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synthfreak, What power tubes are you using? Do you mean what brand? I would be interested in some KT-88s, but also could see rolling in some 6L6 just for grins. Bruce

I'm still interested in these myself. They are designed in the Netherlands, and manufactured in China. Bruce

This from a Rutgers Guy .................... watch this change the tone ............... Any pictures to share with fellow Forum Buddies ??? none your age ob Perfect! [Y]

Forgot to say that I picked it up for $300. The neck is really good, and the intonation is excellent.

Thebes, Ben, Dukester, I don't know about any of that, but I am really liking my Godin LG series. Got it used, and I really like it. Two single coils, mahogany body. I've mostly played acoustics, so this is all new to me. Got it used for less than half price. A Canadian made guitar. My son has their fretless bass, the A4. I absolutely love this guitar. Bruce

You can get K77 diaphragms from Klipsch or other places... Bob Crites sell them. You could upgrade to Bob's CT125 tweeters, a drop in replacement for the Klipsch tweeters. He does use the Eminence driver, coupled to a horn he had made, that matches the Klipsch tweeter. Many here have put them in ther Heresies, LaScalas, Khorns, and like them. Very nice upgrade, IMHO. Bruce

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Jeff, When I got my LS, they had the AL crossovers in them. They didn't sound very good. I built my own, from a design by John Albright (a forum member). If you do a search and find a reference to a DHA or DHA2 network, that is what I built. These are first order crossovers ( 6db slope ). They were not too expensive to build, and work well for MY listening environment. That is, mostly a lower volume, and I use SET amps (most of the time). Many have felt that the ALK extreme slope networks require a lot of volume to sound their best. Plus, they cost a lot, even if you build your own. Bob can help out with the Klipsch equivalent( A or AA), new woofers, tweeters, etc. Just don't forget it is the music that matters. Bruce

I stole this off of a thread on Audiogon, and after looking at other sources, think this is the usual reasoning: Unfortunately, this is one of those topics where you first have to define your terms. The term “bypass cap” is used quite differently by audiophiles and electrical engineers. Audiophiles typically use the term to refer to multiple capacitors wired in parallel in the same physical location, or nearly so. The purpose of this (at least within the realm of high-end audio) is to create a single, conjugate capacitor that outperforms ("sounds better than") any single cap in the same application. The mix of caps is usually arrived at through a series of listening evaluations, so the process is mainly subjective. For the purposes of high-end audio, bypass caps are almost exclusively film types (polyester, polypropylene, polystyrene, teflon, etc.) The ‘theory” is simple enough - smaller value caps may (for a variety of reasons) have better high-frequency performance than larger ones (especially when the larger caps are electrolytic), so combining large and small caps may (when everything works well) result in a single capacitance with outstanding full-range performance. As with many things in audio, this is easier said than done, but it remains a very popular practice among hobbyists. Electrical engineers usually use the term to refer to multiple capacitors connected in parallel electrically, but distributed along the power supply path so that the smaller caps with superior high-frequency performance are located adjacent to critical circuit elements (particularly wide-bandwidth gain blocks). The intent is to improve the stability of these circuits by providing a superior low-impedance path to ground on the power supply lines. Many modern wide-bandwidth circuits will not operate properly (or at all) without these local bypass caps in place.

I would still be inclined to use my 4311s for mixing, even if I try the mix out out my La Scalas, Heresy IIs and auto system. The JBLs have better bass. If I mixed on the others, a lot os systems would be too bass heavy. Bruce

Too much weed...[:|]

I use 2A3 maps, at 3.5 watts each, to power my La Scalas. I put in a 75 wpc SS amp for a month or so, but just swapped the tubes back in. Aaaaahhh! They sound wonderful to me, but I don't listen at really high volumes. Maybe 80-85db most of the time. I kick it up on occasion. They still sound good. I don't know if you have seen the Klipschorn Jubilees in any of the threads, but Rigma built his own, and pwers them with some 300B amps he built. Isn't that just incredible? I love it. Bruce

Before I visited my gf in China (she's not Chinese, only works there) I asked her if all the stuff in their Walmart was made in China. I meant it as a joke, of course. Well, it is made in China. The thing is, there are lots of great products sold in the U.S. that are made there, with heavy manufacturing just over the border onto the mainland from Hong Kong. Some of the best printers and fax machines are made by Brother, with plants in Shenzhen. HP has printers made there as well. Most electronics companies do. I've mentioned this before, but my brother in law works in textiles. He has a customer who now imports socks from somewhere overseas. He says they are perfect... not just most of them, but all of them. They ship on time and they cost less, even after the shipping. A friend of mine here in Chattanooga did a photo book of the Rock City barns. You know, the great advertising that has gone on for years to promote Rock City. The book was printed in Belgium, I think. The quality is superb. Even adding in the cost for him to fly to Europe to check the printing as it came off the press. Binding, packaging and shipping back to the U.S. The cost was lower. That one has me a little stumped since things aren't usually cheaper that come from Europe. But China is still a communist country, that is my biggest complaint. It isn't whether the goods are good or not, because that will happen anywhere. Bruce

Dave, I believe it is the OS that is the problem. Windows has a mixer application, that all packages use, unless you use an asio driver. I believe it is the kmixer app. You can look it up on the net for mor info than you care to read. My M-Audio card is set up for asio as well, and it works great. I know that most/all of the SB cards were hardwired for 48k, so everything was mangled with their drivers. GSIF drivers would be great, but I'm not sure how many player would support that. (GSIF = Giga Sampler Interface, by Tascam) It is made to stream massive amounts of instrument samples. But that is a bit OT, I guess. Bruce

If you are all basing those comments on the curved side walls of the enclosure, I think you all miss the mark. Other companies in the past have utilized the same basic (and I DO mean basic) design for their cabinets. I think the JBL K2 is one, and I know I have seen others. Some have been around for quite some time. Bruce

Although they are not slouches in the efficiency department, the Heresy IIs can't compete with the fully horn loaded LaScala, Klipschorn, or Jubilee Klipschorn. You may find it a stretch to power them with 8 watt amps. I'm not going to knock the amps, it just depends on your listening habits. I have some 3.5W 2A3 maps that I keep saying I will try on my Heresy IIs, but I have been too lazy to hook them up. They are in my bedroom, though, and I don't listen very loudly there. Currently they are powered with an vintage H/K 430 SS amp. Plenty of power for me. Thirty watts or so could drive them quite nicely, whether tube or solid state. Bruce

I celebrated the new year by calling my gf at 11:00 am my time. She was celebrating the new year with friends... in China, where she is presently working. We have since chatted online for a couple hours tonight, but she only got 30 minutes of sleep. Time for all of us to be in bed. Happy New Year everyone....[<)] Bruce

Especially now that he uses the heavy artillery... Those Klipschorn Jubilees are moving into the big guns territory.

Welcome to the forum. Does the Proton have two sets of outputs, so that one set can still go to the power amp? You would, never the less, want to feed both the left and right channels into the sub. Bruce

From what Larry describes, there is compression going on, i.e., peak limiting, etc. And I was mistaken about the normalize function. On the software I usually use, normalze can take one of several paths. The audio can be maximized, or set to match an average of multiple files... I was thinking of the maximize part with compression going on. My bad. Bruce

Gee, Tom, I thought you weren't going to complain about the LS any longer? Still plan to email you and see when you will be in Georgia so we can get together. Bruce

The Khorns definitely sounded better than the Cornwalls. I wasn't impressed with them at all. But the 60th Ann. Khorns were wonderful.

Nice! I can open the Excel file just fine in Oppen Office 2.3. The pdf works great too.

Larry, It is quite possible that the person who made the file to put online "normalized" the levels. If you had a lot of dynamics on the tape, and it was only vocals, I could well imagine someone doing that. Normalizing would compress the levels, or bring up the quieter passages so they were more even. Bruce

fini, You need to look at the technology in a modern acoustic piano. The strings are dampened when there are no keys depressed. When you strike/depress a key, it lifts a damper off the string while it is being struck. If, for example, you make a G chord and hold the keys down, it will continue to ring/sustain. If you let up on the keys, the strings become muted. There is a slight bit of the note there, but very slight. Using one of the pedals, you can have the chord sustain after you remove your hand from the keyboard. You can try this and see/hear just how must the strings continue to vibrate after you strike the note/chord, removing your hand. Part of it has to do with the quality of the piano, wear on the felts, etc. It is possible to reach into a piano and pluck the strings and hear the notes, but they should be somewhat muted. You might have to play your Khorn extremely loud to get the strings to vibrate with sympathetic vibrations, i.e., an A through the stereo would make the A strings vibrate. This is readily apparent on a guitar, especially on an A, as the tops are usually tuned to an A. A piano soundboard is a bit stiffer than a guitar top. Bruce