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  1. A WABAC machine would be nice, if you’ve got the time.
    5 points
  2. New Monoprice cables for all my CC&C buds. A case of ketchup for Steve. Ten pounds of coffee for Mike. A potted plant for dtel..........
    5 points
  3. Blue Jean cables for me, thank you very much. You'll be able to afford it. Throw a couple pounds of Kona in my box as well.
    4 points
  4. Why do we all get cables that should last a lifetime and Mike only gets enough coffee for a few hours? I could use that dictionary.
    4 points
  5. . . . winning? Take off those mittens Rich.
    4 points
  6. Good morning from Southeast Michigan on a rainy spring day. Chuck @Tarheel posted this in my NCAA basketball thread. I emailed it to my internist, who is a Stooges fan and Wolverine alum and fan. He loved it. If you don’t have a doctor you can share this sort of thing with, find another doctor.
    4 points
  7. Ah! Now, we might be getting somewhere. School policy today shuns fighting at all costs. Can you imagine having to raise a kid to never even bother to try and fight back when adequately provoked? That's just not right. IMO, sand box fights were just part of growing up and figuring out that showing disrespect will get your a$$ kicked. I don't have kids, but if I did, I would tell him/her, "Use good judgment and stick up for yourself when you have to. I'll deal with the schools."
    4 points
  8. Ya'll can talk till the cows come home. The conversation ends when you call me a kid killer. These mentally deranged people have zero credibility with me. Everyone has a right to protest and we defend that right. That right is a constitutional right just like my rights. I won't take your right to free speech and you leave me alone. I'm a law abiding citizen who believes in liberty and The Constitution. When you raise the clinched fist of communism and wave the flag of another country--we might not be countrymen anymore. It's on them---not me. I am an American.
    3 points
  9. I'm very thankful to have run across this site. I've realized that letting these beauties go was a lapse in good judgement and pretty much stinking' thinkin'. They'll be moving with us and we will continue to enjoy them as we have since 1982. Thanks all for your input.
    3 points
  10. Yes he did. Not just musical props but everything known to man he rents to studios. Really interesting to talk to him about that if you are a movie type of guy/gal. Not sure why he dropped off the Klipsch scene, but then I did for a few years while other things got in the way as well. I have an email address for him. Been meaning to drop him a line and thank him for opening my eyes to Jazz. Do you remember GaryMD? I was talking to him no long ago and he said he had been texting with Allan, so I guess he is alive and kicking. I seem to recall Gary said he is playing harmonica in a band. Speaking of screen names from the past. Remember Boomac I think it was (Scott form Wisconsin)? I recently met him and his wife on the side of I-95 as they were traveling south. I picked up a vertical cornwall for another guy. That makes two pickup/drop offs for a total of 4 forum members just this year. Do I get an extra cable from your lottery winnings as a reward?
    3 points
  11. After a vasectomy years ago, which I'm still trying to amortize, the juice from my tubes better not power anything.
    3 points
  12. All my HT gear is solid state. Way more power than I need for Klipsch speakers. Don't tell but once I get the cables I'm just gonna get the silver out and retire.
    3 points
  13. Just measured. My sub is pretty far from my HT gear. I need pure silver cable that goes 3X around the earth at the equator. I know that is long but just incase I want to move it I don't want to have to get yet another cable. I'll PM you my address after the drawing tonight.
    3 points
  14. I'd settle for a couple lb of the Kona beans ... I had to clarify that. I'm getting to know how some of you are
    3 points
  15. Drawing tonite? HaHaHa the wife will prolly grab a couple tickets. She "won" $8 on the powerball and needs to cash in. Bloody brisk this AM. Light freeze. Beginning to think those Scalas are gonna end up in the doghouse. Wife isn't an affectionado. She does enjoy classical. I heard her coming down the street --- blasting it. I keep telling her, "It will be like sitting in the orchestra pit"....
    3 points
  16. And a dictionary for Rich. What do you need Neil?
    3 points
  17. @dirtmudd The larger the font the less chance you have of willing
    3 points
  18. We've been letting this discussion go on but let's keep politics out of it. Yes, I hid the previous post for those keeping track.
    3 points
  19. I agree there should be plenty of outrage to go around over these senseless shootings and if getting out there and waving a sign around makes people feel better I'm all for it. What I don't agree with is school administrators marching kindergarteners out there like they have an opinion either way, that is pure government indoctrination and adults should be equally outraged that our government is teaching these kids that giving up essentials liberties is good idea.
    3 points
  20. No I think he's telling the truth.
    3 points
  21. And if you child defends themselves in ANY way they are then guilty. My daughter put her hands up to defend attack and because the aggressor was scratched my daughter was guilty. My wife witnessed the entire event. Same aggressor repeated attacks against others day after day and awarded 3 days of in school suspension. My daughter lost athletic eligibility but she is a citizen, other person not so much. and before you accuse me of racism call and get to know me.
    3 points
  22. I'm not too worried about it, the dealership offered me an extended one included in the price I wanted. I'm set for the next 15 years or 200,000 miles. That's all I could really want out of a car anyway.
    3 points
  23. Try it and see! Corner placement increases bass, sometimes unevenly, or too much, but it is a good bet the sound will be better with the speakers in a corner. PWK used to say that moving speakers from a position out in a room (not against a wall) into a corner would be like multiplying your amplifier power in watts by 4. He urged people to try any speaker, regardless of design. in a corner. If you do that, you might want to put some absorbing material on the two side walls that form the corner, just in front of the speakers, and for 2 or 3 feet farther along the walls, out into the room, to prevent any midrange and treble from the horns from bouncing off very near walls.
    3 points
  24. Terrible idea, everyone knows the white/tan ones make the sound to bright, they say the clear ones are more neutral. At least they curved the wires correctly so the electrons don't scrape together during sharp curves.
    3 points
  25. Here are a couple of shots taken from our room balcony as we were leaving Milford sound NZ These Albatross were flying in close proximity to the ship, but I had to use the 55-250mm lens to get close enough to snap these photos Beautiful depth
    3 points
  26. Stunning photos from Washington DC yesterday, and very inspiring and passionate speeches from the soon to be voting generation.....I attended the March here in South Bend yesterday, and was proud to be a part of it.
    2 points
  27. I've shaved since that picture was taken.
    2 points
  28. Those are the ones driving the Ram Pickups where I live...I am waaaaaay out in the country. I can't see a single neighbor left/center/right from my back yard. 10 people at the gas station on a Saturday morning, none buying gas all just hanging out, not a full set of teeth combined.
    2 points
  29. You mean this forum is moderated by a Rotweiller? @CECAA850
    2 points
  30. Even if he wins the lotto? That's sad.
    2 points
  31. Oh sure now that I've paid off my mortgage you're going to win....Remember a couple years back when you promised you'd pay off my mortgage if you won No you don't remember? Maybe I dreamt it BTW if you win how's about paying for all your C,C &C buds trip to Hope this year including your own dang self
    2 points
  32. Well, OK then.....but, you are gonna need a big bunch of cable risers...damn.
    2 points
  33. I must have been asleep to miss that slam dunk. Good job Chuck.
    2 points
  34. Greetings Tom from Birmingham, UK and welcome from Neil from Birmingham, MI, USA. I’ve owned and enjoyed all Klipsch Heritage (Klipschorns, La Scalas, Cornwalls and Heresys). I tried to wean myself from the efficiency and low distortion dynamics of horn speakers, due to space constraints. My five DIY Fostex single driver speakers with four DIY tapped Horn subs do an admirable job reproducing TV and movie sound. An adult son returned to the nest while between jobs, which allowed me to again listen to the Heresys I’d restored for him. I quickly realized what I’d been missing. Now I listen to DIY “Super Heresys” for 2-channel music, mostly without the subs, but adding the subs does fill in the extreme bottom. The single drivers still do HT duty. The thing I like about Klipsch horn loaded speakers is the dynamic impact provided by high efficiency and low distortion. With proper amplification and source material, IMO, they’re the best. Klipsch speakers work best with low distortion low wattage amps. A clean 5 watt class D chip amp sounds much better than a 100 watt amp with dirty low power output. You must feel like you’re re trying to drink from a firehose. I agree with @willland above. If you want to discuss this in greater detail, send a PM. Klipsch speakers can be connected to most amps with tinned zip cord (lamp cord).
    2 points
  35. I think the problem began when we started seeing both parents needing to work to support the family and/or single parent families. Who's home with the kids? TV, computer ..... "Social" media? A person can find support for any idea, no matter how stupid Cactus jumping, the cinnamon challenge, the flame challenge ... need I list more kids still get dumb ideas. They NEED an adult to temper some of that.
    2 points
  36. A mattress and box springs. Decided to test them out and woke up 3 hours later. Further testing required. Keith
    2 points
  37. What is your budget? You might want to hit up @MetropolisLakeOutfitters too if III's are in your options.
    2 points
  38. It was the "right" color, with the "right" miles. Pretty rare G8-GT in Pacific Slate Metalic with moon roof (I believe less than 1100 total made in this config). Price wasn't necessarily the best, but the previous owner agreed to deliver it 3 hours one way to make it somewhat more palatable. Just got a full sized spare with matching 19" rim & found an original roadside accessory kit (jack, handle, etc) to my door for $70. The inflater kit with a can of slime just doesn't cut it on long runs.
    2 points
  39. Didn't get it today - will early next week (fresh off the truck)...but finished the paperwork and got the new insurance cards for it... Never thought I'd drive a Hybrid, but here I am.
    2 points
  40. It's an unstable planet, and more unstable for some than others.
    2 points
  41. Except we do. We elected one.
    2 points
  42. that's what I got. If I can't use them all, I'll put some under my pillow.....
    2 points
  43. But of course - the venerable ditch weed.
    2 points
  44. I collect old quality dive watches...mostly automatics...when you are wearing an early 1960's Alsta (Alstater) Nautoscaph (999ft) automatic, dive watch collectors take notice....but only for the past dozen or so years...because they didn't realize that it was the dive watch worn in the original Jaws movie until the advent of DVD's when they could pause and zoom to a wrist in the movies. It is very hard for people who don't understand to realize that the vast majority of today's HIGH-DOLLAR automatics are powered by movements which the company whose logo is on the watch never invented, but bought "out-of-house", then took everything apart, "jeweled it up"(the swirls put onto the faces of the parts, not the bearings!), and then charged an arm and a leg for what they were/are selling. There was a time when Swiss automatic movements did NOT have an "ETA" designation. That happened after the traditional Swiss automatic watch industry was almost killed-off by the advent of cheap quartz watches. Breitling ORIGINALLY got famous using primarily Venus-designed movements...and in the pre-WWII "wind-it-yerself" days they were very popular with AVIATORS, because they were tough, reliable, accurate and useful for aerial navigation. Brietling went out of business and was bought up by the same man who was already making very inexpensive Swiss watches, with middle-of-the-road-quality movements. He finally got Brietling out of the doldrums it (as well as the entire automatic Swiss watch industry) had fallen into after the inexpensive Casio quartz watches almost destroyed the traditional watch market. Rolex has NEVER made its own movements, they just "jewel-up" out of house movements. What you look for is the MOVEMENT, not the brand. The more complicated the movement the more jewels (rubis) it should have, and 17 jewels (rubis) is more than enough for a non-chronometer movement. The most commonly-used QUALITY complicated movements for chronographs today are the ones which were adapted to "cassette" installations in the 1950's and 1960's and were capable of becoming automatics, without the case they resided in NEEDING to become overly THICK. Nowadays people want this giant lump of metal on their wrist, but the goal of the classic watchmakers was THIN CASES that were LIGHT IN WEIGHT, but tough and waterproof. My daily watch-for-wear is a Seiko diver watch with the high-beat automatic movement that made Seiko famous...early on during the Viet Nam conflict...7S26 movement. It was the special ops military side of the house (green beanies and SEALS) that came back from "the Nam" and touted the Seiko automatics as being "combat-zone-proof', reliable and accurate....and at that time, INEXPENSIVE.
    2 points
  45. I'm kinda out of the loop. Haven't heard it. have to check it out ... @BigStewMan was talking about being a recluse. My hair and beard grew out 5 inches between times of me going "downtown". I laugh at folks when they don't recognize me with all the hair.
    2 points
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