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  1. Had my cleaning lady over yesterday and filled things out for both her and her daughter to get their stimulus checks. She now owns her mom's house, which is nice but none of them have squat. If it wasn't for her son washing dishes @ a pizza shop and helping out they'd be sunk big time. None of them are sharp enough to get a job and both the mom and her daughter have medical/mental problems. None of them drive and she rides her bike everywhere. They have a 10 year old laptop w/no virus protection soooo called her a bit ago and told her to stay off the email w/all the scams out there. Opened the freezer and loaded her up before I took her back to her place. Good deed for the week. Might take the day off and crank a few tunes and "think" about painting this place. Now's the time around here. Buddy who paints is supposedly coming over yet his van was sitting at his mom's place yesterday. Thinkin I just may as well suck it up and break out the drop clothes and go. Ugh. Wish I were safe distancing sittin in a parking lot suckin down hot dogs w/ketchup and eatin fries. Would even be a hoot watchin kids w/the grasshopper. I don't get it w/kids today. Laffed hard one day campin w/my buddies kids. Gonna roll a "blunt." One of the kids somehow shoved a quarter ounce in a cigar wrapper, lit it and shared it with 3 others. 10 minutes later they were doing it again. Just shook my head. so I can totally relate w/grasshopper about today's kids. Insane! Gonna make "their" mark on society cause we didn't know what we were doing back in the day. Ha! Now I'm feeling worthless... hahahaha
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  2. Nice find Eric. Rare photo of Carl with hair —
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  3. As mentioned, they cancelled my order for the Reference Over-Ear Bluetooth Headphones in black, and sent me a pair in white FREE of charge. Can't beat that. Klipsch did me a big solid. A big shout out to Rae. I asked for a pair of HP-3's in Ebony but that was another solid, NO can do. They were under no obligation to do what they did so for that I am very very grateful. Bill
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  4. This is how I check tweeters. Hold a tube from a roll of paper towels up to the tweeter to isolate it from the other drivers. You should be able to hear it clearly.
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  5. THANK YOU - Godspeed -----Champagne is popping -Regards
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  6. Sold back to Jim. Enjoy.
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  7. I love this version of George Harrison's "While my guitar gently weeps", done on a Chapman Stick.
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  8. If you liked that, you should really like this. The music is from Scheherazade, the pit ensemble and battery (snares which are marching) were the best in the world that year. There's some nice 4-mallet work there. This is not a random video, I love drum corps and they canceled it this year due to the pandemic. This is my passion every summer.
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  9. Need some help with how to best touch up the black LaScalas I just picked up. There are a few knicks and dings, but overall pretty good shape. There are a few spots on the top where the finish is coming away, a few discolored spots, maybe even some moisture. The label just says "BLK", but, if i am going to touch things up, I want to do it right.
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  10. I kinda like Ikea, but....
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  11. Lucked into a set of LaScalas yesterday at a ridiculous price. I have a feeling that the tweeters may need updated. What’s the best way to check them? Put my ear up to the tweeter and it sounds rough. Not sure if the mid is covering for it at listening levels
    2 points
  12. Send your 83's crossovers to GR. Bill
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  13. Thank you Jason for making this happen. And thank you to Tom (HD Rider) for the Pony Express pickup.
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  14. Going to meet a small group for lunch. Take out and then tailgating with a parking space between each vehicle. Trying to support one our family owned places. The down side is they serve mostly high carb food (hot dogs, cheeseburgers, fries, onion rings) and I have been doing low carb for ten days and have lost 6 pounds. May take a bite or two but make a donation anyway.
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  15. That's exactly how I added additional bracing to my KLF-30's. Minimal but effective. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk
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  16. so, that is what Mike looks like before his coffee. I look like that all the time... Mornin' All I get a couple days off. Today, tomorrow and part of Sunday, too. Wow! The property to myself.... and 8 cats and 2 dogs... MayDay... time for our annual idiot contest. "Kids" from all around the area congregate in the national forest, sit in the dirt and see how high they can get... for three days. Like Woodstock w/o [organized] music. And then they hike to the top of MontanaPeak. Wonder if ... oh, what am I thinking... it's an idiot contest, of course they will have their party.. It clouded over yesterday. We didn't get to 103` as predicted. It only made 101`. You can really feel the difference ---not. W/o the sun trying to burn a hole thru you, was appreciated. Can't say the r/h went up with the cloud cover... Still hovering around 10%. Coffee tastes "funny" after cleaning the machine and replacing the charcoal filter. Yes... I did rinse the vinegar out... Must be the filter removing that tap water taste we are used to. Funny the things we get used to.... Niece was complaining to the wife about this remote schooling scheme. The assignments for her kindergartener was crazy... aside from the fact that K is now treated as an academic year.. She has two other kids. One a special ed and a high schooler, all with similar amts of "homework"... we aren't talking homework homework... stuff that is taught in classroom, by trained professionals... She's trying to keep all 3 on task, and prepare meals, do housekeeping...... Maybe realistic, if you only have one child... multiple kids, another story. These aren't statewide requirements.. it is district by district. Most are much more relaxed.
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  17. Hi, it may be time to make a nice upgrade with a superb Mahl tweeter in wood or aluminum from @Dave A
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  18. The year of the Crown is what I have dubbed it Congratulations @000
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  19. I could do it...That would be an upgrade from LS prolly need to upgrade the wife, if I was to buy a pair. She was the one that said, "You already have some of those" when I was talking about getting another pair of LS. I don't have Jubes....
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  20. Sounds like a great plan to me. Wow. You must really love your kid!
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  21. I love that video 👌 Also love this album based on Scheherazade by Renaissance
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  22. Jason, sent you a PM
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  23. Still needs some work (and a K77) but it a site that I can look at and I guess do the other top that is currently sitting on top of the MWMs clone.
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  24. After a couple coats of 2 part primer they got a quick sanding with 220 wet sandpaper used dry One good coat of 7777 satin black and wait till morning.
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  25. Forgot to post the end result. Guess I was to busy eating the leftovers!
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  26. I'm new to this site and new to Klipsch, although I've been in the hobby for years. I'm in a new house and thinking of a second system for music and movies in the large rec room, 27 x 20 x 9. I started reading about the new Forte III which seems interesting. Unfortunately there are no dealers within 100 miles for an audition. Then I read about earlier versions and a couple of people claim the original version was a better speaker (?) than the II. At least more realistic and tighter bass. I also read a couple of favorable comments on the Bob Crites mods, but they are only offered for the I and II. Buying used version I or II and adding the Crites updates would obviously cost less, but that would be based upon finding a decent pair close by. With all that, my question -- has anyone heard the current III who is familiar with the I or II with Crites updates? How would you describe the differences? The Klipsch website describes new designs implemented with the III which would suggest they offer big improvements. But what else would a manufacturer say? ;^)
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  27. Hello - this is my first post as I'm new to Klipsch. I am planning on upgrading my system to a Vintage McIntosh MC225 Amp and C22 preamp. Through research on that, I was led to the Forte III. However, I'm going to have to hold off on that until probably the end of the year or at least 6-months but I would like to get the Forte's now and pair them with my current amp which is a UK made minimalist hybrid amp, Croft Acoustics Series 7 Amp and Micro 25 preamp. This amp is a hybrid and has a power rating of 45 watts per channel. I'm wondering if this is a good pairing with the Forte III's. Any info would be greatly appreciated - thanks! Pete
    1 point
  28. Some States have citizens. Looks like Canadians are still subjects.
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  29. They claim to have freee shipping over a certain dollar amount. The ad I saw on FB said the owner went bankrupt. But all of them look to be the same price.
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  30. The Mother Load.....5 quads NOS RCA 7189 power tubes. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk
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  31. And so it was discovered that the root of all evil is people.
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  32. Yes, Stop and smell the roses, we say in English. Oh and drink the beer
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  33. I think that was wild birds eggs having thin or no shell. So not really an egg at all, compromising the future generations of wild birds, some of which happen to eat billions of mosquitoes.
    1 point
  34. Mosquitos just came out where I live. What was wrong with DDT again...?
    1 point
  35. Since I'm the one who designed the Super Heresy 1.0 and 2.0 modifications, I'm here to tell you the ORIGINAL INTENT was to improve the midrange and midbass, and NOT the bass EXTENSION. That came as a later surprise AFTER I did the mod, if you read the original 1.0 post. BUT I knew that a Big Magnet/High BL product woofer like those mentioned would "thin out the bass response" in the process of improving the midrange, so THAT is why I added the port. YOU can try leaving it sealed and do a simple woofer swap as step 1, then mod the Xover if and only if you feel it's necessary after listening. So, Roger, you are on the right track IMHO.
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  36. I saw him once, but only briefly. I happened to be at this show. In the fall of 1981, Prince wasn’t a rock star. This was before 1999 and Purple Rain, “Little Red Corvette” and “Let’s Go Crazy.” He was merely a quirky upstart with one falsetto-sung pop-funk hit (“I Wanna Be Your Lover”) under his thong strap. But Mick Jagger was a fan of Prince’s early stuff and he invited the young performer to open a pair of Rolling Stones concerts in Los Angeles. It didn't go well. The Stones’ 1981 tour was a massive undertaking that saw the band break attendance records while filling America’s most gargantuan stadiums. The L.A. Coliseum was no exception, loaded with an estimated 94,000 music fans. Make that Stones fans. This crowd wasn’t too thrilled with the music that Prince was playing. At the first L.A. concert on Oct. 9, Prince and his band (soon to be called the Revolution) took the stage before fellow openers George Thorogood and the Destroyers and the J. Geils Band. Before he even played a note, it was clear that the androgynous musician might not have been the best fit for this macho, blues-rock audience. Prince came to the microphone in his typical stage attire from that era – see-through jacket, thigh-high boots, black bikini briefs. Perhaps he was trying to bridge a gap with his setlist, playing rock-ier material such as “Bambi” and “When You Were Mine,” singing falsetto parts in his natural voice and turning the guitars way up. It didn’t matter, the afternoon crowd began hurling racist and homophobic slurs at the band, and when that didn’t work, bottles, cans and anything else they could find. “Next thing I noticed was food starting to fly through the air like a dark thunder cloud. Imagine 94,000 people throwing food at each other; it was the craziest thing I had ever seen in my life,” remembered bassist Brown Mark, who had just joined Prince’s band. “I got hit in the shoulder with a bag of fried chicken; then my guitar got knocked out of tune by a large grapefruit that hit the tuning keys…” After Prince played “Jack U Off,” one fan remembers promoter Bill Graham coming on stage in an attempt to calm the field-level hordes, to little avail. Prince and pals stopped the set partway through their fourth song, “Uptown,” amidst a stadium’s worth of boos. Stones fans had successfully turned Prince away. A frustrated and upset Prince was reportedly crying backstage, vowing to skip the second show two days later. He flew home to Minnesota without the band. A round of calls from his manager, his guitarist Dez Dickerson and Jagger encouraged Prince to try again on Oct. 11. “I talked to Prince on the phone once after he got two cans thrown at him in L.A. He said he didn’t want to do any more shows,” Mick recalled in 1983. “God, I got thousands of bottles and cans thrown at me! Every kind of debris. I told him, if you get to be a really big headliner, you have to be prepared for people to throw bottles at you in the night. [Laughs] Prepared to Die!” Read More: That Time Prince Got Booed Off the Rolling Stones’ Stage | https://ultimateclassicrock.com/prince-booed-rolling-stones/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral
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  37. He was a brilliant entertainer, singer, songwriter, composer and producer. I have experienced 3 live concerts. I will never forget him.
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  38. @000 Nice Technics TT , latest model SL 1210 GR , with a Ortofon black , good choice ...where are your records ?
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  39. There have been many many times where people report having "upgraded" their driver to a nicer, fancier driver..... only to lose sound quality. Bottom line, the K33 is what works best in there but for maybe one/two others (of which I have no idea, just keeping door open to possibility) The woofer isn't the weak point that really needs fixed... there would be higher priority items to fix before worrying/spending on the woofer.
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  40. @Gav_logan, Tough call here. Probably the "best" choice to improve your stereo music listening would be to incorporate a quality integrated amp with HT bypass into your rig. Then you would be getting a dedicated stereo preamp and amplifier all in one. If you went the outboard stereo amp route, you might get more grunt and detail but you would still be using the AVR's preamp section, which may be just fine. The DAC option might be an improvement also but all things are not created equal. So as my first statement suggests, tough call. Bill
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  41. I have just tested it for you. Activated DLNA on my Windows 10 Dell Latitutude E5550 laptop (nothing fancy...) and it works flawlessly with the standard Advance Playstream app. See screenshot.
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