Rhetor

Nice GB house . . . looks almost good enough to eat! How old are this gum drops? Ha, ha!

To answer the question in the thread header: No. It is most important to enjoy where you are now without envying someone else's life or gear, or how or when they purchased. Today, enjoy what toys you have AND celebrate what others have . . . toys and circumstances will change--more or less, better, worse, or different. Thank heavens we are all having to scrounge through garbage to find a potatoe for today's only meal like much of the Earth's residents. Measuring and valuing our our own journey to stuff WHILE making value judgments on someone else's "lesser" journey to stuff is a first world indulgence and smack's of class envy. I certainly do not have the greatest equipment in the world, but I am enjoying it today, unlike little Kimba in Africa scrounging for a potatoe and enough nutrition to buy one more day. Other than celebrating with them, what someone else has "better" than me or evaluating "how" they got it easier than me bespeaks with a tinge of envy and judgmentalism . . . Jeep or sound equipment. Not a rant, just a verbal sigh that a potentially interesting Klipsch Community thread would go south.

Do not go to the pub first . . . Your view of the perfect tree will be skewed.

In Texas, that would be a massacre!

Good morning all . . . on the second cup of Starbucks whole bean burr grinded this morning. A good wake up call for my 2 dogs (and Mom's 2 dogs too) . . . They hate the noise and gets them outside fast for their morning constitutional! Yesterday afternoon got the serviced the MINI Cooper for my wife . . . she starts a new job today. Also cleaned up the workshop and put new gas cylinder lifts on two office chairs yesterday . . . I was ready to throw them away because they would not stay in the up position . . . found a YouTube video on how to fix office chairs with the same problem--did not know you could do that until I found a repair video and order the parts last week. Then cleaned up the workshop in the afternoon and got parts at Lowes to hang three safety bath handrails for Mom today. Lovely wife drug out the Christmas tree and lights last night . . . for me to put up. Not sure that will get done today. This is the first time we will be home for Christmas in 7 years. I hope I remember how to put it together. Where is a 10-year-old kid you can boss around and make do it when you need one! Heading in for the third cup of Joe now . . . already tired of thinking about today's projects! Ha, ha!

Come on down... to Chattanooga, TN. Summers are great, with the '3 Sisters Bluegrass Festival" The recent one was here: http://www.3sistersbluegrass.com/ Our 'Nightfall Series' runs from May thru August and is a free, outdoor venue. Friday night downtown in Miller Plaza. A local act always opens for a national act, been running for years now. Past performers have been: Barenaked Ladies, Taj Mahal, Karla Bonoff, Dave Mason, Black Keys, Alison Krause, Howard Jones, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Deer Tick and the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Nickel Creek, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones... Lot's of smaller restaurant type venues for acoustics stuff, too, which can go year 'round. And you have the Mountain Opry on signal mountain too! I have been over there a couple of times and had a blast.

well..... Rhetor you are a better man than me....and all you guys that do home repair......I DON'T DO HOUSE !! I run my auto shop, I'll do just about anything on a car.....but when it comes to home repair......not me.....I fix car....I make money....I pay someone to fix my house..... lo lol :-) Rhetor good to have ya in the thread.... I jumped in here a few weeks ago... only been in the forum a few months. I like it. Check you guys in the AM :-) Got a simple life rule instilled in me by my machinist father: "Real men try to make repairs before paying a professional."He was really good with tools . . . me, not so much. Following dad's rule, I have learned a few things by trying it first myself. But . . . It has sure cost me a lot for the education, probably much more than paying someone! Last time I tried just replacing the $10 flush mechanism in the toilet, it cost me $200 for a professional to repair my repair. (Who new the toilet tank could only take so much pressure tightening down the flush mechanism before the tank cracked? Uh.). I sometimes win the self-repair lottery, but sometimes . . . well, education costs! ;-) A balmy 42 in a jacket on the back porch now for the second cup of coffee.

Cool tree, JL! A tree and a otentially tasty looking moose too! Morning all . . .

No warranty, but you get free shipping for paying too much, IMO.

Where's the pic of the tree, Bro?

All done with the kitchen lights install . . . took 7 hours! Way too long up and down a ladder . . . had to rewire. None of the lights were grounded by the previous owner. He just cut the ground wires off short and let them hang. Another fine home repair mess I got myself into. I have got to get a full-time job again to pay someone to do this stuff! :-)

Thanks . . . 62 degrees and sprinkling here in Atlanta. So all inside work for me. I am lucky . . . gas station near me just put in a high octane ethanol-free pump a year ago . . . no more long runs for gas! Is there a rush on the chimney cleaning? Maybe it will be a mild winter and you really can procrastinate on it! Chimney cleaning is always so much better below 32 degrees, right? ;-) Half way through the light install . . . time for a coffee break!

Thank you for warm welcome, Gentlemen! My coffee today? Just regular Starbucks beans. My tasks today already have magnified . . . my elderly mother just moved in two weeks ago with us (my lovely wife and I are empty-nesters) for a long convalescence . . . between Mom and the sincerely better half (mom likes my wife more than me) today's task list are growing! Got mom up and breakfasted and sitting in a chair watching some TV. She (and her 2 little dogs too) loves the surround sound on the plasma. Asked her what she wanted for the big meal today . . . "Pot roast in a slow cooker." I was hoping for a ham sandwich! Got the pot roast into the slow cooker an hour ago. Now about to install three bathroom/bedroom handrails for her. Oh, and wife just asked me to install today the new kitchen lights which have been in the basement for a month. Now someone wants to see something they are interested in I am selling on local CL. Oh, and ai have to install the medical trapeze today. Did my wife just say I need to install a garage door opener too? We have lived fine without it for 10 years. Ha, ha! I guess I am off to Lowes to get some small hardware items to tweak my installs. I need more coffee! ;-)

I have read the thread . . . but I want to make a suggestion based in your original post, the beginning part anyway . . . I too got tired of switching cables from HT to 2 channel (running a DENON 4311 with a rebuilt Phase Alinear 400 powering the fronts in the HT; and handing off to a Scott 299C and TT for 2 channel vinyl on the same fronts in the HT). Tiring of switching the cables in and out, I did my homework and found this: http://www.amazon.com/OSD-Audio-ATM-7-Digital-Selector/dp/B004Y8MH3M/ref=pd_sxp_grid_pt_1_1/190-9256271-7498468 (no affiliation) Absolutely perfect solution for me with built-in protection up to 490 watts. Can run 2 amps and 7 sets of speakers or 7 amps and two sets of speakers. I simply use it to switch between the Denon 4311/PL 400 for HT. And the unit comes with a remote control and has a mute button . . . good for when calls come in while I am using the vintage Scott in 2 channel. Sure, I am underutilizing the units capabilities (using two amps and one set so hared speakers), but it negated the need to get another set of speakers just for 2 channel tube setup in the same room as the HT. I have the best of both worlds. Just something for you to consider to continuing using your RF7s as HT and 2 channel on two different amps. But, right now you do have a great reason to add a pair of Cornwalls to the stable if you do not desire to use a multi-amp/speaker selector.

Gents, have been reading this thread for a while . . . have been enjoying the posts with the built-in comraderie . . . Sitting here in GA on the back porch (my morning ritual) having my fourth cup of Joe before the neighbors 28 dogs (actual count figure) wake up . . . This is my first post in the thread. Just wanted to thank you all for being a new addition to my morning rituals--reading your posts with my coffee.

I am running a 299C rebuilt by Craig on a pair of K-horns . . . It is whisper quiet and sounds barely audible when volume barely turned on or blow you out of the house at 1/2 volume. I simply love the setup for 2 channel or even 2.1 running the powered sub off the center when I want to get a little extra thump at reasonable volumes.

1968 was a very good year for the drum solo (starts around 6:15 minutes): 34 years later was the final performance by the founding members in 2012 (solo starts around 7:25 minutes):

Not haunted you say? Not a vexed sword you skeptics taunt? What you do not know is "the rest of the story" . . . The little old lady in the picture is not the grandma owner of the sword. The lady in the picture is not the owner, but is the 14-year-old granddaughter of the owner. As soon as the granddaughter touched the sword, so grandma could snap a pic for CL, 14-year old Suzy, who you see in the pic, shriveled up and aged instantaneously! I am telling you, this sword is cursed! Save Suzy for $150! No affiliation. Fiction is often stranger than truth!

SOOOOO long gone and now sitting in my home in Eagleville, TN!!! Major HAPPY... for a 63 YO dude, this has been on my bucket list for SOMETIME! Nice first post and welcome to the forum!

Thanks, Bill . . . Yeah, I was surprised they hung around so long. But I am grateful to the forum assist. Billy

SOLD

The biggest problem is that federal student loan monies are granted to students who attend not fully (regional) accreditation (like SACS here in the southern region). Only private and public colleges and universities of substance gain and must retain that accreditation. If no more federal student loans were granted to students who attend non-regionally-accredited schools, 90% of the scam schools would disappear. Many students attend a college or university without knowing they are being scammed by a joke school and can never transfer their credits. But the federal student loan program grants loans to these joke schools, most for profit schools. Students and taxpayers have nothing but debt to show for a person hungry to follow the dream of pursuing a degree. Shut the spigot off to the unaccredited schools, not only saving dollars in the end, but saving the unaware student of student loan debt for no return, thereby killing their dream. I am thankful for the student loan program. There was no way I could have gone to college without it. No family could help. No real scholarships to be gotten. With a combination of part-time minimum wage work and student loans, I got my first degree. Then as a working professional, was able to earn a couple of more grad degrees with no debt. It took 10 years to pay off my original undergraduate student loans, but it was worth it. The key was the original degree was with a fully regionally accredited school (even one with no real name recognition), which opened the door to professional and graduate level education opportunities. Tell anyone thinking about a non-regionally accredited school to "Run!" This was not so true in the 70's and 80's but it is absolutely true now! Once I got my first degree, my professional options grew beyond frequently just saying, "Do you want fries with that?"

I have had some one who asked about estimated shipping. I have never shipped a pair of bookshelf speakers before. What is the best way to ship these beauties? And what is the best way to get an estimate for a buyer?

I wish, but no.

Sneaky, but funny!