Clipped and Shorn

IT WON'T EVEN LET ME SUBMIT THIS POST. "You did not complete all required form fields! Please go back and re-enter. " Another try leading to: "Invalid Attachment... clear the attachment field or try uploading your files again. Use your Back button. " I AM STARTING TO RUN OUT OF POSSIBLE WAYS TO INTERPRET THE AMBIGUOUS DIRECTIONS. ------------------ Cornwalls currently upgrading to all tube components

The post just above this was the best I could do following those directions. Maybe I misunderstood, maybe those directions were not for getting the photo to appear in the field of the post instead of in an icon off to the side. Now what is that funny red icon, haven't seen that before? ------------------ Cornwalls currently upgrading to all tube components

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UPLOAD SUCCESSFUL. THEN YOU HIT "CONTINUE" then instructions break down. YOU DO NOT SAY WHERE TO PASTE THE ADDRESS OF THE PICTURE, NOR DO YOU EXPLAIN WHAT it is AND WHERE YOU OBTAIN THIS ADDRESS. 1016782888.txt OK , I PASTED IT RIGHT HERE. IS THAT THE ADDRESS? THAT IS WHAT IT SAID IT WAS CALLING MY ATTACHMENT. please assume I am an idiot who knows nothing, and explain it from that point of view. thanks ------------------ Cornwalls currently upgrading to all tube components

1016782591.txt THIS POST IS THE RESULT OF FOLLOWING THE DIRECTIONS ------------------ Cornwalls currently upgrading to all tube components This message has been edited by Clipped and Shorn on 03-22-2002 at 02:40 AM

This I can do, but how do you make the actual photo appear in the message? "upload successful" this is where your instructions stop being comprehensible to me. ------------------ Cornwalls currently upgrading to all tube components

justin, thanks for attempting to explain the photo posting procedure. As clear as it was it still did not work for me. There are details which come up that your instructions do not address. I wrote your instructions down and tried following them literally step by step and they did not totally jive with what was presented. I am still confused by the procedure and unable to do it. You stated: "delete what was put in the attachment:field under your password." this did not correspond to anything comprehensible in the actual procedure, and proved to be meaningless. Specifically, here is where your directions broke down for me: "delete what was put in the Attachment: field under your password. click View/Delete files (as in the first picture i posted), hit view " There was nothing under my password. And this was after it stated that I had successfully uploaded the picture. On second reading, I am incorrect, there was a number designated in that field, but when I did with it what I thought you said to do with it, it did not achieve the desired result. I copied it, and pasted it where it asked for an address starting "http// etc." You did not say whether to delete the :"http// or not. Anyway it did not work, and I exhausted every conceiveable interpretation of your attempt at explaining the procedure, all to no avail. ---------------- Cornwalls currently upgrading to all tube components This message has been edited by Clipped and Shorn on 03-22-2002 at 03:51 AM

Chris, How did you keep the black paint off the brass panel so nicely? Did you use low stick masking tape? Did you shine the brass first, before painting? -eiked and owed ------------------ Cornwalls currently upgrading to all tube components

Maybe some were here on visas, student or otherwise, however, I am pretty sure none were citizens of the US. Precise information, statistics, and clear thinking would help before belting out ridiculous statements that create the impression that one is aligned with misguided or even paranoid nut cases and supremetist bigotry. I simply do not think it realistic to believe that hordes of foreigners have come to this country to put it down or destroy it from within. This type of thinking leads to hate crimes. Very bad. Very very bad. -turbined and turbaned ------------------ Cornwalls currently upgrading to all tube components

oops, I just realized I had not read page 3 of this thread when I posted the following, now I will have some serious homework. Gil, HornEd, et al, Thanks for all the info in this thread. I have also been trying to make a decision on a digital camera. A friend has a Mavica, and the simplicity and "humbleness" of it has an appeal to me. He carries it around with him and uses it as an everyday tool. For example, he will take a quick image of a machine so when he goes to get a part, he shows them an image on the screen of his camera. It's like a sketch pad. The abundance and low cost of everyday floppys is also appealing. I assume such a camera would be adequate for posting images to sell stuff on eBay. Then, on the other hand, my friends in the Graphic Arts business affirm what HornEd is saying, and thus say no on the Mavica choice, knowing that I also might want to document my artwork for portfolio and/or resume purposes where quality is important, or otherwise take higher quality images. One solution might be to obtain a Mavica for everyday eBay posting and later obtain a second better camera for documenting artwork. Feels like unnecessary expense. There are so many demanding learning curves these days, simplicity and ease of use is tempting. On the other hand, there is missing out on higher quality potentials of mucho- megapixels. This has been my dillemma and source of indecision, and as a result, I am way behind on liquidating stuff on eBay. I still have older analog photography equipment which hardly gets used anymore. Nikkon F3 and lenses, and a couple of 4x5 cameras. Seems like these film cameras are not very practical anymore and in fact might be the very things to sell on eBay. {analog seemed to imply an embracing of physical permanence, digital seems to say it is ok to reduce everything to dispensable stored binary bits--its cool, we still have DVD images of those extinct animals..maybe...}...sorry for the geezer reactionary attitude... I remember when a beautiful photo image reminded me that I was glad that the object had a physical existence--kind of like vinyl versus CD...I am getting way off here, sorry. I am not much of a snapshot taker, unless I am travelling to exotic locations. I ended up taking a point and shoot Olympus to Cuba, but was mostly dissappointed with the quality of the images. Since I was already toting a digital video camera and accessories as well as audio recording gear, I didn't want to bring the Nikkon and lenses etc.. I imagine a digital camera would have been a better choice than the point and shoot. I had not, and still have not, been able to make the decision on which digital camera to get. -Manned and Rayed ------------------ Cornwalls currently upgrading to all tube components This message has been edited by Clipped and Shorn on 03-18-2002 at 03:01 PM

Jim, How did you go about building ALK crossovers. Is there a schematic and a source of parts that we should know about? -handied and hinted ------------------ Cornwalls currently upgrading to all tube components

HornEd observed this about fini: "All this for someone who addressed the then unknown Giuliette as a "chicken" rather than a "chick"... what class!" Being a native Petaluman, fini, calls anything behind chicken wire a "chicken". Was not "La Strada" with Anothony Quinn her first film? Guess I could re-check on IMDb quick enough to jog the old sprockets. -cut and printed ------------------ Cornwalls currently upgrading to all tube components

Wes, What kind of amp and preamp do you use with your Cornwalls. I am seriously considering the ALK crossovers for my '78 Cornwalls along with going to tubes all around. First I will see what the tube amp and preamp do, then if needed will also add the crossover upgrade. I mostly listen to jazz vinyl, but also more and more CDs. Two channel is enough for me at this point. -trimmed and shaven ------------------ Cornwalls currently upgrading to all tube components

After all is said and done, I am not sure I will bi-amp my nice Cornwalls. First I will wait to see what the new pptriode dyna70 modrod and tube preamp will do. Then I might seriously consider trying the ALK crossover. That combo might just make those Cornwalls sing about as sweet as they are meant to sing. The bi-amping will still be undertaken for some bass reflex boxes I am dreaming of constructing for my music studio in another building, the inspiration and guidence for which is coming from mdeneen's home built cabinets and bi-amping experiments. Seems like I have heard mostly very positive reports in this forum about those crossovers used with the Cornwalls. Anyone specifically running tubes in triode outputs and the ALK crossovers with Cornwalls? Didn't someone mention the bass being somehow improved with these crossovers? -crissed and crossed ------------------ Cornwalls currently upgrading to all tube components This message has been edited by Clipped and Shorn on 03-17-2002 at 03:47 AM

Alan, Yes you are absolutely correct. I know and love that painting as well. I even have a nice old book on Mondrian which has some of his writings, very interesting. One essay in the form of a dialogue is called "Natural Reality and Abstract Reality". He is quite articulate. Did you know Mondrian was quite the dancer? I am sure he liked to Boogie Woogie and would have also probably liked the Boogaloo. I was assuming mdeneen, being also the artist he is, knew some of this when he purposely distorted the name from Broadway Boogie Woogie to Boogaloo Down Broadvay (including perhaps the "Freudian slip" of changing the W to V etc.). I also assumed it was some word play and an obscure reference so I grabbed the fortuitous opportunity to support his punning because I myself like and play something akin to Boogaloo music which is related to latin jazz. A friend of mine actually has a website called Boogalu.com on which he presents links to music he has personally recorded in Cuba. We were both there last July, he is there again now. I am a student of authentic Afro Cuban rhythms. (I travelled there with official license). http://boogalu.com/ -tumbadoraed and bomboed ------------------ Cornwalls currently upgrading to all tube components This message has been edited by Clipped and Shorn on 03-16-2002 at 05:13 PM

Nice thing about forum threads is that they exist in their own meta-time-frame, and like the "exquisite corpse" of the dadaist we are building structures beyond the limitations of our solitary imaginings. It is really wonderful. All of which is to say, forgive my momentary absence, for I am now back from the gig, and the heart has grown even fonder as I see these treasures that have been added onto whatever it is we are building here in this most colorful and art literary thread. These online conversational writings should be preserved as were so many of the letters between historically significant contributors in various other fields of endeavor-and glad we are to still have them as cultural tenets. Philosopher and Tubologist mdeneen has put me in mind of Mondrian {forgive me if I steal your great "Broadvay Boogaloo" as a title for a latin jazzy original tune I might come up with. Also, no one more than Kandinsky induces in me the synaesthetic responses between color and music, thus, how very appropriate your imagined front plate of the upcoming and awaited Triodic-mysterioso. Likewise the reference to California crate labels and the implied full cornucopia of remembered nostalgia of nostalgia sunshine warmth - having grown up a native to these fragrant fields of blossoming citrus and sea foamed beaches from San Diego to Santa Barbara during a time when remnants of an even earlier era full of plein-air inspiration still abounded. Later I would continue the trek ever northward through Steinbeckian Monterey to beatnik Berkeley and Kerouacian San Francisco, and onward to Sonoma, Mendocino, and Modoc counties. Thank you for evoking the colors, sounds, sights, and tastes of California. The glow of tubes is the sunshine of oranges in the brisk night sky. And the ubiquitious HornEd picks up every stitch regarding everyone's core style, leaves no page unexamined in depth on all sides, is like a sufi seer, Renaissance man, modernist, medievalist, generalist, and unfathomably unique creative anachronism in the best possible sense of the term. Also a fini class wordsmith extraordinaire. I am Bartholomew Cubbins taking hat after hat off to you. I feel like I just signed everyone's Year Book. Good night and Audiose -Ooblecked and Thunked {The Duchamp of Klipsch} (<{ I'm stealing that too}>) ------------------ Cornwalls currently upgrading to all tube components This message has been edited by Clipped and Shorn on 03-16-2002 at 06:53 AM

HornEd, Were you planning to use your chef's rake "... to clean some cobwebs out of the old noodle"? All this, and talk of Italian movies is creating a craving for pasta. -Gelsomina and Zampano ------------------ Cornwalls currently upgrading to all tube components

Did HornEd actually just identify whose eyes those were? That seems quite amazing to me, since images of Sharon Tate are not exactly current these days. This isn't one of them hoaxes, is it? Speaking of eyes, I will never forget those "baby's eyes" from the elliptical reference above. -Thyme's Progress ------------------ Cornwalls currently upgrading to all tube components This message has been edited by Clipped and Shorn on 03-16-2002 at 04:00 AM

I just got back to reading this thread. Wow. I am so glad I found this forum. Reminds me of those philosophical days of stimulating discussions sitting outside the Sproul cafeteria on the Cal campus many years ago. Never thought I would again run into so many clear thinking and articulate folks in one place. I think it says something about the Audio(phile) hobby. If you have time and energy to be contemplating hearing your music better, then you probably have a good mind to begin with. -enrolled and auditing ------------------ Cornwalls currently upgrading to all tube components

Like fini, I too have never noticed that the XXX DVDs from Walmart were censored (btw did you see the one about the blown woofer? arf !). To continue, Inspired by HornEd's, as always, gobal profundity: All kidding aside, about the only thing I have resorted to buying at the local Walmart are replacement wheels (complete with tires) for my ever growing fleet of recycled wheelbarrows, used mostly for moving firewood to the house and many other chores around the ranch and gardens. There was a time in America, not so long ago really, that you could get the local gas station or tire service to patch these little tires or patch the tubes that you sometimes put inside. Now the cost of that labor, believe it or not, is at least the same price as buying a whole new wheel and tire at Walmart. So what is going on here? Walmart and all those other stores exist because there are people in so many other countries working for incomprehensibly (to us) low wages. Because of this, it is cheaper to make new things that we can buy at Walmart than it is to fix the old stuff with local labor. What happens to the old stuff? You toss it, just as you do yesterday's computer. The whole equation is ultimately an instult to old Mother Earth and his atmosphere and her oceans and her rivers, and his forests etc . etc. You try to fight this trend, but one is ultimately swept up in it, unless one becomes a total Luddite spending all one's time patching old wheelbarrow tires, which I did for years. I finally gave in, but I feel a bit guilty about it. One has to live with so many contradictions these days. In a certain way , any embracing of technology is contradictory to some primitive instinct to stay tuned into the ways of the ancient spirit forces, the gods if you will, although in a sense, one of those spirit forces does rule iron, steel, and things technological, it is just that everything has gone so far ahead with this. It would appear that the trend is ultimately motivated or justified by the assumption that this Planet is itself an expendible resource and merely a stepping stone to some interplanetary destiny. Right, so when we finish trashing this Planet, we will move onto trashing the rest of the planets and then the rest of the Universe? Something in me says this is sick and highly unfortunate. I also notice that our culture lately is on the fast track to accomplishing this diabolical goal. The old (very much alive, even up to the 60's) discarded Utopian visions and clear (logical) solutions simply must be reinstated and updated with details regarding the delicate and definitely conceivable balance between nature and our various technologies. As mentioned before, the only obstacles are the ignorance, greed, arrogance, delusions, and power (economic and political) of the Blue Meanines, and you all know who and/or what they are. Somehow we have to replace this politically enforced stupidity with a likewise politically enforced englightenment, which is to say I am growing skeptical about the ability of the average person, who struggles just to survive and keep up with all this consumerism, to spontaneously change the course of this cultural (consumeristic) and infrastructural self destruction. Inevitably we, Americans, may become very unpopular in the world if we do not find a way to lead this turn around. I would like to believe there is hope, but frankly it is getting difficult to conceive of the plan at this point. I know there are those who are simply planning the inevitable and are devising the technology for colonizing "space". I am not so sure about the timing of all of this. It is hard to estimate. Is this Planet actually running out of time, or is it just me as an aging human, or both? Another solution: Squirting that aerosol Goo into the Wheelbarrow tires {ah....mmm...}. First it oozes out the thorn hole, then it sets up and holds air again for awhile, then you throw the empty can into the trash and then to the land fill and then to the water table.....later on you eventually thow the whole wheel and tire into the landfill along with all that Goo inside, and later still, you bathe in water flavored by all that crap. What is that Goo, anyway? Tonight is the debut of my new band (latin jazz) at a local venue. {fini will be the audio engineer}. Fun and hope. I continue to dream of various possible tube amp mods that I will learn from mdeneen and dream of the soon to be legendary meeting of HornEd, fini, and mdeneen, me, and other audio visionaries out here in the Bay Area and surrounds. -twisted, braided, and wired. ------------------ Cornwalls currently upgrading to all tube components This message has been edited by Clipped and Shorn on 03-14-2002 at 04:30 PM

"OK: A bunch of those September 11th terrorists were American citizens, and they changed the world forever. " Citizens? where did you get that info? Are you sure you are well informed? -chiffoned and sconed ------------------ Cornwalls currently upgrading to all tube components

oops This message has been edited by Clipped and Shorn on 03-13-2002 at 02:25 PM

I guess the hook had to do with how cool that amp looked, almost like a prop from a time -travel movie. How often do you see so many dials outside of a cockpit? I thought it looked like an amp from a dream. Also, I wanted to keep the thread warm. -Boss Jim Gettys and Jedediah Leland ------------------ Cornwalls currently upgrading to all tube components This message has been edited by Clipped and Shorn on 03-13-2002 at 02:16 PM

The hot rod mystery Amp came out so good we have decided to sell it on eBay to capitalize the next mod we have planned. Hopefully we can get more than $11.49. Bidders from this forum are welcome. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1338911117 -carnegied and morganed ------------------ Cornwalls currently upgrading to all tube components

Pinto Colvig, who was not only the voice of Goofy but also Bozo the Clown (on recordings) recorded a 78 which I wore out as a tyke. It was called Honkety Hank (and his Hootenanny Automobile). Honkety has this dream in which he makes a hot rod out of old junk, a wind-up phonograph motor and bubble gum wheels etc. By chance he ends up in an auto race which he wins, then wakes up from his dream etc. Like Orson Welles explained after the War Of The Worlds broadcast, he didn't realize people would take him so seriously, he was not intentionally creating a hoax....... -fibbered and mcgeed ------------------ Cornwalls currently upgrading to all tube components