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waiting on a few things and my revamped 2 ch is done Luxman C-900u M-900u P-750u PD-171A EQ-500 DCS Bartok Shunyata Triton 3 Martin Logan 15a Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Sadly, these children were never seen again after this photo.

Slow, but I can glean from this. Watching out for you now.

Started another bag of single source Honduran since the last one went down well. It's a medium roast, fair trade from Aldi.

Good Sounds; lyrics complete with questions, ideas & statements: One of the Best Ever this vid appears to have more of the songs, some LPs aren't easy to find in full online.

I recently collected my father’s things and put this together: Poor photo, I know. His mother died when he was not quite 2 and his father died when he was 9. He got shuffled around foster families until the war broke out. He lied about his age and joined the Navy. He was in WWII in the Pacific and then was in the Korean conflict too. Came back more or less in one piece, became a machinist, chased my mother until she relented, built a house in the country and raised 5 of us. Died at 83 in the house he built. Interesting life for sure.

Have any of you been a part of ensuring that wartime heroes in your family/extended family are remembered by future generations? How did you do it? Do any of you want to share how you accomplished being ABLE to do it? Here is how I recently did it: My wife's maternal grandfather ("LOLO" Clarinan) and I were very close from the very first time I talked to him. Before I even met him for the first time in 2005, he had already found out that I was in the Army at the time, and that I had been in the Army for a number of years. My intent on Marriage to his favorite grand-daughter was what he was interested in talking to me about, FIRST, but he quickly got around to my military service, and in the process of that part of the conversation, began opening up a bit about his own military service time! And over time, every now and then he would volunteer a bit more information about his war-time service during WWIi while we chatted. Eventually, I had acquired enough details to see him as a REAL family wartime hero...just one of so many who really were! My wife and I married in 2007. Her maternal grandfather passed away in 2010. Her mother, who was born during early WWII, passed away the next year. She had been her own father's first-born child, followed by many siblings over the years. I was able to glean from her some of her earliest war-time memories as a small child, prior to her death. Over time, I began to realize that very few of "LOLO" Clarinan's surviving descendants knew very much about his war-time military service, other than that "he had fought the Japanese during the war"....so I made plans to ENSURE that they ALL would know what I had found out, even though it was really just a "drop on the bucket" of what he had done...but "how would I do it?"...and "when would I have the time to do it??" so that they ALL would know? I recently went into total retirement, just a few months ago...one of the things I had promised myself was "to make this happen" upon retirement...so I set about to do so...First by writing down all my memories of what he had told me...and what my mother-in-law had told me, and I made sure that all of them got written down! Then I arranged them in chronological order according to when they had happened, and verified the order according to war-time history in that particular area where he fought. I wanted the story to show the emotions he had when relating any particular parts of his story to me, and some of them were EMOTIONALLY SEVERE...so I had to figure out how to include the emotions involved, while at the same time leaving out any of the gore! His descendants had already established a face-book site about the time of his death, where they could announce things out to the entire clan, no matter wherever the clan members were...that was a HUGE PLUS in being able to get his story out to them all! When I finally posted it to that site, just a week or so ago, I included a request for them all to add-in things that were missing, to include anything about his post-war life-story, and his pre-war life-story! AND, I requested that they ensure that all of his descendants now living, and his as-yet-unborn descendants would KNOW HIS STORY!...because this was "my gift to them ALL!" WITHIN MINUTES of first posting his story to that facebook site, replies of all kinds started coming in from all over the world! Over the past week or so, they have continually been adding in things that they remembered about him, and amazingly, they have all locked-arms together to get the entire story of his life put together and passed down!! WOW!! Am I proud of starting this? HELL YES!!!! How does reading all the posts affect me? I cry ALOT! ALMOST as much as I cried when writing his WWII story to begin with! It is actually a swirl of emotions, though! What happens, if I remember a few more things he told me, which I forgot to put in the original story? I just add them to it! Is his WWII story unique?...or Is it really much different than other WWII stories? To ME, it is! Although there were many others who were involved in doing the same things that he did! What did he do that was "special"? Short synopsis: He was Filipino cavalry scout on Luzon when the Japanese invaded the Philippines on the same SOLAR morning that the Pearl Harbor attack occurred, and fought at Bataan, after the surrender he managed to escape and immediately became a guerilla fighter, participated in continual clandestine guerilla operations in the Visayas region, assisted in the success of the Leyte landings, was put back into uniform and fought until the Philippines was completely liberated! What about some of the emotional parts of what he told, and what did you write? The entire war was emotional to him! Think about it! Whenever he got emotional, I would change the subject...I think he appreciated that! I certainly would, if in his shoes! Here is an excerpt from what I wrote...referring to after the surrender of Bataan....and then Corregidor...and what happened to the villages in Bohol Province when the Japanese retaliated against the guerilla operations there, and elsewhere in the Philippines, after they had conquered it: …..He explained that VERY MANY Filipino soldiers were able to avoid being captured as the Japanese conquered the Philippines, because they could just melt into the forests...and change into civilian clothes. But he said the Americans could not get away with that...and his eyes teared up...as he gripped the arms of his chair tightly...and his voice shuddered as he said...."but those Americans...what the Japanese DID TO THEM!!!...I can NEVER forgive that!...and all the Filipinos...entire villages....everyone murdered...villages destroyed....many of the villages disappeared forever...nobody ever re-built them.....I can never forgive that, either!"..... This is "LOLO" Clarinan, in 2006, enjoying having just a few of his very many great-grand-children laughing and playing in his yard in front of his porch! On this very same day, shortly after this pic was taken, my niece showed up with her new baby to receive his blessing for his very first great-great-grand-child! MY, how happy he was! Whenever I look at the pictures of him surrounded by laughing and playing children in his yard, I think about how very nice it just had to be for him to live through the war to see this again...something he told me he NEVER SAW from Dec 8, 1941 until just before the end of WWII, as the Philippines was being liberated!:

Sold

He doesn't live close to me, that's how.

Never realized

that's a rejected who song... that Pete used for himself... I like it better done by the who... it's on who are you.. when they did a remaster... on CD back late 90s.... thunder fingers thumps along...! and with loonie moonie... it has a sense of urgency... and authority..

Tough act to follow. ^^^^^

No alternator, I'm out!

Yes. I donated my fathers South Dakota National Guard 1938 yearbook to the SD Historical Society.

I'm planning to build my retirement home soon, so I decided on installing TWO cooktops, one gas and one induction. That way I will have the best of both worlds in the kitchen...each stove top has its own best use advantages IMHO. My father was a retired Army Food Service Warrant Officer who preferred gas (as do I), but my step mother preferred electiric….so we actually had one of each type ranges side by side when Dad and I built the house in 1969. The major caveat Dad put in for both ranges was that BOTH ranges' ovens had to be wide enough for using the mil-surp baking sheets he loved so much! My step mother was a good cook, but Dad had her beat in the kitchen hands-down!...especially when the extended family came in for the holidays!: Stovetops would be rocking...both ovens rolling. Dad would be sitting at the kitchen table with four timers in front of him, either drinking coffee or sipping on a beer...checking the timers or getting up to stir the pots on the stove! Sometimes he would sit down and look at me over his glasses and say "Where's my new cold can of beer? This one's empty! YOU ONLY HAVE ONE JOB, so get up off yer azz and get to work, Private! Put the cold one in my hand, and the empty in the trash!! DO I have to replace you with a trained monkey??" Oh the joys of having a Warrant Officer/Retired Warrant Officer as a father! Occasionally it was a PITA, but his sense of humor always had me laughing! It got even crazier as he got older, and our roles got reversed to some extent: "Dad, aren't you gonna give me any help doing this? or just sit on your azz drinking a beer the whole time?"...."Son, I am the SUPERVISOR, know what that means?"...."Yes Dad, you sit and drink beer while making sure that I do EVERYTHING right!"...."CORRECT, Son! Never ask about things you already know! It just slows down getting things done! Any MORE questions?"..."No Dad...except...do you need another cold beer yet?"..."Son, you have lots of pots on the stove right now, and I am sitting on the ice chest...so I will get up and get one when I need one."..."Ok, Dad!" RE: cast iron cookware...not giving mine up come hell or high water! As long as I can still lift them, I will be using them!

Thank you guys for the great feedback. I do like the PB subs, but they are just too large for my listening room. Also, I did reach out to metropolislakeoutfitters and am waiting to hear back. I purchased new main speakers from them and I couldn't be happier with the whole experience of doing business with them.

I'm almost there...have the drivers, and the horns were re-stock items at a excellent price.

This guy was very much into 3 channel stereo.

Hello fellow Klipsch folks. It's been a good long while since I've been around here but in the last few months as i slowly prepare for retirement (3-4 years off) I've been putting a couple of systems together in my Pipes Canyon place (5 acres at the end of a dirt road--paradise after 35 years in L.A.) I pulled my 1978 Heresys out of storage and built a little cabinet that houses them for my TV sound. I never went in for "Home Theater" but I wanted to have decent 2-channel sound so I paired them with an Oppo bluray player and a little NuForce digital amp. It sounds great to me-- this is the first time I have used anything but a cheap-o sound bar in my life. For music I'm using my JBL Metregon that i bought a few years ago but never had a place for. It's a really great piece of furniture and its a rare one with the 3-way system. I'm pushing it with a Fisher 500C I've had since the 70's and a Thorens TD-125 with a Fidelity Research FR-64 and Denon 103 with a Fidelity Research step up. It sounds great. It cant hold a candle to my main system (Mcintosh MC-30s/C22/Thorens TD-124-SME 3012-Ortofon SPU) with my beloved 1960 Vertical horn Cornwalls. Its good to be back!!

We will be sorry when they realize their power.

Voila

I have wondered myself as to how DIY sealed backs compare to factory versions.

My 1978 Scalas have grill fabric attached to the reverse surface of the upper motorboard, with the horn mounting screws through the fabric. See below.

Fixed it for ya.

Nothing says party time like a pair of scalywags in the back yard...nothing says street party like a pair of scalywags in the driveway! And sometimes you even get FEEDBACK from the pissed-off neighbors from a mile or so away! I certainly have! Ring, ring, ring..."hello"...."who?"..."OK, and YOU live WHERE??" "OK, I will turn them down a bit, or if you just tell me what music you like, then it won't be necessary, right?" "Ok...OK... turn them down it is!....but first I gotta enlarge the BITCHY neighbor radius on my map, give me a few minutes, later!"...click! "HONEY, I have the map, thanks for leaving it on the kitchen counter....do you know where the hell my compass went to? I need to change the map a bit!"

Go to :45 into the video and @Chief bonehead Roy talks about the background on enclosing the backs.

Like that version Mike, would love to have heard that live. But then there aren't too many tunes done by the Who that I do not like! Pete made it better on his record and not just because of the recording quality. That half-speed I lucked into above has changed completely on my rig turned into a 2.1 system now!

Took stock arm off and adding a Jelco TK850S Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Those settings should have brought up the midrange some and made a warmer sound. The highs may still be a little "in your face" depending on placement and room treatment.

If you still have the pins, I find this acrylic glue has a deadly hold and can be good for fabricating small pieces. Dropped my Jasper circle jig and router on the floor, busting out the areas in the jig. Didn't want to pay $40+ again. Got this glue, filled in the broken out areas and re-drilled to match original. Worked great. Forms a very hard acrylic bond and is just like lexan when hard. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003HNFLMY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

So who has to wait, Kirk, or Spock?

Ought to get you some MIL-spec wire and piggyback all those foil traces and jumpers. There are some photos in the fairly recent "capacitor orientation" thread which can give you some ideas. Hahaha!

Ten degrees cooler here today thanks to the rain from the gulf. So far no bad weather but sure we'll get a little thunder out of whats left. CC&C today? Cooking Chicken with Curry and Classical through the tv and Super Heresy Yum!

Did you get the MA or the MAC? I have a MAC6700 with a TM2 Tuner, paired up with P37's and a VPI Prime Scout. Love it. It is a very fine piece of gear. Congrats. Do let me know if you have trouble with the USB DAC. It worked for about a month and quit completely. Same exact deal on my C2500 (with the same DAC). Optical and Coaxial work flawlessly but USB is problematic. Audio Classics said to send it back whenever but I use them both so much AND love them so much there is no way I am A. parting with either for any length of time or B. SHIPPING either one of them. I'm fine without it. The way I see it the internal DAC will become outdated anyway but the rest of the machine will not.

Well we know what he will be doing as he grows up, I love to see kids headed in that direction. Especially blues, not the most popular thing with young people and we need more future blues musicians. Just watching him he get's it, he will be great, add little age and experience and as he settles down some and not quite so theatrical he will have work forever. Thanks

E bikes are expensive...

I have done plenty. And no, I don't want to share. "The loud mouth warrior is not the one to fear." My family military history dates back to the Napoleon army. A lot are buried in military cemeteries, including one of my aunts. Many are not but were still warriors. LOLO sounds like a great guy.

Downhill both ways is ideal. imo

This is just crazy. How do you still have this stuff?

It is springtime, so I am reviving this thread again. I promise this will be the last time I do. I have mentioned previously in this thread that I frequently take my LS's out to the country are let them run wild. The main reason for these excursions was to take my best friend out to his river house for a change of scenery and some fresh air as he battled cancer. After a ten year fight, cancer finally took my buddy (of over 54 years). Three of us that would take him out there were able to get away this past weekend to unwind and search (in vain) for some closure. To keep this field trip on a positive note, I brought all four of my La Scala's and we had our own little concert in the woods. Bittersweet at best. "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd was the highlight/lowlight of the festivities. The speakers didn't disappoint as it was the first time I hook all four up out there where we can get as loud and obnoxious as we want (and we did)! @codewritinfool suggested I add his two and his THTLP sub for the next trip! Look out!

One of my reps sent me this. Baseball in Heaven: Two 90-year old guys, Leo and Frank, had been friends all of their lives. When it was clear that Leo was dying, Frank visited him every day. One day Frank said, "Leo, we both loved playing baseball all our lives, and we played all through high school. Please do me one favor: when you get to heaven, somehow you must let me know if there's baseball there." Leo looked up at Frank from his deathbed and said, "Frank you've been my best friend for many years. If it's at all possible, I'll do this favor for you." Shortly after that, Leo passed away. A few nights later, Frank was awakened from a sound sleep by a blinding flash of white light and a voice calling out to him, "Frank.. Frank '...... "Who is it?" asked Frank sitting up suddenly. "Who is it?" "Leo-- it's me, Leo." "You're not Leo, Leo just died." "I'm telling you, it's me, Leo," insisted the voice. "Leo!..Where are you?" "In Heaven," replied Leo. "I have some really good news and a little bad news." "Tell me the good news first," said Frank. "The good news," Leo said, "is that there's baseball in heaven. Better yet, all of our old buddies who died before us are here too. Better than that, we're all young again. Better still, it's always springtime, and it never rains or snows. And best of all, we can play baseball all we want, and we never get tired." "That's fantastic," said Frank. "It's beyond my wildest dreams! So what's the bad news?" "You're pitching Tuesday."

If you decide not to go the horn route, but pursue the Focals, don't waste time on the Electra line. If you can spring for it, go for the Sopra. A buddy of mine just bought a pair of Sopra 2s and I think they are head and shoulders over the previous line. This is a very good speaker that gets most things right. Shakey

No big deal, but at first I liked Julian Assange because I thought he was blowing whistles on gov't secrecy, but belatedly now see him as a Russian stooge.