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Hello Is the concept of a custom horn, following the flare of a K400 but curved 90 degrees feasible? As in having the driver fire up, with the horn curving to forward. This could allow for a much shallower speaker. A Cornscala with the same depth as a Cornwall. Thanks

why do you wish to know that? I am sure the info is available somewhere.

Im gonna agree with THaddeussmith. My favorite lately is Stella Artois.. same price as canadian brewed beer up here. sometimes on sale at $15 a case of 12. Cant get much cheaper. anything less and its no worth calling beer

Great News that Dodger is still with us! I got my LaScalas from Winford back in spring 2003.. Visited him in Rochester to pick them up. He showed me all his gear of course... Not sure if he would be happy to hear that I still have not used them much. They are in the yet unfinished basement home theatre room. Well. someday soon.

Lindt is pretty good yes.. we have it quite often.. get it at most grocerie stores up here in and around montreal. they also make these lil trufle balls called Lindor.. to die for. milk chocolate,,, white and dark. BUT. for a great treat try some belgian chocolates. there may be a store near you http://www.leonidas.com/pralines?id=HOMEEN&cid=230

if your receiver has tape outs. .you can use those as inputs to the integrated amp.

how did you measure the dut (driver I presume)? thanks Edmond

duh. you buy PRINTED mailing lists? like this is 2009. They got printed from a computer database. why dont you ask for them in electronic form? like CSV comma separated values?

what you got was a load of crap from a bunch of propeller heads. I can see their beenie hats right now. All WRONG. *Z* is the last letter of the alphabet. It is used to denote the *ACME* *LATEST AND BEST* Product made. Be it Cars, Audio gear, Computers ... Add a Z to the end and it becomes your flagship product.

The point is that *fair market value* for anything on this planet depends on time and location: how badly do people want it.. If I wreck my 5 year old car, the fair market value will be based on what other 5 year old same cars are selling for near me at that time... Ever buy an airline ticket? Fair market value for a plane seat is very much based on how badly you want it, how soon you need to fly .. and how badly the airline needs to sell that empty seat. Sitting beside each other on a plane could be someone who paid $200 2 weeks ago and someone who paid $1000 last nite. Or housing market.. 6 months ago the fair market value of your house may be $400K.... but today it maybe $350K or less. I just dont understand why you have gotten so upset by my saying this.

what is the fair market value of something? It is simply the price that the buyer and seller agree on at that time and place.Abviously neither $5000 nor $2200 is the market value because you did not make a deal! Maybe in 6 months when you still have not sold it, and unemployment is at 10%.. $2200 will become the fair market price!.. Maybe someone republishes a great review on the product next week and 3 people will call and one of them wants it bad and offers you $5500! No need to get emotional about it!!! It is called supply and demand and is the basis for our capitalist sytem!!

larger voice coils have more surface area to dissipate heat for given number of turns and ohms.

www.audioholics.com has a great test on hdmi cables. I purchased for 6ft cables from BlueJeans cables for bout $17 each. And for the other person that commented about digital vs analog. .believe me sending digital video signal over HDMI is much more difficult technologically than sending audio over RCA or video over coax. You listen to too much snake oil!!

winisd pro has provision for adding VC temperature and you can easily see the effect on low freqeuncy. Higher temperature tends to want a bigger box! This links to an interesting article showing VC temps up to 250C and Q changing by a factor of 2. http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ast/21/2/57/_pdf

The Heresies cross over the woofer at what , bout 700Hz? that is alot of content and not just subwoofer territory. You definitely do NOT want to down fire them. As for porting, you may be able to get another 10Hz out of the woofer with a port, but the box will be bigger, and you will probably get a bit of a midbass hump and worse transients.. So for a center. keep the sealed setup. An alternative is to use 2 10 inch woofers. to lower the profile.

hmm at low volumes it should not be a problem as the output transistors in their off state are high impedance. at high volumes there will be leakage thru the off transistors.. I could simulate this setup to get an estimate. but.... ....if by any chance you turn both on at the same time by mistake you risk destroying the output transistors of both amps.. . get a double pole double throw switch!! much safer!! I would never ever do this.

Point of entry protection has pro's and con's. Most manufactures of these advocate using both a point of entry and local protection on each device. There are surges created in the home that could exist on the same circut as your equipment. If your equipment is in the middle of the line, the surge source on one end, and the whole house protection on the other end...the surge has to pass your gear to get to the whole house protection device. Pro's and con's. Good for point of entry protection from outside surges. You still need a local surge protector. The point of entry devices are actually helping your neighbors on your dime since your clamping surges for them as well. Mouse sells a 60mm MOV that was the largest I found. I'm using 4 of them at my main as a point of entry device. These things wear out as they absorb jolts so the larger the MOV, the longer they will likely last. Some of the after market devices have very small MOV's that will not last long at all. I blow the small ones all the time when using power tools. There's a new player in town that users capacitors in stean of MOV's. The capacitor approach is an off shoot of the power factor correction scheme used by many comercial sites. Not sure what you mean by surge in the middle of the line. I have run 2 separate 12 gauge wire just for the HT room on 2 separate breakers. One I plan to use for the main HT receiver and amps and the other for other source gear etc. I do have lots of shop power tools but I dont listen to my lascalas while cutting wood!!! My understanding is that the surges are comming from outside the house and the whole house will protect from those as well as any surges taht may come from, say the washing mashine and heat pump. Anyway. HT room still just 2x4 so I have some time to research more!

what about whole house protectors that connect directly to the panel such as http://www.squared.com/us/products/surge_protection.nsf/unid/DFD1DBCD6854AFA685256A78006DD636/$file/surgebreakerplusTech.htm under $200 available at HomeDepot

well they were a good deal.. I wanted to bid but then got distracted and missed it. was going to use em for a pair of surrounds combined with a pair of bipole tweets. But they are woofers for a vented system, not sure what they would do in a smaller sealed cabinet. Would be designin blind without TS parms.

I am also a car audio nut and I agree with the posts. First of all car subs (in the normal under 1 cuft box) cutoff at about 50 hz and rely on cabin gain in the car to extend low frequencies. They will NOT be able to reproduce the lows in HT. Plus having to get a good inverter (you do NOT want to have an acid filled battery in your living room.... trust me).. etc etc.. buy a cheap HT reciver or HTIB and you will be much happier and will be up and running fast.

Any one have a clue what the impedance of these are? They are from a tangent 30 or 40 speaker which has 2 of the woofers and is nominally 8 ohms. Would they by 4 ohm drivers in series or 16 ohm drivers in parallel? http://cgi.ebay.ca/TWO-ORIGINAL-KLIPSCH-WOOFER-K-6-K-K6K-8-20-32cm_W0QQitemZ200144978133QQihZ010QQcategoryZ14993QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Any help would be appreciated thanks

Have you tried contacting Kicker directly by phone or email?

mas Well said. The consume is King and as long as we continue to want the cheapest crap China is more than happy to make it for us. If you have young kids how often do you complain about all the junk toys in the McHappy Meals that use up the world's resources and end up burried in a garbage pile.. but we continue to buy them to make our kids happy... WE have the power to change our buying habits.

You can use the same rubber surround kits as used to repair woofers. Relatively easy to do for anyone handy. You can find many places to buy them including ebay.. Just Google "speaker repair" or "rubber surround repair" etc.

The PR on the Forte is in the rear... no one sees it? why fix it? It is cosmetic only.