JohnA

"Stuff" happens the first year. You'll just have to get used to it. When I wa in school, private rooms were hard to get, but worth it. That was the best solution to the hassles. I worked at getting them. Once you get one, don't leave it! Glad to hear you are O.K.! Have you selected a major, or did I miss that?

Your room will be a little crowded with speakers and furniture. They should sound fine, though. Someday you will move and the bigger room will be better. The La scala is identical to the K-horn from 400 Hz up in any given year. The La Scala bass horn is small and short, so it won't go as deep. Count on getting down to 50 Hz if they are in a corner. La Scalas have a bump in the bass that makes them sound warmer than K-horns. Some male voices will sound heavy, but female voices are manna from Heaven.

We;ve taken to naming them H1, H1.5 and H2. The H1 has the typical 12" K-22 woofer, 2" voice coil K-55-V squawker on a K-700 Horn and a 1" voice coil K-77 or K-77-M tweeter. The H1.5 has the H2 squawker (K-53-K?) and the other components out of the H1 with a crossover designed for the squawker. The H2 has a 12" K-24 woofer, K-53-K squawker and a K-76-K(?) tweeter. As I remember the H2 is not as bright as the H1, but the difference is small.

That's what's killing me. I'd have a tough time comming after it.

Stop using IE! If you open the Forum frame in another window and bookmark that, you can go the the Forum directly and your buttons will work as desired. I've been using Mozilla exclusively since 0.9. It does the tabbed browsing thing, too. It also blocks all pop-ups.

I've listened to 2 or 3 of the Blose 901 series and I cannot recommend them over a string and tin can. I object to the concept of required EQ and the Direct/reflecting concept as well. So far, every Blose speaker I've heard but the commercial, outdoor "hotspots" (nobody expects much here) have been distasteful and annoying. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but a poor concept is a poor concept. Even pet rocks are classic today.

I'll look for the wines you recommended. The names are not familiar, though. If I can't find them I'll take you up on your offer! Concha y Toro is not expensive here but sells quite a bit higher than $1.8! I think my state has pretty high "sin" taxes on alcohol. I believe a 1.5 liter bottle of Merlot is $10 - $12.

Yes, they are good indeed. I had a pair for 15+ years. The stereo image is excellent! They will get down to 30 Hz or so, but there is a lot of distortion down there. With normal music you never get that low. They are probably a touch darker than my La Scalas. The woofers have foam surrounds that will likely need replacement (mine didn't when I let them go 4 years ago).

I am a little thick tonight, but I finally understand your questions, Diego. Speaker makers make and sell small speakers with small woofers because they are cheap for the customer to buy and small enough to be easy to place in any room. The customer is happy and the maker sells speakers. A small woofer will always have more distortion than a large one when trying to reproduce low bass notes. In the midrange, they will be about the same. Small speakers with small woofers can be part of a good sounding system if a subwoofer is added to handle the low bass. Relieving the small woofer of the low notes keeps it from having to move long distances, a cause of an annoying form of distortion (intermodulation distortion). Horn speakers are used because they are highly efficient and inherently have low distortion. They don't require much power to play at normal levels (less than a watt) and will get VERY loud on moderate power (100 or 200 watts). Horns also have some inherent flaws that some people don't like (or think they don't even when they have never heard good quality horns). One of my favorite wines is sold here under the name "Concha y Toro". It is made in Argentina. What does the name mean? Shell and Bull? There are several varieties made from different grapes.

You can see what I've done. Initially, I had La Scalas for rear channels, too. My room is 16x18x21x19 (not square), so I was a bit crowded. It sounded great, though! If you use Heresies, like I am now, you will want to modify the crossover to attenuate the squawker and tweeter. As designed, they are bright and don't match the La Scalas well. I will show you how when you get ready. No matter which center and surrounds you choose, make sure the squawker and tweeter are the same in all of them to maintain timbre match. I'd use the La Scalas for mains, add a Heresy center and use the Cornwalls for surrounds. That leaves subwoofers, get at least 2. You will need the biggest, hairiest subwoofers you can obtain. The biggest reason you want them is so they will be operating in a low effort, low distortion mode most of the time. Then, they will be most likely to have as little distortion as your La Scalas have. The other reason for hairy subs is so they will at least have a prayer of matching the output of 4 big Klipsch. You are going to want 120+ dB at 30 Hz. My 2 VMPS subs should be hitting 122 dB at 1 m and 450 watts each. They are 4 dB below 1kHz at 16 Hz in my room.

That IS the original design. Who got the La Scalals?

LOL!

Unused Shorthorn? One? Want to sell it? I have a perfest place for a vintage mono system.

You should apologize and ask them to come back.

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The wife and I saw The Matrix: Revolutions in IMAX over Klipsch speakers the weekend! It was a spectacle in the Roman tradition! You could see the poresand blemishes in their skin! Their moles showed texture! The audio just blew me away. I sat there for >2 hours and didn't move. Near the end, my neck and back ached fron the tension of the battles. This is the only way to see this movie!

They are, aren't they!?

I would generally agree. The KSW-15 cannot hope to keep up in output or distortion. The RSW-15 will; I've heard running with K-horns and Jubilees.

you are just going to have to hear it yourself to believe, but it is true. Both formats have advantages. The CD has a black silence between notes that an LP can't have, plus few clicks and easy direct access to a song. The LP is lacking in a brittleness or harshness. The notes and overtones have a pureness or smoothness a CD lacks. DVD-A at 24/96 is getting really close. 24/192 DVD-A might be essentially indistinguishable. Since I have not been able to buy 24/192 in a store, I'm not sure. As the quality of the turntable and cartridge and the CD transport and electronics climb higher, the differences get smaller. I still listen to CDs more than LPs.

Pixies?

Smoking makes stuff stink. That's all. One menber bought a pair of Klipsch (Cornwalls?) out of a bar. They sounded great, but stunk so bad he (wife?) couldn't keep them in the house!

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The fights are in The Matrix, a virtual world. There shouldn't be blood. Maybe we should see bits dripping. I didn't like the scene where Neo fought 300 Agent Smiths, either. It seemed stupid. For those of you that have suXP, run task manager and see how many threads and I/Os some of the processes have going (see why suXP is so SloooooooW). That is why the 300 Smiths are there; because a computer would do it that way.

The K-horn would always be better!

Bad crossover cap? Open turn in the autoformer? Which crossover do you have? What is the DC resistance of your tweeter? Does the DCR change if you wiggle the terminals on the tweeter?