Marvel

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

Make sure your pics aren't too large. If they are sized to be about 600 pixels wide, they should be fine. Save them as a jpg. You much attach them to a post (first), before writing any text. You can only attach one at a time (one per post). Once you get that far, we'll post how to make them "inline" where we can see them in your post and not have to open the attachment. Congrats on the speakers. Just enjoy them for a while before you go fixin' 'em. Bruce

People got used to mixing on NS-10s too. Or Altecs with no high end (made the mixes sizzle on a good system). Make CDs of your mixes and try them on MANY different systems. Friend's systems are great for this, as different folks all have different sounding systems. A friend of mine has a Digi02. I personally hate it, as IT has to be plugged in to do anything with it. The Digi Design way I suppose. You can still make great music on it. Just learn how it works. Bruce

Tom. A roller coaster? Yup, you can probably imagine. Thanks for the responses from all of you fine folks. We go to Vanderbilt on Monday to meet with another doctor. We could possibly make a trip to MDAnderson in Houston, but aren't that far along yet. Wife has been very diligent to be checked and to check herself since the first go 'round 4 1/2 yrs ago. At that time it was a single spot, and the lymph nodes were clear. Melanoma doesn't want to play by the rules that most other cancers play by. While success rates for many are in the 90% plus range, melanoma is usually 10% or less still being alive after 5 yrs. This hasn't changed over the last 15 yrs or so. This doesn't mean we won't fight it. We will/are fighting it. My wife is intelligent and has learned a lot over the past 4 1/2 yrs. She knows the right questions to ask, and is stubborn enough to keep at it until they give her answers. As I put in my first post, the victory has already been won and we know Whose care we are in. I'll be checking in here on occasion. Life hasn't totally stopped here yet. We are laughing a lot. The beast hates it! Bruce

Lightning damage? Living in Chattanooga? Who would of thought that... I've never been really impressed with Kunzel's recordings, but thanks for the lead John. We're more into Sibelius, Mahler, Berlioz, but might have to check it out. (Oops.. I only have two channel. I was getting carried away) Bruce

---------------- On 8/6/2005 4:30:39 PM djk wrote: "The space between the screen and the back wall has to be more than what the current" The THX approved JBL4675 is the most frequently found speaker in the smaller multiplex theaters. It is not much smaller in depth than an A4, about a 2" difference. ---------------- Perhaps he means behind the viewer and not the space behind the screen?

I can't thank all of you enough for the kind comments and prayers offered when I posted about my wife finding a new spot of melanoma in early July. After surgery and early tests, all seemed to be going well. However, when she went to have stitches out, she asked the surgical oncologist if he would remove acouple of other spots and have them biopsied. He obliged and they have turned out to be metastatic. More tests... CT and PET scan. A spot shows up on her pelvic bone (back of her hip). Did a bone biopsy last Friday. Met with the oncologist today and it has indeed metastisized in the bone. I won't go into the statistics. They are not encouraging at all. Needless to say, my wife is still pretty young (54) and in good health. We aren't giving up yet. There is no real cure for this, only prolonging the inevitable. More meetings and decisions to be made now. Ramble... ramble... I AM taking a break from here now. We have a lot to do, and as much as I like hanging around here, my priorities lie elsewhere. Prayers are most welcome. Good thoughts too, from those who don't believe in prayer. Just keep Barbara and I in mind. The victory has already been won. Thanks Bruce

---------------- On 8/2/2005 10:59:21 AM dgb wrote: When you guys did use tape, did you buy Radio Shack Type I tapes or TDK MA metal tapes? ---------------- I used Ampex 456, but it wasn't on a cassette deck.

---------------- On 8/1/2005 7:03:47 PM krzys wrote: Hi Marvel do you know when those new Eminence woofers started to be used ? I have 86 Cornwall's. D-man I undestand your point very well. I just wanted to confirm your source and verify the data I knew. Chris ---------------- I don't know when they atarted to use the higher powered drivers. I tried to find th eemail I received from Eminence, but can't locate it. I did find where I had sent the info on to someone else, and that was Jan of '97. > SPEC 15162 > PART # K-33 > > RE OHMS 3.39 FS HZ 34.46 > LE MH .96 MMS GMS 78.59 > QM 7.39 CMS mm/N .2714 > QE .410 RMS NS/M 2.3037 > QT .390 VAS LTRS 301.66 > XMAX MM 8.20 SD SCM 889.59 > BL TM 11.88 EBP 84.4 > EFF % 2.91 SPL dB 96.6 > Wattage 150rms