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Gullah, I understand your frustration -- I've been there. It's what prompted me to approach auctions the way I do now. Bid what you're willing to pay for an item when you first see it, then walk away and check the auction when it closes. If someone wants to bid more than you want to pay, good for him, he can have it. If no one else wants it as much as you do, congratulations, it's yours. Other people have other ideas that work for them. Maybe they use the snipers because they like to get something for $95 that they were willing to pay $100 for. Me, I don't care. If it's worth a hundred bucks to me, it's worth a hundred bucks! Good luck on your quest. You've got some good people up there in NorCal that seem happy to help you out. I'm sure you'll find what you're after.

Dean, I'll send you a Chorus II crossover if you'll send it and a schematic back to me. We talked about this some time ago, but the idea kind of fell off the edge of the world. I'm still up for it if you are.

Where are you located? I don't know about anyone else, but I don't ship big speakers any more.

Tom - you have a PM.

Artto doesn't have to lighten up. He's smart. He knows stuff. If he wants to be a caustic ***, that's the forum's problem, not his. Jeez Tom, where have you been? It's comments like yours that got 2-Channel shut down.

---------------- On 4/9/2004 11:16:33 AM neo33 wrote: I just picked up a pair of beautiful Heresy speakers in raw birch with a medium stain for $275 yesterday at my local audio store. They are in excellent condition and they have no risers. What is the best placement for the speakers? How high should they be? How many feet apart? Should they be toe-in at all? All inputs are appreciated. ---------------- IME, IMO, etc . . . In a small room, without a sub, I like mine in the corners. They pick up some bass reinforcement that way. They'll also pick up some bass gain by being coupled to the floor. You may or may not like that effect. Getting the tweeters to ear level helps a lot with the imaging and clarity, so without the risers you've got a choice to make there. Before I had the sub, my favorite placement was on stands, about 1-2 feet in from the room's corners, toed in to my listening position. My present room only has one good corner I could use, but now there is a sub, so corner placement is a non issue. I am also only about nine feet from them, and they are hardly toed in at all. They're about a foot off the back wall for WAF and furniture arrangement reasons. I'm sure if you fiddle around with them, you'll find the setup that suits your ears and your room best. I hope you get a lot of enjoyment from them.

HornEd needs to see this.

---------------- On 4/2/2004 6:55:46 PM NOSValves wrote: I think the hackers should start targeting Mac users myself ! ---------------- Why would they? Compared to the Windows base, the Mac base is a small target.

That's an interesting comment about room size, J. Just out of curiosity, at about what room size would you say the Choruses begin to shine?

Congrats! Re: gonna be broke, that reminds me of when I worked in the pet store. I think that job COST me money.

Dude, that's harsh! I can add Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock to my list. I don't think anyone really likes Kid Rock either -- they just pretend to so they can seem to be trailer trash with an 8th grade education. GD & R.

AC/DC.

He's got some worrying feedback. I might go for it if I were close enough to go see it and talk to him first.

---------------- On 3/27/2004 2:15:46 AM Griffinator wrote: ---------------- On 3/26/2004 5:23:25 PM TBrennan wrote: Misspelling and regional or class idiom is fine with me but punctuation crosses all boundries of region and class. ---------------- You lost a comma there, my man. The correct punctuation should have been: Misspelling and regional or class idiom is fine with me , but punctuation crosses all boundries of region and class. (ducking and running, lest the whole forum organize a lynching) ---------------- I saw that, and it occurs to me that Tom's sense of humor is SO dry that he might blow the "independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction" rule just to make his point. It works on another level too -- the one on which all spelling or grammar correction posts must contain at least one error of the type they highlight.

Reading that post was a wren-ching experience. One question -- why the ruffled feathers? There's no need for ranting and raven. Maybe this kind of thing gets on your ****, or maybe pun cascades are your albatross. For my own part they make me cluck and cackle with laughter, but maybe I shouldn't crow about that. People might think I'm loony.

---------------- On 3/25/2004 11:50:19 AM garymd wrote: I second the academy. Hard to find though. I think it sounds better than the heresy in that spot for movies in particular. Best if you can build your own custom center. Lots of info on the forum if you go that route. ---------------- Sorry Gary, but I have to respectfully disgree. I put my Academy between my Heresies and they don't come close to matching. The Heresy highs are a lot crisper and clearer to my ears. The Academy has a more laid-back presentation. If I were to build around my pair of Heresies, I'd do it with two more pairs of Heresies. It might not be the prettiest approach, but short of getting bigger Heritage speakers and pushing the Heresies back, it will sound the best. IMHO, My US$0.02, etc. :-)

Yeah, the whole thing was pretty sad. http://forums.klipsch.com/idealbb/view.asp?topicID=46019&forumID=69

ROTFL -- yeah, and Doom III is on the way! These other fellas are right about the upgrade stuff.

Wow -- that auction lasted 25 seconds! Hope it comes true for the buyer -- remember what happened to our Freak on a Leash? One thing for sure -- I'd hate to be the seller when his SO finds out he just gave away 500 or more dollars . . .

In some cultures it is impolite to belch after a meal. In others, it is impolite not to. Since adding inflection is difficult with text on a screen, people have developed methods of getting the communication across. Since chat and Usenet preceded the wide availability of rich text . . . hard to get Arial 24 point bold on an 80 x 24 amber display . . . people had to come up with OTHER ways to add EMPHASIS to the things they wanted to EMPHASIZE. Emphasizing every word is generally interpreted as shouting. Consider it right or consider it wrong, but for online communication it's the cultural norm. Kind of like emoticons to let someone know you're being cheerful instead of dour. Now as for the original question, I find no caps to be a lot less irritating than ALL CAPS. All caps are just plain hard to read, and I'll usually just skip a post that's all-capped. I'll also bail on a post as soon as I see u for you, ur for your/you're, and b4 for before. I don't care about grammatical or honest spelling mistakes, but I won't muddle through someone's mangled language just because they're too lazy to invest four key strokes in a word. I happen to think English is a fine language and I appreciate seeing it used well. Soapbox off.

Oof. Next time I see one of your jokes coming, I'm gonna duck.

---------------- On 3/22/2004 8:43:05 PM wheelman wrote: Sounds to me like he's rich. But he got a good deal on his heresy's. You got to save a little money when you got a million dollars worth of cars LOL. Or do you mean you own a mustang and your parents have three vipers? If you do own them either way you have great parents and you should let them know. Be carefull buddy when you do drive those dont' get killed on us. ---------------- They're his parents' cars. He's been asked the direct question twice now, and twice he's declined to answer it. C'mon, Mars! Man up and tell the truth!

Pardon my skepticism, but are they yours as in you own them yourself, or are they yours because you live with the guy who's got his name on the title and he donated you a Y chromosome about 15 years ago?

Waiting until my CHT-100 gives up the ghost?

Mozilla.