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Yeah. Whats' an ESN? Dean can you elaborate and will it work on older K-horns? JJK

Mathmatics says: No compression = No vinyl records = No tape JJK

I wouldn't do it. Subs have huge magnetic fields. Some are shielded and some are not. JJK

I remember in the 60's and 70's Ampex saying they accidentally recorded the finest wow and flutter test tape in history at +-.03 %. At a cost of $300.00 for this 2 " tape it could be yours if you could find it. Of course that is the 1970 price. JJK

At one time I thought Tigerwood was one of the rarest of woods and very expensive. It is extremely dense and heavy and sounds like a hammer if you hit something with it. It also will finish with a touch of every color in the rainbow naturally. (Not adding color but natural color). I had a small piece of it for pistol grips and with BLO applied it was brown, red, purple, black, green and really beautiful stuff. It supposedly came from the Mideast somewhere. Is this the same stuff? The grain pattern is correct for Tigerwood. JJK

I have had mine in a 24' L shaped living room with beam ceiling (sound great), 17' x 17 ' apartment (not very good), 25' x 25' living room with high ceilings (best sound), and the present room 24' x 12' (sound great with lots of tricks) JJK

1.....Place on the long side of the wall 2.....Add center channel 3.....Add subwoofer 4.....Add equalizer, boost 5 db- 30, 2db- 60, cut 3db-240, 3db-480, boost 1db-8k, 2db-16k. (on K-horns only) 5.....Add Hughes Expander (on K-horns only) 6.....Add slave amp feeding K-horns only 7.....Replace old crossovers with Dean Crossovers 8.....#10 stranded wire to K-horns only 9.....#12 stranded wire to Cornwall & side and rear speakers 10...Pipe foam insulators between K-horns and walls for better sealing. 11...Remove pictures from walls 12...Remove objects from shelves 13...Re-design grilles to modern Klipsch standards. 14...Glue loose window pane. 15...Use coax and toslink connections 16...Use low maintenance SS components 17...Move records and turntable to attic. 18...Tell funny tube stories on Klipsch Forum JJK

Since the K-horn bass section is a horn, if you take away 1/2 of the horn what happens to the efficiency? Just like yelling into cupped hands, and you take one hand away you loose a bunch of efficiency. JJK

Use a "nail set punch" (it's like a punch but with a skinny 1/2 " long probe on the end) and hammer the nails through the wood. Your trim will then fall off. If you are "mechanically challenged" do not attempt. Then fasten the original trim back with new nails in new locations and fill in the old holes. There are also a slug of products that will fasten to the wall and look nice to cover and route the wires. Try the Mcmaster-Carr website for wiremold products. JJK

Your not allowed to violate the physical laws and constants that exist in our Milky Way Galaxy. JJK

I see another Klipsch Forum category coming, "Sexual HT's". JJK

Unfortunately a 4 in 1 component switcher usually goes for about $400.00. Key Digital makes one with coax audio, JVC has a few models with the optical audio for $700.00. I have both of them and they work fine (2 KeyDigitals, 2 JVC's) Check the digitalconnection.com website. JJK

Cotterphoto1: You have the new disease called "Farmazational Noise Syndrome" and you should be taking a $10,000.00 per year drug to combat it. JJK

You might want to do what I do. Run the K-horns with a separate amp driven by another 7.1 amp which feeds the center channel , sub and side and rear speakers. The K-horn amp has an Equalizer and Expander wheras the other channels do not. The K-horn amp volume is set at the loud level that is balanced with the 7.1 amp and the 7.1 amp controls the volume of the K-horn amp so I only need to set one volume control after I get things balanced. The 7/1 amp is set to Dolby PC II which really sets off the center channel and sub. It's an awsome experience even if it's solid state. JJK

Michael hurd: You might have to argue with GM on paint thickness as on the early Corvettes some of the primers were 1/8" think to fill in wavy panels. Not so anymore but if you remove all the paint from an old Vette you will have to fill in those wavy things with something. The stuff they used was a special formulation. JJK

I have seen the 50" Samsung DLP and it's ok. The rumor mill has it that the new DLP and Sony and Toshiba's & Mitsubichis that are 1080P (not 1080i) are "kick-***". I have a 34" CRT Sony model and it was much better than the Samsung. I also have a Sony 23" LCD new model which compares very closely to the CRT. JJK

Duke: You got me there. Square waves sound terrible. JJK

Duke: That's really hard to believe. I have never seen a square wave response with a tube amp that was correct. JJK

With K-horns in the corners and Corwall in the center with subwoofer it's a done deal. There is no comparison unless your speakers are about 6 feet apart which then even fouls up the stereo image. Most television broadcasts in 5.1 use the center channel exclusively for commercials and announcing. The center channel is everything. JJK

Sunburnwilly: If the Zebrawood I am thinking of is the same Zebrawood you are thinking of every person on this forum put together could not afford one piece for one K-horn. JJK

I used clear minwax clear polyurethane over stained wood. I also used PPG clear polyurethane on my Vette base coat clear coat. The surface is the key as it must be flat and perfect. On my speakers the wood grain after about six months settled and the grain showed up real nice. Something must be applied to the surface to make it inert. Then again the grain with "automotive" colors opens up a new realm of design. Enclosed pic:

You might also check the "AVS" forum for info on this. JJK

3RD EYE: A couple of questions: What levels do you use to test at? What are the dimensions of your room? What is your hearing range? JJK

The old telephone company (ATT< Bell Labs Western Electric) went to the wrap crimp type connection because it was fast and it put about 6 really tight forcefull wraps per connection. The connector pins had 4 sharp edges which literally penetrated the wrapped wire, so your connection would have approximately 24 penetrations on one connection to ensure proper connection without solder. The old crossovers I had from Klipsch (1965) had all of the measured values of the caps hand printed on each cap. For instance: a 2.0 mfd cap would have 1.76 mfd written on it. JJK

I play the cassette in my Pioneer player and record it in the computer with Sound Forge then normalize the channels then check for peaks then burn to disc one after the other. JJK