Thoriated_Tiger

Search Audioasylum's Tube asylum for 'tester repairs'. A few folks are left that still do it, and iirc, there's one active Hickock guy left. I have a 600 I need to get looked over and refreshened, myself [] A long-ish thread was posted about this guy recently, like in the past 2 weeks or so.

Yikes. Glad to hear you and the PJ were not hurt. Mine's on a wall-mounted shelf, about 3' above my head.. if it comes crashing down, it'll nail me in the head. Which should break its fall some...[]

Right now, an '05 Mazda Rx-8. Before that, a Miata, before that, a 1-st gen Rx-7. I luv mazda [] If money were no object? Uh.. I can't limit it to one car! In no order at all, had I the cash: 1. Ferrari 275 GTB/4 2. 1994-5 Mazda Rx-7 (The FD3S, the 3rd gen of the car) 3. 1967 Mazda Cosmo (Mazda's first rotary car, worlds first twinrotor, and it was a pure sportscar) 5. Another '94 Miata, like I had.. miss her badly. 6. An un-molested, rust-free 84 or 85 Rx-7 GSL-SE.. chances of finding these are getting slimmer each year. The list goes on, for pages, folks.. I'm a petrolhead []

Unless I'm missing an inside joke or something, the Belle's still in production.. still listed in the Heritage section of Products. Or are you talking about getting rid of yours?

Another 'ditto' for Thorens. I run a TD-145 with an AudioTechnica 440ML. Does very nicely for not much cash at all. The arm is somethin' else, tho.. got hit with the ugly stick, and likes medium-to-low compliance carts.. lower the better. (Any recco's for carts for this old beastie? MM please.. can't swing MCs with my preamp.. eff. mass is 16.5 g.)

I can see "young" Elvis driving a Honda (nee Acura) NSX. Similarly, I can see him in an S2000, or even S800. But Elvis is more of a Toyota Crown type of guy, big, cushy, softly-sprung car. Y'know. The Japanese copy of the traditional, badly-sprung, ill-handling American land yacht. There's no Honda songs because by the time Honda and the rest were really selling well here, rock and roll had died, and had been (temporarily) replaced by Disco, which had other priorities, other things to worship, other than cars.

I picked up an '05 rx8 to replace my rear-ended-and-totalled 10 year old miata 3 weeks ago.. first tune was "Kaeremichi" by Toshio Matsuda, sung by Ayako Kawasumi... it means "On The Way Home," or "homeward-bound".. from Mahoromatic. (Really nice anime series.) I'm one of those freaks who believe machines have souls too, and bringing a new car home is always a special thing for me. The 2nd tune was the sound of two rotors chirruping their merry song, so unlike those of pistons... I can't believe I drove a piston car for 10 years.. man I missed herr Wankel's crazy little engine! As for just driving music, with no special significance, for me, there's no substitute for Bach or Beethoven.

Wow, some twisted choices out there.. I'd have to spin (if I had it) William Shatner's LP.. Lucy.. in the SKY.. WITH diamonds.. >.< But what really got friends and family marching out the door is anything pipe-organish. Most of my friends, and all of my family, think Bach organ music is some "kind of infernal church music." Well, a goodly bit of it *is* church music, but stunning music it is nonetheless.. there's just no accounting for taste, I thinks..

A horn tweeter (or any horn driver, for that matter) has to move much, much less than a conventional direct radiating cone or dome. This is why horn speakers tend to have much lower distortion, too -- the driver has to work much less to do the same job. That, coupled with strrrrong magnets makes for a very compact, very efficient little driver.

Let us know how you like it. Especially the amp section. I'm considering it's (much) smaller bro, the AVR 235, to replace my decidedly very, very, very lo-budget Sony receiver. It's a little on the dull and restrained side, and I know the Synergies can do better -- they were powered by my dyna stereo 70 for the longest time before moving to HT duty. The Dyna moved 'em so well I was kinda heartbroken when I heared 'em on the Sony.

There's also variations between genres of music, it'd seem. Most classical and jazz CDs I have, I give it six clicks on my SP6A's knob, for peaks to ~90 or so. (each click is about 2db) With most pop / rock, three or four clicks will net you peaks to 90. These are recorded "hot". The few pop/rocks that act like the classical ones are all from weirdos: Pink Floyd, ELP, ELO, etc.

They'll do what good engineers do: Find out how and why it failed. Just knowing that it failed is fairly useless.. K support is indeed awesome. My fortes arrived with fried tweeter diaphragms. 10 days later, I had 2 brand-new (freshly wound!) diaphragms. I was a long-time Infinity user. Try getting a tweeter for any of their speakers that are not in current production.. try it. I dare ya.

---------------- On 3/29/2005 8:42:30 AM gcoker wrote: I would not even respond..I looks like some one starting a thread just to get a rise out of everyone. ---------------- I hardly think this was a troll. This is sadly the reality of how Klipsch is perceived outside the "in the know" folk. The easiest way to be labled a heretic in polite hi-fi society is to say you run horns. Phillistine, even! I've had all sorts of dealers slam Klipsch (and other horns) for all sorts of 'problems' -- all in an effort to sell me their Infinities, or Boston Acoustics, or B@Ws, etc etc. The hoidy-toidy audio press is no lover of Klipsch, either. It is *rare* to see a hi-end publication review Klipsch. I think they're scared. I mean, if the public were to know that you don't need to spend 15,000 dollars on a pair of speakers.. imagine what would happen? Their advertisers (makers of 15,000 speaers) would leave in droves! Nah, this guy wasn't a troll. He's just expressing what many of us are fed up with. Somehow I think K has been working on this for a while now, several years. There seems to be a push in Klipsch that had been missing for a long time. Now all they need to do is get Sam Tellig, blindfold his sorry arse, sit him between two Klipsches (your choice, any of 'em would do!) and re-educate him.

---------------- On 3/29/2005 8:44:37 AM gcoker wrote: Is not H?K owned by JBL which also makes JVC and Jensen? ---------------- Harman International is the audio Borg, they own JBL, Mark-Levinson, Infinity, and more. At least they let their aquisitions maintain their own look/feel/design/market, instead of making them Just Like Harman.

---------------- On 3/27/2005 9:02:03 PM lynnm wrote: Any Lirpa Labs Products anyone remembers ---------------- Steam-powered turntable.

Congrats, I think they'll do just fine! My Synergies are SF2, SB2 and SC1, all for my HT, driven by (don't laugh) a 130 dollar Sony 5.1 DD/DTS receiver. It was 130 like 2 years ago, it's discontinued now. It doesn't do *too* shamefully. It's not harsh, it's just a wee bit congested, probably the very skinny psu in the sony receiver. An 8" AR sub takes care of what the SFs can't. The HT's nice enough that if my 2-ch rig (see sig) dies and needs to be sent off to ARC for repairs, I can live with the HT for the interim for music. It's pretty funny when even the entry-level synergy whips most of the mass-market coner/domers out there. Vive le Klipsch!

if you can do light control where you watch tv, then my suggestion would be to ditch TV alltogether and go front projector. Best bang for buck. 3 grand will get you a decent hi-def lcd projector and a fairly large screen. Like 96" diag. (87" x 47") Picture-wise, they're awesome. I've yet to see a plasma, rear-projector or LCD flatpanel match this. They're not for joe average, tho. They require setup, adjustment, new lamps every xxxx hours, etc. I'm never going back to TV's.

1st soundtrack disc for the first season of Mahoromatic. Somewhere along the line, I've developed a taste for anime music, j-pop and j-rock. ^.^

---------------- On 3/11/2005 10:17:28 PM streyle wrote: is this the neuneo one? I'm interested in this as well since my HDTV only has component ---------------- Nope, momitsu's different from neuneo. I ahven't even looked at neuneo yet. And from what I've read, I won't even look at Bravo (V. inc.)

---------------- On 3/11/2005 11:12:08 PM Griffinator wrote: If you're gonna get one, do it quick, because the DVD consortium will come down like a hammer on Momitsu's parent company until they "fix" the problem... ---------------- Yeah, just like they got Zenith to fix their "broken" player.. one firmware revision, and no more upscaling via component. =oP I'll probably get it this coming week. Momitsu's an oddball.. after a little research, I think they don't have a US corporate prescense, just an importer.. (small one at that.) but that doesn't scare me.

Anyone using one of these? I'm thinking about the 880, will do 480p 720p and 1080i through the component video out. That's the important part for me -- I want an upconverting dvdp which can output 720p through component, leaving the HDMI port in my projector open for when I get HD cable or sat.. How's the reliability, and ability to read disks? I watch a lotta stuff via netflix, and sometimes those disks look like they've been used in a sander...

---------------- On 3/11/2005 11:34:10 AM j-malotky wrote: Good point. Try to find the owners and buy the speakers! At Indy last year, Trey pointed out that the projector lamps draw 100 amps of power. How would you like to pay that electric bill. Theaters are keeping less and less of the ticket price which is why popcorn is so expensive. I too hate to see the old places being shut down, but I can see why it is so hard to keep them going. ---------------- A typical xenon-arc lamp for a 35mm projector will gobble 5kw.. the old carbon-arcs even more. Kinda makes the 130 watt lamp in my panny 700 seem insignificant While there's something oh-so-romantic about running film through a projector, I really think digital cinema is going to either save or burn the industry. The saving point is: Digital's cheaper. Not the initial purchase, but the feeding of it. Most of the cost in movie palaces is *getting* the film in the first place.. transportation. A six-reel feature is not cheap to move! With digital, you just downloaded or get it on one hard disk. The flipside is, now we can do the same thing at home.. and that could finally bring to pass what they feared the most in the 50's.. that TV was gonna kill the movies. Well, I, for one, prefer running 'em at home. No sticky floors, no kids kicking your chair, no celphone yakity-yak, etc.. But no 70-ft wide screen, either... no elegant velvet drapes.. no feeling of being immersed into a huuuuuge space.. no neon outside.. I'm gonna miss the classic moviehouse. But now, *I* make sure the image is sharp and the audio is to-specs. Something the average teenage projectionist at the megasuperplex is apparently incapable of!

May wanna goto www.cinematreasures.org and enter it there. It's sad -- most of the entries in cinematreasures are closed/demolished. Many of them were top-shelf affairs, art-deco, art-nuveau moviehouses. My own childhood cinema (Plaza I and II at Plaza las Americas in Puerto Rico, built 1969, I had a curved 70-ft screen and room for 1250!) was torn down in 2000 to make a.. Macy's. When I build my own dedicated theater, it'll be a pint-sized replica of Plaza I. It was truly a grand moviehouse with a modern flair. Split stadium with balcony, 70mm, dolby, the works. I spent more time there than in school Best part? I *swear* the surrounds were Cornwalls on their sides, flown by wires. I remember the pie PWK logo. Dunno what lurked behind the screen.

"Music is a higher revelation than philosophy." L. v. Beethoven

---------------- On 3/2/2005 5:33:01 PM colterphoto1 wrote: Tiger, no limit to musical tastes here, I make de joke, otay? Are yours discs of the vinyl variety? ---------------- DOn't worry, I didn't get my fur all ruffled They're of the small, silver variety. I do have a few LP's of the Bach Harpsichord and String concertos (Again, Arkiv, Pinnock and English Concert). The very first recordings were made on metal disc masters -- you can hear stylus noise in the CD! (I have the same sessions on CD as well.) It's buried so deep down that you gotta be in a trance to hear it. In an a/b, the vinyl on my thorens out-sounds the CD of the same on the el-cheapo sony cdp. More frightening, the metal-master sessions sounds leagues more musical than the later DDD recordings in the same set.