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Moon Try to find someone with a 12" thickness planer and/or a wide belt sander. They could plane/sand those I/8" thick resawn boards down to any thickness you desire. Then all you would have to do is run the edges through your jointer. At least then you would have 12" wide pieces to work with. Hope this helps. Garth

If you have got good corners in your room, by all means get the Khorns and try them out. I have mine in a relatively small room (but with a very high ceiling) and I think they sound great. Go get em!! Garth

Chris Sometimes outdoor circuits that require GFI protection are wired in such a way that the AC is fed from a normal breaker at the panel to a GFI plug (recepticle). This plug could be anywhere. From there all normal plugs down the line would be GFI protected by that first plug. The trick is to find that first plug. It would have to be tripped to shut down the rest of the circuit. Hope this helps.

Hey Mark TWO great posts. Very informative and very well explained. I am going to print and file these. Thanks so much Garth

Dean if you're out there, any comments on these?

Solarcarl You have a PM Garth

Hi Titan Looks like a bit of a problem allright. I really don't think you would be happy with the way false corners would look like in your very nice room. The problem being that proper false corners should extend out from the speakers roughly twelve to sixteen inches...might not be too pretty. This may not be an option for you but two or three Lascala's or Belles across the front, along with a good subwoofer should give you sound very close to properly cornered Khorns. Good luck to ya Garth

Go to www.hifiplus.com It's a british online magazine with many pages of music reviews available. I particularly like the way they rate the recording quality separately from the music. I like to look for good recordings and have found a few good ones so far. Give it a try.

Took me awhile to find it but yeah...hilarious.

I would like to recommend Michael Kaeshammer, "Tell You How I Feel" Kind of a mixture of boogie, stride, barrelhouse, ragtime. He's only in his mid twenties but boy can he play piano. Buy this CD and prepare to be absolutely amazed! Very well recorded to boot. I've only just discovered him. Has anybody here heard this guy?

Started with a cheap Sears Combo...then a big step up to a pair of Altec Model 15's (my sister still owns these)...then one day out of the blue, my friend wanted me to go with him to shop for speakers. One of our local dealers had just begun selling Klipsch so in we went to check it out. My friend came home empty handed, but I came home with a set of KCBR's. Love at first sight I guess. Oh to be young and foolish again. Never regretted it though, I still got em. Garth

lighting guy... Welcome to the forum. Looking forward to some good PWK stories. As to your question about crossovers... I believe ALK universals allow you to bi-amp. http://www.alkeng.com Good luck. Garth

Thanks rplace....works great for me.

Good advice from Cal. You might want to check with your electrician if your local electrical codes require specific wire types. Especially for wires inside the walls. Garth

Huck : Now go get those khorns !!!!![]

Hi again Huck Try this link http://forums.klipsch.com/idealbb/files/VTV%20K-Horn.pdf

Marems : I found a lot of good info on this site. www.audioalloy.com. I think it is important to note the difference between "sound isolation/soundproofing products" and/or "acoustic improvement/room treatment products". Very different goals here. Garth

Hi Huck : The info I gave you on your other post regarding 1984 K-horn drivers came from an article from I believe "Vacuum Tube Valley" issue #13. This article was posted on the forum here some time ago. I only printed off one page of the post to show the different years and drivers used. I didn't print off the info regarding crossovers. I did a google search and found the back issue is available, but for a price. Maybe someone else here can help. Garth

Huck: I'm not sure about the crossover but the drivers should be the K-77-M tweeter, the K-55-M mid driver, and the good old K-33-E woofer. Hope this helps. Garth

Hi all. Moon- Just want to throw in my two cents about the Jack Johnson CD... One of the very best recording and mixing jobs that I've ever heard. Can't get it out of my CD player. My recomendation for the week is "Susie Arioli Swing Band featuring Jordan Officer - Pennies from Heaven" Very cool swing jazz... Old standards reworked in a new and delightful way. I think ole Thebes would like this one. Garth

tjnif- The letter "p" in your serial # would indicate a 1976 model. Supposed to be a good vintage. Sputnik- Those look like beauties. When you spread the cost out over the next twenty or thirty years it works out to 20 or 30 cents per day.[] Get em!! Garth

Sputnik: Thanks for the welcome. We live in a small farming community about 60 miles straight north of Glasgow MT. I've been lurking and learning here for a while now. As to your question about the sweet spot...I think that the size of the sweetspot of the k-horns would be very similar to your corns, as both use a similar mid horn. These horns do seem to be a bit beamy. The problem with the k-horn is that when they are properly tucked in the corners, you have no way to adjust where the axis of the mid horns cross. In the sweetspot the sound seems a bit "hotter" and more detailed to my ears. However, my listening room is less than ideal, but my k-horns seem to fill the whole room very nicely. I think that I have read here that ALK's trachorn has a much better dispersement compared to the stock horns. Something to do with the way the tractrix horn launches the sound into the room. It's a mod I am considering. Good luck in your Quest. Now go get those K-horns! Garth

I'm sure you have thought about this, but after looking at the pic of your room, and seeing where your cornwalls are aiming, I'm wondering if you are not going to have issues with where the k-horn "sweetspot" is going to be. The long wall would of course be the desired placement. If this is not possible I'm sure you can make them work some how. Sure wish someone would come up with a mod to somehow be able to aim the top bin, without moving the speaker out of the corner. Anyway, go get those k-horns...you will never regret it.

Another way to deal with the baseboard heaters would be to leave all the pipes intact, but then simply shorten the covers and remove the fins as far as is necessary. The covers can be removed and then cut with a good pair of snips or a jigsaw with a metal cutting blade. You could then install a new endcap on either side of the speakers to really tidy things up. The fins on the copper tube are easily removed by simply grasping with a pair of pliers and twisting them off. As a final touch you could then cover the exposed copper pipe with foam insulation to protect the speaker from heat. I really think that the k-horns would then fit perfectly. They would look great in your room. Best of luck from your neighbor to the north! Garth

I've got one that I'll bet none of you has ever heard. It's called "The Sackville Allstars Christmas Record" It was issued by Sackville Recordings out of Toronto. It features Jim Galloway on sax, Milt Hinton on bass, Gus Johnson on drums, and Ralph Sutton on piano. Their rendition of "Good King Wenceslas" is my favorite cut. I'm also really enjoying Dianna Krall's latest. Garth