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in my previous life as a potter, Small coffee mug. c.1994

A decade later sketch in ballpoint pen of the same cat.

I forgot this was one area that I used power tools on this one. I marked my sight lines and then taped my old Stanley bevel gauge on the line with a piece of scrap taped on to extend the blade. Using a long drill bit it’s not too hard to keep the shaft of the bit parallel with the bevel gauge. After the holes are drilled all the way through I go back with a tapered reamer which is a bit trickier to keep lined up. The round tapered mortise creates a joint that gets tighter the more weight you put on it. The joints are then back wedged from the top. Everything gets a coat of glue before being hammered in place. Once dry the wedges and protruding tops of the legs are trimmed flush. I know I’ve got a good glue joint when the plane shavings hold together across the joint.

@Invidiosulus That is beautiful work - full marks to you 👍 Sadly a lot of that knowledge base is being lost

Several years ago I built a small Japanese style tool chest for my older daughter. She wanted to finish it with some Pennsylvania Dutch style painting so I helped her pick out some patterns and let her have at it.

Dovetailed box in Red Oak. c.2019

As Mr K was for pushing the state of the art, all he needed was more data…..

Nice to finally have my MC30's back in shape and in the mix with the LS's. Obviously the MC240 is a wonderful amp with these, but it now resides in my second system with Cornwall's. The 30's are amazing amps for vocals especially, and the combination with the mids of the LS's can be haunting in the best way.

Nice work and inspiration for your young ones @Invidiosulus !

That's so very true today. It's always refreshing when you can share something and it becomes a forever memory for your kids. It's also a great thread, causing all of us to share a bit of what's important in our lives. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it's always nice looking at everyone else's "art." Art comes in many forms and it's nice to see everyone sharing it. Nice photo story @Invidiosulus! Enjoyed it. The pic w/her holding her finished work is the icing on the cake. Winner, winner Chicken dinner! Thanks brother!

Eight legged bench in Hickory and Southern Yellow Pine. c.2019 Handtool work throughout.

Sedia 1. designed by Italian designer Enzo Mari. Built by me c.2017

Michael Godard He painted a series of other famous artists work This is one of them

I'm going to be getting a pair of REL T9/x subs this summer to pair with Cornwall IVs. I just recently started using my home theater Klispch (R-12SW) subs in my 2-channel system. They're crossed over at 40hz, so they just pick up where the Cornwalls fall off. Just adding a little extra grunt down low, so it still maintains the speedy textured bass of the Cornwalls. Took me a few days to dial them in perfect but even these cheap Best Buy Klipsch subs have added something to my 2-channel listening experience. Makes me excited for a pair of RELs. I think most people suck at integrating subs into their system...Their first mistake is high passing their mains at 80-120hz...Sorry but I'm not about to neuter my $6500 full range speakers below 80hz. And you shouldn't either! The Cornwall IVs have fantastic, fast and textured bass, they just don't dig very deep. So run them full range and cross the subs over where the speakers start lacking.

Experiment! These suggestions aren’t cast in stone, they’re starting points or guidelines to get you in the ballpark, then you tweak to taste, to make your speakers in your room give your ears what sounds most realistic and pleasant to them. Keep in mind that sometimes one or the other may call for slightly different settings, so that may call for some compromise. While our speakers and electronics and so on can have their performance precisely measured, so it’s hard science, our ears are soft and in some cases a bit floppy, and our squishy brains are all individual, so one sound or one flavour won’t please everyone. It can’t. So, experiment. Maybe get yourself a sound level meter, also called an SPL meter, a test CD or DVD, and maybe a frequency response app for your phone. I’ve got a free one called Advanced Spectrum Analyzer, or something like that. It’s informative, in that you can see what frequency ranges are actually used in various kinds of music. Not much happens above 10 kHz, for example. The SPL meter and test disc are especially helpful for dialling in your subwoofer so it integrates properly with your speakers, in your room, and may even help in finding the best location for the sub. Get some paper and a ruler, or use a spreadsheet program. Do a run from 200 Hz down to 10 Hz or whatever your test disc goes down to. You don’t need to use high volume for this. 65-70 dB is loud enough, unless you want to integrate the sounds of rattling windows into the overall sounds. When I first got my 400-watt sub and was trying it in various locations in the living room, I accidentally found a spot under the picture window that would let the sub cause the windowpane to THRUM!!! really loudly, loudly enough to give me an instant headache. The location seemed like it should work, since it faced a long corridor, so there should be enough room for those 40-foot-long 20 Hz sound waves, right? Maybe, but that noise was too much, so the sub got shifted out of there right away. I still don’t know how headphones can produce very deep bass notes, when there isn’t any room for those long waves. I’ll do a Google dive one day and find out. That’s it for right now. I’ve gotta get myself shifted right now.

Sirba tests good. Will know more when the proper fuse and resistor arrive tomorrow.

If the La Scalas don't produce enough bass for you it's likely because they are, well......La Scalas. They're great speakers but a bit rolled off while still in the musical frequency range. Your room is not that different from mine and my CW III's sound terrific. I suggest keeping your speakers in your great room! ..It's better to have that awesome system located where its heard and shared by all in the house then to have it tucked away in some dedicated hifi room where you go into social isolation every time you enjoy your music. .I'll live with less than ideal hifi before I'd turn my music enjoyment into a solitary experience. ..But that's me. As for your Bryston gear. ..Keep it! It's beautifully made, will last a lifetime and has F/R, THD, channel separation, S/N ratio, etc.. that vastly exceeds the threshold of our hearing. Plus, a 20yr warranty. I had a 3BSST/BP25 power/pre combo for years and loved it. I only parted w/it because I wanted tone controls and a mono-switch. ..Pay no attention to claims that Bryston is "bright" sounding and therefore should be paired w/ warmish speakers. These notions are not rooted in science. I'm strongly suspect Paul W Klipsch would have said so himself. Bottomline: I'd recommend some room-treatments, a room-correction processor, and/or speakers w/ lower bass response.

It's all right. They still haven't met each other... My daughter-in-law however....

...I was expecting to see a picture of a Marshall JCM800 Curiosity got the better of me too.

Joe was my favorite raunchy guitarist for a good while, think it's Leslie West again now.

Long Ago?? Not hardly if you read the facts. It's Friday "Is everybody livin' it up so far?" Could be heard live during the same show:

So you prefer to run La Scalas as "small"? Okay. I don't think either way is the only way. Full range sounds best to me, in my room. If the other way works best for you, I won't put it down. Do you think I have no idea what I'm talking about, or were you thinking of someone else? I didn't slam the Scalas' FR, but it is what it is. Their extreme low end is limited, and you agree, or you wouldn't use any subs with yours. As for describing subs by their amplifier wattage alone, that's certainly not enough to fully describe them, but it was a simple way to differentiate between two subs of the same size, from the same company. At this point in the discussion, I thought a generic mention was the most appropriate. When a poster gets into model names, numbers, and all the other details before the discussion gets too "granular", as they say today, to me it can come off as bragging, or the ever-popular "my gear is the best gear" rants that sometimes occur. The recent discussion of cartridges descended into that, and I don't think that helped anyone.

Just means you're measuring the wrong thing, or you're correlating your experience to the wrong metrics. I truly believe it's that simple. Isn't this hobby all about discovering new musical experiences? And is it not helpful to correlate and find language to describe the things we experience?

I remember when you could walk in to Radio Shack and buy these.

Getting those angles all the same is not easy. JJK

It's the bridge rectifier. You can reference them online. The two middle pins connect to the a/c and the ends are marked for the positve and negative.

@Shiva had not ever heard that hauntingly beautiful Mazy Star, nice. & the Junkies do lots of good stuff! Good mixes @MyOwn bookmarked `em!

More like 80 Hz., since below 104 Hz. the LaScala is not a short horn but, gradually, as you go lower and lower, it's a direct radiator firing into a really tight "corner".

Yes? Of course! Got lucky and took a shot on this new outtakes LP of 90215. First time thru and just finished the second play. If you're shoppin I'd give it a double-thumbs up. It shows how and what Great groups do with their down time when they're out. Bored to death so ya improvise and add different things everywhere just for a good listen. Lots do it and the crowd talks about it after a great show. On this lp EVERY one had a shot. Trevor killed it, Jon, Chris, well they all did. It's different and great in a special way.

I've always used MoFi sleeves on my albums. Prolly spent as much on them as lp's. lol My old stuff still looks and sounds great so I don't really know what to say. Maybe just the other persons care of them prior too. Some use I'm and prolly just toss 'em on something. Who knows. Throw them into new ones! Money's not an object! lol Ugh.

Well sure a girlyman can easily lift a 165 watts ss amp, but it takes a manly man to lift 200 watts of tube power. Here's Andre the Giant congratulating me after I did such an incredible feat:

74 Pioneer SX-1010 76 Pioneer PLD12 72 K-Horns

Wow really? What does Klipsch rate the FR at? Seems to me a sub is a must with LS.

They're your speakers to do with what you want. I told my wife a couple decades ago that there wasn't any way that I could connect her karaoke machine to my Khorns.

Back in the day 70`s . My brother had a t-shirt that read Give me head until I`am dead, My mom asked what it meant . He said it was all about the beer Mom . Here`s to Head

Leon is good stuff.... https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=RW62LP9a5Yc&list=RDAMVMRW62LP9a5Yc https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=P8xjZwM9ZrA&list=RDAMVMP8xjZwM9ZrA

cowboy Junkies, Sweet Jane

@ClaudeJ1, just trying to learn ... If the La Scala starts to drop off at 104 Hz, why wouldn't one want to set the cross-over around there (100 Hz - 110 Hz) while running the La Scala "full out" (without a high pass filter)? Not knowing any better, it would seem to me that doing so would let the sub would fill in from where the LS weakens.

The roon interface is better and Plex doesn't support multi-device playback/control. Minor things to some, big deal to others (think: the couch experience)

😂 Glad it's keeping you warm. After paying for the gas because you conned me into bringing it to you, then, having me over a barrel, raking me across the coals on the price, my date and I were able to afford to share a breakfast sandwich. I will try to be there to buy it back, before next winter. My largest regret of that trip is not buying Matthew's Cherry Chorus.

Guess it kinda starts here. Kinda like my lil shrine in here. lol Left is a first silk screen run from the Hendrix show @ the Fillmore East. Small spot upper left corner is how I justified keeping it. Stuck under another one in the stack before it was completely dry Can't stick that in a window looking like that what would people say? I mean this guy was a drug addict right?? Pffft.. Under that is an old handwritten backstage pass that started it all. Stones stuff? I was being clever when Covid hit so came up w/something my kids would laff about (hopefully) some day. The single is from the Stones website as is the cloth mask. Mount it all and frame it? Yea, I'm outta the box. Colored vinyl was used on the disc to differentiate on/line & record store sales. Yellow on one and green on the other. We all know Mick and his marketing. Do your research cause I forget which one's which. lol Above the turntable is a shot I took of Fee Waybill of the Tubes on their "In Thru The Outdoor" tour. She was up on a stack of bins and at the end of their last song always jumped down into his arms. First place the eye sees is her rump the rest just kinda tells the story. Planned that above the table and couldn't find it but just did so that's done. It gives me motivation to get up and flip any album that's on the table. Just have to remember what I'm doing staring or flipping. 😂

Brought back to life. A Sherwood S-7300 with complete electrolytic capacitors changed along with the transistors on the amplifier boards. This one had multiple problems but it was too nice not to refurbish.

iI watched the original 16mm movie hundreds of times for details. One piece of walnut with glued on guns. The flag pole has a steel drill rod inserted. JJK

Grace Slick?

Joe Zupko, a friend and artist, sadly departed. These two works were done using crayons and small pieces of plywood he dug out of a construction dumpster. In his later works, that's mostly the way he painted. Edit. This would make more sense if I actually posted the picture of the paintings. Sorry.

Listened to the podcast yesterday. Just want to take a moment to praise Roy for representing all of us as dedicated Pilgrims rather than the ostentatious, pushy, greedy little audiophiles that we are, have always been, and always will be. I, for one, will give it my all to be the dedicated Pilgrim that Roy describes in this interview. Thanks Roy for making my obsession seem like a virtue, rather than a flaw! You make us proud!

My red PA5 arrived a couple of days ago and got it hooked up this morning. In my case I am using it in my time alligned Klipschorn with K402s two channel setup. The PA5 is running the K402s with a Crown driving the bass bins and an Ashly 3.6 SP active crossover. I have been using a Schiit Aegir with the K402s since I got them. After spending a bit of time getting the levels correct and letting the PA5 play for an hour or so I sat down and did some listening along with my violinist wife. I played a variety of recording including orchestral recordings, and then went back to Aegir and listened again. My wife and I usually pretty much agree when listening to stereo stuff but in this case we were in total agreement. The Aegir came off as less detailed but with a warmer more pleasing soft sound. The PA5 was incredibly detailed. I could really hear articulations in brass and winds and background sounds popped right out. At first listen the Aegir sounded more corrct in how orchestral instruments should sound but after going back and forth a few times I think we both agreed the Aegir was coloring the sound while the PA5 was more neutral. Both are great amps and present a nice holographic sound stage. Either amp would keep me happy for a long time but right now the tiny PA5 is going to remain in the system for a while. The picture below shows how tiny this thing is, dwarfed by the Ashly and less than 1/4 the size of a small Sony blu ray player. $350 shipped from China, an astonishing value IMO!

Price dropped to $700 and will still ship for free within the US.

I’ll be getting with Chad on Monday to set a 2019 Pilgrimage Section with subsections. For now we will use this thread. Patience grasshoppers!!!