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What I am hoping is that ultimately I will pick up the Art of Reasoned Discourse from you by studying your non-alcohol saturated posts.

That is exactly what I thought. I'd want to ask the fish if he thought it was harmless fun though.

DownUnder73: Are those your pet kangaroos in your picture?

Giovanni sounds like he has thought it through. I probably have a better shot at hearing his speakers in Italy than I do hearing them in a theater here in the United States. Adequate room size is one of those things that should be so obvious that it wouldn't need to be mentioned. I mentioned it just in case Giovanni got the wrong impression in other discussions that they are good speakers to sit 6 feet away from.

DrWho Do you own a pair of Jubilee speakers?

Are you guys claiming that you hear the lower notes of a piano recording after you hear the higher notes of a piano recording? I just want to get this straight before I ridicule you. If this is not what you meant, please explain so that I can understand you. I have a HUGE headache.

Alcohol has absolutely nothing to do with static forming on an LP or even that weird stuff known as "something akin to static." Traditionally, most record cleaning solutions had alcohol in them. Many still do. It is highly advantageous for a seller of non-alcohol cleaners to say that alcohol is bad, because then people aren't going to make home-brew solutions. They need only a few Chicken Littles squawking about alcohol ruining their records [bs] [bs] [bs] to scare people away from the cheap to the expensive.

This is not making my task of ranking the speakers any easier boys!!!

It's easy as can be to pull the felt off the tube UNLESS YOU BITE YOUR NAILS DOWN TO THE QUICK! It's just glued on. You don't have to change it very often at all unless you're really anal, or have obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).

Holy cluster *** !!! I know I wouldn't want to run a fragile audio signal through all that *** !!! Now I know why the guy the other day said the earlier the K-horn the better !!! *** *** !!!

This sounds a little too secret agent-y to me. Are we supposed to believe that PWK prefaced all of his conversations with Now don't put what I am about to tell you in a book! He died some time ago what's the problem.

I'll tell you something, Mike my friend, if the Klipsch company is proud of their Jubilee speaker then they can bloody well list where I can hear one. If they have sold them to only one theater and it is in California I am not going to travel across the country to hear them you are right. Would I travel an hour probably yes it could be arranged. I agree wholeheartedly with your statement but obviously nobody around here has any idea. Relax and enjoy your tunes.

If you treat your records right after cleaning and put them in new, high quality sleeves, you'll never have to clean the same record twice on your VPI. The only "periodic maintenance" would be a very light brushing with a carbon fiber brush right before you play the side, when it's on your turntable.

Any idiot can figure out how to make a good cardboard shipper for mailing an LP. Basically you get a big piece of heavy cardboard and fold it around the LP and seal the edges. If you trust yourself with a razor blade cutter, then you are cooking with gas. If you send a record in a used mailer make sure you have good support inside because the structural integrity of a used mailer will have diminished from its original use. Often you will find stingy cheapskates are penny wise and pound foolish as they used to say in England.

That is a mighty fine color on your wall. What is the green record? I think you should go for it and paint the K-horns green too that would be awesome!

USNRET, You made the right choice. The Nitty Gritty is just a toy compared to the VPI and the difference in price is negligible. If you have an absolutely filthy record, you can take it to your kitchen sink and run water on the vinyl areas not the label and that will knock off the worst dirt. But that is not necessary for a normal record that needs a little cleaning. A record sitting in its jacket on the shelf for thirty years isn't going to be any dirtier than if it was there for thirty days. Instead of squirting on the cleaner fluid and letting the VPI brush spread it around, it's MUCH better to spread the fluid with a DiscDoctor brush by hand and then scrub the heck out of the record, along the direction of the grooves in a circular motion. Just think of your record as a dirty dish that you are washing by hand. This is the way I always washed dishes prior to the last ten years when I bought one of these new fangled dishwashing machines. If you just slightly graze the dirty dish with a dish towel, what chance do you have of getting it clean? You have to put some muscle behind it. Some fluids require a rinse afterwards and some do not. If you do rinse make sure to use plenty, don't be stingy. A few drops of rinse is not enough it would be like if you tried rinsing after a shower with one cup of water in 5 seconds.

Giovanni, Good luck to you. Are you going to have them in a big listening room? I saw a picture of one set-up and the speakers were not even 2 meters apart from each other and the listening chair was ridiculously close. My friends and I had a good laugh over that one. [] The bigger your room the better for theater speakers.

Batman star Christian Bale apologized Friday for his expletive-laden tantrum during filming of a new "Terminator" film, saying he was "out of order beyond belief." Bale's meltdown became an Internet sensation this week after a recording of his rant at a cinematographer found its way on to the web. The 35-year-old old British-born actor called a Los Angeles morning show on KROQ radio to apologize for the outburst. "It has been a miserable week for me," Bale told the show's hosts. "I know I have a potty mouth but I was way out of order. "The thing that I want to stress is that I have no confusion whatsoever. I was out of order beyond belief. I acted like a punk. "I regret that and there is nobody that has heard that tape that is hit harder by it than me. I make no excuses for it, it is inexcusable, and I hope that is absolutely clear." Bale also said he hoped the fallout from his tirade would not deter people from watching "Terminator Salvation" when it hits screens later this year.

Junk stores? Who said anything about junk stores?

K-horns don't need a tight seal in a corner actually. Close is plenty good enough. Tight is the final icing on the [^]

[] Please see the first line in my signature. Would someone who went up against Bruce Lee really be all that worried about a Klipschhead? [|-)]

I am a little concerned about those owls . . .

Hi again Ohighwayman! That is a great idea, spikes under hospital-grade wall receptacles (must be painted orange to sound the best)!!! []

I've noticed in the past that the guys who make the most fuss about homosexuals are either gay themselves or concerned that they might be.

As I said you have to compare like to like or it makes no sense. Is it fair to compare an $89 receiver from 50 years ago to a $10,000 piece of equipment now and say that new is better? I'm saying that $89 receiver from 50 years ago will sound better than anything at BestBuy today.