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This is the crossover time for the Heresy. Are they original Heresys or the newer design? If the original, the tweeter is the same for KHorn as for the Heresy. Same for the mid driver. I would be more inclined to think you have something out of spec on the KHorns. Tony! Stop dissin' my Heresys. Bruce

Why don't you just take them to a Rhinoliner shop? That would certainly make those cabinets durable. Somewhere Michael had mentioned this in another thread, and I thought I posted about a dude on the Lansing Heritage forums who used some white kind of paint for some yellowed JBL Aquaplas drivers (like on 4311s). Very cool to try this Michael. Bruce

Wow...the forum is back up and we made it home. We unpacked the car and suitcases. Feels good to be back in our own house. Right now I have the Heresys in the bedroom, where we both have office space off in the corner. Hooked up the Merlin, feeding my Alesis SS amp. Since I had a contractor here fixing some termite damage, I didn't have the Dynaco set back up yet. Mark, nice line cord. That has to be over 8 feet long. Let it warm up a bit. First thing out was Hilary Hahn playing some Barber. NICE!!! What can I say? Very smooth. I can't go into all the audiophile details. Juust a nice sound. Imaging is wonderful, and solid as a rock. Beautiful look as well. I can't believe that it doesn't get any warmer than it does. Love the walnut end pieces. I'll write more later. Thanks to all. If all goes well, Barbara will start treament next Monday or Tuesday. Depends on outcome of one of the tests. Bruce

Mark, I have tried to PM a couple of people but have heard some folks say the PM feature isn't working correctly. So... I admit I had a heads up from Amy that a package was coming to my house, but I am a bit flabbergasted at what has shown up on my doorstep. I have a list of names of all the guilty involved, so I intend to contact you somehow, probably now by email. A Merlin! I am humbled by the generosity of some here on the forum (actually, everyone on this forum is generous, just at different times and in different ways). My wife and I will certainly enjoy the gift. We are presently in Indiana, dropping our youngest off at college (Valpo). My oldest son was home to bring the box inside and check to make sure it was okay. It was a bit damp on the outside due to some afternoon rainstorm, but just fine inside, due to the fine packaging. So, from 600 miles away, I can only look at the pic on the Juicy Music Audio website and say thank you so very much. Monday nite we'll be listening to it though. Wednesday we go back to Atlanta for an MRI of my wife's brain. If that shows no brain lesions, she will start her other treatment on either the 29th or 30th of August. Music is a big part of our family, and our youngest is majoring in music composition at Valpo. He and my wife have spent a lot of time together the past few years, as she ferried him to music lessons, youth orchestra, etc. Below is something she posted on her blog where she is chronicling her fight: I know that I'm going to miss him greatly, not just because of the usual mother-son/youngest child leaving home situation, but because I really enjoy his company. I've learned so much from him as we've spent time together, especially in the past few years when the two older children have been away from home. He's a wealth of knowledge about books, music, composers, history, current events; and I treasure the great conversations we've had. I'm so happy to think that he's found a university and a community that will continue to encourage the growth I've seen in him. I look forward to getting to know the person this experience will make him, even while I acknowledge that his absence is really going to be felt around here. So, from the two of us, thanks for the gift. We will treasure it as we use it to listen to great music. Maybe even some awful music on occasion. Bruce

Nick, I'm 600 miles from home at the moment. If you want to do that for Dee, that won't hurt my feelings any. I would give him the file in more than one format. Anyone here in the U.S. that deals with printing should be able to handle either a Photoshop file or an Illustrator file. Depending on the use, 300dpi would be fine. A simpler idea might be to use Acrobat, as a pdf will scale well and anyone can use it. Bruce

Streaming audio usually cannot be captured without a 3rd party utility. I have used "Virtual Audio Cable" to go from one application to another or try out "Total Recorder". If have an older version of VAC that I have used, and it owrks with no noise insertion as the newer version demo and the demo version of TR. Bruce

---------------- On 8/18/2005 7:21:11 PM Duke Spinner wrote: why sweat it, Tall One .... there are plenty of AnalPhiles .... gotta have this Amp, That Speaker, Those Cables i worked in a recording studio 10 years... my cousin owns a mid-size studio in NYC Playback is Courtesy of ... Crown, 'n JBL...... .. .... ..... ---------------- He needs to upgrade! To bigger JBLs!

---------------- On 8/18/2005 7:16:24 PM Allan Songer wrote: Say what you like, but without sudoscience we wouldn't have sudofed and when my hay fever acts up I am thankful!! ---------------- That even made my wife laugh out loud! I think the best horns are the ones you have that are paid for.

Great news on the stress test finished this day (Thursday). She passed with flying colors! They were quite happy with the results. She managed to stay on the treadmill for eight minutes. At the 7 minute mark they asked her if she could go another minute. She said she would try, and after a long time had passed, they asked if she could do 40 seconds more to get to the eight minutes. Huffing and puffing, but she made it. If the MRI next Wednesday shows nothing extra, she will start treatment at the end of the month. Thanks for your support guys (and gals ) Son is packing for college and we are supposed to leave early tomorrow. This summer has flown by! Don't think it will slow down anytime soon. Time to put on some music and relax. Bruce

I know of some on the Lansing Heritage forums who have used a product to go over the white JBL drivers (I think the trademark name is Aquaplas). It can turn quite yellow over time. Didn't add enough to the mass of the cone to change the compliance at all. Bruce

The broken parts can be repaired, and the cost shouldn't be that much. The soundboard would be wood. Most pianos you find have iron frames with the wood attached. Makes them very heavy, but far more durable. Friends of my family had two player pianos in their basement. When they moved from central Illinois to the Bahamas (job transfer), they tried to find someone who would take them, but ended up dismantling them and having them hauled away. It was a shame. They had a small collection of rolls for them. Our first piano was a Fender Rhodes. We donated it to a family who still uses it. Not much of a real piano sound, but it meant thay had a piano for the kids to learn on. Isn't nearly as susceptible to temp and humidity as real pianos. We now have a smallish Currier, and while not a Bosendorfer, it has served us well. Bruce

Damon, Our school uses Crestron products for multimedia/smart classroom systems. They charge a LOT. Pretty cool stuff though, with touch screens to control all the hardware. You can touch one button onscreen and the projector turns on, screen comes down, audio levels get set. Cool! Even the faculty can use it! http://www.crestron.com/

I noticed that I didn't get the L and e close enough together. If you need this in a specific dpi, etc, let me know and I'll make it and psot it somewhere that you can download it. BB

Gil, That helped a LOT! I used two Bitstream fonts. Zurich BlkEx for the top and Goudy Old Style for the bottom. The Goudy matches perfectly. I used Arial for the TM and registered mark. Notice I kerned the type, tightening the left to right letter spaces. The period is the diamond shape as in the graphic Gil posted.

If only... Very nice Dean. One can wish I guess. Price the same our has it gone up? Bruce

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My wife and I made the trip to Vanderbilt, and met with a doctor there. NOT a melanoma specialist though. Very nice, and detailed. It is just too far to drive in the winter. Anyone who has to make the trip from Chattanooga to Nashville knows how weird the area around Monteagle can be. Went to Emory in Atlanta on Friday. What a place. Specialists in melanoma treatment. Statistics haven't changed, but they are ready to hit it with the agressive treament. Wife goes back for stress test this thursday (aug. 18) and MRI of her brain (aug. 24), as there hasn't been a scan of that done yet. Just in case. My wife hopes they will find she has one If all goes well, she would start treatment on the 29th of August. Five days in the hospital and two weeks at home to recover. Do it again, do it again, do it again... The treatment is IL-2. Rough stuff, as all the capillaries leak. Gain about 30 pounds of extra fluid. A percentage of those who go through actually end up with no disease. At least for a while. A percentage don't survive the treament. If you survive and you come out clean, even for a couple of years, there may be other treatment before you need it again. So the fight has begun. Emory will be better as our church is closer and pastors and friends can come visit and I can spend the night with folks I know. This disease does NOT rule us. Going to be a long fall and winter. Youngest son heads off to college this weekend as well. Gonna be a busy time. Thanks for the support and prayers! Bruce

Dee, It looks like the Arial might be correct, but the bottom text doesn't fit Times. Look at the serifs (feet) on the different characters. Especially the 'S' in Sound. Can't tell very well from the pic you posted. Dont' forget, that someone doing the layout would be able to stretch a font (or squeeze horizontally) to make it match the name 'klipsch'. Look at the pic below. It is using Arial Black for the top and Garamond for the bottom. It isn't a match, but the bottom is closer than Times. It is also a screen shot, so it's a little ragged.

I have one of Joe's 6299 upgrade boards in my ST-70. I think it sounds very good, BUT.. The board quality is not the best (not the worst either). I think you can find better quality upgrade boards with at least as good a sound and his, and the cost will be similar. Although he doesn't have a site with pics (some in the threads on his forums though), Shannon Parks has an ST-70 driver board that looks very nice. www.diytube.com pics of the new board in this thread: http://www.diytube.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=597 Or Roy Mottram www.tubes4hifi.com I think Craig (NOSValves) used one of his boards, made some mods and like it. Bruce

The aluminum on the CD makes for a great show. NOT good for the microwave. And most technology companies use a shredder for their CDs. It jst scrapes all the aluminum off the polycarbonate.

Seriously, I agree with dragonfyr. Bats are great to have around. The amount of mosquitoes they eat well is worth it. There are plenty of folks who would be willing to help out with bat houses and placement. Bruce

Joe, Normally that would be a pressing made after the lacquer had been cut, plated and a few pieces of vinyl stamped. The test pressings then went back to the group/producers, etc., so they could listen and decide if they liked it. Check for errors (like the songs getting sequenced in the wrong order, etc. If that is a real test pressing, it might actually be worth something.

I know of a church that had problems with bats. They tried all sorts of things to get rid of them. Finally, the pastor just baptized them and made them members of his congregation. They haven't been back.

Thanks for all the responses. We are having some meltdown days and still managing to get in a lot of laughs. I know this forum isn't here for therapy, but quite a few of us use it that way. Griffinator, I'll be praying for you! Made the trip to Vanderbilt yesterday. First off, I should point out that all cancers are not the same. Some are worse than others, and Malignant Melanoma is one of the worst. Most tend to think of all skin cancers as the same. They are not. Next thing is that statistics are just that -- statistics. History of a certain group. The choices for treament are these: 1)Dacarbazine : standard treatment, total response in the range of 15%, overall long term survival not high. One study mentions 3% long term survival. We could get this administered at one of our local hospitals in Chattanooga. 2) IL-2: very dangerous side effects, must be administered in special ward or ICU. Total overall response rate about the same, long term survival is a bit better. One study shows up to 11% still alive at 7 years after treatment. Must be administered at Vandy; or perhaps Emory in Atlanta to have it administered there. Some patients do not survive the treatment . No one is allowed to do IL-2 until after thorough testing to rule out latent heart disease, etc. You have to be relatively healthy to begin with, or you're not allowed to take the treatment. If it fails, you may find yourself disqualified for most other trials. 3) Clinical trial: Vandy expects to have one open "next week" that would have treatment for both arms. One arm would be dacarbazine, the other arm would be dacarbazine plus something that we have to invetigate further. We would not know which arm my wife was in, but she would at least have dacarbazine. She would not be left with no treatment. This would have to be at Vandy, every three weeks, to drive up for the infusion. She may not qualify: her disease is not "measurable," except for the number of my skin lesions, which the dr. believes would total more than the 10 mm required . They are checking on eligibility. We are checking with meeting doctor/s at Emory (Atlanta) to see what they would say. Obviously, with number 2, there are quality of life issues to deal with. We want to fight, are going to fight, but the treament is pure he11. We don't even know for sure she can do the treatment. We know some who have gone through it with no response at all. You expect to be one of the ones who goes through it and it makes a big difference. And yet, life is good, very good. There is NO pain at all yet. We are enjoying our time together as much as we can. Lots to do, planning a week trip to visit my mom, who hasn't seen my wife in a number of years. Want to do that before treatment starts. Be nice, just to two of us off by ourselves for a little while. Some friends to see. Just checkin' in. Love you guys (that's male and female -- I used to live up North )

---------------- On 8/8/2005 10:27:52 AM DrWho wrote: 60 degrees as in the total angle between the speakers, here's a crappy diagram: ./ you are the dot and the lines are the angles of site to the speakers. The angle between the two lines should be 60 degrees (or if you want to think about it another way, each speaker is 30 degrees away from the center line: !/ ) ---------------- It makes a simple equalateral triangle. All three sides are the same length. Some will mix with the speakers a little closer together, but the 60 degree idea works about the best. Any further apart and even the slightest phase issues on a given track will make it hard to position tracks left to right accurately. But then those would need to get fixed anyway, right? Bruce