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As I see it, music is best as a shared experience. ...We have our system (Cornwall iii's) in our great room and wouldn't have it any other way. ..My wife and I raised our kids listening to our music as we listened to theirs. ..Through ups and downs, we had our music to keep us close by giving us a common denominator. ..And we always tried to be positive about whatever they were into - which was not always easy. Today, they love Leonard Cohen, The Clash, Bob Dylan, Richard Thompson, Carly Simon, Wilco, Pink Floyd, etc.. And my wife and I love White Stripes, Black Keys, Imagine Dragons, Taylor Swift, etc.. Would my system sound better in a dedicated 2-channel room? Perhaps. But the music wouldn't have been nearly as enjoyable. Our great room has very similar shape/ dimensions. ..Walls not quite as yellow as they appear. ..Couch is 12' from of cabinet, then 20'' of kitchen.

I'll trade you for it. I'll give you a roll of toilet paper.

Not really, but when your doing it the neighbors driving by will say wow look at those jeans, he must know what he's doing.

2 RCA 6KZ8 tubes in original boxes, 1 RCA 6ES5, in original box, and a pair of Raytheon 6ER5 in Pro Comm Boxes...............................Free for anyone using a wright phono stage. I will even cover USPS priority small flat rate shipping

I was on another forum and some one reminded me of this. I loved this radio show back in the day. There are some on youtube. Who else were into this back in the 70s?

Back in the day I was also a big Pontiac fan. Bought a '73 FB Formula 400 in Burma Brown, and over the years modded the engine, tranny, and suspension for enhanced performance. In '82 I "graduated" up to the iconic Corvette in Dark Claret, and even tho' performance was greatly hampered by emissions equipment those days, the styling of that coupe never got old. I sold the 'Vette to a friend a few years ago, but every now-n-then I wish I hadn't. ~

my fav top few cars 69 gto judge, 70 gtx, 73 z28, 73 455 trans am, 71 440 cuda, some of my favs that I owned.

Bottled water? Camping and hiking? A bladder works better than toting bottles for a morning or afternoon hike in a National Park or other places. The costs in Nat'l Parks just for trash is insane. Plastic water bottles? Think about it. Nestle's will never get another dime from me for anything they have branded. Yes, even choccy chips and candy bars. They owe the United States & individual states millions for spring water they've "stolen" since their contracts ran out. Yup, drag it thru the courts forever and continue to make millions from those buying it. The American way I guess. Just my .02 worth. Bottoms up! https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/29/the-fight-over-water-how-nestle-dries-up-us-creeks-to-sell-water-in-plastic-bottles

I never drink bottled water for a couple reasons. First, I have an issue paying for water when I already pay for it at home. We have an RO filter and that totally eliminates the need to purchase water. At work I use the fountain and it's not bad at all. Another large issue I have with bottled water is the enormous amount of plastic waste it produces. I don't have the exact tonnage figure to give you but I recall an article about it and it was staggering. That's the same reason I'll never own a Keurig. On a side note Richard, have you seen extended delays in getting your tax returns this year when submitted electronically?

Thinks it about the music. The love of early Deep Purple and Nazareth and other non top-40 good stuff. Throw in some Albert King or a good jazz saxophone @ fullyhornloaded. That covers it I think... except I grazed over it at first and took it wrong! Surprise Attack? He didn't stutter with what he stated🎼🔊

"Dress for success"?

nothing better than your first love... I could comfortably fit 11 in this bad boy Ford LTD Country Squire

1) The MEH probably is able to handle room acoustics issues better than almost anything else (albeit, you may lose boundary gain if you move them away from the walls/floor at some frequency, and depending on the dimensions of the listening room). Having directivity control and co-axial output without disruptions in the directivity down to 100 Hz (where boundary gain begins to kick in) is the reason for this. Even more so than Jubilees, etc. (Perhaps more on this discussion to come.) 2) I think that the real issue is watching the reverberation times (RT30, in particular) between 100-250 Hz. If you lose control of this band's total absorption (usually provided by bass traps), you get a booming sound when the SPL gets to some point--that you can't do anything about. 3) You don't want something like this: listening to a live rock concert in a place like the G. Rollie White Coliseum (the former basketball arena on the Texas A&M campus--a structure since torn down). I never heard any FOH guys able to handle mid-bass "boom" in that horseshoe-shaped arena, because the entire back wall just behind the stage was corrugated steel with no absorption. You have to control the ringing of these kind of surfaces. If that back wall was covered with anything acoustically absorptive in the 100-250 Hz band, the problems would be been manageable, I believe. (Of course then they couldn't call it "the Holler House on the Brazos" if they did that, however.) Deep bass can be a problem if you're up against solid brick masonry walls--like in a basement or a solid masonry structure with no wood, plaster lathe construction, or drywall--where the walls basically don't flex. Most rooms rely on that flex to do membrane absorption below 70 Hz, and there aren't enough people in the audience to substitute for deep bass absorption. If the walls don't flex at all, you've got a real problem, and it takes really big absorbers to do anything about it. I think about the Beatles' most notable early venue--the Cavern Club--which was basically in the catacombs of Liverpool--and solid as a rock. They apparently had to develop a "new sound" in order to avoid the booming sound, mostly devoid of Mr. McCartney's deep electric bass range (which they carried forward in their early recordings, and almost anything below 100 Hz was basically attenuated out): Chris

1993 Ford Taurus SHO. A true sleeper in its day.

Citroen ID-19, 1965. Front Wheel driver, Hydro-pneumatic suspension. You could drive over a curb at 35 mph. and hardly feel it. It had a back seat like a living room couch. It even had padding on the floor for when your date was barefoot (the French knew what they were doing). My brother borrowed it and wrecked it.

Well I finished up my "buffer box" to boost the signals into the Xilica.... next up I will be modifying a Crown d75 for current drive.. first thing I need to get some resistors the author recommends....0.5 ohm 3W minimum

my 73 t/a was not the s/d, but it still was a 455 4speed

I purchased my KG4s in 1985 or 86. I was stationed at Rhein Main Air Force Base and we had a tech exchange on base that sold all the latest and greatest camera and hifi gear. They were cheaper than the Klipsch with nice wood finishes because they were painted black. I didn't care because I was a broke E2 Airman. As I mentioned in a previous post those speakers are all that I have left of the wonderful gear I collected over the 4 years I was stationed in Germany. Years later I stripped the black paint from the cabinets and discovered one walnut and one oak finish. So, they must have been painted to cover some sort of flaw in the finish. Or so I thought. I had recently purchased a beat up Pioneer SX-580 and was thoroughly enjoying those speakers again. But Friday I noticed a small tic or vibrating noise from the left speaker below 70 Hz at higher volumes. Closer inspection clearly pointed to the lower 8 inch woofer and I started researching online here to learn more about what my options would be for replacing the driver. I pulled the driver from the cabinet and discovered that it flatlined on my voltmeter. So no continuity meant a dead voice coil which meant I had no repair options and I would have to replace it. Then I first noticed what you see in the pictures. It's not a k-8-k! It's the 4 ohm k-9-k. Jeez, I wonder how long it's been dead. Why didn't I notice anything amiss before now. Back in the crazy days I drove those speakers hard with a Yamaha M60/C60 combo. I'm so confused. Was this speaker always wrong? Maybe someone snuck over my house somewhere and swapped the 8K out? But if they were that brave I doubt they would've been nice enough to drop a different Klipsch driver in its place. If it was a mistake at the factory how long should a 4 ohm driver last in that setup? I went back and pulled the other 3 speakers but they all are marked correctly and read close to 8 ohms on the multimeter. If anyone with more expertise, knowledge or stronger logic could offer some theories I would love to hear it! Anyone experience something similar? Anyone from Klipsch care to comment? In the meantime I have to locate a proper Klipsch k-8-K

Gas lines......some stations sold out of gasoline. Hoarding and piggish behavior? I've got 3 gallons of lawn mower gas.....first $150 takes it.

The neighbors say "you don't know what your doing, but we notice you do it a lot" Most of the neighbors are wealthy(IME) and would not consider doing any where near the amount of manual labor I do.

My sister received this from The Sound Room, a local Saint Louis area Heritage dealer: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/klipsch-heritage-listening-event-at-the-sound-room-tickets-153851629365

I remember the first time I saw someone drinking bottled water. I couldn't believe that anyone would actually pay for a bottle of water.

Hopefully things will work out better this year. I guess tomato plants are out of the question along with most other things we throw in the ground around here.

Kinda like looking in your rear view mirror. "Things may appear closer than they really are"

considering most bottled water is filtered tap water... no, I do not drink bottled water....especially at a dollar a pop for a quart [pint?]...I'm a cheap bastard Our water has a high mineral content, but, tastes OK. Most everyone in Tucson uses bottled....since they try to "blend" ColoradoRiver "water"/mud into the groundwater. Yeah... the tap water up there IS nasty. Some of the worst water I have run into was in St.Petersburg FL... sulfur and LOTS of chlorine Delicious stuff ---------------------------------- since RockyMt spring water was brought up... When I/we were in IdahoSprings CO, every one of us got Uncles Sam's Revenge. So much for the purity issue ------------------------------------- on a side note --- If you carry your own coffee beans when traveling, the coffee made from local water changes. I always look forward to getting home, so my coffee tastes "right".

Sure we would have a fun time... On 2nd thought, may just consider moving in with Dave.🤔 He needs someone to help hold up his records with a hand. The other holding a Heineken. Party...🤯...all night long!

Yes...WXRT Chicago....Remember it well. George

It's ok you two. May I ask how this all came about without any other's catchin on in here? 😂

No problem. To get rid of EMI, just put some green dots on the component you wish to protect. Results are not guaranteed.

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity lands at new airfield after 5th flight https://www.space.com/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-fifth-flight-new-airfield?jwsource=cl

Virgin Galactic Flight Schedule In Doubt Again As Potential Issue Found Virgin Galactic said the timing of the next flight test is currently being evaluated. But it added that work to correct electromagnetic interference (EMI) on the VSS Unity is complete, and the spaceplane is ready to start pre-flight procedures. Fixes include adding components to suppress any EMI from the flight control computer and any EMI from the ship's wiring. https://www.investors.com/news/spce-stock-virgin-galactic-earnings-q1-2021/

SpaceX sets booster reuse milestone on Starlink launch SpaceX launched a set of Starlink satellites May 9 on a Falcon 9 whose first stage was making its tenth flight, a long-awaited goal in the company’s reusability efforts. The Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 2:42 a.m. Eastern. The rocket’s upper stage deployed its payload of 60 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit nearly 65 minutes later. https://spacenews.com/spacex-sets-booster-reuse-milestone-on-starlink-launch/

I think that is exactly what was going on. The Jubilee sounded like it was going through a low pass filter. My guess is that the mic was pointed directly at the Klipschorn (and getting a full bandwidth signal). I guess you need to listen to them in person ....

'Bout 11 hours later and we're still breathing. 😁

Their destiny is strawberry daiquiris

Bubo, it started when I had a music teacher who also gave me piano lessons. I was 15, it was 1974, he had a MA230. Ok, with Bose 901 but at least the old Alnico version. Despite the speakers, the Mc sound was burnt into me. Regarding your question, brands like Grundig and Dual were very popular and successful after the Second World War in young West Germany. Grundig was a bit more for very normal people, Dual was a bit more refined but affordable for almost everyone. That was the mono era and Grundig made very nice tube radios for the kitchen and living room. Televisions, too, of course. Dual has always been a pure audio brand. I got my first mono record player as a gift from my father in 1966 when I was 7 years old, a very simple Dual, the lid was the loudspeaker. I loved it and listened to all the Beatle, Rolling Stones and other singles. In 1972, my father bought a stereo system, which only did a small circle of people in Germany at the time. He had dreamed about it for a long time. A Sansui QX 6500 receiver with Dual turntable 1219 and Braun TG1000 tape recorder and Sansui SP2500 speakers at the front, it was a pseudo 4 channel system. . Because our house was occupied by American army in 1945 as an officers' mess, my father had early contact with jazz music. He was hired as an interpreter by the Americans at the age of 15 because he had learned English at school; only a few children could attend a grammar school. Some of the military had record players and jazz records. That was the start and he this to him new sound. Grundig became less popular when the Japanese conquered the hi-fi market for the masses in the early 70s. Dual managed to hold on, primarily with record players. We subsequently had a 701 in the family, it was the first with a direct drive. I personally liked Thorens more. Back to Mc and Klipsch. At that time it was a very illustrious small circle that could afford something like that in Germany or even knew what it was. Since the mid 80s there has been a hifiscene that knows what these brands are. Mc stands for very high quality, but there is also a lot of expensive competition, also US brands were successful like Mark Levinson or Krell, later when tubes refreshed in the market also Conrad Johnson or Audio Research in addition to the sand amps. Klipsch Heritage series has always had a dedicated but small fan base, but most hifi lovers prefer a more comfortable and visually and acoustically pleasing loudspeakers with higher WAF if you know what I mean. Those who have money like to buy Sonus Faber or things like that. Klipsch is also quite well represented among these people with its Hifi series of slim towers. One must also take into account that most homes and living rooms are really smaller here than in US houses which is an issue to get a KH e.g. But I think that types like new Cornwalls or Heresy spaeker could get a renaissance. I don't know how Dual is doing today, Grundig is not relevant in the hifi scene and the younger generation does not know the brand any more at all. I have a positive feeling that a new generation is about to rediscover real and good sound which is associated with bigger speakers, horn speakers…the opposite of now still popular small bluetooth cubes. My son is of course a bit influenced by his father who built his first horn soeakers at the age of 16 and a KH bass unit when beeing 19. But he and his friends are very open minded to rediscover good sound when visiting my place at home.

I really didn't have any time for hi-fi audio tinkering, etc. when the kids were growing up and I was working "for the other guy" to foot the bills. I was a hi-fi enthusiast before marriage, however. I just put it on hold for 22 years. Only when the last one went off to college did I invest in Jubilees (2007). I've never regretted spending the time with the kids growing up, however. Chris

Not just one for sure. When I was 15, I purchased a 69 SS chevelle from a friend that had to have a 74 Camaro with a roll bar and high jackers. That was the one that got away, as i sold it when I enlisted, thought I really stuck it to them when I did, but that was not the case, long term. Out of the service and got into BMW's and had a 318, then a 325 and then an older M5, and that was a lot of fun too. 100% a truck guy now, and have been for a lot of years, and love my Tundra, and will love it more when I put a super charger on it and pick it up about 3".

https://naturalsociety.com/nestle-subsidiary-tries-sell-small-town-water-residents-fight-back/ This is all over the US as Water sources are "privatized" Conservationists say some creek beds in the area are now bone dry and once-gushing springs have been reduced to mere trickles. The Forest Service recently determined Nestlé’s activities left Strawberry Creek “impaired” while “the current water extraction is drying up surface water resources”. Nestlé plan to take 1.1m gallons of water a day from natural springs sparks outcry Read more Meanwhile, the state is investigating whether Nestlé is illegally drawing from Strawberry Creek and in 2017 advised it to “immediately cease any unauthorized diversions”. Still, a year later, the Forest Service approved a new five-year permit that allows Nestlé to continue using federal land to extract water, a decision critics say defies common sense. Strawberry Creek is emblematic of the intense, complex water fights playing out around the nation between Nestlé, grassroots opposition, and government officials. At stake is control of the nation’s freshwater supply and billions in profits as Nestlé bottles America’s water then sells it back in plastic bottles. Those in opposition, such as Amanda Frye, an author and nutritionist, increasingly view Nestlé as a corporate villain motivated by “greed”. “These are people who just want to make money, but they’ve already dried up the upper Strawberry Creek and they’ve done a lot of damage,” she said. “They’re a foreign corporation taking our natural resources, which makes it even worse.” Critics characterize Nestlé as a “predatory” water company that targets struggling communities with sometimes exaggerated job promises while employing a variety of cheap strategies, like donating to local boy scouts, to win over small town officials who hold the keys to valuable springs. Its spending on lobbying and campaign contributions at the federal and state levels totals in the millions annually, the revolving door between the company and government perpetually turns, and it maintains cozy relationships with federal officials from the Forest Service https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/29/the-fight-over-water-how-nestle-dries-up-us-creeks-to-sell-water-in-plastic-bottles

I'm about done planting garden. Not that I mind clean dirt under my fingernails... Temps approaching 100` makes it tough to sprout seeds and get and kind of survival rate.... not to mention our low r/h... saw it at 3% the other day. Dew point was 1`F. What I do have up, is doing OK/good... for now. I'm relying on our monsoon to temper the heat and give some humidity. Last year was a complete bust.

Yes the Primaluna EVO 400 has a sub pre out.

What does your budget look like?

What he meant was, how are you feeding it a signal - does the integrated have a sub out or pre out?

In the emptiness of space, Voyager 1 detects plasma 'hum' https://phys.org/news/2021-05-space-voyager-plasma.html

Yes they do!

That user hasn't been on the forum since April 20, 2017.

Got the GASP!!!!!! Johnson and Johnson about 2 hours ago. Aside from a little ache at injection site after the shot we're fine.

NASA objects to new mega-constellation, citing risk of “catastrophic collision” “This particular region of space tends to produce a large number of conjunctions.” https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/nasa-objects-to-new-megaconstellation-citing-risk-of-catastrophic-collison/