Colin

low powered, but quality watts and THD are excellent matches for ultra efficient horns, menaing tubes and vintage SS amps

http://cgi.ebay.com/USED-1970S-HARMON-KARDON-TWIN-POWERED-RECEIVER-930-/360253488714?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Vintage_Electronics_R2&hash=item53e0c7fe4a there are a few twin powered 730s and 430s there also

wonderful combination, when dialed in properly! read this: http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/equipment/0405/acititan.htm the peak of the sub is close to where the LaScalas roll off

I did this. http://www.enjoythemusic.com/senselessrambling/ " In fact, the two systems pose the dilemma of our acoustic age: The small $179, inefficient but warm, boom box speakers with $1500 of clean front-end electronics versus the old and efficient, $500 used Cornwalls, powered by $179 of forgiving boom box." "Now the bad news: I will say that both combinations impressed me. They made me seriously consider the amount of spare change I keep adding to my sound system. As it is set-up now, my system reflects the law of diminishing returns: I keep investing more and more, yet get less and less dramatic sound improvements. Big, old horns warmed by a tube pre-amp from a plateau of power." " In fact, as I think this over, the impression I was left with was that with the cheap boom box front end, the listener hears the melody and the lyrics as the fore front of the sound. While with my total system, the listener hears the individual instruments up front; the melody and the singer become just another titillating part of the overall music." Unlike my front-end electronics when powering the Sony speakers, the pianos appear on the Klipsch/boom box combination. Horns sang out as if they had just been added to the sound track. The high end tinkled like delicate Christmas crystal. My notes say" you could buy a boom box for your Cornwalls and save thousands of dollars!" Nothing magical, but not fatiguing either. There was no need for a long evaluation as the differences were clearly apparent. Speakers are the only bargain in audio. Buy the biggest and best.

district 10? great idea!

big question is which drivers? then next big question will be which crossovers? which bass bin, etc. see how it is?

beautiful, need updated system profile

he is meant to look incompetent

yup. the measuremenmt is standard

You have to decide what your time and money is worth. Look at 2002 data: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EKF/is_23_48/ai_87015253/?tag=content;col1 Do you want to pay $1 or $20/hr to have your goods made? If 40% of the goods we consume in our high-energy lifestyle come from China, and 1/3 of our household budget is consumption, then switching to U.S. only goods could be very expensive! For you. If labor is 1/3 of the cost of producing an item, say the economist’s classic widget, then a $3 widget from China could cost as much as $23 here in the U.S. For households with a fixed amount of money to spend on widgets, that means they can afford SEVEN times less U.S. widgets! From China, that means we purchase less: Electrical machinery & equipment Power generation equipment Toys & games Apparel Furniture Iron & steel (industries very damaging to the local environment) Footwear & parts Plastics & articles Leather & travel goods Vehicles other than railway Chinese power generation equipment may not matter to most people, but for specific families, buying only U.S. goods means receiving not a choice of seven widgets, but just one; only one game, or a shirt or a pair of shoes. Certainly not all three or all seven of such widgets. Is it any wonder that the strongest empires on the planet always choose to purchase their goods from weaker, lower labor cost countries? Romans, British, Spanish and French; the colonization of trade was about cheap imports.

The Academy Award-winning documentary Born Into Brothels score was composed by John McDowell, leader of the group Mamma Tongue. The vocals, for instance, are shared by Kirtan-chant specialist Krishna Das (born Jeffrey Kagel) and Sabina Sciubba, the Italian-German singer of the New York-based band Brazilian Girls. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000BPUXNI/internetmoviedat/ The enticing chant that closes the film is “Gopala,” Das, a musician originally hailing from New York. Das is an accomplished singer in the Kirtan style of chanting (invoking the name of god multiple times). Used by many religions throughout India, Kirtan is one of the oldest forms of meditation whose origins trace back over 500 years. "Gopala" is another name for Krishna, an incarnation of Lord Vishnu. Krishna is called "Gopala" because of his childhood adventures as a cow herder. The name comes from "GO" which means "cow," and "PALA" which is the verb for caretaking, so Gopala is "CARETAKER OF THE COW."

I have been meaning to recommend “District 9” since I saw this awesome science-fiction thriller. I loved the costumes and plot. I especially liked the shift from documentary to action, with the transformation that occurs. I think it is one of the best sci-fi movies in a long time. The disparaging look at the treatment of the aliens in the refugee camps is particularly intelligent twist to the movie. Of course that treatment is the premise for why the plot twist works. “District 9” is certainly more original than “Avatar.” Although the 3D effects are wonderful, ‘Avatar” is “Dances with Wolves” meets “Star Wars.” While wildly successful, I doubt “Avatar” will influence film schools like either of those two movies did. Nobody will be quoting “Avatar” in five years. Working mostly as a 3D animator, newcomer director Neil Blomkamp worked with Peter Jackson before. The New Zealand film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter, best known for The Lord of the Rings trilogy adapted from the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien, is the producer of the critically acclaimed film. The movie was nominated for four Academy Awards in 2010: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Visual Effects and Best Editing. While Best Picture seems to be a long shot, compared with Avatar, I suspect it will do well at the awards. One can only hope for a sequel as the aliens fire up their ship and …

Any amplifier is NOT the amplifier. Manufacturers quote Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) for their amplifiers at the amplifiers’ highest output. But THD is not the same for all types of amplifiers. And, since big ole Klipsch horns actually need a few, generally three to six, but usually not more than 20 watts, these watts must have very low distortion. Because of their own exceptionally low distortion, big ole horns are extremely revealing of anomalies upstream. If a component has lots of distortion at low power, the speakers can sound harsh. Which types of amplifier have lots of odd-order harmonic distortion at low power? Solid-state. I have heard the wonderful $6K Pass X250 (http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/equipment/0202/passx250.htm) amplifiers on my B-2 Cornwalls Is, and yet my 3-watt $550 2A3 tube Bottlehead Paramours (http://www.enjoythemusic.com/Magazine/equipment/1202/bottleheadparamour.htm) can sound just as sweet, when they are not clipping. Powerful solid-state amplifiers do have headroom so loud passages at high volume have considerable slam. And not everybody appreciates the soft clipping of tubes. But to me, all but the very best solid-state amplifiers on big ole horns wears out my ears.

length or width; bigger IS better! Invest in the largest main speakers you can afford over the next 5 years ...then keep them for decades

very cool!

Parts Express for kits and software

tube amps degrade slowly; solid state just quits

most awesome, best looking thing I've seen in a long time ('cept that naked blond this morning)

What are the ten sexiest songs ever – the best songs for long, sensuous love making sessions?

Patriots, Steelers, Colts and Giants (all experienced teams with their regular QBs) look to repeat division and wild card playoffs. I was right only about the Colts - should be a very good game!

all this Neo, to run your own Matrx?

Hate Chinese imports if you will. Their unique blended economy is capitalism’s worst enemy: a directed free market. Their industries are guided, directed and targeted at valuable, lucrative and growing markets. But if they were not, it would be somebody else. India, Mexico, Canada, Korea, Taiwan and Eastern Europe are all capable of providing the US with cheap goods. Not with the same incredibly low cost or efficiency perhaps, but capable nonetheless. Worse, cheap manufacturing does not have to even go to Mexico, the workers are dying to come here! Deprive yourself of quality goods from China if you wish. Your drop in the bucket will not stem the floodtide of inexpensive goods into the US or Canada. It action will only raise your own personal cost of living. You cannot spend enough to save GM. The auto giant must save itself. And, it will always be so. Rome, in her glory days, was awash with imports and labor from less powerful countries. The most powerful currency of that time was the Roman army. It bought, stole and enslaved tons of cheap goods and labor from conquered neighbors. Romans used that military power to build great cities, with sound infrastructures and incredible highways. Their highways endure to this day. But Roman Senators did not make Rome’s roads. They imported, often by force, the labor and materials. Today, we buy it.

to illustrate that point dry walled rooms of the same dimensions have slightly different low frequencymodes and suckouts than concrete ones, I am guessing they are lower because more energy is absorbed by the softer walls...

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