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Fleetwood Mac - Bare Trees.

Early Pink Floyd. So far this one´s borderline for me, psychedelic is not my forte...

A little bird flew into the house, here, looking longingly to the outside. I had to help tweety get back out there.

Some recent signs of Spring

Nope, we're not kidding. There's a ton of vintage caps and tubes laying around in old stockpiles over there which were built with real "effort", many from prior to the "fall of the wall": Say what you might about what they could and could not do, but those caps were some of the most bullet proof stuff you'll ever see for these purposes, these caps are sealed and "built to the hilt" in a lot of ways. They also impart a sonic signature that many horn enthusiasts really appreciate. I've fiddled with a number of these caps and know well why people like them. I've come to develop more of an appreciation and preference for modern Teflons and polypropylenes but that's my way of "riding the audio wave" and not necessarily a requirement or anything.

On to side 2 Madeleine Peyroux - Careless Love

Hello, Looking for opinions on the correct Catsover frequency for this driver. It's a 2016 American Shorthair with no serial numbers. I am getting intermittent hissing while listening to Aja. Happy Monday

The most expansive record cleaner you´ve ever seen ...

If anyone's interested Roxy Music just dropped TWO half-speed mastered lp's. Don't walk RUN!

It'll never get off the ground...

@MicroMara IF you added another arm would they be twice as clean? Just trying to help you realize you need another arm or two... 😂

🤣 SOLD!! Too Funny. Actually, the records on the player are drink coasters. A gift from my wife for my recently finished music room. Cheers

Gonna sell my Micro immediately ..if you sell me your high tec TT

Had to bite an aspirin in half this morning, had forgotten to turn the dehumidifier back on from a couple days ago when it was 20% and 65 degrees outside. Sinus fix is a 500mg Bayer then a cup of light roasted beans I have now, they have a kick! Raining so much today you could wash your truck without a garden hose! So... I did the s's plus the haircut a little late this month. How in the heck can the back grow in jagged when I leave it straight with a comb and the Wahl every time? Didn't do this years ago, I must have a short circuit somewhere for that to happen

the Bird and the Glass , great picture

UNC has a 16 point lead in the game. Then somehow, some way, that shrinks to nothing. Kansas comes back and wins it with superior play throughout the second half. It was like two different games. Weird how it worked out.

I know he has deep pockets, but does he really have anything else to offer?

open the door and let some air in... prolly mentioned that it's spring here. The birds are back. Most noticeable are the vultures [how Arizona is that?]. They roost in the neighbors eucalyptus trees. At sundown, it looks like a winged tornado... 50 or 60 of the swirling around before they settle. Kinda eerie.... ... and the thought of the "Patience my a$$. I'm gonna kill something" comes to mind.

Youtube link?

Madeleine Peyroux - Careless Love

Just this morning cranked out some random Windows Media player over the wash.

Great , if the open case by the AG was not decided in the favor of Stereo Rehab , your best bet remains a Police report against this Ebay seller , which can be substantiated by the AG case number . The Police can track the current Ebay seller and seize the unit for the Rightful owner which is You , to get restitution .

Can't be. He said he had never been here before.

Yes, Bad:

Neil had the ability to write songs too, which is extra cool.

It’s everyone’s place, and you are very welcome here I enjoyed reading the posts First price recollection for me was $6.99 AU for new releases

I mean for the fun of it

Yes, many drum beats from '59 - '62 for sure. I have flipped.... 🍷

My vibe shot of the music room as side two spins...

punch bug!

Good Sunday evening everyone. So glad I'm able to spin a record or two tonight. I really like these Reference Recording LP's. Particularly when Professor Johnson is the recording engineer. Exotic Dances from the Opera Eiji Oue conducting the Minnesota Orchestra

No Affiliation: https://tampa.craigslist.org/pnl/ele/d/saint-petersburg-quality-hi-fi-system/7467283501.html

I see @Tom05 is using my joke book.

Can you post a screen shot of your signal path? How many dots do you have? What are you using between Roon and DAC, not that it matters but curious. Lot's of people swear that Roon Advanced Audio Transport (RAAT) sounds best. I've never had anything except RAAT on my "real" system so can't weigh in on how the bridge/streamer might impact things if it is not RAAT. All my non-RAAT stuff is spread out the house in non-critical areas. That said nothing in my other 5-6 locations actually sounds bad. What are you hearing that you don't like? Agree with @Thaddeus Smith if you don't want conversions you need a DAC that supports your chosen format natively. I've got a Denafrips Venus II, Gaia and Terminator + I'm "thinking" about selling. I have to get rid of one, just not sure which. PM me if you are interested in some back and forth dialogue. This is what one of my DSD/DSF files looks like. 3 dots is the least you can have....I believe.

I'll leave that "short circuit" comment go. I spend a lot of time backtracking... trying to remember why i got up and went to the other room. Fortunately, I still remember, when I need the bathroom...

Well...one thing we know. He can get rockets built and his cars have stereos. He also understands the future better than a large segment of the population, imo. Speakers are no longer rocket science though. Now it's just implementation ,imo. Maybe when the GREAT P.W. Klipsch started out it was almost the equivalent of rocket science.

@rockhound good idea when I get back home in a few days I’ll try to make a video on YouTube. By the way big fan of your rigs

Interesting. No affiliation. https://nashville.craigslist.org/ele/d/hendersonville-klispch-heresy-pair-black/7463242117.html

@ka7niq See Chris A's articles on this, here on the community forum, specifically addressing absorption panels in rooms with corner horns. https://community.klipsch.com/index.php?/topic/131163-corner-horn-imaging-faq/ Here is an excerpt from Chris's posts; see my final 2 cents at the bottom of the page. "These early reflections should be controlled (i.e., a "Zero Reflection Zone" that one acoustic panel manufacturer uses) in order to achieve much greater imaging performance with speakers in corners of rooms (especially corner horns). What is the easiest way to control these reflections? Have a smooth boundary between the speakers (i.e., nothing between the speakers) and smooth front and side walls. If this is not possible for your room and setup, the next easiest fix is to employ absorption panels. Many companies make "fuzz" panels and tiles that can easily be placed along side walls and front walls of the your listening room. How much? It turns out (from the Haas Effect) that controlling the early reflections should be done for about 10-20 milliseconds of delayed reflections from side and front walls. This translates into about 11 to 22 feet (3.4-6.8 meters) of total path length at room temperature. One way to determine how much absorption you need about the midrange horn mouth area on the front and side walls is to draw a plan view of your room (i.e., looking down on the floor plan), and draw circles from your listening position in increments of 12, 14, 16, 18, and 20 feet (4.9, 5.5, 6.1 meters). Then draw circles of 2, 4, 6, 8, etc. feet (0.6, 1.2, 1.8, etc. meters) from your midrange horn mouth locations in-room. Where the circles intersect along the walls with total path length of less than 11-22 feet (3.4-6.8 meters), mark those areas with a highlighter, then go open a bottle of wine with your spouse. Wait until the wine takes effect, then start the negotiations on how much absorbent tiles/panels are acceptable (...hopefully, the answer isn't "zero"...). I use about 2 feet (0.6 meters) of absorption at the side-wall exit area of my corner-horn midrange horns: YMMV. Depending on your room geometry and listening position in relation to the corner horn placement (i.e., the included angle of the speakers relative to the listener--typically 90+ degrees included angle), the width of the midrange horn acoustic coverage laterally (~60-100 degrees included angle), and assuming that your corner horn midrange horn controls its polar response down to its lower crossover frequency*, the area that you should cover with absorption panels could be on the order of 2-10 feet along the front and side walls. I find that 2 feet of absorption along side walls works very well for Klipsch K-402 horns (i.e. Jubilee), and ~7 feet across the front wall, measured from the exit of each midrange horn's mouth. Another approach is to place diffuser panels along the same areas, but note that the use of diffusers in the "Hass effect areas" will likely not achieve the same level of corner-horn imaging as the use of absorbers. More on the reasons why later. If your listening position is more than 11 to 22 feet (3.4-6.8 meters) away, you probably have little work to do. If you are like me, and sit within 10 feet (3 meters) of your corner horns, you will find that the effect of using absorbent panels along the walls is spectacular in increasing your stereo imaging performance." I (Gary) like to scatter a few diffusers on more distant walls, but in the path of the speakers. Plain or fancy

Post subject: LIQUDATION SALE- NEW PRODUCTS - FACTORY WARRANTY From Jm Clark Stereo: Hello, I'm closing my store and taking a position with Bob Carver Company. Here are some 'new in box' items at great deals… https://www.usaudiomart.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2914 You need a dance card just to keep up with this group.

Sorry for being a smartass, just playing 😆! I think sometimes people write a well thought-out post on something they’re knowledgeable about, and then 2 weeks to two months later the same or similar topic gets started (which is fine, welcome to anyone new) and the responses get shorter and shorter until it just becomes “IV!” Somewhere in the past I’ve written a few paragraphs about the IVs vs my old ones and I did my best, and also a few paragraphs about the time I AB’d the new Cornwall IVs and the Forte IVs (Forte base more punchy/impactful, Cornwall more open/about the musical note). At least for me, after a few times of writing novellas, it’s like, ‘Hit the search button man!’ (Obviously my opinion on a topic isn’t super important, but sometimes, especially on the Cornwall IVs it seems, there’s a bunch of similar threads with 25 well thought-out posts and then, sure enough, the same thread gets started 6 weeks later).

Here is a price tag from one of the great audio and electronic supply stores in our area. I remember my dad taking me here. One side of the store sold raw speakers of all sizes, tubes, electronic parts and also a great repair service. The other half of the building had listening rooms. They were a BIG McIntosh dealer, had all kinds of listening rooms, huge record dept. also a TV dept. This was LONG before ANY Radio Shack's appeared on the screen. I remember being there when the Beatles had just arrived on the scene. There was this advertisement sign in the store with each of their cardboard heads rocking back and forth with those weird recip. battery powered motors. I over heard someone walking by and looked at the sign and said something like "You can have them!" HA HA. Anyway, here is the tag which is stuck on the rear cover....

Wonder if it's been cancelled

That was a heartbreaker for my Boilers. They played a bad game. But I’ll hand it to St Peter’s, their defense was excellent. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My 2 cents. The truth lies somewhere in the middle. I listen to a lot of life music without amplification, our youngest daughter, 21, has been playing the violin since she was 5. She has practiced at home for many years. She has a beautiful instrument and a well intonated sound in her fingers. Unlike most "hi-fi" speakers, the LaScala realizes much more characteristics of sound with greater authenticity when I record my daughter's playing. Most people who know violins only from recordings through hi-fi speakers with this soft sound are shocked when they hear how much expression and dynamics a violin has...how loud it can be and how much expressive harshness is possible as well as a nice warm melting tone. Most people only know the warm melting sound, but a violin can be very aggressive and expressive at the appropriate point in the piece of music, to the point of intended pain in the ear. The Lascala reproduces all these characteristics very originally. And yes, I have the original K77 Alnico, but also a Jubilee. Nevertheless, the point of the OP is also relevant for me. Violin or string quartet sounds just very wonderful round, coherent and with a lot of richness of colors of the wood with my Stirling Broadcast LS3/6 BBC type speakers. The sound gets an additional component that I would call spatial emotionality. The wood of the violin breathes and it is with a real quickness, hence the thin-wall philosophy, with bitumen panels inside, of the BBC from which Harbeth also is a later follow up company like SB, Graham Audio or Spendor just to name some of those who are existing still today. (BTW if one has only been used to listen to „conventional“ speakers, be prepared if you listen to BBC design which are not really „conventional“ in conception even if they look so. I also have a 1993 Tannoy Canterbury Alnico, so not a bad guy in the line up from Tannoy, but for strings the Stirling Broadcast is just in another league. I won't say that's because the Tannoy also has a tweeter horn, but in that respect it's closer to the Klipsch. I also have old Quad ESL 57 electrostats, they are wonderful for violin...but not for reproducing the vivid vibrations and timbres of the wood...they are better for the delicate reproduction of the violin's strings. Well, the SB LS3/6 has comparable dispersion characteristics to the Lascala, so that can't account for the difference. I believe as a personal guess it is related to what types of sound production of nature is reproduced by which loudspeaker principle. Voices and wind instruments, for example, are produced with the help of compression. Both sound shockingly good over Lascala or KHorn. A string is not a sound produced by compression. It has a generation component like the fingernail in classical guitar or the felt hammer in piano. Or even the bowing, which is sometimes part of the sound modulation as in the violin. And unique to the violin is the permanent sound excitation of the string compared to guitar or piano. Perhaps it is the case that an albeit good horn shifts the proportions of the components of the sound somewhat towards those of the sound production and at the same time somewhat underrepresents the component of the violin's resonating body. At least, its vivid richness of timbre to my ears is best realized in the BBC cabinet designs, which paradoxically are among the "deadest" cabinets because they dissipate unwanted vibrations the fastest due to the thin wall and bitumen panel technology.

String sound with Klipsch: It's hard to know what the variables are, so I'll just describe our set-up and the result. I played in 5 orchestras and ate lunch in front of one in rehearsal, often (average position, 10th row). Yes, I frequently stopped chewing to listen more carefully. Through our Klipschorns and Belle Klipsch center, with Audyssey Flat EQ, it seems to depend on the recording. Our models of these speakers are stock and use the K33E woofers, K55X mid drivers, K401 mid horns, and K77F Tweeters flush mounted on the baffle board. The room is treated; has wall to wall carpet, 5 seat couch, absorbers, diffusors , bookshelves and diffusing pottery and artifacts. About 30% of strings seem fine, the rest, less so. My Paganini collection is wonderful. Some Yo-Yo Ma is terrific, one collection is lacking in treble, of all things. Most other string recordings (40%?) are passable; always chrystal clear, highly detailed in a way, but, as you say, lacking in the wood sound, and a certain beauty in the rosin facilitated friction. (Note: virtually all brass and percussion are nearly perfect). About 30% are lacking: harsh, seem too closely mic'd. More often a problem on older CDs than on other media. Massed strings are now good, with room treatment and Audyssey. It took me decades to get this right, failing with ADC, EV, Ampex, JBL, and Klipsch speakers. A friend and I had seen Ben-Hur (1959) in 70mm six track magnetic sound at 22.5 ips. The Prelude, played before the curtains opened had what seemed to me to have a perfect massed string sound. I later found out the studio had EQ'd the Prelude for transmission through the curtains (even though this was a re-release -- those were the days!). I didn't know what to call the fricative sound of the many string players; my friend said, "I thought that was a scraping sound that only high school orchestras made." He had rarely heard a live orchestra up close, so I told him I had heard it many times, but, true, it was rarely captured on a recording. I played the Prelude at home (when it finally came out on Rhino-- the "soundtrack" Lp, which never called itself "soundtrack," but had the big stone letters, turned out to be a fake). So, I used the VHS, then the Rhino album, then the DVD, then the Blu-ray of the real soundtrack, and only recently reproduced the massed strings properly. Audyssey Flat may have made the difference, and other recordings of massed strings now sound good, as well.

hello, Westcoast..... I'm new here, never been on the forum before. I did some research and found it. I am also new to Ca. Moved here from Seattle.