Seadog

"Highs in the low 90s and lows in the upper 60s." The forecast in the Dallas area is for 99-100 degrees this weekend. Glad I'm going to Indy where it is cooler!

Larry, My flight still arrives at 1:21 pm, and I have to pick up the car (at Alamo), so your timing is just about right. I will be in the car, so I will be looking for you at the passenger pick up area outside your baggage claim. My cell phone is 817-368-2841. Also, I can come back to get anyone who needs a ride. David

"Make them go hungry, then lock them in the room with the jazz lady for the night." Isn't there a law against cruel and unusual punishment?

---------------- On 6/22/2005 8:04:39 AM Al Klappenberger wrote: Seadog, That installation looks very firmiliar! Believe me, you're going to love the new sound! Al K. ---------------- Al, Great workmanship on that assembly! Aside from having to notch the inside brace pieces on the sides and top of the K-horn, the assembly fit like a glove! Its all the more amazing that they fit into the 89 K-horns as well as it did in the 70s vintage K-horns that they came from. Klipsch has obviously kept the overall dimensions very close over time. As for the sound, even my son immediately noticed a difference. When we had just one speaker completed, we did some A/B comparisons. He said, Dad it sounds really good even with just one speaker. The K-401 has a definite hot spot, whereas the 511b sounds consistent over a much wider angle, and even well off-axis, the 511b clarity is better than the K401 in the sweet spot. I really noticed this most in the voices. Detail seems to be more resolved as if the 511b is not competing with the tweeter (perhaps the vertical orientation of the K-77 has something to do with this also?). Maybe someday Ill consider Trachorns, but for now Im very please with the results from the Altecs. David

Too Funny!!

Here is a completed speaker with grill. Notice the grill is larger and the strips of wood above and below the stock K-horn grill are now covered. I like the look of the stock grill better, but I like the sound of these much better! More detailed comments on the improved sound to come. But I will just say that everything that I have heard about these improving the clarity and enlarging the sweet spot are absolutely true!

Here is the left speaker with the 511b and the K-77. The tweeters are now mounted vertically. This seems to improve the imaging. The hole where the tweeter is mounted was originally cut for a Beyma tweeter (future upgrade for me??).

Top on, almost done.

The construction zone.

My helper, my seven-year-old son. He is also a Klipsch fan!

I caulked the horns with rope caulk. Nearly three rolls of 90'per roll for each horn. The plumber's putty on the lips of the horn was already there when I got the horns.

Of course new holes had to be drilled to mount the adapter.

An adapter flange was required to mount the K-55-M driver.

Here is one completed except without the grill.

I finished installing Altec 511b horns in my '89 K-horns on Father's Day weekend. A friend and fellow-Hornhead recently upgraded to ALK Trachorns in his K-horns and I was fortunate to get the Altecs that he had been using before the Trachorns. This is the K-401 as it was about to be removed.

---------------- On 6/21/2005 2:32:11 PM j-malotky wrote: There only 20 years old.... There still new yet!!! JM ---------------- They look (almost) as good as the day I brought them home, and of course sound just as great. My seven-year-old son has claimed them for his own. I told him that someday he could have them when he goes to college. By then they will be thirty-one years old. They should be just about broken in good by then!

Twenty years ago today, I bought my first Klipsch speakers. As I was purging some old files a couple of days ago, I ran across the receipt from Marvin Electronics in Fort Worth (no longer a Klipsch dealer Im sorry to say). I paid $520 for the pair, and $599 for a Yamaha R8 receiver. I still have the KG4s and the Yami, and the boxes. Time flies by so quickly. I remember loading those boxes in the back seat of my car like it was last week.

My brother (two years older than me) bought a nice Sansui/Cerwin Vega system in 1976 when I was still in HS and he was still living at home. I thought it was very good, but when I went off to college, I heard Lascalas at an independent mom and pop music store, and there it was, the sound that I could not forget. When I graduated from engineering school and had saved a few bucks, the first real purchase I made was a stereo system. I went to the local Klipsch dealer and said I wanted to buy a system, and I wanted Klipsch speakers. I was not interested in hearing anything else (although I listened to Boston Acoustic and some others to be a nice customer!). That was the first time that I had walked through the door of a Klipsch dealer, and that day I took home a pair of KG4 speakers, a Yamaha receiver, and a Technics TT. That was in 1985. BTW, I converted my brother over to Klipsch a couple of years ago. Today we both have K-horns.

$3699 for that?!!! They should be ashamed for charging so much for so little.

Come on! We could have loads of fun with Admin rights! Edit: Hey, I just noticed, this was my 500th post (I'm a little slow).

The comments here are making me reconsider seeing this movie. Until now, I had not even considered it.

My kids love Sandlot, especially my 4-year-old. The Natural was a good baseball movie.

Iamtnbikr, Condolences to you and your family on the passing of your dad. David