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4 hours ago, jason str said:
Added weight and an unsatisfactory look.
Measure from motorboard to flange face, this will be 2x4 brace length.
Glue brace to motorboard between the woofer & squawker, set in place with glue and let dry. If you are worried about exact placement you can remove the squawker or woofer and test fit the new brace using a pencil to mark placement before anything else. This step will make drilling the rear panel hole placement easy.
Simply drill the holes in the rear panel slightly larger than the screws to avoid binding on the plywood.
I don't own Cornwalls ( so no measurements) just make sure to avoid brace placement under the rear jack.
Unsatisfactory look ??? I always kept mine with the back to a wall or a corner....Didn't look at the back unless moving
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6 hours ago, seti said:
I like Luxman over McIntosh preamps but I may be a freak 8-)
I may be a freak as well. I like the Lux
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18 minutes ago, larryk said:
Not sure how that would work. If you glue one end of a 2x4 i would think the weight would not support it until you got the rear panel in place to secure with screws. Maybe i am not thinking this right. I have also heard that others have added a 3/4” panel to the back of the existing panel to keep the back panel from flexing. Am curious what results that may bring.
The back is more important than the motor board IMHO
The 3/4" ply works great! To my ear it made the back side of the woofer more pronounced
Just be careful and not screw into the mid driver.
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1 minute ago, rockhound said:
Hopefully in a few months I will be able to tell you
by the way will be up in your neck of the woods soon.
Great choice Jerry! Listened to them with 402/510 combo. Devastating !!! LF like a boot in the chest.
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42 minutes ago, Westcoastdrums said:
SMART man. I am NOT a 75 dB or less guy on here. One of the biggest benefits of horn Speakers IMO. Effortless and low distortion at just about any volume along with not being all that picky on placement and or amplication makes Klipsch a fantastic speaker in general. Oh.... First and foremost.... The price.
I always poke the bear with a stick on this one...... Only horn loaded bass bins are effortless with low distortion???? How about the nasty old reflex speakers?
Isn't the KPT 415 a 107db bass bin. And it has a Slam Factor of 10!
And PS: Maroon 5 sucks big smile
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On 9/29/2019 at 2:13 PM, Dave A said:
There is always some bogus stuff that goes along with things like this. The same people that send our jobs overseas or want to replace us with cheap immigrant labor are also not above saying a 10% tariff increase is really a 20% and pocket the money once again. It's just like all this Chinese stuff was supposed to dramatically cut costs but what was cut was production costs and the middle men importers MBA/CPA types discovered they could still charge the same but expenses went down. Then quality went down but prices didn't and the end buyers now have to replace things more often so win win for everyone but the consumer.
A perfect example of this is the cost of upper management, often MBA types and not engineer types that understand what they make, who now make far more as a multiple of the average wages in the companies they manage then they did when my Dad was last in corporate management in the mid 80's. Their compensation and golden parachutes have exploded into a historical aberration while they have sent jobs overseas for their method of growing their companies primarily for investor funds who want their reward in a year or two through plunder buyouts and stock manipulation. Nothing is for the long term and nothing is for America first anymore with these people. The days of Henry Ford saying that his factory workers making enough to afford what they built have been past up by those who don't care if their neighbors can afford what they make as long as the MBA(MBS) dude and investor sharks get theirs.
Red Wing Shoes have been my favorites for some time. Last two times I went there to buy I paid attention to where they were made. What started this was a trip there where I had to go down a big list to find things even assembled here with foreign parts and then the sales dude had the nerve to ask me if I wanted a USA thing that would go on my boot laces. I let him have it with both barrels and asked him just what part of America was that chinese forced labor camp that made most of these assembled in USA shoes that somehow never went down in price. Bet they use a 10% cost increase to raise their stuff 20% too. No I am not there to see the actual prices so what I speak is conjecture which however is based on what I have to pay for things and how crummy many things have gotten in quality. PWK did not use MDF for instance.
Can someone please explain this to me?
The USA is oil independent. ?? The largest producer in the world.
So why do fuel prices go up when a Saudi well gets attacked? Or if a US refinery burns, prices go up the next day when there is no shortage ???
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7 minutes ago, Westcoastdrums said:
I like it LOUD at times, far too loud with "beers" (liquor only) , but for shorter periods of time and then done for the day if I choose to be so adventurous.
My brother.....
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7 minutes ago, dtel said:
Well you do have a reputation and it's how you got your name here.
Ah come on....
I had a construction company for many years and protected my ears on the job. Saved them for music.
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39 minutes ago, mr clean said:
I had a few bears today and got a crazy hair and wanted to see how loud my speakers would get. I usually don't listen crazy loud and just turned it up for a very short time. Just checked with the db meter on my phone. I got it up to 110 db and could not believe how loud it was. It may have gotten louder but I stopped there. How loud have you had your stereo?
I once read 118 on the meter at the listening position. There was so much bass build up in the back corners that it cut the top off a vase.
My wife is insane and would sit there and say "turn it up" over and over. So I kept a meter on the couch so I knew when to say NO.
Must say that even now we run it up at times........
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17 hours ago, Chief bonehead said:
Officially 700 but acoustically it’s around 660hz.
Thank you!
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18 hours ago, Bill W. said:
At various times, Roy has talked about the importance of matching the polar pattern of each driver in the crossover region to make the transition as seamless as possible. I suspect that was a key element in the choice here.
Thanks Bill. I had not considered that.
My ear hears something a bit odd when a coned woofer produces the mids in a reflex design. I want to hear the horn produce most of the midrange.
I cross my DBB's at 450hz using an extreme slope circuit on the LF board. Subjective I guess. ???
tc
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2 hours ago, mustang_flht said:
Thanks. With the larger horn I had hoped that it would cross deeper......
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21 hours ago, Deang said:
What an ***.
Deano, How dare you speak lowly of my brother Irishman!!
He suffers from the Curse of the Irish just like the rest of us.
God created whiskey so that the Irish wouldn't rule the earth.
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2 hours ago, Deang said:
Well, yeah.
Has anyone mentioned Woodford Reserve ??
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18 hours ago, Chief bonehead said:
Ding ding. We have a winner. It is an infected k603 horn.
Hey Boss,
Where does the mid horn cross??
tc
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2 hours ago, oldtimer said:
But you don't have to call him James....
First name Terry
JC and a few call me TC
Nickname from older friends.....Toots
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4 hours ago, jwc said:
At Valerie's?
That was in my room at HI Express just before the pizza arrived
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21 hours ago, jwc said:
Where's the bass? Heard that one here before.
You hear anything coming out of the sides?
Jc
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59 minutes ago, rockhound said:
OH YUMMY 402/510 and the 415!
That it is. Listened to the 415/ 402-510 combo.
Just outstanding!!
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57 minutes ago, Deang said:
Sell them.
Good solution Deano!
tc
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On 2/8/2019 at 8:56 AM, Chris A said:
See: http://theconversation.com/did-academia-kill-jazz-110485
I'm not alone in my belief that avant-garde (free) Jazz left just about everyone behind in the 1960s, just when Rock was firmly establishing itself worldwide. But most Jazz musicians of that time I believe recognized that they were leaving their audiences behind. "Jazz Fusion" was born--a fusion of Jazz and Rock. Miles Davis tried it but I believe he notably failed as per the conversions of Donald Fagen of Steely Dan mentioned (and re-quoted here).
I think Jazz has been with us and has continually influenced our music profoundly. We just haven't been calling it "Jazz". I know that I still play my old Steely Dan, Chicago, BS&T, and Mahavishnu Orchestra, Billy Cobham, Return to Forever, much more than other old albums. Newer recordings by The Yellowjackets, Pat Metheny Group, Norah Jones, Esperanza Spalding, Stacy Kent, Diana Krall, Hiromi, Jean-Luc Ponty, and many others--are played in my household disproportionately more often than Blues and its offspring Rock (probably by a factor of 2x-3x). My music library consists of 25% Jazz, just behind Classical (33%), and then Rock (20%).
I live in an area where Jazz has had a disproportionate effect on music students in college...the University of North Texas--a.k.a., the "One O'Clock Lab Band" and the other 10-20 lab bands there, and even other Universities in the area including UT Arlington, TCU, and a few others--notably community colleges. Many of my musician friends from high school (as well as my children's musician friends from high school) went on to these institutions for their professional music education. If you didn't know, the musicianship level of these institutions is what I'd call "ferocious"--as I believe that many think of the NTU Lab Band scene as a sort of "meat grinder" for good musicians that get pulled in and ground up. I can see the effect of academia on the ideas of "Jazz" that still exist out of the mainstream of music today, i.e., very few people come home and put on the One O'Clock's recordings to relax to. KNTU 88.1 broadcasts that sort of Jazz on the FM dial locally for those that can't seem to get enough. I found that I get sort of filled up fairly quickly by that style of Jazz. I rather listen to a little less "intense" Jazz of today, and it's usually called "Fusion". Sometimes you'll also see me put on a little "Light Jazz" from time to time. I believe that mainstream Jazz isn't really found in colleges nowadays. Perhaps Berklee graduates in the Northeast are a bit more in tune with the current state of Jazz. It's all post Bop in this area--which has become insulated and less relevant than the other sorts of Jazz from the late 1960s that I listed above.
To me, Fusion and other associated genres are the testimonial of where real "modern Jazz" has gone.
Your thoughts
Chris
I thought you Texas boys only listened to cowboy music? Love to poke a fellow Texan when I can. smile
The jazz I do not like is a cut where they never play the same note twice. And then there is Dixie Land.
Liked Chicago when they were Chicago Transit Authority. But that was rock. IMO After that they were lite top 40 radio cuts to make money. BS&T where somewhat more jazz inspired.
EL&P hit some Jazz licks but had a classical flair as well. Great live!
Liked Fusion such as very early Jeff Lobber.
Big band Swing? In my early 30's a friend and I went to a supper club called Zigfield's; With hair down our backs and in 3 piece suits we were the only people there under age 70.
Cocktails and Count Basie live? We were floored!!! Got to spend some time with him afterword. Still have his autograph on a cocktail napkin.
Under the radar is Art Pepper. "Miss Who?" is killer!!
George Duke on keyboards. (Zappa)
Will listen to the hotter cuts of snooze jazz in background when reading.
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4 hours ago, avguytx said:
Gotcha. It was actually an Estate Sale pair that was in LR that were painted and dolled up something awful. Here's the link to the pictures.
If I were looking for a beater pair to refurbish they would be great. $600.00 for the pair......max
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4 hours ago, Woofers and Tweeters said:
I haven't had the R114. I do have the beautiful sounding 70w/ch R115 and big brother 160w/ch R117. Mine are not for sale.
After you said something about the R117 in the best sounding receiver thread, I searched the www and found that many said how great it sounds in several reviews. I think that you said "Hands down' the best you ever had. I'm not going to have seller's remorse on these. I only wish that I had bought one earlier.
Love my old Lux. But not a receiver. I run two M117 power amps (bridged) with that same tubish quality sound. Bi-amped on the bottom. MONSTERs.
tc
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by the way will be up in your neck of the woods soon.
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