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My Academy sits on top of my subwoofer, which places it at the same elevation as the horns on the Fortes. 52" Sharp Aquos LCD is mounted on the wall, directly above the Academy/sub.

as far as I know, Frzinvt's approach would just insert the .pdf icon into your .ppt file - meaning there would be a 'clickable" icon there. if you want the actual image inserted into the .ppt, try this: open the .pdf image. crop out the area you want (or to eliminate the white edge) - then "save as .jpg" then insert the .jpg version into your .ppt presentation.

do they look like these: http://www.atsacoustics.com/ or like these: http://www.realtraps.com/products.htm scanning in a picture would really help.

you gotta be kidding - this isn't even snake oil for interconnects - it's a power cord? I can't see how it moves electrons any more better. besides, what kind of wire is the electricity flowing in before it gets to the wall outlet? before it gets to your circuit breaker panel? upgrading the last 3 feet of conductor is a joke.

the AMT product was a "model car" offered for sale as a tie-in to the show. He drove a real 1965 Sunbeam Tiger in the show, which was actually his, as his contract stipulated that he got to keep the car used to shoot the credits. They used a Sunbeam Alpine (the four-cylinder version of the same body style) in lots of the stunts, as it was easier to get the other goodies under the hood (like the rocket launcher, etc.) I can speak from experience - with a 289 shoe-horned into the front of my 1967 Tiger II, there was very little room for anything else - in order to change the two rear spark plugs, you'd pull rubber plugs out of the fire wall to access them... it dynoed ~320 HP, did a 13.1 quarter mile - without positraction, leaving a single black mark was very easy. got 24 mpg on the highway loafing along. with the light weight and lots of torque, you could slowly let the clutch out at idle and not stall. 2nd or 3rd gear starts in the wet. but, way too fast for a 21-year old Navy ensign. 20/20 hindsight does not agree, though.

yes, and I wish I could have both. Tiger got sold in 1988 to fund the downpayment on my first house. At today's prices, it could now pay for the first year or two of college for my daughter...

and a view from the door on the right side, looking in. media closet on far side also holds equipment. mirror on wall shows me and a flash ;-) dog bed holds Cara Mia, a mixed breed (pit/boxer/?). couch holds George, #1 of 5 cats in paw display mode

A view looking in from the sliding door...

2005 Subaru Legacy GT Wagon. 5-spd manual. 54,000 miles in 2.5 years. first Subaru that could get out of it's own way, with 250 HP / 250 ft-lbs torque. very fun, great in the snow. but, my favorite of all time was the 67' Sunbeam Tiger II. built 289, solid lifter cam, holley 650, headers, accel dual point. the funny thing is that the Subaru is almost as fast as the Tiger, stops faster, holds lots more, and with 6 airbags, is much safer....

maybe 5 quartets? not that you see that many of those around. I've got 4 fortes, an academy, and a big SVS sub in a 14' x 15' room. it helps to have all the gear in an adjacent medial closet. it made the room even bigger to dump the 36" CRT TV and hang a 52" LCD on the wall. seeing as there isn't much going on in the corners, I think you could put bigger speakers in each, and not feel too cramped. but it will be very cozy for more than 2-3 viewers/watchers.

in the requested footprint size, I'd think the Forte or Forte II is the choice for the Klipsch product best suited to "rocking out". not that I'm biased or anything. but I'd take the Forte over the Heresys any day. and agree, Cornwalls for jazz / classical. but Forte for rock.

My TV is mounted on the wall. My center channel sits on top of my subwoofer, which places it at the same height as the horns on my Fortes.

How about buying some panels from http://www.atsacoustics.com/ ? I saw these mentioned somewhere else in this forum, and am about to spend a few $ with them in an attempt to tame some room brightness in my HT. Any other members have experience with ATS?

Welcome aboard. off the top of my head, it sounds like it will be very tight to fit 5 recliners in that space, and the screen size seems like overkill. I've got a 52" LCD in a 14' x 15' room, sit ~ 9' back from it, and it is big enough - doubling it might be out of control, not that that is a bad thing. We've got a leather club chair and a leather sofa comfy for 3-4 adults in there, so maybe 5 recliners isn't such a push. Where will the rest of the components be housed? (i.e., receiver or preamp/amp, DVD, CD, etc)? Think about building them into an alcove in the new wall, that way they won't take up floor space. the next question is budget - you could go for the THX ultra 2 at the high end, a nice floorstanding option built around the RF series, or book shelf. My thought is that in the space you have, THX ultra 2 is way too much. A mid-size floorstanding speaker system would likely fill that space at all acceptable sound levels. Rear effects will be an issue with the seats 1' from the back wall - I think it would work out better to move the seating forward a bit, reduce the screen size, and give the rear speakers a little more breathing room... And start considering some wall treatments to cut down on echo/reflections.

Oppo 981 - best deal going, with best PQ

I've likely got similar issues, with 4 fortes in a 14' x 15' room, door to the kitchen on the right side, door to the media closet on the left, and a 8' x 8' glass sliding door on the back wall. there is a large leather couch and chair in the room, an area rug down, but not much else (well, a dartboard, a few plants, a large cactus, and some other asst stuff). So, where to start with "treatments" ? Would I go to far wrong with 4 corner "traps" like these - http://www.realtraps.com/tri-corner.htm? and maybe some of their other small ones on the walls? thanks,

I'll jump in with an offering of low cost used - I have a circa 1985 Adcom GFT-1 AM/FM tuner, in the box. I bought the GFT-1, a GFP-1 pre-amp and a GFA-1A 200 wpc amp. $25 + shipping would be great. Anyone interested in the others, let me know. thanks,

no offense taken with respect to Lisa - just because I'm giving some background on her plight does not mean I'm defending her. Besides, between the diapers and the worst mug shot since Nick Nolte got busted, there is a lot to laugh at. I just didn't think a couple of wackos over the years means that there is any pattern to beware of at the Naval Academy. The kids there are the patriots I was defending - they have nothing to do with any current wackos. If I thought that, then the pattern I'd worry about would start with Carter and lead through Webb, with a detour around Poindexter and North (fyi, Poindexter's son was my roommate). Most pilots have big egos, some are dorks. Doesn't mean they don't have a reason to have big egos, to go along with the big brass ones it takes to land planes on moving targets. And seeing as astronauts come from the ranks of pilots, they may peak out. Plus, getting through test pilot school makes them even more pompous. From knowing a bunch of pilots, and a few classmates and folks ahead of me that made astronaut; I'd rather hang out with pilots - they are a lot more fun. nuff said. all is well. at least we don't have to use french rockets...

I think you can hold off on your "pattern diagnoses." That is a pretty broad brush to paint a group of patriots with - and yes, it is personal, as I am one of them. Any school or organization can harbor individuals with hidden psychological issues - for Lisa, they seem to have been hidden for at least 21 years, which I think exempts the Naval Academy for doing poor screening. The only other incident that comes to mind was back in 1998, when a female midshipman (Diane Zamora) was convicted of helping her fiance, an Air Force Academy cadet, kill a high school lover, which I think happened before either of them started at their respective academies. They were both kicked out and are both still in jail. Lisa Caputo married Rick Nowak - both of them classmates of mine at USNA. Both very nice people. I think Lisa lost it after achieving a lifetime goal of flying in space, then realizing she would never go into space again. She was also heavily involved in supporting the family of Laurel Clark, also a naval officer, who was lost on the Columbia crash (along with another US Naval Academy graduate, the pilot Willie McCool). The relationship she had with the other naval officer was likely an offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice - either under the adultery or Conduct Unbecoming an Officer clauses. The sad part is she cratered a lifetime of acheivement, and I can't even imagine her relationship with her teenage son or twin daughters - as prior to the arrest, she had separated from her husband.

Saw the Bismark special. There have been a couple other good ones on Discovery... I did the Gitmo thing a few times. What we called "RefTra" (refresher training). I now work with civil, chemical and environmental engineers - my company manages Superfund sites all over the country.

I think they all would work well with any reciever - these are all very efficient speakers, meaning you get a lot of sound with very few watts of input. the Forte would top my list, because it is a 3-way speaker, and has a slightly lower low end frequency cut off. Which may not matter to you if you have or will be getting a sub-woofer. But I have 4 of them, so I am biased. after that, the other three on your list are 2-way speakers. I have not heard them, but would pick the KG5.5, then the RF-25, then the SF-3. Any of them should sound much better than what you have. One thing to consider as you shop for used Klipsch - Do you plan to build this into a surround sound system? If so, then you should consider how hard/easy it will be to find compatible center and rear / side speakers.

Welcome to the board. check out http://www.abesofmaine.com/viewproduct~id~shlc52d62u.htm - 25% cheaper on the Sharp Aquos than Best Buy or Circuit City - they are actually in Edison, NJ. That was wife #1. Wife #2 and I now believe in glass tops for all plant applications - get them cut at a local place. good for all wood surfaces, including the new coffee table. this is a great site. I love the fact that the common theme is Klipsch, no matter what level you have. You'll get advice for your application/budget. I lurked here for years trying to figure out what I needed to do to upgrade from an KV-2 center and KG.5s surrounds. Sold both to other forum members. Got the Academy on here through a member. Got the second set of Fortes through e-bay. The funny thing on those was my first paypay did not cover shipping price. That seller went for it anyhow, then e-mailed me saying - "I looked you up (I used my work e-mail, and my bio is on our web site), and once I saw that you were a USNA grad, I knew you'd be good for the balance." Turns out he flew F-4s for the Air Force during Vietnam. I spent 3 years on the USS IOWA, then 3 years teaching ensigns how to do their job. If you look real close at my avatar, you'll see me sitting in Sky 1 - the steel cube with the radar dish on it above the bridge, between the 2 CIWS systems. My GQ job was as a 5" battery director officer - meaning I got to sit there with a pair of calibrated binocs, and adjust the shots onto the target, then call for "fire for effect." Ah the old days, when I could parallel park a 886' long, 55,000 ton ship.

wow - check out the before and after pictures. makes me think of the Nick Nolte mugshots. Looks way wacked out. she wasn't that crazy when I knew her 20 years ago at the Naval Academy. she graduated near the top of our class in Aeronautical Engineering, went through flight school, has a masters in engineering, made Captain in the US Navy, successful astronaut, etc. I feel sorry for her - hell of a way to crash and burn her career, both in NASA and in the Navy. She'll be very unhappy in jail, assuming she doesn't make some kind of psycho- excuse. But I feel sorriest for her three kids and husband.

Fortes are known to not be weak in the lows. Go used, then keep them. spend the rest of your budget on other toys, whether it be camera or additional audio/video. I say this after buying one set of Fortes and an Academy used - both ended up being in better shape than my original Fortes (guess the prior owners wife did not insist on putting plants on top of their speakers...)

Maybe you should bite the bullet and get some Fortes off e-bay or this forum. I replaced JBL L112s back in 1986 with my first set of Fortes. They have been with me through an apartment, a condo, US Navy base housing, another apartment, and 4 houses. I've always been able to find room for them. Up until the advent of HT, they were music only - any until LFE associated with 5.1 sound came around, I never thought that Fortes needed anything to go lower, as bottoming out at 32 Hz always seemed enough for music repro purposes. And they were so efficient, that I did not need a big amplifier. Except I already had an Adcom GFA-1A, a lovely 200 wpc cube of power, which seemed to make the Fortes very happy. Since then, I've worked into 5.1, but always based around those original Fortes. Now I have two sets, plus an Academy, a sub, and a 52" LCD. Everything fits into my small media room (~14' x 15'). If your apartment is really small, maybe you should consider going small - like promedia 5.1, or something like that - for the time being. But I think you should/could find a way to fit Fortes. Plus, by buying used, you give some Klipsch a worthy home, and don't have to pay retail.