Dave A

My Dad moved to Westminster in 1981. Loved the weather and retired with enough money he did not have to worry and a house he owned free and clear. Before he died 8 years ago he told me how fast the whole area was going downhill compared to when he moved there. Crime, traffic PC correct interference in every aspect of your life. He had fruit trees in his yard and the other culture people would just go and take what they wanted and I saw that in person. He told me later that the city advised people NOT TO PLANT TREES THAT WOULD BE A TEMPTATION TO OTHERS!!!! The whole state is so screwed up by the big cities. My brother moved out there in 1982 and now has three houses one in Palmdale, Ridgecrest and Dad's old house. He was here for a visit last fall and one of his first comments was "do you have a homeless problem here"? I laughed and told him no that is a psycho CA political thing and we don't do that here. LA is rapidly becoming a third world nation along with San Fran with pockets of extreme wealth surrounded by poop and crime. I saw a video of people just walking in and stealing stuff because the state passed a law where less than $950 theft is not a felony now and in truth they rarely get in trouble or spend time in jail. Societal breakdown is full speed ahead out there is going to accelerate rapidly and you don't want to be tied down in any way. I would rent to and take into account all the utter crap you will have to deal with and expect to earn a TON of money for being there. Do not get tied down to that state with a mortgage. I worked on a job out there in 1984 and it was a great place. Watched the decline and after Dad died I don't think I have any reason to go back to a place that is not recognizable. I am a free man here in Tennessee and that is worth much more than weather and beaches. My state is passing constitutional right to carry and in CA illegals can carry and shoot and no jail time but don't you do that. Everything is backwards and CA is being used as a giant petrie dish for social engineering to overthrow a stable society and replace it, I guess, with Venezuala. Money is a lot of things but not everything and you can sure give up a lot to pursue it. I would have to earn at least triple what I did in TN to have a house and forget the spring fed gravity flow water, 56 acres of woods and pasture with lots of critters and no crime and no one to tell me what I have to do all day every day. Chicago is right behind CA and so is NY. They offer you these big wages because they know you have no idea what the true living costs are until you go there and get roped in or so they hope. I have a different attitude than many about where to live. I have lived in the country for over 30 years now and can't conceive living stacked up on top of each other with neighbors who won't say high buy will call the cops for code violations like a shed 1' to close to a property line.

Crossover points on MCM-1900's are 400 and 6000. I cross my S-MWM over at 450.

There is a difference in best at saving the companies bacon and best at stellar sound. I would drive a fair distance to hear the biggest Cinema system Klipsch currently has in a stereo environment and would be interested in hearing other pro gear. I have to admit the CW4 and H4 was a revelation though still not a Jube or better. Not even close.

Same thing here. I can sit right in the best spot for the best sound but working in front of a worktable all the way to one side of the room still gives me great sound and perceivable stereo separation.

yeah but I can't fit 8g jumper wire under the board.

Are those ear buds in front of real speakers? I had an old 2.1 set of computer speakers from Klipsch that sounded pretty darned good if you sat right in front of them and I mean close. But they did not sound big. Just a different world that gimmicks can't overcome.

It's all relative. When your system is basically made to play 600 seat venues you can get way to loud way to easily.

OK explain to me how electricity knows to avoid something that is still there?

On these crossovers I would like to know if there is any reason to leave the components being jumped over on the circuit board. It just seems to me with my lack of real understanding about electronics that if I am going to jump over a coil but still leave it in the circuit I am not really entirely removing the coils influence on the circuit. Would it not be better to just remove the various items being bypassed?

Now all you need are some good single fold bass bins.

Uh well no we are not. Sometimes yes sometimes no but mostly no to above 80-85db anymore. I know I can bust my ear drums but why? I have DB nuts come over and I put hearing protection on and let it rip. On my own no.

You better believe it. More and more I listen to classical and the detail goes away when things get louder. Now I will make an exception for pipe organs as a little seat vibration on deep bass notes can be required. I played a Hendix song for some visitors the other day. Voodoo Child, the long quieter version, and these guys had never heard all the talking at the end of the song and actually following the voices right to left as people left.

No joke and that is why if it is for sale from me on this list and there is no interest expressed beforehand I won't be bringing it. For a three day event the amount of gear showing up to listen to and swap/buy/trade is sailing quickly past what three days can handle. Add in the time we all want to spend with Chris and it is not enough.

+ for MCM-1900 although I have only heard the three way. Nothing else Klipsch I have heard comes close. The only set of KP-600's I have heard were loud and muddy and no where near the fidelity of the MCM. If space was an issue the Jubilee is a fine speaker. Never heard palladiums but all the rest of Klipsch takes a back seat to the MCM's and Jubes. I assume the new Klipsch Cinema high end gear is better than MCM's but don't know this.

Fraud is on EBay which is a bit of a different thing than you suffered under. I am a gemstone cutter so I know what I am looking at. I type in Blue Zircon for the heck of it on an EBay search tonight and get this. 100% complete and total fraud and you can see the side of the man made boule. Turned this one in and will be interested to see what happens. I have done this before and listings stayed up when they had a ton of sales. I guess if you make enough money for EBay they let your fraud slide by. Buyer beware and there are things I wont buy on line but only in person or not at all. A beginning facetor would buy this never knowing. https://www.ebay.com/itm/195-0-Ct-Natural-Certified-Blue-Zircon-Rough-Diamonds-VVS-Loose-Gemstones-R-925/264653662952?hash=item3d9e966ae8:g:ocQAAOSwdzZePnZe

On a serious note now the science of Audio undergoes rapid advancement at times and I am thrilled to bring news of a profound new developement. https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/grounding-boxes-what-is-inside-them https://www.monoandstereo.com/2015/11/interesting-ground-box-project.html

Frame the tops and sell the artwork to some Hollyweird nut and make the big bucks.

The resilience of America is pretty amazing but the stories of Argentina and Venezuala show the end result of ignoring basic economic principles. They happened to do bad things in different areas than we are but the end result if things don't change will be the same over time. Dutch Tulip Bulbs come to mind. Mises is correct Ponzi is not. Same speculative frenzy as one in the early 1900's before they all started jumping out of windows proves it can happen here..

You got that right. A real untampered high grade Emerald or Sapphire, Alexandrite or Ruby is harder to come by than any Diamond.

Why yes you can with a remote camera!! SAOTWU

During times of inflation this is a two edged sword that makes businesses bleed. Your customers don't have as much disposable income for luxuries since necessities cost more. So you absorb expenses to try to keep buyers coming and eventually you do have to raise prices. The crap shoot is will the product line survive. But yes between postage and raw material increases there will be price increases coming from many. Capital gains from the stock market will pay for it all though so I am not worried.

Of course they are here to stay and one day they might be based on dividends too. Never said they were going away I said they were heading for big time trouble. If no one can calculate the values of all that is going on with derivitives and instant cash creation by sales of stock and no limits placed on what is done and how what will control it all from collapse?

Remember when back in the dark ages many years ago, say the mid 90's when stocks were a wise buy only because they had good dividends? Remember this historical norm said capital gains was the icing on the cake and dividends were what you planned your retirement around? Yes there has been a ton of money made riding capital gains and the money is not fictional but the premise that capital gains is the only and best and new normal way to make money is seriously flawed in so many ways. It is what sent jobs overseas as MBA's figured out new ways to run stock shares up. Funny how dividends disappeared during this same time. I thought the market was grossly over priced at 18,000 and it is so far out in fantasy land now it is ludicrous. All this new found wealth that goes into banks and funds and is created from thin air and not as a reflection of real income earned by better and more production and rewarding stock holders from profits from production does not exist. So we have this giant ponzi scheme where Google is worth how much and pays what dividends. How about Apple, Microsoft, GM, Ford or any other company out there. It is a world wide crap shoot by well heeled money manipulators most of whom will escape when it gets bad. However the regular Joe who has been suckered into all this and has all his wealth tied up in there for retirement will one day see it all go away. Something that does not earn money in ways other than fraud can't and wont survive to long and the fall will be terrible to see. I figure it will be super high inflation first as all these ecommerce minted dollars are not controlled by the Fed or governments but do come into the market with no backing in the form of goods produced or taxes raised to back new printed currency from the USA and the end result, as it always is when too many dollars chase a finite amount of real goods, is inflation. Tell me this is not happening right now when you go shopping. Everything I use in my company is going through the roof and endmills that were $55 last year are $78 now. Enjoy it while you can and be ready for when this monumental fraud fails. Buffet can wait a few years for the collapse and with that kind of cash in hand what will he buy for fire sale prices? Either he has lost his touch or he see's what is coming down the pike but just can't predict the exact moment. I think he see's what is coming.

OK but what starts the cascade is human and then automated panic takes over.