Combat_SAMBO_Guy

Ahh...yea, we are all kind of fond of them.Mine were built in 95, so they are youngsters, I love 'em, but they are not my only love.

This is clearly a losing situation, Klipsch clearly got thrir collective act together for the RF series. The academy is too inefficient, the Heresy well, big foot print, another Forte II, too tall, it will never fit over the tv. The way to make this match is to go RF series.

Mine are 100% working with BC tweeters...they do well...wish they had a real center channel like the RF stuff does.

I think I'd rather get a Heresy center channel.

My first intro to the Klipsch family came when I was 4 years old, nevr thought of anothr speaker family since then. Is there another speaker company ?

I go from HDMI to s-video through a cable that came with my video card. Honestly, I don't know if it helps you, but the transducer to go from HDMI to component output exists.I too have a game console, but I guess I believe in the power of piping, streaming and the old fashioned magic of the hardware geeks. This is really a kind of complex stream to stream conversion as well as a cable to cable thing. WIth a few minutes thought, I guess I could've used the receiver for all this, but my computer can even funciton as a blu-ray burner, so the game console is for gaming. This is what they make HT receivers for, but I really just went with the easy way, HT receivers are less user friendly than a hungry alligator.

I have tried two alternatives. I now have a Linux server which can stream to any client through VLC. I also take the brute force approach and broadcast SMB shares from the Linux machine, so the Vista machines can mount the shares.

Thanks...

Just calling it as I see it. Totally worth it and a really good performer.

Yea, and those are hard to find around here...a chorus...not a bad idea...thanks

yep...sure is

I really like my ForteII's...wouldn't trade them for anything.

I'm trying to figure out what would make a good center channel for my Forte II's, I was thinking something in the RC family would have the efficiency, but if the timbre is too far off, it isn't worth it.

I protect my PR's with metal mesh grills for car stereo speakers....

I really love the Forte II's, as a former Heresy II->III owner, I enjoy the really powerful (compared to the Heresy) tight bass and great sound stage afforded by that tremendous midrange horn. I have BC titanium tweeters, so all is good here.Yea, it does give the Cornwall II a run for the money, it seems to have been priced at a midpoint between the Cornwall II and the Heresy II.Personally, I wish they still made the Forte II, I like irt better than most of the RF and SF stuff.

I got an LG Blu-Ray burner for around $299, even though I don't burn Blu-Ray yet. I use a Linux server to store multimedia, I use a Hauppauge TV card (PVR-350) to stream television, I keep this aboard the windows desktop, my server is just more secure. Personally the Linux machine is just more reliable storage, it adapted to RAID 5 for much less money than a comparable Microsoft product. I use aSounblaster X-Fi on the clients, the client in my room drives a receiver through a transducer (Creative IO Module) to drive a receiver through SPDIF. I drive my tv through an Nvidia card. VLC is an amazing streaming product, it has the potential to stream from any input to many output devices, I use VLC as a client to stream movies, and soon, I will put multiple tv cards into the Linux box so television can be streamed throughout the house as well as movies.VLC can even transcode movies to a file, to be played on a local machine if bandwidth is tight, you can ftp it over. Actually, the really cool part is that Ubuntu 8.04 recognizes the blu-ray burner, I wish Gnome were prettier or KDE was more stable.

For the internal (behind the firewall) network I use a Linux server that broadcasts both DHCP and SMB/CIFS through Samba. This way the Linux shares on the server are readily accesible by the Windows machines or the occasional Mac, throughout the house. If Linux had a prettier desktop, I would use it all the way around. Vista and W7U are way prettier.

Yea, I've had that feeling...the only solution is to go out and get another pair to fill the void.

It actually worked...in conjunciton with other tactics....[Y]

Good deals are to be had everywhere, the unemployment rate reached 9.5% The little toy that cuaght my eye has an AMD Phenom II 940, Nvidia GeForce 9400GT, Creative X-Fi extreme Audio, 3GB DDR2 ram and all the niceites a box can have for $689. It is well...local.

Pretty hot, personally I'd prefer the AMD Phenom II, but that'll wait until Christmas. Ye old local Chinese clone store, the guys that made the video server. The only problem you've going to have with a 192mhz sample rate is the digital input you are using, Most equipment won't accept anythng faster than 48 - 96 mhz in the digital optical input. Just for kicks I am figuring that to get the best use out of this multimedia I/O box you're going from pin plug to a transducer to optical -> receiver. I know my Yamaha turns into a straight pipe at speeds above 48mhz, and this is not a really well documented spec, you only know it after you do it. I use a Creative card so I use the creative software to insure digital output only, then I use the SRS virtual device for a little more punch. I run 24 bit at 48mhz, the card will let me run faster, but the destination port won't accept a faster sampling rate, it Should you use regular output cabling, you are stuck with this limit, and whatever transduver you use will have to go from pin plug to phono plug. There are more elegant soulutions but they are far more costly. When I bought my present hunk of chips, she was one of the first dual core machine that also supported PCI-E standards. Ths December she'll retire to the server farm, 2 years and $1500 later. I added both the soundcard and the graphics card, the software that came with the onboard was ok. Enjoy the process, me I hate to assemble, this was my first Dell, maybe my last, I'd rather have the guys at the local clone store do my assembly, they have just the AMD Phenom II I have been looking for. Then comes the customization. My biggest decision is will my current machine turn into a Linux machine when she goes into the farm.

It is a bad idea, the amplifier, like the speaker should allow for plenty of dynamic range. Paul Klipsch used to site amplifier clipping as a source of distortion, so why use an amp small enough to introduce clipping at minimal levels of outpit. I've heard of people using 10 watt/channel amps, it makes no sense, it's buying a Ferrari and putting regular gas in the tank. Power is so cheap and good quality today, just do it get some real power.

Good to see y;all are active, not just sitting around klipschng it up, no matter how tempting it may be. Me, I never grew out of my wrestling shoes, I study and teach Combat SAMBO. My other hobbies are freestlye wrestling and Chinese Martial Arts. I've had the same hobbies since I was a kid, and what the heck, they keep me moving. Since retiring from the Navy I guess staying in shape has been my only hobby.

Good to see you're not all about toys.

I have no doubt they nay beand I think the new Bose buikding got a discount on landfill, some thing about using old Mexican paper cone tweeters.I've been living up here in Bose Central for years, I'm immunt to the propoganda, heck if I weren't, I'd already have a "Bose Car" and go to the factory store sales. We don't even have the Bose Table Radio. I think the $1600 for somethin w/no spec sheet will get me, it's like buying a car w/o knowing the horsepower of gas milage. I'll just tell her that they may be pretty, but not as pretty as she is.