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Phooey, I will just miss yalll...I fly out of MSY on Dec 4, returning Dec 7, and then drive home...[]

One caveat about rear ports. In large cabinets the distance between the rear port and the woofer(s) on the front panel can be a close to the wavelength of a frequency the woofers are pushing...leading to destructive interference. With a front panel box, that distance vs. wavelength is a frequency far above the woofer's operating range.

Hi Jay, I included the URL and local phone number for Terry in my original post. The Forums URL insertion feature is not working. If the address I typed in is incorrect, Google for Custom FM Tuner Alignment and Terry's site should come up on top. BTW, folks, I have posted, over in "Forum" a list of problems...the forum is very slow, the URL insertion feature doesn't work,. and I can't copy/paste into the message composition window. I'm on Firefox but these problems are happening in IE as well.

That part about taking food away from the bowl to eat it...he's dragging off "the kill" to a safe spot. I've had cats that did that too, very deeply programmed into them.

Hey there...you are lucky to have WWOZ...I used to listen to it when I lived there. I think UNO has/had a pretty decent station that I could pick up in the Quarter. Since you're on this forum, I suspect you're looking for quality sound from the left end (88-92 MHz) of the dial, rather than super-selectivity to parse out stations at the right end. For that I recommend an older analog tuner. I have a Scott 333B from 1964. It is ugly and has a bit of high-end roll-off. But with only 2 FM stations worthing listening to here, it's fine. The tube/SS debate about amps does not apply to tuners...Tuners "drive" a high-impedence input on amps and the issue of low damping factors of tube amps versus loudspeakers does not come into play. You are fortunate to have a first-rate tuner alignment engineer close by, Terry Riemer. He worked on my Scott and also a Trans-Oceanic. I have not spoken with him since K but his website is showing a Metry address, not his former place near the 17th street canal, so I guess he's OK. 484-7173 http://members.aol.com/TerryR6525/Index.html

Torn and Frayed Stray Cat Blues others depend on my mood

We have a number of DVD Audio discs. Most are remixes of familar material. Most are quite good, especially if the original performers or engineers were involved in the remix. Fleetwood Mac's Rumors, two Grateful Dead albums, some REM...most are very satisfying. The Doors LA Woman was awful, and so was Yes Fragile. I don't think that DVD Audio is intrinscally "better" than CD, but a good 5.1 mix/remix can enhance the experience. We also have a few SACD 5.1 disks...Dark Side Of The Moon, most recently. Reserving judgement on that one. We also have DSOTM on Mobile Fidelty Gold CD for comparison.

One caveat to what I just wrote...the LPs I discuss do not, of course, include the Mobile Fidelity and other high-quality transfers, nor the Direct To Disc types.

It is not the media that is the problem. It is generational. The LPs that many audiophiles think are "better" and "warmer" than curent CDs were recorded and mixed by the previous generation of engineers in an all-analog (AAA) environment. They had to work hard to balance dynamic range vs. groove trackbility vs. playing time. Also, in many cases,LPs were rolled off below 50 or even 100 Hz and rolled off above 12 Khz or so, to minimize noise and (in the case of the bass) to limit groove excursions. The majority of buyers, using mass-market equipment (think Dad's console stereo) would never know this. And finally, think of all those last movements huddled together in the innermost band of an LP, as skating was at its worst and the dynamic range was the most compressed. Today's engineers came up in the business when compression, for maximum airplay loudness, was key. That is an oxymoron, since CDs have a much wider theoretical dynamic range . But radio stations no longer have an engineer in the booth to gain-ride a recording so the FM signal doesn't overswing its deviation. It's all computer controlled at all mass-market stations, set to Loud. CDs and DVD audio (we listen both here) each have the potentional for Sony's old and much derided slogan, "Perfect Sound Forever". You want to hear a CD that has been compressed to lifelessness? Madonna's "Ray of Light" album. You want to hear a glorious CD transfer? Vollenweider's "Down To The Moon". It's the engineers who now need the second part of their education, from us critical listeners.

what I find interesting is that the bid jumped 1200 in one day (Nov. 8) connivance, desire, or simple ignorance...?

Forget IE. Go with Firefox.

I am not surprised about the wildlife taking N.O. East back over. Jazzland (aka Six Flags New Orleans) ain't coming back and will be expensive to dismantle. I pity the folks who think they can rebuild in the East. The city has done them no favors by refusing to concede that certain parts of town must be abandoned for safety and sheer economics. These folks are rebuilding on blocks where they may be the only people, and the city can't afford to restore full services out there. The footprint has to shrink, it's just the gutless politicians won't say so in public. For those of you who are locals or visitors...the city recently anounced it will beef up towing in the Quarter. This is a good thing, since driveways were being blocked overnight and fire lanes obstructed. The streets are narrow, and there are not enough overnight parking spaces for the residents, who have district parking stickers, so illegally parked vehicles are a big problem. When I pull into town, I park, outside the Quarter, and walk as much as possible or take United Cab, 504-522-9771.

I remember ol' man Helwick. He had a younger brother who always smoked a pipe. It was in their store (the original one) that I first saw a Marantz 10B. N.O. East was always a strange place...it never should have been built, but the city had no where else to grow. When I worked there, some of my co-workers would hunt wild hogs in the swamps just off I-10 The apartments off Read, Crowder and Bullard wre mostly POS thrown up during the oil boom. Lake Forest Mall was nice but went down hill in the 90s and I think is more or less closed. Crime got pretty bad and nobody wanted to go to the anchor stores any more. I also would sometimes eat lunch at Pendelton Methodist Hospital. From late 83 to early 85 I lived in The Pass and had 110 mile round trip commute everyday. I finally started making a decent salary and I moved to the Quarter for the last two years I was there and therefore had a quick commute against traffic. The last year I lived there I worked in Algiers so I watched them build the 'new" bridge, what is now called the Crescent City Connection.

Forget cryo'ing wires, magic rocks, clarifiers, wooden cable trestles, green markers, mystic bricks,Western Electric 300Bs personally blessed by Alexander Graham Bell...the missing audio ingredient is...cheesecake!

I think part of the answer is that for bass horns, the difference in performance between exponential and tractrix horns seems rather small. Bruce Edgar gave up on tractrix for bass horns. The tractrix has been widely acepted for midranges, as we see from Klipsch's current line. My question is, why not revise the K401 to be tractrix? I think Klipsch wants to keep the top hat of the K-horn the same and its volumetric constraints are preventing any change to horn form. For those of us, like me, who are math-challenged, the value of this article is the bibliography, which is a comprehensive survey of horn literature from Rayleigh's time through 1994.

We just got a 50 inch Samsung 1080 DLP, which was about $1700 at Amazon.. We had a 30 inch Samsung CRT 1080 HDTV. We're feeding the new set via HDMI. We did a lot of comparisons, and DLP seems to be the best value of current technologies.

Sorry for the delay in replying..got busy. Yes, I remember Sound Trek. I bought a tuner from Silo, which was nearby. I also went to Wilson Audio, which was near the Garden District (I think) they were the high-end and I'd go there to educate my ears.

When I worked in New Orleans East (83-86) there was a Ground Patt'i on either Read or Bullard...but I never went there. I had 30 min for lunch so I often went to either the Chinese around corner or the cafe at the Lake Forest Maison Blanche. Paul Prudhomme and his wife were there one day, flacking his cookbooks.

I heard that Flame Linear stuff too. I thought it was because the design fed the power transistors rectified 120V (no power transformer) and when an output transistor failed you had 120 vdc into your speakers. A pal of mine was trying to fix one for a band in 1979, he couldn't get the transistors and finally gave up.

Macintosh amps got their PA status from the Dead, whose sound contractor, Alembic, used them extensively. (maybe still do). When the Dead had the famous Wall of Sound in the early 70s, they had several racks of Macs glowing right behind the band. I saw them in Louisville in 1974 and it was very impressive. Got too cumbersome and costly to tote around with them, though.

Where was I? Oh yeah... There are very few purchasers who base their decisions on "objective" data. The buying decision has been studied ad nauseum and it really comes down to price, peer pressure (keeping up with the Jones), SAF, and a host of other factors that can't be quantified on a waterfall plot. Even speaker manufacturers cannot agree on a standard for testing. The Europeans wrote up standards for many consumer goods years ago, but most American and few Far Eastern firms bother to use them in their ads. The average consumer does not any way to judge what a rating by a DNV method means. After getting burned in the 1950s over kits and 3rd party licesned (sp) manufacture, Paul was dead-set against kits. Before the Net, the Klipsch knowledge base was kept by dealers and a handful of cognesceti. What you are asking for is a valid question, and some of it exists out there. But I can't see K&A providing it, for the reasons outlined above.

Not speaking for Klipsch either but... Most speaker companies will not supply the data you are seeking for very good scientific and commercial reasons: 1. Frequency response testing is subject to so many vraiables that a test by one person or method usually does not square with another person's approach, even if the test equipment is of equal calibre. 2. Klipsch and other manufacturers used to tear their hair out over the graphs depicted in "High Fidelity". Paul actually got HF to issue a retraction about their curve for the (old) LaScala. It was grossly in error by any standards. 3. Many DIY'ers will see good looking curves for drivers and think that with any old crossover and any old box, they can "splice" these 'great' curves together to make a system 'for less money". Our Forum knows this to be wrong. Then the driver suppliers get blamed for poor results. Knowing the ingredients does not give one the recipe. yours in haste...Boom3

Last I heard the home game version will not have full rights...you are correct that corporate users must have full rights

I'm thinking, hoping, praying, this is a spoof. The dealer will push what he makes the most profit on. Don't know the MSRP of the 901s now, but don't think it is as much as the Klipschorn (7500/pair). Besides, 901s are not for corner use. At one point, Blose was putting blue glass mirrors behind them in the show rooms to provide a consistent reflecting surface.

"Everyone is going to want Vista when it is ready" translation: We think consumers have short memories and have forgotton how bad 95 and ME were. We also think most people are too dumb to read the reviews and warnings about what Vista really is. We also want to sucker them into buying more machine than they need. So, we will preload Vista and take the consumer's choices away even more. The price/performance ratio of Windows PCs is just too favorable for the consumer right now, so to maximize profits, Microslop and the PC makers need to reverse that and go back to higher prices...for the same indifferent performance.