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Kathleen Edwards: 6 O'Clock News Cover on the corner and he loaded two rounds And I can't even cross the line to talk you down At Theatre Street, baby, where did you get that gun? You spend half your life on drugs and the other half drunk And I try to come clean but I guess it's no use. Face is all over the 6 o'clock news Big red streaks, then they close the schools I can't even get inside............ I forgot all about the John Prine one - good tune and Simon Garfunkel did one way back, I think called, " Silent Night and 6 O'clock News" - quite chilling in it's own way. Anyway, for a sneak peek, this one pops up on kazaa, check it out. Hamish

For $15 US, you could have had tickets on Wednesday in Toronto to the Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Rush, The Guess Who, and others. Along with 470,000 other people. Nicest surprise was the opening act - Kathleen Edwards. She's got a tune out called, "6 0'clock News", and it's got a really nice bass riff. Check it out. Slainte Mhath. Hamish

This link will take you to a hifi brochure museum that has a 1951 article by PW Klipsch on the Klipschorn and magazine ads & brochures on them from 1953. Hamish http://www.hifilit.com/hifilit/Klipsch/Klipsch.htm

Hey Nicholtl.....slainte mhath!....I've got some 12 year old cask aged Balvenie around somewhere....is it noon yet?...a pub owner in Scotland would rinse his already clean glasses in water before pouring his single malt drams. He said the thin film of water separates the Scotch from the glass. I've been having it that way since and the flavours really come out... ...and Phil Mays.... I've got a Yamaha RX1300 for my home theatre and am really impressed with it. So I'm sure you're enjoying yours. Some people forget to respect that audio is a matter of personal subjective preference. If it wasn't, we'd all have the same thing. Take care all... Hamish

Why thank you Gil. I copied that into my folder on LaScalas, mods and such. There's one industrial LaScala on a Canadian board site for $531 US or $750 Canadian at: http://www.canuckaudiomart.com/cgi-bin/classifieds/classifieds.cgi?search_and_display_db_button=on&db_id=10570&query=retrieval The ad is from April so it's a little dated but if someone is looking for a single centre channel, it might be still available. Hamish

Here's the code sheet for identifying dates. I hope this helps. Hamish KLIPSCH S/N FORMATS DATES DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE 1946-1947 ### 001 (ending #021) 1948-1961 #### 0121 (starting #0121) 1962-1983 ##letter#### 20Y1234 1984-1989(?) YY WW #### 89281234 1990-1997(?) DOY Y2Y1 #### 135791234 1998-2000 YY WW #### 00281234 1962-1983 Letter format A = 1962 F = 1967 K = 1972 R = 1977 X = 1982 B = 1963 G = 1968 L = 1973 S = 1978 Y = 1983 C = 1964 H = 1969 M = 1974 T = 1979 D = 1965 I = 1970 N = 1975 U = 1980 E = 1966 J = 1971 P = 1976 W = 1981 NOTES 1946-1961 dates can only be found in log book (eng. Library) DOY= day of the year YY=year (i.e. 99,00) Y2Y1=2nd digit of year, 1st digit of year WW=week of the year Date code on drivers (1994) Example - 9429 = 1994, 29th week of the year / YYWW Klipschorns of this vintage had the s/n hammer stamped into the tailboard, woofer access door or inside the woofer chamber.

....sounds like the best present is your Dad......the rest is the icing on the cake.............enjoy, because they're only here for awhile............

....reminds me of the little strippers that used to do a dance in the bottom right corner of my screen....then they all got bored and left town...

Wow. What a great life -lived to the fullest. The world's a little emptier without him. A wee dram raised to Bob Hope. "Slainte Mhath".

KLIPSCH S/N FORMATS DATES DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE 1946-1947 ### 001 (ending #021) 1948-1961 #### 0121 (starting #0121) 1962-1983 ##letter#### 20Y1234 1984-1989(?) YY WW #### 89281234 1990-1997(?) DOY Y2Y1 #### 135791234 1998-2000 YY WW #### 00281234 1962-1983 Letter format A = 1962 F = 1967 K = 1972 R = 1977 X = 1982 B = 1963 G = 1968 L = 1973 S = 1978 Y = 1983 C = 1964 H = 1969 M = 1974 T = 1979 D = 1965 I = 1970 N = 1975 U = 1980 E = 1966 J = 1971 P = 1976 W = 1981 NOTES 1946-1961 dates can only be found in log book (eng. Library) DOY= day of the year YY=year (i.e. 99,00) Y2Y1=2nd digit of year, 1st digit of year WW=week of the year Date code on drivers (1994) Example - 9429 = 1994, 29th week of the year / YYWW Klipschorns of this vintage had the s/n hammer stamped Here's the code decoding ring that I copied some time ago. Hope that helps. From what I can read on my LaScalas, they're: #88841, W/O #17621 with PN 09000711210 #84610, W/O #16641 with PN 09000711210 again. I hope this helps. Hamish

Heritage is kind of like a '65 Mustang or '68 Charger. You can drive it and enjoy it and get your money back when it's time to move on. Maybe the RF's will achieve that status too in 40 years or so. Hope I'm around to find out. Hamish

Hey Mari930, How ya' doin'? I think the hardest part of corrective surgery is the waiting. Once you're through it, you're on the road to recovery even if it hurts and makes things awkward. When I was 2 or so, I fell down a set of stairs and did nerve damage to the right eye and lost the vision. So it just sort of wandered where it wanted all through public school, high school and college. When I was 25, I had the muscles tied so it follows the good one more or less. So the peripheral concepts of 3D, parallel parking, and driving anything big still are totally foreign to me. And I don't miss it because I've never known anything else. Anyway, a speedy recovery to you and all the best. Hamish

Hey Jim, Good for you. The smiles in the pix say it all. There's one on my side of the screen too. Just an idea, but what about you loading or burning all these Forum posts onto something so in the future with a different perspective you can come back and look at this if you wanted. Anyway, all the best to you and your family and keep hanging in there. Hamish

Hi Dodger, I'm close enough to you that we get Fox on satellite from Rochester. What about a little whistle blowing. Maybe calling the local press or even bringing in the big time investigative crews like 20/20, 60 minutes or Dateline - even Greenpeace? Sometimes even the spectre of them looming on the horizon will get the fires burning under these buck passing fat cats that are more interested in their public profile than making a stand on an honest issue. An other thought ( I don't know how far you are on this ) might be in forming a proactive group with others in the same predicament, as there's more strength in common voices. Anyway, I understand your concerns for home and family on this and wish you well. Take care. Hamish

In late March 1969, a bunch of us from the Burlington coffee house went in to Toronto to catch Iron Butterfly ( Inaggaddavida) but we couldn't get in. Show was sold out. So we hopped back in the '58 Plymouth with the rotted out floor and went up to the Mason's Hall at Davenport and Avenue Road where someone said a group called Led Zeppelin was playing. Nobody had ever heard of these guys. They were supposed to be leftovers from the Yardbirds. The name sounded similar to Iron Butterfly so what the heck - we headed up to the " Rockpile " ( Mason's Hall - now it's the CTV studio for the Mike Bullard Show - a Canadian Jay Leno with no hair or chin ). We ended up in a balcony in a setup similar to the Ed Sullivan theatre. The opening act was a Toronto hippie house band called Sunnyside Symposium. The sound system consisted of two huge stage to roof columns of meshed PA cabinets labelled " WIRE ". This was one of Pete Traynor's competitors in the early days. So after the opening act, these 4 guys come out - one on drums, 3 up front, only 2 with guitars - one bass - one lead. Within minutes, they had that place ablaze. The bass was so thick you'd have to cut it with a knife. They still had the old blob show going ( rear projection with big colored blobs of oil being squeezed between two round clock faces). Then there was this blonde long haired guy screaming out lyrics and making rythym ( how do you spell that anyway ) and the lead guitarist doing these incredible licks and solos. Then the place started shaking and you could hear these low wailing howls. Everyone in the crowd started looking to see what was going on. There was the lead guitarist playing with a violin bow. This was Led Zeppelin in Toronto in late March, 1969 and the album Led Zeppelin 1 came out a few months later. And we had a safe car ride home down the Queen Elizabeth Way straddling the holes in the floor and headed down Guelph Line. We just turned onto Woodward Ave. and the cops pulled us over. After the percursory frisk and radio checks we were on our way again. Watching the new Led Zep dvd with my morning coffee brought that all back again. Thought I'd share. Hamish

Here'a B3 story. Way back in 1968, we had a garage band just outside Toronto called, "The Rorks". We'd play at house & pool parties and small dances. We had a bass player/singer, drummer, lead and rhythm guitar/Farfisa organ player. The rhythm player's Mom made him quit when we started travelling around for more gigs, so we advertised for another player and got this guy out of Toronto named Vic. He showed up with a Hammond B3, Leslie and we had to haul it into the bass & drummer's Mom's basement ( they were brothers ). The Hammond had been spraypainted white and the legs had been chopped off so it would sit on a 20 degree angle with the keyboard down. The Leslie was also white. I was doing the lighting and booking arrangements. All summer we'd stay in the basement and practise. The big tune was " You Keep Me Hanging On" by Vanilla Fudge - a bit of a shock for the rest of the band who were used to the R & B and soul stuff. So we had a huge gig doing a grade 8 grad dance in the next town. We hauled all the equipment out, into a u-haul and set up for the dance. It went well, but during the last set, we noticed these guys in suits standing there talking to the chaperones watching us. Anyway, at the end of the dance, they came up and told Vic they were taking his organ back. Apparently, he was behind on payments. Sure enough, there was a big truck from a Toronto organ company outside and they took the Hammond gear with them. I wasn't too nice with the guys in suits but quieted down after they pointed out that at least they let us finish the dance before pulling the plug. We drove Vic home and gave him the whole $125 for the gig out of pity and never saw him again. I ended up hitch-hiking out to Vancouver into a totally different scene. Years later, there was a one hit wonder by a Toronto band called "The Kings" with a great little ditty called, "This Beat Goes On/Switching to Glide". Seems the organist was Vic. Every time I hear a B3, I remember those days. Hamish

A buddy Mike did this procedure on an 18" Audiosphere woofer that was torn. He took clear nail polish and perm paper(that ladies use for around curlers when getting permanents in their hair0. It's a very fine paper. He applied it with a layer of nail polish first, then the perm paper cut to size, molded it to the right shape and finished with another layer of nail polish as a sealer, then magic markered it black to match. I saw and heard the repair - it's great. It'd be a really good idea to practise on a cheap scrap speaker first before trying it on anything good. Good luck. Hamish

Hey avman, In the next world, he'll be waiting for you at the gate - tail wagging! Hamish

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3618084861&category=33774 a little history as well as history in the making. Check it out. Hamish

Welcome "efhjr" to an exclusive little club. By following the posts and adding your two cents worth from time to time, you'll find lots of info on how Klipsches are used with other gear, and find this is a pretty good bunch of 'joes' and 'joettes'(very occasional) that are free to express an opinion and appreciate others. And for trivial diversion, there's the Bott's Dots thread that appears from time to time like headlights in the fog. As for dvd's going through tubes into Cornwalls, you're making me drool. I'm a bit of a vintage SS fan who's slowly starting to wonder what the fuss is all about. So I'm warming up to the idea. I'd love to hear a tube setup sometime up here in the White North - a little more heat is always nice. Welcome and take care. Hamish

MBM135 wrote ". ..... I drank beer, they had Scotch--amazing how anynody can swallow the stuff without instantly feeling nauseated..." Excuse me? Drinking Scotch (SMS) is an acquired taste that grows on you like haggis. This reminds me of a story. Back in college, a guy named Roger owed me $40. I never saw it but 5 years later I'm working in Alberta and he shows up at the end of his holiday. His plane is leaving that night, so I offer to cook him dinner and then take him to the airport and get him on his flight back to Toronto. Anyway, when he came in I poured him a Guinness, another with some pickled eggs as appetizers, then one more Guinness with the main course of a couple slices of sausage and onion pie with melted cheddar cheese. By the time I got Roger to the airport, he was already feeling mildly gassy and turning a mild green colour. I wonder how he made out on that 5 hour flight because I never heard from him or saw my $40 again. Hamish

More detail on the v-groove along the side kneewall. This is the HK Citation which drives the Cornwalls from a 'y' on the Marantz 2235 pre-amp out which is looped back into the Marantz power amp then out to the Heresys. This way, both sets of speakers are being driven by independent power amps which really provides a nice pleasing sound. When I built this I wasn't thinking of khorns, so my kneewalls are too low. If I got (& managed to haul them up there, I'd have to build false walls to compensate for the low kneewalls).

Hey Tom, My friend Steve was over with his digital camera so we hobbled up and took a couple pix of our attic which sort of mirrors your new ht room. (See my last post here for the description). As mentioned, the v-groove pine on the diagonal gives it an interesting look. The speakers are the Heresys sitting on top of the Cornwalls, as I use it for a stereo setup with the HK and Marantz. (The sheet covers the front window and our guest's open suitcase). Anyway, I thought you might like a peek. Take care. Hamish

I listed my Citation 12 power amp on ebay. I'm going back to school in mid August, so I'm cutting down on the inventory. I've been driving my Cornwalls in the attic with it and have been impressed with the nice tight amplification. This unit has twin power supplies and is basically two mono blocks on one chassis. Check it out at: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3035070598&category=39783&rd=1

Hi. I had the $5 paypal charge added too. Just include that as an extra $5 to the donation. IF 20 FORUM MEMBERS COULD COME THROUGH WITH $20 EACH, THAT WOULD BE $400 TO HELP OUT JIM. THIS COULD REALLY WORK. I would also like to thank Justin for his initiative in taking an 'out there' stance for a friend in need. I feel proud to be part of this exclusive club.