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I was just on the sinatra family website earlier today, and read through most of Nancy's online book (pain to do online). He worked his tail off. Constantly working to sell himself. Marvel

Tom, It could possibly handle both. Recordign with the XP app is most likely your problem. Go download goldwave at http://www.goldwave.com The evaluation version is fully functional for 30 days or so. It will give you greater control over the input. Marvel

Just my opinion, but I don't think those are JBL. I am pretty sure you would find JBL on them someplace. As long as you are happy with them, that is all that matters. I've got some no name equipment that I won't part with because I am happy with it. Marvel

One of my fondest high school memories was a canoe trip in Canada with my best friend in school and his parents. They were in one canoe and we were in another. We did about a ten day trip across the border from Minnesota. Sadly, the mother passed away about three weeks ago. I am going to have to miss her memorial service coming up this weekend. It's pretty neat when you love love your friend's parents as much as your own. Enjoy the time with your son, and take care. Marvel

The repair/replacement price shouldn't be too bad. Especially if you got them at a garage sale. I can't match those serial numbers with what I have from Klipsch. Is the number on a paper label and stamped into the top back edge of the cabinet? Does it have the speaker terminals on a mounting cup that says Heresy II, square mounting cup or round? It is my curiosity. The labels were gone on mine, and the numer was not stamped into the edge. I looked inside to find a dated inspection sticker. Marvel

She stopped to raise a family. Now she is recording again, so you may hear some new hits from her. Marvel

I must have had my JBL boxes for a good twenty years. Even when living in apartments, I always found someplace to stash them. I finally tossed them. Since we have been in this house for twelve years, I'm hoping I won't need to move them again. If I kept boxes for everything like that now, I would need another barn. Marvel

There is some info here on the the JBL models: http://www.lansingheritage.org/html/jbl/specs/home-speakers/home-speakers.htm Marvel

Now she's in her 60s, but in '95 she did a photo shoot for Playboy, and has the pics on her website (some are censored).

Guitar builders use a Dremel for a lot of the edge trimming and routing. Just like a big router, but a lot more control. That might make it easier for trimming down the edges. You can have a look at: http://www.stewmac.com http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Tools/Special_tools_for:_Routing.html Marvel

nixie tubes! There is a web site with lots of beautiful examples that folks have made. I think it is linked off of Gary Kauffman's tube site. Marvel

Win, The only three dollar bill that I've evern seen wasn't real, but had a pic of Bill Clinton on it. It was a joke you know? I found it humorous at the time, and to be sure, the country was out of debt at the end of his tenure as pres. Not what you are looking for but then again, who knows? Marvel

Got an email from Jim about the 730. This is ideal. Hopefully we'll be getting the payment and shipping worked out. The 430 that Invidiosulus has is a wonderful amp, and I am sure this will be the same with more power. Marvel

Bill, Thanks for the link. If I had looked at the pic, I also would have noticed it is 'twin powered'. My son has a 430, and I have plans for the 730 if I can get it. I tried to PM Jim and get an error message from the board, so I've sent an email. Thanks, Marvel

I had a friend in high school who had one of those. Cool! Also later worked with a guy who had his TEAC reel to reel tape deck in the middle of his back seat (laying down). The 15" reels of tape gave him a lot of music for long trips. Marvel

Jim, Does that model have twin power supply transformers like the 430? Could you post the specs for it (at least what you know)? I may be interested. Marvel

We had a friend who went to a certain college that teaches pottery. The school sells a lot to finance the school. My wife and I thought that their thrown stuff always looked too crude, and our firend was very offended. They did it that way because many people think it should be so if hand thrown. Not true of course. My son was able to do repeatable shapes that almost looked like they were slip cast. It's called craftsmanship.

Never had any at home, but we put some of the 101s into classrooms at the college where I work. They are okay. Last year I convinced them to get some of the Klipsch (CA-8T models, no longer made I think, but look similar to the CA-800T). They rock. The guy I talked into it was suitably impressed. Marvel

I don't think that will work. Twisting the speaker wires together as in the photo will not reduce electrical noise. Those wires are not feeding a differential input nor are they being fed by one. Twisted pair in network cables are, as are balanced mic and line circuits. Microphones can do this with a transformer but you are really doing that with the amp. Marvel

On 3 February 1990, David Zaback attempted to hold up H&J Leather & Firearms Ltd., a gun shop located in Renton Highlands near Seattle, Washington. About 4:40 p.m. that day, he entered the crowded shop and announced his intention to rob it by Gun telling everyone to put their hands on the counter and saying if anybody moved, he'd kill them. He then spotted a uniformed policeman having coffee with Wendall Woodall, the shop's owner. What happened next is less than clear in terms of who shot first, but there was an exchange of gunfire between David Zaback, the would-be robber; Timothy Lally, an 18-year veteran of the King County police force; and Danny Morris, one of the shop's clerks. Zaback, who had fired three times, was shot three times in the chest and once in the arm. He died in the hospital about four hours after the shooting. No one else was injured during the incident, and no charges were subsequently laid against Lally or Morris. The e-mailed narrative holds up as a news item for the most part, but some of its elements have been altered to make for better storytelling. Upon seeing the officer, the would-be robber announced a hold-up, and fired a few wild shots from a .22 target pistol. The officer and a clerk promptly returned fire, the police officer with a 9mm Glock 17, the clerk with a .50 Desert Eagle, assisted by several customers who also drew their guns, several of whom also fired. Although the Darwinized account presents the encounter in the humorous light of a hapless robber waving a pop gun being felled in a hail of bullets by a mass of heavily-armed gun shop patrons, that wasn't precisely the way of it. Zaback's weapon was a .38-caliber semiautomatic pistol, not the .22 target pistol of the e-mailed account. The clerk, Morris, fired a 10mm semiautomatic pistol, not a .50 Desert Eagle, and the policeman, Lally, fired a 9mm semiautomatic pistol. As for the participation of others, according to Renton police Capt. Don Persson, although several other customers had guns and pulled them, they did not shoot the only ones involved in the exchange of lead were Zaback, Lally, and Morris. The robber was pronounced dead at the scene by Paramedics. Crime scene investigators located 47 expended cartridge cases in the shop. The subsequent autopsy revealed 23 gunshot wounds. Ballistics identified rounds from 7 different weapons. It's unclear how many shots were fired, in part because some of the suspect's shots struck ammunition on a counter, causing the ammunition to explode. "There were slugs all over that place," Persson said. As for Zaback, he died with four wounds in him, one in the arm and three in the chest, not the 23 wounds claimed in the colorized account. Yet one item of the Darwinized version one would otherwise suspect to have been the product of overwriting does indeed hold up: Renton police Capt. Don Persson said, "The surprising thing is that the man had to walk right past a marked police car to get in the front door."

Dean, What about the HIIs? Mine sound very smooth as is, more so with the modded ST-70. Could be the ST-70 has no high end. Marvel

I didn't think he was really being anti-Klipsch. We all have opinions don't we? Marvel

A friend of mine had some that he always had out from the corners about three or four feet. They still sounded good (in their own way). Marvel

---------------- On 4/11/2005 3:39:33 PM TBrennan wrote: Rock music needn't be loud by nature. How loud do you think Chuck Berry could'a been with a couple of small Fender amps for him and his bassplayer and the vocals going through some Shure columns? ---------------- Those were the days, Tom. Setup was a LOT easier then too. Marvel

I just taught my kids to leave the stereo equipment alone. The only thing that ever happened was my daughter pushed on the fabric of one of my JBLs and dented the dustcover/dome on the tweeter. We couldn't hear any difference, so we left it. The boys never touched them at all.