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Well, a Frenchman just won the greatest auto race...

Of course. But I have to ask "how often does even a modern piano play those strings"? If one considers the history of the piano, playing even half that low is a really recent innovation. There are many recordings available of Mozart compositions, for example, rendered on instruments approximating those available to Wolfgang, and even a LaScala (in terms of the "piano") would more than suffice. Ditto for Beethoven and more.

No offense taken. My dad had an Edison cylinder player with a large box full of cylinders - I guess left to him by a deceased relative. Every once in a while as a child I'd flip open the lid, affix the horn, wind it up and have a listen. I'm glad he was able to find a buyer and enjoy the cash before he passed. Technically it was superior, with its fixed-pitch grooves and tracking angle, to a spinning disc and tonearm (with only two places the stylus is at a right angle to the groove, if the arm is bent in some way, which then necessitates anti-skating). Unless maybe you've got a Rabco/Harman table that emulates the cutting lathe... Still, there are way too many "synergistic" factors when reproducing a wriggling groove to get it as easily right as turning numbers back into voltage levels over fixed time. As a possibility, you might consider there are folks who've been doing all this stuff, possibly at a greater depth, for a longer time than you, and I just might be one of them... I respect your right to have an opinion. Please return the favor.

One of the "quick stuff" (arguably the quickest) things to check is to assure you actually have wall power getting to the control speaker. I fetched a copy of the (Klipsch's typically non-informative) manual and saw no indication there's a fuse anywhere in the circuit... Swap out the power cord or if you have a way (contact or non-) of determining there's line voltage at the amplifier, rule out that possible (hopefully likely) failure, too. I'm relatively new to the current "Klipsch" but it appears as though maybe they might should stick to speakers and leave the electronics alone?

Well, these are a two-piece system. It would seem likely that the passive crossover would be in the HF section, with a dedicated output to the LF unit (as was described). By the same token, it would seem unlikely that the low-pass network for the bass bin would be built in to the bass bin. I don't know what the arrangement is with these units so didn't respond earlier. My guess is that the entire crossover is in the upper unit and both(?) are not working properly, with the direct hookup to the bass bins causing them to run full-range. But I Don't Know... Is the history of these speakers known? Have they been modified?

Relative to my earlier question about frequency response shaping, that horn just looks to me like it has certain "constant directivity" characteristics which seem to be opposed to more "constant response" qualities. I'm a believer in constant directivity (or constant control) so that's not a denigration on my part, but that typically requires shaping the signal to restore/produce a flatter-response output.

That's a separate issue from the question. The ability to produce vs. the ability to control.

You caught me altering my post post-submission...

How does one factor years of grins into an amortization? Whatever the process it needs to be done in this case!

Bet it was/is difficult to get bass/mid/treble balance developed with that room structure! Congratulations. I was cheaper/lazier than you. My room/equipment layout isn't as difficult as yours but is non-optimal in its own right. I decided speakers that had much better directivity control would be needed and for the life of me can't remember how I came to even consider Klipsch in general or the Forte III in particular, but I didn't even drive an hour to audition them. I just ordered a pair. Still grinning ear to ear every day.

Amen, brother!

They came up with those two storage formats because of their increased capacity over CD: more playing time and/or more channels of information and/or increased bit rate/depth (neither of which are necessary since the standard used on CD is already above what's needed for super-high fidelity). Are there still titles being offered on either of those two schemes, which pretty much competed themselves to death more than ten years ago (it's like asking which do you prefer: Beta or VHS?)? As to whether the technical superiority of digital over vinyl transfers to the listening experience, my ratio of >100 to one (shit, might be 200 to one) ought to answer that question. Since I don't even have a working turntable any longer, my 30-some remaining vinyl discs are technically to be counted as zero, which makes the ratio infinity to one in practical terms. So long as you derive enjoyment from nostalgia, it's all good.

Sounds good and right to me. I don't know about the iteration of Fortes you had back in the day, but I feel the current production version sets the standard for modern speaker performance in their price range. It would behove you to check in to them.

The lead(s) from output B to the subwoofer are picking up an induced voltage, likely from a power cord. When you turn on B, amp on or off - doesn't matter - so long as A is on and there's a load on it, as was said above the speaker snubs the induced voltage (you could try turning A off and it likely would act just like it does now whatever any other combination). Try putting some twists in the wires feeding the sub or at least route them so they don't run alongside a power cord. If that doesn't get it, check for a potential between chassis of the amp and sub.

Yep. "Cracked" is an apt description!

Used to joke about him maybe being Oscar's son... I see he's still bouncing and delivering the same. Not that it's bad in and of itself, just gets a bit tedious is all. No denying the boy man is talented.

In his defense, I get nothing, too. It starts out looking like something might render, then nothing. Perhaps you being a member there, and having a necessary cookie to send them is a factor?

I hate it when that happens... What do you mean, specifically, by "cracked?"

And the added weight, though miniscule, is going to account for at least some change in driver characteristics (though perhaps miniscule). If the magnet end has a (screened) hole through which you can poke a nicely-rounded-over piece of #14 solid copper wire, you can gently prod the tear closed and back up the installation of a patch. You could glue on a piece of black paper cut in the shape of an eye patch, or whip up a "bandaid"-looking patch...

I had to look that up. It appears as though Mayer is more of the impetus than an addition. Interesting. Does he still deliver the vocals in the (too) same way as he's always done, or does he change it up a bit now?

That would've been a couple years prior to my cherry getting popped, but even when I started (opting for Slackware) one had to be pretty savvy or get that way to use it. Not like today... Trying to use Microsoft Windows is now like trying to use a calculator with an "=" key

The menu for conversions is Shift 5 "Convert". Only one more button press unless yours are unshifted. If you get a few minutes, give it a whirl. I guess it's mostly 41-compatible. The thing about the real hardware is it's as pocketable as a smartphone. And seeing both the x and y stacks is hard to downgrade from.

I think our AT&T DSL was upwards of 190 kb/s (bits, not Bytes) down but was very asymmetricral. Maybe 25 up. The thing I hate worst about them is a few years ago they had me drive an hour each way to spend a few hours taking tests, then sit for a couple hours waiting for an interview for a field tech. position. After some time had passed I called the guy who'd called me to do that stuff, checking on the status of the position, and he told me it had already been filled before they had me do all that! They merely wanted me for "pool" fodder... I asked him "Where do I send the bill?" and that was the end of that. Got a fiber feed now, 100 Mb/s +, symmetrical.

He wants to hear yours without traveling there to do so. Have you addressed "connectivity" to the shop?

The video don't need to be hi-res, just the audio!