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5 hours ago, DoubleJ said:
Most people here are not even aware that I have been actively reading this Forum since 2006. My profile shows that I joined in 2016, which is true. It took me an entire decade to get up enough nerve for post #1 prior to that. No posts meant no account needed, for me during that part of my life.
I am not regretful or ashamed I didn't actively participate then. If I had a question, I could easily find the answer, because I wasn't the first to ask. Eventually I got more involved in the hobby, gained more experience, knowledge, ideas, and felt I had more to add to the community, so I created my account then. I don't feel the need to catch up to anyone in post counts, but I do enjoy when my posts get a few likes.
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1 hour ago, grasshopper said:
nothin; wrong with home-style [simple] cooking.
Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup for Supper yesterday. Tastes better from scratch. Was recovering from a fever I got as a side effect from having been given a certain vaccine booster shot. That was new. All is well now.
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9 hours ago, geoff. said:
...bump
Cool, always wanted one. I bet yours sounds great. GLWYS
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8 hours ago, cuppycakekiss said:
SOLD
For how much?
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1 hour ago, captainbeefheart said:
If anyone is interested in the La Scala speakers they showed briefly in the video they were purchased by Jerry Garcia's mother as the bands first PA system in 66'/67'. Jerry later gave them to the Hell's Angels for their clubhouse system complete with a Sansui amplifier. Pretty darn neat right!
https://insheepsclothinghifi.com/grateful-dead-hi-fi-auction/
Very cool Sotheby's was able to put together enough provenance to piece this one together. They have the resources, but who knew they had the real thing. Until now.
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Let me know if you want them. I may be able to help. Keep it civil.
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From the ad.
https://appleton.craigslist.org/ele/d/omro-stereo-speakers-hi-fi/7434849265.html
Klipsch heresy lll Loud speakers they are from there heritage series. These are three way speakers all built in USA and are consecutively numbered and sound great. They come with all paperwork and original packaging everything is in excellent shape.
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ad is gone and/or these are now sold
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23 minutes ago, Bubo said:
No but I bet they didn't have blue berries and maple syrup
Which I had for lunch again today
LOL! Far from the first to have that for lunch. Exchange the maple syrup with honey and you got it. Refined sugars used for food didn't come until the 6th century. A more probable ancient Roman recipe would have been
Ova Sfongia Ex Lacte (basically an omelet)
During the times of the Greeks and Romans, blueberry relatives were an important part of the daily diet.
http://education.hi7.co/blueberries-during-ancient-times-5716e9caee3b9.html
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2 hours ago, oldtimer said:
Did you ever look up french toast to find that it dates back to at least Roman times?
Three part series
https://leslefts.blogspot.com/2015/01/french-bread-history-bread-of-gauls.html
https://leslefts.blogspot.com/2015/02/french-bread-history-gallo-roman-bread.html
https://leslefts.blogspot.com/2015/04/french-bread-history-early-medieval.html
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Not affiliated. From the Ad...
Original owner, bought new. Excellent condition. $1200.00 or best offer. Please don’t ask for codes. Will not reply. Cash only. Pick up only.
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Not Affiliated. From the ad...
https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649815313-klipsch-chorus-ii/
Local pick up only. No shipping as these are large and heavy speakers and I don't want to risk them being damage during shipping.
A nice pair of Klipsch Chorus II speakers. These speakers have had the tweeters upgraded to the titanium diaphragm and the crossovers recapped with the Sonicap kit from Crites. One of the speakers had about a 1 inch tear in the rear cone - this is a passive radiator - which has been sealed - please see the pics. Also the same speaker has a small area of the back spray on finish that has bubbled - cosmetic and does not effect sound or structure of cabinet. The risers have been replaced with solid oak risers and adjustable feet. The cabinets have received a new gloss polyurethane finish. All these things were done to bring the performance back and give the speakers another 30 years of life.
They sound fantastic and there is a reason why they are still sought after. Please feel free to ask any questions. -
3 hours ago, Tom05 said:
Wife and I started wearing the N95 today, I can tell it’s a lot better mask.
Yeah, we switched to 3M N95 this month too. Omicron protection goes from 25 minutes with a cloth mask to 25 hours with N95. Last year I was down to about 10 N95's (down from 70 pre-Covid). Finally I found some more at the hardware store this summer when things were "back to normal". I'm back up to 70 count again. I knew then that "normal" was only temporary, but fun while it lasted. This wave is a B***ch and I'm staying out of the water until it passes.
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5 hours ago, geezin' said:
Estimated by who?
Nah not buying into crap like that.
I know, right?
community.klipsch.com is my only trusted news source.
That's why I keep coming back here. What else you guys know?
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Probably eliminate taxes on used car dealerships, because the used car dealer said they actually bought those cars years ago, drove them personally for miles and miles, just to sell them on their car lot all these years later, at a loss. Why should those poor used car dealers, or any one of the millions of Americans running a small sales based home business, have to pay taxes on any revenue generated from the sale of a used item? Should we just go back to the barter system? Oh, wait they already have that covered...
>Bartering is the exchange of goods and services between two or more parties without the use of money.
>It is the oldest form of commerce.
>Individuals and companies barter goods and services between each other based on equivalent estimates of prices and goods.
>The IRS considers bartering to be a form of income that incurs taxes.
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30 minutes ago, Travis In Austin said:
Do you have receipts for speakers, amps, cables, and whatever else from 1, 5 or 10 years ago?
I have kept a file just for those exact purchases you mentioned, including cash transactions, which I always traded hand written receipts on private sales. Probably just me though.
28 minutes ago, Travis In Austin said:Oh my gosh, I just remembered, I have LPs, reel to reel tapes, a lot, many of them of them worth a lot of money, and the database I had for them in gone, lost forever. Ebay doesn't have any of the information. I have no way to establish the basis for individual records, tapes, etc.
Sounds like you need to open your own lemonade stand 🍋 , just like the rest of us with too much of this stuff. Chop Chop. ⏲️ Sammy's waiting for his supper.
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10 minutes ago, Travis In Austin said:
It's not a new tax. Not even close to a new tax.
It's a reporting change.
Fixed it.
Thanks. Unreported transactions causing loss of tax revenue. Report away, been skating long enough. Kids can open that Lemonade stand again.
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This will not be the last new online tax reporting rule we will see changed. This one has been a long time coming. Your Uncle Sam is very hungry right now, and he's already missed breakfast and lunch. One day you'll come home to find he has opened all of your cupboard doors. Nothing you can do either, now or later, to change that. New normal.
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Everyone using PayPal will eventually experience the necessary pricing adjustments to offset those new taxes. I have already raised my prices on online transactions requiring PayPal payments incoming to my account. I can't absorb these additional taxes myself, so I have already passed them on. I just blame it on the massive inflation we have all experienced recently. New normal.
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It's all about the bread. If you want to make it even more French:
Brioche French Toast
https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/brioche-french-toast-recipe
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36 minutes ago, billybob said:
If you have been keeping up, Omicron has been displacing Delta since it came on the scene basically. Omicron has already displaced Delta.
Source with the evidence is Frank Campbell on YouTube.
Have been watching daily for past month. News cycle is just now catching up. Thanks!
With some restraint, you could have posted something here specifically related to the topic, but instead you decided it was more important to post this comment.
Nice torpedo, Capt. Thread Locker.
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Onkyo shuts off with Forte II speakers
in 2-Channel Home Audio
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Bearer of bad news, but this is very bad advice, and it should not be repeated. Some days we come here and learn new things. Today is one of those. I totally understand how this setting can be misunderstood though. Here are the facts.
This setting has got nothing to do with the nominal impedance of your speakers. In short, what a lower impedance setting of a consumer AVR generally does is engage a circuit that significantly limits the output voltage of the AVR. This is solely for the purposes of continuous multichannel high power heat dissipation testing by the electrical product certifiers. In other words, it's actual purpose has nothing to do with real-world usage. This setting is there so the manufacture can get a certifiate, nothing more.
The Onkyo (and other AVR's) impedance setting should never be used, and only be kept at the default setting.
The Low Z mode effectively limits the current available to the speakers, but greatly increases the risk of clipping the amps due to the severely curtailed output. Amplifier clipping is a highly undesirable outcome.
Read everything you ever wanted to know on the subject in one 3 page article. I provided the link to it below.
https://www.audioholics.com/audio-amplifier/impedance-selector-switch-1