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I see idiots texting behind the wheel driving, driving down the interstate all the time!!!! I think we should pass a law to just let us shoot them in the head!!! It would save a lot of lives in the future.....sure shooting at a moving vehicle could cause collateral damage, but lets create some jobs and spend some federal bailout money on building "kill ramps" ...you know similar to the "runaway brake" ramps on steep mountain passages for trucks. Jobs created, lives saved, insurance rates go down....it's a win win situation!!!!!

Thank goodness I'm set for now.... I can barely afford a new LP let alone any gear!!!! nice look out rplace....somebody is going to get a nice table cheap.....

Thank you so much for the heads up!!! I'll have to check it out...... there is good jazz being made, just hard to come by..... thanks again

I think it's better to take your wife on the speakers not over ! And that I why I still swear that the Cornwall is the most versatile Klipsch model.....you can take your wife on or over those babies.... horizontal or vertical !!!!! It's a regular Cornwall-sutra!!! [][][][][][][] Yeah Baby!!!!!

cool site....this is the best I could get . .

I agree with wpines....if it's stomach thumping bass you want, you will need to go with subs.....but is that what you really want??? or is it tight chest bass? like you can feel the thwack off the kick drum in the chest with every beat? If so IMO you'd want a very clean, transparent system that won't "muddy the waters" or color the source material.....that way you get great separation and really "feel"all parts of the music. Lot's of 5 watt set- 20 watt OTL amps can do that in goobs with khorns...... 25 watt PCATs can blow of the roof....Pass Aleph 3 @ 30 watts.... can knock you over.......heck Mcintosh 501 monos sound nice but with any of them you'll only be using a small fraction of available power......then there is your front end!!!! Is that up to snuff? GIGO...... don't matter what amp/speakers your running if your pre is old and wooly sounding, and your playing poorly recorded source material on poor quality players........ one thing not to overlook is your listening space.....floor treatments, walls, ceiling height, size of the room, furnishings??? your room acoustics are probably one of the most important aspects of your system....thats why one person can have amp A and speaker B in his room and swear by it and somebody else, the same equipment and it sounds like crap....... some rooms just swallow bass. My advice is to take it very very slow....listen to as many different combos as you can, and again slowly formulate a game plan ....from front end to listening space.......then like the rest of us you will want to upgrade again and again chasing your tail like a mad dog, finally throwing your hands up in the air and say "you know ....that G-8000 really did a nice job for the money....why the hell did I give it to my brother in law!!!! " to answer your question....I don't know that the AU-11000 would sound any better than your G-8000..... I've just never been a receiver guy.... good luck on your quest and welcome to this insanity.....your in good highly medicated company [][][]

Ohhh I just looked up and your in the pan handle....thats a haul!!!!

If you were going to go Sansui I would Highly recomend a AU-11000 ..... (Groomslakearea51 resident forum expert, runs 4 of them in tandem in his "wall of voodoo" ) I've had 2 of them and they did sound very very nice, but still a vintage design and IMO not as good as a great modern design would be with speakers as revealing as Khorns....and that to me is the crux of the situation....... With 89db-92db speakers, you need much more power and they are a lot more forgiving than 105db sensitive Khorns I've had many other speakers that it really didn't matter which amp (except for power rating) they all kinda sounded the same.....blah compared to the heritage line up (not to say there aren't other great speakers out there....I just hav'nt owned them) I'd love a set of Sonics or Harbeth 2 ways......... the Sansui Au-11000 or 9900 sounds great with cornwalls as did my Mac MC-2505...... I'm assuming your zip is 32579.....Florida? I use Larry from Hollywood sound in Hollywood florida...... brutally honest....if you could test drive an atlas, I think you would be very impressed!

Paul, What kind of budget do you have?? I have / had about 6 sansui amps (all awesome) but have done much better on my K-horns..... Mac 250/2505 SS sounds very nice for Vintage SS, but still not there. I've run some Nelson Pass....but still a bit shrill and pricy Mac tube 275....nice very nice but I prefered a dynaco type design....NOS valves VRDs kick *** IMO MY Sansui AU-111 is a rare and famous tube amp from the pinnacle of Sansui design....but I like it for my heresy and Corns.....not the K-horns after much trial and error I found Rogue Audio!!! They make some $10K mono blocks and $8K preamps, but don't let that scare you..... I was testing their 150 monos (about $6k ) and the owner of the shop asked "do you really need that much power? " Well no......so he said (and I do trust this guy, been dealing with him for years) listen to the Rogue "Atlas" entry level amp..... it has the same enginering, parts as the big boys just at a entry price point, and it's probably their best , sweetest sounding amp" I can go on forever but at a start price, of $1395 (mine was 1895 with magnum upgrades) it IS the best sounding amp on my khorns that I have ever heard period......I doubt most $10k amps would sound any better, some a lot worse... tight tight bass and mid bass....feels like your being spiked in the chest with a vollyball....crystal clear and transparent mids and highs....hugh sound stage.....blah blah blah....just find one to listen to well it doen't hurt that I'm running a JM BBX w/ 6h30 and cream......probably one of the best pre's made at any price just food for thought.........

UDF!!!! Chocolate malt!!!!!!!!!! man I haven't had one of those since I left cincy back in 83!!! well I must be on the mend because I'm starving today (got 4 days to make up for) ....now all I can think about is a UDF malt....lets see it's only about a 18 hour drive......... nahhhh! JB: thanks dude, literally "bottom" notch........ I guess eating healthy is going to kill me a lot faster than if I ate like crap..... Actually my Doc told me that the HRT that I'm on seriously lowers my immune response, every time I change cycles....... I need to be extra carful during those periods! again thanks to all for the well wishes !!!!!

Well yesterday was the first day that I started feeling normal....still had to take it easy, but was able to eat food with out feeling like I had to barf or $%^ my brains out!!! Woke up early this morning and I have lots of energy, so thats a good sign....I will still take it slow thanks for asking Brac!!!!

You are correct sir!!! there are countless agency's, services, web hosts, server sites, etc. that sell packages to get your web page higher on the google count. They know exactly how what when and where to cross reference, tag, flag, and manipulate a web address, to get traffic to it. in theory, if you have the tech savvy , you could do it your self for free, but I suppose in theory I could rebuild a car engine! as far as doctors go, a lot of my clients are P. I. attny's, so I always check with them about malpractice and pending suites.....you'd be amazed at how many cases some doc's have brought before them!!!

Well I'm glad to report that I was able to hold down some clear chicken broth..... maybe some dry toast later thanks for all the well wishes......

This is the absolute worst I have ever felt in my life!!!!!!! I have spent the last 48 hours on or near the toilet, Death sounded pretty good last night..... Can't eat, can't drink, cant sleep, fever, chills, aches, dehydrated...... this is the first time in 2 days that I had the energy to type..... the meds are starting to kick in so I don't feel like death anymore but I lost 10 pounds in 2 days!!! My doc gave me electrolytes, but told me to go to the Emergency room if I start to feel worse again No Idea what I got it from ??? this stinks on ice!!!! thanks for letting me rant!

I have the 1210 mkIV and it really is a great table for the price....I like my scout better for plenty of reasons, but I agree that it wins out over many sub $2-3k tables...... I had a 2 Regas, p3/p7 and liked the technics better....I never tried the p9 I'm sure with your mods of a great arm, power supply and cart, it could really hold its own! My dream set up is a nottingham Dais/Lyra titan.....but I'm just holding steady in this economy so any new purchase will have to wait....heck I can't even afford to buy any lp's at the moment!!!

I shoot all my images in RAW format....and even though I really love Aperture and its various plug ins, I come back to Camera RAW converter in PS3..... These were all done very quickly and I will go back and reprocess in more detail before I actually print them. Basically in raw, I'll examine the histograms......I fine tune the exposure, adjusting for any blown highlights or loss of detail in shadows (just like i would do in a wet darkroom with Push/pull processing...and depending on the print I want, I'll adjust the contrast. then I open the file in PS3, add working layer at a time I'll build what i envisioned, by adding adjustment layers, black and white layers, gradients for large scale burning and then I'll dodge/burn the shadows and the highlights, and sharpen with "unsharp Mask" it's identical to the method I use in a wet darkroom I shot about 100 keepers on this trip and will probably print 5 or 6 to 30X40...... I'll spend much more time on my big color calibrated monitor, getting everything just right, and do some creative blurring and spot healing of imperfections........ as always I keep the original RaW file stored on a separate drive and work on a copy even thogh most of my techniques are non destructive. I've been able to produce identical images in Aperture, I just get there a lot quicker in PS because of my familiarity.

I just love a happy ending....Congrats on getting your Eico restored......If I ever need to get anything worked on Craig will be the first person I call!!!

[Y][Y][Y][Y][Y][Y][Y][Y][Y][Y][Y][Y][Y][Y] Nicely stated Win21

Thanks....my photo mentor refers to "it" as "seeing the light" and it really did take untold rolls of film and way to many hours in the darkroom before I got my "ah-ha moment" ...now I have my camera pretty much set to what I'm looking for and I wait for the right moment t present itself....... I still have a lot to learn, and the digital age has made fooling around with technique much simpler...... but thats what I love about it, for me it is very relaxing. once i strap on a camera, the world just melts away!

Thanks for all the nice comments guys!!!

Thanks Tarheel.... sure is a great area! Been there several times. I know what you mean about the crowds, I want to go back in the off season to get the real experience. I usually stay close by to avoid traffic, thats why I like the 4X4 beach , and you do get so lazy you don't want to move! It was a bit less crowded this year, with the economy in a slump, but I'm trying to get something together again...... My wifes family lives in Toronto Ca. and we are in FLA so it's good to meet about half way...... We keep threatening to buy a place, but not after the year I just had!!! one day.....

Hey, I'm old enough to remember riding like that with my parents. We mostly kept the windows open and took breaks to swim or play in the sprinkler. BTW, very nice pics. Thanks for posting. Well it wasn't that bad at highway speeds, but it took about 5 hours to get of the 2 lane from the beach and that was stop and go......then we hit bumper to bumper quite a few times and that was torture!!!! My fam was complaining and I told them to " soldier up " thinking of our brave Men and Women stuck in a truck in the middle of the dessert in the Iraq...... Good friend of mine was Israeli special forces, and he's told me desert stories.....It got me through.....

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