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I'll keep whatever sounds best to my ears and so far for me it has been 300b tubes. If I find someone locally with some mcintosch ss gear I would love to hear it or maybe even some krell or BAT. I haven't heard a tube amp with more than 20wpc and would be really curious to hear a higher power tube amp. I may be spoiled but when I listen to music I want to be able to close my eyes and be able to sense where the instruments are in the soundstage and not feel like it is being blasted at me from the speakers. Since I have joined this forum and heard all the high praise for the older marantz, fisher, and scott amps I have been keeping my eyes peeled for cheap buys at flea markets and garage sales.

Actually I have tried about a half dozen decent ss amps but I thought for sure this amp would sound good on my belle's especiallly since I had already heard it on my friends less efficient b&w's. I was truly perplexed when I heard the sound it made. Now I haven't heard macintosch gear at all on heritage klipsch but boy would I love to ss or tube.

Ok so I thought I would try solid state again. I am not good at the hi-fi reviewer lingo so please pardon me. A friend loaned me an Aura Evolution 66wpc amplifier which seems to be an older b&w product. When I listened to it on my friends b&w system it sounded incredible crisp and clean just beautiful. I couldn't wait to get it home and plug it in because I thought for sure this would be a great piece of gear for me but then I cranked it up. The mids and highs sounded like they had mud between them. There was definately more lower end slam and more volume. However, the instrument seperation/soundstage that I enjoyed with my 300b monoblocks was gone. I was so disappointed I couldn't wait to switch back to my SET 300b's and get my soundstage back. Now that I have ruled out solidstate amps I can't wait to hear some other higher power tube gear perhaps some nice PP KT88's. Ahhh horns and tubes.

---------------- On 3/10/2005 8:55:23 AM johnyholiday wrote: Willy Wonka was the Wizard of OZ ---------------- LOL I get them mixed up LOL correct sir willy wonka was much stranger than wizard of oz dang i gotta lay off the smoke

For some reason it reminds me of the wizard of oz when veruca fell in the chocalate pond and sucked through the tubes.

---------------- On 3/9/2005 8:51:40 PM Painful Reality wrote: ---------------- On 3/9/2005 8:09:13 PM seti wrote: I think Waffle House rocks and I go for the $5 all you can eat special : ) ---------------- Rumors has it that too much porking away at Waffle House will make you look like Yoda. ---------------- I am on the new Zen diet though "if you don't think there is fat in it then there is not". I'll let you guys know how it goes.

I think Waffle House rocks and I go for the $5 all you can eat special : ) Offer him $80 for it and see if he takes it. Hell if you don't like it post it on audiogon it wouldn't last long there or could make an ok second system for a shop or garage. The server is so slow go get coffee while it loads. http://www.yarland.com/en/products/34b.htm Scroll half way down $125 is probably going rate. http://www.cattylink.com/engproducts.htm Discussion about a similar model on decware. http://www.decware.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=Tubes&action=display&num=1061104425

Common man not cheap give us a dollar figure : )

I finally bought some rope caulk this week to do my belles but i am nervous about talking out the horn is it possible to do without pulling it out ?

This may help check out this pdf a "taste of tubes" http://home.comcast.net/~enghenry/diy/taste.pdf I found it very informative.

---------------- On 1/2/2005 10:07:42 PM Daddy Dee wrote: The WhiteWater Tavern in Little Rock had a pair of those hanging upside down in the corners of their main room. Played LedZeppelin LOUD back in the 70's. Dam I was in Whitewater Tavern the other night and the sound system was terrible wish they still had the khorns. At least they still have the canoe on the ceiling. Whitewater has morphed into a punkrock venue sometimes good sometimes better. Whitewater the place that keeps burning down but never closes lol

For that many albums you really should enter your collection into a simple searchable database.

The price is low is there anything wrong with this unit ? EICO 666 Tube And Transistor Tester $125 obo http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?vintelec&1115244883 I can't find anyone locally to test tubes so I have been looking for tube testers on the cheap. It says never been calibrated and "can't fix the roll chart but most readings are on the three tube chart supplement's". Trash or treasure ?

I have heard it mentioned that Klipsch doesn't sell that many khorns/heritage line to warrent more investment. But how much new marketing/advertising is going on for the heritage line? What would happen if they did invest more in marketing? More sales perhaps? Or is the heritage destined to coast slowly into the sunset. There are more expensive horn loaded speakers out there selling for alot more than khorns so there is obviously a market and price is not the limiting factor in sales. Perhaps I am just a ramantic but it would be great to see an agressive marketing campaign on the heritage line and what would be a better way to do that than one of PWK's last designs as the flagship designed and built in Hope, AR. The Jubilee built in Hope now that would be cool.

I bought my Belles last year and I could not imagine them not being part of my home. They sound as good as they look. How much difference is there between the Khorn and belle I do not know but would love to find out as I have always wanted khorns as well. Cangratulations!

Thats bloody brilliant can we get some of those to fit on some Bose "The Bosehorn".....

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. John Lennon Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it. John Lennon If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'. John Lennon Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me. John Lennon Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. John Lennon The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility. John Lennon The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it. John Lennon You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth. John Lennon

Lucky man. I've always wanted to hear some abbeys the guy I bought my SET amps from owned a pair and thought highly of them.

The word fugly comes to mind give me some khorns and a matching sub any day.

---------------- On 3/2/2005 12:07:13 PM maxg wrote: The Egyptians weren't proper audiophiles - look - their cables are on the floor ---------------- Oh dear I'll climb in my wayback machine and lecture them... This is yet another thing i have yet to understand. My cables don't touch the floor but thats not on purpose it just worked out that way. I certainly would not have bought ceramic risers. Is there anything to keeping cables off the floor or is this just another way to sell another product? Can you hear a differance?

Ancient egytian tube technology was way ahead of it's time. You have to wonder what they were really building. Perhaps it was the first SET......

Bob Marley Songs Of Freedom Acoustic Medley is just beautiful.

That sucks I put an add up on audiogon saying that I wanted a pair of la scalas or belles and within a week I had a reply. I picked them up the next weekend glad I posted the ad. I only had to drive 5 hours round trip well worth it. Good luck and I would wait for a pair of belles that makes you drool then buy them and run.

Interesting hadn't thought of insulating inside the walls. That room could use all the insulation it can get as it is the hardest room to heat or cool. The house was built in 1890 so I am not sure how it was constructed but I did mention this to my brother who is a contractor and he was sure I would have to drill lots of holes at the top of the walls and fill it in that way. If I did two walls which two should I do? Behind and infront of the Belles? I was hoping that a combo of foam and fabric on the walls could help as I have seen the fabric covered walls done before and it looked pretty cool. The addition of the foam would add some instalation complications but nothing I couldn't figure out. If I can just cut the echo in half I would be happy.

My room has a terible echo and I don't like the foam stuff you can buy. While I was at home depot and in the carpet section I noticed the mat that goes underneath was fairly thick. I had a friend with me who works in a fabric shop and she was telling me how people are using fabric on walls instead of wallpaper and she could get me a good deal. Do you think it could work to put the carpet under padding on the walls and then the fabric over that? It's just an idea but was wondering what you guys thought. this stuff looks good for absorbing sound wouldn't need underpad... http://www.distinctivefabric.com/pics.php?id=3TONEFUR1 lol maybe not