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How many seats in that auditorium and do the LS do a good job in it?

Wotta shaggy dog story!

Yes, beware the ICA... Believe your ears.

If they have removeable tops, they're likely 1975 or earlier. Easier to get at the crossover, squawker and tweeter, trickier to get at the woofer, but it shouldn't be an issue in most cases. With my 1974 La Scalas, I went with Sonicaps from BEC on this forum. They improved the sound noticeably and even came with little plastic mounting saddles and tie-wraps to secure them. I ordered his CT125 tweeters at the same time, but waited until after the new caps were in for a day, so I could hear the improvements of the two different changes. One was an update and one was an upgrade and both were worthwhile, although I had to make a small relief in each top to clear the slightly bigger magnet of the CT125 tweeters.

If you want to see a movie that delivers all it promises, check out Shoot 'Em Up. It stars Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti and Monica Delucci and is hilariously violent, in the over-the-top way of movies like Kill Bill. It has no pretensions to fine art, it's just a manly man saving a damsel and a baby from an army of bad guys led by a brilliant but evil villain by blasting holes in them with whatever's handy. I watched it two nights in a row with two different friends and I'd watch it again anytime. Even my shy lady friend found it funny, and of course the baby was cute.

Pity I didn't know you were in town, Andy. You could have had a listen to my JubScalas. I'm the only Klipschster who's heard them so far, although everyone who's heard them likes them. It's not usually this cold at this time of year, either. Hopefully you'll have more pleasant temps for your next visit.

Yamaha, Denon, H/K and Onkyo are all popular among forum members, to drive a wide variety of Klipsch speakers.

You should only need a test CD to dial in the sub for hi-cut and phase. The receiver can put out its own test tones to match the speaker levels, which will get the sub in the ballpark, too, for level at least.

It's that place north of the 49th parallel with national parks the size of Texas, home of Bryston Audio, Simaudio and lots of other famous names.

London Drugs is quite the chain of drug stores. We don't have anything like them in eastern Canada. They have a useful computer department, an AV section with lots of TVs and a small listening room with lots of Klipsch speakers, mostly Reference or Synergy, I think, with Heritage Series available on special order. There's some clothing, housewares, cameras and accessories, groceries and even a pharmacy!

These amps are also popular in the UK, marked under the Fatman name. See: http://www.fat-man.co.uk/

Can't speak for the other big Heritage models, but the La Scalas are kind of special. They're not just speakers to me, they're almost like pets that deserve a pat on the top now and then, like "Good work, boys, you're sounding great." Never had that feeling with any speakers that I owned before. Here's a link to the La Scala timeline: http://www.klipschcorner.com/special/LaScalaTimeline.aspx

I saw Ten Years After last week in a small club and they rocked the house! A young guitarist called Joe Gooch has been playing with them for five years and plays their material as well as Alvin Lee did. Ric Lee is still on drums and the bassist and keyboard player are the originals, school buddies of Ric Lee. They played great, but the sound was awful. Now I know what "overloading the room" means. When the bassist was introducing a song, in a normal speaking voice, with no instruments playing, you could only make out half of what he was saying. Maybe if the volume had been at 8 or 9, instead of 11, they would have sounded as good as they appeared to be playing.

I noticed the Press-Secretary-type euphemism: "lit up" the SUV. It sounds so much more innocuous than "blasted the hell out of" the SUV. Maybe it's because war news is daily stuff, or because people want to sound like they're hip to the battle talk, but terms like "collateral damage" and "friendly fire" really try to minimize the impact, emotional and otherwise, of instances of property and (most of the time) people who were not even intended targets being destroyed. A few years ago, an American pilot in Afghanistan disobeyed his orders and dropped a 500-pound bomb on Canadian soldiers who were conducting a live-fire exercise at night. Four soldiers were killed and several more were injured. A group of America's neighbours and allies died at the hands of someone who should have been their ally, but it was just another "Oops!" moment. Sorry to sound depressing, and thanks to DD for posting it, but any trend to become casual about these sorts of events would be a very bad trend, leading to more serious events seeming trivial. At least no-one was badly hurt this time.

I ran into a severe hum issue when I added a second Yamaha power amp to my system. Grounding to the nearest outlet didn't make any difference. What did solve the problem was grounding the two power amps to the receiver. I ran a cable from the grounding screw on the receiver to one of the screws on the back of each power amp. I picked one of several screws that looked to be screwed into the power amp chassis. Since I couldn't tell whether the screw would be supporting something on the inside of the case, I just loosened it enough to attach a small forked connector attached to the cable and re-tightened the screw. The hum immediately went away and hasn't returned. I'm not sure if it matters or not, but the power amps and sub are plugged into one outlet, while the receiver and the rest of the electronics are plugged into a different outlet. However, the whole system is on a single circuit.

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If you can get really good discounts, maybe think about getting some Klipsch Heritage speakers... [] As for bi-amping, it can sound good, but it's expensive and complicated and I wouldn't rush into it until you have quite a bit of experience and have a good idea of what you're after. Otherwise, you could wind up trying several different setups before you found one you're happy with, and the price of that adds up pretty quickly.

Wonder what Les Paul thought of his guitar head coming out of some dude's pants?

I really liked this comment on that site: Another Advantage of LP written by Chabis ben Duvid , June 09, 2008 Play an LP enough times and you get to hear the other side playing backwards at the same time. This saves 50% of the needed listening time. Or, put another way, it allows you to enjoy twice as much music in the time you have.

On my black 1974 La Scalas at least, the sides of the doghouse are unpainted. I see the speakers every day, and dust them thoroughly every couple of weeks, but even so, it was a year before I noticed. It took sticking my head in the horn with a flashlight to see the unpainted plywood. I wouldn't worry about sections that you can't see.

It's not how many to an outlet, it's how many to a circuit, which might have several outlets or maybe only one. Most household circuits are rated for 15 amps, which, at 120 volts, is 1800 watts. For safety and to avoid blowing fuses or popping breakers all the time, it's best to keep the load under 1600 watts per circuit.

Thanks for that site, pauln, it really brought back some memories! My father was in the Canadian Army and we lived in Germany in the late '50s. Dad bought my mom a Victoria 250 Roadster for Christmas and we travelled a bit around the country with it, plus local driving. My brother and I were very small at that time, so there was room for all four of us in the "3-seater" car. It ran fairly well, but was understandably sluggish going up steep hills. It was amusing to see that the site called it a "one-eighth Corvette", since it was made of fiberglass and had a single-cylinder engine. Much later, in 1977, I bought a 1971 Corvette, which wasn't any roomier inside, but went up hills much better. There were a lot of Messerschmitts on the road then, as well as the Isetta "bubble-cars", as they were called. For a while, it was very trendy to have a big black-painted plywood key (standing 2 feet tall or so) attached to the back of the Isettas and the Fiat 600s, so they'd look like a big wind-up toy. About 15 years ago, I read that the older Germans actually despise the micro-cars, since they remind them of a time when the economy was so bad, that's all the Germans could afford to drive. War is expensive, especially when you lose...

One system does both for me, but the best speakers are for 2-channel, with Heresy IIs for surround.

A few weeks ago, I found a forum of guys who use pro audio drivers in their home systems, and one guy who appeared to know what he was talking about commented that the horn design is the crucial thing. His thought was that a great horn will sound good with most drivers, while a mediocre horn will sound poor no matter what driver you attach to it. He also mentioned that compression drivers nearly always need lots of EQ.

Someone in town here has a T-Rex and is very happy with it, even if it draws a crowd wherever he stops it. It was even featured in a short spot on the six o'clock news. They're quite a bit costlier than a bike, but there's a lot more machine there, plus it's far more exclusive than nearly anything else on the road.