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@dtel did you percolate your coffee there in that old pot on the top right? That's what made every house smell so good in the morning long ago.

When it's pushing that at 9:00 am..... That's summer. We've got a ways to go.

That bucket is going to be good for three months worth of good tunes from @Dave1290 !

Oye como va....phillepe!

Very nice @Cinema_head and the sound absorption material makes them work well in your long narrow bonus room? Liked the fabric behind the HF face, but doing that seems like you might need to give the LF a Belle treatment of sorts to balance that. The classic look and the lighting in there makes for a good display here.

It's a rocker, and in M condition. I'd be stoked too... like a 17 year old!

@Emile Consider that those words came from a company that thinks it's cute to misspell in their own title! And several generations since Kwick Pic started all that stink with Language Arts.

Hoy Hoy! Looks like a 25 lb haul Dave

Geeze your record cabinets expanded! & I appreciate the offer

Biscuits in a pan and sausage gravy! NICE!

@Fattner Give audioadvisor a call and see if they still do that trial offer on the type 4. If they do try it, compare directly to that 12 or 14 gauge ofc copper. You might be surprised like I was! Sorry I looked at the Klipsch site the AL-5 and the II do have different specs, I pulled that link from the 70th Anniversary page here. Enjoy those LS !

Wallenford and Jamaica Coffee Roasters have mailing addresses actually on the island, I've only bought it from amazon recently when they started running out of Marley's. Yea it was that Marley, Bob's family, their blend was even great and I bought those three pound bags from amazon for $39.99 until they were out of them. They had a blue bag with the 100% for $50.00/lb. Bob's kids ran that company into the ground...... it's a shame. Twenty years ago I could get JBM at the BJs on Merritt Island for the same price as the other coffees? Glad I dig the good ol Colombian still, it's affordable for the quantity that I need here! Drinking some now that's "honey process" no honey involved just cured naturally without washing. The mucilage isn't scrubbed off and the flavor is mellowed without being weak. What I'm drinking looks like the black honey version at this blog, broke out the immersion brewer for this stuff last weekend. http://blog.seattlecoffeeworks.com/roastery/earth-honey-process/

One of the ones that is real is $$$ Forgot to mention I don't care for black beans, but there was this place in the lower level of one of the big buildings, across from where the cruise ships moored and you could see the Heat's arena almost from there. I had seconds of theirs then when I got another Cuban smashed sandwich to take home got some more of those beans too. Tasted black beans a dozen times since but never eaten them again.

The above is one of the reasons I respect you. Touché! That's the best I can describe my experience upon first unfurling my new cables out of the box and snickering at the arrows for the direction of the current! I quit the snickering, but the smile is still on my face listening to both systems with this wiring. I went overboard but don't regret it, did it in spurts over a couple of years.

Thanks for you viewpoint! I'm used to being chided for this particular opinion! And what is the difference in this and the salesmen that besmirched Klipsch Horn Loaded speakers back in the 70s at their showrooms? Yes I can and am emphatically recommending AudioQuest cabling to the point that you can justify. The Type 4 was astonishing to me, so much that if you check my signature you'll see I gave them a lot more $. It's on the low end of their cables offered. And they are not a fly-by-night or a new company. But the bottom line is the x vs y difference in what I had then and the revelation that when I replaced the H2s, the Yamaha RX1100 (no u or any other notation) and the old tt I could make that even sound it's best. The Type-8 is even better, or is that me running the woofers from B and the horns from A ? Then they have their fancy wiring. https://www.audioquest.com/cables/speaker-cables/star-quad-series/type-4 Can't seem to get to their archived info on the Type 8, have a pdf not sure if I can copy/paste all that. It made the bass sound more rich, the definition & separation of instruments better and the background dead quiet. The vocals and high end even more lifelike. Had no idea at the time what the "background" was as it pertains to listening to music. Best I can describe is listening to an LP that is brand spanking new having been zapped with the zerostat and debris removed from it to the old copy that's been played literally 500 times. The music just blooms or explodes into the room more easily, the nuances and crescendos are better. Not into the flowery stereo review lingo, so that's as hallmark as I can get. Then to go full circle, it all depends on what you hear, if you can discern the difference, how much of a difference, and is it worth it? My friend @Westcoastdrums could possibly add to this, he has heard music through them before.

https://f072605def1c9a5ef179-a0bc3fbf1884fc0965506ae2b946e1cd.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/product-specsheets/La-Scala-2018-Spec-Sheet-v01-1.pdf this is from the above: BI-AMP INPUT PANEL AND BINDING POSTS The La Scala’s premium, aluminum input panel accommodates large, high-quality speaker cables. Strong, versatile and quality binding posts provide the capability for bi-wiring or bi-amping. The quality continues with AudioQuest Type 4 with Star-Quad Geometry internal wiring featuring carbon-loaded insulation, nitrogeninjected PE and solid long-grain copper conductors. Not opposing your viewpoint @wvu80 Yea the OFC is important with the old fashioned wiring! Just trying to spread some knowledge that I've become a believer in.

I'll get my flak-jacket out of the hall closet and start up here @Fattner Take a cue from what Klipsch has done with the internal wiring of the AK-6 and I think the AL-5. If you've some decent ofc low gauge 12 or 14 listen with that hooked up. Then give these guys a call, if you ask question you'll get a sales pitch... but see if they would sell you a trial like a ten or fifteen foot pair of the Type 4. https://www.audioadvisor.com/prodinfo.asp?number=AQT4NF&opt=475|492|494|498 I know they have been good to me with two returns the past few years for dissatisfaction. The capability of what those LS II can produce could be augmented by the wiring. If you've got a Bugatti and want retreads... that's your prerogative. If you got $6k in your cabinet and LS II in the corners you might consider my idea. But just changing the wiring on my Heresy II a couple years ago was comparable to an upgrade, it was an upgrade with the difference in what I heard coming out of the rig I'd listened to for 25 years with the same ofc 14 gauge twisted monster that is gone now.

Have a toke and a ! mmm honey! Cut the sugar in half and put some honey in the gallon of tea one day last week. I'ts nice every now and then.

Got a real gem for y'all tonight easy going and an exceptionally recorded half speed record of two pickers just a grinning: Open it at youtube and look at the list of musicians on this one.

Loved these guys back when Leon was still circulating on the airwaves. Days at the river, sunburned, burgers on the grill, Bud in my belly, a babe waitin' and this blasting all over the inlet from those big Advent speakers. This was the first record of theirs that I'd heard. RIP Ronnie H

So guess where this record was back in about 1998? A filler at the end of it is one my favorite parts of the LP. Not complex. Just filler.

Good 100% Jamaican Blue Mountain is freakin' incredible med roasted. @WillyBob you get the chance, try it... and don't put another d*mn thing in it ! & very good food in those Cuban delis downtown @dtel

Oh Yeah! Good stuff, I've had it marinated in milk overnight then grilled! Liked it better than a tuna steak!

With good (real) bread I can do that in a skillet. It does look appetizing in that picture.

Geeze half a world away and it's all the same. Late 70s, at the bottom of my street 1/8 mile south they went to South High School, we all went to another. Theirs was the more prestigious locale. The rich kids two miles east went to a third hs. On the boulevard nearby across from the Pizza Hut and the Taco Bell where the McDonalds and HollyFarms Fried Chicken were was the parking lot where all the cruising emanated from. 90 cent gasoline, 16 year olds with big blocks. Every clique hated the other unless they were hooking up, then it was on. Same stuff as the fifties movies happened, it was just our era.