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Agree on the rude. Thing is the guys working security weren't gonna tell him about it just because he was a baller. @grasshopper came across this idea today for ya...

Well true to form, Texarkana Funeral Home screwed the audio pooch on Dave's funeral stream. Obviously, Dave was confused by the universe's largest mixer finally as his disposal and must have gotten the mute button and live to earth buttons crossed. Anyway, the service was typical Presby Mass with hardly a mention of our fair hero, so no great loss. What follows is his brother's heartfelt eulogy at the graveside services. Onward thru the Phogg my friends! Eulogy for David June 17, 2021 My brother, David, loved life fiercely. Life did not always return the favor, but he would bounce back with amazing resiliency from setbacks that would have crippled a lesser man. Perhaps the greatest love in David’s life was for his children, Jennings Elizabeth and Thomas McRae. His love of his first-born, Jennings, was boundless. All children are precious, but Jennings, she was a perfect angel. Her loss at age 13 was a crushing blow to David, and he lived the rest of his life with the confidence of seeing Jennings again on the other side. David was equally overjoyed with the birth of his son Thomas. Thomas was named after his great-grandfather who sired 10 children, including 7 boys. Out of that large family, our Thomas is one of the only two surviving great-grandsons with the Mallette surname. David was a proud U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War and was even prouder to learn recently that Thomas has followed his example of national service by enlisting in the U.S. Navy. Second only to his children was David’s love for music, especially organ music and the great pipe organs themselves. He collected over 1500 recordings of classical music and had a special listening room at home where he loved to sit for hours immersed in the music. David also loved, in no particular order, the Cossatot River, steamboats, steam locomotives, and UFO theories. He loved Roman history, Byzantine history, Civil War history, and Church history. He loved theology, genealogy, meteorology and cosmology. He loved player pianos, photography, and videography. He loved Bach, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff, Scott Joplin and Conlan Nancarrow, Star Trek, Dr. Who, and The Three Stooges, and he loved his old dog, Shadow. In addition to being the lover of many diverse interests, David was a great dreamer. He would often just sit, staring into the distance, lost in his own thoughts and oblivious to his surroundings. In elementary school, one of his teachers called our Mom in for a conference. “The problem is,” declared the teacher, “David is a dreamer!” Some problem!! Don’t you wonder, like me, if this old world might be a better place with a few more dreamers? Some of David’s dreams were, let’s just say, better than others. One of his best ideas was the local Regional Musical Heritage Center, which combined his love of music and of Texarkana. In the last few years of his life, he poured much of his remaining time and treasure into the RMHC. It was a noble effort and I hope it can find a way to carry his dream into the future. I know that David, like all of us, was far from perfect. But maybe we who are left behind can learn a few things from his example: to love our family and friends without reservation, to take time to enjoy the finer things in life, such as food, wine, art, and music; and finally, to be unafraid to dream big dreams. To paraphrase that little green poet, Kermit the Frog: “I hope we all find it, That Rainbow Connection, The lovers, the dreamers, and my little brother, David.”

My V65 Magna did that once in Daytona. Good thing I was strong then, it was 600+ lbs to pick up and move closer to the condo on the cement! @Dave1291 that's a Rubbermaid, had one exactly like that for years here.

don't park your motorcycle on asphalt. The kickstand will sink into it and the bike will lay down. If you have your windows down in the car, you can hear the tires sticking to the tar...

BREITBART? Give me a break! I try to take a grain of salt when (very rarely) reading sources that are extreme, even when they are merely selecting materials, rather than writing editorials. Breitbart, Fox News, the late Russ Limbaugh and the like can be strangely interesting from time to time, the way a snake pit is. They belong with fellow reptilians like The People's World, The Spartacist Youth League and Pravda. @henry4841 As another old coot on SS benefits and a very modest pension, and a very, very few stocks, I get the crunch, but I also think the following, in regard to long term employment for those younger than us: If someone is working at a job, but won't be getting a pension, even a small one, there is something wrong with the job. If someone is not eligible for health benefits, something is wrong with the job ... but a single payer, full coverage health plan would fix this. If someone has no investments, a solution was proposed in The Capitalist Manifesto (it's not what you might think). employees should be given at least a living wage for the area, plus, a few shares of stock every year. These probably should be selected from the market as a whole, rather than stocks from the employer's own company -- BUT -- once in a while, that can work: How Walt Disney's Housekeeper Secretly Died A Multi-Millionaire

Lazy afternoon jazz and whisky in the High Desert

I am on the other side of the fence feeling the same way about the extreme other channels of which you know who. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with having opposing views. Having opposing views is what makes America great and a democracy. I just cannot understand why there is so much hostility now if someone does not agree with you. Sickening and terrible people turning against one another. Some of my best friends of my adult life did not agree with me on so many issues. It did not make us less good friends. We even enjoyed debating each other on the issues of our country. Where has love of our fellow man gone?

We used to carry plastic items to put under the sidestand. One was called a Cycle Foot, and was shaped like a wide 4” long foot. One from Yamaha was a strong round one that still works well as a coaster. It wasn’t just asphalt. Gravel or grass could be just as bad. There’s one thing that I envy about Harleys: their sidestands. Those great long stands that lock into position are the best, even if they add a certain amount of weight.

Not necessarily the best way to look at it. By delaying, you are forgoing the amount you would receive in the meantime. The general concept is called the time value of money. Most calculations show that whenever you decide to start the breakeven is around 77 to 78 years old. By then you will have received the same amount in total no matter when you started. Therefore the bet becomes how much longer will you live beyond that age. This bet is of course a personal one due to certain variables, the most obvious being the health of the individual. A shorter life makes taking SS earlier the wiser move. It all comes down to "do you feel lucky? Well do you, punk?"

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In MINT condition! 1A stampers too. A thrift store find in the 1980s - the vinyl was sealed in the inner “baggie” when I bought it for $1. best score EVER!

I had a 403(b) at my last job.I pulled it out and spent it... (yes, foolish...). I have a 401(k) at present job, and the company matches up to a certain percentage. Can't remember off the top of my head. Already getting full amount of SS, which would actually allow wife and I to retire in the Philippines and live comfortably with no other income. We will have more, but it isn't clear just how much yet. I just turned 72, still work full time. Don't mind working, I'm in IT, but not highly paid, never have been. Hard to really know how long you will live... I'm healthy, but that could change course in a hearbeat.

Consider yourselves "liked." Sooooo, ya did a thing w/o me? hahaha Handled it quite nicely too I might add! A one hit wonder sold 5 mil copies from a bunch of guys from about 8 miles away. I knew them all quite well and survived kinda. 😂Jamie Lyons on vocals was a great guy and things just clicked well for them when the song broke. Jamie was Ohio's answer to Mick when he walked out on stage. Just did things his way instead of the Stones way. '67 WAS the summer of love! Then later THIS happened when they liked it so much they decided to cover it. It also meshed perfectly with their sound and Tom Petty liked it so well he started covering it too while touring. EVERY kid in this area knew that thump, thump, thump of that bass line. hahaha When it was played the dance floor was instantly packed. BOOM! Just another day...

Someone with a confusingly similar name to yours has already sent exactly the same text three times in different threads. This person has already received an excellently prepared and elaborated answer from Chris A. Perhaps it would help you if you would look there once.

This thread is extremely interesting. Thank you @Langston for sharing your thoughts and experiments. With the assistance of Bob Crites and Dennis, aka djk, I incorporated 3636 autotransformers into La Scalas (with the djk bass mod) used in a high school band practice room, KP 201s used in a middle school band practice room, and several iterations of “Super” Heresys for home use. The ability to adjust the squawker outputs in 1db increments made fine tuning the speakers for the vastly different spaces relatively easy. As an aside, this post makes me feel old when “the late” could refer to Bob, Dennis, and PWK.

Prevalence-induced concept change, or the blue dot effect? Talking heads sensationalizing micro things or some things that don't even exist.

You remember quality and performance long after you forget the price. Keep in mind that Klipsch speakers last a long time, and hold their value, so if at some point in the future you decide to sell or trade your speakers, you shouldn't take too much of a hit, especially if you keep them for several years. The other part of an investment is the question "How long will they last?" My oldest speakers are a pair of 1974 La Scalas. In 1974, they sold for $1050 USD. In 2006, when they were 32 years old, I happily paid $1200 CAD for them. A few months after I got them, I replaced the tweeters and the capacitors in the crossovers. Total cost was around $300 CAD. They're now 47 years old, they're speaking clearly right now, and they'll likely go in my will, to be passed on in the family. Next question? Are you spending enough? Well, if they're easy to pay for, maybe you should be looking at the next model up, lol. Whichever speaker you choose, welcome to the Forum, and happy listening!

Count your blessings on that, just ask a Texas teacher (they invested in Enron, still trying to get caught up). A 401K has been a win/win, private pension. Have to start young, be disciplined, don't touch it, roll over if job changes, etc. If no 401K it's tough. What's retirement age for social security age these days? 62.early, 65 for full benefits? Or did they bump it up? What's the max benefit under social security?

You are in a.collective bargaining state, so you should get one at next contract at least. If you are in one of those uber rich districts it won't it will be less of a dent. Teachers, especially STEM and English teachers should be among the highest paid public employees in my opinion.

Oh.. I have a fancy pool. Mine is in the shape of a tug boat. ............ it is a boat in reverse... it is built to hold water.

Finely-veneered cabinets with the mitered corners were assembled, FOR THE BASIC BOX using urea-formaldehyde glue, spmetimes called "brown glue"to secure the miter-joints It is a water-soluble powder that has to be mixed together carefully so that it is not too thin or too thick....since the finely-veneered miter joint cabinets used panels made of poplar lumber-core plywood, that meant you were bonding the end-grain of the poplar lumber core together at those miter-joints, and the "brown glue" was best for that. All other parts of the construction glues used were the "white glues, which was pretty-much the equivalent to tight-bond.. The K-horn bass bins had parts of it assembled using the brown glue, while other parts were assembled using the white glue. If there was ever any hide glue used, I am not aware of it...because from the very beginning of the company, urea-formaldehyde "brown-glue" was a furniture industry standard....especially in assembiy of poplar-lumber-core-plywood panels. EPA pretty much killed off the use of urea-formaldehyde glues for the most part, about the same time as Klipsch went over to using finely-veneered MDF panels for pretty much everything, except the basic K-horn Bass bin structure. One of the problems in furniture mass-production is dealing with glue squeeze-outs...especially when it involves the possibility of those squeeze-outs getting into the grain of the fine veneers at miter joints. Because then you have created yet ANOTHER problem AT those miter joints...how to get rid of any squeeze-out which occurred during the assembly of those miter joints, so that there is no "adhesive shadow" remining in the deeper part of the fine veneer grain right at those joints. Using Urea-formaldehyde glue for those miter joints severely reduces the possibility of stains and final finishes displayng an adhesive shadow at those joints. This is one of the reasons that hte "white glues" were not used for assembly at the miter-joints themselves, although the "white glues" WERE used for the reinforcing glue blocks on the inside of those joints...because the inside edges of the front of the boxes were shot with flat black paint, which kept any "white glue" shadow from being noticeable. There was a specific technique used for the application of the "brown glue" to the miters of the panels to minimize the squeeze-out to a bare minimum at the "toe" of the joint, so that there was no possibility of the brown glue getting into the fine veneer deep grain when assembling the cabinet. We used flattened-out soup spoons that had been carefully ground down at the edges to apply that brown glue...to the panels at the miter cuts....with the "toe" edge facing down flat, slightly over the edge of the work bench, then we skimmed off the glue from the sharp edge of the toe, about 1/16th of an inch along that edge...if done correctly. That way there was enough squeeze-out to re-surface that with the glue from above that point, but WITHOUT having any squeeze-out at all at the miter-toe, itself! Sometimes visitors would stand and watch us do that, and I would just say to them..."if you think THIS IS COOL, then you outta see me ice a cake!"😁

Hate being barefoot on asphalt or concrete when it's been that hot for a few hours. Don't do that too much since I got snakebit that time. We did get 90s again but it was nice because of the low humidity. Not a cloud up there, but there's a low in the gulf coming up soon that will rain on us. Good thing I got the grass cut and then almost got my two storage bins filled completely with the help of a neighbor. Got room left for that fridge I love, buyer 2 did try to wrest it from me but no. I'll only give it up if I cannot get it in the new place which I seriously doubt!

I'm gonna enjoy 100` ......... when it cools to that. These 100 and teen days are getting old, fast. Came in from the doghouse and grabbed the doorknob. It was.... not hot, but quite warm. -------------------------------------------- wearing a big hat in a crowd situation is rude, yes.

Man, wearing a sombrero in the front row? Or in any row other than the absolute last row? That’s just rude.

Hey Chris sorry about that I could’ve at least said good morning before I started complaining about not having a price listed, that certainly wasn’t the best way to welcome somebody new to the forum…you’re good, you seem like a standup guy appreciate the updated information…

could be --

Thanks! Chris

News organizations - cable or network. When there is little or no content then let’s be creative, let’s cause a stir whether there is anything to be stirred or not. It’s all about viewers, hits = $$$.

A very good list, Bubo. I would just like to add if there are light dimmers installed in the house.

No problem, maybe I’m just being nitpicky I just like to see a price when I’m looking…. Either way good luck with your sale Yashi…!

I always thought the Electro Harmonix 12AX7 were pretty good for production tubes and the money. Nice balance. These are what I bought the most of. I have used the Gold Lions as well and thought they sound good too. Tung Sol had high gain but sounded pretty good too. Edit: Well you asked about new production tubes. But if you want some real magic get the curve tracer matched Telefunken smooth plates from Brent Jessie. I have those in both of my McIntosh preamps and they were the final tube changes for me for those units.

Im looking for a klipssch tweeter RB II 62 if you can help my email my name is Roland sergeant email sergeantrul@gmail.com

Oh sorry, I re-read it myself and it wasn't my most understandable post. Also, I was too pedantic in the post. Then I'll try to put it this way. We can look at two different phases. Phase 1 concerns wishes and dreams before! a purchase happens. Questions arise like „What miraculous stories tempt someone to spend a lot of money on magic remedies“, or also „Which conscious and unconscious desire is effective here?“ I meant to say in the last post that this was my focus. But phase 2 below is just as important. Phase 2. Some change has happened to the hi-fi system. Can you hear it? Does it sound better if you made the change yourself? So much for clarifying my last post. A new thought: Of course, it is a very wide and dynamic field on which we move in the hifi category. That's a main reason why this hobby is so exciting and lively. It is also a very subjective judgment what seems "reasonable" to each individual, and what someone judges as "unreasonable" or even fraud. For example, I would consider the miracle drops mentioned at the beginning of the thread to be fraud at their pricing. I would likewise consider the change from a cheap amp to a great super amp to be "reasonable" and effective. But some outsiders who are not interested in the hobby would not accept the additional expense for the super amp in the same way as I can not accept the miracle drops. This outsider might even think that if I buy the super amp that I might be cheated or that I am cheating myself. Sometimes such outsiders mean it really well with us hifi enthusiasts. They save us from "big stupidities" in their view and call themselves wife😎

First everyone hears differently so there is no one size fits all. This is from my own personal experience. Years ago I built all the published schematics I could find for the LaScala speakers along with some designs of my own. We are talking 30 or more with many hours listening to each one. No extreme measurements as Langston has done which is an enjoyable endeavor I have done with other electronic equipment charting measurements. To me ditching the autotransformer made for better sound with my equipment and room. I contributed to better sound of not using iron for attenuation as being the phase shift. There was one LaScala crossover, cannot remember the exact one, that the engineers at Klipsch could not decide if reversing the leads at the crossover was the correct thing to do. The were sent out one way and a few years later it was determined the leads should be reversed to compensate for the phase shift. After doing all that work I decided to just build an AA network with the autotransformer using decent parts to leave in my LaScala's. Good enough is the way I figured it and when they are passed down my sons will not have trouble selling them being stock. L-pad discrete resistor attenuation or autotransformer? The fact is a resistor is the less offensive electronic component. PS: I do not listen myself with the stock LaScala network, mid horn or tweeter. What I have made sits on top of my speakers only using the bass bin of the LaScala. Easily switchable to stock for selling at a later date. That is if one of my sons do not keep them. The crossover network does not include an autotransformer.

Third measurement group: Transfer function analysis. (Addendum) We found out from my previous post's Max Output plot that both the 3636 and T2A have attenuation settings (taps) that shouldn't be there. The 3636's -9dB (5.4W) and -12dB (2.7W) taps are unusable due to the very low output available before clipping (saturation). The T2A's -12dB tap shares the same 2.7W clipping threshold. If I didn't err in my measurements, the 3636 is unusable from -9dB to -12dB and the T2A is unusable at -12dB. Because I'm so interested in using the 3636 in my passive crossover designs I went back and performed all the measurements again, and this time I measured each 1dB step of the 3636. Turns out my prior measurements were correct, but I want to spill the beans on what I learned. Somebody (Universal Transformer or the Crites or both) should have warned us about the 3636 limitation. I suppose it's very rare for anyone to use those things at greater than 8dB attenuation, but the additional taps really shouldn't be there. First, the good news. Each gain step is dead-on. The thick traces from 100Hz to 10kHz are the Max Output measurements. They overlap the low level, wideband measurements because the 3636 (and T2A) attenuations are constant regardless of drive level (within their linear regions). Next is the Max Output (watts into 10Ω) plot at each of the 12 attenuation steps. Finally, I made a cheat sheet for the 3636 that should be helpful. Red is bad. There's a download link for a PDF version below the picture. 3636 Autotransformer.pdf God bless you and your precious family - Langston

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Whether it's a lens, phase plug, or something with a Dr. Suess name, I'm confident that Roy made the correct design decisions about it and that the new Jubilee will sound phenomenal.

Well, putting it that way, and looking down the barrel of a 44 Mag, no, I don’t feel so lucky now -

You may be correct as this is all I have found which states the addition of the ferrofluid. Tangent 1000 series.pdf (d2um2qdswy1tb0.cloudfront.net)

Second measurement group: The autotransformer's impedance effect. With passive crossovers and horns, significant mid/high frequency attenuation relative to the low frequency passband is required. My taste at present for the Klipschorn is about 7dB less mid/high output after equalizing for room acoustics under 200Hz or so. Before playing bop-a-mole with the room modes, I needed a 10-11dB mid/high reduction for balance but the bass quality remained unacceptable, of course. The two huge benefits of the AX over resistive pads are the ability to change mid/high attenuation without screwing up crossover response (when used with a swamping resistor), and immunity from voice coil temperature changes. Both benefits result from the AX's presentation of a constant impedance to the passive crossover network. This also allows simpler crossover design (imagine building a network for an 8Ω resistor) and the ability to use any genre of amplifier without tonal changes. Downsides? Phase? Group delay? Inductance? Distortion? Frequency response? That's coming up in the third measurement group. Very helpful post by @henry4841 on the AX background, thank you. I am a newbie at home audio and it's turning out to be as hard to get right as professional audio - maybe harder. I thought it might be boring at first and so far it's kicking my butt. Thanks also to @mboxler for the series capacitor idea - will do, but given that I'd lose most of the impedance compensation benefits without a swamping resistor, it too will be part of the setup. Without the swamping resistor the AX doesn't interest me. The first of several iterations to my '74 Klipschorn top hats used a Crites sourced DE120 high frequency driver with their horn and A-55-G mid frequency driver for the existing K-400 horn. The latter was a big improvement across the board, but the little horn provided with the DE120 resulted in a rough rolloff right around the crossover frequency, thus I got Dave Harris's (Fastlane Audio) drop-in wood Tractrix horn and the DE120 became nearly flat down to 1kHz with a rolloff that looked just like the B&C literature. Brilliant. The following impedance measurements use these two driver/horn combinations without any passive components other than the 3636 AX and a 10Ω swamping resistor across its input. Raw measurements of the DE120/Fastlane Tractrix and A-55-G/K-400: The A-55-G/K-400 adding the 3636 at -3dB and -5dB attenuations: The same, but this time with the magic swamping resistor: Finally, the DE120/Fastlane Tractrix and 3636 at -3dB with and without swamping resistor: God bless you and your precious family - Langston

You will certainly not regret it. It is indeed an step up if you think that it isn't you are only fooling yourself. I run a 9.2 all Heritage HT and the level of dynamics and detail are astounding it can run at insane levels without a hint of distortion and on the flip side at low levels with similar detail. The same goes for music as well.

Priced a little high. Good luck with your sale!!! LOL Nice offer.

Got it all wired up ---you point to point wiring tube guys would be proud but......... So far it is an EPIC fail Appears I have built a fusing blowing oscillator. Not giving up just yet...it will take all the circuit engineering skills I have to figure this out. If it takes more than I possess then I will give and change it back. So I have never used the light bulb as current limiter on the input power before. Do I just wire it in series with the AC hot?

sound boxes are not like speakers? Brass Instruments are not like expanding horns?

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