recordings lend themselves to a strong imaging presence. Others, not so much.

this is a world record for me ... i haven’t eaten at The Del Taco for close to three months. I’ve eaten at home all this year. Last food i had prepared outside this house was a pizza on New Years Eve. Honestly, i don’t miss it either. 2018 is bizarro year.

i thought you didn’t drink?

I would love to have a nice ice cold beer !

No tubes or vinyl here but about to get some coffee.

I'm getting scared now, making me wonder, if I run across a Del Taco I might want to try it, just the odds. I already like ketchup, although sometimes I doctor it up, salt at least.

Right (right) you're bloody well rightYou got the bloody right to sayRight, you're bloody well rightYou know you got a right to say

Don't ya just hate to walk into a friends house and they're sitting there listening to an album they borrowed from you two years ago??? "Hey, you really do like listening to my album don't ya? "Your album? I've had this album for years!... Riiiiiight... Nevah again!!! Don't ask cause it's NOT happening! Learned that 30 years ago... lol Keep up the good work. Hodgson is great!

Great album right there!

So darken it

after noon where?

Until about 2 years ago restaurants here could not sell any alcohol, some chains fought it and finally won. Then a couple places opened since they could sell drinks which is about the highest profit margin except for soft drinks. You can buy beer here in the grocery, not hard liquor, because everyone knows you can't get drunk on beer so it's ok. But go across the state line, 20 minutes in either direction, the first thing you see is a liquor store, and they do very well. Now go 30 minutes south to Louisiana and they have drive through daiquiri store's, no open container law and bars can stay open 24 hours if they want. Once in North Louisiana we went out with some friends, that parish had a law that any business could not sell any kind of alcohol to be consumed on the property. What they did was the bars would charge $10 a person to get in and they had live music, the cool part was you could bring in your icechest with whatever you wanted in it. This turned out to be way cheaper, the next building over was also owned by them, it was a liquor store, they just went around the law. ,,

There is actually an art to seasoning cast iron cookware. My father was a food service warrant officer for 27 years, and grew up cooking with cast iron cookware. Each fall, when the weather turned colder, we would take all the cast iron cookware, one item at a time and put it into the fireplace (which was our primary heat source for the house) and burn the cookware clean. All we ever burnt in the fireplace was oak firewood, from the trees we cut which would not make good timber (we are timberland people). The next morning, before the fire was stoked up again, we would remove the cast iron cookware item while it was cool, and Dad would wipe it out good and take some of the bacon grease which was always kept in a can on the stove in the kitchen and wipe the cookware completely down (inside/outside/handles and all) with the CONGEALED grease from the upper portion of the bacon grease can, then stick it in the oven and cook that grease into the iron. We would do it a second time each spring right before the weather began to warm up again. Dad was very picky about his cookware. He had made up some salt bags to rub the inside of the large cast iron skillet so that pancakes would not stick when making them. In my Father's own words, "Pancakes are called panCAKES because they are BAKED on the stovetop. If you use any oil for cooking them you gotta call them FRITTERS!" As for the knives I use, I have every single item in the entire line of "walnut traditions" Chicago Cutlery which I bought way before they started getting their knives made in China. They are great knives, but you have to hand wash them and occasionally wipe oil into the black walnut handle slabs. The old Chicago cutlery blades were high carbon semi-stainless steel, and sharpen up well and tend to hold their edge. I also use a number of the OLD HICKORY brand knives for my butchering. They are forged very high carbon steel blades, with hickory-slabbed handles. I prefer the butcher knife and boning knives of that brand for butchering whole carcasses, such as venison, etc. They sharpen up well and hold their edges well, too, plus they have very little blade flex, which is ideal for separating joints, such as hip joints and such. I have tried many other knives but always go back to my trusty Chicago cutlery and Old Hickory cutlery...they are old school and do what they were designed to do. If it works for my needs, then I tend to be happy with it. As an aside, if not for all the wild game I brought home while growing up, our household would have had far less meat protein in our diets. We ate whatever I hunted...deer, squirrels, rabbits, game-birds, you name it! I also provided quite a bit of fish for all those years, all-year-round. I have this rather large and deep cast iron "chicken fryer" that I love to use when cooking breakfast for a crowd. First I cook the bacon in it, then the country sausage. That leaves a pretty high level of hot grease in it. Then I put an iron wedge under one corner of it to VERY SLIGHTLY tilt it. I crack open the eggs on the high side, and they cook perfectly to "over-medium" doneness as they float across to the low side, where they are removed and slid onto plates held by hungry hands. My whole family has always prefered "runny yellows" on their fried eggs to "sop up" with hot biscuits at breakfast. Having spend a number of years working in a grey and ductile iron foundry as a pattern-maker, I will tell you how the BEST cast-iron cookware is produced. They use a CORE of baked fine sand for the inside of the pan, whereas the rest of the sand mold is standard sand. This makes the inside of the cookware very smooth. The downside is that it costs over twice as much in materiels to make each item, and there is more possibility of a shifting core, which could end up causing a scrapped product. Good pattern makers know how to keep that from happening though. THat is why the cost for smooth-interiored cast-iron cookware is so much higher in cost than standard castings. Although some companies also machine the interiors, which really isn't necessary if you use a fine-sand core, and which also makes the bottoms thinner from removal of some of the iron in the machining process.

Dirtmudd I started that video, first thing I thought was I could watch this girl do anything for a couple of minutes, I was wrong.

I have owned roughly 32 different pairs of speakers since the mid 80s. I won't bore with the complete list, but here is a sampling of some of the more prominent ones: Wilson Sophia Piega P-10 Green Mountain Audio Continuum 3 and Imago Von Schweikert (VR4 and VR4 III HSE) Magnepan (1.6 and 3.5) PBN Montana Reference 3a Grand Veena I have also owned Cornwalls and Cornscalas. And this brings me to my current speakers, GR Research Super V. This is a high efficiency design using an OB 12" coaxial driver mated to a pair of OB 12" subwoofers using a servo amplifier. These are very good speakers by anyone's definition and have world class bass response flat into the teens. I have really enjoyed them for the past year. I said all that to say this. I recently borrowed my friend's Forte I with upgraded xovers and titanium drivers for a week. I did this with the inclination that I might buy a pair of Forte IIIs. I have heard these speakers on many occasions in his system, and once set u p properly, didn't disappoint in my room either. While they are no match to the Super V for bass weight, extension, and foundation, the Forte more than held it's own in the midrange and upper frequencies. Even though both of these designs are of high efficiency, the Forte had more snap and dynamic range (but only slightly so) than my current speakers. I also got the chance to hear the IIIs last weekend at a dealer.That sealed it for me. I ordered a pair in distressed white oak. The conclusion being that Klipsch speakers can hold their own against far more costly designs. But I know most of you here knew that already. Shakey

Only speakers I've ever owned other than my current ones were Bic Venturi 6's. Bought em at Pacific Stereo back in the early-mid 70's... I loved 'em... My Jube's sound better though!

Claude, the going price for used Khorns in the USA, from people in this community seems to be about $2,500. I sold my Walnut ones to a guy in Toronto for $2,000 about 10 years ago. Having replaced the capacitors in mine GREATLY enhanced the MIDRANGE. The (1975?) ones offered on CanuckAudioMart translate to about $3,000 US, which is about right., BUT they do have the Crites networks to justify the slightly higher price. I would offer the guy $3,500 CAN. If he accepts, it's well worth a road trip with a trailer or van rental. PM me for my phone number if you want to talk about this or other stuff. C'est un bonne chose a faire. Je me souvien........the other Claude. Post Scriptum: The LaScalas, with a K43 woofer (Industrial version) or an Eminence Kappa 15C, either one with updated capacitors, have WAY better midrange than Khorn, about an extra 4 db or so at 400 Hz. which translates to more detail on vocals, guitars, saxes, etc.

Welcome Claude. Your English is way better than my French or Spanish. No one’s writing is perfect. Fortunately, many here do not let writing challenges stop them from sharing information on this great forum. A resident expert, @ClaudeJ1, is also a native of Quebec, and might be a valuable resource with no language nuance issues. ClaudeJ1 has had multiples of each Klipsch Heritage speaker. His expertise is extreme. Personally, I echo what several have said above. The first thing that strikes me is your familiarity with the bass of Cornwalls. La Scalas will be a bigger contrast in that regard than Klipschorns. The purists, including ClaudeJ1, will suggest a sub, or subs, even with Khorns. I know ClaudeJ1 will suggest horn loaded subs, which take up space and budget. Each person’s needs and tastes are unique. The available space and budget are important. Personally, I have enjoyed the qualities of Klipschorn, La Scalas, Cornwalls, Heresys, and, now ClaudeJ1’s “Super Heresys.” The small space now available for my dedicated music area precludes anything larger than Heresys as the primary speakers. The “Supers” meet my needs in that space, even without subs. That said, I’m an incurable DIYer, so I built four small DIY tapped horn subs, first brought to my attention on this forum by Carl, @CECAA850. The subs, while not absolutely necessary to enjoy good music, enhance movies and TV, and music. When listening to music with the subs, they are more noticeable in their absence. By that, turning them off after listening a while is more noticeable than suddenly adding them. Regading the pursuit of perfection, whether in writing or audio, I’m reminded of the words of that great Canadian philosopher, Michael J. Fox, “I pursue excellence. Perfection I leave to God.” Please keep us posted on your quest, and photos are always appreciated.

Hi Claude! Welcome to the Klipsch forums! There are a couple of issues you've raised, suggestions for speakers, and your hearing aid. I don't know anything about wearing a hearing aid and listening to speakers. I can assure you, with either Khorns or La Scalas, you won't need them. I've read all the comments above and as usual the Klipsch community has solid, to the point advice, I agree with everything ^^^. If you get the LS a sub will complete the overall sound with solid bass. If you get the Khorns they cost more and are spectacular to listen to. I always suggest a sub with any speaker pair, but the Khorns have sub-woofer like power even without a sub.

I didn’t want to steal your thunder. You’re getting old and might not have much left... richieb, is of course correct. Khorns are highly room dependent. Good corners, at least 4 feet clear in both directions. High ceilings, over 9 feet. And a minimum of 12 feet of separation. I’ve not tried this but some people swear that in a rectangular room they will sound better on the long wall. La Scalas are not particular. I’ve had them in 24’ by 24’ rooms and 12’ by 10’ rooms. Sounded very good in both. However to get bass less than 50hz they need a subwoofer. And subwoofers need to be properly integrated. So, if you have the room for Khorns get them. If not, La Scalas are a great alternative. Mark

Hi Claude, welcome to the forum. I’m sure others will add their thoughts to mine. I have La Scalas and Khorns. If you’re used to the bass of Cornwalls, I think the Khorn would match that and have a better midrange than the Cornwall. The La Scalas sound beautiful too but just won’t play bass like a Khorn. Wish you were closer, I’d invite you over for a listen. You can can find Khorns for sale. Be ready for a road trip to go pick them up. They'll fit in a minivan. Barely.. Mark

so, i forgot to remove the tag off a new pair of jeans that i bought a couple of weeks ago. I’ve dropped from a 36 waist to 34, so i’m gradually getting ones that fit better. Today, i go into the same store wearing the pants that i previously bought (still with the store tag on them) and go in and buy two more pair. My brother is with me and he’s checking out at another register. I’ve already paid and am waiting for him at the register that he is at. The clerk that rang me up and calling for her manager and telling her to “hurry.” Seems that she sees the tag on my jeans and must have thought that i was stealing them. The manager says to me, “is there a tag on your pants?” Confused, i say, “what?" My brother then says “Yes” and rips the tag off and shows me. The manager says “did you already pay for them?” I say yes and she said “It’s always a good idea to remove the tags." Can’t believe how close i came to being accused of shoplifting. Although, I found the receipt in my car from the last trip; and i’ll bet, with today’s technology, they can probably tell that the tag on those pants had already been scanned at the register, which would coincide with the date on the receipt in my car. I sure do need to pay attention. when i put on those new pants, i was too preoccupied with finding a pair of 34 waist pants in my wardrobe. When i saw a pair of 34, i just put them on without noticing that they had never been worn and still had the store tag on it. the headache that this could have caused! I can’t blame the checkout girl for calling her manager; but, why would i steal a pair of pants and pay for two at the same time? Surely, the security footage will show that i entered the store fully clothed and didn’t even enter a dressing room (thank God that i never try on clothes at the store). Also, i don’t steal and if I did, i surely wouldn’t stand around the store waiting for others to finish checking out.

Could be a bad capacitor. Try switching out one component at a time, and see if you can isolate the offending component.

Slow in here today, guess I'll go do something outside. I'll leave you with a fish for no good reason.

Not the best photo, but you get the idea...

Looks like the Chorus have been removed from the list.

The current thread about Stereo Review inspired me to start a new thread, that would list my (and forum) impressions of audio mags of the past and current era. I guess everyone knows that many vintage High Fidelity, Audio, and Wireless World issues may be found through that wonderful resource, http://www.americanradiohistory.com Audio: The most consistently scientific of the mags of the golden era, and the only one to publish a modern-day technical review of the Klipschorn High Fidelity: More honest than most, but reluctant to cast stones. Had its own in-house hater of rock music, Gene Lees. Published review of the LaScala that irritated PWK mightily; I think HF eventually retracted the review. Stereo Review: A very mixed bag. Julian Hirsch's reviews were widely panned because of the impression he was constrained by the advertising dept. Hirsch, was, to be fair, one of the grand old men of the golden age of HiFi, and some of his pre-Stereo Review articles are very significant. He also honestly addressed trends like the damping factor wars and amplifier power meters with clarity. Classical record reviews were influential with that customer base. Rock/pop reviews were sophomoric, silly, and ignored by the genre, especially with the rise of Rolling Stone. Stereophile: Test reports the best of the current era. Published a favorable report (not test review) of the new LaScala. Founded by J. Gordon Holt, and was influential in the Renaissance of tube equipment. The Absolute Sound: The paradigm of Subjectivism in audio, with reviewers' impressions constituting the "test reports." Dotes on trendy expensive equipment. Frequently uses words like "rhythm" "air" and "speed."

I bet you did a book report on it anyway...