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---------------- On 3/4/2005 5:16:24 PM Frzninvt wrote: Well Win (Dodger) you got your wish a nice pair of Khorn's, and they look like late 60's or early 70's with the pie slice logos in the finish that you were looking for just popped up in Rochester, NY with NO SHIPPING local pickup so you may have your chance. Better start finding buyers for those Cornwalls! If they weren't 400 miles each way from me I would bid on the things. See eBay. ---------------- Man, that's close enough for me to drive!

---------------- On 3/4/2005 3:56:52 PM kenratboy wrote: Actually, I plan on buying the Synergy's, keeping them as long as possible (until I am 30 or so) Wow, that long huh? I got La Scala's when I was about 17 year's old, and still have them at 42.

And what if they pale in comparison to your Chorus? You sell them, so you should know... How do they compare?

Is advocating blocking the port a common thing? I would think that changes the tuning frequency and makes the thing sound awful.

Ha ha. He meant timbre, of course. timbre n : (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound); "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"

The only store I ever saw them (and it was the full lineup!) was in Charlesbourg, a suburb of Quebec City, around 1980. The store carried everything from the Canadian distributor. Wish they were still there and still sold them... The Rimouski Klipsch dealer doesn't know what Heritage are. I once told a salesman there that I had La Scala's; he looked them up on the web and, from the picture, was picturing a La Scala about 6 inches wide!

The best DVD concert I have is Diana Krall "Live in Paris". Tremendous dynamic range, lots of emotion and cool interaction between the musicians. Highly recommended!

Theater Research are "white van" speakers. The kind you buy from guys in a white van in a parking lot; they tell you they are excess inventory and some such story. The web site is there to make you believe they are worth lots.

It sounds like you have just experienced the RF-7's ability to dip down to the 3 Ohm region. I think most RF-7 owners will agree that you need a SS amp with at least 200 per channel into 8 Ohm to drive these speakers for HT. Rather than looking at any 8 ohm spec, look for a high current amp that that drive that low (rated for 4 ohm, perhaps 2 ohms). I'm surprised that the Elite can't do it, but then it isn't really rated for it either. h/k and NAD receivers could push that load.

I do not know what you mean I will post another picture of the Right one. It's just the wood grain showing a knot.

Without reading any of the links, it sounds like a line source of sound (the cylinder) instead of a point source. The source diminishes as 1/distance instead of 1/distance^2 for such a scheme. Note they say it diminishes "so gradually", not that it doesn't diminish. I can't believe I'm defending Bose...

A quick look at ebau tells me Forte's sell for $400 to $700 or so. I think the Forte is a better speaker, but that's a good price for brand new Heresy's. Tough call! You could even buy the Heresy's and sell them to someone here!

I agree. I use a Heresy as center and really enjoy it. It would be an even better center to other Heresy mains! Mine is flanked by La Scala's

That is just so cool! That's great of you!

Happy anniversary! I've got about 3 months to go to reach that milestone.

I get the same results using EzSet or a Radio Shack SPL meter.

Your AVG will remain free. It's what I use on Windows too. Bought a new disk yesterday. They had 85GB available for C$85 and 160GB for C$125. They are getting cheap! (And not trash either: Western Digital 7200 rpm 8MB buffer)

Did you get them to deal the price some?

formica (Rob) is also in Montreal. (I'm in Rimouski) There's also the used market. There was a very cheap pair of La Scala's for sale in Montreal early last week. I wonder if they are still available. I'd be very surprised if you could get Klipsch retail speakers cheaper in Canada than in the US. The problem is the unknown charges you'd incur importing them...

Colin, I guess this issue is still bugging you... You quote a definition of throughput that can be thought of as MIPS. So you'll have to agree that in that case one would be linearly proportional to the other. MIPS are millions of CPU instructions per seconds. The faster the clock rate, the more instructions per seconds. It's a linear relation. The other page you quote from Sun basically says that throughput is no longer proportionnal to CPU clock rate because memory access can't keep up to feed data and some CPU cycles are waisted waiting for data (CPU speed grew faster than memory speed). So throughput has actually less than a one-to-one relation to CPU clock speed. Sun addresses this by multi-threading, but this doesn't apply to your home PC running software that doesn't multi-thread. I hope this helps. I certainly don't want to appear negative about this issue. I value your input about audio and issue has no bearing on that. I'm sorry if I appeared confrontational; this is a fun, low stress, place and I want to keep it that way.

Thanks for the advice! A while back I was considering buying the cheap Pioneer multi-format player, but it does some funky downconversion if you use bass management, which is a must for me (the La Scala need the sub). I see this Kenwood has bass management with fixed cross-over at 100 Hz; a little high for me but it might work out. I've currently using a Pioneer DV-333 (C$300 in december 2000) using digital outputs to an h/k avr-325 (so not using the Pioneer's DACs). I'm considering the Kenwood. (Wait until I tell my wife I've found something else to buy!)

---------------- On 1/19/2005 3:17:45 PM tqlla wrote: remember that $130 one is actually refurb and open box. I would suggest picking up the refurb for $30 more. OB can mean its scratched or missing the remote and such. Also, with the refurb you can get a warranty through kenwood for fairly cheap, when you register the product. rb stock includes a 90 day warranty. Also know that Ecost, after you receive the product... their support ends, and you have to deal with Kenwood should problems arise. I have never had a problem with ecost though ---------------- I bought a refurb receiver from ecost. It was missing the second zone remote (which I wasn't planning on using anyway). I contacted them and they offered to take it back or give me a discount. I took the discount and was very happy with the service. But yeah, I guess the non-OB is a safer buy, especially shopping across the border.

I'm really intrigued about the Kenwood Sovereign DV-5700 and I wasn't even in the market for this. It doesn't do SACD but does do DVD-A. I'm guessing it's a better value than the cheap Pioneer multi-format player? I don't have an HDTV, so i don't know how useful the Faroudja Digital Video Enhancer would be. They talk about enhanced "horizontal" resolution at one point, so this might be something on top of progressive scan (which I can't currently use)? I could get this shipped to Canada for C$222; not bad at all! Is this 2001 model really recommended compared to an inexpensive current model multi-format player? Thanks!

If you want audio quality, ecost has the kenwood 5700 refurb for pretty cheap. $130! And it retailed for $1100? Interesting!

I've said som eof this before... 1- I agree with the above comment to substitute "Discontinued" with some other word or combination, but it must be clear that they are no longer manufactured ("classics" isn't different enough from "heritage" in that respect). 2- Perhaps the "discontinued" category can have a horizontal divider under the last word ("systems") and then start again with the loudspeaker lines (e.g. CF, KG, KLF, KM, etc) 3- The heritage button has only "All" so it's useless to have to select that followed by "Go". Have a non-fuctional "All" displayed and the "Go" button; or simply put the 4 Heritage speakers in the pulldown menu in addition to "All". There's no point in selecting "All" followed by "Go" to get a list if you know you want to see the Klipschorn. Plus, that menu hides flagships from users: If I tell someone he can find out about my La Scala on your website, where will he click? It would be easier if the name appeared under the pull-down menu.