Travis In Austin

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Side view as you walk into the room, this is why I got an exotic wood finish, the entire right side of the speaker is exposed when you walk in. The horse blanket will go after I get the right padding under the 402 base to protect the top of the bass bins.

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Sorry about that, I have been listening for 24 hours straight, NO [bs]. So I'm winding down, big day at work tomorrow, so here are so with the speakers in place. The DCR bass bins are still raw and will be finished over Labor Day weekend with Luther's help. The 402 horns are raw as well and those will be finished with high grade german auto Laq just like the those high dollar german horns are done (the ones that go for over 100K, name escapes me right now). I'm not sure of a color yet, maybe deep burgandy, Luther suggested garnet. I will post more photos after when each phase is done. Here is the first of a few more.

Dtel's, I love reading this thread. Y'all are a class act in every way. I hope I am there at your 50th, and looking forward to the journey over the next 19 years. Travis

That is one neat operation, top to bottom, and beautiful work to boot. Travis

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402 Horn in box, they come fully assembled with brackets and drivers attached.

You slice the boxes down each corner to reveal this . . .

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Well I finally got around to getting my DCR Jubilles set up, with a lot of help. The DCR KPT-KHJ bass bins are made of African Mahogany, I wanted them in a more exotic finish grade wood because the way my room is situated the first thing you see when you come in is the entire right side of the right speaker. I ordered them about last Feb. or March ('08), Roy Delgado had to pull many strings and go an extra country mile to get these done in exotic plywood and I can not thank him enough. In order to do this he had to redo the cut list (step by step instructions for production team) several times. They are normally 3/4" ply painted in textured black paint and so the existing cut list did not take into account wood grain or other cosmetic factors. In addition, Roy wanted to change the bracing to make it stiffer, and some other minor changes. I'm not sure, but I think there were a couple of "prototypes" that were done before mine were finalized, and mine were built and arrived at the house in around March of this year, where they sat in my garage up until now, much to my wife's chagrin. Eric (SynthFreak) and Luther (Wardsweb) came over yesterday evening to help me get them up the stairs and all hooked up. MeLovesKHorns was on call delivering babys so he missed out on the fun. I was opening the boxes in great anticipation to see if those boxes really contain what they said they contain. As you can see from the posted photos they did in fact contain what they were supposed to. There are a lot of settings to enter on the EV DX-38 crossover, but Eric is a Pro and had everything entered by 11 p.m. and music was rolling. Eric wen home about 2 a.m. and Luther and I listend until about 4 a.m. What incredible sound, I feel so dumb for missing out on this quality while they sat for 5 months. I will be getting the bass bins finished over Labor Day, and the 402 horns will be finished at a friend of Luther's who owns a hign end automotive finish company. Here are some photos to show the process. Travis

I'm not so sure about that, I know what you are saying Mark, I did enjoy a few parts of it, but the patent's are more interesting and better written than the body of the book. Travis

Like Gilbert said, dove breasts (which is the only part worth eating, and it takes 20 to make a meal), are great with bacon. Heck, why BS, they taste just like liver and the only way to make them edible is to wrap them in bacon, slap on a jalopeno pepper, and grill 'em. Most with have at it like this and gnaw them down to the bone. I prefer to remove the bacon and the pepper, eat those, and toss the breasts to the dogs. I much prefer ostrich over dove any day. Travis

That is really incredibile stuff there. As usual, beautiful work. I sure wish they would allow be around power tools again. Travis

Eric, Wish I had Klipsch computer speakers because some of these are sounding very good. T

I like this list, A LOT

I'm more in the "one star" camp than the 3 stars you gave, but I do agree with you that there are a few wonderful passages in the book and a few very interesting tidbits. For instance, there is a wonderful section about the Jubilee, and about Roy's work with Paul on that project that is not contained anywhere else that I am aware of. Roy wrote an excellent piece that is in the book that discussed this subject. The book is just so poorly written, and it so clearly a vainity book, right down to the rubber stamp signature of Mr. Klipsch that Miss V put in herself, and her signature as well. The whole thing is just really sad on so many levels. In my opinion, a mediocre book about a great man does the man more of a diservice than to honor him. LarryC knows the authors I believe, and Dr. Larry is mentioned in the book, so it is worth the price just for that fact alone. Travis

Nope sorry, all I have available is a '70 1/2, but I will keep my eye open for you Partick. You should come out to Austin for the record convention coming up next month. We would love to have you. Travis

I was thinking about that myself, but I need to have one disk per client, and the tapes are usually less than 45 minutes so Bluray would be a bit of overkill for me. Travis

I was wondering if anyone has any first hand experience with VHS to DVD recorders. I have several hundred old VHS videotapes of clients doing Field Soberity Tests and they are taking up way too much space. We keep them around because we cross-reference them by arresting officer, etc. and I want my staff to convert them to DVD. So I'm looking for somthing that has good dubbing quality, ease of use, reliable, etc. Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance, Travis

Not yet, still in boxes in my garage. i need to get a work crew organized, get em up and going. Travis

I'm looking forward to hearing those babys as well. Travis

Are any of your tubes 6dj8 by chance? Travis

J JB, I'm with you all the way on that. Where are you located and I will give you a list of 'em. If you are every in Dallas you need to try my wife's familys place, Campisi's. Travis