JJkizak

DrWho: It is obvious I know nothing about play station games since I have never ever played one. I remember playing hearts on the computer about 1995 or 1996. There is a discussion about this on the Sony Media Forum from people who know what they are talking about. I did leave out a few key details. Sorry about that. JJK

Also read on the Sony forum that they have locked up their games so that once you play it on your machine you cannot play it on another machine. This prevents kids from trading games with each other to p[lay on consoles. JJK

Bad Luck? Watch "Paydon" in "Silverado" JJK

After looking at the construction of my RSW-12 with a 1500 watt amplifier for the narrow band of 19hz to 80 hz you would probably have to use about 20 K-horns to equal the one sub. Maybe more. You are trying to violate the physical laws and constants that exist in our Milky Way Galaxy. JJK

Klipsch used to publish the curves on the old K-horns and Cornwalls. Maybe some of the old Dudes on this forum can help. JJK

K-horns, require 1 watt input. JJK

I read an article years ago where a record was played (1.5 gram pressure) and then the width and depth of the grooves were measured. The author stated that it took 20 minutes for the grooves to retain 99% of the original dimensions. His reccommendation was to wait at least 30 minutes before playing the record again. I have worked in forming plastics for many years and there is good quality vinyl and bad quality. There are a whole slew of intangibles in the forming process and I could see why the quality variations were many in the final product. Too hot, too cold, too fast, too slow, too humid, too hydroscopic(very minute), too contaminated, not enough, too much, not enough cooling time, dust in air, air bubbles, too brittle, too soft, etc. Sun exposure after 20 years will render the record useless, it will fall apart from the well know process of "bio-degredation". The Vinyl siding on you house has mucho ultraviolet chemicals processed with it so it literally doesn't fall off the house and then they rate it for 40 years which I think is a bit on the much side. If it is painted that is another story as the paint blocks the UV. When vinyl is in flame it gives off deadly gasses, (not when in soft forming state) and it will react with chrome and form nitric acid when heated. But I still have about 300 albums on the shelf. JJK

In my earlier post I should have elaborated some on the bass. There are some records where this cannot be done as it destroys the entire tone of the record and even changing the low end frequency spectrum on the fly the restrictions keep the boost somewhere down below 60hz. Keep in mind my hearing range is 19hz to 12.5khz. I never knew I could hear 19hz until I hooked up the RSW-12. My bass expectations are predicated on the levels I hear with live bands, and vinyl is not even close. JJK

When I ocassionally rip an LP to disc with Sound Forge I have to usually normallize the sound to balance the channels, employ click & scratch filter twice, clipped peak filter once, on the fly low end equalizer boost, a touch high end boost, edit out needle thump at beginning and end, employ noise reduction filter once, some huge glitches have to be cut out because they cannot be processed. After all this they sound pretty good. I have found that I can cut out very loud pops and still can't tell if anything was cut. The low end boost ends up usually +12 db from original and the high end maybe 1 or 2 db. Sometimes have to run through the equalizer again to get rid of low end groove noise. The man is right. They cut the crap out of the bass, compressed the crap out of everything else. And vinyl is better than Disc? Impossible dream. JJK

I read on the Sony Media Software forum where two websites have found and analized DRM software on Sony commercial discs that installs in your root system. It will allow only three copies to be made and the discs will not play without the software installed. The software cannot be removed unless all drives are re-formatted. The software continually scans your system as long as it is turned on and by doing so uses 2% of you CPU processing capability. After installation it then opens new pathways for hackers and spyware people to get into your computer. I don't know how this will relate to stand-alone players. JJK

Wow! I don't think a substitute would be beneficial as all of those output transformers were custom spec for all manufacturers and one small difference might be disasterous. Although you know somebody has these things kicking around their garage and collects them. The Fisher tranformers did not exactly run cool as I remember my old Fisher amp ran so hot I couldn't touch it. JJK

Be advised that placing the speakers in the kickpanels is about the worst acoustical position in the vehicle. Look at some new cars with multi-speaker setups to see where they placed their speakers after doing hours of measuring and listening tests. You will rarely see them in the kickpanels. GM found this out with the 1968 Corvettes. The radio performance was just God-awfull. JJK

He has the "nack" for writing good songs. And he can actually play the guitar too. He will be good for Rock & Roll that doesn't drive me up the "puberic" wall. JJK

"Two Lane Blacktop". I liked the car though. Also Cornell Wilde, but his "Naked Prey" was beautifully done but the acting not so good. JJK

Most industrial CAD programs start at $15,000.00 and end at $100,000.00 +. And some of them use the IBM OS. The end points are "computed" and you want to hope that they are correct as the machine will be a bit out of sorts if not. Turbocad probably has one of the better low priced programs. Well about 5 years ago, don't know about now. JJK

Buddy Guy---"Mistreated", "Somethin on my mind" JJK

Tofu & Dean: If you guy's want to create outstanding state of the art filters check with Bell/Labs-Western Electric/Lucent-Ma Bell with their telephone modem stuff. I worked with filters in the lower baseband that would drop 12khz levels down 70db at the 3HZ points with just a few 10th's thru loss. JJK

I have been using the MY-HD 120 tuner card with DVI daughter card since dec 2003 and have recorded over 120 programs to the hard drive in the 24 meg MPEG2 data stream. The 120 plays them back flawlessly at 720p and 1080i. You can only record Hi-Def to the firewire input of the D-VHS JVC deck in 720p mode and it cannot be copright protected or it will not record. (I have the deck). I can also PTT to the deck from the MY-HD 120 card with flawless results. I can also record to the 120 card from the deck. (firewire 400) to the hard drive. It all works perfect and the quality is outstanding. You can also import m2t files from your video editor, change the file ending from m2t to ts, install in the My-HD player file and it works perfect. You have no excuse now that i told you how to do it. Forget BluRay because the DRM means that you need a new monitor, burner, Vista OS, and HDTV with the proper chips that allow you to view the disc at the mercy of the Hollywood studios. Why do you think Bill Gates and the Chairman of the Board for Sony had heated words over this same subject. P>S> There is no software (that I know of) that will flawlessly play m2t files. (streamed high def). The My-HD card will play these files flawlessly. JJK

I am very sure that my 1965 Cornwall does not have the chrome horn in it. I would have noticed that right off when the back was off. Heck, it sounds so good now I don't want to mess with it. The fact is I think it sounds better now than when it was new. My old crossover was labelled "2Q" if that means anything. Also the same designation was on the original receipt which I still have. JJK

After installing the new Dean crosovers in my 1965 Cornwall the difference was amazing. Still I wondered about the age of the units and if there were upgrade kits available from Klipsch in various degrees of practicality in the "cash" department. JJK

I just looked at one running in Best Buy the other day and it was a Toshiba 20HL85 with 1366 resolution. It had the best picture of anything in the entire store with high-definition, and I looked at everything they had. JJK

Well Sirius has been loosing 1 billion a year for 5 years now. Their stock is inflated by about 3000% right now with the hopes that it will make some money in 2007. Such a deal. JJK

If you split it electronically, fine. Mechanically you will cut the impeadence in half (roughly) increasing distortion and lowering level inputs to both systems. JJK

I guess our fire control radar was tracking an hulucination that had a metal skin and traveled at 1800 mph. The computer was halucinating and all 8 people that were watching it were halucinating at the same time. The binoculars used by the control officer were also halucinating--it's hard to get good non- halucinating glass nowadays. JJK

I'll bet they have some fantastic crossover networks. Maybe we can cut a deal. JJK