thepogue

I'm trying to sell off my second system to pick up a Linn LP15 (which is for sale locally) anyone intrested in the following please email me with offers @ thepogue@yahoo.com I'd also consiter swapping for a TT of equal value Carver TFM 25 Carver TFM 45 Chorus II's and after I pick-up the Linn I'll be selling a Tech 1700 mk II thanks, Pogue

please forward LP list!! thanks, Pogue send to thepogue@yahoo.com

I live in Yorktown....in the middle of the battle fields.....ya kinda get used to it but it is kinda neat... Pogue

I've got a set of Chours II's FS or swap for a set of panel speaks or other audio equipment...I'm in the tidewater Virgina area and the speakers are a 9 out of a 10....they sound outstanding but the rooms to small for the set you can contact me @ thepogue@yahoo.com Thanks, Pogue

cool beans!! I've been hittin' the pawns also...the guys i work with say I'm off to the PORN shop....(I'd go but i dont thing they have any used cd's!) lol Peace, Pogue

speaker positioning is an all-time cheapy winner !!! love playing with room effects!! Peace, Pogue

I'm thinking of putting my adcom 555 II on the chorus set up and pulling the two carver's on my Paradigm 100's...but then I'll have to also pull my adcom pre-amp...some rainy day I'll do that just fer fun!.... Pogue

I think the "deals" come when we're NOT looking for them!!...such is life!! lol Peace, Pogue

I don't normally re-list but the lost forum and I think this is worth sharing just the same! thanks, Pogue "I was literally on my way to the store for bread and milk on a gray Saturday morning. I told my wife there were two yard sales and that I wanted to check out on the way home. Before I did my thing at the store I passed the first house and after hitting the second one (in which I picked up a 2 dollar Chiltons book) I debated, then shrugged and hit the first one that I had passed. Everything in every room of the house was on sale....first thing I saw at the door where CD's laying on the floor and that's really what I was hoping for....but realized there where more DVD's than CD's. I spent no more than 3 minutes there...I continued moving right to left looking at drinking glasses (ok ok beer mugs as I hit the last corner in the living room BLAM I hit a set of LARGE PURDDY speakers!!! PLUS a purddy bunch of black components!!! Now for the life of me I don't know how I did notice them from jump street cuz normally me lil brain does the quick "electronic scan" for just these types of goodies!! but here I was faced with about 6' of beautiful black lil knobs...ahhhh.....wonderful!!! The first thing that crosses me mind was White Van...White Van....White Van....then...Sears....then Tonka....then Hasbro...then...Carver??...C-A-R-V-E-R...ba..ba...ba..bob carver hmmm (I wipe a small bead of sweat from me forehead) yup...I drop to my knees slowly but at the same time I move in front of the speakers to protect this find..(as a defender would a goalie)...with the cabinet a bit taller then I now, clearly but with a bit of hesitation I read Klipsch...I look over me shoulder an eye an elder lady fumbling through some quilting supplies...she gives me a faint smile but I eye her as a protective mother with cubs would....no time for niceties now...I knew by this time this could be BIG!! The TFM-55 meant very little to me at this point and the unit above that said TFM-35...still the numbers were bouncing 'round me head as my eyes scanned for that big water stain, the gouging tear in the side of the Klipsch, the major dent... but none did appear. I now peeked behind the right speaker to eye the connectors (a sure give away of cheese-dom) and what I saw next took me from my knees to a type of spinning move-butt fling only seen by those who have take advanced yoga classes in collage. "A Driver"...I felt my lips moving unwillingly...Now aloud..."That's a 15"!!"....."A twelve" I argued..."NO NO...15!!!...for sure!!"...I rip my shoe off and tried to use that for a ruler but realized that I didn't bother to put socks on...you know....to just get bread and milk. I finger the driver waiting for the surround to crumble like something unearthed from some middle eastern tomb...just a bit of dust...I thumb it with my palm..."Oh yes...15" all day long!!"....the 12" defender was nowhere to be found...I was on my feet fumbling through my wallet 10...20...5....6...8..9..blue card...drivers err....gold card...flip flip....'nuther 20...61...BLAM.... I hold up my ATM card like He-Man held sword at Castle Greyskull....then I eye the ole lady again...as she attempts to slip by me. Her life was spared only by the timing of the organizer of this now grand event...whom walked over...and clicked on the unit...I really don't remember what was playing on the newish looking Magnavox CD player that was perched just above the double cassette player (not unlike all those that get a whopping 15 bucks at any number of sunny day sales) and the Carver C-5 Pre-Amp. But I do know each one of them powered up!!!...And there WAS power.....she said with a heavy southern draw.."My brother paid 1800 dollars for them speakers alone"!!...."but he's dead now"..With eye's glazed over I peer up at a sign that until now had gone unnoticed..."SPEAKERS COST $1800" and right below was the tip of the arrow..."350 FIRM"....I dropped the 67 cents in my hand..then quickly hip checked a 14 year old looking at toys with his dad...I pulled the "sister" and plopped all the bread and milk money I had left in her hand....I told her I was going to go rob an ATM machine...her middle aged hubby laughed....I didn't. By the time I hit my ATM, I was hitting button like an Vegas gambler at 3 am. I pulled the cash and slip so fast the light had not changed at the intersection that sits by my bank. Just before I tossed the receipt I glanced at the -131.00 balance and giggled....who needs milk and bread anyway....now music, there's a NEED. The break-down and packing of the equipment was fast and professorial. I did get a bit of a fret when I saw the 16 awg the now deceased audiophile used and the lack of any exotic cables didn't go unnoticed but I struggled through just the same. As the husband helped unloaded the last speaker (from HIS truck within minutes I had thing kicking in the kitchen!!! No bread...No milk....but one hell'of'a grin sandwich...and Pink Floyd "The Wall" making use of a shweet pair of Chorus II's and over 650 wpc thanks to Bob and company.... I think I'll get breakfast from now on, IF the wife lets me. But that's another story." Thanks for listening to me rant. Pogue

I am sooo blessed right now....I can walk for one room to the next and hear Chorus II's and Paradigm 100's...in my own home!! it's just plain fun!! Maybe the virginia group can head to the tidewater area and we'll play with them both!! in a nut shell i think anytime you pit two brands (as long as there's no junk brands) you'll find something to enjoy in each of them...but in the end it's the "whole" of the sound that will take you one way or the other favoring one speaker to the next...we really get sucked into all kinds of bad buying/listening habits driven by sales persons, the media, peers, beer...ah...... but i'd say most brick and morta brands have something for everyones price range. I won't spend anytime defending my 100's because I'm tickled pink with them (just wish I got them at a yard sale!!)....lol but I will say that each person should shop, listen and learn what THEY enjoy in a speaker and then do just that...enjoy!! Peace, Pogue

Somehow I knew you'd guys (gals) would get a charge outta that!! That's somthing I've noticed about this sickness...ah...hobby... when someone gets that new gear or that special CD the excitment is authentically shared with others. I sure it's the same with other hobbiest/groups....but to be honest this has always been my passion....funny thing is that the first two non-audio friends of mine that saw the system asked "Hey, you already have a nice system...let me have that one!" this was at two completely different times!!...I looked at them as if they where eatting worms...my good friend is a youth pastor and I'd do anything in the world for him...(save letting him mess with my audio junk..lol) he asked "what in the world would you do with two systems?".......i said "Have you ever seen a coin collector with just one coin?" (try that on your wife sometime!...hehehe) The condition of the equipment was an 8.5 outta 10. The power control knob (which is kinda new for me) on the tfm-55 is a bit wobbly....but hey once set it never gets touched. At this point I running them as mono blocks (ones 1000wpc and the other is 500 according to specs.) and you guys know how the Klipsch can sing and with that power...it's scary!!..I told youngest my son, a 17 yo to be cafeful...when he said a simple "ok" I made him look me in the face and said it again...i'm sure he was mummbling "geezzz dad it's not a flair gun.."...lol but it's set up in his room...and he only has two ears...lol ok glad that to have shared. thanks fer letting me carry on!! BTW I see alot of Virginian folks here....beer tasting...i mean audio gathing this summer? hmmmm Peace, Pogue

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well....i picked thme up at a yard sale...for a song (I'll be letting that outta the bag soon!)....i looked pretty hard this time and I'm quite sure because of the duel 15" drivers they are the Chorus II's...great sounding, wide open to be sure!!! Pogue

if the specs. are correct I'm the proud papa of a set of Chorus II's!!! I don't know really where they fit into the Kilpsch food chain but yesterday while I was trying to figure what type they were I had "The Wall" playing and I'm really pleased!!...These things sound great...great bottom end and although new to the horn "sound" if you will...I'm very very pleased...I was just a grinnin' and I'm sure my kids get a kick outta me cuz every other song I gave it a lil more power...then a bit more...then my sons says as he walks by... "HEY DAD....YOU LIKE THE NEW SPEAKERS....???" (i say)...."WHAT???!!!"....lol couldn't hear a damned thing..lol.....i'm happy...very please I can kinda see why groups like these thrive... Peace, Pogue

i was just hunting and peckin' 'round a bit...do cornwalls have a rear woofer?...that's one thing i AM sure of...there's a rear driver...they really do look quite like the forte pci on this site...just seem (in my minds eye) wider than 16 5"...but you know the way your brain works...was I was hauling them out of the guys house i was so damned happy They seemed 5' tall!! lol some had asked how much I paid....i really wanna save this for when i've got a bit more time...but i just checked on ebay and the Cavers (the 55 and 35) sold for a total of 900...I don't know what the Kilpsch are worth...but i'm already ahead of the game...more to come! BTW love the sub and system to go wiff me Sams...lol Pogue