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ALZHEIMER'S SUCKS! Yup 52nd year for the Bratwurst Festival here and my 95-year-old Mother is now in assisted living struggling with Sundowner's syndrome. FEW good days anymore so I started thinking outside the box. She loves her Buckeyes, took me to my first game LONG ago and wanted me to go there. So I wanted to jog her memory a bit. I could have asked former players I know who were in town but she wouldn't know any of them then I bump into THIS guy! Props to him for stopping in this morning to see my Mama and a few of the other residents there. Yea, she KNEW who it was. Who doesn't? What was she thinking? Sure haters are gonna hate and that's fine with me! She rarely talks anymore and when she does it's random thoughts. I almost missed the shot screwing around with my cell. A GOOD photographer captures everything in the photo. The fact she reached out to touch him and her small smile told me everything and truly made my day. Thankful I got the shot and didn't miss it. It's a forever keeper for me! ANYthing to see her smile anymore just kills me. It just doesn't happen. Normally I'd never share my mother in a picture here but the bottom line is ALZHEIMER'S SUCKS!

@dirtmudd My uncle did a bar top like that once, it didn't have records in it but ticket stubs, fishing lures, silver dollars and other stuff. Think that was the first iteration of polyurethane I ever saw, a layer then the stuff then another layer and the things floated over the bartop framed like a table on a ship.

morning [?] all about ready to fledge these kittens. I'm exhausted. Be glad and sad to see them go. My legs are shredded from them learning to not climb them. Drawing blood, they are....And the early AM feedings.... I am normally up, but having to be up makes it all different. Getting tired and cranky. we figure they will be ready to go this time next week. The gal that brought them to us was inquiring about their progress. I presume she wants them. She is on/in the volunteer fire dept, so I hope she has time for them. good ol' Mexican in the pot today.

I have to settle for "good ol". The young are too fast.

I did! And I never win anything!

...and the KlipschHeads said "Amen Brother!"

Have just one kitten here...came out of the blue... thankfully appeared mostly weaned. Yes, been fun remembering what a kitten can get into. There is usually at least one in a litter that is a sweetie...can feel the scratches from here @WillyBob... good job herding cats... LoL...🙀

After 18 months of overly cautious searching, I have a pair LSIs' of my own. First set I listened to belonged to @jimjimbo. Like everything I have heard at Jim's, they were impressive. I let 3 or 4 pairs get away for a variety of reasons, but decided that the next I found would come home with me. As luck would have it, the were only about an hours drive. The trim is intact, but will need refinished. The cabinets are very nice and hopefully, with a lot of cleaning and polishing, I can make them beautiful. (SN 1294, 1295) Now, a couple of questions.....Is there a record of serial numbers and production dates?......Are the square magnet K77 tweeters correct?.......are the K55 push connect drivers correct? .....My horn section has "Klipsch" silkscreened in white between the tweeter and squawker but it was covered with a Klipsch badge. Is this correct? I have tested all the components and plan to power them up tonight. AA crossovers look original. I am sure capacitors need upgraded. Any suggestions are welcomed. Jerry

A seminal moment in my life. Started thinking a bit differently about things after going there. Age dims all memories but musically here's the acts I still can vividly recall and love: "Freedom" Richie Haven's is to my mind the song of Woodstock. You cannot begin to fathom how that felt. Country Joe and the Fish. Crosby Stills Nash, and Young The Sha-Na-Nas. So counter Woodstock these cats were almost counter-cool, but groovy nonetheless. Cocooned in a sleeping bag on the last day, early morning, and Hendrix wakes me up. His version of the National Anthem still reverberates down the years and brings chills to me as I type this. Peace and love my friends, Peace and love.

on another forum, I was asked if I was Mexican after I commented, on the topic of "siesta", that only a white man would try to work through the heat of the day I could only answer, "Just honorary" actually, siesta is a farce. Work starts at 4 or 5AM. You have put in a day by the time we think of siesta.

I know your close to the border but that's extreme, just sent them up the road. So almost back to normal, good news.

A lot of false myths still abound about Woodstock. It was not that muddy. There was a place off to stage right with a pond and it was muddy over there but everywhere else it was just fine, and If I recall correctly, it only rained, and not that hard, on the 2nd night. Also that the place was trashed. There was a lot of trash but many people assembled it into piles as they left, cause nobody had reckoned on trash cans for 400,000. A bunch of folks stayed behind and spent days helping out with the disposal. Now food was in short supply. They got that right. I knew nothing about Woodstock before I went. Two friends wanted to go so I said why not. We had two six packs and several packs of butts between us and that was it. Figured we'd just get food when we got there. One cool factoid. Got off the highway to get gas and the clerk, learning we were headed to Woodstock, said don't get back on the highway. Go here, take a left there etc. and we drove right into the parking lot!

I'm sure some people think it's BS but one thing that Parasound claims to do well is minimizing the upper order harmonics in the harmonic distortion, or however you say that. Basically your 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th order harmonics are supposedly extremely fatiguing if you have any of it at all. They claim to go out of their way to minimize this so it's more pleasant. A lot of people with horns have said that their Parasound gear seems like it sounds warmer than other amps, more tube-like, less shrilly and fatiguing. It's probably due to this aspect.

You need to keep up. The speakers are in Germany, but took a trip to a field in the Netherlands, they they had their photo taken in Delaware by a guy who wanted to show off his silver certificate, but it actually was a reserve note but the guy didn't notice because he was distracted by a huge booger on his finger. The price is $5500 (or maybe $6032) delivered to Delaware, or maybe your door. If you cannot follow this simple offering perhaps it time to issue you some warning points by the mods. To the OP, please continue with this veracious offering, we are fascinated.

You want in?

Helping rebuild/refurbish a forum friend's Welborne Labs Laurel II mono blocks. A tremendous amount of cleanup; many feet of solder wick; complete recapping of all electrolytic, metallized film bypass, and film coupling caps. There was terrible hum and noise in one channel, which turned out to be a heater to cathode short in one of the 6AC7 as well as a bad rectifier socket. Many cracked wires, including capacitor leads, etc. A main issue was over-heating in the 300B filament supply, which was replaced by a relocated full-wave bridge rectifier and CRC filter section (all rebuilt with paralleled resistors for DCR of 1ohm). 300B 5V filaments had been running 4.3VDC, and are now corrected. Once wiring and parts replacement where needed was finished, there was still an inexplicable 60Hz hum in one channel. I worked literally hours on this problem, and finally found the source: hiding under a 3.3uf Solen cap was a wire from the 6.3 VAC heater supply (for the paralleled 6SL7 and 6AC7) leading directly into the grid. That corrected, I have to say these Laurels are now probably the quietest single-ended amps I have. I'm also going to take a picture of the MagneQuest 300B output transformer. They are absolutely huge, the largest output transformers of this kind I've seen. And so, with one more step (new 4 pin finals sockets), I will be very sorry to see these shipped back home this coming week. They are lovely sounding amplifiers; and if you have heard that the 300B is euphonic, syrupy, overly-warm, etc., this circuit thoroughly and comprehensively dispels that myth. With the schematic in (basically) in my head, I'm going to build a pair after I finish up a couple of other project. Forgot to mention: A large choke was used to replace the common resistor in the power supply between the main filter sections for CLCLC. Wonderful amps!

Thinking 5 more inches since this morning... brother has a boat. Thinking about going out for supplies... maybe not...🙀

we weren't looking , either. I made the mistake of answering the phone. They had to go to the vet a couple time before we got them going. Good thing our vet works cheap. I think we are $50 into them. hey are you afloat? Was talking to a friend in Orlando. Said it's been raining "a little".

Something that brings joy to my mother since she can't make and/or direct music at church anymore is the animals around here now. Still has her marbles but her body is ailing now. She's been cranking "The Commish" for a couple episodes, it's a square picture! We're six miles from downtown, twenty from the outskirts of the metro area. There was a lot of animals in that acreage that had the Celanese laboratory two blocks away. Suckers live in the $$$ condos there now. Our three bucks were in the front yard the other day, just saw that fawn limping across the drive when I came back from the store a couple minutes ago.

It does look like you were the only one out of everyone here, this does explain some things.

OK, so here's the curves. What I would recommend is get the Delta 12 LFA on sale, since you will save at least 50-60% over the one I originally recommended. BUT, BUT, BUT, do NOT change the Heresy "E" network Autoformer settings. Keep all the same capacitor values, NEW capacitors (2 uF both), and still add the exact same PORT. This will be a different mod altogether but SHOULD still sound way better than the original K22 woofer. Not only is it cheaper, but it may end up as a more desirable mod because it's WAY EASIER to do....................less soldering.

IMO, sometimes people overlook one of the most important factors in achieving top-quality audio via their home hi-fi system: the quality of the recording. Redbook CD was introduced to the marketplace more than 30 years ago. I suggest that you consider the fact that there are newer ways to enjoy classical music (compared with CDs), and consider the fact that the sound quality of your hi-fi system is limited by the quality of recordings you play. Modern high-resolution (“hi-res”) formats can deliver 3 benefits for classical music: Potentially superior audio quality by virtue of 24bit/192kHz or 24bit/96kHz PCM, or DSD, vs. CD’s 16bit/44.1kHz. (Provenance of a recording is critical – i.e., the best audio quality requires modern recordings that were recorded and mastered in hi-res – NOT ripped CDs.) Surround-sound (e.g., 5.1). High-definition video, which is essential for visual art forms such as opera and ballet, and IMO very enjoyable for classical orchestral music. Moreover, hi-def video can be very useful by displaying an opera’s libretto (in one of several languages) on the HDTV screen. For the classical music I love, my first choice for media is Blu-ray audio/video featuring DTS HD MA 5.0 or 5.1 hi-res (24bit/192kHz or 24bit/96kHz) audio tracks. (Blu-ray discs also offer a stereo hi-res track.) Ultra HD Blu-ray classical recordings are starting to become available. My second choice, SACD and Pure Audio Blu-ray that feature hi-res 5.1 surround-sound and stereo tracks (but no video). My third choice, hi-res (e.g., 24bit/96kHz or 24bit/192kHz) stereo FLAC downloads (e.g., from HDTracks.com). There are countless classical recordings available in hi-res formats, and almost all new classical recordings are offered in a hi-res format. There are numerous web sites that catalog hi-res recordings. Here’s a few: https://www.hraudio.net/ lists some, but certainly not all hi-res recordings. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical https://www.nativedsd.com/ http://store.acousticsounds.com/superhirez https://concertsondvd.com/collections/blueray-concerts Considering the number of modern classical recordings available in a hi-res format, and considering the potential value of high-def video and surround-sound, I think that classical music lovers are best served by a “universal player” that is capable of playing Blu-ray, Ultra HD Blu-ray, Pure Audio Blu-ray, SACD, DVD, DVD-Audio, and CD. FWIW, I use Oppo UDP-205, BDP-105, and BDP-95 universal players directly connected to vintage tube amps. If you only want stereo (i.e., 2 channel), I suggest that you research a universal player like this: https://www.sony.com/electronics/blu-ray-disc-players/ubp-x1100es. This unit provides 2 channel analog connections (i.e., no 5.1 analog connections), and no subwoofer connection. If you want to spend less, I suggest that you consider the earlier model Sony UBP-X1000ES which is sometimes available as a "manufacturer refurbished" unit on eBay for bargain prices. $64k question: Do you want to try newer “hi-res” audio (and audio/video) formats, or just play the 30+ year-old Redbook CD format? Or, will you be satisfied with streaming? Make certain that the equipment you buy supports all of the audio (and video) formats that you are interested in. (If you are considering an external DAC, I suggest that you investigate which formats it supports. Will the DAC play the SACD layer of a hybrid SACD (i.e., not the CD layer)? Will the DAC play DTS HD MA from a Blu-ray? What are the limitations of coax and TOSLINK, vs. HDMI? Does the DAC support 5.1?)

I remember that one @billybob, hand of or wrath of God comes to mind! Madeira, Portugual 1-21-16

Q. How do you make speakers better for dance music? A. Put a 'lil boogie in them

I'm jealous thebes. I was 11 at the time.

That's the best part, taking pictures of your family especially when the kids are, well still kids, they will be grown quickly and pictures like this are priceless later.

Must be a nice guy, he just looks so serious in that picture. Amazing looking set of speakers, one of a kind for sure, I'm glad you got them, very nice. Great review, and Thank You for supporting the museum.

I live in Sweden buy the way and here the prices of vintage Klipsch is much higher than in the states Nice looking Chorus II's! I've always wanted to hear a pair. I track Heritage Prices in a spreadsheet. Chorus II's in Good condition average $756 usd. They are very highly sought after in the US.

=== I certainly pulled a few stunts in my teens but heading to Woodstock would have been well above my pay grade. But I Did see Hendrix live in KC - I think I was 15 —

A very nice Prog album with only 3 tracks Side one - The Gates Of Delirium (21.55 ) is a brilliant composition Artist - YES Title - Relayer ID - Atlantic K50096 UK pressing 1974

Just admiring these horns I saw listed on usaudiomart. https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649544696-jbltadaltec-bentwoodhorns/ Description Bentwoodhorns sapele mahogany 2 inch HF horn which is sand casted with sapele mahogany ,with JBL 2441 driver with original diaphragm . any 2 inch can be used have tried many TAD,JBL,ALTEC . LF is a great plains 416 crossover point is 650hz The flare of the horn is similar to a altec 210 or altec 211 cabinet but with 1 416 these are very efficient my klipsch horns which are 105 db don't come close maybe 108 which is like the altec 210 cabinet These mid bass horns go down to 50hz again much like a klipsch lascala The LF section is also sand casted totally dead which makes these extremely heavy , just the LF takes 3 men to lift. If you need more lows and don't have a quality sub I also have the 18 inch sub which can be purchased also with the same sapele mahogany it to is a horn which looks like a oversized klipsch khorn

NICE and https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649544696-jbltadaltec-bentwoodhorns/

It's immaterial as anyone worth their salt bypasses them with an "attended listening" switch!

Watching the news this morning (watching, not listening because the stereo is on....it's always on) and a story comes on about a lady who had her toes, fingers and leg amputated. Firsr thing that comes to mind is how hard is it gonna be to roll tubes? Change interconnects? Carry big heavy amps up and down the stairs as well as speakers, etc. It's gonna be ruff...... Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk

Following are just a few examples of the countless modern classical recordings that are available in various hi-res formats: Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos Danish NSO Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1–9 Joaquín Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony), Op. 64, TrV 233 Blu-ray Audio options: • PCM Stereo • DTS-HD MA 5.0 Video: 1080p Excellent performances. State-of-the-art audio and video quality. ----------------------------- Jean Sibelius: Complete Symphonies Blu-ray Audio options: • PCM Stereo • DTS-HD MA 5.1 Video: 1080i Excellent performances. State-of-the-art audio and video quality. -------------------------- "Tchaikovsky, The Complete Symphonies". Blu-ray Audio options: • PCM Stereo • DTS-HD MA 5.1 Excellent performances. State-of-the-art audio and video quality. ----------------------- I also have Blu-ray audio/video box sets of symphonies by Brahms, Bruckner, Schumann, and Mahler. Plus, several other classical concerts on Blu-ray. IMO, classical concerts that feature soloists are particularly well suited for Blu-ray audio/video. I’ve seen Khatia Buniatishvili perform live, and I recommend this Blu-ray. (IMO, Khatia is very enjoyable to watch, as well as listen to.) If you like film adaptations of opera, consider the following: There are many Blu-ray recordings of live opera stage productions. IMO concerts that feature excerpts from operas are enjoyable. Here's 2 examples that are available on Blu-ray: Two examples of ballet on Blu-ray: There are countless modern classical SACD discs available that feature surround-sound. On Amazon, simply search for "classical sacd" under category "ALL". I’ll make a shameless plug for one of my “hometown teams”, and recommend the following excellent SACD: Pure Audio Blu-ray are not as common as SACD. Here’s an example of a Pure Audio Blu-ray that features 3 audio tracks: 5.1 DTS HD MA 24bit/192kHz, 7.1 DTS HD MA 24bit/96kHz, and 2.0 LPCM 24bit/192kHz: Here’s another Pure Audio Blu-ray I own: Here’s an example of a hi-res download available from HDTracks.com: Again, these are just a few examples of the countless classical recordings available in various “hi-res” formats.

I’m going to be selling both pairs of my 85 Cornwall 2’s looking to get 2000 a pair one pair has upgraded x overs and some cabinet damage other pair is untouched and really nice Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well, the resonance(s) is(are) going to be tied to frequency(s). Certainly you've got something on your laptop to generate frequencies to order. I'm just spit-balling here... Run a sweep, narrow down the start/stop points until you hit pay dirt. You can use the resultant information a couple ways. First, to "play" steady tones that make it sing while you poke, prod, and press around on things. Second, to use the number(s) to mathematically determine dimensions (speed of sound in air, speed of sound in plywood) which may be significant and investigate that way in case "first" don't work for you.

Hell, a lot of the people that were actually there are gone now. Sadly, I knew a few.

They look very nice in the pics Maybe @wvu80 can chime in with their value

I'd start with Kleenex and some hand sanitizer..

If you can beat up the good cabinet to look like the ugly one I might be interested.

Add-on ... Recall @MenloBob's awesome K-510 w/ dual woofer design. By chance, found a company that makes a "BIG" CF-4 D'Appolito design speaker. Comp is Tyler Acoustics who makes a PD-30 speaker. MTM configuration with 15" Pro Eminance woofers ... do not know the size of the horn or CD. See ... http://www.tyleracoustics.com/pro_dynamics.html . Yes, they also have bigger models with 18" woofers, etc Just thought this might be of interest to those looking for "bigger" Epic speakers

Fun Fact, I attended the same school (RETS) in Louisville, KY and my best friend and another good friend attended RETS in Grand Rapids

Awesome...

Hey that Roy dude in the review wrote on my La Scala AL5 -ME pair... 👍😄

Haven't heard the P5 but, I have some hours on the P6 and I think its great. Very light and transparent. The sound is quick and clear. From bass to treble, well presented and precise. Lots of room between voices. First time I noticed the acoustic guitar on the Link Wray masterpiece "Rumble." One of many tunes I thought of being muddy in the bass (including many RCA recording c. 1980) that ended up with more articulation than I knew on both on vinyl and streaming (not comparing the ones marked as remastered). Using phono stage and the DAC through USB and optical. It is the first modern piece I've had in many years and I am thrilled. I am going to order the A23+ tomorrow. A little gift to my KHorns. Sounds great at low volumes too. Not the case with some of my vintage gear.