Dave A

I am looking for someone who has the new La Scala II's somewhere close to southern middle Tennessee. I would like to come and measure the horn lens and the cut out in the motorboard. Apparently these are a different animal and require a different size horn lens. PM me please if you can help or know someone who can.

You mean you did not like my cheesy side fill speakers?

Talking to the guy helping me load last week and he said that they have a stack of 1/4" cover sheets about four foot tall each week from all the skids of Baltic they sell. He said they sell the heck out of it and most goes to speaker cabinets and the thinner material goes into high quality cabinetry. For people who want the very best. They are not the only seller of Baltic in the Nashville area either so who knows how many custom cabinets are built in Music City each and every week.

I hear patience is virtue. Rome was not built in a day. The watched pot never boils. Haste makes waste. Fools leap in where angels measure twice cut once.

Here ya go OD😀

How many days of MDF now OD?🤣

Two steps closer.

I get that but those would be Mylars or motor start right? My understanding is those are not so good.

No you don't. They are most certainly out of spec. Even when new would not have measured as good as those Sonicaps.

As noted in various places those DE120's do need to break in. When they are you will know because it goes from a bit strident to musical. I normally leave them on for a day and a half at moderate volumes and it eems most the breakin gets done by then.

Still MAHL but followed by Machined Walnut or Red Oak. You can say MAHL but not MWHL or MROHL so it is what it is. Probebly will change it to MHL before I get a web site going since MAHL is pretty specific.

Ask here for forum members close to you that have vintage speakers you can listen to. Listening to speakers first is a great idea. I would not touch cabinet damaged Forte III's under any circumstance. There are two pairs of Forte I's for sale right now on Craigslist near you for $800 and $700. Probably get them for less and they would make great speakers for a first buy. They are close enough to go listen to also.

This thread will get to 100 pages easy now.

It is great to enjoy my morning cup of coffee and my chuckle for the day as I get ready to go work on speaker stuff. I raise my coffee cup to you Coytee!

Oh I agree with Bob entirely and those Sonicaps are as fancy as I will ever get. I check things out with the same meter Bob uses for capacitance and inductance and believe good measuring caps do the trick not the amount you spend. I am just having fun with OD talking about things from a lofty perch again. I doubt highly OD is the least bit concerned with beginners and how they spend money. If he truly was this whole thread would have entirely different comments from all sides. He is here to pontificate not to have a meaningful discussion.

Please I don't mean to be rude but should be "Isn't he a noted authority around here".

You like train wrecks as much as the next guy don't you?

The term you are looking for is theater of the absurd. It is free entertainment and how can you not want to see the latest absurdity? "Audio connoisseur fixation", a phrase I can chuckle over for some time considering the source.

I just love your phraseology. Audio connoisseur fixation. Very Freudian. I take it capacitors would be another area you have no practical experience in?

Gosh you are even a grammar cop in addition to all the rest! So basically you swallow it hook line and sinker? Unknown speaker types are valid test beds? Am I assuming this correctly both in thought and grammar?

I was not taught this but I believe it and the more complexity you can eliminate the better off you are. As I finish up the S-MWM's this coming week I have to use a xilica for time alignment and have to enter into the world of more to get the good sound I seek and read about. Being a minimalist can mean you miss some things you felt were not necessary and this journey of yours is of interest to me. You don't know what you don't know and each step up is an eye opener.

Oh wow you mean that? "Safe to assume there were plenty of Klipsch or other horn speakers in the mix" infers we are to believe the conclusions without knowing what we are concluding from. And that settles the debate for you? That is what you wrote you know. Thanks for another day where entertainment starts before I even fill the wood stove. I don't use MDF though as it does not even burn well.

Yeah they might not. So when are you and your Huskies going to sled over there? Tell you what if he would wait for summer I would go in a heart beat and ride the Cumbres and Toltec narrow guage.

All horn setups are better. The problem is the size you need to dig deep in bass.

Well they use them in train stations and bus terminals and the vagrants love them. Are you saying the vagrants don't know what they are talking about? Who are you to judge them? If you can't walk a mile in their shoes then you have no right to opine on amps.