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Tom Mobley

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  1. yessiree, I remember that. vaguely. I was very ill in 2013 and lost 80 lbs among other things. My memory is still not quite the same. Doc says I have drain bamage. It's kind of selective like my hearing loss, mainly seems to affect me when my wife is talking. Russ, that Belle still really rocks. It ended up with an early K-33, your K-55-V and a K-77 that I put a Crites diaphragm in. Found a Klipsch 700 horn. Built it an ALK AA with all the good parts. I *think* I still have enough of those parts to build another AA. That Belle came out really good with Mahogany veneer and Oxblood grill cloth. The grain of the Mahogany evokes a sort of an old time California surfboard motif. I'm still very glad I joined here, I learned a lot in a fairly short period of time.Everything from soldering point to point stuff to exotic veneer finishing. I did some stuff in African Lacewood for a guy here in town. That stuff positively shimmers as you walk by. I would never have known how to do any of this stuff without the help of generous forum members.
  2. Thanks guys for remembering me. It really has been awhile. Marvel, he's 19 now, a soph at Gonzaga in engineering. He plays upright bass and sings in the choir. Lately he's been asked to play electric bass guitar at church. So he picks it up and plays it. Just like that. All that classical training pays off. Craig, you still building amps? I found my new Heyboer iron I got for the HF-81 project the other day. Still all wrapped up in the boxes. I guess I sort of got burned out doing Smilin's DBB cornscalas. Jeeze those things were nice, but I had way too many hours in them. Good to be on here again.
  3. It's been many, many years since I went to a real rock concert. Spoiled by listening to my Klipsch at home. Went with my 19 year old son to a concert last week, group called Alabama Shakes. I'd heard a little of their stuff but not much. Anyway, opening act gets up there, typical cruddy sound, muddy bass way too heavy in the mix, poor vocals, screechy lead guitar. I'm sitting there thinking "Yup, this is why I quit going to concerts all right". Then Alabama Shakes comes out after a complete equipment change on stage. OMG! WTF!! Who are these people? Never heard any concert sound like that ever. Hear every tinkle of chimes, every shimmer of cymbals, every trailing half-note of the guitar. All at over 100 dB. This lead singer, an African-American woman from northern Alabama just tears up an SG, plays it like it was a ukelele. I've never in my life heard such a tightly integrated group. We were about 30 rows back, right in front of the sound booth. It was like getting hit by a car. So I'm dumbfounded by the quality and volume. Never sat down the whole time. Talk about hair-trigger dynamics, this is what it's all about. So my son buys their LP album, we fire it up. Now I've got a old Yammie mid-fi turntable, still has the M95ED cart on it from the early eighties. Hasn't been used much in recent decades, but I dragged it out and got a new belt on it awhile back. It plays into a Dynaco tube pre, which dumps into a 3 channel TEAC digital amp via a PWK splitter. Anyway, untouched 1960 Khorns and a homebuilt center Belle. I'm totally dumbfounded again. The whole rig just kicks butt all over the place. So does the recording. I don't know where these people record but their stuff is more or less perfect. Whoever their recording engineer is must be a genius. High energy, high volume sound is just flawless. It's good to get some enthusiasm back. Maybe I'll build more LS and Belles. Alabama Shakes, the entire neighborhood.
  4. I had a chance, years ago, to buy set of these. They were empty. I was going to buy them, fill them with Klipsch components. It was before aftermarket equivilant stuff like Crites woofers were available. I would have had to buy all the stuff from Klipsch and it was insanely expensive. I gave up on it. The cabs themselves looked pretty good to me. They were nicely built.
  5. I got a pair of mid-70s Corns, they were like museum pieces. CWO, more or less perfect. Paid like 750, thought it was a great deal. I was going to build a set of ALK crossovers for them, but they sounded so good I just never got a roundtuit. Good enough is good enough. Ended up selling them to a guy in Hawaii, shipped them 2 day air. Cost almost as much as the speakers.
  6. Good to see you Craig. I don't log on here much any more. Too much other stuff going on. Seems I sort of lost enthusiasm after finishing those monster DBB Corns for smilin. remember Steve?
  7. an old quote from somebody: "Belles will fill your room with music, Klipschorns will fill your house with music." And maybe part of the neighborhood too. I've got LaScalas too, with K-400 horns and decent crossovers. Nothing sounds like Klipschorns, nothing.
  8. jake: "....so i gave up my pro dream and took up being a mechanic and raising a family" cojones of steel there. congratulations on having the intestinal fortitude to do what's right for you and your family.
  9. whatever happened to Kelly anyway? I still have the updated HF-81 I did when it was all the rage. Little amp still kicks butt pretty good.
  10. Tom, thanks for remembering me. I don't logon here much anymore either. Those were pretty good old days though.
  11. Wonder why some of these have 3 inductors and others have only two? The factory one that Dean posted with 3 inductors doesn't have much in the way of caps either.
  12. here's mine, I believe these were manufactured in late 1959 or early 1960. Is that an autoformer? I remember thinking it was an inductor. Too many wires on it?
  13. file:///G:/DCIM/100DSCIM/PICT0016.JPG.......... file:///G:/DCIM/100DSCIM/PICT0017.JPG............file:///G:/DCIM/100DSCIM/PICT0019.JPG these are links to files on your physical hard drive or camera. One way or another you have to get them uploaded to the internet before you can link to them. Chrome is just displaying them locally to you.
  14. Well, I thought that was what I was asking. Does anybody here know if the digi-amps are hi-impedance output?
  15. I remember much discussion about SET amps having issues with big swings in speaker impedance. 5Si like that at all? AL-700P? I've gotten to where I like the sound of these things while also figuring I really need to do something about the original K-500-500 crossovers in my Khorns. My choices ( the ones I like anyway) are a low parts count A type or a more complex and and expensive ALK AA type with constant impedance. Worth persuing the improvements in the impedance curve for use with these type amps?
  16. Well, even if I'm late I'm still in. Long time no talk Craig.
  17. jwilson55, Are you still looking for badges? I still have a few that were produced as part of a forum project many years ago. PM me email at my public account, tmoble@yahoo.com
  18. Wow, whatta blast from the past! This was when I first got my Khorns.
  19. Wow, you think Rotel will have enough guts to run them?
  20. Is that ebony paper backed? I've done some of this iron-on with heat lock glue and have been warned that the oily Ebony veneer would have problems with the iron-on method. Mind you, I haven't tried it myself. All of the veneering I've done is with the thicker raw veneer from certainlywood.com.
  21. It ain't over till it's over bud. Hang in there. Many pray for you and yours regularly. Thanks for posting Amy. I had no idea.
  22. Thanks for taking time to reply guys. Looks like it needs to be able to get up to at least 3KHz, maybe 4, that's going to be tough on a 15. I looked at the 15s at PX, looks like if they go up near there they're 10 or 20dB down. artto, your comments are well taken, as always. can a P-P EL-34 make 30 watts?
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