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Who's Next
Blue-Joni Mitchell
They Only Come Out at Night-Edgar Winter Group
Insight Out-Association
Carney-Leon Russell
Candles in the Rain-Melanie Safka
Nilsson Schmilsson
Ted nugent-Ted Nugent
Deja Vu-CSNY
Manassas-Stephen Stills
Second Helping-Lynyrd Skynyrd
Rides Again-James Gang
Hotel California-Eagles
No Secrets-Carly Simon
Mud Slide Slim-James Taylor
Foreigner 4
Rumours-Fleetwood Mac
DOREMI-FASOL-LATIDO-Hawkwind
Dark Side of the Moon-Pink Floyd
the list goes on and on.....
Now there is a kindred spirit.
Great list, a little freakey how close most of those are to my tops. No idea of the DOREMI ... but I will look it up. I guess I need to find a copy of Foreigner 4 too as I can't remember that one.
I would toss in almost anything by Peggy Lee or Taj Mahal. I listen to those artists at least once every week or two.
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Hey guys!
Do you have a great idea for Klipsch? We want to hear it. Sincerly, we do! Go here, tell us what it is...you'll automatically be entered to win some headphones just for participating.
And if we use your idea....well...maybe we can make you famous.
I think it is great when a company asks their long time valued customers for input on their products and services.
Who better to give valid experianced feedback than long time users.
Maybe feedback from a target audiance focus group gives reinforcement to a current marketing idea. But this doesn't really give the company ideas of how to improve on what they have done to date. And Klipsch has done a lot!!!
Thanks for asking!
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I think this could be the longest single paragraph post in the history of this forum. Word count anyone?
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to be fair, we had also just come from the room two doors down with the near half-million dollar system. i forget what the setup was, but it sounded incredible.
That probably was the Audio Power Labs 833TNT Monoblocks at $175,000 per pair and the Leonardo Model 8 Ribbon Planar Speakers at $65,000 per pair. The Grand Illusion Loudspeaker Cable used was a modest $15,000 per set. Plus a few other niceties I am sure that setup was at least a quarter mil.
It sounded great and was presented very well. I may have even spotted one guy that looked like he could have afforded it.
This was my first show but I thought there were a lot of people and very well attended by manufacturers or resellers too. Guards at the elevators to keep from overcrowding.
I definately went away feeling I had heard "another level of sound quality".
I also left feeling good about my system. I think I am past the point of having to pay incredible sums of money for extremely deminished returns. But it is nice (I guess) to know how much more is out there and to have had the chance to have heard it.
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Nice looking unit. Currently $600+/-.
It is good to see a more serious nod to quality sound in an audio dock. They obviously feel people will pay more for good sound!
A room in my basement is one big audio dock...and if I crank it... I can hear music in any room in the house.
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If any forum members are going, please swing by room 586 and say hi.
Greg
I am planning on going on Saturday. Should be quite a show. A lot of exhibitors! If you can make it from Maine, I can make it 50 miles.
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Double post. I was gettin' worked up.
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Holding companies/investment banks/ ?!?! Capitol etc. have a singular goal and that is profit for the stakeholders. Period.
Some investors like Warren Buffet (who's age portends a different generation of thinking) seem to buy quality companies and let them function much on their own with vastly more resources. However, more often the case is that accountablility to the bottom line trumps product innovation and quality. It really comes down to short term versus long term goals of the current/future managers of the investment. Hopefully the Italians are in it for the long haul, for better or worse, till death do they part.
Remember Luxman.... McIntosh in Costco's or Sam's anyone ?!?.
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I took jhoak's suggestion and looked online for a good cleaner. I used a couple recommended resister fix programs and subscribed to one (can't remember the names right now) that helped a lot. Still far from "fast as new" but much better.
I think I will try to replace these caps at some point just to extend the service life of the unit. It looks like it will be a lot harder to get the mother board out of the case than it will be to change out the caps.
Thanks for all the input.
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nelson pass has some interesting testing and observations; http://www.passdiy.com/pdf/spkrcabl.pdf he found that at the extremes of wire configurations there were noticable electrical differences but that he could not conclude they would be audible, etc. also, there is some indication that too much wire can be worse than the "right" amount, various reasons are given: skin effect is mentioned, though this is usually associated with AC there are indications it can cause effects on DC as well, increased resistance and variations in inductance over distance could both be factors. Another factor mentiones is that in huge cables the quality of the materials and surface of the materials can be of a lower quality than with thinner wires with less material, contirbuting to perhaps negative effects. I personally would stay away from extreme wires, superthick, flat, etc. but since this is a hobby, I say to each his own. enjoy the music! warm regards, Tony
Thanks for the link sunnysal. A good fair analysis IMHO.
Somehow I keep thinking of high performance MC/Car analogies with speaker wire and interconnect debates, so here it goes.
Building our "hifi" systems is a lot like building a high performance engine. How much difference does a high flow air cleaner make if you haven't ported and polished the heads?
And if you have gone to the expense and trouble of porting and polishing your heads do you really want to run a stock air cleaner?
I recently was able to get some PS Audio speaker cable at a good price and feel like it was a substancial improvement over the six strand twisted 12 ga. DIY copper wire I had been using (30 foot runs). More bass and more deffinition. But... and there are always but's... I did have to move my equipment around to accomodate the shorter cable runs, so not exactly apples to apples either.
I would put this type of an upgrade in that last 5-10% or so of system improvements. Deffinately not your biggest bang for the buck improvement but an improvement none the less.
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As a general rule... No. Failing caps will not effect performance. It depends on where in the circuit they are.
I have seen bad caps cause blue screens but only because the chip(s) they were buffering power to went flaky because of bad power.
If that machine were brought to me (I do IT for a living) my first look would be for malware or BOT activity. There are any number of free "cleaners" that will work wonders on a sluggish PC.
If you want to chat PM me a phone number and I'll be happy to help in any way I can.
Thanks man that is very generous, PM sent.
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Ok so I hate to mix work and pleasure but...
My desktop Lenovo ThinkCentre has started to run super (insert explicative of your choice) slow and without all the IT trouble shooting which is not part of this forum, thank goodness I do have this one question.
I opened up the box and noticed three 6.3V, 1000 microfarad electrolytic caps that are on the motherboard are starting to crown and look like they are ready to blow!
Could bad caps cause a computer to "slow down" (affect performance) or would the machine just fail when they go?
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The cone works against an exit area smaller than its cone area, that's compression. Item #32 in the patent is the phase plug for the driver. This design is a varient of an old RCA design from the 30s.
Good info djk. they look like a jet engine.
So, the smaller outlet causing compression is that what they were calling a "phase plug?
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My parents had been using them with their TV forever.SN's 10R570 & 10R571.
I think your parents are pretty cool. Khorns with their TV! Early adopters of HT or I'd really like to see their 2 channel rig.
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Beautiful! I love it when equipment looks as good as it sounds. Congradulations.
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My wife is very indulgent! Note the metal handles on the sides. Very handy, these are heavy.
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Rick,
This has to be one of the best, most informative, interesting threads on the net!
Been reading since the begining and thought I should post how much I appreciate it.
Thanks!
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WOW That is just awesome. I'm speechless and that really takes some doing!
Ken,
Some high praise right there. Craigs one of the guys that can tell you how to "hot rod" it. Now if he will is a different question [
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That is a "hot-rodded" amp, it just looks like a hot rod!
Did you bring the guts up to the level of the appearance?
Beautiful job, thanks for sharing the photos.
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I think you pretty much have this system nailed. I am guessing that the room is decent as well, if not then you are way ahead of yourself with the equipment you have and need to take care of that first.
I think you are on the right track with the ALK cross overs but discuss the drivers you have with him. The cartridge would be my second choice to change although I have not had the 160 but I am assuming it is pretty good. You may also consider an external phono pre-amp at some point. The phono section of the 299 is good but there is always better.
Good luck and a supportive "better half" is the best system upgrade you can hope for. [
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I have been listening to the albums (3), I have of her agian this last week. I must admit I haven't done that for a very long time. I think I bought the records back then because she was just soo Hot! I come away now with a feeling that I missed or dis-missed quite a lot. [
] Disco is not a style of music that I want to spend a lot of time with, however Donna Summer is a lot more than just disco IMHO. A definate show tune influance.
"I Feel Love" , last song on the "I Remember Yesturday" album is well recorded and can give the speaks a bit of a workout with some dB's. It has a thread of Techno/house sound to it years ahead (1977). And looking back on it all, what was the trouble with going to a place with a lot of hot chicks that wanted to dance?.... (I guess it was the music!)
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Those are some tasty tid-bits! I am pretty sure that set up sounds great! [<
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The Kenwood M2a is very scary, and they can blow sky high, and wipe out the speakers big time. The last one I fixed cost a fortune for the parts, special outputs only available from Kenwood.
djk,
Soo.....how did the Kenwood sound when you finished, compared to the Mac's? 220W is scary period!
I have an original (unserviced) M2 that sounded pretty good to my ears at one time, then I moved to a Scott 299. I currently don't use either and it's been a while ince I listened to either. I don't have any experiance with Mac gear except for a C-28 pre, and am interested in your comparison of the Mac's to the Kenwood.
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Think of the budget that Pioneer had, that they could buy TV time for a record player! That ad cost them more to air than probably the total current sales of all turntables! Turntables used to sell by the millions, not just by the dozens that a mom and pop company handles nowadays.
Very true. When is the last time you saw a TV comercial for anything but super mainstream products (used by almost everyone) type ad?
Pioneer made some great tables. I have a PL-41 that is an outstanding performer and one of my favorites. It is also one of the loudest (highest output) tables with the original OEM cartridge that I have.
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Biggest audio regret?
in 2-Channel Home Audio
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About four years ago I called on a CL listing in Boulder and went with my daughter to look at a "Luxman amp and pre-amp" that a guy had for sale. He was never in town and had someone else who knew nothing about the equipment set up a time when he would be home. So, not knowing model numbers or any other pertinent info we finally found the place about 50 miles away with really poor directions and no GPS. We were on a tight time frame and running late by the time we got there. I had come with cash in hand just in case there was something I wanted.
Turns out the guy was a driller that worked mostly internationally and when he was gone would let friends stay at his house. Lot's of parties from the looks of things. In the main house there was a couple of beat turntables and cassette decks, nothing of much interest. In the separate hot tub house was a luxman M6000 amp, C-12 preamp, T-12 tuner and a pair of speakers with multiple drivers and kind of an odd narrow slope design. I honestly can't remember the make or model. He said they were "expensive" when he bought them (even for him).
Well, I feel like an idiot now looking back but I really didn't know much about the M6000 at the time and was only interested in the amp and preamp anyway. Get this, he wanted $500 for everything! Speakers, turntables, cassette deck, tuner, pre-amp and the M6000. He wouldn't split it out, he wanted it all gone. I remember him saying "yeh, it seems to be that amp that everybody is interested in".
I passed. I had one in my hands, I sat it down, turned my back and walked away! It hurts just to type that. [
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