JJkizak

If I owned a new Vette the first thing I would do is remove the body, second thing remove the engine, third thing install an aluminum Hemi, fourth thing install the Viper body. Can't stand the Vette body with that huge rear end and the Chevette plastic interior. JJK

IndyKlipschfan: What model DVD player do you have? I didn't know you could upconvert thru a DVI jack. All the ones Iv'e seen have to have the HDMI jack. JJK

These are the existing HD formats available now: HDV 1080I--(Television) (24 meg data stream) HDV 1080P--(Television) (25 to 50 meg data stream) HD Full HD-2K------twice the resolution of HD (movie theatre digital projection) HD-4K------four times the resolution of HD (movie theatre digital projection) HD-6K------six times the resolution of HD HD-8K------eight times the resolution of HD (Viper camera $110,000.00) HD-100K----100 times the resolution of HD (Japanese medical microscope) Additions and/or changes welcome. JJK

Keep this in mind. When you view an HD channel and you see a correct 4 x 3 picture they are transmitting in 480P which is SD. When the picture automatically goes to 16 x 9 they are transmitting in HD which could be 720P, 1080I, 1080P. When they revert back to a commercial it jumps back to 480P. If you have an over the air tuner the resolution is usually in the upper left corner for a few seconds when you select the channel. Now also remember that the picture is as good as the source, meaning if they are transmitting a 1920's fuzzy movie it will look like a 1920's fuzzy movie.If they are transmitting a film that is grainy or resampled from Cinemascope (2.5 x 1) to 16 x 9 it will look like a grainy film. If they are transmitting an HD live program it will have no grain and will be superior to all other pictures and is the sharpest of all. Also remember that all broadcasters at the present time use the MPEG2 codec to send their programs across the country and you will occasionally see blocking. This is called technically "HDV" or High Definition Digital Video". This is the 24 meg per second data stream (1080I) whereas true HD is approximately 50 to 100 megs per second data stream. One other anomalie is the local stations will broadcast their analog and digital SD pictures simultaneously and the SD picture doesn't look any better than the analog picture because the analog picture is so crappy to begin with. Cable just grabs signals from the local stations weather or not they are analog or digital and re-transmits them on their digital system and that's why sometimes the 4 x 3 looks like crap on digital cable. The newer DVD upconverters do work well as long as your set can handle the HDMI input. (DVI jacks are kind of like "8 track tapes" now) The state of zoom capabilities are in chaos. My LG 3510 tuner can perform 18 different zoom configurations. The engineers who make these configurations must be on LSD. I do know some people who purchased a widescreen set asking why isn't the picture always wide? And if they would have known that the the picture isn't always wide they would have never purchased the set. So they look at short fat people, fat cars, missing text, etc. because they have selected the wrong zoom. There went 2000 years of R & D out the window relative to "optical linearity distortion". JJK

My observations are confirmed by Consumers Reports. You should read that issue. Tube models are sharper, brighter, have better black colors, and better contrast and provide the best quality picture when compared to LCD, DLP, Rear projection, Plasma, and Projection. Only drawback is picture size. My eyes say they are right. JJK

They are ok. My buddy has one and although it isn't as sharp as my Sony 34" tube model it should be fine. The newer models are coming out with 1080P resolution and HDMI input jacks for upconverting DVD's. JJK

No, but I have a 1969 stock T-Top totally restored. JJK

I gave up records in the 80's. Why? I purchased a record album and a cd by the same artist with the same songs. After many times playing the same portion of a song, once cd, once on the record album, back and forth, back and forth, the cymbals on the cd were very crisp while on the album they were sounding as if they were being hit with your thumbs. This was with a Shure V15 II on an AR turntable. Then I bought the CBS test records (which I still have) and on my Kenwood linear turntable with Audio Technica cartrige (cost more than the turntable) duplicated the same experiment with the same results. Record album transient response totally sucks. But I really do miss all of the crackle and pops, and expecially the rumbly lead-ins and lead-outs and the "soft-walking on the floors not to jump the groove" and being carefull not to play the same song twice in a row for 20 minutes so the plastic can regain it's form to 99.9% of what it used to be (1.2 grams force) but never the same. I also miss the wonderment of when placing the tone arm onto the record maybe sometimes missing the groove and wondering if the stylus got bent .00001 degree causing increased distortion.I also miss the "sometimes" of picking up turntable motor hum and noise when listening at loud volumes, which sometimes restricted how loud the music could be played. I also miss how weather conditions could affect the quality of the music such as humidity, pressure, temperature.I also miss the wow and flutter caused by the records being manufactured with an offset hole and not being cooled properly causing severe warps. Then again when the center hole in the record is too small and having to roach it out slowly with a pencil to get a good fit on the spindle. After playing an album 100 times wondering how much response is lost because of wear, and wondering how the engineers were following the RIAA curve and if they were following it at all. And always wondering why the "S" sounds never were very good. (Remember, I had K-horns with Cornwall center channel in 1965) I still have and use albums that I have to digitally process with a ton of equipment to get them to sound right on a CD by special crackle and pop filters, and on the fly bass, treble, and midrange equalizer enhancements. I can even add bass and drum tracks over the existing tracks to enhance them. It does take a lot of time so I just go buy the CD. End of story. JJK

The lightning split the tree right down the center (100 year old oak) and when grinding out the stump there were 1" thick melted solid dark quartz-like squiggly things going down to the septic sewer pipe. Then I read somewhere that one bolt of lightning contains 34 quadrillion watts of electricity. Hmmmmmm, wonder if the horns can handle that. JJK

Correct. They work well but not as well if the original was 1080. This is from some very "heavy" video people editing in HD. JJK

The main purpose of HDMI cables was to eliminate the DVI cable which was video only. If the audio doesn't work in HDMI then you have a problem. What is your tv brand and setup? JJK

If you have insurance get all new stuff. That's what I did on my Denon receiver when lightning took out half the electronics in the house including the security alarm board, battery backup, control board, phone, modem, 5 window alarm sensors, well pump, Denon receiver and 100 year old oak tree which fell on 60 year old spruce, plus the doughnut I was eating when it hit. I forgot it also melted the aluminum siding on the house. JJK

With that much SPL floating around the room should be about 25 x 25 minimum with the rear corners even with your chair and the rear center recessed a bunch more---same distance from the chair to the front center horn. Anyway that would be a start on this ambitious project which I believe would be a tough one even for PWK. If you cranked up that system with a 1khz tone you could use it as a torture chamber for people you don't like. JJK

I was just curious why the Cornwall tweeter and midrange were lower than the K-horn. And also if they ever sold an accessory to set the Cornwall on if it was used as a center channel between to K-horns. JJK

Anybody tried angling the center channel Corwall upward to match the K-horns height? Or just raise it up some? JJK

I have used an RSW 12 for about a year now with no problems at all, volume maxed out placed perpendicular to the wall about 8 inches away with the controls facing the wall. JJK

Also MCM Electronics. JJK

How about purchasing 10 of the old Seeburg 100 album juke boxes built into the wall. Then you just dial a 2 digit number to select the album you want. JJK

J.4knee: If you have a muddy Cornwall your network is shot or somebody subbed some other brand drivers or your electronics are suspect. Cornwall is so clean it squeaks. Sounds to me like you have a real bad tube amp or bad network. JJK

One of the best articles and evaluations I have read was one of the recent issues of Consumers Reports about 3 months ago. They explain the differences between all types and which ones offer the best performance. If your not into the gigunda big screens the new model KD-34XBR940 Sony will knock your socks off and it has the HDMI input for DVD upconverting. JJK

Put the K-horns on the 30 ft wall with the Cornwalls in the center for center channel feed. Run the K-horns with one amp and the Cornwalls with another. (if you want). Use the full center frequency spectrum and a 12 inch sub-woofer in between the Corwalls with 80 hz rolloff. If you have 7.1 and the speakers that will give it a bit more ambiance. Set the driving amp to PL-II-C Remove all pictures and things hanging on the walls as they will vibrate off anyway. What I have described is not a very polite system. The K-horns should have the "pipe seals" glued to the edges that fit to the walls. The upper midrange horn enclosure should have a least one brace from the top to bottom glued and screwed to keep the top from vibrating. Top it off with "Dean Networks" Use any type electronic stuff you want, it will blow you away. The Corwalls should be 6 inches from the wall and the sub should be about 8 inches from the wall perpendicular and with the controls facing the wall. On the back of one of your Corwalls screw on a nice board that sticks out to the side and then mount your master powerstrip whereby you turn on the entire system. One power switch turns everything on. You can set your electronic stuff on top of the Corwalls no problem but not the sub. Somewhere in this mess you have to set the High-Def TV. Good luck. JJK

I forgot to add that Norton will slow down your machine by 20%. Norton also brutally entangles itself into XP making it impossible to remove all of it's files unless you re-install XP. (some 30 files remain after uninstall) JJK

Also make sure it is a totally clean install, that is double 00 the hard drive and all other hard drives as the new OS will suck hidden info from the hard drives. Also the file allocation is changed to 8192 (double from SP1) so you might get some slowness from some apps data that was written on the old allocation trying to operate on the new allocation. One of America's greatest philosophers once said, "You can't always get what you want". Then again he might have been English. JJK

Put those two Cornwalls in the middle (center channel to each one) and you will rock with the K-horns in the corners. Feed the center with separate amps. You will be kool. Set your main control to PL II-C. JJK

Most of the time cleaning a pot will not last. It will start becoming noisy later on driving you nuts. The only sure way is to replace it. It's noisy because its cheap and worn out. Cleaning it will not put the carbon back. The only pots I know of that don't get noisy are wirewound five and ten turn precision made units and they are expensive. Good luck. JJK