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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

Hondas have only been in the U.S. since sometime in the '70s, and that was the little bitty cheap ones, so that isn't much of a valid argument. I know some folks who drive very old Hondas. The others are still up for grabs. The BMWs are great cars, though.

I have a picture here somewhere, of Laura Nyro's studio control room. It had windows on three sides, and they were left uncovered... She wanted to be able to see out into the woods while she recorded. I'll scan it when I get a chance, and post it. It was actually in an article on control room layouts and how to deal with acoustics problems. Mark, I might talke you up on your offer. Unfortunately, my LR is for living first. There's a piano, bookcases, etc. But mostly, I am the only one there, since all the kids but one have moved out. Last one is normally away at college. I'll get some dimensions and drawings done up. Bruce

Mark, I certainly have windows in my living room, which is my primary listening room. The room isn't very large (13x21 w/8 foot ceilings) the LS are on the long wall, with a set of double windows behind the listening position and a double set on one of the short walls. The opposite end goes around to the kitchen and hallway. I'm certainly not worried about sound transmission, as the nearest house is a couple hundred yards away and I usually listen at about 80-85db at the listening position. I know the reflections off the windows behind me are more problematic than the end wall. I'm not averse to putting temp coverings over the windows while listening to music. Would even make the room more energy efficient... I would want the fixes to be easily removeable, since I might move in another year or so. Partly depends on my present gf and love of my life and the housing market (current house is paid for). Bruce

BEC says they are the single piece phase plug, and the same as the K-55-X

Dee, Glad you got it. It shouldn't matter what platform you are on, it should have worked. Great music, isn't it? I just went ahead and used the command line in a dos window on my XP laptop. Those command lines come in handy... Bruce

EDIT: The Deltalite II is only rated to 60Hz.... or so. Much different. Thanks for chiming in... I didn' t mean to confuse the issue and misrepresent your upgrade. Bruce

Dee, are you using a Mac?

Jay, You aren't alone. The problem is their sales staff and Vista. The two are certainly making for a rotten combination. Sorry for all you've gone through. Bruce

I was looking at the old thread of Scooterdog, about an upgrade for the Heresy. Our good friend Dennis mentioned a replacement woofer for the K22. I think he actually put in the wrong part number as what he referenced is a 10 incher. If it is the 12, it wouldn't be too expensive and should be a drop in as they mount on the back of the baffle. Current price woud be $113.97 (2+) http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?&DID=7&Product_ID=172742&gemail=1&CFID=15994945&CFTOKEN=95829874 Bruce

Dean, he is using the dbx as a source selector. Still might work, though.

I can dig it too. That's why I still have LS and a 15 yr old CD player. [:^)]