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---------------- On 7/6/2005 12:16:53 PM NOSValves wrote: First off there integrated mono amps which are not the best for use with a seperate preamp. You want to look for power amps not integrated amps ... Craig ---------------- Oh man, thanks! I totally overlooked that. I must have not had my coffee this morning. There was an auction a few weeks back for a pair of Scott amps, not integrated, I saw this and jumped the gun.

For those of you that have them what should I expect to pay for the THX II Ultra two subs and the amp?

I noticed this pair of Scott amps for sale in my neck of the woods. The seller seems pretty up front about what is wrong with them. Would these be a good candidate for a NOSValves restoration and future use with something like a blueberry or might the problems be more then the potential pay off? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=73369&item=5787235854

What is the deal with LPs from Japan? They seem to command a high price. I remember back in the 70s/80s anytime I went in a record store the imports from Japan were much more and that seems to hold true today on ebay. Do they make noticeably better pressings? Is it the fact that they are harder to come by from a collectors point of view? Are they worth seeking out or just a nice to have if you have the cash sort of thing?

---------------- When done the room will have the following setup. NEC XG CRT front Proj. 80" wide 16:9 screen ---------------- Z-man, If you have not purchased the screen yet give some thought to a 2:35 to 1 screen over 16:9. I went with Carada, but all the big names make em that aspect ratio. I can't stress how nice it is NEVER having black lines above/below the image only on the sides depending on what source (TV, HDTV, various DVDs) you are watching. Start here with my original post http://forums.klipsch.com/idealbb/view.asp?topicID=59705 Member sfogg was a great help on this topic. My projector is 16:9 native, but I am so happy I went with the wider screen. Looks like you are building a very nice room. Drop me a line of you want to see some pix of mine. I did it last winter and it looks a lot like yours. Good Luck!

Thanks for the info and kind words about the room Dr. W. I am quite pleasntly suprised. The Chorus (not CII) is doing a gret job at center. I will eventually get a Belle, but for now KH/C/KH H/H/H/H is just a joy to listen to.

I would take a long hard look at Carada screens. I was taking a "money is no issue" stance on the screen and still ended up with a Carada. They are inexpensive, but not cheap. Look fantastic and have great build quality. Get samples from the various companies and try them with your projector first...IMO it is what you look at for every movie so it is just about the most important part of the video side.

---------------- On 7/1/2005 9:12:41 AM Dylanl wrote: Joseph Heckle from the forum is supposed to pick them up this Saturday. ---------------- Damn, I thought I lifted my leg and marked my territory pretty well with my quick responce to the original post Guess I was not aggreseive enough by bombarding you with PM/email. Was trying to give you a little distance to try them out first. My bad For any future belle sellers out there; if you have a pair (or single) of WO you want to sell give me a yell. I don't care much about cost...I care about the condition of the speaker. i.e. top dollar paid.

Wheelman, what is the name of that LZ DVD?

Not looking like much traffic over in Architectural forum so thought I would try here. Sorry for the double postbut I am anxious to work on my room over the weekend. I have a question about sound absorbent form applied to my home theater/2 channel room. I have khorns along a 13.5-foot wall. I have done some reading at the auralex web site and submitted my room dimensions for some advice. One suggestion is foam panels to the left and right of my fixed screen as well as below the screen. The left and right side of the screen seems fine but I am wondering about the area below the screen. This would be the part of the front wall that the khorns use. The auralex suggestion shows a picture of traditional, tall skinny floor standing speakers. Is the wall better off with out treatments for the khorns or with to cut down on reflections? Thanks! I am adding a picture to this post (1000 words right) the area I am concerned about is on either side of the chorus and below the screen.

Wow, great story. I am sooooooo jealous!

My only concern about WAV now is the meta data about the track. I currently have my so-so mp3s and WMFs catalogued as Artist/Album/Track number/Track Title. This gives great options with my audiotron for playing entire albums as they were recorded or random songs for every album for one artist, etc. I am sure the other players do the same. Can you get that association with a WAV file? Is that a function of the software or the file type? Thanks!

I have a question about sound absorbent form applied to my home theater/2 channel room. I have khorns along a 13.5-foot wall. I have done some reading at the auralex web site and submitted my room dimensions for some advice. One suggestion is foam panels to the left and right of my fixed screen as well as below the screen. The left and right side of the screen seems fine but I am wondering about the area below the screen. This would be the part of the front wall that the khorns use. The auralex suggestion shows a picture of traditional, tall skinny floor standing speakers. Is the wall better off with out treatments for the khorns or with to cut down on reflections? Thanks!

I think my KSW-200 might be the weak link in my HT. If money were no object (hey, I can dream) in a 13.5 X 18 room what would be my best movie only sub? What about same room and a sub for movies AND to augment the khorns in my signature? Thanks!

Good one, JM!

---------------- On 6/30/2005 12:58:31 PM wmilas wrote: Something like the SueezeBox2 i mentioned before is just a small front end player with a remote that gets the music from a server located somewhere in your house. Its upsides are that its cheap, and you can have them all over your hosue in different rooms. The downside is that teh display is smaller since its built into the device, and its not nearly as slick. ---------------- wmilas, I checked out the squeezebox...along the same lines as my Audiotron by Turtle Beach...front end to a computer network that has you music files. I like their ripping service. That would surely save time and since they give them to you on DVD there is my backup. I also like the optical and coax digital outs plus the fact that they user burr brown DACs. Not sure of the DAC in my A-tron and I only have optical for my digital out. Do you let your Squeeze box do the D to A conversion or do you use one of the digital outs? How does it sound?

---------------- On 6/30/2005 12:53:24 PM STL wrote: Why not use a lossless format? Like the name implies, you won't lose any quality -- but you will get substantially smaller files sizes! ---------------- I have already ripped all the CDs once to mp3/wmf before I really knew what I was doing. I did rip them at the highest quality possible. This took a great deal of time swapping CDs for days. So my thinking was that I kept it as close to the original CD as possible that would be best. Im guessing (correct me if I am wrong) that if I have the WAV file it would be a simple matter to take a subset of those, say 100 or so and convert them to a format I want like mp3 for a portable player. Also, I am a bit skepticalmaybe I am just ignorant to the inner workings of a lossless format. My pea brain tells me that if you are converting it and making it smaller you have to lose something (am I wrong here?). So I was considering the path of storage size plays no part, hard drive are cheap I am willing to buy what I need. I want the best, easiest, fastest method for storing them so I dont ever have to drag out a CD again. If I buy a new CD I would put it on the computer that day and throw the CD in the closet with the rest never to bee seen again. Maybe it is the once bitten twice shy ideabut I dont want to copy CDs again once this is done. Am I just being stupid here? Will a lossless compression sound every bit as good as a non compressed file? I thought with any compression there was a trade off between size and quality.

New question if WAV is just a wrapper for PCM data and all I really want to do is have all my "CDs" on my HDD for ease of use. Can I/Should I just save PCM data? My goal would be to have CD quality music on my computers hard drive so it can be accessed quickly and in turn put all my CD into storage.

Thanks for the quick replies all. Just to be clear, DizRotus. I am not looking to take my existing mp3 and wmf files and convert to wav. I am going to drag out all my redbook CDs, once again, and rip them to the best format once I decide on one. Sounding like WAV is the frontrunner at this point. New Questions: 1. Anyone out there own an Eschent Fireball or similar system http://www.escient.com. I used one briefly and loved it but for the price, unless I am missing something, I dont see the benefit. I believe it is just a slick packaged version of what I am already doing. If you have one or know more then me please tell me the pros/cons 2. Has anyone seen or used a kaleidescape system? http://www.kaleidescape.com It is simply an electronic work of art effortless to get any music or DVD file and instantly play itplus it has all the CD or DVD art to visually select any item you want. However at 30K yea, 30,000 not 3,000 I dont think I will have one any time soon. Still it is way cool. Time to buy a lottery ticket or two. 3. How difficult is it to set up and maintain a RAID system. I am pretty lax at backing things up and would hate to lose all my hard work converting things to WAV. Can a RAID controller be outfitted into a standard PC or would I need to look into a more professional server? Basically I am looking for the best (not necessarily the cheapest) way to have all my music files in one place and easy access to them. The Audiotron is working just finebut wondered what others are using. I will check out slimdevices. Thanks again!

---------------- On 6/30/2005 10:10:43 AM jacksonbart wrote: The opening to Elevation is amazing, you hear the track playing with the crowd in the surround then they come on stage and plug in and WOW. ---------------- JB, I totally agree...from the opening few minutes to the very end it is amazing. It is the only DVD I have watched yet that made me actually feel like I was at the gig.

I think I am going to sell the Belles. ---------------- My original offer still stands. When should I come get them and how much do you want?

Hopefully I am not hijacking the thread too muchbut it sounds like you guys are just the crew to answer a question that has been bugging me. I currently have every track from every CD I own ripped to mp3 or WMF and on my dedicated music servers (read computers) hard drive. I do this so I dont have to open jewel cases and load up the CD player. I have a turtle beach Audiotron (great device) with digital output to my Pre/Pro. This gives me nothing but digital until it reaches the DACs of my Pre/Pro. It is working great in a living open on 3 sides with a two story ceiling and KSB 3.1 speaker for background music. I want to more or less duplicate this setup in my more refined listening room where I already here the limitations of mp3 files played on my system. I do not care one single bit about the HDD space it takes up. I am willing to buy the necessary disc(s) to get the best possible sound. I want to re-rip all my music to the best sounding format but dont really know what that is. Questions: 1. Should I use Wav, FLAC, something else? 2. What is good software to accomplish this? Something that will use CDDB or the like to catalogue them by Artist, Album, Track, etc. Thanks a ton! Rich

U2 @ Slane Castle...check out this thread on the exact same topic. http://forums.klipsch.com/idealbb/view.asp?topicID=62104

...on the five fifteen. Just noticed that this post will be my 5:15 post and I love The Who. Got me to thinking. Any other Who fans out there? Anybody catch the Royal Albert Hall DVD concert? Isnt it great when Pete tells the guy heckling in the audience to F-Off? 5:15 Girls of fifteen Sexually knowing The ushers are sniffing Eau-de-cologning The seats are seductive Celibate sitting Pretty girls digging Prettier women. Magically bored On a quiet street corner Free frustration In our minds and our toes Quiet stormwater M-m-my generation Uppers and downers Either way blood flows. Inside outside. Leave me alone. Inside outside. Nowhere is home. Inside outside, Where have I been? Out of my brain on the five fifteen. On a raft in the quarry Slowly sinking. On the back of a lorry Holy hitching. Dreadfully sorry Apple scrumping. Born in the war Birthday punching. He man drag In the glittering ballroom Gravely outrageous In my high heel shoes Tightly undone They know what they're showing Sadly ecstatic That their heroes are news. Why should I care?

Scott, glad you like the Cane grills. You have me rethinking my decision now. I thought the cane grills looked better with lighter woods (OO) and mine are WO. You say they look nice with Mahogany? Post some pix when you have time. Glad you like them. Thanks for the effortless transaction! Gregg, what the heck is a Reissor screw? Hawtkins, Thanks for the kind wordsnow I just need to finish the job by painting them black rasavage4, As JM points out I think all you really need is sturdy mounting points. You would probably have to get more creative with the plywood parts, cutting the right (er, correct) angles but the idea would be the same. HootMonk, Ill leave that job to you O, that was a conscious decision to make that subject line. I was trying to be Finis straight man.