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OK, I am questioning just what we could do with something like that ....? For all practical purposes: A pool party? Boating? Listening to music in a VERY, VERY HEAVY RAIN? Let's hear the top ten ideas, and let's hope we didn't pay a few hundred thousand dollars to get this far?! Under water the sound would be very distorted.

After I finished listening to what I had on the TT and posted this I was inspired to find my old CD of Black Eyed Man and played that. As I was listening I was thinking to myself , man she's on every one of these songs. After you posted this I started questioning my recollection. Then it dawned on me.... I was thinking of the Crash Test Dummies. Oops! Ellen Reid is the voice I felt was a little under used in that band. At least both bands are from Canada, I got that right.

I always loved Margo Timmins voice as well. The male lead also has a great voice (Michael or Peter Timmins?) Kind of a family affair I guess. It seems like somewhere I read the male lead singer now spends most of his time at home enjoying life and concentrating on making bread (the kind you eat). If they put the show on the road they can make the spendable kind of bread in my opinion. Hope I get the chance to see them. I personally would like to see more songs that highlight Margo's voice. Just in case they read the Klipsch forum [Y]

Here is a link to some photos from Slate magazine of shopping at record stores. The older photos were really interesting to me in that it shows predominately females as the store customers. I don't know if this was reality or marketing but interesting store layout none the less. Also interesting to note is the photo with the department dedicated to tie-in the movies and shows. http://www.slate.com/slideshows/arts/record-store-browsing.html

Just an FYI there is a guy on craigs lIst in Denver that has a pair of MC 60's for $3800. Check it out if interested. No affiliation.

I wish I had crowds to fight (not really, I know what you are saying) I would have to drive 50 miles to go to a record store. Used to have a few to enjoy. Support your local record store (more than one day a year.) I read that vinyl sales were up 20 percent last year as opposed to all music sales being up only 1 percent. That's awesome! We may see some more releases on vinyl if this keeps up. Let's hope the record cutters keep the quality high and don't treat the medium as novelty. Today 4-21 is the official day. One day after 4-20. What a coincedence?

Now there's a guy after my own heart. A Packard was a true feat of engineering, design and craftsmanship.

OK, great that's what I wanted to know. I found a guy today close (30 miles) that was an authorized Luxman repair guy and has been a tech for 45 years. I'm going to have him take a look at this. I may ask the guy to let me work for free on weekends to learn this stuff. There is going to be a real gap in audio knowledge when these old guys pass. I'm an old guy too by the way, I just like to work on my own stuff,

Well I tried to bake the amp, but it won't fit in my oven. The amp is only 18" x18" but the the oven is just not that deep. I heated up the insides with the top off and a hair drier for about ten minutes and the caps were almost hot to the touch. I hooked up a pair of 8 ohm speakers and this time turned the speaker select button on as well. I had the volume all the way down and the 30 db attenuate button on too. This time it did take a few seconds longer to blow the fuse and there was a little "errrgh" noise coming from the amp, not the speakers. Is there any chance a variac would do any good at this point?

Well, yes and no, just like most things audio. I did have a pair of Cornwalls hooked up all ready to blossom, with the new power but I had all the speaker select buttons off on the amp so no power to the speakers. In "Cap land" I don't know where that leaves us. Where sould the most suspect cap be? Sounds like I missed an opportunity by not using a variac first. I still may try "baking it" and then turning it on with a new fuse.

I like that idea, makes sense. I really hate to replace anything yet, as this is as close to "new in box" for a 25 year old machine as I have seen. There are a couple of Elna caps in there that are at least an inch in diameter.

Why are the best things always bad for you? Good Hygene with any chemicals is always a good idea.

Late to the party here, sorry. I have used a product called E6000 with great success on virtually all substrates. It is about the same viscosity as silicon caulking. this stuff remains flexible like silicon, is water proof and very strong. Easy to apply but takes several hours to cure and gain ultimate strenght so you need to clamp some parts, the brads and small holes may help here to keep it in place while it cures. Once it is dry, very very strong. Will definately work on both plastic and wood. Always a good idea to get rid of as much of the old adhesive as possible, the new bond is only as good as the weakest link in the substrate.

I just got a Luxman LV-109 integrated amp circa '85-'87 from the original owner. He said it worked great when he put it away (in the original box) 5-10 years ago. He also said he had used it very little before that. I believe all of this as the unit is perfect. I plug it in, make sure all the settings look good, speakers switched off, volume all the way down and only a tuner hooked up for input. When I powered on the lights came on for a few seconds then a fuse blew. I opened it up and there is a 10A, 125V fast blow fuse. I replace it, same result. So, any ideas? Any possibility of bringing this up with a variac to any benefit? Everything looks perfect inside, no bulging caps, burn marks nothing. This is not a tubed "brid", all solid state, lot's of transistors. Thanks!

No! The 125 is definately not junky. It is an excellent table that plays very well, AND can take a lot of abuse and neglete and still sound good. You have a problem. If you have reached the end of the road with this tech, try another or maybe just let the table sit for a while, you have others, and take this project on after your understandable frustration has wained. Crackle, Buzz, Hum descriptive but hard to diagnose over the internet. It can be fixed. I have a 125 bone stock that was not well cared for before I got it (now very pampered), Dead quite up to 12 o'clock with 180 wpc on Khorns. (nothing playing obviously) The devil is in the details.

Welcome to Retail! The customer is always right. No questions asked returns. Thanks WalMart! Ebay is following their example and "customer demand". You would hope people would have some ethics, but unethical people don't. Business practices aside, this sounds like a total scam. Sorry Bob. Buyer beware! Seller beware! Hey where is Audiogon??

If you can find it look for "Climax Blues Band" they had three or for real solid albums I thought. Very musical, hard driving, tight. You can't beat Blood Sweat and Tears self titled album if you don't have that one.

Adele 19 & 21. No appologies! Original song writing, excellent voice, great song stylist and obviously more than a little inspired and hard working. I am really hoping she will do a few covers or even a full album of Peggy Lee Greats! Serious! I was stuck in the 60's/70's for a long time but now am blissfully working my way back two or three decades.

Mike, First off, welcome to the forum from a fellow Coloradoan. I guess we have Listen -Up to thanks for populating the state with Klipsch a few years back (Decades), but there seems to be a fair amount of Heritage around. There was or is a fine looking pair of LaScalas for sale in Parker on CL just this week. My story is similar to yours in that I was deeply in love with music and gear from about 7 to 27 and then life (kids/job/family/business) made for about a 15 year hiatus. Thanks in no small part to a darth of music I liked. At any rate I got back into it, and am loving the good life of High Fidelity Music once again. This forum is a great resource and chocked full of very helpful, knowledgable and generous people. For my part I can't help you much on the tube front many/most here can. I have just one beautiful lonely little Scott 299 in a sea of solid state (Mostly Luxman []). What I can do is offer a listen if you ever want to come out to Northern Colorado to test out any tube amps you may be able to try. I have Heresey's, Cornwalls, LaScalla's and Khorns and they are all easily interchangable for comparisons. My listening room is close in dimensions about 19' by 35' but only 7.5' ceilings. Good luck in your journey and be patient and diligent in your research, unless your really loaded you don't want to be swappin' tube amps in and out to try every flavor. There are a lot of believers here that swear by NOS Valves and many that have LaScallas and tubes. So hang around!

Ditto! jhoak has been very generous with his knowledege and given me several spot on pieces of advice in the past as well. Making up spare cables is really going above and beyond. Good job! [Y]

Good job! That space looks very inviting. Most other rooms are not required anymore.

We're sorry, but something went wrong. We've been notified about this issue and we'll take a look at it shortly. I guess that says it all. (Message I got on Sunday 2/26 9:30P MST.) I really do hope for the best we need all the players we can get.

YEH! Let's rush to that end. Then we don't have to pay as many taxes on our purchases either (Heck why do I want to support the stupid Libray I don't use it... anymore...) Then we can all sit in our own private 5' x7' space and enjoy life to the fullest..... as we know it.... virtually.

Exactly! And now the guy who founded Napster is now going to make a ton of money for his work with Face Book. I don't discount the ingenuity but have to question the ethics. Pretty hard to sort that out. Equally hard IMO for a record company to allow crap recordings to go out the door and charge just like they were a great recording. I may be wrong but I don't think it has to cost that much more regardless of music style or medium. Seems to me a quality recording is inherantly what the customer is paying for, not just a recording. Maybe the bean counters in the "industry" and some consumers as well think there is a justifiable trade off between quality and convienience. I don't see it, I don't think you should have to settle. And I don't think there is any ethical justification for doing business that way. JMR (Just My Rant).

Thanks for the link Tube. I would have missed that. In the interview with MTV Niel said: "It's all about the bottom and the beat driving everything, and that's because in the resolution of the music, there's nothing else you can really hear. The warmth and the depth at the high end is gone." - Neil Young. This is true with many recordings, new and old. The fault of the recording engineer in my book, or who ever makes those kind of decisions. Regardless of the purpose or use of MP3's the result is a new generation of music consumers that have little exposure and even less reverance for a quality recording. Itunes is stepping up the bit rate of the music they offer. The quality of sound cards in most computors are improving. Imagine if the average consumer of audio became interested in great fidelity and started to demand it in the equipment and music they purchase. Man.... could there be a resurgance of interest in Hi-Fi in the younger generation (or two) BTW, "Le Noise" sounds great as a itunes download and converted to lossless. I don't have the vinyl to compare, but it is certainly worth a listen. And worth every penny of $1.29!