Mighty Favog
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Kinda surprised nobody said anything about this yet. How about using an analyzer with the mic in the same area as your listening position? Then while moving your speakers to various positions you can see in data form if it's an improvement or not. I'm using a 25 year old (or older) H.H.Scott 830z and the thing is still working just as well as the day it was built. I bought it from a stereo store I used to work for that had it's own unlicensed low power (yea, right!) FM radio station. It only played music with the occasional ID announcement every 45min. or so on a Pioneer CT-9R reel-to-reel, or was that a 909? (Sorry, cd players were still too expensive back then). It was so we could demo equipment without the interruption of commercials. Sure wish I could have gotten my hands on the Soundcraftsmen eq that was in there. Getting back to the analyzer. It could be just as effective to use one of those hand held battery operated jobs from Radio Shack. Food for thought.
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Right now I am planning to run my (when they get delivered from Uncle's) KLF-20's with a Carver Receiver (150wpc). If I decide later on to go with separates, would I need a another crossover network to bi-amp these things?
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Took the plunge today!! Called Uncle's and ordered the KLF-20's. So far things seem to be going well. Carlos was really good the first time I called, the second time I called to place the order he seemed a little distracted (haven't we all been at some time?). The price was shocking!! Two local dealers (one in Dayton and one in Cincinnati) wanted $1400 and $1300 respectively. Uncle's price was $1100 and that includes shipping!! The old argument still carries weight here. Local dealers are just plain illequiped to satisfy the public want. Granted that Cincinnati is too ultra conservative to support these types of stores but the salon I've seen mentioned elsewhere on this BB is about 75 miles away (Carlin in Dayton). And they had only a pair of Klipschorns and a pair of 20's for demo and the Cincinnati store (Ohio Valley Audio) just had a pair of 30's and a pair of 10's. The good ol' days were definitely the mid-seventies to early eighties. Where you could walk into a locally family owned dept. store and have your new Electrovoice Interface D's or JBL L-300's (if your a real sadist)or even a pair of Celestion 444's loaded in your truck while you bought groceries in the same store (no kidding, I worked there for 13 years). The name of the store, if it matters, was Swallen's. Too bad the son of the founder got hold of the buisiness and ran it into the ground in four years.
Now just to figure out what to do with the old ones. Sell'em of course(duh). But I got the feeling that's gonna linger around like that 86' Saab 900s on the side of the garage that needs a new transmission. NOT!!
Reading standing up? I have to! How else can I read the newspaper when it's being used as paper mache' to patch the hole in the ceiling. Sorry, really bad joke. I'll keep everyone up to date.
Tom
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Has anyone used a Carver Receiver MXR-150 with KLF-20's? I just got the receiver back from Everett Audio Repair in Washington for a good going over where they replaced the speaker relays, new volume pot, touched up a few fractured solder joints, recalibrated the balance control and bias (whatever that is). The room is about 14' x 23' with a party pit type couch, hardwood floors with area rug(8x5), and large picture window on the 23' wall with moving curtains. Sound reinforcements (funny, I never hear anyone using EQs anymore. Is this now Taboo?) is a dbx 1231 eq with a dbx 3bx series II. Monster cable Interlink 300 II with original Moster cable speaker cables. It also has a Yamaha NS-W2 sub. Yea, I know the sub is "sub"-standard but that might get replaced later on. I don't plan on updating the sub till I get the 20's. I'm now using a pair (circa 1981)Tecnincs SB-7 R&B Series speakers sitting on milk crates just to get the treble sweet spot higher in the room. I mostly stand when I'm listening. There was a pair (now moth-balled) of Technics SB-3's for the rear but the treble was getting choked off when using all four, but I still like this amp.
The Carver has 150 wpc and the reinforcments are ran through the pre-out main in loop. Although I find it nessesary to bypass the 3bx at low volumes. It has been real tempting to go to e-bay and get a Carver C-4000 or C-1 pre-amp and some kind of smooth but hefty amp. But that is a little hard to swallow since the MXR-150 just came back. Since I still listen to radio I'd feel compelled to get a TX-11a but those are hard to come by. I don't usualy blast this thing a lot at all but I do turn it up so I can hear it throughout the house and just while reading in the same room.
Thanks for any input!!
Tom
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o.k. Time to fill in some gaps here.
Sometimes when we touch---Dan Hill
It's better to burn out than fade away---Hey,Hey,My,My---Neil Young
Muskrat love--The Captain & Tennille
Short People---Randy Newman
Kung Fu Fighting---Carl Douglas
Dream Weaver---Gary Wright
Uptown Girl---(the words are "She's living in a white "wig"(not bread) world---Billy Joel
Afternoon Delight---Starland Vocal Band
M-Bopp---Hansen
Ring My Bell---Anita Ward
Guitarzan---Ray Stevens
Gee, I didn't even have to get up and look for these.
How 'bout: "Makin' Love Outta Nothin' at All"---by Air Supply!! and I know,and I know, and I know, and I know. Now that got real monotonas.
Better yet,"I got a brand new pair of rollerskates; you got a brand new key."
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Speaking of all-in-one units. (by the way HEVYG, yours had a cassette player??) This was a hand me down from my great uncle (a priest mind ya!). It was a Maganavox phono only with a copy of Tihuana Brass (spelling?) and a spare rubber drive wheel left in the LP storage slot; holds about ten. Interestingly enough I found the original receipt in there too.....from 1961! The warranty card was all typed out to the owner of the new console. The 8" woofers were side firing and the composite high drivers went out the front. This was the kind of piece that lingered in the basement for years after it's "usefull" life (about three months) and your Mr. Handyman (sic)father wants to save the cabinetry to put the guts of that 19" tabletop tv from your aunt's room into. I thought I was really cool and used to turn it around to face the window from my room and play "Carolina" from the Charlie Daniel's Band just so the neighbors thought I had a big system too.
Or just anything from a company called "Utah"
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The "Yo Mickey" cheerleader song your thinking of is from Toni Basil. Sad to say that was our cheerleaders' theme when I was in highschool. Just as sad is that some of them still think the same way (One of them works in my office).
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Worst song?? Anything from that result of nepetism Whitney Houston. Gee, thanks a lot Dionne Warwick. The constant screaming of this banshee, I mean person, can clip my JBL L-300 Summits with the sound turned off.
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Could you elaborate on the "tinning" process please? Is that a special kind of solder? Thanks
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The 12 ga. at Radio Shack ran me 47-49 cents/foot. I just about drop my jaw after paying Best Buy $65 a 50 ft. roll. By the way they are both "Original Monter Cable"
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The aluminum driver isn't exactly new. I'm (soon to be) replacing two pair of Technics R&B Series SB-7 and SB-3's. They were made about 1982 (think that's when I bought them). They are using a honey-comb design. On top of that the driver face is flat and not conicle. The tweeter is (I think) a ribbon style although I've been told by my ultra techie sibs that they could be Heil (spelling) tweeters. These things don't have a lot of low end so I had to get a Yamaha NS-W2 sub to back them up. Can't wait to get a pair of KLF-20's in mahogony.
Worst speakers you've owned?
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I do remeber getting nausiated by a pair of Pioneer Centrex somthin'-r-others I traded from a "friend" circa 1980. I also remember how easy it was to blow the mid-ranges out of AR-11's (4ohm) from 1976(?) with a Phase Linear 400 and a Marantz 1150D. The AR's didn't sound all that bad though till the cat decided to sharpen her claws with the woofers. The Bogen DB-230 we had given to us just sat around as a backup.