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---------------- On 5/1/2005 4:25:45 PM TBrennan wrote: Here's Kurt's 200 wpc DIY Tri-Path powering my Altec 605s (the outside speakers) in May 2002 at the first Midwest Audio Fest. The inner speakers are Beancounter's JBLs with Edgar saladbowls on 2420s. ---------------- nice pic... and the point?

---------------- On 5/1/2005 4:08:41 PM TBrennan wrote: Minn---Kurt's been using digital amps for a long time. He still has the 200wpc DIY Tri-path he had when I first met him over five years ago. He's built at least a dozen gain-clones too and his JBL 3115s are triamped with a 6 channel gain-clone he built. Lots of guys in our Chicago Horn Club have been using T-amps and gain-clones for quite some time now. ---------------- good for them! it's too bad that his DIY projects can't compete in sound quality with mass produced japanese receivers..... at least according to your own comments "I've heard this rig many times but this was the first time I heard it powered by a Japanese chip-amp receiver. The sound is, to use an overused term, awesome. Absolute clarity and horn-like dynamics. Sitting around unused in Kurt's basement are JBL 3115s, two pairs of Tannoys, a set of Chorus IIs, some Bozaks, some EVs, some Oris horns, enough odd drivers and horns to start a Parts Express branch AND an Audio Note SET, a pair of Monarchy class A SS amps, a huge Conrad-Johnson, several DIY chip-amps and a couple of Sonic Impacts. And 4 JBL 4648s." i guess it seems that not all digital amps are created equal

and yet we have another person "discovering" the new digital amps..... many of the same people who derided me for being "over-enthusiastic" about my carver pro ZR1000 digital amp about a year and a half ago.... i still use my digital amp and it is one of the best amps that i have ever heard.... and it has the power (225 watts per channel) to handle any and ALL music / home theater material even in a large room.....

---------------- On 5/1/2005 12:39:10 PM ottscay wrote: Hey, Russ, if you are still checking this thread, would there be an appreciable advantage of going with the ZR1600 over the ZR1000? I assume the only difference between them is the power rating, and since the RF-7s are high-efficiency, I would just be spending extra money for little gain with the ZR1600...right? I will learn all of this, I will! Scott ---------------- scott, i agree that for use with klipsch speakers, there is not a whole lot of advantage in going with the ZR1600 over the ZR1000... additionally - the KLF-30 is the direct ancestor of the RF-7... similar specs - just a three way design compared to a two way design with the RF-7 good luck in your amp search!

---------------- On 5/1/2005 10:07:43 AM rplace wrote: Which model(s) are you considering. I have a SF Theater Grand IV and absolutely love it. Good luck, Rich ---------------- the theater grand IV is a pre/pro.... the poster is considering the sunfire receiver http://www.sunfire.com/ultimatereceiver_II.html

---------------- On 4/30/2005 10:20:26 PM ottscay wrote: Ok, I am seriously looking at upgrading to an RF-7 system in the next week or two. I want to get seperate amps to drive the RF-7 mains. I've read some really good things about Flying Mole's monoblocks with Klipsch. I also know that B&K amps go well with Klipsch. I can't afford a new B&K stereo amp (or two monoblocks), but ebay regularly has used ones like the B&K Reference 200.2 220 Watt Stereo Amp for around a grand (which is pretty much my limit for the amps right now). What do you guys think? Should I get new Flying Moles, or used B&K gear? Or is there something else I should be considering. Thanks for your opinions! Scott PS, 70/30 music/HT. ---------------- since you are considering the digital flying mole amps, i would like to suggest a better digital choice with more power and more detail.... here is an excerpt of a review of the flying moles "However, compared to essentially every amp I've heard (including the very fine but much more expensive Bel Canto digital amps), the DAD-M100pro HTs display a lessening of high-frequency vitality and especially the air around performers that we audiophiles crave. Cymbals and brass are missing some of their steely sheen when reproduced over the DAD-M100pro HT amps, and while this helps bad recordings sound listenable, it also causes really good recordings to lose some of their distinctiveness." http://www.soundstage.com/revequip/flyingmole_dadm100proht_amps.htm a better choice in my opinion and in my experience is the carver professional ZR1000 digital amplifier.... about $825 brand new online... these amps have referred to as the "poor man's bel canto" 225 watts per channel @ 8 ohms and 300 watts per channel @ 4 ohms..... my ZR1000 does a fantastic job of powering my KLF-30's (same efficiency as your RF-7's).... i had it in my system since october of 2003 and i not heard a better sound on my speakers even though i have tried many different amps in my system the ZR amps are fan cooled, but after talking directly with carver pro tech support, i disconnected the fan and the amp never gets hot.... it runs very cool - even at extended loud volumes http://www.carverpro.com/zramps.html edit: there is a ZR1000 on audiogon right now for $600.... almost tempted myself for my rear channels.... http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?ampstran&1118384308

---------------- On 5/1/2005 8:37:51 AM leok wrote: Most speakers can be made to do the disappearing act by driving them in such a way that they don't distort, with audio that is not itself distorted. Very inexpensive and bandwidth limited systems can do this as long as they are used within their limitations. It's easy to get good imaging if your sound has little dynamic change and frequencies from 100Hz to 10KHz. What gets difficult is expanding this trick to a system with wide frequency and dynamic capability. Literally, this more demanding system gets itself into trouble. Intermodulation distortion causes instruments to seem to break up, with images of themselves appearing at different locations between the speakers. Low power noise and distortion obscures low amplitude reverberation and echoes that we use to reinforce our sense of instrument location. It's not as much a case of which speakers can or can't do the imaging trick, and more a question of whether or not they are used in such a way that the trick works. Leo ---------------- exactly on point!!! if you visit other forums, this topic comes up occassionally..... and nearly every system that people suggest as having "great imaging" has little or no dynamic range compared to any klipsch speaker music without dynamics is not music............. and a speaker can have great imaging at low levels and a perfectly flat frequecy response, but unless it can handle the dynamics of real music - it will always be a POS speaker in my humble opinion

thanks for your kind words!!!! glad it worked out for you!!! enjoy!

i use RS-3's with my KLF-30's and KLF-C7 and it really sounds great...... surprisingly - it even sounds great on multichannel SACD's.... i think part of it is due to the fact that my pioneer elite 55txi has a great auto setup/level/delay/equalization program to help match all the speakers

---------------- On 4/28/2005 12:43:47 PM mike stehr wrote: It'll just be a small fire....... ---------------- ah yes... but that high quality plastic enclosure should burn rather nicely - good black smoke i would bet...

---------------- On 4/27/2005 9:59:34 PM Erukian wrote: Well it's more power.. so listening to cannon fire on Telarc's 1812 overture will obviously not clip at super high volumes...... ---------------- more power - yes 70 watts NOT clip on the 1812 overture's cannons at "super high volumes" - no at just "high volumes", i can clip my carver pro ZR1000 tripath based amp that puts out 225 watts per channel on those same cannons

---------------- On 4/27/2005 5:52:09 PM Griffinator wrote: ---------------- On 4/26/2005 4:25:13 PM minn_male42 wrote: i own the model that was released a few years earlier (the DVP-NC650V)..... it does a great job on CD's and DVD's...but it really excells on SACD's ---------------- Watch out, Minn - I'm about to agree with you (mark this day in history) I also own the NC650V, and can concur that it does an outstanding job in my humble two-channel system on SACD's, and more than adequate for DVD and CD performance as well. ---------------- WOW!!! This must have happened... you get the idea.....

the saddest thing that we will have to endure (if this technology ever gets into mass production) is the audiophools proclaiming how this power cable makes their systems sound soooooooooooooooooooooo much better

NASA Funds 'Miracle Polymer'(The space agency is spending $11 million on one meter of power cable.) NASA will pay Rice University $11 million over the next four years to develop an experimental power cable made from carbon nanotubes, the agency announced Tuesday. The cable, also known as a quantum wire, would theoretically conduct electricity up to 10 times better than traditional copper wire and weigh one-sixth as much. Scientists believe quantum wires could make spacecraft much lighter and more powerful, and may lead to faster computers and other commercial applications. Under the agreement with NASA, Rice's Carbon Nanotechnology Laboratory is to produce a 1-meter-long prototype of quantum wire by 2010. To date, scientists have been able to produce wires no longer than several centimeters. "This is a small step but a very significant one from our perspective, as we try to develop new technology that will help us as we send humans out from Earth and into space," said Jefferson Howell Jr., director of NASA's Johnson Space Center. The researchers have no easy task before them. To succeed, they will first have to devise a way to produce perfect carbon nanotubes on demand. Discovered in 1991, carbon nanotubes are tiny, molecular cylinders formed purely of carbon atoms. They are created by shooting high-powered lasers at a carbon target. Each nanotube is just one nanometer in diameter, or 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. Currently only 2 percent of all nanotubes can be used as quantum wires, and sorting these -- called "armchair nanotubes" -- from the rest is nearly impossible, according to Richard Smalley, director of the Carbon Nanotechnology Laboratory. Researchers at the lab believe they can get around this problem by growing the desired nanotubes like crystals. By placing "seed" nanotubes in a laboratory reactor and pumping in carbon monoxide, or some other source of carbon, they hope to create perfect -- and long -- armchair nanotubes every time. Twisting these together will then produce a quantum wire like the one NASA wants. "This is not a straightforward applied-research project where we know it's been done and we need to scale it up," said Smalley. "We're going to do major pioneering in this process." NASA hopes to outfit future spacecraft with quantum wires rather than heavier copper wires. Doing so could shave critical pounds, which would save money on fuel and, ultimately, allow the craft to go farther into space. Some engineers have also talked about building a 62,000-mile-long tether made of nanotubes for a space elevator that would carry astronauts and cargo into orbit. "As we look forward to going to the moon, Mars and beyond, (nanotubes) will certainly, in my view, be a key part of doing that," said Howell. Carbon nanotubes may benefit other industries, too. For instance, in 2003, NASA researchers described in the journal Applied Physics Letters how circuit manufacturers might create faster processors by replacing copper interconnects with nanotubes, which are more resistant to heat. Other researchers have explored using carbon nanotubes to build next-generation flat-panel displays. The displays might feature a tiny nanotube-based electron gun behind each pixel rather than using a single gun for the entire display, like traditional cathode ray tube monitors. In fact, carbon nanotubes seem so versatile that scientists believe they may one day end up in everything from batteries to military armor -- provided that they can be produced easily and cheaply. "There is a new miracle polymer to be developed," said Smalley. "I believe this is a tremendously important objective for modern society." http://www.wirednews.com/news/space/0,2697,67350,00.html? tw=wn_tophead_3

---------------- On 4/26/2005 5:00:02 PM heresy2guy wrote: While growing up, a friend's father had his turntable suspended from the ceiling. He had 4 hookes secured into the ceiling to which 4 individual pieces of chains were attached. The chains connected to a nicely cut and stained piece of plywood that acted as a floating tray, on which was the turntable. It did an excellent job at isolating the turntable if I recall correctly...... ---------------- i had used the ceiling mount many years ago in an apartment that had very "wobbly" floors.... but rather than using chain, i used 80 lb test fishing line doubled up on each corner of the platform... the line was more adjustable than a chain link and also helped absorb any vibrations from the floor above me

---------------- On 4/27/2005 9:01:35 AM endover wrote: Not trying to steal your thread Jblake but I was interested in the same question.... If I record jpeg photo's off my computer onto a CD or DVD, will that sony DVP-NC685V that you referenced earlier play them on my TV? ...and then please get back to Jblake's "regularly scheduled question" so I don't get on his "bad list"..... Thanks.... ---------------- i don't think so.... at least according to the specs listed here: http://www.oade.com/Home_theater/sony/dvd/dvpnc685v.html

---------------- On 4/26/2005 5:08:10 PM m00n wrote: 1 used wife. ---------------- post some pictures maybe?

the sony DVP-NC685V is a 5 disc CD/SACD/DVD changer that has received excellent reviews and suggested retail is $250 the abosolute sound magazine picked it as an "editor's best choice" under $1000 in the feb/march 2005 issue (page 28) http://www.avguide.com/product/Players_Recorders/SACD_&_DVD-A_Players/Sony/DVP-NC685V_/2887.jsp i own the model that was released a few years earlier (the DVP-NC650V)..... it does a great job on CD's and DVD's...but it really excells on SACD's going for about $200 or so online http://buyriteelectronics.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=DVPNC685V

i had to laugh out loud when i saw the title of this thread... it reminded me of a country song.... "I'm gonna miss her" by Brad Paisley about missing the wife when she said it was her or fishing!!! Well I love her But I love to fish I spend all day out on this lake And hell is all I catch Today she met me at the door Said I would have to choose If I hit that fishin' hole today She'd be packin' all her things And she'd be gone by noon Well I'm gonna miss her When I get home But right now I'm on this lakeshore And I'm sittin' in the sun I'm sure it'll hit me When I walk through that door tonight That I'm gonna miss her Oh, lookie there, I've got a bite Now there's a chance that if I hurry I could beg her to stay But that water's right And the weather's perfect No tellin' what I might catch today Well I'm gonna miss her When I get home But right now I'm on this lakeshore And I'm sittin' in the sun I'm sure it'll hit me When I walk through that door tonight That I'm gonna miss her Oh, lookie there, I've got a bite Yeah, I'm gonna miss her Oh, lookie there, I've got a bite

what color are the rest of your components? mixing black and silver never looks good.... tried it for about a day in my second system.... silver component was then returned

---------------- On 4/21/2005 3:43:30 PM D-Rex wrote: Is it a good idea to remove the cover on a receiver and clean the dust off the components inside? I am replacing my receiver but I wanted to clean my new one before I hooked it all up. Can I use a cotton swab and some alcohol (the rubbing kind) to clean it or should I just not worry about it? Thanks, Dallas ---------------- get some canned air to blow the dust out..... that will take care of the dust http://www.macmall.com/macmall/shop/detail.asp?dpno=32939&store=macmall&source=mwbfroogle&adcampaign=email,mwbfroogle&wt.mc_id=mwbfroogle

---------------- On 4/21/2005 1:30:43 PM jazman wrote: ---------------- On 4/21/2005 11:51:42 AM DeanG wrote: rotflol -- back in with a bang! ---------------- S.O.S.D.D. The crap about if you drink beer, you should have PP, is one step beyond the worse "class" arguments. You of the "110db LOL" club are the true audio snobs, though you always pretend you're the "everyman's" representative. Give it a rest! Klipsch out. ---------------- wow! seems someone is off his meds today! in case you missed it - the comments are all in fun

2 SET amps with 1.5 watts of power each (that's downhill with a tailwind)

---------------- On 4/21/2005 8:17:06 AM DeanG wrote: Doesn't anyone use candles anymore? They look cool and a heck of a lot cheaper. ---------------- lava lamps baby! lava lamps

---------------- On 4/20/2005 4:12:29 PM nicholtl wrote: I usually check out the Parasound Club on htguide.com too. Used to swing by hometheaterforum, but that place is dead now, and AVSforum, but I hate the color scheme of the place. ---------------- if you join the AVSforum you can change the color scheme to a more normal black text on white background it makes it easier to read..... although some of the fanboys over there are pretty hard to stomach