JJkizak

My dream car is an early Viper with an over the counter Aluminum 426 hemi. Talk about exhaust notes. That's real music and a real K-horn tester. JJK

Read about them in 1963, bought the K-horns and Cornwall center channel in 1965 and that's when I first heard them with an old Heathkit amp and pre-amp.I also had an Ampex deck that I recorded a party in my house with two Shure 360 degree mics placed 2 ft away from the K-horns and even with the midrange. When I played it back everything that was recorded was in their exact position no matter where you stood in the room. I have never heard anything that could come close and I have a 7.1 system now which as far as I'm concerned is a total bust. JJK

Just switch your processor to PLC II and you will get center volume up the ying-yang. JJK

Many years ago I wrote (1990) a letter to Chrysler saying that they needed their own version of the "Corvette". They then introduced the Viper, although I would have liked an aluminum 426 hemi in it. I also told them to get rid of the four and six cylinder engines and make a small 1.0 liter V8 with dual mufflers, the whole bit. They did not listen to me about that. Then I wrote a letter to Steven Spielburg about making a movie about combat that was so devastating and real that people would know what our soldiers went through. "Amblin" replied in gold faced lettering (real gold) that they could not use my ideas because they might get sued. Right after that they came out with "Saving Private Ryan". Do you think I should send a letter to Klipsch? JJK

How about some pictures, history, etc. JJK

I worked in Greenland where the humidity is about 20% and type of clothing, flooring, etc. made a difference. I also worked in a plastic factory on an extruder and when the humidity was low we could draw about 1 foot arcs when running polyethelene. Wet the floor, wet the air and problem solved. Also hang about 1 million copper braided wires in your living room and ground them. As you can see I'm being real helpful. One thing you can do is put copper screening under the rug and ground it in many places. Some types of shoes are wonderful static generators. You must get water vapor in the air somehow with a humidifier to eliminate the static electricity. JJK

That's a tough one. If I used a carbon pot I would put a multimeter on it and slowly move it through from one end to the other noting if there were any jerks or jumps. The Allen-Bradley carbon pots seemed to be consistantly good but that was back in the old days. I haven't a clue today. Wirewound pots (if the circuit is not designed for carbon pots) really worked well for us in a variety of equipments, and they are expensive. For the life of me I cannot remember any circuits where they did not work. We used them in Parametric amp monitoring circuits and baseband oscillator output circuits to set very precise levels for testing. Our Western Electric VTVM measured from 12khz to 4 meghz +-0.2db from +10 to -110db and this was tubes. The 60khz phase lock frequency generated in New York measured 60,000.000hz with the HP solid state freq meter which was a calibration standard. The VTVM was calibrated with a special floor mounted oscillator using a 75 ohm thermocouple set which was accurate to the same frequency spec as the VTVM except the db spec was .o1db instead of .1 db. (37B VTVM and 53A oscillator)Just to give youo an idea of what was in the field in those old days the 53A oscillator had a custom made 35mm filmstrip with the exact frequency settings of the oscillator itself and you could not change those strips as they would not match another oscillator unit. Thats where all your phone bill money went, to create masterpieces of test equipment that people today cannot even concieve of. All of the special mux filters they used would have a -70 db down spec at the 3 db points. I could go on and on but somehow got off subject. JJK

My previous reply was based on repairing industrial equipment with zillions of pots which if they went bad would drive you absolutely nuts if you squirted the tri-clo in them. Yes they would work for a while, but only for a while. We would substitute wire wound pots if possible and maybe 5 turn and 10 turn pots which would expand the "sweet area" where it would constantly end up position wise depending on the circuit. Then instead of setting the level to -10db it would be -10.0 db. You gain a ton of calibration adjustment at that specific point---it doesn't make the circuit more accurate but the result seems like it is---. Wheras before the -10db would fluctuate from -10.7 to -9.8 because of bad carbon surface with the 5 or 10 turn pot you could nail it at 10.0 with great ease and peace of mind. JJK

The best way to clean a pot is to throw it away and get a new one. Once you start squirting it you will be doing it for the rest of your life. JJK

Yes, now I remember, those glass things that got real hot, and had lots of distortion, hum, residual noise, popping, short life span, poor transient response, microphonically inferior, socket contact corrosion, gas, large power consumption, vibration sensitive, feedback galore, 160khz resonances, etc. It was a long time ago, I can just barely remember. JJK

I talked to my computer guru buddy and he says a router is the key item to have when hooked to a cable DSL network. He uses all the Norton stuff with Spybot. JJK

Like I said before there is nothing you can do about fastclick and doubleclick as they are on every website. If you don't want to go online then you are safe from those two. There is nothing that will stop them at the present time. So you have to dump them off every time you shut down. And if you have AOL the next time you go online AOL will put them back on your computer. JJK

Because you have cable DSL which is on line all the time you are a prime target. I still have dial-up (choke) with Spybot, Norton anti spam, firewall, and anti-virus. I update them every morning on start-up. Also use Win2K with all the updates. I have four computers on a network with two of them for online stuff. While online I will get maybe 1 to 3 virus hits per day and maybe 1 to 2 firewall hits per day. The spy stuff has to be used every day as AOL and most websites have the spy stuff built into there systems and everytime you access the website it is applied to your computer automaticcally. This is part of the advertizing deals they make. Basically the public is screwed as far as spyware is concerned. In the last five years I have only had one worm and luckily it was a non violent one. Having anti-virus and firewall software is useless unless it is constantly updated as most of the older stuff is not around anymore. It's the new ones that raise cain. JJK

I use an old $100 Kenwood (1985) which does not add any noise at all. Maybe it does but my hearing stops at 12.5 khz. I also use a loudness control on the receiver. Isn't that awful? JJK

Having been really burned a lot in the market, what have you got that's really hot?

Now you tell me! After I used the Band-It stuff. And I love walnut. JJK

I used to use Fisher tube amps in the 60's and 70's and 80's. Switched to Denon solid state and it cleared up all the mushy tube sound. Then just recently installed the Dean crossovers and it really cleaned up, and I can actually go louder on the volume. But I wouldn't mess with new speakers like yours and forget the tubes, they are nothing but a pain in the butt. JJK

Can someone provide an explanation of the term "jitter" in complete and highly descriptive terms. JJK

Wow! Two 426 aluminum hemi's, one in each corner, would that blow somebody's mind or what? JJK

When you capture video it is in the DV-avi format which is compressed about 5 x 1. All the editing is done in DV avi then it is rendered to MPG (MPEG2) The codec used to render to MPEG2 van be--Main Concept, TempGen, Cinemacraft, etc. and each one has slightly different characteristics. The resultant file is then processed by your DVD burning software which arranges it in a certain format to be applied (burned) to a DVD disc. It is then burned to the disc in either DVD-R or DVD+R format depending on what your equipment is capable of and what floats your boat. If your file is not rendered to mpg after editing you can take the unedited captured file and apply it directly to the DVD processing software and it will re-encode it to MPEG2 as a prepratory process before burning, then it will burn it. Some things can be done in the DVD burning software on an editing basis depending on whose software you have. So using the DVR recorder looks like a good idea for most people. JJK

Well, I haven't seen all of them but I have experience in using the one called "Band-It" from Lowes and "Formica". The band it is very difficult to make look good because once you stain it, you can't sand it much with machine sanders (air files or DA's) as it distorts the stain coloring and if your not carefull will go right through the veneer. Using the "hot glue" method with the iron requires excellent technique and focus, making sure the iron is moving slow enough with a cloth behind it for holding it down till it cools properly. Any kind of application "wave" caused by not ironing it down properly will cause a disaster when sanding. I had to remove and replace several sections because of this problem. Also stay away from the wide grain stuff as the wide grain is "cupped" and you cannot flatten it buy sanding without going thru the veneer. It will bend around a corner perfectly in the long grain situation but it will not bend cross grainwise. Corner edges will match up perfectly and will be unnoticeable. Butting edges can be done and the butted area filled with plastic wood and stained and it looks pretty good. The trimming can be accomplished with a Stanley knife very carefully.The surface preparation must be totally flat or your in trouble before application of the veneer. You must also seal off the speaker openings to prevent debris from entering. (dust, stain, angered fists) After using this veneer to cover my K-horns, Cornwall, Subwoofer RSW-12, and 4 SC-1's I would next time use Formica or real wood (you know cut from trees) which would save me about 3 months of time and look more professional to boot. Your lucky doing the Corwalls as the K-horns have to have wood supports screwed to each end to make them sit flat for proper finishing. There may be other types of veneer that I don't know about. JJK

Might try just rotating the top section of the K-horn if possible as a test without doing a 50K remodeling job relocating walls and ceilings. Bass is fairly non directional. Only four screws fasten the sections together and there are small rubber pads between them so they can just sit there for a test. JJK

Plus the learning curve of the operation is steep if you haven't messed with video before. It takes a month to memorize and understand the terminology and then that's not enough. After about 2 years playing around you will be proficient in capturing and editing and burning and most of all spending large amounts of money to satisfy your thirst, then you will have forgotton why you wanted to do this in the first place. JJK

How many million watts are you passing thru the cables? One inch diameter will possibly contain a lightning strike. JJK

The only way I know is to copper screen your entire room, ceilings, walls, floors, vents, doors, filtrons on the electrical wiring into the house and terrific grounding on your antennas and padding on the lead-ins. One drawback, your cell phone won't work. Neon signs are probably one of the worst (best interference) objects for this. Also ham radio transmitter aiming through your house and radar antenna prf. Best of luck. JJK