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You’ve taken the wind from my sails, BSM. Here in the land of plenty, with more to eat than we know what to do with, sitting in our castle on the hill with panoramic views of of our vast land holdings and a pantry with two, not one, bottles of Heinz ketchup in the ginormous Costco bottle(s) I can’t help but feel dirty with these riches. I will be more than happy to FedEx one of these beauties your way. It is the the season of giving, right - 🎅

“Do it Robby” The Doors Morrison Hotel Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I have not yet found a thread that shows self-made audio cables. I mean speaker cables, power cables and RCA cables. In this community w´ll be build, modified, tuned, like in no other audio community in the world. So I thought to open this thread to show what is possible with DIY. This thread is not meant to be a discussion platform, about the sense or nonsense of different AWG standards, it´s only meant to show what you can achieve yourself. After all it saves a lot of money if you make your own audio cables. Since I have some experience in this area, I would like to share this with you and also show examples that DIY cables don´t differ to expensive brand manufacturers, which cost a lot of money. Here´re some examples from my own D I Y Loudspeaker Cables ... My own Bridges for Bi Wire Terminals Connection example

you are a kind man; but when I was a little boy, my grandmother sat me on her knee and said, "Little BigStewMan, never take a man's ketchup -- you must share the finer things in life." I think that is what she was saying, she spoke Portuguese around the house, so I put my own meaning behind all the hollering.

It's real name is Thunderbolt II. The Thunderbolt wasn't a classic looker, either. Much like a bulldog no matter. it's a great plane shake the dirt off and put it back in the air got a fly by while I was at the lake the other day. I could almost make out the brand of sunglasses the pilot was wearing. What you see in the pic above is what they consider minimum altitude out here

A great female voice She changed her artist name from "Warrick" to "Warwick" because her name was misspelled on the labels of her hit record "Don't Make Me Over". They even made another spelling mistake on the cover of this album - can you spot it A nice compilation album that I inherited Artist - Dionne Warwick Title - The Best Of

I like this song ...

The P-47 Thunderbolt a forerunner of air to air ground:

With or without Ketchup?

Juvenile bald eagle from my backyard.

No need for a reason for this one, but damn does it sound good. The Doors Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Probably tops my list now as my favorite guitar company.

some more sound of the 80tees , you all should know them ... A Flock of Seagulls , Debut dito , 1982 , Jive Records, Printed in Germany

Hello Forum. I'm old but I'm new here. In the 1970s I remember going into the local audio store "Lafayette Sound", later "Leiser Sound" and hearing awesome stereos with a sound I loved but I don't know the nomenclature of the experts here to describe what I like. I only know that you could hear the pick strumming every string, the tight snip of the high hat, the deep-but-quick thud of the bass drum. I guess crisp would fit. I don't like long lazy bass that rattles the dishes. The speakers I bought back in 1974 were store brand "HLX 10" speakers guaranteed for life and they really have lasted my whole life! I have driven them with everything to a Realistic STA 82 pushing what? 30 watts RMS? to the current Onkyo that is about 50 WPC. THe point is I never was able to reproduce what I heard in the 70s. They were probably using JBLs pushed by 100 WPC or more. Sooooo..... Recently I wanted to upgrade without spending a lot. I bought a used Technics SL-Q350 turntable, and some Klipsch Tangent 400s. I havent decided on a receiver. I have a few to choose from I bought used ad I see many cheap on a popular social media site. My question (at last) is: How many watts per channel RMS should I be pushing these Tangents with to make them sound their best? I Have several receivers of different powers. An Onkyo TX 900 (40WPC @8ohm), a TX-903 which is 60 watts per channel, a Technics SA-AX530 which is a 5.1 AV receiver putting out 80 watts per channel. I just saw a Teac AG-790 putting out 90 WPC I can buy for 35 bucks. I've been thinking I need 100 watts per channel to get the most out of these speakers. Or do I? The previous owner was using a Denon with only 60 WPC and the speakers sounded good when he demo'ed them. He threw in two Mg 1220 PP twelve - inch poly woofers because he said the paper woofers in the Tangents distorted at lower volume. Seems dumb for me to buy Quality Klipsch speakers then install other woofers. Then I've read going too low watts can harm the speakers / tweeters? I want great sound at moderate volume. I will either use one of the receivers listed above or pick up an inexpensive ($100 or less) receiver of higher wattage if that's what I need. Some of you may be rolling on the floor laughing, but I intend to stay cheap on a retired guy's budget. What do you recommend to power these Tangent 400s? How many Watts PC RMS and any years or brands preferred? for awesome sound at moderate volume? So that's my epic saga. Please advise.

https://www.analogplanet.com/content/doors-and-elektra-records-sound-part-i-0 https://www.analogplanet.com/content/doors-and-elektra-records-sound-part-ii-0

I went even simpler. 16ga lamp cord for the output and nothing at all for the input. I'm cheap and I'm lazy. 😁 BTW the OP's cables are gorgeous, nice work there.

Remember tincture of merthiolate?

Tincture Time Taking advantage of having everyone out of the house . Made a tincture and showed the neighbors some love . Music loud Tincture strong

Cheers! Welcome to come over!

Temp going down, rain, 30mph wind gusts and 2-4 of snow? Already? Time to get the blower ready to go and close to the garage door. Can it wait maybe? Ha!

Cmon George , Start yourself a business name , Tag these cables with your own Brand -and get rolling selling this high end gear on AMAZON , there is a high demand for such a quality product create your own web site -------anyone buys this stuff , it will last a lifetime -

Color me interested, Looks like some great work. I request How about we show links to the parts used ? This way if someone were inclined to build a like piece they have at least a road map of where to start with supplies. I know when I try looking up wire or connectors it gets down right discouraging.

My own D I Y RCA Cables

My own D I Y Power Cables

Tornado s:

Any one of your presents amps are sufficient. Like the idea of the Teac though for $35. Enjoy! Spin your turntable and really go back in time. And welcome back!

Here are some of my meandering thoughts... Those Klipsch Tangent 400s are mighty speakers. They are sensitive too, so they will play very loud, even with low watt amps. I've never heard them myself, but I think they'll go really low too! https://f072605def1c9a5ef179-a0bc3fbf1884fc0965506ae2b946e1cd.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/product-specsheets/Tangent-100-series.pdf Here is the thing: you fail to hear the crispness and clarity you heard in that music shop back in the 1970s. Now, imho there are many possible explanations, and I'm writing this with the greatest possible respect: Your ears are not what they were back in the 1970s: your hearing now picks up less of those high frequencies you like so much. Depending on your genes, your job and the number of inner ear infections you suffered along the years, your hearing will be more, or less, negatively affected. Back in the 1970s, those amps in the the music shop were actually brand new, and the capacitors inside them too. Most likely, in that shop, hidden under or behind the counter, they will have added some 'secret sauce' to their system, like some high-end (pre)amp, or some super modified crossovers, making the sound stand out. I'm afraid there is little to be done about your hearing, but if you use vintage amps going back to the 70s or even older, you could invest in recapping them, or start by spraying the connections, volume pots and soldering with deoxit. On the other hand, Klipsch's general advice is to use an amp that matches the power needs of the speakers. In the case of the Tangent 400s, it means you'd need a powerhouse amp of 125 Watt continuous. Many users here are 'underpowering' their speakers, though, without issues. There are few 'integrated amps' of the 1970s that have that kind of advised power. I own a 1976 Harman Kardon 430 twin powered, which is 25 Watt per channel, with my 1972 Heresy speakers, which are 100 Watt continuous. I can't turn this amp's volume beyond 9 o'clock because then they are way too loud for my writer's den. They have great bass, too, no subwoofer required. Most of us here have experienced that the advertised watts of modern amps cannot be compared with the power of vintage amps. In fact, the wattages don't say much about the sound quality at all... Some of the best (tube) amps put out a meager 8 or 15 watts...

out of ketchup. with the pandemic, I just don't run to the grocery store for things anymore at the drop of a hat. this cursed pandemic! it's ruined my fine dining practices.

A cormorant conversation

Thank you all, I wasn't thinking of a sub until you mentioned it billybob, so I would yes to a future sub. As far as price I was looking at a Yamaha A-S701 for 799. Everything is on sale this weekend. Just not sure if it all would work together.

I know what you wanted to say ......

Great Egret

No Affil: https://pensacola.craigslist.org/ele/d/pensacola-klipsch-speakers/7238230253.html

oh... no... I was thinking of mercurichrome Tinctures... We can lawfully admit to enjoying weed tomorrow, I guess. Recreational becomes legal as soon as the "Certified Election Results" and made public. I am I gonna lose standing if I was to say I have not been "Pissing off the neighbors". She likes us. Doesn't ever mention the stereo... Says she notices when boy comes in with his buffalo fart car stereo... Gave us money to put up our annual Christmas lights in the trees. Wife told her it wasn't a matter of money.... It is when Bill gets to doing some shopping. She insisted on giving us $20 anyway. That will pay to keep them lit for a while. For some reason or other, she likes our [rather random] lights hanging in the trees... or maybe that we have big enough tress to do it... I dunno.

This is not correct. However, if you drop the K-402s down a bit and allow them to stick out in front of the bass bins about 7" (I call this "shortening down the K-402s"), then the two sources (bass bin and K-402 horn) are closer together. This improves the midbass response vertically even more and produces a little less phase growth through the crossover region. The minimum listening distance drops to something like 3-4 feet when you do this, and the listening involvement (in the case of using zero phase growth crossovers with a DSP crossover that I've talked about on this forum ) goes through the roof, in my experience. The comments about "these loudspeakers are meant for bigger rooms" as a ploy to say they are too big for home hi-fi is totally wrong. In fact, because they have full-range directivity, they are better performing in small rooms than small loudspeakers that spray their acoustic energy around their nearby acoustically reflective objects. In order to get the same response as Jubilees in a small room, the owner would have to completely cover the front of the room with absorption pads/panels, and then the room would probably be too dead. The MEHs are coaxial loudspeakers, so their minimum listening distance is -1 feet (you can put your head inside the loudspeaker and it sounds the same). There is no downside (except for the slightly higher levels of AM distortion that I mentioned above). It actually sounds just like my Jubilees, only more so (more coherent). If you place the MEHs in room corners--there is no downside, because the MEH mouth size couples so well to the room corner that it loads the woofers down to a very low cutoff frequency (well below 40 Hz, even better than the effect of having the woofer ports off-axis in the K-402 which drops the effective expansion rate of the horn that the woofers see--an effect that Danley himself has written about). Chris

Might have a point about these older retiring musicians. Guess I would just tell those musicians not making money to live on, to get a job or outdoor gig. There is always the dole I suppose.

Why don't you pull a "Nancy Pelosi" (about Obamacare) and buy a pair (less than $10,000) with all the trimmings, then you will find out "what's in them" to actually know how they sound in your house to your ears. That's what I did.

I'm in a fair amount of disagreement with this assessment. One thing I noticed after replacing my (3-way) Khorns with the 2-way Jubilee's is I was getting better more cohesive sound CLOSER and inside the room with the Jubilee's verses the Khorns. I actually had measured once and noticed that I had to be about 30' away from the Khorns and they sounded distinctly better than closer in. The Jubilee's "come together" maybe 7-10 feet from them so you can be much closer and still have that "one voice" Corners: They're intended to fit in a corner which in most places is typically dead space. They (both Khorns and Jubilee's when in corners) are probably the single most space efficient speaker made. They don't need to be pulled out in the room like a shoe box sized Pioneer HPM or CV or (insert just about any other brand). they ARE large.... but once they're tucked into the corners, their large size pretty much melts away .

I have owned, or still own every Heritage model with the exception of the Belle. Several years ago I built a pair of DIY Jubilee bass bins and mated them to the K-402 with Faital HF-200 CD. With Chris A's generous support to dial in the system with the Xilica crossover, this set up was not even close to my previous KHorn, La Scalas, Cornwalls for musical performance! During a momentary lapse of reason couple of years ago, I sold my Jub-clones, huge mistake. After missing this ultimate sounding system I decided to try and get that experience back and came across a pair of beat up Peavey FH-1 bass bins that I then stuck a pair of Klipsch K-510 horns on top with again another pair of HF-200 CDs. This was very, very good sounding, but alas not quite what the Jub-likes were. Next step was to purchase a new set of K-402s/K-691s/ and stands to swap in for the K-510s. Presto, probably 95% of what my full Jub clones delivered! Long story short, IMHO, the magic of the Jubilee is the K-402 horn. This horn changes how you look at any other Klipsch Heritage speaker, not to mention any other speaker system out there. Track down and listen to a properly dialled in pair of Jubilees (or variant with the K-402)... hearing is believing!

don't know what your budget is.... I set $2000 limit on my system Ended up with a pair of vintage ['76] LaScalas and an H/K 630 ... and came in well under my allowance...... including a cross country trip to pick them up by the by... the H/K 630 is 30wpc Plenty of power... and very pleasing sound and has a good tt pre-amp

You are right Joe, I think that's exactly what I experienced today. That barn system is a keeper for now in this audio journey Rich

Welcome to the Forum. Heck of a nice price on that Yammer Integrated. In your price range and would do the job nicely. Got it ALL in a pretty lil black box. You'll be a happy fam and those Klipsch should shine!

he should have landed it on the grass , and not on the concrete runway ,

Well, I took a look and yes on the rear, a sub out, and phono out for TT, just in case. Black or silver and 100 X 2 watts per channel. Built in DAC. Would look for more answers to come in here. Review all of the specs and make sure on this one that has all of your requirements. One other thing on this one and others recc. Shop price and deals. And look for reviews. Others may say more. Do you like Yamaha? @twemcd

Ultravox is a British band founded in London in 1974 and is one of the most important and style-defining bands of the New Wave and New Romantic movement. In 1979, founding member and singer John Foxx was replaced by Midge Ure and the commercially most successful phase began. From 1980 to 1986, the band recorded several top ten placements in ten European countries, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa with songs like Vienna, Hymn and Dancing with Tears in My Eyes. In the late 1970s, under Foxx, the stylistic concept changed from experimental art punk and glam rock to a synthesizer-dominated style and was later supplemented by guitar-heavy rock elements with Ure. Two years after the release of their last album, the band announced their split in 1988. UltravoX , Vienna , 1980, Chrysalis Records, Printed in Germany

From cars to jets, The A-10 Warthog, no landing gear, no canopy, no sweat.👍