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I saw the news earlier and it is really a bad situation. Ice is almost impossible to drive in, and remove from the streets. I hope your drive into work today is much easier.

Then slushy with the temp going up!

I’m In Birmingham Alabama heading back to Orlando Florida on Sunday. Have some room in the truck to bring anything back to Orlando with me Just trying to keep the express train going PM me Thanks Carl H

I have found the best way to evaluate an equipment change is to live with the new piece for a few weeks or months and then switch back to the piece it replaced. (assuming the piece that was replaced was also "lived with" for at least a few months). In fact I have gone back and forth between two pieces many times before I came to a conclusion which one I preferred and eventually kept. I only recently did so with some speakers I have been switching back and forth for over a year. Each had their own strengths, but it was each of their weaknesses that made me decide. There are some weaknesses that cannot make up for some strengths. So it is with almost any choice I have made through the years. (hint: I am keeping my Klipsch Forte Is). A/B tests can be useful if the differences are large enough to be able to eliminate a choice or two within a few hours or even minutes. But it is most helpful to already have a base established. That is a default system that you have lived with for some time.

Period. End of sentence. No mas.Each and every post following this will be counted as a hanging chad and disallowed.

Figured I would post this to help others. I have been buying gear from this guy for years and he gives EXCELLENT prices on anything you need from Sweetwater. Tell him Chris from California sent you and post your hear here if you score some stuff so we can all googly eye it 👍. His name is Chris Kress CALL 800-222-4700. Chris's extension is 1757. You can also email chris_kress@sweetwater.com.

I recently replaced my vintage Luxman gear with a new Luxman L-509X integrated amp... the combination of power and detail from the 509X and the sensitivity of the LaScala IIs is incredible! It seems like this combo was made for each other... I know this is a lowly YouTube video, but here's a clip of the last several minutes of Doråti's 1812 Overture... an amazing demonstration of how dynamic and refined the La Scala IIs are (with an admitted assist on the cannon fire from an SVS SB16-Ultra)...

Hi guys, Few months ago I bought rf-7 ii, Rc-64 ii and r-115sw drivers. I had the chance to get them very cheep so I did. Only the drivers. Then I saw a guy selling the an empty rf-7 ii kabinet so i decided to buy that too and some more stuff and build the whole thing. Most parts I got. I miss the horn drivers and the crossovers I cannot find in europe and shipping from the States is all together more expensive than I want to spend. So I decided to use an active crossover (behringer cx3400) splitting two ways using two amplifiers. First one would be behringer A500 on the low and onkyo sr608 on the high. The thing is that I still don't have the horns so I used the Rc-64 woofer, which fitted perfectly on the spot of the horn. On the top I added a super tweeter with built-in passive crossover that goes from 5000-40000 hz. I use separate r-115sw for the very low, set to 60hz When I hooked everything up it sounded great, soft and complete, definitely better then my old rf-82's which I play along to hear the difference. But I cannot compare that to original rf-7 ii because I never heard those. I would like to have the sound at least as original rf-7 ii producing the whole range but I don't know if I'm missing something in the range without the horns. I cannot find the documentation om Rc-64 to see what range de woofers produce. And Im struggling how to set the crossover points. I would appreciate your suggestion and help.

Those jeans are so tight, if she farted it would blow her shoes off 😀

^^^^^ === I see what you’re “Thankful” for — and I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again - you Dawg you —

Made the trip to Safeway w/o following any ladies home... drat... I'll be doing the cooking for Thanksgiving. Grabbed an 18lb bird. Should fill my roasting pan pretty full up. They had Macintosh apples... We gonna have an apple pie. Candied yams, mashed whites, green beans, the bird and stuffing ... the stuffing is ... well, let me put it this way... A turkey is a very good vessel to cook stuffing in. And pies, of course. Cleaned the oven today. Have it burning out the smell now.

I would change a couple things: Put the RP-250s as your sides. The RP-140SA are Atmos speakers that aren't designed to be use as actual surround speakers. Go with the RP-160m for rears. Side surrounds should be a wide dispersion design, rear surrounds should be a direct radiator design. Your RF-7IIs are massively more powerful than the R-10SW sub, even having two of them. At minimum I'd go with two R-112SW or two R-115SW subs.

i don't need another set of K-horns but i'm back from Toledo

Resent!!! I am currently noodling a pair of Peavey FH-1 bins that will be mated to a K510 top hat. My last noodle was a pair of Jub-likes in Tigerwood (Claude is now the guardian of these), I decided to go with Flatcut Walnut for these new ones. The Rosewood on the above Heresies is gorgeous, whether OEM or noodled.

Thanks for helping me spend my money! Costco has no inventory for the Vizio PQ65 but Sams Club does! The Sams price on-line only dropped to $1400 matching the Costco price which went into effect just this morning. It cost me an extra hundred bucks for the state sales tax but if there is a problem, the peace of mind to return the TV to the store is worth it. I also got the extended 4 year warranty for about $30 per year. I just ordered the Viz, due to be delivered to my house by Dec 3. Just in time to miss all the Thanksgiving day football games! Oh well, what else could I do? Now, if I could just make that office chair decision I've been putting off for two months...

The last in line....wins this thread, hence

I'd certainly volunteer to help carry the load.

That's a very nice setup.

They had a little better food but nothing to get excited about, now fried mushrooms would have been my choice and horseradish sauce can go with almost anything. That what scares me, a little snow on occasion if good, your amount of snow is not........for a Southern anyway.

One of my favorite clips is Roy Clark on the Beverly Hillbillies... Boy Blue And His Electric Zooo

Excellent taste in the speakers as well as the socks may I say sir! Well when you get tired of those khorns, I certainly wouldn't mind putting a couple bucks in your pocket so you can buy some shiny new silver speaker cables.

Ta da!

And speaking of shorts.........

“Post has been flagged for removal” Apparently the person that wanted to buy them, to actually use them, is pissed..

I used to do that too often... Take 4hr to get 35 miles. Flooded washes.. Summer is touch and go as far as getting in/out of here. I kept a change of clothes and non-perishable food in the car. One of the reasons I live here. You have to want to come ... you won't find it by accident. Would it be considered a "spirited listening session" with this HK/630 at half volume, running the Scalas? I'm listening to NantucketSleighride and it says to turn it up LOUD. Is 5 loud enough? It sounds petty good.

NO! LOL. Chuck offered to buy mine so I could upgrade to another amp. I told him I'm not sure what amp would actually be an upgrade.

Not that I blame him.. these are definitely the kind of amp that you don't just let go of once you have it.

Already asked him. He say's no. But thanks for the tip.

Chinatown SF

Wow that is a steep price for a used TV .....GLWS

It would work fine, many people do it. I'll bet close to half the home theaters are powered off amps connected to an AVR.

I highly recommend Mogami cables. You can buy Mogami Gold Interconnects for a steal from this gentleman and they sound very good (not just for the money either). For those of you that say cables don't make a difference, give them a try and see if they don't change your mind. Also good contact for subs amps.

I have had several sets of Chorus II's over the years and have thrown everything at them for hours on end even had them pointed outside for big parties playing at or near full volume for hours even had many drunken nights playing heavy bass tracks trying to knock things off the counters downstairs and never had any issues with a passive-- had a couple tweeters burn out but that was it. Really can't imagine what it would take to take out a passive in those things, wondering if there wasn't a bad batch that went out with glue issues or something if people really had issues with them blowing out?

Thank you sir!! Will do...

Beautiful Forte IIIs and stands. Good luck with your sale!

There moves a thread that has no end

Link Tweeter diaphragm has been replaced, and cabinet has some woes. Still worth posting, IMO.

It's incorrect calling Mr. Clark a guitar virtuoso. If it had even a single string on it he could play it masterfully. Roy Clark, Stringed Instrument Virtuoso covers it fine. Saw him at Arthur Smith's studio playing with Arthur & Tommy Faile when I was a kid. Incredible person, incredible talent, very funny man.

And I scooched over to the center couch seat last night while we watched the CMA's. Told the wife what I was doing and she said "Aww, you want to sit next to your wife." in a joking way, and grabbed my hand. 😀 Also asked her if she has ever noticed right speaker dominance in her seat. Of course, she said she never noticed anything. 😀 Imaging is just fine in the center seat, as it has always been with every speaker set we've had in this system.

Yep! Entropy is a *****! ;-) John Kuthe...

The above examples have WAY too much reverb! Here ya go:

Haha ... yes they come down to Florida in the winter and complain about the hot weather. Plus they are lousy tippers

Thats why you need some type of eq.

I primarily build Klipsch designs. Did Al design those? The $99 Super AA is a good value, but it is not the Super-X. The Super-X uses some different component values and provides 1dB increments of attenuation. I also build at a much higher quality level. He enjoys conflating the two because he knows it causes me some grief and confuses the customer. The idea of using a swamping resistor with an autotransformer was used by JBL thirty years before Al did it. The concept was originally proposed here for Klipsch loudspeakers by Dennis Kleitsch (DJK). It is easy for Al to deny this, since all of those old posts were lost when the forum software was upgraded. Dennis was always very irritated by this. The Super AA, Gentle Slope Networks, AP12-AK3, and the 3619-ET would not have come to fruition without me - those were my ideas. Al is brilliant (and yes, he generously shares knowledge), but he will not give credit where credit is due. Greg Roberts of Volti has the same problem.

Thanks for the input, this helps. As I listen to more recordings, I'm finding that many recordings of the same work (classical symphonies) sound poor, but some sound fantastic. I guess the Heresy just needs good recordings...

So I called Duracrest Fabrics a few minuets ago and spoke with Ralph Fortino, president of the company. What a great guy! Completely unpretentious. Said he could re-do my forte II grill covers with current lambswool fabric on forte III for just $100.00 after the 1st of the year. That is material, labor, etc. Also stated he has current Heritage grill cover badges for $20.00 each. Just a hop, skip and a jump to factory in Elk Grove Village, IL. So, should I stick with original badges which are perfect, or go with new? Decisions, decisions! Best regards, John