Travis In Austin
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Oh yeah ,
Well , thanks for getting the debris off but who's eyes are those ?better?
Kinda freaky looking , like a brother or someone else that looks like me .
I took that pic during tropical storm Ernesto last year . The water was all churned up and sea grass and all kinds of stuff was in the water . Also fried my camera exposing it to the blowing rain .
I was wondering though if you could help me out with this bruise I received a couple hours later when the wind switched offshore . This incident ended my day .
The culprit looked something like this only meaner .
Sunburn,
You are really starting to make me mad. First photos of the boards. Now a photo of a double breaking wave that you can take either left or right and you just know it going to produce pumping barrels.
Travis
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Kevin on the left and Sam Alito on the right. Quite fitting actually....
Very nice Kevin. I had a bunch of photos taken when I was at the supreme court, with Kennedy who I know pretty well, and Ginsberg who I met for the first time. But nothing came out unfortunately. I like yours, came out great.
Travis
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Travis: How about the weekend before Memorial Day or the 1st wk end in June? Friday or Saturday works for me, let's let Roy decide which would be less disruptive. Golf gets in my way in the summer.
Arky,
Either is fine with me, I agree, let Roy decide what is best for him, Sat. if possible, but not required. It Tubes-N-Horns is serious he can let us know if either weekend will work as well. I would enjoy the company on the drive up there. If he can't go, maybe Seadog, JWC or other DFW member will want to hitch a ride. Luther may want to go, not sure what Doc in Waco is up to. I also need to check with Coytee if he is going to be around either weekend to see if I really can come over.
Travis
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Roy,
I still am very interested in seeing if there are any curves with Jubs on a flat wall and what they read. Mine would be on a 21' wall, one could go in a corner on the left, and the right would be 15' from the left with no corner. No room for false corner for that right speaker, so Khorns are out. Trey is getting me really jazzed up about LS2's and top-o-the-line subs. Another Austin forum member just had his LS2's arrive and he is getting things set up. So I am trying to get a handle on what I would be losing without a corner.
Travis
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Dean: I've yet to figure it out. Perhaps it is a compliment as you're a respected member of the forum or perhaps some simply want to bust your a$$. I am happy for you & glad you are enjoying your investment.
I'm going to venture to Hope this summer & see if Roy will give me an audition. I'll be packing ribs.
no ribs required....just come on down and lunch will be on me.....
have a blessed night,
roy
Arky,
When do you want to go, I will meet you up there. You still have to bring the Ribs, I'll bring the Sausage, and if TubesNHorns can come will have brisket. Let's do it on a Sat., we can have the whole place to ourselves and go nuts in there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Actually, it does not matter to me when we do it, any day is fine if I have enough notice, Fri. would be best. I just figure since you are going for a Jub demo, and I want a Jub demo, we might as well try and do it at the same time so we don't wear Roy out.
I will buy lunch to pay back Roy for his hospitality and Arky for the idea.
Travis
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New price on the Khorns $1,500.00 These speakers are still for sale nobody has bought them. I emailed Seti with all the pictures and contact info. He had to work late and could not get back with me.If you want him to have first offer that is fine. When I get everthing set up I will have some of the local forum friends over. I talked to you on the phone about a month ago dwilawyer about your khorns. I will be using a sub with the La Scalas. That is the reason I bought another DD18 in black instead of cherry (WAF).Like I said, I will let you know when I get it all set up and local forum friends can come over. I don't have a big house though all small houses on the poor side of town.
rmlowz
Congratulations on the speakers, new, and the sale. I remember now about the phone conversation, I can't wait to see you set up. Does not matter to me the size or location of the home, as long as it has Klipsch and beer or bourbon. Actually, I will bring some along. While you are getting things set up I hope you will make it over sometime for a listen and a looksee at what I have going on. I would really appreciate you thoughts given that you have had the Khorns and now have LS's.
Travis
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DWI - What is with all this rib talk here & there. If you have a killer recipe - please spill the beans.
Dean - Will check PMs. Am I in trouble again?
I asked at least 3 months ago if there was some way on this planet to fashion a semi-Jub out of a khorn bin...... Finally someone's thinking about it hard.
Actually, it was Arky who said he was going to head to Hope this summer with some ribs to try and bribe Roy into a listen of the Jubs. I suggested to Arky that he allow me to join him and that I would bring up a bunch of sausage in order to make it more worth while for Roy to "invite" us on up. So far Arky has not responded to my self invitation offer, possibly because he wants Roy, the Jubs, and the demo room all to himself. Meanwhile, Tubes-N-Horns is adding brisket to the mix to make Roy an offer he can't refuse.
From there I would like to head over to Coytee's place to listen to his set up.
So as far as rib recipies, you will have to ask Arky. However, I can put you on to some great tasting sausage. Dang, now I am dying for a Chicago style hot dog with radioactive green relish.
Travis
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Dean: I've yet to figure it out. Perhaps it is a compliment as you're a respected member of the forum or perhaps some simply want to bust your a$$. I am happy for you & glad you are enjoying your investment.
I'm going to venture to Hope this summer & see if Roy will give me an audition. I'll be packing ribs.
Arky,
Let me know when your are going and I will bring an ice chest of sausage to throw in with your ribs (and anything else Roy likes to eat). (I'm serious)
Travis
Can I tag along? I'll take brisket; already smoked....by me....yum!
I don't know what Arky's plans were, but as far as I am concerned, heck yeah, bring the beef. Then we can head over to Coytee's place to listen to his set up, but I think we can apease him with alcohol, which is a good thing because I think we will be totally out of food.
Travis
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Dean: I've yet to figure it out. Perhaps it is a compliment as you're a respected member of the forum or perhaps some simply want to bust your a$$. I am happy for you & glad you are enjoying your investment.
I'm going to venture to Hope this summer & see if Roy will give me an audition. I'll be packing ribs.
Arky,
Let me know when your are going and I will bring an ice chest of sausage to throw in with your ribs (and anything else Roy likes to eat). (I'm serious)
Travis
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Hello,
My 2007 La Scalas just got here today. I have deceided to only have one pair of Klipsch Heritage speakers. They are in great shape with only a small stain on one of the top corners. They have the AK2 crossover, K55 Midhorn and K77 tweeter. I will take some pictures tonight and email to those that are interested. $1,750.00 OBO
rmlowz
I think I am going to be going the same route as you rmlowz. Trey loves his LSII with Sub set up and I am looking into that right now. Unbelievable I might have a way to listen to La Scala II right here in Austin, hint hint.
Travis
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Hello everyone...
Just thought I would enter this little post about factory demo tapes or LP's you may have in your collection. I own an ORIGINAL 1958 RCA stereo demo LP. Its still a real hoot to listen to.
My mom bought a brand new Voice of Music reel to reel back in the late 50ies I believe, she was doing commercials for radio stations at home then and used it for that purpose, however..... It came with a really interesting demo tape (keep in mind, it was monophonic back in that period). I remember as a young kid my folks playing that demo from time to time, it included some symphonic music and lots of sound effects. An impending thunderstorm etc.
If ANYONE has a copy of this, I would love to hear it again, as it has been long since lost back in the early 60ies sometime, and that was the last time I had heard it.
Also, back in 1974, I bought a brand new Sony TC-388-4 `Quadradial' 4 channel reel to reel recorder. I still have this deck and the demo recording is still mint in its box, and although a bit `hissy' by today's listening standards, its still very interesting to hear. Anyone that would want a copy of it in 2 channel mode, I would be willing to share.
Meanwhile, my music room is about to undergo its transformation allowing for my 1968 K'horns to be installed. I am going to make them the main front channels for my retro QUAD playback system. As some of you may know, I am rebuilding my model 'A' xovers with new caps from Bob C. This I would hope make a difference. I have yet to hear these speakers myself, as they were a gift from a friend of mine that passed away - they remain in storage until I can begin work on them and set them up.
Thanks for reading and I look forward to your posts..
With warm regards,
Gary
Tigerman,
Welcome, nice to see your posts on reel to reel. I have about 200 prerecorded reel to reel tapes, and they are great. I have 8 2-track master tapesI have bought from different sources. These were either made to go to the record production facility or reel to reel duplication facility. It is unbelievable the number of "master" tapes that have made there way out into the market place.
I have an Al Green Quad tape, that is of no use to me since I don't have a quad deck. Very interesting package and concept.
Glad to see your post,
Travis
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wow! i'm just proud that you are talking to me!!
good question.....these are klipsch speakers.........this is a klipsch website........there are people that are interested in the jub experiment (and deano's comments).......all we need is those that just like to snipe to stay away........not those that actually have something to offer.....some insight.........i am not just looking for good comments....i am looking for constructive criticism.........when i first heard about the jub woes on the forum, i just wanted to let people know that jub system could be had that was better than the one we thought about bringing to market for alot less. yes i know that we offer the unpretty model, but gosh, i saw what people were putting in their homes and i thought that this just might fly. i appreciate your suggestion but no, the jub doesn't have to be put in the corner. i don't believe that pwk would have like that at all.
and controversial.....you are the man!!
have a blessed night (i mean it allan),
roy delgado
Roy,
I am glad you posted on the issue of the corner. There was a thread recently, I think that Coytee posted about a brand new forum member who got Jub's, in Washington State I believe, that you helped get set up. Anyhoo, he mentioned that he pulled the speakers out from the corners abit and got some better sound. I asked for far he and Coytee had their speakers of the the corner and it was just a little bit, but they said the speaker was a corner speaker with a loss of bass response if they were forward facing. They suggested I contact you becasue you would know what the differense in response would be.
So, since you mentioned that they do not need to be in a corner, and folks swear you have done testing on this, what, if any low end would I lose if had them forward facing?
Travis
EDIT: Roy, here way my question and the response I got from Coytee
dwilawyer:
How far are you running these speakers from the side wall and out from the back wall. I read with interest Bob's comments about losing the "one note" effect when he brought them out from the wall. Just wondering how much room these baby's need to breathe.Edit: I forgot these were corner loaded until I read through the rest of the threads and so the great photos. How much low end do you lose if they are on a wall but no corner?
Coytee: My understanding from BerryBoy is they can be up to about 10" from each wall with zero negative effect. I have a thick plug (from my solid state amp) going into the wall socket and it just happens to FORCE me to scoot my right speaker from the wall. I simply moved the left one to approximate the right one so they'd look more balanced. As for how much you might lose, that might be a Roy question. They are made with a flat back so they CAN be pressed flat against a back wall.
I think Bob was suffering from "one note" during his break in only. I think he's since made comment that his earlier comments (one note) were out of line once his woofers broke in. If you go back and read exactly what he said, you will see that he too is essentially saying that the Jubilees step all over the Khorns in all departments.
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The Hooterville express showed up today and although there are million things I should be doing, I couldn't help but to get the big old boys up an running. They defintely have a commanding footprint. No manual yet, but set up was a breeze with some simple instructions provided by Mark via email. Plug them in and turn them on, watch the bias lights go yellow, red, green... small adjustment to get them to green. They are playing now. Everyone in the house is asleep and they like to stay that way so I can't do much other than to tell you they set up easy and play problem free. Not always the case when buying esoteric audio equipment from my experience. Going to be fun to get some real listening in this weekend.
Now that is a sight for sore eyes. Wowza.
Can't wait to hear your thoughts,
Travis
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Coytee,
Here are some links to speaker evaluation forms, they can all be modified to your situation.
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/macosx2004/mac04_speaker_evaluation.doc
http://edr.ucsd.edu/pdf/Evaluation.doc
http://www.bu.edu/bioinformatics/seminars/speaker_evaluation.html
I did not look at them too close, but I think I like the first and last ones the best.
Travis
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I just read this out loud and now my wife is laughing, telling me to tell you (Travis) that "even though my (hers) opinion doesn't count, I think you are dead on" (that's a direct quote from her)
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The response forms don't rate each or any speaker... I'll have to add that part in. Good idea!
To Coytee's Wife: I swear that was taken out of context.[:$] The spouse's opinion, at least with mine, is what is most important to me. However, we were trying to come up with a way to tell the partner his son is goofy. Since the partner does not see what it patently obvious to everyone else, he probably is not going to change his mind with Coytee's opinion, or your opinion, etc. Your opinion is critically important in Coytee deciding whether the situation has to change, that the son is too big of drain, etc. It wouuld be to me. However, the normal dynamics between business partners, their children, etc. being what they are, your opinion would not be importnat to the partner in determining whether his son was doing a good job. My point is that given his inability to judge his son's antics, I think the only opinion what would get through to him is that of prospective clients.
Travis
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Coytee,
Several of the responses you got came in while I was typing my last response to your question, along with your response about the 90% thing. You say that you have evaluation forms where they can enter a date they want to come in and on the kid they say "a couple of weeks"? Is there sections on this evaluation already that rates the presenters and ask for comments on the quality of presentation of each presenter? Maybe you already have the info you need to tell your partner, I don't know. If the questionaire is annon. they won't hold back about hurthing anyone's feelings and it is only those type of responses that are going to be of any help to you. The way the questons are phrased is important. Please rate each presenter is terms of the following:
Mr. Coytee
Overall Presentation 1 Waste of my time 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Excellent, very informative
Topics Covered
what ever else you want to know
What did you like best about Mr. Coytee's presentation?__________________________________
What did you like least about Mr. Coytee's presentation?__________________________________
What suggestions or comments do you have that would make Mr. Coytee's presentation useful?
As a last thing, you cannot rely on a family member, expecially a spouse, to be objective about anything. They just cannot remove themselves from being supportive of their spouse. More importantly, their opinion does not matter, the spouse could think that you, or your partner are the worst presenters on the face of the planet, but if you keep geting clients from this process does it really matter what she thinks? I understand that you were trying to make sure it was not just you, but you would have gotten more information unbiased information from a waiter. Likewise if she thinks you are the best presenter she has ever seen, could sell ice to Eskimos, etc., but you don't get one lead, does it really matter.
Your talking to your partner without comments from the prospective clients will fall on deaf ears and be seen as overly critical of the son. Your wife's comments won't add anything since that would be what he would expect her to say, and the comments from the lady are coming from you as well. I deal with parents, almost daily, who believe their child can do no wrong. I know how difficult it can be to show them there is a problem (drugs, alcohol, attitude, etc.). The only way you can get around this is with facts. When it comes to trying to gather "facts" when it comes to something subjective like judging a presentation, I think all that matters is what the people you are trying to sign up think. These comments are "facts" that your partner, and his son, will have to address. Anything else, like what you think, your wife thinks, a current client thinks, the waitress thinks, the bartender, the cook, etc. is all opinion. Someone who has a warped sense of reality, like that their son is a great at presentations, is not going to be swayed by opinion. On the other hand, if they both see that 90% of those folks who return responses that rate him as 1, 1, and 1, and have comments like "find a new line of work " and have you and your partner at 9,9,9 with comments like "you and Mr. Father are great, but lose that goof ball kid", Dad and sonny-boy are going to have to deal with it. Best off, its not coming from you, and you told your partner without bringing emotion into it.
Travis
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I'll reply again as you posted during my last input. There is NO good way to criticize your partners son. Especially in light of this one seminar. Your partner wasn't there. He's just looking at the numbers and by golly they shine. He's probably on another forum asking them how to tell you that his son is saving the company from your dull speaking abilities. Each and everytime I have been in a company where relatives became involved it was a disaster.
Oscar,
I asked the same question you did, what does Coytee atribute the 90% response to when it was just him and the kid. I don't know about you, but from what I remember from sales and marketing that is an unheard of response rate. If it were me I would try and keep the Dad at home and bring the kid with me where ever I went. If he just had the effect of making my pitch better, or that I brought my best game becase of him, that is good enough for me. Are you saying you wouuld have had 100% without the kid?
Coytee, to answer your question, with comment cards you don't have to tell the Dad. They are going to do that talking. You need a set from one, possibly two dinners. Offer the door prize out of your own pocket if you have to (make it somethng that has no affiliation with you, $25.00 gift card to Bestbuy, whatever), make it clear that it is confiential, they don't have to put any info on it, they will not be contacted,but they are very important to you so that they can make sure these presentations are as beneficial to them as possible.
You provide these commennts to your partner AND his son. You do not have to tell him anything, he will either get it, if he does not, you say I am concerned about what THESE people are saying about Sonny Boy. THESE people say that he is a goof ball, THESE PEOPLE say he is a turn off, THESE PEOPLE say that they were not did not want to trust their investments with anyone stupid enough to hire such an idiot.
Coytee, your are correct to be concerned with having to tell your partner that the son is just not working out. They did not create the addage "Dont shoot the messenger" for nothing. It is human nature to take your frustrations out of the person who points out the truth to you. The comment cards remove you from it in the sense that you are just pointing out that to the people who count, the client, it does not work. Without comment cards, it is just your personal opinion. You have nothing, other then your wife, and some unidentifiable potential client. In other words, it is your personal subjective comments. There is another old addage: Blood is thicker then water. The only way you get past it looking like you are the only one who has these thoughts, and it is just a problem with perception on your part, is to get a bunch of comment cards.
I make my living in public speaking, to groups of 6 or 12 at a time, and you hear a lot of surprising things when you ask for feedback. Be prepared for that as well.
Travis
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Beginning of the end. This is probably just the beginning. If the kid doesn't fall off the wagon you will eventually be partners with him.
You need to read your operating agreement (or bylaws if you are a corporation) regarding how to split the business. Start keeping detailed records of sales, expenses and accounts. Start thinking about what is valuable to you (trade name, phone numbers, etc). I have had partners figth to the end for phone numbers and trade names. If you can set up a second business number now that predominately goes to you that would be helpful. A DBA can also help if you can start to attach it to yourself. Make sure that you advertise using both names "Guido's loans, The Itialian Mofia Loan Experts." That way it is easy to split the names. If you need to split in a few years you will also have a number and name with goodwill attached to it. It will make a potential split much less painful.
Even if you do not split up the above will not hurt if you keep it to yourself. Hate to be doom and glood but hope for the best and prep for the worst.
As for the immediate situation, try taping your presentations and have the attendees fill out comment cards. You will have documention of his antics. You also really need to continue to push to do some separate presentations if possible.
Whoa, Whoa, Whoa,
hang on a second, lets not get too far ahead of ourselves here. Before you start splitting up assets or enforcing buy/sell agreements, there is obviously some reason the two of you managed to stay in business so long, and some kind of synergy created by the two of you being partners. You would have split long ago if if was not a mutually beneficial arrangement.
Tigerwood does have an excellent suggestion about the comment cards, make sure they ask the same questions for each of you, and have a space for comments. To get 100% feedback offer a door price to those who turn them in. Make it optional for them to identify themselves, you give them a drawing ticket when they turn in their feed back card. That way they don't think they are going to be solicited with stuff if they turn in the comment card.
The videotape idea is good, not for documentation, but to try and help the kid, just as the comment cards are. If he sees what a goofball he is he just might become self-aware of the situation and try and make corrections on his own. You could try and send him to a Carnage course.
There is no doubt that it is a difficult situation, but the truth of the matter is that your partner is not going to want to keep losing money, or opportunities, as I assume both of you need to continue to earn an income. There are some situations where a parent just cannot see the shortcommings of a child and will stay with the child all the way to doom. That is for sure to be avoided and you want to get off of any ship that starts sinking. However, I have seen a lot of young attorneys who were rough around the edges, with the right mentor, training, encourgement become very fine trial lawyers. I have also seen a couple that were so goofy there was just no hope and they eventually went off and did other things. I would think the sales figures are going to be the most important. I assume that you figure that you will get X percent that are going to want an appointment after a dinner, and out of those X percent will want to do business.
You only got 5 or 6 appointments with the 3 of you speaking, yet you got 90% to sign for appointments when it was just you and the kid. Is that because you shortened his part of the talk when it was just the two of you? What do you atribute that to?
I would for sure come up with comment cards, and that is an easy sale to get on with your partner.
Travis
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Well now that I got this thread back on track, I think I will go listen to some music. (JK)
Have you sold your VRD's? Are you going to hang onto them until you have the side by side in Houston? If so, please let me know when that is going to be I would love to come down for a listen and check out the exhibit of art on loan from the Met while I am down there. Only down side is No. 1 will want to shop at Gallaria while I am listening to music.
Travis
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did anyone run into Luther (Wardsweb) at AKFest? He is my buddy from San Antonio and the webmaster of the AK Forum.
He did not attend this year.
I forgot, he is putting in a new kitchen. So on top of having no money, he also does not have any time.
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Craig - LMAO!
I've never seen used VRDs sell for over $2K although they're certainly worth it and more. Heck, a new pair is WAY underpriced compared to other amps on the market. I must admit those look great, especially compared to a couple used pairs I've seen sell for $1600-$1800.
I can't wait to hear reviews of pCATs, especially from previous VRD owners! I think we'll end up with a lot of reviewers saying one isn't better than the other......just different.
I bought mine "used" but it is hard for me to say anything about the price because I got the deal of the century. Mine were not even broken in yet when I got them. However, they did not come with the NosValves screwdriver so you have to deduct for that. (Thats a semi-private joke between the seller and I)
What impressed me the most about them is that Craig, true to his form, treated me like I was the original owner when it came to questions, upgrades, etc.
Travis
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Glenn: You have an email from me. Great photos, great stuff guys. I got to about page 8 of this thread and had to fastforward, did anyone run into Luther (Wardsweb) at AKFest? He is my buddy from San Antonio and the webmaster of the AK Forum.
Well that is two things I just have to to, AK Fest, Rocky Moutain Fest, after I go to KlipschFest.
Travis
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Welcome to both of you!!!!!
Where are you located? Try and update your profile with that info. (but certainly not a requirment) Nice to see where folks are from so that you can be invited to gatherings, informed if there is a good deal in your area, etc. Nice to see you both jump in and introduce yourselves. The only thing that got me to post right away was a pair of LaScallas had come up for sale and I needed to know what to look for when I went to pick them up. I got a wealth of information right away and I have been here ever since.
Again, welcome.
Travis
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HarryO,
I can't use any of them but as has been said, what a very kind offer and evidence of what this forum is all about.
Travis
hey deano (snipers and the jub envious, STAY AWAY)
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Coytee,
I don't know what I was thinking, I thought I had plotted your place from mine once on mapquest and it did not seem tha far. I will have to make two trips and I will get with you via email on when a good time would be.
Travis