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My experience with Heresys is that when I upgraded a good-sounding Heresy II to Heresy III specs, using the Klipsch factory update kit, the speaker did sound better, with deeper and stronger bass and more clarity, plus it gained 2 dB in sensitivity, going from 97 dB/m to 99 dB/m, allowing a better match with the La Scalas. With the La Scalas, I have a pair of 1974 models, which sound good, but when I got a pair of 2007 La Scala IIs, once again, the bass was stronger, although it didn't go any deeper. As well, the improved appearance of the walnut lacquer finish meant that they went to the front of the room, while the black-painted plywood original La Scalas go to the back of the room, to serve as the Surround speakers. The LS2s are the Main speakers. The sound is more important, of course, but the LS2s are improved in every way, except for cabinet toughness. You can't get everything in one speaker model.

The killing of the dog was kind of vital, since it was John's original motivator, so I should have included it, but I hardly remembered it, because I saw the first movie on TV at a friend's place, and missed the first twenty minutes or so. While the movies are certainly exciting, at this point I could hardly match a scene to a movie.

You're right, but that was in the first movie, and we were discussing JW3, in which our hero suffers a different provocation. It was intended to be a brief summary, more concerned with the overall feel of the movie series, without listing high or low points. The mention of the knife to the eye was just to give a sample of the level of violence, and since it happens several times over the course of the many fights to the death, it seemed to be a good example. I've seen the first three movies, but at this point the details of each movie kind of blur together in my mind. You're welcome to do an expanded summary of the series, or any one movie in the series.

Briefly, John Wick is an assassin, but there are many other assassins in town as well. Much violence ensues. After you've seen guys take a knife to the eye, and other creative mayhem, you'll either be creeped out or laughing pretty hard. The body counts are extreme, but somehow our hero John Wick always comes through and manages to stay alive. The End.

Not a single date in Canada? That's disappointing. I saw the Eagles twice, once at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto in 1977, and once at Exhibition Stadium, also in Toronto, in 1980, I think. Very good shows. Have you seen any 2-generation bands? Arlo Guthrie's middle-aged son plays keyboards in his band, and Randy Bachman's grey-haired son plays 2nd guitar in his dad's band, which may or may not be called BTO. Tal Bachman had just the one hit, unfortunately, She's So High. It was a good song, and he deserved more success, but rock and roll's a crazy game.

No, the heat dome was something new and totally abnormal. We'd never heard that term before, unlike temperature inversions, which are rare but not unheard of. The Interior of BC was hitting temps of 49C/121F, which set new records for the whole country. Normal summer temps for that area would peak at 30-32C/90-94F, so they weren't at all prepared for that kind of heat. Keep in mind that 70% of homes in BC don't have air conditioning. That includes nearly all apartment buildings, including mine. Luckily, I've got windows on three sides, so I get cross-ventilation. If it gets really hot, like over 32C/90F, I'll dig out the big box fan and put it in front of the centre Belle Klipsch and that will usually be enough to keep me cool. Lytton, the town that set those record high temps, was also hit by a wildfire, made much worse by the heat all around. 98% of the town's buildings burned down. Two years later, there's not much sign of reconstruction happening, and a large number of the residents have given up and moved away.

I usually chuckle when I see that name, since it means, literally, the Big ****. "Teton" is the French word for "***", and it's still in everyday use. "Breasts" have a quite different word, "Seins". The resemblance is a bit hard to see, for me anyway. Is it more obvious from a different direction, or had those French explorers been away from home for way way too long? Hmm, T I T is shown as ***, and of course, the plural is ***s. But you knew that anyway, right? ,

I used to work with a Phoenician guy. Yes, they're still around. He was from Malta, where many Phoenicians still live.

1) Yes, it's totally normal. The hiss was always there, but your previous low-sensitivity speakers couldn't pick it up. This is why it's important to have very quiet electronics with high-sensitivity speakers. 2) No, the faint noise will not damage the speakers. 3) You can do a search to find out which amplifiers and other electronics upstream from your speakers are very quiet. However, as long as you can't hear the hiss at your MLP (Main Listening Position), it's not important and can be ignored. In the case of my stereo, the speakers are bi-amped, with one amplifier for bass and one for treble. There is a faint hiss from the speakers under all conditions. It may be a bit louder when the turntable is selected. The main thing is that it's inaudible at a distance of 1 metre/yard from the speakers, and is completely inaudible at the MLP. And of course, you won't hear it if your music is playing at a volume level any louder than the faintest whisper. The extreme sensitivity of the La Scalas reveals the faintest noise that is piped into if from your electronics, but in the same way, the faintest details in the music become audible, something that less sensitive speakers are unable to reveal. As an example that I've m mentioned here once or twice, on the Jimi Hendrix album Electric Ladyland, during the song Rainy Day, Dream Away, there is a spoken sentence: "Do you know what I mean?". This is a song that I'm very familiar with, because I've heard it since I was a teenager. After I installed the big K402 tweeter horns and the new (new at the time, anyway, 2019) K-691 compression drivers, sometime later I popped on this old familiar record and listened casually, and I heard Jimi say, "Do you know what I mean, brother?" Wow! The "brother" was faint, but it was there. It had always been there, of course, but finally the system was able to reveal it. I don't know what kind of music you prefer, but suffice it to say that your AL5s may show you details that will not only let you hear what you had not heard before, but with some recordings, they will also give you a better sense of being there, one small step closer to reality. As for amplifier hiss, it doesn't seem to relate to the amp's power. a 3 Wpc tube amp may be noisy, while a 500 Wpc solid state amp may be quiet. In the case of my system, the power available at each driver is 500 watts, so that means 1000 watts per side (500 watts per woofer, 500 watts per tweeter). That's the power available, but not what's normally going through, since in a normal-sized room in a home, most of the time less than 5 watts are going to each speaker, and more than 40 or 50 watts will drive everyone out of the room, to save their ears. La Scalas seem to be happy with anything from 5 watts to 500-1000 watts, as long as the signal is clean and you use some common sense with the volume control. Finally, welcome to the madhouse, err, Forum! It's a good place to learn and share audio and music info, and maybe make some friends.

I got tired of the temperature sensitivity of butter a long time ago: "It's too hard!" "Then leave it out, but not for too long.", and so on, so I switched to Becel Margarine. Looks like butter, and always spreadable. Then they got the Olive Oil variety, and that lets me enjoy the flavour while thinking that it's some kind of health food, and it might even be. Best wishes for good results any time in the future that you might have circulation issues. I grumble about my cold feet, but that's about it, so I grumble very quietly.

Yes, cheese. Sook-Yin Lee, a musician, actress (Shortbus), and VJ, took a slice of Kraft Sliced Cheddar, and for curiosity stuck it to her kitchen window. She took pictures a few times a month, and posted them on FaceBook. That slice remained stuck to the glass for over a year IIRC. It started to look a bit dried out and gross, but no bug or insect of any kind showed any interest in that "cheese" slice. Maybe the bugs realize something that we don't... Thanks to Kraft Sliced Cheese and similar fare, I've had enough cheddar to last me a lifetime, and have zero interest in it now. However, I found something different in the cheese section in our local market store: Brie and Camembert from a cheesery (?) located in Portneuf, Quebec, near where I grew up. Now I prefer the Brie, and get to feel like some kind of snob as I eat it on Dads Cookies, lol. It will go moldy if it stays in the fridge too long (a few weeks, maybe), but that just tells me that it's actual food, something that non-humans see as some kind of natural product.

Cool shirt! Has anyone teased you about the placing of the pop-up cueing light? And its impressive size?

Remember bread boxes? The bread would be dried out and stale in a few days, and sometimes in the summer, tiny flies might swarm out when you opened the lid. Then, I started putting my bread in the fridge, which helped, but it still dried out. Then, I reasoned that the interior of a refrigerator is a very dry place, because the chilling of the air removes moisture from it. Accordingly, now I triple-bag each loaf before I put it in the fridge. Yes, it's a bit inconvenient, but the bread stays moist and fresh for a week or two now. I take last week's bag, shake every crumb out of it, slip this week's loaf in, squeeze out as much air as can easily be expelled, then add a twist-tie and repeat. My menu used to be really predictable, but now it's not, so a fresh loaf can sit for several days some weeks. This means that dry or moldy loaves are much rarer events, which is obviously a good thing.

It's a pity this guy hasn't been back. He mentioned that his sub has digital amplification, but Class D does not mean digital, any more than Class A means analog. They're both analog amplifiers.

We're hearing new weather terms, like heat domes, atmospheric rivers, superstorms, and so on. The new normal will not be like what we're used to. I've never heard of 7% humidity. Here 30% would be about as dry as it gets. 40% is more typical. Victoria is at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, so we have cold ocean water on 3 sides, and driving 10 blocks or so from City Hall to the East, South, or West will have you in that water. The result is that it never gets really hot or really cold. There's usually a sea breeze, which is probably why there are no mosquitoes. If it got a bit warmer, nobody would grumble.

Flevoman, have you tried just turning up the treble when listening to your AL5s? That might produce the sound you're seeking. Some people think tone controls lessen the purity of the signal passing through the preamp, but in the real world, tone controls can be just what you need in some situations or with some recordings.

Right it is, so you won't be chilly when you're chuckin'.

You guys have a heat dome? Wow! I think we had the first heat dome in the world in 2021, and over 600 people in BC died. Now there's another one where you are. The future may be grim. BC Hydro, the power utility here, will give away 800 A/C units to people who are at risk, mostly poor people. Those are the ones who suffer the most in extreme heat.

We're lucky here on the Island. This is the first year we've even had any wildfires worth mentioning (only 2 small ones), but it's bad in the Interior of BC (British Columbia). The smoke seems to be heading east. Last week, Toronto had the worst air in the world! We do get smoke sometimes, like a few years ago, when smoke from fires in Siberia blew over. I woke up one day and my town looked like Baghdad or something, with a brownish-orange sky and a dim sun that lit everything in that odd colour. At least it didn't smell or choke us, just made it look like we were on another planet for about a week.

I just get 404 PAGE NOT FOUND at the first 2 links you posted, Travis. On the second page you posted, the product archive page, the links open, but just take me back to the same page. In general, most US Klipsch pages open in Canada, except for special offers and sales. As it happens, carewser lives within 2 km/1.25 miles from me. We should meet up some time.

How Scotland was settled: an Irish tribesman spoke up and said, "Follow me! I've found a place even rainier than here!" -- from Billy Connolly

45 Hz-17 KHz is the usual -3 or -4 dB rating for older La Scalas.

Since your speakers are used, could it be that the tweeters are blown, so the speakers are missing the sparkle they should have? If someone plays the speakers extremely loud for long periods, the tweeters are usually the first part to fail. Have you confirmed that they're working? It's easy to check. Put on some music with high frequency content, then use a very thick cloth, like a non-fluffy towel folded over until it's not much bigger than the mid horn. Cover the mid horn and listen for sound from the tweeters. That will muffle the K401 horn (with the older models with the open horn, one would stuff a towel right into the horn to muffle it, but the grille cloths on the newer Scalas prevent that) and let you hear the tweeters more easily.

No feet on my Belle Klipsches!

They're good speakers, but newer Heresys sound better. I'd suggest looking for Heresy IIIs or post-1986 H2s, which can be updated to Heresy IIIs with the very economical kit from Klipsch.