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Agreed. We have a spare bedroom if you're up for a road trip. That room has Cornscalas and a tube amp.

You guys all stay safe down there ya here? Gonna be totally insane from the way it sounds. Don't forget to check in!

That pole is now located at the Wrightsville Beach Museum. It's for illustration but is correct. Hazel hit here on a full moon, full tide, and with 140 mph winds. Tidal surge lifted full size yachts and neatly parked them in a row on Harbor Island. At Long Beach only 9 structures were left standing out of over 320 prestorm. It was one bad *** storm for sure. Finishing up the check list this morning. Will be packing up Jake and LF tomorrow and seeing them off before the wind gets too bad😴

Good morning all!

O’scugnizzo Pizzeria was founded in 1914 by Eugeno Burlino. He only sold tomato pie (a pizza without mozzarella cheese) and they only cost a nickel. He was then succeeded by his son, Angelo “Chops” Burline, who made O’scugnizzo what it is today. 101 years later, O’scugnizzo is still in business in the beautiful city of Utica and is now run by his son’s Steven and Michael Burline. In 2015, O’Scugnizzo Pizzeria was declared the 2nd oldest Pizzeria in the country.

@Tarheel and LF. Stay safe. My prayers are with you. God Bless you. If the authorities tell you to get out, get the heck out of there.

They should have thrown a couple street signs in there to make it a little more realistic.

I live just up the road from Wilmington in Fayetteville. Usually storms like this are rain event for us but this time we may catch a little wind. Planning to ride this one out. Got plenty of food and water. The geenie gased up. I just want to tell everyone in the path ...God Bless you.

Found these pizzas at Winn-Dixie. Pep's Pizza Drafthouse. Awesome http://pepsoriginal.com/products/

I'm in Wilmington as well. Been through all those storms except Hazel. 3-4 days out its still a crap shoot. I remember Floyd was a cat 5 going through the Bahamas and everyone was predicting total annihilation. Sucked up some cold air and turned into mainly a rain event for Wilmington. Fran took out basically every older beachfront house on Pleasure Island and a lot more on Topsail and Fran was only a low 3- hi 2 storm as I recall. Taking the northern eye-wall of a 4-5 will be like facing Armageddon. This one scares me. Probably have until Wednesday to decide what to do.

=== ok, don’t reside, just visit. You can join us crazies standing outside, deciphering the clouds for funnels, wall clouds etc. “Generally” there’s plenty of time to hit the basement. So long we don’t loose power you will have a good ol’ time - Jubes, LS, along with several others, good amplification etc. Enough volume to drown out the train passing overhead —

My advice to you would be to leave. Of course, I've never taken my own advice and stayed for every one that's hit here. Rita was a real treat. Rita was the storm where the entirety of Houston evacuated. There were traffic jams for days and abandoned cars everywhere that had run out of fuel. After it was over, fuel tanker trucks had to go down the highways and gas all the vehicles up. The worst part was that Houston never got hit by Rita as it veered right before landfall. We had the same issues here in South east TX. as vehicles took 6 to 8 hours to travel 20 miles. If I wanted to evacuate though, it would have been easy. About 5 or 6 hours before landfall there were virtually no cars on the road. Everyone had already left leaving clear sailing for last minute evacuees.

With cane grills, very nice walnut veneer and Crites AA with the motor run caps, IMO $2800 is a fair price. If I were selling them, I wouldn't accept less than $2500.....

Ahem. Heresy is a Klipsch speaker. I was just kidding. I'm just a CF-4 fanboy, you can ignore me.

It's not heresy, it's just my opinion. No need to be insulting. MMurg, you missed WVU80 sarcasm there! He was making a reference the the Klipsch HERESY speakers. Some things are lost in keyboard translation. WVU80 is one of the good guys around here. As a long time Chorus II speaker owner all I can say is enjoy, I think they are fantastic and are my favorite of the Klipsch speakers I own. Welcome to the forum.

With my systems I have the ability to quickly change back and forth between the TADs and 691s.........non-scientific........two different systems. But you can clearly hear a smoothness in the TAD midrange and especially voices that the other drivers don't seem to have. It would be a matter of opinion how much this is worth. Some would say not much of a difference and some might dish out the $3K for it. My opinion is that there is no $3000 difference by any means, but there is a difference for sure.

Put them on the floor. Stuff them in a corner as far as they will go and toe them in 45 degrees. PWK said every speaker made benefits from corner placement. The walls, floor and ceiling become part of the speaker like a K Horn to some extent. My LaScalas are corner placed as well as my Heresys. Don’t take my word for it, this info came from the Colonel himself. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It's not heresy, it's just my opinion. No need to be insulting. Not everyone likes the same thing. I did evaluate the Epic series for a while with good source material. During the '80s and '90s I was on a first name basis with the local Klipsch dealer, having purchased several pairs of Klipsch, other equipment, and many audiophile discs from them. He used to let me take over the showrooms as long as he didn't have to use them with customers. So I spent a bunch of time listening when the Epic series came out (mostly the CF-4 but I sampled the other models too). The CF-4 had great bass and a good top end but I didn't find the mid-range as satisfying as the 3-way Klipsch. The Klipsch speaker models with horn coverage of the entire mid-range sound more open and natural to me. Also, have you even heard the Palladium series?

@Tarheel That pole with the markers... know that handrail isn't ten feet tall. Markers delineate above sea level, right?

Seen this on YouTube. "Jim Cantore heads to Virginia Tech where he steps into a wind tunnel. After taking on winds of Tropical Storm strength, he continues the climb through Hurricane force winds... and breaks a record." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmJ8tXTcCfE

I get these Pep's Drafthouse pizza's when my wife is out of town No need to add cheese/toppings like on "other" pizza's

That does look good.

looking at a dictionary = bad is an adjective, "bad weather" not such as to be hoped for or desired; unpleasant or unwelcome. other things, like on Thursday, trying to make coffee, and the power goes out, that's bad, or it's high tide, raining, wind blowing like a bad mf or bad is like getting a root canal, without a cocktail, and that last's for about an hour of drilling on your teeth, or bad is like a ahhh ahhhh, waiting to leave and then getting a flat, but a cat 4 is a heavy duty low barometer reading, pretty bad deal. get one of those modern laptop things with a battery, head west, and stay in touch

I hope you are fine and have only minor problems, were not trying to scare you just worried about you. It's scary enough on its own, you have a football helmet ? I'm laughing because our neighbor stayed home in his log cabin. When we got home the day after the storm we went to check on him, he was sitting in his front door with a football helmet on. We asked him if he was ok and he said no, physically he was fine but that was about it he was quite freaked out. He said he seen his large barn disappear along with another neighbors barn, and his house was shaking losing some of the roof. He said he seen large trees from the yard uproot spin around in the air the fly off. He has never been the same since, he was an engineer for Stennis Space center. We had 140 mph winds here for that storm, Florence is at 140 mph sustained winds right now and it has a long way to go to get to land and will probably be stronger.

I wouldn't live there, for the reason you said, 0 warning. You could go from no rain just clouds, to 200 mph winds in seconds, I'm good no thanks.

It's cat 4 now and building. I fully expect a bad ending.....just how bad is the question. Thanks for the well wishes!

Happy new year YK.

Pagans do it the same way. Hot wings and booze. Sounds very catholic too.

Its raining down here in SE Texas so I thought it was a good day for some Doom & Sludge Metal. First up was my favorite release by Pallbearer and coincidently their first, Sorrow and Extinction. Side A is maginificent. Gonna play with Earth a little later on with the album Pentastar:In the Style of Demons.

Finally got around to machining an adaptor to fit an APT50 super tweeter to a K-77 opening like on the La Scalas. Have not put one in yet but I have a pair of Pro La Scalas slated for this soon. Figure I can just bypass the zener's on the AA crossovers with these and not have to worry. May not be the final final but darned close. Will fit the stock screw holes with an extra one for safety and be flush with the outside of the motorboard for better sound..

Never heard of that one.

OK; crossovers rewired and motorboards installed. Damn; could not count to 16 have to go back to Ace Hardware to get more screws Yammy CR-820 coming tomorrow so I better speed up Cheers, Emile

Rec'd my pair just the other day. Design, fit, and workmanship are impressive. Temporarily mounted them to some acrylic triangles I cut up and set them on top of my 'Scalas for display ~ too nice to "hide" in the cabinet. Difference in sound between these and the B&C horn practically indistinguishable to me, but then my ears are several decades old and a few -db down in sensitivity, so your results will very likely be different. Even so, these are nice to look at and I will enjoy them for some time to come, or at least until the hardwood versions are issued! ~

Understand that... Just thought it was a funny post... ALWAYS 1 yanno! lol

Large contractor trash bags work great, strong and big enough to put a Cornwall in, one from the bottom and another over the top taped up. Many electronics can be covered, it's a cheap way to protect if a roof were to disappear, perfect no but cheap and covers alot.

Oh, I got the Heresy reference. Just missed the rest as sarcasm. 🙂 Also, I wasn't disparaging the Chorus II at all. As I said I own a pair myself. Great speakers, the best of the "Forte Family" (Forte, Chorus, Quartet). I think the Chorus II and the KLF-30 are very close in performance. I could be happy with either one. Just my preference is a slight nod to the KLF-30.

That's definitely a hot mess. If I read everything right, here is what I would do, personally. Pull the Pioneer woofers and sell them. Buy some new K-33 woofers or a pair of the Crites woofers which gives you a woofer that is better suited for that cabinet. Find a pair of newer used K-55 mids that will mount to the K-400 horns. You'll see used K-55's come up in Garage Sale once in awhile, check for them on e b a y, or maybe get a new pair of the A-55 mids from Crites. Buy a pair of Type A or AA crossovers, either new or used, and work with those. There are other types that will work but I believe that's your best starting point. If you have a working pair of K-77 tweeters, you might check them both with a DMM just to make sure they read the same.There are newer options if needed. Do you have both top sections that can hold the K-400 and K-77? Bottom line is it's going to depends on how much you want to spend to get them in working order. Also, do you have corners to put them into? You could always build the backs on like newer versions that make them less restrictive to having to be in perfect corners and room that most people don't really have in a house.

With a round input cup it would be a version 1. But I agree w dtel that it look too short. It might be a kg4. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

Or even funner when there is an occasional light drizzle and they are out there trying to make it look interesting in a full rain outfit.

If the passive radiator on the back in 15" it's a 2 version, if it's a 12" it the original Forte. I would guess an original, version 1. Almost looks to short unless it's just the angle ?

I disagree. Case in point---Chris Collinsworth. He just never shuts up.

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OK; I'm "in." I'll take a "Yellow Peril" and a "Red Menace." Just send me a PM so I can get you some PayPal money Cheers, Emile

I have a friend down the street that comes down for cocktails now and then, 82 retired CIA, went down to pick up a house key and his guns as he doesn't want to leave them in the house. Thought about a side hustle to offer the neighbors "heavily armed ex parole officer will watch your property for $100/day". He and his wife are headed for Apex, NC......also in the storm zone. Big, tall Pines on all sides of my and LF's houses. Bubbles will be in her garage and hopefully not under a tidal surge. Trish and Jake will be okay where they are going.

That's true it makes a huge difference in intensity, it also determines which direction the trees fall. But really the day after katrina while driving back from N Louisiana we could tell where were compared to where the worst winds were by what direction the trees were leaning or fallen.

OK; little bit of progress Wondering if regular wood screws would be OK to hold the woofers or should I use bolts and T-nuts? (Motorboard is 3/4" mahogany ply. You are looking at the "bottom.")

You may want to post additional pics to show tops, fronts and sides of speakers. Our museum historian doesn’t assign value to speakers, but others here can certainly offer advice.

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I like eating Hawaiian pizza while watching movies at home.