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I had a ticket to see Van Alen on their first headlining tour back in the late 70s.

Turn and face the strange

@billybob Songs from the Wood was the first Jethro Tull LP I purchased Then I was hooked to that sound and got the rest of the releases as I could afford them

Dang, You got all of them? I just gotta keep reading your posts with my best James Earl Jones impersonation voice. "Broadcast it... They Will Come!"

Tonite I was lost til I saw JohnJ's post w/Bowie! Realized I hadn't heard ANY of his stuff on this new gear. So far I'm not disappointed in the least! Think it's gonna be a weekend wake! 😂 😎

Wednesday should have been the theme song from "Frozen" on repeat! Warmed it up a bit in here though.

A belated welcome back! We need to plug in the room height to get the cubic feet. 12x14 only gives us 168 square feet. If you have a standard 8 foot ceiling, your room would be 1344 cubic feet. At 94w/1m/1w in a 1344 cu. ft. room of average liveness, and your kg 3.5s, you would need (very approximately) 15 watts to produce the Dolby/THX reference level of 105 dB peaks above 80 Hz. Dolby/THX cinema standards expect you to have a separate, powered, subwoofer to do the heavy lifting below 80 Hz, and produce peaks up to 115 dB (below 80 Hz). If you get a 52 watt vintage Marantz, instead of the 20 watt one, and if the 52 watt rating is "for real," as they used to say back when that amp was made, you would get nearer to 109 dB peaks. Paul Klipsch estimated that you need 115 dB very brief peaks "at your ears to produce the blood stirring levels of a symphony orchestra." IMO, your speakers might have a very hard time going there, at least safely. Most people would be happy with the 109 dB peaks you probably can get, but since you want to use your system as a "back up band," while you play electric guitar, and you used the word "loud" three times in your post ... Guitar amps (and their speakers) permit horrendous distortion, which the players use artistically (one hopes), and they use special heavy duty speakers that can take it. So your guitar audio doesn't have to obey the rules that your 2 channel listening audio must heed. For instance, the JBL D130 and D130A were pretty hardy, but a D130F was specially made to take guitar assault. The Greatfull Dead used these, plus some pretty delicate tweeters, but used a few more than usual: Approximate Cost $275,000 Acceptable Sound Quality At 1/4 Mile and you could hear it more than a mile away depending on wind. (11) Separate Sound Channels (89) 300-Watt Solid State Amplifiers (3) 350-Watt Vacuum Tube Amplifiers Total Watts = 26,400 (RMS) Total Weight = 75 Tons (586) JBL Loudspeakers (54) Electrovoice Tweeters

That guy right there was truly incredible in so many ways... NOW I know what direction I'm going tonite! Time for a proper wake! Thanks John! Gonna post some piles... This individual photo thing is getting to me! The only thing that ever changes is the LP anyway! 😂 😂 😂

Old Crow? iIs that something you guys drank after prohibition?

From a bulk lot records purchase last year A brother / sister band of Jack and Meg White  First time I have heard this band It’s raw - it’s grunge garage rock and some similar genres in between and I liked it And it’s a red coloured vinyl  Artist - The White Stripes Title - White Blood Cells

I spent a total of 10 hours with him in his museum, his house, his lab, the plant, his Mercedes, and we had lunch and dinner at 2 different establishments, including his local Rotary Club for lunch. A fine gentleman who treated me like his long lost grandson (he was the same age as my grandma). For dinner, he drove my wife and I out of town to the Pioneer Kitchen, where the lady opened up her place just for us and our wives (4 of us in the entire place) and had some home made vittles! Yeah, it was very special for a lifetime memory. I learned a lot that day, including the fact that he found it hard to believe that his company had grown so large, which was only 20 Million/year at the time. Oh, and one more thing............at the pioneer kitchen, I made a really good portrait of him with a porch corner in the background. One of the best in my career as a photographer, if I do say so myself.

Not "great photography," just a phone picture of my completed stereo rig. Lens on the right is a fixed 35mm. On the left, an 18-55 zoom. Learned to calibrate them by framing objects with straight lines that are just at infinite focus range. Then, I fine tune the zoom to the fixed lens framing. I set to manual focus to ensure neither lens moves from infinite. After that, I can shoot as many different pix as I want as long as they are infinite focus. Next sunny day (nice out, but overcast) I am going downtown on a stereo expedition. This is fun! And, yes, Iain (Seti) has a stereo camera. Turns out he dropped by yesterday to pick up a hard drive of PWK's recordings for the KMAH. Short, but good visit! What's more strange is that he has an identical Keystone to mine. It was the first time either of us was aware of any more Keystones. Strange... Dave

Never noticed it in 36 years.. Do you think that I cared.....with inducing mother nature and beer... If frigid temps ..if I remember correctly it was -22 that night .. Without the wind chill factor..

ROBERT PLANT - PRINCIPLE OF MOMENTS 1983 TOUR REHEARSALS QUESTIONS https://forums.ledzeppelin.com/topic/14102-robert-plant-principle-of-moments-1983-tour-rehearsals-questions/ On February 12, 1983, Robert greets the crowd but did not perform at Phil Collin's concert at War Memorial Auditorium in Syracuse, NY

Is that the rare and sought after misspelled concert ticket?

Are the jumpers in place that connect the HF and LF inputs together? I'm guessing they're not.

I say, happy to see you from your sabbatical leisure. Yes, the very first Tull is a collector's. First Tull recall hearing while schooling in Orlando. Cat's Squirrel a friends favorite off of the album. On the tip of tongue. Maybe you have...

Sure been spinning these for now...Tull and and a cheery enough holiday season. More yet but for now a replicate. Enough egg nog and now a sour mash bourbon , in limitation, surely. :

Until I get time for the insert and other selects...I know am the teaser yet for now:

Been putting out the fire with gasoline ...Mike...played it for Amy moderator...

Thursday, well kinda thawin out... FINALLY got the garage door to go up after half a container of ice melt along the bottom rubber seal... Naturally, I didn't put any down BEFORE the freeze hit.

ZZToppers and Page my takeaways or takeouts. Man, you are right, the Walsh/James Gang album covers are loaded with inserts. Will take a pic as, found my camera...

I'm feelin' a bit different tonight, found this up the road last week... nostalgia in action again. first blue vinyl I've had

@Full Range First I heard of them was Seven Nation Army at a ball game years ago. That kid Jack was on a special with Jimmy Page & the U2's Edge on MTV a few years ago. Here's a taste of that. He is impressive!

Cilantro? No, but they do have a lovely raw wood smell. I was planning on staining them, but they do complement our furnishings and decor quite nicely so I may just seal them with shellac after a light sand. The book matched raw ash veneer is quite stunning really. I've ordered some speaker cloth swatches so in the meantime I'll crack on with making the tilted risers and the grille frames. By the way, the grille frames from the 1.5s are a tad small and the cutouts don't quite match those of the III. I have some 6mm marine 5ply left over from a boatbuilding project which will be perfect for the frames. At this point, I'm thinking that a magnet fixing will be nice. Ronco still has a few of these left. Personally, I think they are bargains if you a little handy and can make the grill covers and risers.

Not currently but working on it.

It worked! I just fabbed up some short sections of nice wire, connected them to my setup and bingo, they work & sound great! So glad it was something simple, thanks to everyone here for all your help! Abra

Picked up a pair of Klipsch Epic CF-3 v1 today. Issues with the bass on one, but got a great deal. Now I need to do a little investigation into the crossovers determined it was a woofer shorted out. Plus, they were only 10 minutes from my house.

I think Paul McGowan has learned a valuable lesson about Klipsch fans....... NO BULLSHIT!

Last basketball photo for the year. This one made our local paper.

Yes, AlNiCo will demagnetize from high power (strong field strength from the voice coil), shock (dropping, bumping too hard) or old age. Some labs can test them. Measuring output vs. voltage can tell. And loss of high frequencies is an indication. Great Plains Audio can magnetize /remagnetize some drivers, perhaps K-77, too.

My first concert in September 78 Black Sabbath... Van Halen opening Before the made the mainstream... And a headline act ... Have to find the stub...

I'll see if I can spot the can of poly when they apply it. The installer said to keep the door open today to let the fumes out but I got paranoid after seeing the neighbors cats mulling around. I shut the door and will deal with the fumes later. I figured that was better than paw prints in it.

Close up.

The little flecks of insulation will be picked up prior to clear coat.

=== Punxsutawney should be the aspiration for all weather “people”(PC). He’s as accurate as they are —

Nice read. and you did notice Syracuse is misspelled on the ticket you posted, right?

Nothing rare about it... Other than Robert Plant walk on stage That night...

If you see something similar to these, they are not trash. As pictured and stated by others, a pair of wire jumpers work. Dennis posted a couple of pictures in this old thread. RIP djk

The jumpers would be where the terminal is. It'd be tied red-to-red, black-to-black. Are you referring to a setting on your amp? Klipsch don't have adjustable impedance.

From memory that was The Rock And Roll Circus Then I found the details here - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones_Rock_and_Roll_Circus

When Tull played on the Stones BBC special maybe 67, along with others like the Who, and what's her name. Guess I cannot remember her name atm yet...a fair Youtube...at least it was live...

Yes by all that is correct...yes that is it...This was, I think...hanks man from down under...superb lp

Will attempt to do so and will let know what found...cheers

@billybob check the run-out groove around the LP label for a msg from Joe. IF it's a first pressing you'll see an inscription from him.

At least it wasn't a Tele... I never liked Strats.

Tedeschi Trucks Band has FINALLY blossomed... Derek cut loose the other nite in Chicago and did it! "Dreams" by the Allman Brothers! ALWAYS his favorite by Duane growing up! Schitt's on now, so here we go! Enjoy!

The Forte III has a sensitivity of 99 dB at 2.83 volts at 1 Meter (39.37 inches away), "In an average listening room" (the footnote on the spec sheet). If you play music very loudly. and you have "an average listening room" (not huge, i.e. 4,000 cu. ft., or less), neither too live nor too dead, and you sit about 10 to 15 feet away, and the speakers are near a wall (see instructions that came with the speaker) or other source of boundary gain, you should be fine. Out in such a room, at such a listening position, 100 watts would produce about 110 dB, which is louder than a sane person would ever want to go for more than an instant. I've gone there for a very occasional peak for just an instant (just a touch of a needle swing) with the loudest Mahler or Beethoven climax. As far as "instantaneous peaks" (well named), a matter of milliseconds, Klipsch says the Forte is good to 400 watts. Don't push it, though. Most speaker "blow outs" occur because somebody plugs or unplugs a cable between a preamp and amp, or source (phono, tape, CDplayer, etc.) and preamp or receiver, with the power on. I always unplug everything concerned before messing with those RCA style plugs. Other sources of trouble are test tones that are pumped in at too high a level (primarily into a tweeter or midrange), electronic music, parties in which the wrong person grabs the volume control, especially when in Altered State, etc., or loaning your equipment out for a "Dance at the Gym." You have an incredibly high quality system there!