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i hate how this forum resizes images automatically. if i'm going to download the full version of the thing, i want it to display the damn full version.
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OH MY GOD! THEY SOUND INCREDIBLE NOW. HOME DEPOT RULES!
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JC,
I thought about those new Solen Filem and foil 2.2uF caps. My problem with them is the leads are just not long enough to stretch from the 20+20 uF caps to the 0.2 mHy inductor in the tweeter filter. I got a pile of the bare boards made on a CNC machine and wasn't willing to drill more holes in them! I'm tempted to try them in the ES5000 design someday though.
BTW: Your's right about the capacitor thread. That got my butt in gear to make the pricing reevaluation.
Al K.
so this is the main reason for using kimbers over solen? lead length? or are you assuming there will be a worthwhile change audibly?
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Btw, if you want more bang for the buck then you should go the DIY
approach. I can think of plenty of drivers that can do what you're
looking for and cost way less. (ie, how bout an avalanche 18 in an
8cubic foot sealed cabinet - with 800 watts it will do 118dB with an F3
of 29Hz and only be -9dB @ 20Hz....which with room gain would result in
an F3 closer to 20Hz).
8 cubic feet? holy crap, that sounds huge.
and here i thought my 88.5 liter sealed enclosure for my 12 incher was large.
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impress her even more by laying bare cinder blocks on your speakers.
as for the lead shot, you put it inside the speaker? maybe it sounds different because you midified the internal volume?
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hi dean,
did you receive my e-mail?
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sounds like a good deal.
i was planning on selling my rf3's with creased woofers and damaged grills (had to reglue the pegs on) for around that price. but you're getting an entire set which makes it very worth while.
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happy birthday
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The Cornwalls make up for any perceived lack of bass in the La Scalas
i thought that's what the sub was for?
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All i know about bose is that they are the biggest markup and suck people into buying a product that compares to panasonic home theater in a box's for half the price. In audio, bose is my pet peeve for dang sure. I just can't stand how they sell so much, but then again the people buying them have no experience with hearing any good speaker company like klipsch for home theater as well as 2 channel. So anyone that hasn't heard any system before is going to think it sounds good. Usually money spent advertising, like they do 24/7, relates to money not going towards the product, which they claim is amazing. Ok, yeah right. Bose surely blows.
whenever i discuss audio with the average person, they always bring up bose. no matter what i say or how i try to demonstrate bose's faults, they still have it engraved into their mind that bose is indeed the top speaker company in the US.
why? simply because everyone else believes the same thing. i'm sure even if you A/B'd klipsch to bose, placebo would kick in and convince them that bose is still indeed a great speaker worthy of being considered "top of the line."
either that or they'll simply pull the "you're heritage is extremely huge... for that size it BETTER sound good" card on you. and, well, that one pretty much shuts me up. [
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Well if they are going to be around 2k, then I'll just by k-horns, i mean f-it, i may have a small room, and they would be only 11'7" apart from far end to far end, but i have corners! haha!
so, now you want k-horns?
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i'd take it into consideration if it was possible to install in a la scala without completely butchering the top end of the cabinet
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you can't set the x-over any lower than 100hz?
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The best match for LaScalas would be one applied to a pile of kindling surrounding them.[
]judging from your trends, your opinion should take a 180 degree turn a year or so from now.
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LOL
Just exactly what IS snake oil anyways? Does anyone know the origins of the saying?
Snake oil originally came from China, where it was used to as a remedy for inflammation and pain in rheumatoid arthritis, bursitis, and other similar conditions.
Chinese labourers on railroad gangs involved in building the Transcontinental Railroad
to link North America coast to coast gave it to Europeans with joint
pain. When rubbed on the skin above the pain, snake oil brought relief,
or so it was claimed. This claim was ridiculed by other rival medicine
salesmen, especially those selling patent medicines.
In time, snake oil became a generic name for the many medicines that were marketed as a panacea
or miraculous remedy, whose ingredients were usually secret,
unidentified, or mis-characterized, and mostly inert or ineffective. At
best the placebo effect might provide some temporary relief for whatever the problem might have been.
The snake oil peddler became a stereotype in Western movies: a travelling "doctor" with dubious credentials, selling some medicine such as snake oil with boisterous marketing hype, often supported by pseudo-scientific
evidence. To enhance sales, an accomplice in the crowd would often
'attest' the value of the product in an effort to provoke buying
enthusiasm. The "doctor" would prudently leave town before his
customers realized that they had been cheated.
W. C. Fields portrayed a snake oil salesman in My Little Chickadee (1940). The English musician and comedy writer Vivian Stanshall satirised a miracle cosmetic as "Rillago - the great ape repellent" and many of J. B. Morton's Beachcomber
books and radio programmes included short spoof advertisements for
"Snibbo" a fictional treatment allegedly tackling various unlikely
human conditions.
The practice of selling dubious remedies for real (or imagined)
ailments still occurs today, with different marketing techniques. The
term snake oil peddling is used as a derogotary term to describe such practices.
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I used a merlin with a teac and it rocked my socks off till they droped. It sounded pretty good for a $700 set-up, well at the time it was $700 now it would be $900 as the merlin has gone up in price.
wow.. merlin is $800 now.
too bad. i planned on buying one after the crossover upgrade. doesn't seem to be much of a bargain preamp anymore.
edit: funny how it now says *more* bang for the buck on the side of their website
CTP,
IMHO, Merlin would be a bargain @ 1K!
Terry
that's fine and dandy, but it's a bit disheartening when you see a product go up 33% in price. it's not exactly a budget preamp anymore.
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happens while listening to music as well.
sometimes i hear people talking to me...
except no one's in the house
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I used a merlin with a teac and it rocked my socks off till they droped. It sounded pretty good for a $700 set-up, well at the time it was $700 now it would be $900 as the merlin has gone up in price.
wow.. merlin is $800 now.
too bad. i planned on buying one after the crossover upgrade. doesn't seem to be much of a bargain preamp anymore.
edit: funny how it now says *more* bang for the buck on the side of their website
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i had a bose wave radio a few years ago
with the cd player and everything
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so it's basically a $500 vibrator?
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so, no more belles? what happened to building cornscalas? i remember that was on your list too a while back.
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Wedding rings are worn on the left hand[*-)]
well... that is the left hand
depending on how you look at it
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i didn't know Qatar was in the US
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Help from someone that isn't biased towards large speakers
in 2-Channel Home Audio
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having heard the smaller versions of the reference bookshelf line, i don't see why not..
but if the heresy is what everyone makes it out to be, why not go with that? definitely will be cheaper...