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The Combat Support Hospital I was assigned to in Ft. Carson was tasked to provide med support for the 1993 version and I got to lead the circus. Six five ton trucks, two treatment tents, two sleep tents, (we were there for the whole show, 24/7) fuel, chow, and med supplies. Had a great time, met the drivers, and ran a rotation for the troops to watch the qualifying from a perch near a hairpin. The organizers gave all the medics and support folks free passes for families. A very nice touch. We also treated a bunch of drunks, some oxygen starved folks from sea level, and one driver with a broken foot. And threw snowballs on the Fourth of July. Your tax dollars at work.

Although there is music in this, it's about a race. The Pikes Peak Hill Climb... on gravel and dirt. Ari Vatanen won and was undefeated for five years. The award-winning Climb Dance film, created by Jean Louis Mourey, captures Ari Vatanen's 1988 record-breaking run at the 1988 Pikes Peak Hill Climb Event, Colorado, in his Peugeot 405 T16 I posted this a long time ago, and it is still spectacular.

Never been to one, but they make the commercials look good. But then again the burger places make the burgers look like nothing I have ever had at any of them.

@dtel do yourself a favor and just drive on by. Checked my bank statement and it was 32$ then a 5$ tip? Quit it! lol Told John a McValue meal would have been better. lol Red Lobster is part of that corporation also sooo thinking that's gonna be drive by from now on too. Higher prices, portion control on everything naturally increase their bottom line numbers. Nils Lofgren said it best a few years ago. "The whole world has gone mad." Wait I just think I saw a UFO. I better call that in to help save the world! 😂 💪😂

I can imagine the low oxygen. Just being in Colorado Springs when I was there when my brother passed was a little heady. It was also very hot and my SIL told us to just take it easy.

I could go off on a rant ... but ...in my quest to avoid the news, I stumbled across "drift racing". What is the object? ...besides not hitting the other car and doing a burn out around a track.

As Henry David Thoreau said "That person is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest". With that in mind I have a thought myself. A/B comparisons with quick snippets of music is no way to judge an audio component. I offer this. Put the better DAC in the system and live with it for a night or two. Don't listen to well recorded "showcase" material. Listen to the music that moves you and you connect with the most. On the third night, put the streamer DAC back in and listen to the same music. This is much less stressful and will tell you which one moves you the most. If the more expensive piece is better, you will feel something is amiss and you long to put it back in. If you truly don't hear any appreciable difference at this point, live with the Cambridge streamer as your source and consider it money in the bank.

I see how that might happen. The key is to assemble the whole thing very carefully and use your best judgement in tightening the surrounding screws that hold the shelve together. Use wood glue if you wanna be extra precocious. I had them for years now and the shelves are packed with records. Not even a tiny amount of sagging or anything peculiar going on.

Back in the early '70s, I was touring with a brother/sister act. We visited a young guy who worked for a record producer in Chicago. He lived in an efficiency apt. about 20 floors up overlooking lake Michigan. The whole end of the apartment was glass, very cool view. The left wall, a good 15 ft long was filled with LPs, floor to ceiling. I am surprised the building didn collapse.

Few dog n pony shows under my belt that came down just like that. Ya shake your head and wonder if it's really good for recruiting and retention. 😂

The Pikes Peak Climb reaches a little over 14000 ft. It's certainly a test of cars and drivers

I just posted an old video on the voutube posts that could show you one version. Watch your heart rate, though.

The view across Lake Michigan from that height is really nice.

OK. Looks like I am going with the HIII upgrade! I just emailed Klipsch the required pictures of the speakers. $290 per side.

Great livin on the edge isn't it? 😂😂

Because it's alchemy. But your girlfriend assisting in the A/B testing-that's priceless.

Okay and the DJ is not unlike the other fellas around here. He's got some Southern Rock in his collection too: If you can't make it out on the cover... Each side is a one-take deal. Sax in Can't you hear me knocking sounds great here!

I'll take that invite bud! Like early Lou!

Spinning Sade´s " Lovers Rock " The Reggae Tune " Slave Song " is a real bass killer 😁

Thanks for posting that again @thebes. Thought I had it bookmarked but didn't. They'd work in a pinch. These piles are driving me insane. lolol Then I can buy more! 💪 😂

300B SET DIY..

All signed up! Sooo looking forward to this

Quite the offer Cory, now that's customer service.

Well.... neither really. As I think you now know, there is the top half that's missing in the picture. Be that as it may, these are more of a 'mid-bass' unit than subwoofer. Cool thing with them, once setup nicely, they can/will reach out and viscerally punch you in the chest BUT they won't shake the foundation of your home as they won't go that low. Here's an idea for you. If you can swing this to happen, it will walk all over the sound you'd get taking them back to stock with the top half sitting on them.

The first statement is correct but the second is just an opinion. Satisfactory capacitors can be had from several sources.

The numbers do not make a lot of sense. My guess would be an early Heresy with a 12" woofer.

#1237 shipped Feb. 12, 1958 to Better Listening Studio in St. Petersburgh. It was one of the first to use the T35 tweeter. It also had the Stephens 103LX2 woofer and a University SAHF squawker.

167 means the 167,498th Heresy built, minus 100 (the first serial number was 101).

As far as I can tell, the Rebel design began in 1949, and the product debuted in 1950. Only the Rebel 1 enclosure provided an actual horn behind the driver, with the 3 holes pictured forming the "back side throat". Paul quickly discovered that "porting" the enclosure with a slot at the back of a simple enclosure performed as well with a whole lot simpler construction.

I am not aware of any "authorization" or licensing of the Heresy to anyone. The Texas company referred to could have been Frazier. Paul and Jack Frazier communicated regularly, and both had respect for each other. The yellow button did not apply to this competitor! The Heresy did not (at least at that time, or maybe even now) contain patent-protected elements, so outright copying could have occurred. The trade-marked term Heresy would be another matter, as "trademarks are forever".

Paper logbooks only go back to the early 80's, so no definitive conclusions can be made. However, K&A had a thriving business with the military base PX's in Europe. And my understanding is that the pricing was favorable to the servicemen. I suspect the military's margins were low. Attached is a pic of PWK in Europe from the 80's.

Shipped 4/7/1980.

To be clear, there was not a "Stephens squawker horn". What I see pictured is not close to stock, other than the possible re-use of the top and bottom horn flares. The K-5 did go thru some modifications, significantly the early elimination of the "boats". There were also various throat adaptors available to accommodate different drivers, including the Stephens.

Admittedly this could be quite the project if maximum authenticity is desired. I believe I could supply a circuit design (2 or 3 component values). It would then require you to find vintage components and actually build the network. As for the horn, making one of these would truly be a retirement project. PWK's greatest manufacturing challenge was the process and equipment to make these horns. Patience should result in finding one online. If the driver adaptor does not fit the Stephens 108, I probably have one at home!

Early two-way crossovers are mostly a mystery. The logbooks make little, if any, mention of crossovers used. In the very early days, people would send in their own drivers to be utilized, including the WE555! Crossovers were likely custom-tailored in these situations. In Sept. 1951 PWK sent "upgrade parts" to Armstrong as pictured. The three-way 500-5000 series began at least as far back as 1953. The Type 1 started 1/1/64, and was quickly followed by the 1R (initially for -3dB tweeters, but became standard in 1965). The museum's collection has only one that appears to be a two-way (pictured). In the case of #193, I would get vintage components like pictured, and do a simple 6dB/octave centered at 500Hz. (I know people who can do this!)

I am available to discuss restoration at: jim@klipschmuseum.org!

Finally joining the conversation! My first guess would have been the Dope From Hope collection. However, the "size recollection" sure fits his pocket notebooks, of which there were many. The code mentioned above would have at least covered his bowel movements! Unfortunately the Museum did not end up with these. I am not aware of anything else that would fit the bill, but it never ceases to amaze me what surfaces in our largely unexplored archives. Hoping to get them accessible this summer, so I can resume exploration!

You have hit the jack pot! #193 was shipped Nov. 15, 1950 to Major Edwin H. Armstrong in NY, NY. Yes, the inventor of FM radio, and a friend of PWK's. It had the Stephens 108 HF driver and a Stephens P-15LL woofer. Congratulations!

John's recollection is the same as mine.

1766 & 1767 LF's shipped to Ideal Acoustics on 12/11/80. 1977 & 1978 HF's shipped to Ideal Acoustics on 3/3/81. No idea why the delay. Speculating, it could have been a driver "supply chain" issue! Also, no idea on "Sixth Series".

#2262 shipped to PMA Engineering on 4/16/80, along with the next 7 serial numbers.

The Rebel 7 was the last of the Rebel series that originally began about 1950. The earlier Rebels were all corner loaded. The 7 was still in the 1967 catalog. See pic.

The ultimate high noon, lol. Anslinger is well known as a root cause, but wait there's more. There was also a racist component which Huff Post decided not to include.