JJkizak

Looking at your square wave response (transients) from your record thru your cartridge being rounded off the leading edge, (A-B comparison with the same music on the CD will give you a mushy cymbal hit from the record compared to the CD)and then running it thru your tube pre-amp rounding it off more, then thru your tube amp rounding it off more, and finally the Klipsch speakers which round it off a bit more, and you have cymbal hits that sound like mushy pizza. Tubes are really great for target practice but lately all you tube guy's are getting in the way. JJK

His networks made my old speakers sing like the heavens. JJK

You have to set up the windows sound menus for the proper channelization. JJK

I have never heard of that problem with veneer. I would not worry about that at all. All veneers are installed with the typical rubber cement including Formica. Then there is the "iron on hot glue method" which I used on the K-horns and Cornwall and it worked just fine but it is very difficult to apply evenly. You have to drag/pressure a clean white rag behind the iron to keep the stuff from popping back up prior to it cooling down. If you try to reheat a certain area you will be in big trouble. Sometimes I have ripped off three sections in a row before I was satisfied, and that gets expensive. The surface also has to be perfectly flat. Sometimes the veneer (wood) has rounded out soft surface areas in between the hard grain places and if you block sand it too much to even them out you go through the wood and hit the backing. Been there, done that. If the glue is not applied evenly the humps and waves will show up nicely. If I had to do it again I would use Formica or a veneer at least 1/8" thick or thicker. Even Veneered plywood only has the veneer about 1/32" thick (top layer) and you have to be carefull not to sand through it. The iron on stuff did turn out well though but it was a lot of work. If you use the Minwax stain and the polyurethane clear you can buff the clear like a mirror after wet sanding with 1200 grit paper using a foam 8" buffer pad on a body grinder with a "clicky on/off trigger finger". Learned that after painting the 1969 Corvette with polyurethane basecoat/clearcoat. JJK

First Suggestion: Find a large souce of money for a flat panel to match that resolution. A very large source. JJK

One wonders what Bell Labs would have come up with after Unix under the old ATT legacy maybe something that resembles the DNA Quad chain. JJK

Dumb question, is that an upconverter? If so they do work well from all of the info I have received from video editor people. JJK

Is that kool or what? Big horns for big people. JJK

The effect is awsome on the low end, and while it is louder in volume the low end sound becomes huge. With the unit out of the circuit I can crank up the volume but it is not even close to the low end impact when the unit is in the system, and that's only the two K-horns, not the center channel, not the sub, and not the other small side and rear speakers. Volume itself does not duplicate what this unit does. I'm not sure how or what this unit does on the very high end as my hearing cuts off abruptly at 12.5 khz., and that means if the frequency is 12.6 khz I do not hear it. (cd test disc at very loud levels) JJK

If I were going to build up the corners and add new veneer I would use a small fibreglass kit from the auto parts store (not bondo)as it cures in ten minutes and tenasiously adheres to wood. Then sand the corners with a small block and you will have exceptional strength. Then apply the veneer. The kit comes with fibreglass cloth or strands which you would dab on with a small paint brush. This is what I used to repair Corvettes. It's a forever type repair which should be good for Corwalls. JJK

Well, not quite like a transister radio, but it does make a huge difference. JJK

My LED display wasn't looking right so I pulled it out of the system for a while to check things inside. While it was out of the system noticed that the K-horns were very flat sounding, there is a separate amplifier feeding the K-horns with another amplifier feeding the center channel, sub, and 7.1 speakers on the sides and back. The Hughes AK-100 feeds only the K-horns. After re-installing the AK-100 the entire system came to life again, especially the lower end which is abolutely earth shattering. After reading previous posts on other kinds of these units I have determined that nothing, abolutely nothing said on those posts applies to this unit. There is no noise, no hum, no distortion, and the filter button on the unit does not need to be utilized. This unit overshadows my RSW-12 sub but without the sub the really low end is missed even though the AK-100 is not in the sub circuit. The sub, the K-horns and the AK-100 all act together to provide blistering low end. The snare drum hits rattle your stomach. The first song on the Queen Latifah CD (The Doug Owens Album) has a couple of Snare drum hits that makes you wonder how did that happen? I hope this thing never breaks any more than it has as Hughes Aircraft has been bought & sold so many times getting it repaired would be a nightmare as no one understands what it does or what it is supposed to do. It has one board with about 30 Chips and one display unit. The diodes on the power supply section are huge and conventional needle nose probably would not bend the leads. They appear to be .100" thick. I tried to pull off the ribbon cables but they were very difficult so I stopped for fear of pulling something apart. They made this when they were making your father's Oldsmobile. Nine screws holding the cover on with 3/8" heads. Special RCA molded jack assemblies. The covers were made out of something called metal. No corrosion on any component. It also had a power transformer and a fuse. JJK JJK

Way back when I had big ideas and no money (still have no money) I designed my dream home with a humongous living room shaped like dual exponential horns with K-horns as drivers. Mucho glass windows and chairs carved into solid rock, and a whole tree slabed sideways for the bar with branches and chairs for same. So I added up the price and in 1976 it was 3 million, 3 million more than was in the bank. It sure would have been kool though with those 66 foot throats. The chairs would have to have seat belts. JJK

Kind of reminds me of my 1968 CJ-5 4 cylinder stick shift 4 wheel drive. After installing a Torsen rear (triple worm drive posi) end and a Dana clutch type posi in the front from Dana Corp. (they had 4 units in stock on the shelf)(2732AF) and four Fat Herbies with white spoke wheels, I could pull a freight train. JJK

Sputnik nailed it for generalities. The garbage they make now is 95% visual, 4% recording gimmicks, 1% talent. Of course there are exceptions, but speaking in generalities. JJK

Sony BMG just got hit with a 10 million fine. JJK

Nothin ever got done by wishin and hopin. JJK

Starfleet Command usually says no, like the credit card commercial. JJK

The first time I heard and watched her perform I predicted (to myself) that she would be very successful. Piano teachers would throw up at how she "back hit drags" some of the keys. JJK

Bell Labs says 25 x 25 foot room with center channel is optimum for Klipsch Corner Horns. JJK

I guess for all of the "Chair sitters" if you move your head 1/4" then the image is gone. Wonder why they spent all of those millions to give those horns a dispersion pattern? JJK

My opinion this is rediculous. There are always some substitute caps that can be found. The amount of time messing with this could be spent inventing the wheel. (It's full of the moon so I am very caustic). JJK

Eric Clapton "Crossroads" DVD the first song "Cocaine" some of the lower bass notes will rock you out of your chair. And leave the volume all the way up max on the sub. JJK

I do not sit when listening to the K-horns. Constantly walking, moving back and forth over a 24 x 15 foot room and walking into the kitchen getting coffee and the door into the living room is removed so that the door opening is just like a "Bass reflex port" with the living room as the driver. Also have to go to shelves to move items that are rattling. JJK

PWK wrote in one of his early papers that the theoretical horn size for a 15" driver would be 66 feet. It was impractical then but now? JJK