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I bought Reefer Madness on DVD a few years ago. Included was the original B&W version, plus a colourized version. That was even funnier. The men’s sport coats were pastel coloured, which gave them a bit of a pimp look, but funnier still was the smoke. The exhaled pot smoke was pastel pink, lavender, or green. I wish the original makers could have seen that version.

That reminds me of a story . . . but what doesn’t? When I was a single young law school graduate preparing to take the bar exam, my brother-in-law gave me a 73 Bonneville sedan that had kissed a tree. It still ran, but the passenger front door wouldn’t open. As you can imagine, it was quite the chick magnet. I saw an ad in The Detroit Free Press for a Ford Fiesta (poor man’s VW Rabbit) that seemed too good to be true. I was in Grand Haven @BigStewMan on the west side of the state and the Fiesta was on the east side of the state. I called my father—a mechanical engineer—to ask him to check out the car. He called back all excited, saying it looks and drives great. So, I bought the car sight unseen. The dealership gave me $50 for the Pontiac—also sight unseen. As soon as I saw the Fiesta I had concerns. Stevie Wonder would have noticed a repainted front end. A shiny new Panhard rod with the paper tag still on it signaled a problem. The Chevy store had done nothing to the car since taking it in trade, hence the low selling price. As I took my parents out to dinner in my new to me used Fiesta—it was anything but a party—I asked my father if, during the test drive, he’d noticed the Pink Floyd button in the headliner, the burn holes in the seats, or the roaches in the astray. My mother cringed at the mention of roaches, whereupon I explained to her these were not those kind of roaches. The car actually gave me several years of reliable transportation.

These guys were fun to see in our old coliseum, the trip over to that side of town after school. The partying in the giant parking lot, Godzillas thunderous "footsteps" coming from out in the mezzanine. No doubt who I'm talking about:

The original LP was made in 1968 but mine was sooo worn I picked up this remake from 1970 too. Iron Butterfly from San Diego helped start it all. So many of those West coast groups. One of the top 40 selling LP's of all time. Heya Mossyone how goes? .

My favorite Bad Co. record, maybe because the others were over played on FM back then. Maybe I like Bob Dylan more than I'll admit... Paul sings a lot like him on a couple tunes here.

Cool tunes last couple nights, nice sunscreen for the noggins and I like that mottled button-down that looks hide-like. To top it off fine tuning for a new mat. Bunch of vinyl-heads🧐 With ya on a different frequency tonight:

I don't have Greg's mods, but I built my own 2" tractric wood horns, and the difference is amazing. Really opened up the sound.

The Highwaymen: Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson. 1985

Good evening, McCoy Tyner - Nights Of Ballads & Blues. Recorded 1963 on Impulse!

Please....ladies only!

Carl is using them for slave labor.....no reason why you gents can't do the same. 5 of those Texas roaches should be able to move Cornwalls for sure.

Unlike Bill Clinton, I inhaled. The attached photo looks like my red Fiesta.

I noticed no mention of whey he did with the roaches from the ashtray!

How was the reaction when you pulled into the Courthouse parking lot not to mention your law office? I'm just having a lil snicker visual here. lolol

Those Palmetto Bugs are something else. Years ago, the gf and I rode from Toronto to Tampa and back on my bike. At the motel, I was walking toward the office to book a second night, when I saw a Palmetto bug on the sidewalk. It spotted me from 20 feet away, and rushed toward the linen room door. This critter was so tall that it struck its head on the bottom of the door and stopped. Then, it ducked down carefully and scuttled out of sight. I really hoped it didn’t have a nest among the sheets or pillowcases. Didn't see any six-legged critters in our room during our stay, so I guess we got lucky.

Bayer makes a good insecticide. When I pulled the sheet rock down in my garage I sprayed the walls. An hour later when it dried I'd go back and sweep up all the dead roaches. They'd make it a couple feet out on the floor and go belly up.

Price lowered to $2,000. Hate to do it but i need to make some room so these have to go. I bought these last year here on the forums from a respected member. They are a complete working pair in very good condition and sound incredible. I've replaced almost every nut, bolt, and washer with new stainless steel hardware. The bottom sections are KP-682's wich are better than what the 600's originally came with. These where part of Ram Sounds huge system and they come with the custom covers. The grills are in good shape and have the Klipsch logos on them. They will come with Connon cables that are in excellent condition. I will also throw in a Ashley crossover and the audio rack i bought separately for free. The audio rack is needed to use the Connon cables but they could be changed over easily to binding posts. Fully functioning pairs in this condition rarely come up for sale. You won't find a system that comes close to this one for the price. I can only load one pic at a time so I'll add a few more later. Location: Maine. Price $2,000. Thanks for looking, Mike.

I heard this but cannot confirm it but there is a story out there that Carl enlisted two Texas sized roaches to help him move the RF-7s into the man cave? Carl?

POCO's second (1970) and the first to feature Timothy B. Schmit on bass with the group. Jim Messina and Richie Furay just JAM on this LP. Yup, it was "Country Rock" and this LP hangs in the POCO exhibit in the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville.

Sweet BOC LP John! Always enjoy that one! Bad Company works too!

Thought I'd share this fun project here since I'm using this amp on my Cornwalls. This was my first kit build and I have to say, this is a very well put together kit with quality parts. The build itself took around 10-12 hours in total. I plugged away at it a couple/few hours at a time. The only hiccup was my own fault. I deviated from the manual and installed a CL-80 thermistor on the line in. Problem was that I installed it in the wrong location and the amp blew the fuse when I first turned it on. I removed the thermistor and it fired right up. All voltages checked out and it's been making fine music now for 12+ hours. Really great little amp and it was a lot of fun to build. Here are some pics from the build and a demo video. Kit as it arrived Dynakit ST-35 by Audio Database, on Flickr PCB's stuffed and installed Dynakit ST-35 by Audio Database, on Flickr Dynakit ST-35 by Audio Database, on Flickr Dynakit ST-35 by Audio Database, on Flickr Transformers and can cap installed Dynakit ST-35 by Audio Database, on Flickr Dynakit ST-35 by Audio Database, on Flickr Dynakit ST-35 by Audio Database, on Flickr WIring in process Dynakit ST-35 by Audio Database, on Flickr WIring complete Dynakit ST-35 by Audio Database, on Flickr Dynakit ST-35 by Audio Database, on Flickr Testing Dynakit ST-35 by Audio Database, on Flickr DONE Dynakit ST-35 by Audio Database, on Flickr Dynakit ST-35 by Audio Database, on Flickr Demo video

I have discovered an easy formula for addressing the two largest problems with the sound of my beloved 1981 Heresy 1.5's (Heresy 1 drivers with the E2 balancing network). The K22-E woofer is not efficient enough to balance the squawker, even with the 9 dB attenuation via the T2A autotransformer. The enclosure contains only 1.6 cubic feet-before subtracting the drivers' and crossover's respective displacements. These limiting factors are familiar to most of you. I have achieved a vast improvement in frequency response, rhythmic drive, listenability and flexibility of room placement by changing-reversibly-only a few things. Bonus: 4dB increase in sensitivity over stock (96 dB/W @ 3 ft) to 100+ dB/W @ 1 m. I sought long and hard a 12" woofer with an efficiency of at least 96 dB/W (2 dB/W more than the Klipsch woofer) that possessed Thiele-Small parameters appropriate for a small, ported enclosure. (Running computer simulations for the Heresy's 1.5 cu.ft.of useable volume, I quickly discovered that physics will limit the extension of unported cabinets to a 3 dB down point (F3) around 70 Hz, regardless of any woofers I can fit.) I found two worthy candidates in the professional sound reinforcement category. The two readily and cheaply available candidates were the Peavey Sheffield Pro 1200+ and the Dayton Audio PA 310-8 12" woofers. My free speaker box calculator app showed that the Dayton woofer ($60 each) yielded the better maximum flat bass amplitude of these two 96 dB/W-candidates. Since I will not damage my one-owner vintage Klipsches (got them brand new in 1982), I bought a half-sheet of 1/2" thick MDF to make a new, port-friendly back panel for the Heresy cabinet and a short length of 3" diameter white PVC pipe along with a 3 1/2" hole saw at the hardware store. I just traced the original back panel and transferred the screw holes onto the MDF. Good measurements and at least a circular saw will give you better results. The box calculator app indicated that a 3" long tube of 3" inside diameter would tune the cabinet to 50 Hz to produce the lowest F3 possible with these woofers: 56.7 Hz. I know that does not seem great, but keep in mind that the simulator app showed the factory woofer's unported F3 at above 70 Hz, plus it was too quiet to balance the squawker and cannot play as loud as the 450 W- capable PA 310-8. You seeing where the "Scale and Gravitas" come in? I installed with hot glue the 3" I.D. by 3"long tubes in the lower outer corners of the MDF panel where the pipe would not foul anything (e.g. wooden cleats) inside the box. Since this new, much beefier woofer has a nominal 8 Ohm impedance instead of the Klipsch woofer's 11 Ohms, I modified the values of L2 and C2 in the Klipsch 'Balancing Network' (crossover) 12 dB/octave woofer low-pass section to achieve the smoothest transition to the squawker. Measurements with pink noise, a calibrated measurement microphone and RTA program led me to a standard second order 600 Hz low pass circuit for 8 Ohms,. That is, I merely changed the original woofer inductor L2 from 4 mH to 3.00 mH ( by unwinding some coils and measuring with an LC meter) and replaced C2, originally 33 muF, to 23.4 muF (a 22muF bipolar 100-Volt electrolytic in parallel with small value poly caps to sum to 23.4 muF). I left the squawker section totally stock, except for replacing the spam can 2 muF squawker capacitor (connected to T2A terminal 5) with a polypropylene Jantzen of the same value. The woofer now smoothly and powerfully balances that magic midrange horn. The speaker can now be placed a couple feet from the wall and still have much better bass than ever. With the Eminence ASD 1001 titanium tweeter driver screwed onto the factory tweeter horn [phase plug removed] with an adapter plate, described in my earlier posts, I measured very flat response from 50 Hz to 19 kHz +/- 2.8 dB ,with 1-octave smoothing; 101 dB SPL at 3 feet with 2.83 V pink noise in a medium sized, carpeted room. The room actually created a modest bass hump to make 40 Hz quite audible ( with the speakers over two feet from the back wall! ). I found that a third order 18 dB/octave high pass circuit at 6 kHz (8 Ohm), without going through the T2A at all, works wonderfully with the ASD 1001 and K52H squawker to prevent that deadly upper midrange hump, combined with the anemic bass, which made the stock Heresy's notorious, especially on denser sonic textures - and right hand piano notes should not honk. Only a narrow 1.5 dB hump at 1.2 kHz and a shallow 1.6 dB depression between 400 and 800 Hz and no spikes anywhere. This is the way I have always wished they had sounded. Bigger, smoother, sweeter.

I've heard of Pinko-commies...... but never Pinko Floyd. 'fraid he doesn't have this quite yet.

What we are down here for, going to start painting some speakers in the am. And some brackets to hang them, surround speakers, the model under the 396 which is the same size, 362 I think it is.

What you need is a circuit like the one PWK used in his center channel mixing box. PWK need a mono or Right plus Left signal for the center channel and you need a mono or Right plus Left signal for the woofer. [Addition by Edit: You can do some creative thinking by visualizing you sub as a center channel speaker with very good bass and not so good treble!] The Dope from Hope has one schematic where it is shown fed by RCA connectors (line output of the pre-amp) and another schematic where it is shown fed by speaker wires (speaker level output of the power amplifier) . But the circuits are essentially the same in the use of the three resistors [47k from memory]. The device in photo might be similar too. You are correct that it is a bad idea to connect amplifier speaker or line level outputs together in parallel. They wind up fighting each other rather than combining i.e. mixing or adding. It is a different situation when the signals combine through the high value fixed resistors. The signal from the right output does appear at the left output. However, the outputs have enough authority to not be influenced. This is actually the effect of a relatively "low output impedance."

Like the Pinko Floyd song, Wish you were here. Palm Beach, Singer Island

I've assigned your question to Carl. He should be along shortly.

Released 5 years after her death this collection of songs is almost always my first "go to" album when I want to hear her songs even though I have all of her albums. Great collection of goodies! 27 is waaaaay too young to die but she always did reach for the stars in so many ways! Nuff said!

Glad you found a buyer. I have a pair in reserve for when I am moved into a 'home' with no room for the K-Horns. Really nice speakers.

Haha; wife is in Costa Rica for 3 more days ... sub will go into a closet ... she will never see it so don't have to buy her shoes or purses

Just think Jimmy Choo shoes Emile or whatever that guy's name was! billybob, Emile will be selling them soon sooooo... 😂

Haha ... already emailed seller ... no responce yet

Go buy the15"er although the CF3 bass is great. I for one love that lower octave stuff and every Klipsch speaker I have owned has benefited from a sub. heck I have some heresy decorators in that same size room WITH a THTLP.

J.S.Bach: Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C major, BWV 564 performed by Hans-André Stamm on the Trost-Organ in Waltershausen, Germany. The organ appears to be a tracker style, with manual stops, etc., so you get some of the tonality and tracker organ feel from this performance. Remember to turn it up to 83 dB at the listening position. Chris

Haven't heard this in forever so salivating a bit. ELP's 5th studio and a double album "Works Vol. 1," which was released in 1977 after a three-year break from their 1974 "Brain Salad Surgery" tour. Each artist got a side to do whatever they wanted with side 4 featuring songs from the group as one. The artist's backed each other's work on every side but the artist got to do whatever they wanted. Carl Palmer even grabbed Joe Walsh to play in his lil rocker "L.A. Nights." IMO "double" albums get a lil stagnant by the time you hit side 3 but this one's so very different. You hear each artist "do THEIR thing." Funny how Keith Emerson even used the London Philharmonic Orchestra with John Mayer. Yea, it's funny alright but it's an excellent album!

Mornin' All Fed the babies and am working on this Mexican coffee. It may not be fancy... sure is good. Normality of wife doing the workaday thing next week, I think. I know she has to go in and get stuff ready for the kids to show. After 20yrs+, the job is wearing on her. It's not the kids.... we got a spot of rain yesterday. That was all. Funny thing about "the monsoon", it is like a fairly nice day in the rest of the country.

Dang @BigStewMan that is a bad night. It's like at what point do you realize you need to start backtracking and get out of it as fast as you can. I've had experiences where "murphys law" just kept piling it on a few times too, in hindsight I've wondered why I didn't remove myself from the situation when I could have. Usually sex, drugs or rock&roll were at the end of those ventures but getting there was he$) a couple of times.

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I remember like yesterday when I went to the record store to pick this album up after having to order it in

Ever have Corralejo?

Dire Straits - Live Alchemy. 1984

Ok, in Florida, Orlando, doing nothing today, we’re good at it. Further South in the am, people drive crazy here, worse than N.O.