Kriton

Hey all, I am having to box up and prepare to wrap my speakers for storage and moving to my next gig, and I have taken down my RF-7's and I had the idea of wrapping them in Saran wrap to keep the dust off of them while they are in storage for the couple of months it will take to get the move done - Does anyone have a reason why I should not do this for the time being? I don;t have the original boxes for those, but I am thinking about wraping up my RF-7' before I box them too; any reason I shouldn't? B

Uh, ok - not to be jerk, but if I am going to spend $2k on something, it ain't gonna be glorified box to put my TV on, it is going to be another pair of (speakers/amps/cables/hooters/beers, take your pick), no matter *how* many noise inducing fans it contains! Seriously though, I have some rather weighty stereo machinery, and I have most of it on an Ikea shelf that let's me get it all off the ground about 5 ft., as I have a 3 year old who likes "cool" things with lights and knobs and such - it ain't pretty, and it certainly isn't solid wood (more cardboard) but it holds an ancient and heavy CRT (sound more important than picture at this point) - and the rack with wheels cost me like $200. When I want to settle down and start buying furniture instead of CD's, DVD's, BRD's, cables, tubes, etc., I may think about one of those racks - they do look nice, but Ikea suits me just fine. I know some of you hate Ikea, but with a little kid, the stuff can't can;t be beat - or rather it *can* get beat, and I don't feel bad about it... Go check them out - now if you want to spend a buck or two, I have always liked the look of www.boltz.com, I have 5 (yes, I said 5) of their big DVD standing racks. B

Dude - get ye to audio karma (www.audiokarma.com) exclusively Sansui thread (http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=39) - and read 'Dc Offset and You" sticky - will tell you how to checck DC offset and then search for your amp, and you will find the answer. If not, ask your question, and they will be all over that amp - very nice. B

Dude - get ye to audio karma (www.audiokarma.com) exclusively Sansui thread (http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=39) - and read 'Dc Offset and You" sticky - will tell you how to check DC offset and then search for your amp, and you will find the answer. If not, ask your question, and they will be all over that amp - very nice. B

As to the DeanG mod, now I am hijacking my own thread - I was lucky enough to have the stock crossover on the right and I put the DG crossover in the left and went back and forth - I play a lot of classical, wife loves Baroque, a lot of opera and so on - you get soem string stuff going ape, and you can hear the harshness, on my system of course, like night and day - the comparison between the right and left was very noticeable - and so I kept the DG's, because I preferred the sound substantially over stock - they were far less "fatiguing" I think thepolitically correct term is - whatever, don't really know that from jack, but they sounded better to me - Never heard newer reference, never needed to - this is with my system, my room, my material and *my* ears - your mileage may vary. B

Don't get me wrong - My RF-7's run like bears whenconnected to my Sunfire combo, it seems to have enough juice to kick them out - but I guess I was expecting to hear some nice differences in the 7's with tube amplification - but I tend to think unless I have a hell of alot of headroom, I am not going to be able to use the 7's with my tubes. I just think it is interesting to note that the modern speakers apparently require modern SS amplification to sing. Now as to Dean G's tweak - the crossovers immediately tamed a harshness that I heard from the 7's - it was noticeable and immediate. I have never looked back, I think it was the best upgrade I could have made to those speakers. Dean is a piece of work, and he knows his S*&% - between he and Craig, those are two boys I could (at different times of course) buy much beer and pick their brains for days. Just my 2c. B

Hey, I have replaced both broken and stock Klipsch binding posts just to get some heavier posts in there. An excellent place to get heavy duty affordable posts is www.partsexpress.com - and no, as long as you use good solder (I like high silver content), you will not notice a change in sound - if anything it will be a better connection - These are the one's I have used, heavy and nice quality - but if you want to keep the stock plastic ones you should beable to call Klipsh and get a replacement. B

Ok ya'll, while I have been waiting for the right box to send my last meter to Canada - I ahve been doing a lot of listening. I have had my new BlueBerry/MKIII's (with new KT88SC output tubes) - on a pair of line arrays that I have set up in my main listening area. They have been lush and surprising, but these are not the most efficient speakers in the world, mind you - they are "a 2-way, 14-driver line source vented enclosure with 8 flared ports around back...featur[ing] 6 customized BG Neo 8 midrange/tweeter panels and 8 custom 6.5” XBL² woofers per speaker"(From a review). My point is, in ultralinear mode, my MKIII's appear to have enough juice to push these things, and to do it well. However, when I hooked up the RF-7's, I was expecting - well more...They were just pretty lifeless with this set-up, I was rather disappointed. Is this becasue of the impedance demands of RF-7's? Are these things just not really built to mate well with relatively low power (60 watt) tube amps? With the understnading that I ahve not yet mated these with my beloved Cornwalls, I was a tad put off by the lack of vigor of the RF's. I am starting to think that I have not yet even really broken these 7's in right, the bass was rather anemic and just didn't have that sparkle I am used to.. Any suggestions? B

If you need help mving those jubs when the construction is done, you let me know and I will bring a crane. Yup, PM'd Roy so we shall see - Keep the trailer, I might need some place to live for a while, and it would be mobile! B

Well, I have seen it and I would pay you more than *nothing* and be just tickled to get it! Looks like we are gonna be neighbors - the whole deal is coming together - been ordered by the wife. I also sent an exploratory PM about those speaks - so, I might be calling on you for soem advice, if you are game. I gotta meet this wife, a semi trailer? She is serious, isn't she? Love the CD's by the way - I need your address, I have a surprise for you to play on those Jubs. B

Exactly! That is what I am hearing! I figured that it had something to do with the current in the tubes flowing somewhere - now, output tubes? Which are the OUTPUT tubes? Good grief. I can hear the buzzing from some distance away, so it might be those bad boys, hey could that be the reason why I am hearing some high frequency roll-off?I have my system set up right now so that what happens is that I have one CD source, and I have hooked up the digital coax to my Sunfire Pre&Amp, and the analog R&L to the BlueBerry - so what this lets me do is switch from SS to Tube and back again (or even at the same time) with the same source disc - A/B'ing has been cool as *&^%, to hear the difference between one and the other on the same speakers with the same source simultaneously - but I am noticing that with the tubes, it is almost as if someone flipped the old Dolby Digital switch, and the higher frequencies are rolled off, some sparkle (Klispch-o-phile term for that high sizzle some folks - not me- think is "harsh") is missing...? Damn, didn't know this - didn't do it long though, justs plugged them at my workbench to make sure the gorrillas didn'tbounce them around too much, I really dislike UPS, ya'll need to live closer so you can just *walk* this stuff over to me! B

Craig - I blame it on the tubes, because that is where I am hearing the buzz - when I set up either amp all by itself, not hooked to anything, no speakers, no pre-amp, no source, nothing, just amp - and plug it in - when the tubes get warmed up, there is a hum, a buzz - a sound like white noise coming from what appears to be the tubes when I put my ear down there to the amp, that seems to be where it is coming from - to reiterate, there is *no* noise coming from the speakers when all of this is on and hooked up, none, dead silence at the speakers when the amps are connected to speakers, pre-amp to amp, source cd to preamp, and it is all turned on and sitting - kind of an eerie silence from the speakers, but a humming from the tube components- including the brand new Blueberry (if a little fainter). But with them all on, there is a definite buzzing hum coming from components. I just got some decent component cables, and it didnt effect what I am hearing at all - might this be a tube bias problem? It is almost like a vibrating heating pad, when it is turned off, there is that jarring stillness - when I turn off the amps (one by one), you can feel the buzzing stop through the shelf that I have them on - and that is without the CD source deck turned on. B

DUPLICATE, SORRY! B

Since I have tube buzz from my BlueBerry and MkIII's, I have been listening to the speakers rather closely while the pre is going through it's warm up and I ahve not heard anything, bump or otherwise, when the pre is coming out of standy - now maybe my component doesn;t have this problem for technical reasons, it is not a Peach, but through the speakers I hear dead silence. Now the hum I get from the tubes is another matter - sounds like sedated pissed off bees in my living room - Just means I need to crank it to drown out the buzzz... B

As a tube newb, I have a couple of questions that I have researched and not been able to find the easy answers to: Bias - how often can it shift, how often do I need to check for it, and why do I care? Is it common to have gain differences between matched mono-blocs, right gain has to be higher than left to sound even? How do you measure right and left gain, can you do this on a meter, or is it more accurate by ear, or with stereo signals am I better off just leaving the controls even and chalking it up to separate channels? Speakers and tubes - if it more likely for a tube set-up to fry my speakers than an SS set-up? Does anyone have a fool proof method to put fuses in the path between tubes and speakers to avoid a fry, and will it degrade the signal, what kind of fuses do you recommend, and will they work anyways? Is it possible to minimize the tube hum, or is that just a part of the nostalgia that are tubes? I assume that the hum is only a problem when it actually is coming from the speaker and not just the tubes them selves? Can the hum vibration piss off (feedback?) a turntable that sits too close? How would you isolate the turntable within a reasonable budget? OK, that is about it for now - any takers? B

Hey Rabbit - I would like to be put on the list for notification of the next Carverfest - if it is possible? I would love to go to one of these get togethers! Bruce

You saw my posting in the for sale area about my sccrew up with my BlueBerrry, right? I had close to the same malfunction - the thing was on MUTE! I turned it up 10 times trying to find out what the problem was, then remembered it had a remote and turned off the mute and voila, I heard music. I was prretty pissed too, thinking the shipping gorillas had damged it - I was close to visiting my private box folks and having the "talk" with them... And what I am hearing now is spectacular - I can't begin to tell you. Bruce

ID:10T = "Idiot" in the language of dOrK. (Hehe, I have the T-shirt too...) B

Trust me, that list isn't even close to complete, that is just what I have listened to lately, I still have soft spot for the Housemartins, The Alarm (good anthem rick), Bob Seger, the Who, Simon and that other hairy guy, Bread, America, Alan Parsons, good old timey Blue Grass, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel (pre-Christie), Peter Gabriel, Mamas and Papas, Jefferson Airplane, Steve Miller Band to Dave Mathews Band to Katie Melua and Allison Krause, Dinah Washington and Nina Simone - how is that for jumping around genre's? And that doesn't even touch classical and opera; young Leontyne and JesseNormous, Franco Correlli, Jussi Bjoerling, Hines and Leonard Warren, Bryn Terfel and on and on and on... I really need to just pick something, don't I? K

Have you actually sat down and listened to some of the grunting, overdubbed, remade, hyper-rap, monotone, monosyllabic crap that is masquerading as "pop music" these days? If I hear someone refer to Kanye West as a genius one more time, I think I will have to shoot my radio. I listen to Nickelback and some of the harder current bands, but you can have the "whine-rock", and any band where the members are all 5 foot tall (the Jonas Brothers) or pretty much any of the so called "R&B" out there, I will stick to Jethro and CSN, Uriah Heep, Pink Floyd, CCR, Chicago (with the brass especially), Supertramp, Queen, Kansas and Styx and the Police and early U2, even Yes and Asia, and Foreigner, hell I would listen to Thomas Dolby, Meatloaf, Talking Heads and the self loathing Morrissey before I would listen to any of the currently praised popular music out there. I keep my ears open though, for good bands that still sing about love and loss, and who are not trying to sound smarter than they are or making political commentaries (kill the police or whitey or whatever) on every song in order to prove that they are "edgey". And you can have Britney, Beyonce, Aguilera, Perry, and Hannah - I will keep Jessica at any size (good Texas girl - as long as I can put tape over her mouth), and Hudgens (well just cause.. But I could be entirely wrong. K

Funny you mention that - I have a collection of old 78's that I pull out occasionally and fire up an old portable victrola that I have, stuff a sock on the horn and spin through that include a bunch of old, and I mean old, classical music - I have an Enrico Caruso album (singing "Vesti la giubba" no less), and a Nellie Melba album that is really nice. I have collections of classical music in the old rock hard binders that are superb, even in the raucous sound that comes out of my Vic. One of my favorites is a Doris Day singing "Sentimental Journey" - now those would be albums to trade. Now I had (in storage) a whole colection of Bradway albums, including the 'songs' from "Song and Dance" and "Sunday in the Park with George" ( I had a thing for Bernadette Peters in a prior life) - and original pressings of "A Chorus Line", "The Boys from Syracuse", "Sweeney Todd", "South Pacific", "Fiddler on the Roof", "Man of laMancha" "Brigadoon", and whole slew more. All stolen from my storage locker one weekend when the cameras "weren't working". My most lamentable loss was a recording of Carmina Burana that was the best recording I have ever heard, and I don't remember whose it was and so can't replace it. Truly sad. But I still have my small collection of 78's - I might be willing to trade those around, if any one is interested in some really old stuff. K

Hey Tex - Let me know what you want for your albums, I have a nephew in San An that I am sure would be able to pick those up for me and bring them to me - Trying to build up my collection a little - Bruce

Yeah...hehe, but my BlueBerryIIX with cream in a walnut case is due here Tuesday! I wasn't expecting it that fast, and I have a feeling that my MkII's won't do this thing justice, but I am going to try. K

Uh, *NOT* June 22...any other day, even the 17th ( my anniversary) but *not* June 22. K

Trey, I will be there whenever you tell me the get-together is happening; a long weekend during the spring would be ideal. I am with SETI that baking our fannys off would suck, but again - as long as it is not in June, and specifically on the 22 - I am there with bells! (and horns and other crap). K