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  1. I can't believe a "speaker wire" thread has lasted this long without my contribution!  14 AWG has always been more than sufficient for me in short-to-medium runs.  Any stranded copper zip-cord configuration more that meets the requirements.  Spend as much as you're happy doing, but rest assured that overkill is for ego, not result.

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  2. 21 minutes ago, Charles T said:

    Via Google searches, I've found a thread in a forum in Australia where a member modded a La Scala bass horn with a Crites woofer and then created a ported enclosure that attached under the horn with of course a pass-through from the sealed chamber to that ported enclosure. 

     

    Plenty of those here, too.

  3. 1 hour ago, ClaudeJ1 said:

    LOL, yes indeed, but having met Miss Valerie (PWK's second wife), I doubt she would have minded that much. I'm pretty sure it was simply a business decision by the new owners, since, I suspect, the sales volumes were very LOW for the Belle. Roy Delgado and Jim Hunter (among others) would know for sure.

     

    On the face of it, I feel saying his second wife having any influence in the matter really amounts to an accusation of pettiness on her part, and I'd seriously doubt that to be the case.  The product pre-existed her being a "Missus Paul Klipsch" and my guess is she wouldn't have minded in the least.

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  4. I've only got two speakers in my system (Forte III - 75% TV/DVD), but if I felt the need for a center channel speaker I'd have to say it must completely match the sonic presentation of the main units.  I surely wouldn't bother with it otherwise.  Klipsch (and others) make dedicated center-channel speakers but to my knowledge, only a Heresy IV will match a Heresy IV.

  5. I did floor covering with a good friend for several years.  There is a commercial product which is to be glued down and comes in nominally 2-foot squares.  It has a rubbery back with short-nap carpet on the upper surface.  You've all seen it in hospitals, at least, I'm sure.  See if the local floor covering store can't sell you a few remnant pieces.  Cut it to shape with a straightedge and utility knife.  It's hardly 1/4" thick, and provides the best performance in all respects mentioned above.

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  6. This article is coming up on 5 years old now.  I believe it's the most recent I've read on the current topic (not necessarily the newest I've read, simply the one I've read closest to "now").  I have insufficient knowledge to either confirm or dispute it, but on its face it "feels right" to me.  At any rate, it's an interesting read, and neither requires too much time nor is it too technical.

  7. Without following the links above yet to refresh my memory, I believe DSD ain't PCM but rather something like 1 bit toggled on/off at megaHertz frequency.  Sony came up with the notion in the '90s and it devolved into a BETA v. (whatever the other format was) type of format war with both contestants being left in the dust behind bigger / faster PCM words.  I think most DACs have the ability to "do" it, if it's been bothered-to-be-implemented.

  8. 3 minutes ago, Randyh said:

    typical Canadian courtesy ---- EH

     

    Haha.  Where I live is technically north of the Mason-Dixon line, but I'd wager the populace of the time (none related to me) was closer to being evenly-split on the issues at hand.  But I have visited Canada.  This'll be enough for me to post in this thread now until/unless I have pertinent content to contribute.

     

    My apologies now to the OP.

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  9. 4 hours ago, ILI said:

    Well, tubes DO have a break-in period (of up to 300 hours, depending on the model... ) So they do get better over time.

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    Also: some tube amps need up to half an hour for heating up and giving optimal sound quality (even if broken-in).

     

    True, but in my now-faded-memory experience, the "upwards of 1/2 hour" and "upwards of 300 hours" neither elicit "night and day" differences.

     

    The only good thing IMO that tubes provide over silicon is the glowing, pulsating plasma in the output tubes, but that might require some good weed to truly appreciate!

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