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For some reason, I actually believe that story.

You can't unless the pics are hosted on another website and you isnter the links to display correctly. Nice looking setup.

My wife was a saint, in more ways that one. Our first speakers were a small set of H/Ks with 8 inch drivers, I think (1971 maybe). I bought a set of JBL 4311s (still have them), and they were still big by the standards of many of our friends. I had a TEAC 4 track, and did recording, and often had friends over to record...microphone cables running everywhere, drums in the bedroom, etc. She NEVER complained. Served us food and was a wonderful servant to all of us while we worked on our music. Still have the JBLs, even though I use the LaScalas and Heresy IIs for most of my listening. I know she would enjoy them if she were here to listen to them.

I personally think they are much better balanced tonally that the original Heresy. Not as in your face, and the bass on mine is wonderful. That's a great Nelson album, btw.

LOL, I just switched form Verizon to AT&T for my whole family. The main reason was I felt we had been mistreated on a contract. I also switched becasuse I wanted a GSM phone and not CDMA tecnology. I have an unlocked phone, so on my travels to the Philippines last Feb., I bought a SIM card, which gave me a local access number. All incoming calls are free, which meant that if they needed to, the family could call me and I wouldn't have the charge pulled off that phone card account. This is also why calling many different countries mobile numbers costs more per minute, as they get free incoming calls or text messages. All the major companies will get you on something, and I have no great illusions about AT&T. Bruce

Neil, I use a service that you can get set up online. It allows you to have up to three phones automatically be recognized as using the service with an active acount, so you don't have to put in a long account code. I use it to call my gf in China and when she is home in the Philippines. The rate to China is only $.022 a minute. If you don't have a local access number, you dial an 800 number and the rate is slightly higher. Rates are different for all countries. I checked their rate for Afghanistan, and it is $.48 minute. I hope you can find a lower rate somewhere else, but you might check into this. I add minutes online, or by a phone call, using a credit card. They also have a soft phone, allowing you to use your computer to call. You can pick the area code you want the call to originate from, can recieve voice mail, etc. It is a flat rate per month. There is no contract, just sign up, buy some minutes and start using it. You aren't buying for a particular country, which means that your son could be on leave in Italy and you could also use it to call him there ($.03 a minute to a land line, $.25 for Italy Mobile). Still lose the connection on occasion, but you still go through some awful phone networks to get there (Philippines is awful, while China has been great). http://www.onesuite.com Bruce looked up other rates: Netherlands (Timmikid for example) $.026 a minute Greece (MaxG) $.05, $.19 for mobile

A former student at the college where I work told me one time, after dicussing different theological views, that we could all be wrong... ... but we can't all be right. Then again, we may all be right in part. The hard thing is finding all the right parts. Keep up the good work, Dave. Once you get it written, if it gets published, let us all get a chance to read it. And post any responses you may get. Bruce

Altec 515B woofers, 288C HF Drivers.

John - They used to hang some of these in the trees at the Nightfall concerts, to fill in the perimeter of Miller Plaza. Sounded pretty good, except the clowns actually doing the mixing used to overdrive them too often.

The newer K-33 is rated at 150watts rms Bruce

The band is LGT and you can watch some of their videos on YouTube.

Here is the left channel. The black under the cabinet is part of the bass horn for the sub... utilizing an 18" driver, and reaching 14Hz!!!!

I was really impressed with the Altec 816 clone that the late William Eckle built for a friend of his. Four of them, in fact. 3/4" mdf with 1/4" oak over that, for 1" thick walls. Two cabs on each side in an MTM arrangement, with an Altec 311-60 horn in the middle. Bruce

Calling Community Coffee "regular" just isn't right. My wife grew up in Baton Rouge, and I still think it's some of the good stuff. Starbucks over roasts their beans so the coffee tastes scorched. They own Seattle's Best, which, IMHO is way better coffee. We have a local shop here that does a fine job, and I have easy access to it. Aaaaaahhhhh... such bliss. Bruce

I suspect that the product number is the date of download. Probably not since it is the same number today. Product Number 1700-071208 []

Beat me to it, Thebes you really need to start writing some books ! Is it just us old guys who wee thinking the same thing? [:#]

Notice the Product Number? The first four digits are the version - the next digits are probably the build number. Dr. Who's is a later build, which probably has included the extra feature.

Welcome to the forum.

Anybody out there have a schematic for a Tangent 400 crossover. Since they are the optimal size to get more bass from the Heresy II drivers, I am inclined to build a set of cabinets for the components I have on hand (still in the HII cabinets). A co-worker picked up a pair of the Tangents, so I could just pull his out and draw it, but figured I would take the easy way first. He IS okay with me taking them apart, so that really wouldn't be an issue. Bruce

We can only hope, Maron, that you are correct. Yet there are a lot of crazy folks out there.

Actually, it was Max who hinted at, and you filled in the blanks a bit. And I still drive an SUV sometimes( 20 mpg, though), but much less as I have my late wife's car, which gets a better 29-30 mpg. Bruce

Now you're talking about Cordwainer Smith and "The Dead Lady of Clowntown." In the mid to late 1950s, a man wealthy from the real estate business had an idea for a drive system. He built models and got patents on it. My brother and a friend of his got the patent drawings, intending to work up a science fair project. That fell through, until a few short years later when they talked about it again. Gosh, they had lost the papers in the mean time... so they sent of to the patent office for the papers one more time. They got a notice back that the papers weren't available as they had been classified. Hehehe... the basic premise was easy (most things are), but it was a very mechanical device, and would have been subject to enormous stress and vibration. However, it could still prove useful. The author posited that we could have gone to the moon by the late 1950s. He calculated he could have a vehicle the size of a Jeep reach zero gravity very easily. I have always wanted to build a small model of his design and try it out, just for grins. I had searched for a long time to find info about it again. While writing this, I remembered the designer's name and did a search. A link follows, and the probability that it didn't work. It was fun anyway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_drive People have good ideas all the time, great ideas even. We still need the WILL to do what needs to be done. I, for one, don't think Dave's idea of population control is a good one (for various reasons), and this planet can support a lot more people than we currently have. I find it ironic that the mojaority of people who have few children to no children, are the more educated ones. They kill off their own gene pool, so to speak, committing scientific/intellectual suicide, while the masses keep growing. That is a whole other topic, and the science is enough to keep this thread going. This is, at the very least, a really good read. Bruce

Nawwww, it just sounded too political... Hmmmm, the frogs might be smarter on occasion, but I think we can all do better. How did it get to be late again? Bruce

We are more interested in a half baked plan to fight global terrorism. Like the war on drugs, poverty, etc., there is eally no end. (sorry Amy, I couldn't help my self. It's just my POV, if anyone wants to debate it I'll remove this post) Dave, did something special shock you and get you excited about the whole idea or has it been percolating for a long time?

Welcome back, indeed. And the HIIs? [Y] [Y] [Y] [Y] [Y] I think the tonal balance on the HIIs is superb, and the bass on mine is not lacking at all. I have separates, but a lot of folks here really are big on the Scott integrateds the 299 series for instance. Very nice hardware and not too expensive when they can be had. What kind of budget are you thinking? You could try SS with a vintage H/K 430 receiver. Those can be had pretty cheap and the sound is good. Not exceptional, but really good. That's why I have two, one of which is hooked up to my HIIS.