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Maybe you thought I was the one who asked for the "raw" plot (of the driver)? I understand the nature of the (CD) horn, which is why I said what I said

The latency would make that awkward. Perhaps they were in a multi-way conversation.

That's (frequency amplitude) not fair to the driver itself... It don't look bad, but is largely horn.

Spiking the cabinet shouldn't improve bass response. My notion about that is two-fold. First, if there's not a solid (shape-wise) connection to the floor, the waves will have to jump a gap and energy will be lost in so doing. Much better to have a continuous surface to follow all the way to the floor where they can expand uninterrupted. Second, if your cabinet itself is vibrating so much that solidly transferring those vibrations to the floor helps the bass, you've got problems that can be addressed in better ways than spikes. Second-part-b, if your floor is doing anything in terms of transmitting those (spiked) vibrations to the air, you've got problems that can be addressed in better ways than spikes.

I wouldn't doubt they're making at least some money. Look at all the folks "working from home" accosting people via telephone for extended auto warranties and such. Tell them you want to be put on their "don't call" list and you get another call for the same thing within minutes. I usually answer the phone but don't say anything. After several seconds it hangs up - I figure at least I'm tying up their line so they can't auto-dial someone else in the mean time.

But I'm sitting out in the garage having a smoke using my Moto. Have a look at the duckduckgo.com search engine and their browser (what I'm using), some very nice anti-intrusion features.

My two-year-old grand-daughter knows how to flip through photos in the photo album on one... Yeah, google is hyper-intrusive. I was a fan for years, ever since they were a school project on google.stanford.edu with raid cases made of Legos. Up until a couple years ago when I had enough of them. They're one of if not the biggest forces behind the push for all sites going https and that irks the crap out of me. For many years I've been re-writing web pages on the way in via privoxy (to get rid of unwanted content/functionality and to introduce my own functionality). It's largely useless now. And I feel that's the real reason (maintaining ad revenue as opposed to "surfer security"). And as much as I'm a fan of Android, there's a great deal of google interaction that can't be gotten rid of without a rooted device. Still better than dealing with Apple, IMO.

Both badges?

=== I believe it is a well known “fact” told throughout the audio community if you are listening to Klipsch speakers that indeed your head is in a vice — My head-vice is fully mobile and articulating so it comfortably moves with me no matter how or in which direction I'm holding my head at the moment. It's weightless and invisible (the vice, not my head).

I thought the rationale for the spikes was to securely couple the speaker to the floor, thus preventing any motion which could smear the sound due to changing source locations. I'd "buy" that notion, but I don't sit with my head in a vice so I doubt I'd hear the difference. And seriously doubt any benefit could possibly be derived using them on something like a corner horn in any event. There is no real rationale for either of the parts in the second joke scenario.

Got a link to explain why front to back instead of face to face?

I'm not into home theater, but if you get floor-standing speakers for front left and right, I'd think your current in-ceiling front left and right are then perfect for the atmos information.

None taken, but I find your statement "Linux may be wonderful for folks who only run applications developed by others" to be rather upside down (no offense) as there are no better tools available at any cost for coming up with one's own applications. What's more, if I want different behavior in an application I can make whatever changes I want and recompile. I ditched the wanna-be Microsoft junk about the time they were in beta with 95 and have never, ever, regretted it. Back then you really had to roll up your sleeves to get a system up and running. Not so any more. There truly are no near rivals to GNU/Linux any more.

I've got a copy of "Street Survivors" with the band engulfed in flames on the cover and a tour schedule insert, which tour was tragically cut short and the remaining stock of albums pulled to be reissued sans flames. Can't get that on CD!

On second thought the AC/DC might've been thinner. And what are they using to play / monitor, I wonder. Certainly could make a difference in reaching a determination. And whether the disc will ever sound as good again...

There were others, to be sure, but all the Zeppelin up to "In Through the Out Door" back in the day I got "cut corner" pressings from England at a discount from the regular $3.99 U.S. versions, and they most definitely had a superior sound quality over the U.S. stampings. Oh, yeah, had AC/DC "High Voltage" from Australia, too, with a dog pissing on a transformer on the cover and a couple different tracks. It was a thicker disc than "ours" and much better-sounding. I miss the import cut-outs at Co-op Records (and head shop)... Funny how less-expensive transformed to way over-the-top.

Just looked at their site. Didn't see any product marketed for cabinet interiors. I'd say "no" in answer to the question, unless maybe used in a home-built box, bit not to modify/augment what the factory did (if it didn't disintegrate after a few decades or something).

I'd sooner spend 500 on wires than on a single disc pressing, and my Home Depot speaker wire is 100% adequate... But I bet that outfit makes a living just fine without me. More power to 'em.

Well said.

Fetch and test-run an Ubuntu system image file. Trust me, you'll be thankful, and you'll find something to occupy some time at no cost.

I'd say that so long as the woofer, when (appropriately) pushed backward and held for a moment, is not delayed in returning when released, and no "air movement" sounds are detectable from the would-be-sealed locations, the boxes are air-tight-enough. Not that it would hurt to go the extra mile sealing them up, but it doesn't really gain anything past a point.

Better to run XP (or so) in a Virtualbox window than run any Windows on bare hardware shared with other systems.

Or could remove the tweeters one each box style, lay the boxes face up and compare how much water they hold! On the monitor, measure the top from one of the front corners to each of the other corners in order, then again from the other front corner to each of the others going the opposite direction, plus the height. Width, depth, & height (less any riser) of the standard box, too. They most likely differ (namely the woofers), but I'll figure the drivers take up the same space. I'm only interested in how the volumes of the boxes themselves compare. Math is easy and fun and I don't get to do enough of it.

I've assumed he doesn't have an AVR, or at least one that can synthesize atmos information. Maybe I got that wrong...

Hell, do a real upgrade: https://www.ubuntu.com/ Fetch a copy of the latest "long term" release, burn the image to a disc or thumb drive, boot it up and take it for a no-harm spin, at the least.