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  1. LarryC
    Larry, what is your equipment? Looks very nice and well selected.
  2. LarryC
    I'm not sure what you mean, Jeff, but Red Notice wasn't just a premise, but rather a fact-based exposé of legal thuggery in today's Russia that it has expanded beyond its borders, as in the poisoning of presumed enemies of the Russian state extended internationally, e.g., into UK restaurants. It's useful to know that Russia almost literally papers courts around the world with Red Notices which other countries have learned to ignore -- a real degradation of what has been a very useful international law enforcement tool. I'm surprised Bill Browder is still alive.
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    Good time perhaps to remind folks that some LPs are DIGITAL which, at least in classical music, do not IMO have a natural musical sound. Having found this to be consistently true, I've been tossing DLPs whenever I find them. It's not always possible to identify them from the album cover and liner notes. To Wit: Today, I pulled out and listened to a beautiful German print album LP album of Bach's st Matthew Passion (orchestra, soloists and chorus). Part way thru, I began to recognize an unnatural violin and vocal sound, so I entered the album brand and number into Google -- and, sure enough, the listings came up with "CBS Masterworks Digital" from 1974, without a HINT of the dreaded D-word on the cover or in the liner notes! It's going in the trash, obviously, but it looks like some companies were beginning to realize by then that digital LPs were not a positive seller in their catalogs, This LP was "Columbia [] Masterworks 79403". Note they forgot the "Digital" You can find out a lot about classical recordings thru Google by just entering the record brand and album number + pressing Enter. Larry
  4. LarryC
    How do these differ in sound from the AK-4 or AK-5 K-horns of 2004? There seem to have been quite a few changes, some of them sounding very important! -- Larry
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    Save the old ones from any change you make, until you're absolutely sure. I wouldn't be too surprised if new ones gradually wear on you. The ear and brain always pick up on something different that you didn't hear before, so it sometimes seems like an "improvement," but I'd be cautious about making up your mind too quickly, and selling or tossing the old ones until you go back and forth a time or two as necessary. Try to focus on just what sounds better on new ones. Crites tweets can boost the highest overtones, which can raise the clarity of even the lowest notes. I didn't find that to be a natural or very musical effect, plus they didn't blend as well with the midranges or bass drivers. The phasing between the drivers seemed to be a little problematic, too. Things seemed to hang together better with the Klipsch-engineered drivers and crossovers. Good luck!
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    Vinyl players often will sound better and more musical than CD player -- but it depends on the quality of the CD player. One very helpful guru once told me that equivalent quality costs more in CD than in LP players, and I believe that's true. It took me a lot of juggling of components and accessories to get equal sound quality between my LP and my CD players. Solo strings, especially solo cello sound, were the toughest challenge, so I especially played string quartet and Bach solo cello sonata movements in trying different CDP components. It is NOT a matter of only adjusting treble controls! Just equalizing the amount of irritating graininess between the sources is a job in its own right, and that is not basically a treble issue. However, the job is far from impossible, and I think you have to find the "right stuff." I suggest trying a tube CD player if you have a chance. System synergy counts for a lot. DAC quality is very important. Get a really good DAC if you have a choice.
  7. LarryC
    I and three others will be going to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at Strathmore Music Center in Bethesda, MD, on Thursday October 18, to see an unusual program: -- Antonio Vivaldi Four Seasons -- Franz Schubert Rosamunde ballet -- Robert Schumann Konzertstück [Concert- Piece] for Four Horns and Orchestra This should be an interesting program. The Schumann may be unfamiliar to some of you. https://www.bsomusic.org/calendar/events/2018-2019-events/vivaldi-four-seasons/
  8. LarryC
    That old Shorthorn finished cabinet design was wonderful! One of the most attractive Klipsch designs ever, and a nice linear sound, too. Really too bad it was so inadequate in the bass. The one in the pic is beautiful and in such good condition!
  9. LarryC
    I don't know the Soylent Green piece, but The Lone Ranger probably refers to the Finale of the William Tell Overture, the only 4-movement overture in the literature that I know of (all 4 are great IMO). Probably the "On the Trail" movement of the Grand Canyon Suite Here'e an amusing but very vigorous "junior" performance of the WTO well worth watching just to make the point:
  10. LarryC
    Mysterious Mountain?
  11. LarryC
    Yale Law?
  12. LarryC
    The edges of the ersatz tops clearly are birch raw plywood. Not genuine originals, just unabashed pretenders.
  13. LarryC
    If they were BR (birch raw), then I don't see how they could have been factory original RO (or RL?). Is it just me, but aren't there a couple of things a little off? Yes, the veneer looks book-matched, but not as dramatic and remarkable a grain as I remember, and not quite as dramatically symmetrical as I recall seeing in other pics of the real thing. The other thing is, the proportions of the collar insert and adjoining panels just above and below look slightly wrong and non-original. The panels maybe a little too thick and the insert itself being very slightly too wide. Such things might be expected if someone tried to turn a BR into a type B and only came "pretty close."
  14. LarryC
    I don't know nuttin' about this subject, but intuitively say "don't do it"! Just turn off the amp(s), let cool a bit, do the switching, and only then turn things back on again. I reached up to turn off my tube (Joule Electra) preamp a few weeks ago, lunged at the switch as my balance faltered, apparently sent a rapid on-off current into just the pre, heard a "POP" thru the speakers, and spent the next 2 days looking for the right fuse size, and finding someone to climb up and find and replace the preamp fuse -- after I finally got a pic of where the effing fuse box was so I knew where to find it. And, this was just WITHIN a single tube unit, didn't even involve switching between more than one unit! I'm very leery of sending unexpected current surges into tube equipment. It takes too long to trouble-shoot some of these things. It ain't worth it.
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    Well, I'm not so sure about that. While many are obvious analog LPs from beginning to end of their manufacturing process, and the way they sound, that's not true of all of them. I'm most of the way through looking over and sample-listening to my hundreds or thousands of LP albums, and have found maybe 50 or 100 clearly labeled DIGITAL LPs. Those uniformly had a flat, grainy, lifeless, non-musical sound to the music. Probably the worst sound of any music medium! "Digital LP" is virtually a contradiction in terms. I threw all of those away. I also was suspicious of many1970's or 1980's LPs that had the same dubious qualities but weren't labeled digital. I threw all those away, too!
  16. LarryC
    Is something happening with this? Isn't VPI in Nj or some place in the NE? Larry
  17. LarryC
    Actually, the pic above from Meagain may have been originally from me (they've been refinished since) -- it looks very familiar! At that time, the remaining lacquer coat was quite thin, definitely not a thick glossy coat. Ive never seen a Klipsch oiled mahogany finish, but oiled walnut can look very dried out over time (remember, these were over 40 years old at the time, and over 50 yrs old now!). Since your pic looks so much like mine used to, I'm still tempted to think they were lacquered. I'd wager there's a difference in feel between oiled and lacquered.
  18. LarryC
    I'm not sure that means it was not lacquered -- a Klipsch historical expert is needed. The "5" looks added on in different writing, so it looks like "M-7" to me, which was one of the Klipsch mahogany finishes around then. I never saw an "M75" designation, so I don't think the "not lacquered" is necessarily correct. It looks lacquered to me in the pic, but I'm pretty sure someone could tell in closeup real life
  19. LarryC
    ""M75" Mahogany finish, NOT lacquered" Interesting! What does the tag say?
  20. LarryC
    You can ask Alexia when will the power come back on.
  21. LarryC
    Gas is still there if the power goes out.
  22. LarryC
    That figures. There were two levels of mahogany back around that time, dark and lighter (or medium?). One was M-7 and I think the other was M-2. My K-horns were very light (at the time), just called "ML." But, I've seen a VERY dark Model T shorthorn that was definitely a darker variety than my K's.
  23. LarryC
    Or mahogany lacquer? That's what ML stands for in my '62 K-horns.
  24. LarryC
    Truly original, right down to the vintage original grill cloth! How do they sound? Should be fabulous! Please don't part them out, but some may be interested in them just for the outstanding 15" woofer. I suggest you find out which it has - shine a flashlight through the slot in the back and see if it's an E-V 15WK, a totally outstanding driver all the way up to at least 1000 kHz. You'll easily be able to see the "15W", but may have to squint to see the "K" which in at least one case was only faintly stamped in following the fully-printed "15W".
  25. LarryC
    Nice choices, Sputnik
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