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Only because you don't know when to stop stirring the pot...GEEZ!

I get your point, but you don't seem to get mine...You'd be very surprised at how many of those family members in those countries are well-trained in medical care...Hospitals and hospices are very expensive for them, so what WE tend to do in a hospital or hospice situation is taken care of by family members under medical supervision BY family members, including IV's and everything. They will even replicate a hospital bed for them, using the family members who have the skills to build it! It is a cultural thing...for the most part...with the entire family involved so that nobody has need to shoulder an unnecessary amount of the burden on their own. Few Filipino graduates from nursing schools and other medical profession schools actually get PAID in their jobs in that country...what they do is forego pay to gain experience..a VARIEY of experience...which can be verified...and once they have built up enough of that experience on their resume they go overseas to good-paying jobs to send money back home to their families. Most families have medical-professionals in them...more than one in most families...some are overseas while others are still building up their resumes to go overseas to work. What goes on at home for the ill members is very-well supervised! MUCH MORE supervised and constant than I have seen in hospitals here. This kind of thing goes on in many countries around the world, too. Things like dementia, Alzheimer's, and metastic issues in the brain are commonly taken care of at home under family member medical supervision. I personally know about it...my wife's mother and grandfather are good examples. NUMEROUS old age issues for the grandfather who was in his 90's when they all seemed to hit at once, terminal cancer for my mother-in-law. FIVE family members in the medical professions in the local extended family neighborhood, rotating in and out of the homes, under the supervision of the doctors in the city. Reporting changes to the doctors in the city, and following changing instructions. Seeing is believing....and the patients actually FEEL THE LOVE involved in it all!

There are many nations where the people in the vast majority of these countries (except maybe in the largest cites in those countries) Just CAN NOT fathom the concept of nursing homes and such! They have never seen one, because they seldom exist. The elderly family members are cared for by all of their family and extended family, instead! Most of these situations have many relatives living nearby the home(s) of the elderly people, and take turns providing the necessary care for their elderly relatives. If the elderly individual needs hospital care, they will be there with them for the entire time they are at the hospital, and as soon as the person CAN POSSIBLY BE RELEASED, they will take them back to the home and care for them there during recuperation! They may have a local traveling nurse drop by if needed just to check on things...but it is the family who PERSONALLY takes on the responsibility of the care! We, in this country are nowadays so far off-track when it comes to taking care of elderly family members, by and large! It is just pitiful, IMHO! My wife just cannot fathom the concept of a "nursing home"! She is from the provinces in the Philippines. Elderly are never disrespected in "her place", they are revered and treated with absolute respect! We in this country really have lost that kind of thing...it is extremely sad to me!

Ok, here is the REAL DEAL about online dating for guys...expect your credit rating to drop a bit. Because, while you are online chatting with some gal you picked out, she will have another window open and will be checking on your credit rating...each time that happens, your credit rating can drop a bit...so my BEST ADVICE, is to NOT have too many "on the string" at one time! She will ALSO be checking google maps for the street view of your residence, with that, she will be hoping the pic has your vehicle in it! And, if possible, she will find out as much as she can about your net worth! And, DO NOT think that this applies to JUST the gals who are looking for a rich guy, because women with great incomes also do it so that they don't get stuck with some bum who will try to take financial advantage of them! BUT, turnabout is fair play, right?😉

Justin, you've certainly come a very long way from your Heresy and H/K 430 receiver days from around 20 years ago when you were still at home going to high school! We need to talk sometime. I'll probably end up as one of your customers! Glad to see that you got hooked on "ultra-wide-band frequency response" way back when! I kinda think it was my fault, though! 😉

Even though I am doing just fine in retirement with what my income is, I am still a "cheapass" at heart...mostly due to having been raised by Great Depression-era parents! I kinda wonder how many on the forum were also raised by Great Depression-era parents?...and ended up learning how to make-do with what we had while growing up? I was jealous of how my kid brother got things which I never got...like a new bicycle instead of a30+ year-old re-welded frame hand-me-down bike that had originally been purchased in the 1930's! At least it was genuine Schwinn...with a springer front fork! LOL! Once Dad told me that the bike needed painting, as he whipped out a really sorry looking well-used paint brush and a can of olive drab green paint and handed it to me...yes, he was in the military! My friends: "Hey Andy, why do you always walk around with ONLY one of yer pants legs rolled up above your calf while the other is rolled down? just buy a chain guard for that thing!" Me replying: "What the heck is a chain guard?" We always had ten times more food in the house than we needed...three freezers full...twice a year all kinds of stuff got thrown outta the freezers to make room for NEWER stuff...WHY? Depression-era parents never wanted to worry about being hungry again! It was one of the signs of having those kinds of parents! We threw out almost as much food as we consumed due to that! Straightening out old rusty used nails so that they could be used again...yet another sign! I refuse to use straightened out old rusty nails, simply because I can afford not to do that! Dad had dozens of old coffe cans full of them..."Son, grab a couple of those nail cans and start straightening-out the ones that need it...while I use them on this here project!"😂

Type E was a minor change from the previous crossover designation...I think it REALLY just amounted to changing the leads to one of the drivers to the opposite polarity on the crossover....so that it ended up TECHNICALLY becoming out of phase, but it performed better that way in testing and in listening...it is in one of the "Dope from Hope" issues.from back then as an announcement of a crossover change and re-designation for it. For the Heresy I series, not a lot occurred crossover-wise or driver-wise after the designation of the Heresy model H700 came along, IIRC! My memory is not what it used to be at age 66, though! "Where is my phone? Oh, it is in my hand!" 😀

Well, welcome back to the zoo! It's good to see ya on here again!

Did you try to use your toothbrush to get that dog crap out of the nooks crannies on them shoes? Here's an idea for ya...just save an old toothbrush for stuff like that...your taste buds will thank you!😉

I lost my father, who was MY BEST FRIEND, to Cancer a week after my 35th birthday...he was 73. So I fully understand and commend you for trying to spend time with your father, especially on his special days! I hope he has a great birthday!

All of the estate sales I have ever been to were auctions...but they did have tables of miscellaneous stuff with price tags on them...but the high-dollar items were auctioned! The intent of most estate sales is to get rid of things the survivors don't want and put money in their pockets. It is hard to sell something if you asking more for it than others are willing to pay! Therefore the highest value items are normally auctioned, because they want money more that they want the items...and they hope to get more thru auctioning them. This works out well for estate sales with guns...because, for some odd reason 😉, they tend to go for well above the normal asking price! ME, I refuse to buy anything for more than it is really worth...and much prefer to get it for well under its going price elsewhere! I build up my "net worth" MORE that way!

I put one on my Great-great Grandfather's grave twice a year, whether you or anybody else likes them or not! And no, he never owned a slave! But he fought..for his country...for his own reasons! He was sent home for being to old at the age of 42, right after the Battle of Corinth...by the time he got home, that old-age ban had been lifted...and he found his sawmill burnt to the ground along with his home and everything else was destroyed or gone thanks to enemy soldiers. So he searched around to find his wife and children, gathered them up and moved them to live in a cave with a good spring below it, and went back to fight again! Trust me, he FOUGHT MUCH HARDER the second time around!!...again, FOR HIS OWN REASONS...Just like his father and grandfather fought for their country and flag before him, and like his children and grand-children and great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren and even his great-great-great grandchildren fought for their country and its flag after him! POLITICIANS start wars, but it is the common men who have to fight in them...for whatever reason....So try to keep the political crap to a minimum, thanks!

That's definitely true for guns (for a PARTICULAR reason!), but one must consider that it is STILL an AUCTION...and the highest bidder wins...no matter what the seller is expecting. It all really boils down to who shows up and what they want....along with how high they are willing to bid.

Just for the time that I worked at Klipsch, July 1976-October 1983, I estimate that if you take all the K-horns, Belles, LaScalas, and Cornwalls TOGETHER ...the Heresy out-sold them at LEAST 20 to 1. But one must also consider the economic climate of the time-period! Inflation was running rampant, while money was tight and interest rates were ridiculously high! Each year people found that they had less spending power than they had the year before, even after getting raises at work! People settle for what they can easily afford in those kinds of times PLUS, the Heresy had fully-developed to much more than just a supplementary speaker by then! No matter how one looks at it, the Heresy is what kept the company in the black once it FINALLY GOT INTO the black! When you are working in the plant every day, and you know what the production rates are, and you can count how many people are building particular models...it is much easer to estimate things to a ratio even if you don't have the exact number for them. Numerous things happened to the way speakers were assembled and parts were produced while I was there. As far as production rates go, the most improved methodology for parts and assembly occurred specifically for the mitered Heresy boxes. The elimination of the chain clamps for a quicker construction method increased the numbers which COULD be produced by an individual builder. The individual daily production rates actually fell a bit with the change-over from the HDB(X) birch Heresy to the HB(X) build, because it took longer to build one...but the sales numbers rose because they all came with grilles on the HB(X) build. Of all the speakers built while I was there, the least cost-effective for the company by far was the Belle. It had to sell below the cost of a K-horn, and at the same time it took at least twice the labor time to build it! It, like many others (Cornwall and Heresy come to mind!) was originally designed as a supplementary speaker for a K-horn. But, by the time it entered production, since stereo systems were already in full vogue, its INTENDED use was a supplement CENTER CHANNEL speaker between two flanking K-horns...for a three-speaker stereo array. People still ordered them as pairs, though, for regular stereo! It was really funny how things "took different turns" after a specific design intent had caused them to enter the picture to begin with! By the time I left, the Klipsch line was already producing the KG2 with other "smaller footprint than a Heresy" speakers about to go into production.. additionally other in-house Heresy sales competition came along....all of which began to knock the Heresy downwards (but never completely down!) from its perch as sales leader, but it still out-sold any other particular model. But many of those models are NOW gone forever, although some have made a return to production with updated changes after being "dead" for a few years. BUT the Heresy has never been out of production in its history. It somehow just keeps rolling along! It really is a great speaker, though, IMHO! Probably, for "best bang-for-the-buck", Klipsch has never had anything else close to it!

I agree....No matter how you look at it, SALT is a human NECESSITY for survival, ESPECIALLY in hot and humid climates! So, keep that in mind. The reason why they started Iodizing salt was due to not enough people eating fish. Your thyroid gland needs the iodine to work correctly! SO, too much elimination of salt in your diet can be just as unhealthy as consuming too much salt...you just need to find the mid-ground and stay there. The best way to get the things you need for your body to function properly is to let the foods you eat be your medicine!

Keep this in mind...all the work we have to do to get a room squared away for our Klipsch as far as treatments goes, those 901 owners don't need to worry about...because REFLECTION is what makes BOSE thrive! You'll NEVER get the FINE DETAILS of the music out of Bose, but you can put them almost anywhere there is a flat wall without worrying about room treatments! Me?...I need the detail so Bose is NOT and option! To me, it is over-priced junk!

Components on WHICH unit in the system?? There were two versions of the MCM 1900...the earlier version had the MTM (tweeter box), which ALSO has two versions...each using different components...then you nave the MSM (midrange unit)...which has a fibertglass exponentioan horn with a 4-way manifold for the K-55 compression drivers....then you MAY HAVE the addition of a MSSM unit (sub-squawker) which is a wooden horn lens pushed by a cone driver through a compression slot....IIRC, that driver was either an 8-inch or a 10-inch and was made by CETEC...but the driver-sourcing changed at least once in that unit...then you have the MWM bass bin unit...which is pushed by the K-43 15-inch woofer (if it is a double bin, it has two of them!). The earliest version of the MTM had, IIRC, five (maybe Six!) K-77 tweeters in each unit...when the K-77-M came along the box was enlarged due to the over-sized mud magnets that tweeter had, to keep the magnets of adjacent tweeters from touching each other. The second version was a Don Keele design which had two tweeters per box, IIRC! I can't remember which tweeter it was which was in them, but Jim Hunter will know...the same for the driver(s) used on the MSSM...Hunter will know! The VERY FIRST version of the MCM 1900 needed more "OOMPF" for its hornlens than just one of the K-55s...When Hunter came aboard at Klipsch, one of the first projects handed over to him was for increasing that "oompf" with the application of more drivers...which ended up being a four-way manifold having FOUR of the K55s! pushing that fiberglass horn lens! He was also prominent in the design of the wooden horn lens for the MSSM sub-squawker, including its improvements...so he knows all about that, too!...including the change of the sides of the mouth of that wooden sub-squawker horn to improve it (and outward" bend" inside to the sides of that horn at its mouth!). IIRC, that horn mouth change had to do with elimination of standing waves. I didn't design them, but I had to build them! So I remember about the changes to the parts of what I had to build....LOL!

Maybe some Bose 901 lover will show-up, get out-bid on them, and "settle" for some of the Klipsch stuff with a winning bid and immediately become a convert after getting them home and hearing them!

I kinda doubt that...thanks to their marketing scheme BOSE is what most people "not in the know" think are great speakers...plus all of these are BIG, so with WAF to consider they will likely have very little high bids unless a bunch or forum member show up!

That will never happen...except maybe it they leave the alley cats out of the food source line-up and use pure-breed cats, instead! I doubt that they would do that, though, due to the additional food costs involved, since those alley cats are for free behind the place near the trash cans!

A wired remote was an option for the Technics RS 676 AUS cassette deck which I bought in 1975...I didn't opt for it. I still have it, and it still works great!

I did a road trip of over 1000 miles to pick up a nice 630 with wooden case from a fellow forum member in southern Ohio a few weeks ago...he demoed it to me when I arrived on his K-horns! Sounded GREAT! The road trip cost (with hotel room) exceeded the 200 bucks that I paid for the receiver, but it was worth it to me! The 630 is an early model in the series, it was replaced in the series by the 730....about the same time that the 430 hit the market! The only drawback the 430 MIGHT have is that, unlike its bigger brothers (power rating-wise), it does not have jumpers on the rear connecting the pre-amp section to the amp section...which limits options for using it a bit! Pre-amp to amp jumpers are nice to have! That way you can opt for using the amp section with other pre-amps and tuners if you want to do so!...and vice/versa! Think about it...you can take two of those models, for example, two 730's, and run them for a surround system of four speakers without needing to resort to dropping the ohms output down by using the speaker A plus speaker B controls when using just ONE unit! That way you end up with a power supply dedicated to each separate channel for four channels! And the application can be used for a complete home theater ensemble with more identical units feeding the speakers while an AVR preamp is running the show! That is a win/win situation, in My way of seeing things, anyway!

Actually, we have ALL become too lazy to get up and make things happen...so we sit on our arses and vegetate with one or more remotes in our hands! It is a very sad situation! I don't have any remotes for any audio equipment...kinda like it that way, myself! As for the H/K 930...it has the absolute BEST tuner of the entire X30 series line-up! It has been about 20 years since I brought up the H/K X30 models in conversation on the forum...it all started when Justin Webber was looking for something inexpensive to power his Heresys...he was in high school, then! How time flies! I think he bought his off of eBay for around 35 bucks!! He was very happy with it , too!I I got lots of flack from the non-believers when I wrote about how good they were with "heritage" speaker models...but there are lots of believers now, it is nice to see! The H/K 430 was nowhere near the least expensive reciver in its "power class" when it came out...but in less than a year it became the largest selling receiver in the world...for good reason! The onlky thing that killed the series off was the Power wars era...people NOT "in the know" just wanted stuff that was "rated" at 100 or more WPC, and ignored the "lower-powered gems" because they were buying based upon spec sheets instead of real quality! NOBODY ELSE IN THE INDUSTRY had the ultra-wide-band frequency response of those H/K's...it was MUCH MORE than JUST a sales gimmick! Even today it shows itself off...almost a half of a century later!

If I remember correctly, it was at the end of October or in very early November of 1977 (or maybe 78) when the HDB(X), Heresy series was OFFICIALLY replaced by the HB(X) series. BUT, there was a problem in getting the new HB(X) ones COMPLETELY built, that delayed shipment for a few weeks...and we still had a number of HDB(X) parts, so we built them for shipment instead. The problem which delayed the HB(X) series was DIRECTLY due to SOMEBODY (who had NO CLUE!) making a decision to use up a bunch of (approximately) 3/4" Baltic birch for their "Drop-in" motor-boards, since we had so many sheets of it and it was seldom utilized for much of anything. The FIRST PORTION of the problem was in routing out the holes in the Baltic birch...which got the router bits so hot that the cutting edge would explode out of the body of the bit, while routing them out!...lots of scrap happened from that issue, and it was very clearly dangerous as hello for the router operator to do it to begin with, since the only protection the operator had was standard safety glasses, and the hot shards could and did go right thru them!...and into other parts of the operator's upper body thru his clothing. BUT the panels were already cut and wasting them was not a part of the number-crunchers' vocabulary...So, after they FINALLY got a sizeable number of them successfully routed out, they drilled the pilot holes into them for attaching the drivers to them...but the drill bits got dull very quickly and had to be changed often! So, after getting them drilled, they sent then to the sanders, who hated dealing with them, too!...then they went to be painted black...but the painter had to modify the mix of paint to make them have the necessary even coverage after the paint dried (which also took longer!). Then they brought them to my birch Heresy work-table...and who woulda thunk it, but almost EVERY staple shot into them, to mount them to the glue blocks underneath folded without ever getting thru the motor-board...MORE SCRAP! So they told us to attach them with our finishing nail guns...and the vast number of those nails ALSO folded, while kicking those Senco guns back into our faces!! So they wanted to drill pilot holes so that the nails would get thru them...yet ANOTHER FOLLY FInally, after maybe a dozen or so actually got assembled over a three-day period, they just gave up and we had to wait for another couple of days for a new shipment of the GP plywood to arrive before new motor-boards could be cut which we could actually USE!! So, during that FIASCO interim, I built up a few hundred HDB(X) speakers instead from remaining parts and newly made parts...but not ALL of the dealers wanted that style, because they were expecting the new style! So we finally got rid of those, and we were "totally" rolled over the HB(X) version...(but NOT REALLY!). Here is why: EMPLOYEE SPECIAL HDB(X) Heresys: If you have the LUCK to run across HDB(X) versions which were serial numbered later-on after the change-over to the HB(X) model cabinet design...even as late as shortly after the end of 1983...and if the back panel of the speaker has a stamp on it (GENERALLY on/across the labe!l) that reads "NOT FOR RESALE" in RED....and the cabinet is in great condition...you will MOST LIKELY FIND that the wood grain/color is extremely nice in one way or another and that the tops (at least!) match the front motor-board panel ...and the sides have (AT LEAST!) the same kind of coloration as the motorboard and top panel has with an identical or very close style of wood grain pattern... then check the rear of the top panels' edges...or maybe the rear edge of one of the side panels for a complete name of somebody stamped into the edge...or maybe an SSN stamped into it...or even BOTH! Some ALSO have the industrial woofer motor-board installed (metal grille!). If all of this is there, then you likely have an "employee special" built for somebody who worked at the plant!...MOST OF THEM were built by ME. These parts were NOT custom-cut! I would be routing out the motor-boards and would notice VERY SPECIAL color(s) and/or grain patterns in some of them...and if I found one or more PAIRS, then I would remember them and "cull" them for saving them as I built the speakers up. Not only that, but I often found side panels to match as I built and pulled them to end up with complete sets for pairs. OFTEN, I would find additional top/bottom panels matching , so that the entire speaker pairs would matched...even the bottom panels!! Basically, it was "the luck of the draw" while assembling the cabinets! The LaScala builders would do the same kind of thing...for "employee specials". I remember that we also built up a VERY FEW CDB(X) "employee specials", too! When we went over to the HB(X) from the HDB(X) cabinet style, I had already set-aside about 40+ sets of panels for pairs of HDB(X) models for employees to pick out the ones they liked best for "employee special" HDB(X) Heresy pairs. I left Klipsch in October 1983, but there were still maybe a dozen sets of really pretty "matching" panels for pairs of HDB(X) speakers on the full-length shelf under the worktable. The guy (Steve) who ended up building the vast majority of the birch Heresys AFTER I left ran into me in mid 1984...he told me that there was only one set of those panels remaining, but one of the employees had already claimed them, and he would build them up sometime soon. I said "They are all already gone to employees? That happened quickly!" He replied that the cabinet shop foreman WANTED to throw them all into the scrap trailer after I left, but before he could get around to doing that, employees heard (from Steve!) what was about to happen and rushed to claim them for their own "Employee Specials"...and he had been CAREFULLY building them up during breaks and lunch time almost ever since I had left! I laughed my arse off! Of course STEVE had already claimed a set for himself, FIRST! He already had LaScalas, but he also always wanted some "employee special" HDBLs! I built for MYSELF the SECOND most beautiful (IMHO!) pair of HDBL Heresys! I had set them aside about a year before they were built...but found a perfectly matching set about six months afterwards. THAT set had almost EVERY color there is on it in swirls...and it wasn't REALLY "loud-looking" at all. Picture this...have you ever seen a color pic of a star-producing nebula?? Not only that, but its grain pattern also went everywhere and the coloration swirls did NOT match to the grain swirls! VERY RARE for birch! BUT the panels matched each other exactly! WHAT A FIND!! So, I just set those panels on top of my earlier selection. Well, Judy Harris was planning to get a pair of "employee special" HDBLs, and wanted to have them ready for Christmas...so I told her to wait until I ate lunch, and we would just look thru them together so she could pick them out. So I left to eat, and when I got back, she had already looked thru them and said "THESE, DEFINTELY THESE!" Guess which ones she wanted?? YEP the most beautiful ones there...the ones I planned to build for my own...then she started begging...even got on her knees and started crying...I eventually gave in, and said "OK"! She still has them! She will probably NEVER think of selling them, either! She told me once that she would sell her LaScala "employee specials" before she would let those Heresys go! She still has both pairs! It has been over 40 years since those Heresys were built! I built mine a week or so after I built hers, in November 1977! Unfortunately, I never got pics of hers...but I have asked for them...just haven't gotten them to me, yet! MOST OF THEM were bought as clear laquer...or clear laquer over stain!...but not ALL of them were!!...some were taken home RAW!...but probably had stain and/or poly-urethane applied after taking them home. How can one BEST find them?? Well, the odds of finding them OUTISIDE of the Hempstead or Nevada county, Arkansas/Texarkana area are EXTREMELY slim...but it COULD HAPPEN! Former employees and their family members have NOT always remained in that area! GOOD LUCK! I already have MINE!😉

The Del Taco wall of shame, huh?