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We use a vac made for computers, but a lot of times, the stuff just sticks too well. Even though we have a smoke free environment, it just doesn't get the job done. I usually pull out the air compressor, and roll everything outside. We don't even bother with a water trap, but have never had any trouble getting the dust out of pc chassis. The air will get dust out that a vacuum just won't touch. You won't want to leave the concrete dust on them for long, as the reaction with high humidity probably won't be very good for the metals. Bruce

The output trannies on my ST-70 were in pretty good shape, but I lightly sanded them and then used some semi-gloss high temp stove paint... I think came from ACE Hardware. I didn't want to remove them from the chassis... just removed the bolts and lifted them a little, so I could place paper under them and protect the rest of the amp. They ame out pretty nice.

We have free concerts in Chattanooga, TN, through the summer months. Friday nights, out of doors. Not the best of venues, but a good time is had by all. Caught the Flecktones there twice, Maura O'Connell, Doc Watson, and many more over the years. This years lineup is scheduled, but I don't know any of them... which makes for great fun http://downtownchattanooga.org/nightfall

I know you will be going back to work, but inquiring minds want to know... Any updates on the two tracks you linked us to? and how was the party? [] Bruce

Craig, Is that the same quad cap that Roy Mottram sells on his site? If so, he has them for $36. It is listed on the ST-70 pages... scroll down a bit. Bruce

OK, Dave, you can't go to sleep until you post about your two test files. Or you have to start a new thread. []

My wife read the books (she was a book reviewer and copy editor for a couple of magazines before she pased away). She said the writing got better as each book came out, and they got much darker. She like them a lot, notwihstanding all the hoopla by Christain conservatives. I haven't read the books or seen the movies, and am a little afraid to get started on them. Afraid taht I my get hooked and not stop until I've read them all/seen them all. I'm definitely more of a Tolkien fan, knowing where he was coming from religiously and morally. Bruce

I have a pair of Heresy IIs, with the original crossovers. They are in my bedroom,the largest room in my house, and powered with an H/K430. Bass is great! Keep telling myself to hook up my 2A3 amps which drive my LaScalas, but am too lazy. The H/K is barely up to get room iflling volume. FWIW, I would consider the original Heresy to be a bit forward in the mids, probably due to the larger driver (same as the Khorn and LS). To my ears, the HII is more balanced. I imagine the HIII is even more so, with even better bass. Bruce

No need to go away, Michael. The flattest response includes that small filter at the input of the power amp when using the bass mod.

Hmmmm... it's 59 degrees in Atlanta right now, and wasn'tsupposed to be near frieezin last night. Looking at the cameras, it just looks to be very wet.http://www.georgia-navigator.com/cameras

I really can't believe you said that, since multiple folks (djk being one) has posted the results. You can get flat to about 30-32Hz. Pretty good since the horn is only good to about 125Hz.

Gary, Craig already did post. He was being polite. NOSValves IS Craig. He can be reached through the forum, or you can contact him at his website: http://www.nosvalves.com Bruce

One would hope...[:#]

NO!Here is the schematic for your organ [*-)] http://users.rcn.com/clonk/ChordOrgan/Schematics/Figure6.gif Looks like it might be a 6BJ7 Here is the link for the whole model: http://users.rcn.com/clonk/ChordOrgan/Schematics/index.html Bruce

Actually, that would be pre-date those LaScalas. Mine are '86, and the SN is only on the label.My labels are 3 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches, but they are a newer design. Bruce

Both of these could have possible bad consequences, but it would be no differenct if the amp was SS.When the amp is on, powering off or on the preamp could cause a transient to hit the speakers... a loud pop. If preamp and amp are both on, the same is true with turning off or on a source, i.e., CD player, tuner. If the volume is turned down on the preamp or the amp has its own set of volume controls and they are down, you shouldn't get the transient. I used to have a little index card with the power up/down sequence for my gear. The wife and kids soon caught on. Bruce

I have a pair of HIIs that had the labels removed. The only way I am close on the year is by the inspection stickers on the inside of the cabinets. I wish Klipsch had also put the SN on the inside of that cabinets. Are you trying to resell these LaScalas?

IF a film is actually shot with film... the orginal is a negative. If done the old way, and not edited with a video editor, there are positive prints made (work prints) that is conformed on an editing machine with sprockets. A soundtrack (dialogue and background noise) is on a sprocketed piece of mag film.With a sync mark or tone on the audio track and a visual mark on the picture, you lock them in place. As they are rolled back and forth, they will stay in sync. You know the big chalk board with the board on top that is smacked together (Scene 1, take 5... whatever)They identify it on the audio track and it is visible on the film). Almost 100% of the dialogue and all noises, clothes rustling, leather jacket squeaking, cars, doors, are replaced by the Foley editor. That's why someone can stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and you can hear them perfectly. IF edited on video, the film positive is transfered to video and the SMPTE code is added in a window/overlay on the tape. The code represents hours:minutes:seconds:frames (24 frames per second for film, 30 fps for video with alternating fields to total 60) Edit the video and then someone will go back and conform the original to the edited video, so the prints can be made for projection in theaters. In the meantime, all the sound is being edited, music composed for all the scenes (film composers learn what time signatures and beats per minutes fit so many seconds of film, etc.) I know some guys who work with over a hundred tracks... and it all gets mixed down for the final delivery medium. It's an incredible process. Bruce

The safe thing would be to just make a new motorboard and store the old one in the closet, until you decide you really don't need it anymore. If you made a new one, you might try moving the woofer up a little like they did in the CWIII. I think that helped to get rid of some of the midbass hump.

Those are very stunning. Congratulations on finishing them. Probably cheaper than having a pair of the real thing shipped from the U.S. Bruce

Abruptly so! Almost jumps to the left, I wasn't sure how to describe it.

You should still have both feet. There are a few folks on here with Model 19s. I had a friend who had a pair, and they were a nice speaker. You might be able to splice in a piece of veneer on the top or do the whole top. Kewl!

Listened on the LS powered by my 2A3 amps. Track 1 > I kinda like the sound of this, but it is sterile sounding. If you had it on as background music, it would be ok. My original comment ppretty much still stands. See my final comment comparing both tracks. Track 2 > This needs to be played back on a good sized system (the nearfields were okay at this). Perhaps because of the the ambience. The piano is still just to the right of center, which makes me feel good about the setup on the pc. Given that piano is percussive, note with a harder attack did seem to bounce off the left side on occasion. Could be my imagination. A note of caution - I had to make a second CD of these songs. The first one had the order of the songs reversed.I don't know what I did, but if I had not listened to them on the pc and just taken the first CD out to the living room, I would have been describing them backwards. I tried to come up with a good way to describe these two recordings and decided that they are like two different pictures of a hollow egg. The first recording is taken inside the egg. Sounds clean, the tone is pretty much all there, but you are inside the instrument. We don't usually listen to any instrument like that, so it isn't quite natural to our ears. Being inside it, there is no reference for it. You don't know where it is, what its surroundings are. The second is taken from outside the egg. Aahhhh, now I get it. It is right THERE! I can see/hear the room it is in, and have an understood frame of reference for the sound The walls, the audience... everything and person is where I would expect them to be. I am actually AT this performance, which for critical listening is where I would want to be. Bruce btw, this makes me want to listen to the original Simon and Garfunkel recording of Bridge over troubled waters. The piano was recorded with the top removed, and a single mic 15 feet overhead. It has a great sound.

Is that an RCA console? I have a couple 600 ohm Daven stepped attenuators out of one, the first TV station I worked at had one, Bruce

One time, while traveling through Kentucky, I stopped in at a small country store. I picked up a nice cold Coke, one of those 6 oz. glass bottles, in one of those ice chest coolers. Sooooo good. There were some old guys in there playing checkers, talking with the owner. I noticed he would often quote Scripture when he rang up the tab on the register. For instance, a young boy came in and purchased a candy bar, and as the owner rang up the amount he said "Blessed are the children..." Everyone listened to hear what he would say. A truck pulled in, with nice, really nice horse trailer behind. Guy came in and looked around, and told the store owner he thought it was a nice looking little place. Pleasantries were exchanged. He asked about a blanker for his horse, and the store owner turned around and pulled one off the shelf behind him. It was a nice enough blanket. "This one's 15 dollars." The owner of the horse looked a little irate and told him that that wasn't nearly nice enough for his horse. The store owner kept going higher on the shelf, but the blankets never seemed good enough. The horse owner finally exploded, explaing that he had a $75,000 horse in the trailer and he wasn't going to put what was now an $85 blanket on him. The store owner looked at him and said, "I think I have just the blanket you want." He went into the back of the store, grabbed one of the same blankets he had been showing the man, and brought it out to him. "This one is $250, and my best one." "Excellent! I'll take it." As the store owner rang it up, he said, "He was a stranger and I took him in..."