JL Sargent

You can go SS to the bottom of a Khorn and Tubes to the top and have very exciting results I suspect. I have several sound systems here and my fav by far is biamping 2ways with SS and tube SET on the top.

Come on now, Stan's not that bad, is he? So much of the playoffs is mental. Dwight Howard is no exception. When there is has a fire under his butt his is awesome. If he thinks he's not getting the ball enough he takes the game off. Game 5 was as much about him laying down as it was about them not feeding him the ball. Cavs vs Magic: Orlando has nobody for Lebron, Cleveland has nobody for Howard. Lets see what happens. Im picking the Cavs. Lakers vs Nuggets: The Nuggets will show every night. Chauncy will be critical for any Nuggets chance. They can beat the Lakers especially if the Lakers take off the away games. If Bynum plays well the Lakers will do it.

"the DC resistive component the motional impedance of the woofer sees thus changing damping." I'm trying to wrap my brain around that one. So the woofer damping is changed by it (the woofer) seeing motional impedance thats caused by DC resistance? Thats interesting if I understand it correctly. Changes in DC resistance will/can cause changes in speaker impedance caused by different freq. ranges of audio input? This then in affect causing changes in the quality of audio output? I continue to learn (or an attempt is made) something on here everyday lately.

1800 watts typically about max for a wall outlet (120v x15amp). I would imagine when you have alot of stuff going the voltage difference between input and output of the conditioner is different enough to cause the conditioner to "help" a little. I wouldn't worry about it. The fix would be to remove some of the load. You could divide equipment between 2 circuits while adding a second conditioner.

As Jeff Foxworthy would say "If your livingroom speakers really belong in a movie theatre or the gymnasium you ___ __ _ _______" and they are too big for your house. Yes, I'm guilty so I KNOW.

Enjoyed Wayman as a college and pro BB player the most. Listened to some of his music too. I know he left a wife and 4 kids behind. Really came across as a quality standup guy.

Lakers got it handed to em again last night. They do not have an answer for Brooks who was running all over the place doin exactly what he wanted. Who'd a thunk a game 7 without Yao? Lookin a lot like Nugs/Cavs in the championship unless Kobe and the gang wakeup from their slumber back home in LA Sun night.

Its an interesting discussion. It certainly seems plauseable that diaphrams harden over time and change characteristics but I have no data to support it. Woofers could become more sensitive for all I know. We didn't even touch on speaker coil reactance, as I'm guessing that could change. Don't know though. I wonder what the sensitivity of a 60s speaker is in 2009 vs its original spec. I would be surpised if it hadn't lost a step. Thanks for bouncing it around. Always enjoy your thoughts and comments.

Amazingly you can buy an inductance meter straight from Hong Kong on Ebone for the paultry sum of 20 bucks.

Hmmm. and I thought one of the mechanisms for a speaker sounding bad with age was a loss of sensitivity. In affect the speaker is not able to do what it once had done. Is that not a loss of sensitivity? Seems like hardening of diaphrams, weaker magnets, old capacitors in crossovers, etc. would all contribute to this condition. To ask it another way: Can a 98db 1964 Klipsch speaker still produce the same 98db in 2009 without some help along the way?

He certainly has a very unique collection of skills. He continues to improve his game and now has the vision of a floor general plus great passing to go along with the shooting and driving skills he already had. League MVP this year and well deserved. Has there ever been another just like him? Not in my time, maybe not ever. He's gonna shatter a ton of records if he stays healthy. He has been compared to the great Oscar Robinson, but Oscar didn't have the unreal tool kit Lebron brings to the Gym. Only knock I have is the tattoos. Whats up with all the ink on some of those guys?

Well I wondered if it would really happen and it has. Lebron is the King, literally. Seems to own the paint anytime he wants to go there. Isolated one on one against anybody and he dominates them at will. Haven't watched anybody do that since you know who. Cleveland against Nuggets I'm thinkin but Cleveland/Lakers would be a great one for the fans. I don't see anybody beating Lebron and Co.

Why not a pair of Dyanco Mark III Monoblocks off the Ebone. Then go through em or get Craig to. Big bang for the buck IMHO.

In time all things change. Anything man made changes even faster. Boy, thats kinda deep.

The great spinnin speaker! Several variations out there. Didn't know there was a Klipsch version. This guy knows how to make his Hammond/Leslie do some talkin!

Thats interesting. I didn't know they made one! I have an old Hammond organ. I'd like to see that setup.

This is a 60s era Hammond E100 series tonewheel organ. Tube pre and power amps. Mono amp is about 40watts IIRC. It has this weird problem. Scenario 1: I turn it on and let it warm up for a minute or two and start playing. If I play bass tones loudly a wave of static/hum will move across the speakers. If I keep playing it will worsen. If I stop playing it will kinda die off on its own. A quick off/back on usually will usually correct the problem. Scenario 2: I turn it on and wait 15 minutes. Organ plays fine without static or hum and does so until its turned off most of the time. My first thought was replace the power amps rectifier? Any ideas?

Check out OCS prices though. A 6 pack for $25.00? That comes to just $4 and some change each! http://www.speakerrepair.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=37-283&Category_Code=

Its likely gonna be about XLR to RCA type connections or XLR to 1/4 connections, etc. if you go with XLR on the acives. I made up my own cables to do this but I noticed Orange County Speakers has some really good prices on these type cables. If I had it to do again I would just source the cables from those guys. For me building the cables cost just about as much as I could have just bought em for. I took an active crossover into Radioshack and laid out the connectors next to the crossover to get everything I needed to use it with my amps. Seems like it was close to $40.00 for all the connectors. Another consideration is balanced vs unbalanced. There have been some discussions recently on this one. I really enjoy an active setup. I have tubes on the upper freq.s to horns with the power of SS on the lowers to 15" woofers.

The active crossovers are between your preamp and amps not between amp and speakers.[]

I've got an idea: Sell that motorcycle that nobody is riding and rehire Colter.

I suspect the only difference between those drivers is the diaphram. Somebody send me a K55/PD5VH and I'll take em apart side by side with photos. I guess thats the only way we will really know. Those castings certainly look the same. If somebody can point me to a picture of the open halves of a PD5VH I would appreciate it and then I could at least compare.

Previous driver picture is supposed to be an SD-70 and this one clearly stamped K-55v aka PD5VH. DJK wrote "The SD-70 siren driver is nothing like the PD5VH." I beg to differ. Looks near identical to me.

Which driver is this then?