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  1. I'm guessing that you are: 17 years old and living in your deaf mother's basement. 35 years old and never married or divorced, and still living in your deaf mother's basement. I probably should mention that my wife tolerates 4 other non-Klipsch speaker pairs in the same house plus a large sub, plus a center channel some driven by amps putting out 300 WPC. She also puts up with old ugly tube amps and 3 massive speakers in another residence we own.
  2. Details: Album (CD): Jazz Masters No. 24 (1994 Release). Song: April in Paris, sung by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, includes Louis horn playing. Sounded like a coven of wounded ducks on death's door when played with my old (circa) 1979 essentially stock Cornwall's (except B&K CT-125's) Now sounds much better on my essentially stock 1982 circa Belles (also have B&K CT-125's). Still ducky at high volume but much better sounding with less squawking here.
  3. Not sure what that is is this context. I do have call display and the calling numbers spoof the same area code and prefix numbers of whatever my receiving number is. Calling any of their various displayed numbers back and they don't exist. Only saying that Android based phones have a much higher occurrence of OS bugs, viruses, spoofing issues, etc. Just an observation, that's all. My cellphone is an older 2012 Samsung. I use it sparingly, no texting or data plan and don't keep up with the latest phones, but yes I believe it uses the Android Operating System.
  4. Not sure what that is is this context. I do have call display and the calling numbers spoof the same area code and prefix numbers of whatever my receiving number is. Calling any of their various displayed numbers back and they don't exist.
  5. Been getting these bogus winner of a draw I never entered scam constantly on my cellphone, at the client's office and my home office phone. Every time they spoof their calling actual number choosing to display a local area code and phone number. Today I'm working at my home office when I answer the latest scam time wasting call. I just happen to be listening to Dire Straits 'Money for Nothing' so I turn up the amp volume put the phone on speaker, punch the number 1 on the phone to get a live person and let them waste 5 minutes listening to my counter time- waster.
  6. Any student of history can tell you that there is nothing too low for some of the people on this earth to crawl under. It all started at a point in time before we commenced walking erect.
  7. I'll second that. +6 dB from 30-60 Hz makes a HUGE difference. Put the spurs to 'em. Cornwalls have got nothing on the Belle. I believe I can buy a decrease of ~ 1.5 in the squawker by swapping out the original mid-drivers. Any EQ changes would to be via software for DAC sourced music.
  8. Thanks, assuming it is not too ugly, where can I find details on this 'port mod'? Adding a sub-woofer is not an option, both amp wise and more importantly WAF-wise. Like a chimpanzee; been there, done that and learned my lesson. Poke the bear before you pizz-off a woman by pushing the envelope too far in 'their family room'. These speakers already served a 3 month sentence to the garage. It gets as cold as minus 40 here some winter days here.
  9. I'll second that statement. A pleasure to deal with. I know it is not a Klipsch product but I like the description of the Cornscala. I would rather have a horn bass but horn bass cabinets are not a good WAF. When I owned Bose 901's my ex was always sliding them against the wall to get them out of the way no matter how many times I told her they were supposed to be 18" from the wall. You're lucky those were rather small. Buy some well-used black coffin-like Cornwalls, then toe them in per PWK's instructions. If you see the little woman reading the 'Merry Widow Insurance Policy' that she bought 'for you' and doing a little jig in time to whatever music you're enjoying... you'll be lucky if you don't wake up at 3:00AM the next morning to the sound of soil hitting the upper side of the 3X6 foot hole she's planted you and your new favorite speakers in.
  10. As an added bonus if you purchase a pair of CT-120's or the new CT-125's you get to deal with a true gentleman and one of the best and most responsive vendor's of anything aftermarket related to Klipsch. Stands behind everything he sells, fast shipping, prompt email or telephone response.
  11. My father hung on to life for 8 full months after his terminal cancer diagnosis was given. At 91 YOA he had only been a hospital patient once before in life (born there). He became a revolving door hospital patient in the last 8 months. He passed away August 2014 fully cognizant and mentally sharp, proud of passing his final driver's test on his 91st birthday in January 2014. My mother, also passed away in August 2015 riddled with cancer in every major organ in her body (pulmonary, gastric, liver, etc.) 28 days from her terminal diagnosis. Mom had had dementia for 10 years with my father as her care-giver for the 1st nine of her last 10 years. Neither mom or dad used tobacco and lived an active life healthy lifestyle all of their lives. Dad could still fit in the RCAF uniform he had worn through WWII. Mom could still fit in her wedding dress to the end of dad's life 62 years beyond their wedding day. My wife smoked tobacco for two years (age 15 - 17) and is currently off work undergoing chemo due to a re-occurrence of Lymphona. Treatment has been slow, painful and not entirely successful so far this time. She was initially diagnosed 5 years ago. My point is not so much to relive their individual experiences of living with cancer but to make the point that even when someone is given a terminal cancer diagnosis it does not mean that their life is over. With determination, and lots of family and friend's support and some degree of luck the human capacity to go on under adversity can be amazing. I saw the initial post of 2013 but I never assumed that the OP had passed away.
  12. John, Having lost three close family members in the last 18 months, two to cancer and one an unexpected sudden death your post hits kind of hard. You have children and as such you will live on this earth forever through them and their descendants. Greg
  13. they shot his *** as soon as they could or more would have died. Thank god the good guys had gunsthis is ludicrous- gun nuts still skip over the point. I thought good guys with guns on site would prevent the shootings?I thought gun free zones were the problem?! Here "good guys with guns" were there and it did NOT prevent anything. Whatever the hell that is? Show me two guys with guns... Who's the good guy? Have you ever served in the military? I'm guessing not as there are standing orders on separate storage of arms and ammunition at military bases. You will not see people serving there carrying around loaded rifles, etc.. According to the current US President the mass-murder that occurred on that horrific day at that base was merely 'workplace violence'.
  14. Like England, Germany, and Japan? Makes ya shudder.Sent from my SM-T330NU using Tapatalk Wait a second. They have heavy restrictions and require strict licensing. Certainly, the criminals don't have guns there... You can add Canada to that list. Criminals certainly have guns here, and most law-abiding citizens don't. In that year, 2005, there were 78 murders in Toronto, a city of over 3 million people. That's considered to be an unacceptably high number, of course, but compared with some US cities, it might be considered relatively low. Damn lies and statistics! Maybe 'most law-abiding citizens' on the island you're living on but here in Alberta the number of law-abiding citizens with firearms massively out number 'criminals with guns'. Chicago and Mexico both have laws outlawing private possession of either all firearms (Mexico) or handguns (City of Chicago). Both have murder rates by firearms that massively exceeds what occurs anywhere in Canada and everywhere in the USA. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaipo said: “A liberal paradise would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive health care, free food, free clothing, free utilities, and only law enforcement has guns. And believe it or not, such a place does exist. It’s called a prison.”
  15. Wow those are beautiful speakers!! Glad Nashville is not in Montana, Idaho, Washington or even North Dakota. I'd be risking my life bringing these home. GLWTS!
  16. As to the involuntary commitment process and state laws in our relatively free societies: The hurdles, as they should be, are rather high and the time frame for securely holding someone, assuming you are successful in having their current mental condition assessed in the 1st place, is as short as 24 to 48 hours in most Canadian jurisdictions. After which they get out, say 99 times out of 100. Frequently with an additional grudge to ponder. At the end of the day, if someone is intent on mass murdering a group of people they use whatever means is within their particular abilities (e.g. Oklahoma and Timothy McVeigh). You can and should have background checks before selling anyone a firearm or a ton of fertilizer, etc. but you cannot un-ring a bell once it has chimed.
  17. The genie long ago left the bottle with respect to firearms. In Canada we have pretty stringent firearms laws but little control over the minds of the deranged people who mass murder others. They emptied the mental health facilities in the 1970's in both Canada and the US and the authorities cannot lock someone up simply because they suspect that an individual may be thinking irrationally. Man has been killing their fellow man for thousands of years, it started with pointy sticks or rocks. If all the guns resident in the US disappeared in a puff of smoke tomorrow people intent on mayhem would just use available other means.
  18. Couple of nits in your points above: For someone to make medical equipment, car parts or audio equipment, economics dictate the current demand would have to be greater than the existing supply of such items/equipment. The displaced ammunition workers' would most likely end up making widgets, strangling chickens for the Colonel or unemployed as very few people are very skilled on an automated ammunition line. I would doubt that many workers' in the arms/munition industry are feeling guilty or paying an emotional job related price unless they only employ rather irrational people. There is little difference between producing widgets and munitions.
  19. Seems a fair number made into Canada, sans guns, from the mid 1960's thru the early 1970's. At the end of the day many wanting to avoid fighting in someone else's civil war.
  20. Tried that a couple of times. Declared her as 'defective' and returned her to her mother. Both times after I quick check-up she was declared as functioning properly and returned in less than 24 hours. And here i thought i WAS being the smart (but Logical) azz. Pushing logic too far just means you could end up awaking dead in the morning. And here i thought i WAS being the smart (but Logical) azz. I put up with a pink bathroom, flowered wallpaper, excessive shopping, ETC. I feel the least she could do is live with my excessively large loudspeakers & a couple bad habbits. I'm single again, oh well. Better luck next time, relationships should be give & take IMHO & not my way or the highway. You may want to consider a reevaluation of just on whose 'highway' you've been bounced off of.
  21. WRT placement; I'm pretty limited on physical movement (including increasing the degree of angle much) of these speakers as all such movements require the getting the wife's good housekeeping seal of approval (the @ssclowns on the house remodeling shows all the women around here watch never have a pair of good n' large speakers, they all have either tiny wireless Bose speakers or speakers in the walls and ceilings or worst of all Bang and Olufsen integrated crap). She hated the Cornwall's I use to own. But at least the Cornwall's came with closed backs that I could of veneered. An internal change within the inner dimension of the Belle speaker itself is the preferred method.
  22. Short of playing Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture with Bells and Cannons in an infinite loop is there a technical way to up the bass response on my 2 speaker system Belle's without adding in a separate sub-woofer or 3rd channel? The only time I really miss my Cornwall's is when I'm playing some good old rock n roll loudly.
  23. Wolfbane

    Fletch Resurrected!

    Great line in that movie after Fletch's bed-mate lawyer is found dead. Cop asks: How was she feeling? Fletch reply's: She felt great to me last night!
  24. I use a manual coffee bean grinder for spices (only) - no brand name on the one I own to give you but it works really well for grinding whole hard spices like fennel, black pepper, etc. Horizontal handle on top with the grinding hopper below that and a small drawer underneath. You may be able to do the reverse with a grinder that you restrict to coffee beans only.
  25. I used to spend a lot of time reading posts there. When I purchased my 1st Klipsch speakers (used Cornwall's) I found this place and it was via AK's Klipsch 'Home Away from Home' section. Been mostly a reader here since joining.
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