Randy Bey

gee, doesn't anyone notice when I'm gone? sniff, sniff

I use the Allan Songer method, but with a small twist --- I do the alcohol (DIY) fluid first, then the DD fluid second. Theory here is the first cleaning is the easiest, so use the DIY with no great expectations of 100% clean. Also, using DD second will remove any residuals from the DIY along with doing the harder, better job of secondary cleaning. But then, I fold my underwear before putting it in my drawers, too.

your first time soldering? How did you build that computer then, with preassembled parts ? Practice on other stuff for quite a while before hitting your kit. Keep your soldering iron clean. I use a wet (moist, actually) sponge to wipe it down with quickly once the iron is hot. When it's clean it will have a shiny silverly look to it. Heat the stuff to be soldered from the bottom (heat rises). You need to be able to apply only enough heat to melt the solder, and not the insulation. On the other hand, you don't want so little heat that the solder does not flow, like water, around and through and all over the area you have heated up. Invest in a "solder sucker" and some solder wick. Use these to draw the solder out of a soldered joint, so you can do it over again. Google out some soldering tips. There are good explanations, better than mine, out there.

---------------- On 3/29/2004 8:45:26 AM trey cannon wrote: I tell folks that if you are to spend $300 on wire, don’t. Spend $100 and use the other $200 to take your wife out...You will get more out of it...(legal disclaimer...this is my view and not the view of Klipsch) ---------------- I believe in cables, but I also agree %100 with Trey here. The benefit in cables is, IMHO, in better termination and quality materials. Not so much wire-rolled-on-virgin-thighs stuff but high purity copper, good dialectric insulation, good termination. I draw the line at around $100 (OK, maybe $150 for long speaker cables) and believe strongly in DIY. I say more power to those who do (and can afford to) spend $15000 on speaker cables. I just wish I knew how I could sell a few pairs at that price myself.

Probably the same guy who said he'd sell all his jazz records to members and then you never hear from him again...

yeah, Allen is a prince, but he keeps ignoring my request for him to send me all his duplicate jazz albums. Wish I knew about his 3009/III before I popped for mine. But I'm happy with it so far. Clearly it won't work for beans with an MC cart though.

The Moondog 2A3 is one sweet amplifier. If I had the spare jingle right now I'd snap a pair up. But I cannot bring myself to let go of the Laurels. They are just too good. Too good.

nvr mind. I got it myself. The (current) IP address for audioasylum is: 64.154.92.195 so, edit your %systemdir%/system32/drivers/etc/hosts file and add a line like so: 64.154.92.195 www.audioasylum.com and you should be good to go.

me neither. my (comcast) dns doesn't know www.audioasylum.com anymore. Any of you guys that can access it, go to a command prompt on your computer (Start/Run/cmd) and type "nslookup www.audioasylum.com" and see what IP address it reports. Let us know what it is.

Oh, I forgot that they stripped the html stuff from our tag lines. I have an AVA T-7

I'm interested in the Grounded Grid preamp. It's main failing to me was/is lack of a phono stage. Anyway, I've got the last preamp I'll probably ever own right now.

I'll take the Art Pepper and the Miles Davis, no problem.

Geez, all you guys that hate your KOB vinyl copies can just sell them to me... I personally cannot get enough of Miles, Cannonball, and Louis. Oh yeah, Coltrane too. I copied KOB and Blue Train for a secretary at work that listens to "light jazz" all day. I figure if that doesn't do it for her, well, no point in going any further down the rabbit hole. And gee, I still don't like Way out West. Maybe if I had a vinyl copy... but it's the Hopalog Cassidy sound of the title track that leaves me cold. Sax Collusus(sp?) and Tenor Madness are far better.

ah well, I think you get what you pay for. I spent quite a bit of money refurbing my Sherwood tuner and I must say the results surpassed my expectations.

Back when Ultimate Electronics was known as Audio King, back in the late 70's in fact, that is exactly where I bought my Klipschorns. They did not have them on display but were able and willing to order them for me. So this is different now?

geez, they're in freekin Minneapolis and still not sold.... if I had the jingle I'd jump on them.

um, I used dynamat on the squawker horn and liked the sound. It was pretty much covered, much like the rope caulk picture there, only I also wrapped my horn in duct tape for added classiness. Then in a fit of cognitive dissonance I took it off, which BTW, screwed up the dynamat to the point where it wouldn't go back on. I hated the sound then, agonized over whether it was right, and finally after about a month bought some rope caulk. Two boxes, not twenty, and put about 1/8 as much as was on the picture above. I used a four wide stripe of rope caulk and went along the vertical sides of the horn, and used two more four wide stripes along the left and right sides of the top and bottom of the horn. Then I wrapped the mouth area (closest to the driver) with about an eight wide stripe. Pushed all these down hard with a little roller like you use for wallpaper, so there is a good bond between caulk and the horn. The results are good. I have felt no compulsion to change them. If I ever am not lazy I will take a picture and post it.

Why do people get their undies in a bunch over this? -- they want to get the best possible deal. This is good if you are a buyer, bad if you are a seller. I bid what it's worth to me as soon as I see it. If someone snipes it, so be it. With proxy biding you will only pay what you need to pay in order to outbid the second highest bidder. This would be fair to both buyer and seller, IMHO. The people that get all steamed up are trying to rip someone off. They would feel differently if the shoe was on the other foot.

Thanks Guy! I received the tuner quite a while ago, actually, and it didn't sound at all good. Fuzzy and uninvolving. I sent it to a guy recommended by the Yahoo tuner group, Brian Beezley, and he did a number on it. Just got it back last night. He replaced every single tube in it -- they were all original and all bad -- and did all the FM adjustments as well. Boy does it sound good now! This is a world class tuner. A real keeper. Tnanks again.

Sweet Tom, I bet they'll sound really nice with some ALKs in them.

phase? Make sure the + on the speaker goes to the + on the amp, same for both speakers. Also, phase between both speakers woofer section. I had the left woofer out of phase with the right for a long time before I figured it out.

distance from the back wall would be, to paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, long enough to not be heard. This would depend on the wall itself, the wall coverings, if any, furniture like bookcases, etc. In my case I have absorbtive panels hung where the individual speakers aim on the back wall. Also many things like bookcases and bric-a-brac cases to make the rear wall rather incoherent reflectively. I would also agree that at times in other homes I have had to use the short wall due to extenuating circumstances. The results are OK as long as you can still listen far enough back to be about 9 feet from the speakers. When the speakers are closer the sweet spot is correspondingly closer, conceivably less than the 9' distance.

would that be feet or meters Long wall. Looks a little small though - you want to be about 9' away from the speakers to allow the horns to blend. Also don't want to be up against the back wall. The sound reflections from the rear wall are to be avoided, and the closer you are to it, the louder they will be.

DaddyDee, I think that if you are at all interested in measurements or specifications, then SET is not for you. JMHO.

Kevin, this is in line with what I measured myself using a borrowed crummy analog Rat Shack meter. 80dB is PLENTY loud. But it didn't represent peaks for beans, so I don't know if there were (very) short periods of higher level.