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The only flower worth ingestion Cannabis flower In coffee or tea.. Any baked goods.. And what ever else you can come up with... Oldtimer should make a hot sauce with it . Carl should make a slushies with it... Dtel needs to just consume it...

My Klipschorns have been somewhat neglected for the past few years since I set up my all horn 7.2 basement system, which is a shame since they live in my teaching studio and get used daily. For the past couple of years I have used a Pioneer SC-1222-K AVR that was retired from the basement to run the K-horns, and it sounded pretty good actually, but the Pioneer was needed elsewhere and so I started looking for a good and easy to use integrated (my violinist wife did not want it hard to use). Klipschorns are a great speaker and I thought they deserved a bit more love. After some research my first try was a Yamaha A-S801, which sounded ok but wound up being defective (it would shutdown after 15 or so min. of use) and a relatively unpleasant experience to return. I then used a 15 year old HK receiver and cheap Behringer DAC that was part of my kids stereo system and it sounded pretty good, but the longer I listened to it the less I liked it. Before my basement system was constructed I had a Yaqin made 300B tube amp with the K-horns, which I sold in part to help cover what I was spending to put the basement system together. I had very fond memories of that combination so I decided to try tubes again. Amazon.com is selling the Yaqin MC-13S tube integrated amp for a pretty reasonable price (Prime and with easy returns) so I gave it a shot. I also picked up a Yaqin MS-23B phono preamp as well, and a Schiit Modi 3 DAC to complete the system. I am writing this as I listen to this setup and I must say I am very happy with the results. I did spend a bit more that the Yamaha in the end since it had a built in DAC and phono section, but the results are far superior. Never thought I would go back to tubes, but glad I tried them again.

Definetely western electric horns... the whole collection.

This all you need to know

Darn @dirtmudd, looks like a high times centerfold circa 1985. Ripe stuff.

Numbered 003528 limited

=== although I drink very little as a salute to the both of you I’ve decided to drink like a fiend until my birthday in early Feb -

Haha ... who was first or does a PM override a post Guess I should ask an "independent" moderator Since you are both from Texas, I give myself very little chance

McIntosh doesn’t make a SET amp. Their tube amps are PP/ Ultralinear using gobs of global feedback - which is why they sound a lot like SS.

True, but that's not me just a friend, his name is Larry but everyone calls him Bogart.

The AK and AK-2 have the midrange 6dB down. It makes sense that many would like this. The actual designs are solid. I believe Jim Hunter was largely responsible for them. The midrange is slammed off hard above 5kHz, and the tweeter leg is technically steep slope. Both networks use an autoformer. I believe the AK-3 is 4dB down - I can't remember right off hand. I don't know if PWK was still involved in day to day operations back then, but he was definitely still around. The AK-4 was the first Klipschorn crossover without an autoformer. It was designed by Roy. It's also a solid design. Steeper slopes, and a lot of work probably went into the low pass section, which pulls down the large bell shaped response. Roy moved away from the autoformer because he didn't like the phase issues associated with it. It comes down to a matter of taste. I mean, it takes a lot of work to make a Klipschorn sound bad.

=== done. Out the door and on my way to Western Union -

=== man, you really swung for the fences with that choice. But I do appreciate your restraint —

Money sent. I used a money order and sent you twice the amount of my selected speakers value. If you could please cash it and send me the balance over what the speakers cost I'd appreciate it.

=== well apparently it will be new Klipsch speakers for all my friends on the CC&C thread as I have received a very official looking email document from the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Steven Mnuchin, that the sum of $3,500,000.00(that’s right boys, three and one-half million big ones) has been appointed to me only awaiting my approval and signature. So to make this fair and avoid the infighting free speakers might bring I thought it best to - - reserve the speaker of your choice - choose your finish - using the price provided on the Klipsch web site forward that amount to me to “hold your reservation” - upon receipt of my $3.5M your reserve speakers will be ordered, shipped and deposit returned - please allow 5-10 years to complete the process Gosh, what a great start to 2019 and Happy New Year to all you lucky guys and gals

15 old fellows met for breakfast this morning......mostly school chums. Lies were told.

I heard from a reputable source how Roy Delgado loosens up the suspensions of woofers before he measures them. I think I'd like to be at least a mile away while he's doing that. When I bought my new Klipschorns, Steve Philips of Klipsch told me to wait at least three days before evaluating them. Richard Marsh of Reliable Capacitor told me that it takes 10-20 for capacitors to "settle down". Mike Sanders of Quicksilver told me the same thing. It's not always easy to sift the science out of the voodoo -- but when everyone in the industry agrees on a thing ...

@Maccagirl83 and @MrsBoxx, Remembering Boxx and his good influence on everyone who knew him.

I did w/ my last three speaker purchases: Vandersteen 3A Sigs (3 way floor-stander); Paradigm S8 v2s (3-way floor stander); and my Klipsch Cornwall III's. In each case I let one play through the night than came down the next am to compare. ..No, not one iota of difference. And not to antagonize but all of your explanations as to WHY break-in might occur doesn't really enter into what I'm suggesting. A beginner can just ignore all of that and just try it. In fact, reading an explanation such as yours or something they may read in an owners manual might have the effect of predisposing them to expectation bias. I personally believe break-in is a myth perpetuated by some manufacturers as a way of discouraging product returns. 250 hours of breakin?

After 36 pages of sheer ridiculousness I have come to the conclusion that this hobby isn't much fun for you. I think needlepoint or stamp collecting might be more your speed. After all, not much can be subjective about that. While I'm not a worshiper at the audio equipment altar, I do view components as having more worth than a dishwasher or microwave oven. Seems like they are just utilitarian for you. Shakey

Yet, most people can recognize a voice they haven't heard in 10 or 20 years, after hearing a two word phone greeting.

My statement was incomplete..........I should have said: Compared to any live acoustic performance, stereo is just an illusion that attempts to replicate the live experience, but always falls short.

They don't look too horribly bad, given the rattle can job....A bit of Bondo and some Duratex will do wonders.

Where all a bunch of cowboys from hell...

When it comes to high dollar cottage industry I would go with Jeffrey Jackson of Experience Music. I've heard his complete systems and they are hyper real. http://www.jeffreywjackson.com/

Searched and that LP looks more like a right hook!

I would agree with you about BB for some kinds of speakers, I have built about 200 pairs in the last ten years. Horns are a different animal. These horns in particular really have nothing to do with the actual cabinet, except being mounted to it. I built this cabinet for the Bass exclusively. Like so many other cornscala designs, sometimes the horns, tweeters, etc, are actually not even part of the cabinet at all. BB is great for Back loaded horns, where the driver actually uses the cabinet like an instrument to help the music sound warm and rich. MDF on the other hand, or some other very inert material is most often used on multi driver, dynamic transducer designs. Someone once told me that " BB is much more rigid than MDF, if you put them side by side, and bend them, the MDF bends much easier", True, I never said it wasn't stronger, it is denser, and does not resonate like a BB cab does. It is Dead, or Enert. For bass drivers, and a bass cabinet, this is optimal. They put out massive amounts of sound pressure or air movement, so the less the cabinet resonates, the more focused the bass frequencies. That is why you almost always see subwoofer cabs built like a battle ship, at least the good ones? To get to your point , I used both MDF, and BB because I wanted a massively built, and dead cab for the huge bass driver, and I wanted plywood because it looks awesome, and keeps with the heritage approach. The biggest reason was that i couldn't find maple BB, and I had just enough maple veneer to do these. LOL, HE HE! I also wanted to build the dam things and not wait, Laughing out loud now!! I wanted to build kind of a Cornscala on steroids. Or, "JONSCALA" !! LOL! Most kind Regards,, Jon

Looking at your picture, it dawned on me that if you stacked books on those horizontal braces......then the MCM system would then be.......wait for it..... a bookshelf speaker!

Slight correction.... the Jubilee makes the LaScala sound like a bookshelf speaker......and the MCM makes the Jubilee sound like a bookshelf speaker!

There are a lot of West Virginians living in Ohio. JJK

Yes I know it's a root... But it's still sawdust to me....

But it sounds more like you are talking about content. A specific emotional response is usually determined by such.

You betcha! It's part of the original English heritage.

Taking something good and making it taste like crap?

Of course an immigrant, which according to *ucker Carlson makes America dirtier and poorer, wouldn't know that.

I did, for the longest time, but not so much anymore. I'll typically do it for someone who is moving to different horns and larger drivers -- it's the only situation that I feel warrants it. If using the stock drivers, or A-55-G and de120 -- I think a nicely built pair of AA's actually sounds better. Since I was Al's licensed builder for the ALK Universal for some time, I feel it's okay to share an opinion about this: The midrange of the Type A and AA are attenuated 3dB. For those with large rooms and/or for those who like to lean on the volume, the midrange can be a bit much, and of course, most Klipscheads tend to like it loud. Al's networks are shipped 6dB down, and this is what people are mostly hearing. The midrange is dialed down, and the horn doesn't go into distress when you crank it. But, you can accomplish the same thing by dropping down a tap on the T2A. Most change out the 13uF to a 6.8uF, but the truth is -- the change is barely perceptible on Bob's spectrum analyzer. Such is the nature of a 1st order network segment. Now, that is not to say that it will sound the same as an ALK, which is unique in its sound signature (just like the A is different from the AA, etc.) I'm only suggesting that if money is tight, and you want to jack on the volume without bleeding your ears out -- just drop the midrange wire from Tap 4 to Tap 3. There is another way, but it's expensive -- and I know everyone here hates to hear that. :-)

IMO, there is a large disparity between what the schools make off revenue sports and the benefits received by the scholarship athletes. IMO, it is that disparity which fuels the discussion. It costs the schools very little, if anything, to enroll scholarship athletes. Just because a scholarship athlete receives a tuition-free education that would otherwise have cost $XX,000, it doesn't follow that the university has expended that same amount of money. The athlete's attendance did not prevent the university from enrolling another tuition paying student. On the contrary, a successful athletic program has a measurable positive impact on applications received and enrollment, therefore, net tuition received is increased. As to "meaningless" bowl games, I strongly disagree. The universities benefit from the exposure, as described above. The universities run ads during the games promoting the schools. Probably more important, even the "Weed Eater Bowl" permits weeks of extra practice that help the participating teams prepare for next season, as well as the bowl game. Progams that consistently play in bowl games enjoy recruiting and development advantages over programs that consistently fail to qualify for bowl games. It's an entertainment business that utilizes essentially unpaid talent. Just because the education of the student athletes has a monetary value, it does not follow that the university incurs a commensurate monetary cost.

Not that involve these two teams apparently though. Both making it to the Championship game with a 14-0 record this season. There have been no upsets. These two teams have both made it to the championship game 4 times. I just don't think an extended playoff changes where these two teams are right now playing in the last game of the season.

I'm using an ElectroVoice Dx38 (DSP) crossover connected to two stereo amplifiers--a Crown D-75A for powering the woofer channels, and a ICEpower 50w amplifier for the AMT-1s-- whose outputs are directly connected to the woofer (one channel for each woofer) and AMT-1 (one channel for each AMT-1). That's how I'm able to EQ the loudspeakers to flat response, the parametric EQ filters of which are shown above. If you were going to use passive crossovers and mono-amplify each, you could use only an inductor in series on the Cornwall woofer, and a capacitor on the AMT-1 channel, whose values each are shown below. Then you could use upstream parametric EQ somewhere in the signal chain to re-EQ each loudspeaker using values similar to the values shown in the above. Chris

So in summary, a picture of the PEQs I'm currently using on the mid-wall located AMT-1/Cornwall bass bin is posted below. The first two PEQs are on the bass bin output channel, and the last four are on the AMT-1 output channel. The 176 Hz PEQ compensates the apparent 1/4 wavelength cancellation to the wall behind the woofer. If your loudspeaker is spaced farther from the wall, this cancellation will occur at a lower frequency: Chris

I got two different groups of stanzas from that excellent guitar work as ring tones or alarms on my phones that I found years ago!! One of my half speed mints looks like it will get here tomorrow!

You sound like an idiot with that post.

When do you return Bruce? I have a carton with your name on it. @Marvel

Dark outside and 75° here. Up early, have to catch a ride to airport to fly to one of the other islands. It's just after 3 am, by 6 the traffic will be terrible. At least the weather cleared...

Yes, I hope everyone here has a good year. My resolution for 2019, wake up tomorrow morning, I'll take it from there.

You might also check VTI. They make high quality stands. Here's one type: https://www.amazon.com/VTI-Speaker-Stands-Pair-Black/dp/B002YDD0JY