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    New Dishwasher Advice (Bosch? Model?)

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    4 hours ago, geezin' said:

    beautiful-woman-doing-cleaning-home-wash

     

     

     

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    Ours gave up the ghost a month ago and we have been doing them by hand. Nice timing for this thread as we are looking at a new one as well.  I can pretty much guaranty my wife wouldn't consider letting me get this model. Probably going to be LG or Samsung.

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    Jokes?

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    72 year old Yitzhak has just entered his shul and sat down when he sees Hymie, an old friend of his, sitting on the other side of the shul, with a young blonde woman at his side. At the end of the service, as he is leaving, Yitzhak sees Hymie walking away arm in arm with this woman. So he discreetly follows them into the local park and from a distance, watches them cavort around just like youngsters. When they finish locked in each other’s arms, Yitzhak thinks, "Oy, did they enjoy themselves!"
    Next shabbat, Yitzhak enters his shul, sits down, and again sees Hymie, but this time with a different young woman at his side. And then, later on during the service, Hymie gets the Hagbah aliyah, and is soon holding the Torah above his head and spinning around as if he were 20 years old.
    So at the end of the service, Yitzhak goes over to Hymie, congratulates him, and asks, "So what's going on with you Hymie? Are you on drugs or what?"
    Hymie replies, "I don't want to talk about it here. Come with me into the Mens Room and I'll explain."
    When they get there, Hymie says, "I've recently had a shmeckle transplant, donated by the family of a young man killed in a car accident."
    When Hymie then shows Yitzhak his 8" strong looking shmeckle, Yitzhak says, "Oy vey, that’s fantastic," and then takes the name of the surgeon who had performed the transplant.
    Within days, Yitzhak has made an appointment to see the surgeon privately. After hearing the details, Yitzhak asks, "So could I have the same operation?"
    The surgeon replies, "No problem."
    Yitzhak asks him, "So how much will such an operation cost me?"
    "If it's the same as your friend Hymie had, it will cost you $10,000," replies the surgeon.
    Yitzhak says, "Oy doctor, that's too much. I'm not as rich as Hymie."
    The surgeon says, "That's OK, I have a number of penises available from $100 upwards. You choose."
    Yitzhak chooses the cheapest one for $100.
    Hymie and Yitzhak meet up in shul a few weeks later. Yitzhak shuffles in and Hymie goes over to him, slaps him on the back and quietly says, "So nu? How did the Operation go?"
    Yitzhak replies, "It went OK, but I don’t really feel any different."
    So Hymie says, "let’s go to the Men’s Room so that I can have a peep."
    When Yitzhak takes it out, Hymie gives a bellow of laughter and says, "He gave you my old one!"
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    headphones

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

    Posted

    On 3/26/2024 at 6:55 AM, Schu said:

    I have the bases covered with these... and they aren't that overly expensive.

     

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    I've not heard any of the Focal models, they do get great reviews.

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    Dramatically improved characteristics on RF-7 iii

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    Very interesting thread. I'm not well versed enough in the physics but these two opposites are different designs people swear by. Many high end speakers are narrow and get rave reviews, at the same time there are many wide baffle speakers that get equally great reviews. All the Heritage line are wide baffle, as are Harbeths, Warfdales, Tannoy and Devores. Others like Focal, Sonus Faber, Paradigm and the unfortunately discontinued Palladium line go the other way.

    Will Kilpschorn AK6 work well in my room? (thinking of upgrading from La Scala)

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

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    On 3/8/2024 at 9:04 AM, ThomBoh said:

     

    I would say that the acoustic ramifications are about equal to the other needs here. I don't want to be taking a downgrade from how things sound now, but yeah I really would like to clean up the arrangement of the room and footprint of what I currently have. As for the TV, I'm actually moving it to another room. I rarely use it and I have a nice atmos soundbar system with its own sub that I can use on the rare occasion that I do. Doesn't sound as good as my hifi system but that's fine. I don't want this room to be TV centric and would rather it just be a nice hang out space where seating doesn't need to be oriented towards a screen. Anyway, for subwoofer, my plan would be to either keep one of my 212s, or drop in my REL HT1510, either of which should be able cover the KHorns well up to 40 Hz where I suspect they'll start losing steam.

     

     

    Thanks for sharing your experience! It does give me pause. I read your thread from when you were trying to decide, and I (perhaps naively) feel like you did in that I would expect the Khorn and La Scala to sound the same except for the bass, given that the tweeter horn and mid horn + drivers appear to be identical? Although that seems not to be the case.

     

     

    Thanks for the input! If I could dig in a little more into what you mean: when you say 4ft of wall on either side, you mean flat wall extending out from either side of each Khorn from where the khorn ends? I agree that the windows hurt this on 3 out of 4 sides. But for what it's worth, the windows only impeded ~half of the height of the bass bin. I wonder if that'll help.

     

    Re: not being wide enough to image properly, are you talking purely about tweeter/mid horn angle due to corner placement (which could be, to some degree, aided by toe out) or are you implying that the windowframes compromising the bass horn extension will hurt imaging?

     

    Thanks again for your thoughts!!

     

     

    General question: this isn't a dealbreaker if not, but I'm wondering if there are any comprehensive professional reviews of the new AK6 model from any publication that are positive? The vast amount of what I've found written about KHorns on the internet (and on this forum) are not about the AK6 (which is understandable given their super high cost), but I would like to read as many impressions as I can as I mull things over.

    Here you are, one with a room not too dissimilar to your own.

     

    https://www.audioresurgence.com/2021/08/klipsch-klipschorn-speaker-review.html

    Recommendation? Am I under powering my KG4's and Forte II's?

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

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    Both of your speakers are very efficient and are 8 and 6 ohms.  I can't see it as under powered. I found the spec sheets for each of them, although you may already have them. I agree with Peter P, this is a failure within your vintage receiver. With any luck a minor issue, perhaps fuse. If not you may have take it in for servicing and /or purchase a new unit. There are so many good ones on the market available opening up a whole new rabbit hole. A nice unit like this would be worth having repaired IMO.

     

     

     

    forte-brochure.pdf KG-4-Spec-Sheet.pdf

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    Will Kilpschorn AK6 work well in my room? (thinking of upgrading from La Scala)

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

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    I think they would work well, and were I in your situation I would go with this strategy. I doubt the window will have much effect at all, 3.5 vs 4 is not much difference. Having a fairly high ceiling works in your favour as well as the length. Pretty rare to find the perfect room - keep in mind Khorns were originally a single speaker mono setup, and most rooms would have that one perfect corner. They would solve your room set up issues nicely by reducing the real estate required. Visually they would be perfect and make the room feel more spacious. Seems like a win win to me.

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