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Absolutely! I'm thinking a couple of briskets will be making the trip to SWAG II.

I thought the livestream was excellent. I would prefer to hear more from the engineers, and less from the marketing guys, but that's how it usually goes LOL. They all did a great job, and the enthusiasm for the Forte IV performance was obviously real and not just marketing hype.

Based on the stated 3 hrs that the motor will run using 2 AA batteries (under no load), it should run about 9 minutes using a CR2032 (under no load). This assumes typical average mAh ratings of two AA Alkaline batteries vs. one CR2032 battery.

It uses indirect heat. There is a water pan above the firebox that covers the width of the smoker. About two inches gap at the front and back of the water pan allows the smoke to enter the upper chamber with the racks.

Not exactly audio related, but now I'm set up for some serious cooking.

You my not need to change the crossovers, but you will need an adapter for the K-55-V driver to the 511b horn since the bolt patterns are different. Even with an adapter, you may need to drill new holes in the flanges of the horns. I switched to 511b horns in my Khorns over 15 years ago and did not change the crossovers (AK-3 crossovers, K-55-M drivers). They sound great.

Very nice. Not a speaker, but I bet it will sound great too.

Gregg, that was one of my favorite audio gatherings ever. It was my first trip to Hope, and obviously, the first time to visit the Museum and the Klipsch factory. We can never repeat with the same group of great guys, but I certainly hope you can make it again to a future gathering of Forum members.

That's the way I see it, just like it was at the Hope gathering in 2005, Bob sitting with Dee, and Bob checking out crossovers in his spare time. RIP Bob and Dee.

I remember watching that. Somewhere I still have Kodachrome slides that I shot of the TV screen when it happened. Before VCRs obviously. RIP Hank.

Just saw this very sad news. I had the pleasure of spending a little time with Bob on a couple of occasions. He was one of the most genuine and unassuming fellows you could ever meet. Condolences to his family. He will be sorely missed by this Klipsch forum community. RIP Bob.

I'm in.

Those do look nice. I like the wooden bases too.

RIP. Another great artist that I grew up listening to has left us.

The view tonight just after sunset over my neighbor's house from my driveway. And also tonight through my small telescope. It is really pretty amazing to see both planets in the eyepiece with enough magnification to see Saturn's rings. BTW, the image to the eye was a much clearer. Too much telescope and camera shake to really capture the sharpest image. But not bad for a quick set up.

I shot this photo yesterday evening, one day before the "great conjunction", which is tonight. The photo is slightly overexposed (cell phone camera through a small telescope eyepiece), but you can clearly see the shape of Saturn and Jupiter with some of its moons. I'll try tonight with a better camera set up.

Either way, you'll think of her every time you listen to those, so I'd say she is a keeper. My wife surprised me with AW-650s 12 years ago for Christmas, but that was after 20 years of marriage LOL.

Rodney's or a place like Rodney's would be great if we had 100% control of the venue.

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Interesting, Houston in Texas is very near the center of US population: Houston is a city in Texas County, Missouri, United States.

When I A/B'd the CWI to the CWIII, I preferred the CWI for the overall presentation, likely due to the larger midrange horn and lower crossover point of the CWI. The CWIII does offer some improvement in the low end. The tweeter in the CWIII may sound more refined to you (smoother, extended highs maybe?) than the CWI tweeter (K77). But there are drop-in replacement tweeters if that is a problem. Except for recapping the crossovers, dampening the mid horns, and adding a 9kZ frequency trap, my CWI's are stock and I think they sound fine.

To me they seem a little rough cosmetically for that price. I'm sure they sound great.

Very cool.

The YF-22 was developed by Lockheed/Boeing/General Dynamics (GD) for the Airforce's ATF (Advanced Tactical Fighter) competition. I was a young engineer at GD in the mid to late 80's and I worked on the ATF program while supporting F-16 production at GD's Fort Worth plant (Air Force Plant #4). I had already left GD by the time the YF-22 was selected as the winner against the Northrup/McDonnell Douglas YF-23 in the early 90's. Eventually, Lockheed bought the Fort Worth aircraft production business from GD. As great as the F-16 was, the design and manufacturing processes for the YF-22 were a generation more advanced, with much more composite material in the airframe.