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  1. Good Luck to all in New Orleans , Mother Nature is gone haywire -
    5 points
  2. a Lego model presented in a shopping mall in our city
    5 points
  3. That's funny,. but I can't do that, I'm old, have short hair and I am not full redneck. 50% redneck/50% coonass, coonneck I guess. No rain yet, a little breezy.
    4 points
  4. Nice twist right here. Enjoy!
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  5. I can't help myself......Just remember it is not THAT the wind is blowing, it's WHAT the wind is blowing...............Ron White Coonneck?....Hehe
    3 points
  6. Here are a few. Just finished 1.5wpc 1625 triode wired. Knight KB83 or was lol... 4 x EL37, 2 xgz34 forgot other tubes lol but they are bugle boys. This ran so hot we completely gutted it and redesigned it. It is now a PP triode el37 about 10wpc. Brook 12A Clones I built including PWK or Moderfari mods. A gift from IBSlammin. LuxmanPP triode 50ca10. Just completed cap replacement and putting it back to factory as it has been modified. Going to bring it up this week. Next to be rebuilt two EL84 amplifiers chock full of awesome mullard gz34 and el84 tubes. Love the look. I love the fisher it has been modified so I am not sure what I will do with it... Looks abit ratty.
    3 points
  7. OK straight from the North American B&C distribution heads lips. These will not be discontinued UNTIL they stop selling them. If demand ends then production will and quite frankly I just don't see that happening unless they come up with a better driver just as small and the same or less price. I read that same legacy bit on their website and it was one of the things that drove me to make the clamp plates so just in case people would be future proofed. As it turns out there are no worries for a long time as far as I can tell. But if that ever does happen at least MAHL buyers are prepared with various bolt patterns there to use.
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  9. Hello from the smog-and-ash-covered SF Bay Area! TL;DR version: got 1967 Cornwalls, possibly a somewhat unusual pair -- have questions. Long story below. Have peered at these forums every now and then over the years but now have a much better reason to say hello as I recently became an owner of a pair of 1967 Cornwalls. A bit of background: I work in sound post production for film, and between that environment and my passion for music have been messing with various audio gear for some 25 years. My preferences as far as music reproduction in the home have stabilized about a decade ago, and as such, my playback systems have not changed a whole lot in that period and there hasn't been much gear swapping anymore. In short, I am very much a tube amp person -- not on principle but rather because the speakers I enjoy work well with tubes and some of the best-sounding gear just happned to run on tubes. I love single-ended amplification feeding efficient speakers. Enjoy coaxials and well-implemented horns. At the same time, have nothing against solid state -- and indeed own some -- but it has been been my experience that good solid state is hard to find, and generally has more power than the speakers I like need. Inefficient multiways with small drivers and complex crossovers that require gobs of power are generally not my cup of tea, although there have been some exceptions. Through the years I have played with Klipsch speakers a number of times. Those encounters included Heresys, K3.5 and KG4, a pair of 1979 Cornwalls, and Crites' Cornscala D (a two-way with a Faital driver and horn). I was always attracted by efficiency but -- here it comes -- to my ears there was always a certain stringent quality to the upper mids and highs that I could not stand. No amount of tweaking or experimentation with various amplification options changed that fundamental quality, so in the end all those speakers went. Cornwalls and Cornscalas had a lot of promise but were not quite there still. With the Cornwall I felt the mids just sounded small compared to the scale of the speaker overall. The Cornscala, while having a wonderful dsipersion pattern and integration (I felt based on listening -- I never measured it) -- was otherwise cold and lifeless somehow. Compared, say, to 15" Tannoys. Or Altecs, on a different point of the spectrum. Both had the dreaded bite, albeit in a different frequency range, I'd say. LaScalas that I heard sounded lovely but had insufficient bass (I AM a bass-head for sure). Klipschorns were impressive but not without some other weirdness and I never had the space to do them justice anyway. So I wrote off Klipsch entirely from my future speaker "playlist". Interestingly, my journey with Altecs also has always been a love-hate affair to one degree or another, but they managed to retain their grip on me still. I guess their irregularities, quirks, and compromises, were more tolerable to me So "no Klipsch for me ever again", I thought. Until early this year, when an acquaintance was looking to get rid of a system that belonged to his father, who'd passed away peacefully at the age of 94. This one-owner system was purchased in 1967 and had sat in the same room ever since. It included a pair of walnut-veneered Cornwalls driven by McIntosh, an Mc225 and MX110z, which were housed of course in a matching walnut Barzilay console. Everything was pristine cosmetically -- not a scratch on the wood, and not a mark on the chrome. Some lettering falling off on the MX110 glass but that's common with them. We struck a deal, and I took it home. Don't get fired up - I didn't make out like a bandit on this one and didn't get it anywhere close to free, although it was a good deal admittedly. My plan was to restore the Macs myself -- which I finished last month, a complete entire rebuild of the MC225, and all the typical signal path and power supply stuff on the MX110. For the Cornwalls my plan was to be selling them promptly to recoup some of the expense. And then something unexpected happened. I set them up -- right in front of my Tannoys no less -- plugged them in, and loved the sound: full, with solid and fairly well-defined bass, and overall a very big, slightly warm presentation. Very much to my liking. All the things I love my Tannoys for but with a bit different perspective. They also had a very nice high frequency extension and NONE of the bite that every single Klipsch I'd ever owned prior exhibited. I thought they couldn't sound any more different than the 70s Cornwalls I had before, IMO: the driver integration seems much better, they are smooth, and I don't FEEL like the mid horn is tiny; the mids sound big, in nice proportion with what the 15" woofer is doing. Having played these now for well over three months, I absolutely love them and don't think they are going anywhere. Now for the specifics. These were made in 1967, as their sales paperwork indicates. There are NO labels on the backs, and no numbers embossed into the side edges on the back. They also are of what I suspect is an uncommon configuration: the woofer is offset from the center, with the midrange horn mounted above it on the same centerline horizontally, but the tweeter is mounted vertically and off to the side. I have not been able to find an account of this same configuration (forgive me if it indeed does exist on this forum and my search attempts failed). I see either early "vertical" Cornwalls where mids and highs are both vertical and woofer's off-center, or setups where all three are on the centerline and mid/highs are horizontal. I wonder if their different signature and character are in part due to this unique driver arrangement? Anyone has any insight on this particular version? I have indeed read many Cornwall-related threads on here, and indeed I do have the temptation to start playing with crossovers, etc. -- just as I have done with many speakers in the past, and often to great effect. But I will say that these are rather beautiful sounding as-is. Based on three+ months of listening, I'd say there isn't a WHOLE lot to wish for. They could use some more clarity/transparency in the upper mids and lower highs perhaps. On the low end of things, to tighten the bass a touch further may be desireable but it's really nitpicking. Are these Mallory caps oil-filled? Should I replace them? Or is it worth trying a whole different crossover version? I don't think I want to swap any drivers but I could be convinced I suppose I am not one to preach the gospel of Alnico necessarily, but I will say that most of my favorite speakers had in fact Alnico drivers in them, so I do accept that there may be something to it. Below are two pictures of the front and open back. Here is an album showing the insides of the left one. If you have any more insight on what these are exactly, or how to make the best of them, I would welcome any and all advice and information. Thank you for sticking with me through this long-winded tirade D
    2 points
  10. I think Chicago proves that everyday. A few months ago i bought a semi auto 9mm it was $500, It's called American Ruger, by far not on the high end of prices. For the same money I could have bought a wheelbarrow and filled it with illegal guns.
    2 points
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  12. A letter written by my local Sheriff back in April, kind of lengthy read but he makes a lot of good points: Snohomish County Residents and Business Owners, I just watched the Governor’s speech to Washingtonian’s regarding our approach to getting Washington back in business and I am left to wonder if he even has a plan? To be quite honest I wasn’t even sure what he was trying to say half of the time. He has no plan. He has no details. This simply is not good enough in times when we have taken such drastic measures as the suspension of constitutional rights. I wrote most of this about two weeks ago but I decided to wait out of respect for the Governor and my own misguided hope that each day he did a press conference he would say something with some specificity on getting Washington back to work. After what I witnessed tonight I can no longer stay silent as I’m not even sure he knows what he is doing or knows what struggles Washingtonian’s face right now. I want to start by saying this virus is very real and sadly, it has taken 97 lives in Snohomish County. This is a very serious issue and the appropriate precautions need to be taken to protect our most vulnerable populations. However, our communities have already shown and continue to show they understand the severity of the situation and are doing all they can already to keep themselves, their families and neighbors safe and healthy. I am worried about the economy and I am worried about Washingtonian’s that need to make a living for their family. As more data floods in week by week and day by day about this pandemic I think it is clear that the “models” have not been entirely accurate. While that is okay, we cannot continue down the same path we have been on if the government reaction does not fit the data or even worse, the same government reaction makes our situation worse. As elected leaders I think we should be questioning the Governor when it makes sense to do so. Are pot shops really essential or did he allow them to stay in business because of the government taxes received from them? That seems like a reasonable question. If pot shops are essential, then why aren’t gun shops essential? Our Governor has told us that private building/construction must stop as it is not essential, but government construction is okay to continue. So let me get this right, according to the Governor if you are employed or contracted by the government to build government things you can still make a living for your family in spite of any health risk. If you are a construction worker in the private sector you cannot make a living and support your family because the health risk is too high. This contradiction is not okay and in my opinion is bordering on unethical. As I arrive to work at the courthouse, I see landscapers show up each day to install new landscape and maintain our flowerbeds. How has Governor Inslee deemed this essential work? However, a father who owns a construction company and works alone while outdoors is not allowed to run his business to make a living to provide for his wife and children? How has Governor Inslee deemed thousands of Boeing employees who work inside a factory building airplanes essential? But building residential homes is not essential? If a factory with 20,000+ employees each day can implement safe practices to conduct normal business operations, I am entirely confident that our small business owners and independent contractors are more than capable of doing the same. If this Coronavirus is so lethal and we have shut down our roaring economy to save lives, then it should be all or nothing. The government should not be picking winners or losers when it comes to being able to make an income for your family. If the virus is so lethal it shouldn’t matter whether you are building a school for the government, building a new housing development, restaurant owner, or you happen to be an independent contractor. To the contrary, if the virus is proving to not be as lethal as we thought, maybe it’s time for a balanced and reasonable approach to safely get our economy moving again and allowing small businesses to once again provide an income for their families and save their businesses. This is what I hoped for from the Governor tonight but he is not prepared or ready to make these decisions. If we are going to allow government contractors and pot shops to continue to make a living for their families, then it is time to open up this freedom for other small business owners who are comfortable operating in the current climate. This is the great thing about freedom. If you are worried about getting sick you have the freedom to choose to stay home. If you need to make a living for your family and are comfortable doing so, you should have the freedom to do so. As I have previously stated, I have not carried out any enforcement for the current a stay-at-home order. As this order has continued on for well over a month now and a majority of our residents cannot return to work to provide for their families, I have received a lot of outreach from concerned members of our community asking if Governor Inslee’s order is a violation of our constitutional rights. As your Snohomish County Sheriff, yes I believe that preventing business owners to operate their businesses and provide for their families intrudes on our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I am greatly concerned for our small business owners and single-income families who have lost their primary source of income needed for survival. As your elected Sheriff I will always put your constitutional rights above politics or popular opinion. We have the right to peaceably assemble. We have the right to keep and bear arms. We have the right to attend church service of any denomination. The impacts of COVID 19 no longer warrant the suspension of our constitutional rights. Along with other elected Sheriffs around our state, the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office will not be enforcing an order preventing religious freedoms or constitutional rights. I strongly encourage each of you to reach out and contact your councilmembers, local leaders and state representatives to demand we allow businesses to begin reopening and allow our residents, all of them, to return to work if they choose to do so. The great thing about Snohomish County government is we have all worked very well together during this crisis. I’m not saying we agree all of the time, I’m saying we have the talent and ability to get this done for Snohomish County! This is not a time to blindly follow, this is a time to lead the way. Sheriff Adam Fortney
    2 points
  13. We are moving and downsizing so I'm selling off most of my theater equipment. Keeping a UPA-200, a pair of RPM-600 and a Denon receiver. Selling two more pair of Klipsch-RP-150M and RB-62ii and a projector, OPPO DVD player and a 2 channel Sony receiver. No where to put them and really not much time to enjoy them with all of our new challenges and opportunities with the move.
    2 points
  14. An extraordinary composition, very carefully selected and full of harmony. The membranes of my Grado headphones are just melting away, thank you very much @dirtmudd
    2 points
  15. 09/14/2020 > SETI Said : A gift from IBSlammin. LuxmanPP triode 50ca10. Just completed cap replacement and putting it back to factory as it has been modified. Going to bring it up this week. I love the Luxman
    2 points
  16. You can pack Lowes or the liquor store with no problem but not funeral homes or churches.
    2 points
  17. , my dog was crying , somebody should tell him to keep his day job -
    2 points
  18. But you can't open your restaurant or hair salon. You can be a free, broke-dik.
    2 points
  19. The KPT-942s (left, center, right) will take six output channels and three input channels. If you are only bi-amping the fronts (left, center, right), you'll need one Xilica XP-4080 and 12 total channels of amplification (including subs). That would mean that your surrounds and height channels (Atmos) would continue to be mono-amped as they are. If you are thinking about bi-amping the surrounds--they would take eight output channels and four input channels. That equates to an additional Xilica XP-4080 instead of one in the front-only bi-amping configuration, above. I have found that EQing the surrounds to flat SPL response is a really big deal. Getting the surrounds to flat phase response using bi-amping (left and right surrounds, but not left back and right back surrounds) is also audible for the best hi-fi surround music sources. It's not very audible on movies, however. The subwoofers take two output channels and two input channels, all handled without change from your current setup. ______________________________ I don't count the Atmos channels in this scenario because they are usually mono-amped channels used exclusively for movies. When music sources that require hi-fi operation of the height channels appear in greater numbers, that portion of the setup can be converted at that time. Chris
    2 points
  20. Yes, will do. I'm going to check them both and probably run it through DATS to get some numbers on them.
    2 points
  21. Ron White is funny. Thought coonneck was better than redass, but either is better than full redneck. My neighbor who is also from Louisiana calls the locals natives.
    2 points
  22. FWIW If you know/knew the song you got it immediately, if not then nope.
    2 points
  23. Thank you , for the News -I'm hoping Steve and his Brother are getting adequate medical assistance https://www.nbclosangeles.com/local-2/bobcat-fire-grows-to-33312-acres/2427778/
    2 points
  24. This is an amplifier designed by Bruce Heran of Oddwatt and is available as a kit. He generously supports diy'er's and has published his schematic as you can tell from my build. This is one of the few PP tube amplifiers I own and what is unique about this one is that it is run in class A. I have built a number of his designs and am well pleased with all of them. http://oddwattaudio.com/owpoddwatt.html
    2 points
  25. The typical price of a street gun in the 70's was $25. A simple question for doubters. Let's say you have a stolen a gun. The average thief is an opportunist, not a sophisticated criminal, with little or no planning. Where do you sell a stolen gun and not get caught and go to jail? At a premium price, I think not. Law abiding citizens will not touch it not wanting to receive stolen merchandise. A thief has little options with a stolen gun. They usually get passed around to other thieves at rock bottom prices not what you are told by media or the movies. A fellow business owner on the same street I was on bought a gun off the street way back in the 70's. Turns out the gun was involved in a murder. After being stolen it was sold multiple times before he got it. The FBI came to him eventually after tracing all the leads and retrieved it. He was not charged with a crime back then being he bought the gun in good faith. A stolen gun bought off the street can get someone in a lot of trouble. Beware, know who you are buying a gun from. The only gun laws that will prevent gun crime is on the criminal not law abiding citizens. An outlaw by the very definition lives outside the law and doesn't really care how many laws they break. Gun laws only hurt law abiding citizens but it sounds good when a politician says it is the gun and not the person doing the crime.
    2 points
  26. There is enough collected data out there to identify factors that put you at high risk. I think diet and excercise and getting away from chairs and computers is the best cheapest life style alteration one can do for many things. I would add to that this consideration while we are here. Talking to a forum member some time back who was excited about his first child on the way. He was worried however about birth defects. He mentioned that a pretty large group of his peers had children with these and so it was a concern. I have been leery of how much chemical preprocessed lazy mans cooking we put into our bodies and what exactly are we doing to ourselves. Even the drinking water most get right from their municipal water source and drink as is. The thought came to me that this age group he was in is the one that eats more prepared food from a box of any of them and there is a price to pay for diet choices.
    2 points
  27. Positively cheaper, the last 3 pistols I bought in the last 6 months were many times the cost of a street gun, but there legal and registered, well 2 out of three. The third one was one I sold a relative 35 years ago and bought back, they were not registered back then, was really glad to get it back. Of course, and we do. In Mississippi a resident does NOT need a concealed carry permit to carry concealed, or open carry. That is different in Louisiana where I am from. Self Defense Mississippi is a Castle Doctrine state and has a “stand your ground” law. A person who is not the initial aggressor and is not engaged in unlawful activity shall have no duty to retreat before using deadly force if the person is in a place where the person has a right to be.
    2 points
  28. From the vault LP # 28 of close to 40 A conceptual album from 1981 to tell the tale of George Orwell’s famous book Beautifully executed and is vocally and musically precise Artist - Rick Wakeman ‎ Title - 1984 Album ID - https://www.discogs.com/Rick-Wakeman-1984/master/58058
    2 points
  29. I've had this 3par storage cabinet since earlier in the year, but finally put it in place today. Has a nice open fron with beveled edges and blanking panels, then a perforated door for the rear. All the amps and xo and receiver bits at the bottom. Digital media playback devices in the middle. The large storage server at the top is my gaming pc, roon server, etc. Most of the drive bays are empty, but I had it laying around and it fits the large gpu and dual xeons, etc. All in all, a nice tidy stack.
    2 points
  30. With eBay it’s nothing until the end, which is more than three days away. There is NO reason to “bid” on eBay until the last few seconds. Not truly an auction, eBay is more like a silent auction. Serious “bidders” use a bid sniping service to place their maximum bid in the final five seconds. The winning bid is often a multiple of the high bid with 5 seconds remaining.
    2 points
  31. OSU's Troy Smith. They're good friends.
    2 points
  32. While it is true that I've helped quite a few Klipsch forum members (and others) to dial-in their loudspeakers using REW measurements and DSP crossovers, it is not true that I take money to do it. I just wanted to clarify that point. I am aware that there are people that apparently take money to do this sort of thing, but I'm also aware that those individuals either work for companies that make the DSP hardware, or are freelancing DSP experts that use more expensive and powerful signal processing applications (and computing resources including PCs) running for-profit DSP applications like Acourate, and JRiver, etc.). My niche is currently in using commonly available DSP crossovers running IIR (i.e., "PEQ") filters to achieve the same audible results--at considerably lower cost to the owner. And while FIR filters used in those higher priced applications can provide even lower phase growth than IIR filters available in off-the-shelf DSP crossovers, I have found that there is a subjective breakpoint in attaining loudspeaker phase flatness that doesn't require FIR filtering for horn-loaded loudspeakers, such as Jubilees, MEHs (such as Danley Synergies), MWM-based and KPT-1515-based loudspeaker stacks, La Scalas, Belles, and Khorns. Additionally, I've found that many hybrid horn-loaded HF/direct radiating bass (such as Cornwall, Forte, Chorus, Heresy, and the balance of the bookshelf and floor-standing Klipsch home theater loudspeakers) respond to the same techniques to a degree such that the need for FIR filtering is either non-existent or low enough to preclude its use. Chris
    2 points
  33. Is a “non-violent” fire the equivalent of “non-violent” protests. If yes, then all is forgiven —
    2 points
  34. Just picked a MQ300 Luxman last night post pics once it’s setup http://www.luxman.com/product/detail.php?id=17 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    2 points
  35. Wow. Only. 12 hour drive one way !!! They look gorgeous Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    1 point
  36. My K-48-E looked like the one on the left. From memory...
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  37. Started at $500 I think and keeps going down, surprised these are still here. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2392463884389863 https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/ele/d/minneapolis-klipsch-forte-1-speakers/7194146656.html
    1 point
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