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I gotta admit I'm with Clu on this one. I don't talk that way, don't read material with that kind of content and see no need to. I'm not a prude, but why have it around? After the first couple of lines I exited it and have ignored it.. Marvel

Dave, That would be the coolest thing! Wish I could come, but Georgia is too far from the Dallas area. Plus we are hitting our peak at work right now, until school starts up at the end of August. Love to hear your recordings. Marvel

Dale, Most of the LS people have mentioned here are put together like this: http://forums.klipsch.com/idealbb/files/ls_k.jpg If the bottom of your doesn't come off, see if there is a cover over a the top part of the "doghouse", the section the woofer is in. If this is the case, as mentioned above, you will have to remove the horns and all to get to the woofer. Marvel

Some of the Seagull guitars are great! They are made by Lasido in Canada, one of the largest guitar makes in the world. Look here for all the brands they make: http://www.lasido.com/ They cover the full range of instruments. Another good recommendation. They also have models that are all solid woods. The ones with laminated sides aren't necessarily bad, and can also be very expensive. I almost got a Simon Patrick but ended up spending 3x more for a Taylor. After I got my first Taylor, I found they use a bolt on neck as opposed to the traditional dovetail neck joint. They are withstanding the test of time with new technology. Marvel

Clu, You are mostly right. The area of all those little diaphragms adds up to a big speaker, and each small one doesn't has to move much air by itself. Those speakers supposedly had some comb filtering effects from the multitude of drivers though. Marvel

I assume you are looking at used. Where do you live? A great place to look online, even if yo don't buy from them, is Elderly Instruments. They are in Michigan, and you can find all kinds of used instruments there. They know their stuff and price them very reasonably. http://www.elderly.com/ If you don't want a box of electronics in the side (volume, tone, preamp for built in piezo pickup), you almost have to go used now. Fender (used to be made by Yamaha) Yamaha Guild (now owned by Fender Takamine (pretty decent on some models) Kalamazoo (older guitars that were a line Made by Gibson) Epiphone (made by Gibson in the Orient, still pretty good stuff) Ovation (synthetic round back -- project great -- sounds better to the listener and not the performer -- I hate them) Tacoma (made in the US, and you can find used ones now) Washburn (I don't like them, but they have some inexpensive models) Ibanez (palayed a couple and they aren't too shabby for the dollars) Go up the ladder: Martin Taylor Gibson Larivee and lots of high end production and handmade instruments Take someone who really knows instruments. If the intonation (how accurately it frets, so the notes are true as you play up the neck) is off, you will have trouble tuning, and the songs won't sound right. If the action is too high (strings way up off the neck), it will hurt the fingers too much, the strings will stretch out of tune just in fretting the strings and you'll hate it. That is almost more important than the tone. Marvel

I had some 10k 5 watt wirewounds on my old JVC speakers. Almost no current through the resistors, and I figured it was still a load to the amp. In a former life I plugged the speaker out from a 16mm projector into the line level of the mixer I used when our church group showed movies. I figured it would work the same. the high impedance input on the mixer worked okay being driven by the low output of the proj amp (maybe 5 watts). It always worked okay, but I'm sure the eq was a little goofy from it. Marvel

fini, Go to this link: http://www.inflash.com/list.php?get_link_id=1535 Where it says play, right click and save the file to your computer. Every version I have seen is a wmv file. QT won't play it. Marvel

Most 3-4 inch pc fans only draw about .1 to .2 amps 100 - 200 ma). Almost any 12 volt DC wallwart power supply will handle this with ease. Running in open air it will make very little noise. If you have an old PC fan or PC power supply, you can get the fan. Don't go and buy one, just ask people you know if they have one you can have. I just got four that had almost no use off of some Digital Equipment workstations we were throwing out. The DEC stuff was also built like a tank, and the fans are EBM-Papst, very high quality. Marvel

Two questions: Who makes the drivers for the Heresy II series? Is anyone here from the Baton Rouge area? Thanks, Marvel

So would $200 for a pair of JBL 2482 drivers, horns and a couple of other pieces seems like a good price? Don't know if the drivers need new diaphragms or not. Marvel

It is actually a practical application. Our department is building lecterns for classrooms -- the lecterns have a PC, dvd player and VCR built in. One already built also has an amplifier. We are going to use a multiconductor cable with a MIL-SPEC connector on it so our faculty only have two things to plug in (power and i/o to the components). It won't be a long cable, but we are having to run the speaker outs on the one lectern through the snake. It has 20 gauge wire. I want to use a complete pair for each conductor for the speaker wires. Doubling the wire gives me 17 gauge, not as heavy as I would like, but certainly not as bad as it could be. For the power requirements and speaker volume needed in a classroom, I don't think the 17gauge will cause issues. As a further explanation: Ohms for 1000 ft of copper at 68 degrees F: 20 gauge 0.0008023 ohms 17 gauge 0.001609 Almost double for the gauge, but being in parallel, it may/would drop to 0.0004012 ohms I don't really think this is going to be a problem, as the overall effect on the speaker load won't really be much of an issue. Marvel

Does anyone know how to figure the effective gauge of using a pair of wires as one wire, i.e., using a twisted pair of 20 gauge as a single conductor? Using the cross sectional area of 20 gauge wire and doubling it (two wires), I get close to the same cross sectional area as a 17 gauge wire. Does this make sense? Marvel

Dave, Here's how I get pics to show inline. First I do a reply and attach a pic. Then don't post, but go back to the forum. Then reply again, and put in whatever text I want. Then I put in: img src='http://forums.klipsch.com/idealbb/files/filename.jpg' Switch to html, and enclose the above with left and right angle brackets (above comma and period). If I put in the brackets, the text will disappear. It took me a couple of tries, but it works for me. Marvel

Recording gongs and steel drums is really hard. Depending on the mic used and the mic placement, spmetomes all you get is overtones, three octaves higher than what your ears are hearing. Must have been a treat to try for something special. Marvel

The Panasonic is probably just using 12ax7 for the preamp section, similar to the tube preamps available for guitars. I cannot find it on their web site at all. Marvel

I suppose there could be control tones that the station uses to trigger events, and this is being broadcast. It should get filtered out of your receiver though. Or filtered out of theirs before it hits the transmitter. But newer equipment can pass some pretty wide bandwidth. Marvel

Dave, A friend of mine in high school ('60s), was into cars. He had a 45 rpm player in his car. I thought it was pretty neat. As I recall, the tone arm was underneath the vinyl (the record rested on the tone arm), and it tracked the grooves well considering. Marvel

Can't help with how the parts on it fit together. I've certainly taken things apart, only to have all the pieces come apart in my hands and wondered if I would ever get them back together. Perhaps someone else here can fill you in. I'm pretty adventurous myself, but would go slow if I did take it apart. Not quite sure what you mean by 'inside secton butts up against the tweeter.' The tweeter is a magnet assembly with a titanium diaphragm. This is the driver, and it mates to the horn, to provide proper loading and increases the output through acoustic coupling. Anything sticky in the horn doesn't really matter much, except it will gather dust more easily. The issue is what may or may not be on the diaphragm. If the diaphragm can be removed (I don't know about this model), it can probably be cleaned, washed, etc. and put back in. Even though it is titanium, it is very thin and could easily be damaged if not handled carefully. Marvel

I understand the "I'll get to it someday" thought. I have some tapes I made of friends, and finally got one of them redone and mixed to a CD a while back. It is just such a tedious process. No dbx on mine, and I have been pleasantly suprised at how quiet the tapes are. You should be able to snag a two channel dbx unit for a good price I would think. Marvel

R2R, What year is your Teac X-1000R? I still have my 3340S from '75. Other than the pinch roller needing to be replaced, it is in pretty good shape (the rubber has gooten hard, although it still works.) Marvel

Klipsch used the KSN1016 model. CTS has the KSN1016B listed on their pages: http://www.ctscorp.com/components/piezoelectric/piezoelectric_speakers.htm Hope this helps out Tony. Marvel

Jim, The horn can be removed from the cabinet and placed on the top -- one of the mounting options they mention. Most people probably have seen them this way. That would put the mid/high end colser to ear level instead of htting the carpet first. Marvel

It is possible you could take the tweeter assembly apart and clean it. Was the coffee straight or did is have sugar, cream in it? Even straght coffee will dry with a fairly thick residue. Would certainly change the response of the diaphragm. You would take it apart at your own risk of course, but if you are thinking of replacing it anyway, you could try that first. Marvel

I kinda like the Rosaries myself. Nice display in the coffee table! Marvel