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Oicu812

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  1. @Dtbsf @FalconXXXX The obvious "meet in the middle spot" to my mind would be to catch each other in Reno or Lake Tahoe. BTW @FalconXXXX, those are some beautiful speakers. Both sets. I am a bit jealous!
  2. To make things easier on the 5.1 front for a PC, I went with a digital fiber optic cable (SPDIF or TOSLINK: https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics-Fiber-Optic-Cables/zgbs/electronics/1288217011) from my PC to an Onkyo 6.1 surround receiver. This puts all the surround processing onto the receiver. To that I hooked up a pair of KP-3002 for the main R/L, a pair of KPT-100 centers (with an additional amp for the second speaker, visible in the upper right of the pic), the side R/L are a pair of Super Heresy, and the back R/L is a pair of KP-1000 (modded to make them a 2-way with K-701 horns and K-55-V drivers), and an SW8-II sub. For music, you change the output to all channels R and L. An amazing sound stage develops in this mode. Music sounds like you are on stage in the middle of the band! (Ann and Nancy are RIGHT HERE!) For 5.1, you change it to PLII or Neo:Cinema. The surround sound from movies on my computer is simply amazing. Watching Dunkirk (for instance) puts you right in the middle of the firefight. Rounds are flying front to back and opposite. You find yourself flinching, wanting to duck so as to not get hit... Here's a pic so that you get an idea what I am talking about. Keep in mind that my monitor is a 55" Sony 4K TV and the woofers in the KP-3002 on either side are 15"!:
  3. These are a very good deal for $300! It wouldn't take too much work to make them tip~top!
  4. They seem like a really good deal at $1,499!
  5. How much were they asking?
  6. Please try out the image / picture hosting site in my signature below. You can do as many pics as you like, and it only takes a couple of seconds to use. I only say this because I would really like to see all of the pics you have of this speaker!
  7. Shouldn't he paint the speakers to match the shelf colors??
  8. Now THAT is a monster system. Congratulations! Now all you need are a matching single and sub for the ultimate 5.1 surround.
  9. I think one of the best pieces of moving advice I have seen for speakers is this: Take a piece of wire and short it across the two input terminals for each of the drivers. This effectively turns the speaker into a motor, and the coil will not move due to the resistance. Especially on the woofer.
  10. I agree with the "replace both" advice given above. Keep both of the originals, so that a new owner in the future can make the decision on an "original" rebuild. Or you might want to go down that path yourself some time in the future.
  11. Actually, I was curious one day and walked around the top floor. They most certainly did, although I don't have photographic evidence...
  12. It was a really nice place. It was owned by a woman who had saved all of her dancing money to build a proper club. Tastefully decorated, professionally run, and I was the only male person that worked there. No sleazy managers, and I made sleazy clientele bounce a couple of times as they hit the pavement out front. Everyone stopped whatever they were doing and watched whenever "mama" felt like dancing herself. It wasn't often. At 45, she still looked better than her 20 and 30 somethings, and she was a consummate performer. I've never seen better. She would do things with a chair that would boggle your mind. She used a lot of different props, not just a pole. The move that amazed me was when she would do a handstand using that chair, one hand on the seat and the other on the back of it. I tried to tip her once, and she smiled charmingly while she refused.
  13. Actually Tammy found love in the arms of Roe Messner. He was the contractor that built Heritage USA. In their huge hotel, Roe, Jim, and Tammy had their own personal suites. Brass plaques on the wall next to each one. The entire place was decorated in Louis XIVth. It was all gawdy and everything was covered in gold ormolu. When the Bakkers could not pay it off, Roe and company ended up owning over half of it, if my source is correct.
  14. I think that there are plenty of pictures for that kind of thing on the Internet as it is. *<;o)
  15. I had a thought on why you might want to cross in front of the listening area. It might be that way if you wanted to maximize the spread for more than one person, say two people side by side in chairs.
  16. Oh my, you have no idea just how odd my career path has been. My wife is a professional musician, and made the blanket statement about me having no where as many jobs as she had. So I told her to write down all of the jobs she could, until it took more than 5 minutes between each to remember. I did the same. Once I got to 214, I had to call it quits. Let's just say that I won the title, hands down, no contest.
  17. Darn it, Bubo. I was trying to derail that particular thread of conversation... *<;o)
  18. Tammy looked in person like she put on her makeup with a trowel, but she actually was really nice to me.
  19. I don't understand why you would want to cross in front of the listening position either, so I would also like to know the reasoning behind this. I use a long T-square to help aim my speakers... The cross piece is placed firmly on the top back of the speaker, and the 3' rule is then aimed directly at the listening spot so that I absolutely know that it is aimed directly at the listening position of my head. Shims are used to bring either the front or back of the speaker up, effectively raising or lowering the aiming spot of the mid horn (which is the most important audio frequency range to me!). Now I will reveal my hidden shame to the world: I was a "sound guy" back in my youth, and I was living in the farthest south you can get in North Carolina. Due south of Charlotte, in fact. I had a secondary job as a bouncer in a topless establishment, but my primary job during the day was as the "sound guy" for Heritage USA, which was directly over the state line in South Carolina. That's right, I worked for Jim and Tammy Bakker. They had a few venues on the property where I was required to work the mixing boards, troubleshoot issues, and generally keep things running smoothly. There was the TV studio/auditorium (which means room or area for listening in Latin!), the water park, and the outdoor amphitheater where they performed plays in the round. It looked identical to the historical Roman outdoor amphitheaters. (If this doesn't shift the topic, I don't know what will...) If anyone has any questions, please post them here. I will answer all that I can. Remind me to talk about fixing the sound problem for "The Coasters" at a live venue, and being asked to hang out and party with them that night after the show. Cognac and Dom were the primary catalysts for spontaneous music and humor. Then they started making "mixed drinks" (as they called them...), consisting of Cognac with Dom on top in a 1/3rd - 2/3rds ratio. Very similar to my grandfathers' Canadian - 7 mixes every night (but with a LOT more kick!).
  20. I don't live too far from Homosassa, FL. I would be willing to go check any of these out, and possibly pick them up and store them for anyone on the board that is interested. The word "Homosassa" in Seminole Indian language means "Place of the Whiskey".
  21. @Langston, I have an odd thought for you. Is it possible to put these inductors in a Faraday cage to help eliminate coupling and cross talk? That would be interesting to see. Would a small(ish) ferrous metal box that surrounds the inductor do the same thing in the magnetic spectrum that a traditional copper mesh cage does for the electrical fields? Or did I misunderstand what you said above?: If you mean by "mutual inductance" the presence of nearby ferrous material or unmodulated magnetic fields (driver magnets), you're probably right and it's on the dog.
  22. Wow, I was not expecting this. I was talking with him not too long ago about working on his project to bring the Amiga PC platform back to life. RIP Dave.
  23. All they need are the Cylon light strips rolling back and forth. The only taste they have goes no higher than the tongue.
  24. Speaker systems - musical instruments - by owner - sale (craigslist.org) Speaker systems - musical instruments - by owner - sale Different speaker systems with different prices. 4 passive Cerwin Vega subs in Seismic Audio cabinets in excellent working order for $1000 all four. A pair of Seismic audio 15" two ways loaded with... ocala.craigslist.org 
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