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We have about three acres, mostly heavy shade. The former owners would treat the yard to get the ph right, sow seed every year and then mow all summer. Made no sense to me (or the wife). We let the grass die off. Now we have a beautiful yard with different varieties of moss. It's soft, mostly green, and doesn't require mowing. I now have much less to mow, only where the yard gets plenty of sun. Marvel

I think the problem here is just what PWK was concerned about. When you (the company) aren't building them, you don't know just what the quality is. I am remembering a poster here who had a bunch of drivers and wanted to build some LS cabinets to see how the LS would sound. Excuse me, but as soon as you use different components than Klipsch, you still don't knwo what it should sound like. That would be like me showing off my Dynaco ST-70, now with a new driver board, different power supply and a different power transformer. It is no longer a Dynaco, so the listener doesn't know what a genuine ST-70 is like. Plus, it gets to be very subjective anyway. What was the phrase? If it sounds good, it is good. Now... back to our regularly scheduled bickering. Marvel

You could probably box up the Fortes and put them on the roof. I think the T&C normally comes with a liggage rack. I'd do it if I had to.

Which model of T&C? Don't the seats on the newer ones fold down all the way? How much room front to back is clear space? We used to have one, but downsized a couple of years ago. Remove the seats in the rear. I was thinking that you take the tops off the Horns, and you can place them on their fronts, going across the car. That makes just over 5 feet front to back. The fortes could go on their sides across the width, and stacked. One more foot. I think the tops will fit in somewhere. Maybe the Fortes along each side of the car next to the horns bass bins and the tops in the back. Plus plenty of packing material/soft things to go around them. Then there's the luggage. Marvel

Maron, The only 950 they have on their website is the 950PB, and only goes to 500Hz. It and the 850 both have a much more extended high end than other drivers I've seen charts for. I wonder if they are true? Marvel

---------------- On 4/28/2005 10:01:53 AM sunnysal wrote: leo was MAKING tripath chip based amps before TEAC ever heard of tripath...he knows the subject. tony ---------------- Tony, With all due respect, to you and to Leo, I would suspect that a company like TEAC is working on things long before they ever come to market with a product. Large ships turn slowly. They have the resources, but the little guys can move faster. Marvel

Maron, Do you know anyone who has used any of the Fostex wooden horns? Their H400 (1: thoat) is about $470. You have to go to their H200 for a 2" throat, with a 240Hz cutoff. (They show 240kHz on their pdf, LOL). Marvel

Michael, I think CapnBob means that John's speakers should be swapped left/right for better imaging. My Alesis nearfields are two ways, and Alesis says should have the tweeters towards the middle if used in the horizontal position. They say you get better stereo imaging that way. Common sense would have you put the tweeters on the outside so the spread would be wider. My nearfields are only about two feet apart. Marvel

Welcome to the forum. Can't you pull the crossover out of the good one to see what the values are? Or call Klipsch to find out. Trey, can you post the schematic for the crossover? Marvel

The original owner certainly did a nice job building them. I had a friend who had gotten a pair. Plain plywood. They still sounded pretty good, although he had his out from the corners about four feet. Marvel

Yup, mine are the black ones as well. My son bought them for me as a preent. I like them a lot. They are wonderful with my Formerly Dynaco. Marvel

Kiny Friedman and the Texas Jewboys. My son was in a brass quintet that called themselves Weapons of Brass Destruction"

You need to brush up on your Photoshop skills if you ever want to work for the National Enquirer.

Those are mine! Oh, wait a minute, no, mine don't have the Klipsch name plate on the grills. Nice. Marvel

If I liverd closer.... Nah, the wife wouldn't go for it. Marvel

I'm thinkin' he thought he should grab them before the price went up. Marvel

It's highly unlikely that they made their own. Most just sourced their drivers from a major player. Marvel

I don't know who posted the info originally, but I made a pdf of some 1980 prices. And the prices are for each, not a pair. Marvel 1980_prices.pdf

1BB, You might want to find a cabinet shop in your area and see if you can connect with their supplier. Most of the time, the large places like Lowe's, HD, Menard's, won't have a consistent supply of good wood and the cost is higher for what you do get. I have used some 11-ply birch from HD before, and it was pretty good, although a little pricey. The layers alternated between thick (1/8") and thin (maybe 1/64"). There are 5 thick layers and 6 thin ones. It is veneer core, where the outside is birch, the inside is ... ? The coolest I found was sheets of Virola, from South America, very plain grain, similar to Mahogany (no burl, curl, flame, etc) and it had all the layers the exact same thickness. We got a couple sheets of that at HD also, but they haven't had it since. It was 13 layers. The edges look absolutely beautiful.

Hi Dave, Welcome to the forum. What they may have seen are the plans by Speakerlab, which made a clone of the Klipschhorn, the corner horn to which you refer. Are you looking for these for a library patron, or to build them yourself? Some of the members here have built from the Speakerlab plans and some have reverse engineered the Klipsch model itself. I have a CD that one of the members here sent me with just about all details on the construction, but he would have to allow me to send a copy on or send one himself. Last time I checked with Speakerlab, the plans were still available from them, although they didn't list them on their website. Marvel

This is a picture of where I work, although this was taken in 1948. It was a hotel, and is located on top of Lookout Mnt, GA. In the background you can see off into Alabama. It looks a bit different now, with other buildings around it. They called it the "Castle in the Clouds", the Lookout Mountain Hotel. Now it houses dorm rooms and administraive offices for Covenant College. Here is a shot that is more recent. The son of a faculty member took it while hang gliding. We have a world class hang gliding facility a few miles south on the nountain.

These guys are in the Southeast: http://www.hardwoodgroup.com/ For anyone over my way looking for good prices and selection.

There is a space between picture and 51. You'll get the hang of it. Nice lamp too! Marvel

If the adhesive is thin enough, like some CA types, it would just flow along the cracks and make it more stable. That would be pretty invisible as well. Marvel

I've finally gotten out to check on prices for birch ply (and others) in my area (Chattanooga). I found a place with very nice folks, who have an 11-ply birch for $35 a sheet (3/4" 4x8). It's not Baltic Birch, but another import. Has almost no grain pattern, so it is very plain. 5/8" 4x8 Meranti (mahogany species)veneer core for $30. Seems to be pretty good prices. They have all kinds of great stuff. So much better quality and cheaper than Loewe's of HD. Getting close to starting a cabinet project. Along with my plans, my son wants to build new cabs for his Heresys. Marvel