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That's funny, once in Mexico in a restaurant my nephew asked the waiter if they had some of the more spicy sauce, she brought some and I put some on a chip. Stupid idea it was bad, never again.

Good one, Jim. My own first experience was vicarious. My Army buddy I met at DINFOS in Indy and I went to our first Thai restaurant day one in a Bangkok hotel. He ordered a Thai shrimp salad, massive Tiger prawns. Waitress put the customary little bowl of prik nam pla beside it and he asked her what it was for. She looked at him, then took it and empty it over the salad. He shrugged, and took a mouthful of the salad. As you say, he looked as though he was undergoing a heart attack. Started chugging any cold liquid in sight and sputtering everywhere. We laughed ourselves silly. I started with only a teaspoon full but rapidly went to dumping the bowl over the food. Bill was from Ohio, and never developed much of an attachment to it.

I accidentally bit into a very special Thai pepper when I was having a bowl of Tom Ka Gai in a restaurant in Bangkok. I had to get up from the table, leave the restaurant, find a glass of milk and some ice, and walk around for about 15 minutes....The waitress thought I was having a stroke.....I will never forget it....

Or you can use grow lights....during the winter or all year.... Depending On the crop you planted....

When did you want them to be moved inside? Peppers really need full sun.

Appear to be the real thing! Looks like I'll need to wait until next spring to plant as the reviews suggest they take a long time to bear. What's your experience, Jim? Could they be moved inside? Dave

Dave, I'm growing a bunch of Thai chilies this year, can send you some later this summer.

I was thinking about what you said and it made me realize how good some batteries are. The battery used in one of my cameras has been charged over and over for 10 years, well it was two batteries that I switch out. I have no idea how many times they have been charged and still work as new. I know very little about batteries but these are called Li-ion and I never thought they would have lasted this long. It looks like this.

I have a cricket in my basement I’m trying to find and kill....

I made a place just to do that, sometimes with music. Can't wait for you to get your LaScalas.

Everywhere I have been from here North, I like spice. Now not the kind some people like, some of it can burn your face off, or feel like it.

Its Done I have bought them Whooooo hoooo Thanks for all your help guys you are amazing and I love this forum its seriously second to none Sent from my LG-H990 using Tapatalk

You can say that again

I finally finished fabricating my new custom built DIY audio/video racks to hold my new gear, and here everything is in place. I custom color matched the shelves to match the oiled walnut Chorus II's. It was a pain waiting each day for another layer to dry, but the 4 stage color was really worth it. It looks 30 years old already. I knew it would be a little glossy, but I would have to wait a month before I could buff it out, so it will stay this way. Now the Monolith 7x amplifier has a proper home, the center channel is standing upright as it should have been all along. Next will be covering all 5 speakers and both audio racks with black granite slabs for protection, added mass, and just plain cool factor.

I can send you some hot peppers pretty much any time. They grow so fast I'm having a hard time finding uses for them. I just finished a batch of sauce that I fermented in wine for a month. This weekend I have 2 more recipes that I want to try.

As I said, I will send you some Thai peppers when I get some. Those plants are loaded with flowers, and it's hot as heck here right now, perfect weather for them.

Honestly Dave, I would wait until next spring to start yours. I started my seeds in starter soil under grow lights with warming mats first of March. They do take a while to germinate, up to a couple of weeks before you see the first sprouts, but depends on the specific type. They are fairly slow to start off, but once you move them outside when they get full sun, they really take off. I have not yet harvested any of mine yet, although I do have a lot of flowers and some fruit starting to form. The mild peppers such as Padron and Pepperoncini will fruit much earlier, as a matter of fact I just picked a dozen Padron this morning. Having them for dinner tonight....

That's probably true the older the type the less chance for it to revert to something else. I guess ? With many of the newer plants they are designed for traits, I bought some baby banana plants years ago that were modified to take temperatures to 28 degrees before the leaves would wilt and the roots could take -10 degrees before dying. They were about 6"-8" tall when I got them, problem was they were made from tissue cultures in a lab in Florida and it took a couple of years for them to even be able to stand full sun. Bananas love full sun but when they mess with things there is often some side effects, these are ornamental bananas not edible ones. They now are fine and i have separated them to use in a few places out by the bar since they look tropical. We get in the teens on occasion here and I didn't want to use real tropicals and deal with them in the winter but wanted a few things that look tropical out around the bar. To keep them pure like in named Japanese Maples they graft the tops on to standard green seedlings to assure they are the same, as much as they can be. Big difference in price for this kind of plant.

Were still talking about the plants ? Some people have used something like a Q tip and touched each flower, of the plant.

At one time we grew alot of vegetable plants for sale in the spring, we started the seeds around new years in a non heated greenhouse. Without a greenhouse they can be started around March inside and when they make leaves move them by a window for sun just to keep them slightly growing, they will really not take off until outside and it gets hot, but you won't be so far behind in May. They love the heat If protected from frost overwinter what Carl is doing works well, they really take off when it gets hot because they already have enough roots to support a full plant, this really helps speed things up. It's good to not reuse seeds from the plants you grow more than one year, each year the plant moves a little further away from what the specific type was. If each year you save some seeds from the new plants eventually around 3-4 years you have a plant that does not resemble the original at all. They revert back to something in the past bloodline which is usually not very desirable for taste or looks. One year is normally OK for this, then start over with good seeds, I have even seen this for what I have grown as ornamentals, they lose all the traits they originally had.

One of the Texas planters commented on the seed site that they planted in May and they'd just started bearing at first frost. For me, that means plant first week of April instead...but I was thinking perhaps I could go ahead and plant one this year in a bucket and move it in at first frost. Yes, lack of sun would certainly impact them but I figured they might be better than nothing. Dave

at the time, I was doing some travel. 110V isn't always available. AA batteries are. Li/ion are pretty reliable. A good charger helps. In R/C, we used lithium polymer [LiPo]. A 400mh battery, weighing 10gms will give 10A @4V. Those batteries will explode. It is recommended the larger packs be kept in ammo cans.

Certainly interested. Would like to grow some myself. Dave

You can still get chiles from Hatch NM. And they have some bite. In HI, they have chiles. Grow as a perennial on a small woody bush. The peppers are narrow and short... an inch or so long. They warm.

Less interest in that type bike from those that are actually able to afford one. The generation that made HD boom is trading their bikes in for AARP cards.

Some people’s love for audio exceeds others.

Thai chilies still my favorites. 100k on the Scovill scale for the "real thing." I haven't been able to get the real thing since I left the DFW area 17 years ago. I was able to get some from Thais in the Houston area, but the were hybrids, twice as large as they should have been, and good...but not the real deal. Tasted dumbed down. Not sure what the problem is. The desirability is NOT about heat...it is about flavor. Having lived in the area where they are grown and present at every meal, including breakfast, I learned to love these things. Prik nam pla, as fresh Thai chilies in fish sauce is know in SEA, is an absolute requirement for Thai cooking north of Bangkok. I so miss them! Above that, there are much hotter peppers, but they are just hotter without the flavor. No interest in proving manhood or whatever by eating those things. Current Jalapenos have been dumbed down to the point they are tasteless. Serranos are about the only ones that have any flavor left that are reliably available in my area. Dave

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It's our Pharmacy giant that is taking over the Health Care world over here, buying up companies....there's one on every corner, almost as bad as Starbucks.

La Scala IIs should be clearer than Cornwalls in the midrange, and have tighter bass as far down as it goes --- but the Cornwalls will dig lower, and have good bass that is "Good enough for Rock 'n Roll." Best solution: La Scala II and a BIG horn loaded subwoofer! With Ausyssey XT or, better yet, Audyssey XT32.

Uh huh some place have tender palates.... Australia for instance. The spiciest I found [w/o looking hard] was mildly entertaining. My mango salsa has more teeth.

and taste of tobacco. About half mesquite smoked, though. Be like chewing on ribs. Might be good, but you'll starve getting enough to eat yeah, cut the grass. I have a patch. I use it to control runoff and cool the house. I wouldn't have planted it. It was here. I didn't even know there was a lawn, until it rained and this tif-green came up. was out in the doghouse ... Smokin' and drinkin' and listening to the crickets. Just for fun, I decided to see how they take to "competition". Cranked up my RadioShack electronic keyboard .... Set it to square wave, upper register. Shut 'em up right up. That was with the junk onboard speakers. Makes me want to put the LS out there.... maybe get a real synthesizer. I had an ARRP AXXE once upon a time. Ran it thru a Custom amp. 4] 10's and tuck-n-roll on the cabinet. Nice amp. The neighbors loved me.

It would be like me getting a hair cut.

Holy cow ... crating my set up for transport

Highly likely that I built them.

Cant give ya pictures until they arrive hopefully on Mon or Tuesday [emoji4] But below is my CWIII's Sent from my LG-H990 using Tapatalk

This company is terrific, seed quality is outstanding, I am growing all of my plants this year from their seeds. https://www.rareseeds.com/store/vegetables/peppers/hot/

Measure the room using REW and a cal. mic, then you have usefull info.

We missed you in Hope, we really did. Except Carl. He don't care.

NO regrets on this end. I think if the S MWM turns out like I think it will you might have to move up. I will build a set later this summer and you or anyone else who wishes to is welcome to stop in and listen if you are in the area. Each step up has been a revelation. I have had Chorus II and I, Cornwall I and II, Forte I and II, La Scala and LSI, Heresy I and II, KP250,262,260,301, 301II, assorted 115's and 480's, 302, 201, 450 and 456. The 450 and 456's are really something but the MCM 1900 is just amazing. I heard the Jubilees that Cory in Paducah has and they were VERY nice but I wish I could have heard these big boys in his home theater. If I had to give the MWM stuff up due to space some day the only thing that would satisfy me would have to be something at least as good as the KP456/450. The rest are OK but just not what I want anymore.

In late 70s their Sr. Engineer over R&D in Japan, Hiroo Watanabe, was trying to capitalize on the "Detroit problem" of sacrificing comfort for style. He pictured a sphere, maximum room in smallest surface area. His team coined the phrase, Max Man, Machine Min. He later came to US in the 80s as President of Honda R&D USA. This was in a lot of textbooks at the time.

Sounds like your living the life brother Sent from my LG-H990 using Tapatalk

I have been listening a bit more by now and I really like those tweeters. I find them particularly strong on "timbres" - and they also made me fine-tune my crossover a bit more and I ended up with a tad more than 3uF in front of them - so thanks for mentioning them in the first place.

Not mine, it was the Honda Doctrine from the CEO of that division. Our sales rep. was Japanese, of course and he explained it to me. I remember the impression of greater roominess inside vs. the small exterior the first time I sat in our Accord test vehicle. It kind of blew me away, to be honest. Machine Minimum, Man Maximum was real.

Winner winner chicken dinner. And these will go great on roast chicken folks.

A closed back would be nice, but I'd be satisfied if they'd just clean up the build aesthetics a bit. For $15k speakers, the fit/ finish should be a bit nicer than this. I'm referring to wood screws that don't seem precisely symmetrically located, lots of flash and mold marks on the backs of the horns, the bracket supporting the horn being canted to one side, the rubber trim looking different from side to side. Please understand that I'd still buy them as they are, but like most of you here, I'm a fan-boy. ..But if Klipsch wants to stay competitive they need to sell to more than just other fan-boys. They need to sway some of those who will be comparing them side-by-side with Dynaudios, Paradigms, KEFs, Vandersteens, etc. I'd bet my lunch money they've been hearing this from their dealers too. Sounding better matters a great deal, but cosmetics matter too. Yes, the veneered part of the Klipschorn is beautiful, but the rest of the speaker just needs to look nicer, imho.

That would work. Well, at least for me it would.

People who can’t hear a difference between equipment and parts shouldn’t waste their time on audio forums.

Yes. 10 point eq for each speaker