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LOL -- good one. Tis your Yonkyo I'ze wuz thinkin bout.

A little over 20 watts. Plenty. Measurements? You mean as in 'size', or 'specs'. Specs won't measure up to solid state. It's not about how much distortion -- but what kind. Tube distortion doesn't give you the bends the way most solid state does. Size wise, it's probably about the same size as your Yammerhammer.

I'm not in the biggest hurry to move it -- I figure the bills won't start hitting until June. Anyone have any idea what my Cornwalls are worth?

My wayward 22 year old showed on our doorstep last week. She was a mess. I need money to get her professional help and pay the Dr. Bills. Don't ask me to go into detail -- it's painful enough as it is. Pictures all over the site of this thing, I'll supply the links when I find them. Craig can fill you in on the details of this amp if he is up to it. Basically, he knows what a headbanger I am, and tends to go a little nutty on my stuff. $680 shipped. 1974 Cornwalls in walnut may be next -- stay tuned.

Nice thread. Having owned some Magnepans for well over a decade, I think the biggest problem with Planars and electrostatics is that in spite of the nice image they throw -- the music just doesn't sound very natural. Someone mentioned their wonderful dynamics, which I thought was strange -- because I always felt this was certainly one of the areas they had trouble in. I do think we need to differentiate between a speaker's ability to fill a room with natural, open sound -- and their ability to image. I think of imaging as the ability to lock instruments and vocals in their place from left to right and front to back. Many speakers image, or soundstage better than horns -- but at what cost? My Magnepan 1.5QR's were unseated by the diminutive RB-5! What you realize after you listen to horns for a while -- is how freaking compressed and dead everything else sounds. I always thought the Maggies were killer, but after hearing the RB-5's -- the Maggies sounded like someone threw a towel over them. I think horns just fill a room with nice, open, natural, uncluttered music. Dynamics are intact -- and things just sound "right". Who the hell ever went to a live event and said, "Oh my, I love the way those violins hang left of center."? It's simply not something one cares about -- so why does it become of interest when people buy their system. Well, gee -- I guess you gotta get something in return for giving up the dynamic life of the music. Also, those Planars and electrostatics are dipoles, and the soundfield tends to be a little diffuse, -- I think this adds to their problems. Horns image good enough. With very little work, I was able to get a nice stable center image -- and the music never seems like it's hanging only two inches from the front baffle. Horns get out of the way of the music -- anything else is just...well...you know...B.S.

What are you using it for?

http://www.a-msystems.com/physiology/products/wire/coatedsilverwire.asp $352 gets you 100 feet of the real thing, and it's already teflon coated. With tubes and horns, you can get by with very little -- you don't need the thickness of jumper cables. This basically gets you eight, 22 AWG, solid core, 12 foot lengths. Pair them off and twist them together. Done. Actually, I was wrong earlier about the Homegrown cables. I wasn't aware they put so much into them. Conisidering they use 300 feet to make an 8 foot cable pair -- it's really an outstanding value. I wonder where in the hell they're getting their silver?

$400 of 6 feet. Uhg. Colin, you have Klipschorns right? I'm at work right now -- when I get home I'll find you the link so you can buy it in bulk from a distributor. You can terminate it yourself. Do your Klipschorns have binding posts or screw terminals? $400 -- give me a break.

Yes he did. He also just bought some Vertical Cornwalls. Which he may actually get someday. Thanks for the music tips Clu -- I can't seem to get into the Foo Fighters -- but I heard Three Doors Down is excellent.

Actually, a proper crimp is superior to solder. Solder is a poor conductor. If the crimp is done properly, it will be a gasless connection -- which is a good thing.

The only 'real' connection is a gasless one. Connectors are more a matter of convenience, and practicality. A proper crimp, or solder -- is the only way to achieve perfect, gasless connectivity. The advantage of spades over bare wire is their uniformity. They fit even and level against the post material, and you can really tighten them down good provided one uses a post wrench. Bare wire tends to shift and squirt around when tightened. It's also hard to manipulate without touching the ends (exposed copper). The real problem with bindings posts is that most of newer ones are too big. There is simply much mass. Some believe they add unwelcome resistance between the crossover and amplifier.

Do your Mac's look like this: Here's the link Craig -- Good luck!! http://personales.ya.com/lcardaba/schematics/mcintosh_mc60.htm

That must be why the Belles are often referred to as "the cat's meow".

Craig, that's hiliarious! It sounds exactly like something I would do! Yeesh, people have no sense of humor anymore. Easier to get forgiveness than permission.

The new Korn CD is good. It's called 'Untouchables'. Anything I have heard before this one sucks.

This latest Korn isn't like all the others -- which suck. Rob Zombie sucks. Lots of it sucks. I like: Fuel Queens of the Stone Age Mudvayne Chevelle Kutless Taproot Feezel East West A band called 'One Stripe' sounds pretty good so far... ...and a handful of others.

Why are those two guys always slamming their glasses together -- aren't they ever going to drink that stuff. There are some timeless cuts on every Areosmith record/cd -- most of my favorites just happen to be the ones they never play(ed) on the radio. Every once in a blue moon I'll listen to some of it, but mostly it just seems kind of passe'. I have the same feelings about a lot of those bands from the 70's and 80's. I think I just got tired of them. Craig, you might like Taproot. I wonder what you would think about Korn's new Untouchables CD.

Best thing I ever did for 2-channel was to get rid of my sub -- I'm not kidding. The only way to get things to gel is to run the whole signal through the sub, where it's split. There's some degradation to the signal because of the low quality parts in the sub's crossover. Less is more. I still say with any extra money you get -- dump the receiver and upgrade to separates. HK to BK would be a good move for you. Yes, everything after Rocks sucks.

Oh oh, I could have swore that plural possessive would be Williams'

I hate grammar. So m00n -- did you sell the Belles?

My daughter turned me on to Evanescence, and yeah -- they're good. It's a good sounding CD too. Seems it's getting harder and harder to run across 'bad' sounding ones. It's really starting to look like that after almost 20 years -- CD is finally delivering what was promised.

Well, you're not a virgin anymore. Welcome to the Truth and Honesty in Music Club. It does take a little getting used to -- give your ears a couple of days to settle into the sound. Once you get used to it -- there is simply no going back to anything else. Enjoy!

I would be very interested in your impressions running the tube preamp in front of the Aragon. I ran an AE-3 tube preamp with an Aragon 4004 MK II into my RF-7's -- and it was frightening.

The Cornwall really isn't 'Heritage'? Man, I got ripped off. Yeah, I did think about it off and on for a couple of days. I really wasn't slamming Heritage, but I do get a little giddy when the Heritage folks start freaking. In all honesty -- if I had the money -- I would have tried to talk m00n into a trade. I'm just strapped until the middle of summer.

When did I slam the Heritage stuff, in that first post? Geez, I was only kidding. I was serious that if I had the money I would rather have another set of RF-7's than the Cornwalls, but it's not because I don't like the sound of the Cornwalls -- I just really like the sound of the RF-7's. I just thought it was funny the way everyone was reacting because m00n didn't fall head over heels in love with the Belles -- like everyone had been violated or something. I then joked that m00n should go a head and tell everyone how the RF-7's kicked the crap out of the Belles -- so you're telling me this was taken seriously? What, has everyone forgotten my last 20 "Heritage is great" posts. Should we go back and dig up my posts in the threads where m00n was thinking about buying them? Anyway, what I said in the last post stands. Until you actually hear RF-7's with good amplification and sources, please quit making assumptions about their sound. Maybe you should do what I did when I bought the Cornwalls -- get a set in your house so you can create an informed opinion. BTW -- that '2 day' post only took me 45 minutes to write.