Travis In Austin

Have you checked out Neil Young's archieve site yet? Hi Rez, it is quite something. https://www.neilyoungarchives.com

Glad to see all of your support for those 75 employees in Hope. The Museum bought them all pizza today to thank them for helping the Museum all year long.

A business relationship, for many, many, years. From an article John Allen wrote after PWK's passing: "Many who have written about Paul Klipsch’s life have noted that he inspired numerous careers in audio. This is certainly true. My own career in a prime example. The first time I heard a Klipschorn in the home of my next door neighbor, I knew I had heard something extraordinary. What I didn’t know is that my life would be changed forever. It was another few years before I could save enough for my own Klipschorns, but once I had them, I could actually listen to music with the kind of satisfaction otherwise found only in a live setting. Later, with Paul’s help, guidance and especially his speaker systems, I was able to bring this kind of quality to symphony and ballet performances where sound reinforcement was required. Then in 1979, I founded my present company and began my career in motion picture sound, including writing for BOXOFFICE magazine. Since then my work has taken me completely around the world while accumulating over 1.2 million miles. Without Klipsch’s loudspeakers, I never would have bothered to do any of this, as nothing else would have or could have inspired me so. Though widely known for his brilliance and sense of humor, to my surprise, Paul was also a controversial figure. There have been audio engineers who have strongly disputed Klipsch’s design approaches as well as his published writings. However, as far as I know, none of the dissenters has produced a superior loudspeaker, let alone one that has stood the test of time for 60 years and counting. Not many know this, but it is hard to find a loudspeaker behind a movie screen that does not employ design features that were either invented by Paul Klipsch or enhanced by him. His patented K-5 treble horn of 1951 has been widely copied in one way or another. It was the first of what became known as the constant directivity horn. Some thirty years later, these horns became widely used in movie theatres, while Klipsch had already completed two more product design generations. In 1982, he designed a tweeter for my sound systems that compensated for the coverage angle distortions caused by movie screens. It wasn’t for another seventeen years that other manufacturers followed suit."

There are basically two beans, Arabica and Robusto. Robusto have 2x the caffeine of Arabica. Most gourmet coffees are Arabica. Most grocery store brand coffees are Robusto. A dark roast Robusto will still have 2x the caffeine of a light roast Arabica. If you are compairing caffeine by roast from the same beans, Lighter roasted coffee will have more by volume, dark roasted coffee has more caffeine by weight. (Roasting does not cook out caffeine, what happens is the longer you roast the more the bean shrinks and the mass is reduced. Pretty much everyone on the planet makes coffee by measuring coffee, so it is generally true that darker roasts will have less caffeine than lighter roasts if they are from the same bean. If you want great flavor and max caffeine you have.to hunt down and find good tasting dark roast made.from Robusto beans.

@Mallette where do you get the raw beans? There are three roasters in Austin where you can pick up fresh roasted. Would you say it is worth effort if you had an easy source for fresh roasted?

What listening level are you at most of the time? Schu mentioned earlier that he is typically at about 90 to 95db and was wondering if Jubes would be overkill.

I would be very interested to hear your thoughts on the time alignment, and active vs. passive.

Let me/us know. Completely trust your judgement. No pressure.

Ok, what's the deal? Pro reviews say it's great. Theater goers say it sucked. Are reviewers afraid to say emperor has no clothes? Do theater goers/SW fans have too high of expectations?

What approach did you take to tame the time alignment issue? Or can you get it close enough with the right passive design?

No, not at all. I'm not familar with Bob's passives, they may be from the schematic that Roy did as an option. The passives I heard were quite, quite good. Over the top Good, and my recollection is the parts alone "would be in the $1000's." That was my original plan, but the active that became available, which have been even improves upon since that time, didn't justify the expense for me. The only way for someone to really know is to bi-amp or tri-amp with a good active and compare with passive to see what their impressions are. For the vast majority the preference is the active (probably because of the ability to precisely time align). That makes a huge audible difference that most, if not all, can hear. You can punch that in and out with most active crossovers for a quick A and B comparison.

Well so far from that era there is the Talking Heads, Clash, Police, Patti Smith, the Ramones, the Pretenders, the Stooges, the Sex Pistols, Elvis Costello and Blondie. I can't think of any others off the top of my head. I would like Roxy Music, X, Modern Lovers, Television, B52s, Public Image and the Smiths.

I thought I was in the minority with that viewpoint. Who else would you like to see in from those eras?

The direct radiating makes it possible to use passive. You don't have the time alignment issues to deal with. Fully hornloaded LF creates the time alignment issues and makes the passive options much more limited, and very expensive. @Deang can build you a set.of passives but I think he will tell you that would he in the thousands. It isn't that complex, we can get you the settings. If I can do it, anyone can (seriously).

I agree, you would be better off hearing properly set up Jubes than trying to extrapolate what a Jube would sound like from listening to an LS with with a 402 "slapped" on top.

Do you have 2 good corners? Just one, and thus the reason for enclosed backs? EDIT: I see from previous post you do, then you are golden. What sub(s) are you running now? That can be an issue, a good fit for subs with Jubes.

If your main criteria is what will sound the best, as you say, there is but one choice. I'd your question is whether it is worth the extra 20 percent to go for Jubes, in my opinion they are worth more than the typical 3 or 4x what a pair of good used Khorns would run. Couple that with being able add an 1802 later on you can use it for anything. HT, 2 channel, whatever. What is it going to primarily be used form. HT, 2 ch? You won't need to worry about diminishing returns until you get to the point of upgrading drivers, center and sub options. If you have other criteria maybe looks/WAF, space concerns (which doesn't appear to be a problem) or something else I can't help you with that, it is just too subjective. I have VRDs for 402s and McIntosh solid state on LF with active crossover. I think you are operating under the mistaken assumption that a separate active crossover somehow changes the sound of your amp, adds coloration, etc. A good active crossover won't do that.

SCHU, This is what I'm talking about, someone who has had Khorns. Bill knows his stuff. He uses those Jubes at his restaurant outdoors (made with marine grade plywood), and at home. It is very difficult to put into words what you are moving up to. The Khorn is indeed a great speaker. Let me.try it this way, in a 25 x 40 room the distance between a Khorn and Jubes is about the same as Heresey and Khorn. Jubes are not tweaked Khorns. They are two way, with a modified tractrix CD Horn. There is nothing like it in Klipsch Heritage line to compare it to.

I ran VRDs for 402 Horn and SS for LF, in active set up. You will like that sound a lot.

You are at a completely different level with Jubes, it doesn't matter what listening level is. If you had your top 3 listening tracks on at 90db, and listened to all 3 speakers, you are going to go with Jubes every time, especially in a 25x40 room. Jubes don't sound like Khorns or LS's, they are completely different. You are talking apples and oranges, night and day. I would talk to people who had Khorns who got Jubes and ask them their thoughts. I would venture to say if you got Jubes you would eventually take one of your LS cabinets and cut the top off to put on a 402 Horn for a center channel.

Hi Bill, Yes there will be another one in the Spring. They are working on getting some specific dates. So please stay tuned. Welcome back!!!!!!!!. There are some photos floating around back from those days. Do you happen to have any that you took? Travis

Wait, wait, wait. I am trying to figure this issue out and I am trying to understand this issue. JimJim, up until change this week, an internet service provider (Comcast, Spectrum, AT&T, Google Fiber) could not throttle selected services. For example,.Comcast could not throttle down Netflix in an effort to promote their streaming services. After this change in policy Comcast can now throttle back Netflix, or other streaming services (i.e., they don't have to be neutral). Netflix has vowed, and can afford, to fight that all the way to SCOTUS. (They have almost 2 billion in cash on hand, even after paying off a ton of debt). But as far as what an individual gets in terms of speed, that is a matter of what service and speed you choose to purchase, correct? If you are not getting the speeds you paid for from your provider, Google Megabit, Uverse megabit, 100 mips, whatever, you complain to them and come out and get you where you are supposed to be, or you switch or cancel. I'm currently getting better than advertised speeds with Uverse. That isn't going to slow down as far as I can tell. The articles I have read on who is going to be impacted are streaming services. They can slow down Netflix when they need too in order to give preference to their streaming services.

You are right, I totally forgot I saw VII a couple of years ago. I need a program to follow along.

Help me please. I saw first three, in order, in order, when originally released, in Bay Area Century Theaters in California, in 70 MM set up with sound systems that were the "laboratory" for what would eventually become Lucas Sound. Then I saw Rogue 1 this year. How many official films are there? What is the relative time frame of these? Rogue 1 had an older Princess, and an old Luke, so obviously this is well after the " original" three(?). Did the do prequels?

Shoot. I have some extra Fiberfill, cryogenicly treated, made out of a eq balanced proprietary formula that I was hoping to sell you. Well, if they ever get tiresome, let me know.