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From the KB wiki page updated already: "At 9:06 AM Pacific Standard Time on January 26, 2020, Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and three others had taken off from John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, in a Sikorsky S-76 helicopter owned by Bryant. The helicopter crashed in Calabasas, California at about 9:47 AM PST and caught fire. Personnel from the Los Angeles County Fire Department attended the scene, and the fire had been extinguished by 10:30 AM. Initial reports indicated that the helicopter crashed in the mountains above Calabasas in heavy fog. The incident is currently under investigation. Witnesses reported hearing a helicopter struggling before crashing." KB's youngest child is < a year old.

That doesn't happen without a lot of precision "in room" measurements, time, thought, corrections, and experience. Most of us are not even close. But I did have a revelation this week. I purchased a good set of over the ear wired headphones fed a signal from my portable Cowon high res digital player. Oh my......the sound stage presence, stereo signal separation, and overall sound quality is just amazing! 15 to 20khz response range. I just don't want to take them off. I don't believe any "in living room" 2 channel stereo system will ever sound as good. No coloration from the room acoustics or objects/furnishings in the room. It will make you shake your head and think why not just listen to my music via headphones all the time? Well after 2 or 3 hours, you have to take a break anyways, give the ears/head a rest.

It was the King of street motorcycles in 1972 and for years to come. Mine had a Kerker header on it that I ran mostly without the baffle in. Now at my present age I think just how obnoxious that was for most everyone else. Young and dumb........how i survived is beyond me. Pretty amazing how maturity and time changes one's perception of many things, thoughts, and ideals.

KB net worth 500 million dollars. A wife and four children.

Well I made until to 4:11. Sounds like mostly noise to me. I'd rather some Floyd or St Germain.

41 years old. In his own private helo.

For sure. Today's music with synthesizers, EQ and better recording techniques, and not to mention your input music source @ home is 5 times better than it was in 1975. A vinyl album might have a dynamic range of 65 db. That is severely compressed by today's digital source file specs. Not to mention the snap, crackle, and pop. Today's music reproduction @ home does not end @ 40 or 50 hz. Far from it. But a good sub is the great equalizer too, if properly integrated into the system.

Oh yes the H2. Never owned one, either the 500 or 750 2 strokes. I'm sure many a H2 went over backwards, tail light dragging You are spot on an the Z1 output, just googled it = 81 hp stock. My memory is bad and exaggerated concerning the 1973 Z1. Also owned a 1976 Kaw 1000 LTD @ one point. I sure wish I still had that '73 Z1 just as a memento of an era. Mine was green and blue tank. I loved 2 strokes. Has a Yamaha Banshee 350cc 2 cylinder 4 wheeler, modified it. High compression heads, expansion chambers, better carb, fueled it with av gas from the local airport. Shorter flat track tires on the rear on alum wheels. Loved that thing in the spillway on dirt! Ex wife took it in our divorce/property settlement...rather I talked her into it as my right knee was needing surgery again anyways.

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Even Jubes have their limits on LF. This graph I searched for this morning here on the forum from Roy Delgado. Jubes down 12db @ 30 hz. From 40hz they are rolling off hard. khorn-jubilee LF range-source Roy Delgado.PDF

@Schu Yes, I misunderstood his statement. I interpreted it as 1000 hp from a NA 2 liter engine. I have never heard or read of those power levels from a 122 ci NA engine. But maybe I missed it. My bad.

I cannot imagine that. I operated motorcycles for 35+ years, dragged a few too. Kawasaki Z1......old school. Maybe 120 HP then. A guy i worked with had a Kaw ZX14 modded, doing 190 mph + and this was like 10 years ago. 300 hp on a street legal motorcycle....WOW. New meaning to the term crotch rocket

Where have you seen > 1000 hp in a NA 2.0 liter engine? Post a link please.

Check out this video. Hemi with twin 102mm turbos in a Corvette. 5200 hp on the dyno. I know some of us here dig massive HP too, in addition to Klipsch audio products. Bad to da bone!

More examples of what the microprocessor has done for performance engines. DI, precision control of the combustion process and timing, parts machining, engineering and modeling software, real time sampling, advanced materials, ect. Its a magnificent time for 4 stroke performance engines, and transmissions too. Not bad in TF either.....11,000 HP from a 500 ci nasty engine. 20+ HP per cubic inch of displacement. Or F1 engines spinning 14k rpm, making power.

You are right, I forgot about that aspect. 160 hp showroom superbikes are pretty common these days. Darwin's Natural Selection?

Hennessee is offering a performance upgrade package for the new Shelby GT500 which takes the engine HP to 1000! Wow...if only I had deep pockets.

So Carl, come Feb 1st the self imposed drought is over for you? Was this to prove a point to someone? Or abstinence makes the heart grow fond?

When I was young I was a big fan of the older guys in the neighborhood and their hot rods. Before I had a DL, like age 13/14 or so, we'd go down to the Rivergate auditorium (has been demo'd and now the site of Harrah's Casino) in New Orleans at night when the annual car show was over (Sunday night) and the vehicles pulled out. To hear the engine's open headers, and some burnouts were done. Some blown big block altereds too. The cops generally looked the other way unless something or someone got way outa hand. I'm talking ~ 47 years ago. It was a good time. Today anybody can go into a new car dealer and purchase a car with 700 HP straight from the factory, if you have the financial resources. Doesn't mean you also get intelligence or common sense with your purchase. Case in point - 2020 Shelby Mustang GT500 = 760 HP. Or for several years now the Dodge Hellcat 600-727 HP. Camaro ZL1 = 650 HP. Can you imagine a 16 or 17 yo male teenager with a 760 HP Mustang mommy or daddy purchased them for their BD or Christmas? Let the good times roll.

Yes, I'm not a fan of the distortion either. And her voice is pretty nice on its own merit. I'm listening to the rest of the album.

Two times the drivers of the MWM bins doesn't hurt either. As in performance cars/engines, "there is no replacement for displacement". Even the MWM bins are only rated down to 35 hz, -10db output. So its not about a longer horn, but 2 times the driver radiating surface area per unit, and power handling.

When the music begins to play in Xanny, the low bass is heavily emphasized and deliberately distorted, imo. I'm listening to the track on spotify right now. So I don't believe there is anything wrong with your Heresies. They did something in the original recording mix, like seriously EQ/boost the bass guitar. But a track like this with such heavy bass boost can drive LF drivers crazy, so be cautious with the volume too. I took a lot of the bass EQ out listening to the track in a second time. Even her voice is distorted in the track at times. I'm not crazy about their effects in the song. The next track "you should see me in a crown" has a lot of bass boost too. Must be their trademark.

Those are used + $150 for shipping. Not exactly a bargain.

Some times the woofer is moving violently/pulsing and making sound but its distortion. Just because its making a noise @ 20 hz doesn't mean its accurate to the input signal. A low frequency transducer will do some crazy things at or below its rated FS.

Welcome to the forum. You didn't say what receiver is powering your new setup but it sounds like you are shooting for a surround system, like 5.0 or 5.1 in the end. Consider this, while watching a true dolby digital broadcast/audio signal like a blu ray movie, easily 80% of the dialog/sound comes via the center speaker. If it was me, I'd run a phantom center channel for now, and my next purchase would be a subwoofer to augment your R-41Ms. The 41s go down to ~ 60 hz so you won't be hearing most of the Dolby Digital LFE signal for sure. Most of the modern late model AVRs (I know Denon, Sony, and Yamaha AVRs do for sure) allow you to run a phantom center channel in its settings (4.0 speaker layout setting). I have been running a phantom center for 5+ years and it functions quite well. I have Cornwalls for my mains L+R and space limitations preclude a matching center (Like a Heresy). Try it out, you might like it. A good sub would def be my next expenditure for you imo. It will add a great impact to your home theater (Low frequency effects), and help with LF sound reproduction (bass) in music sources too. Again, most modern AVRs will allow you to choose a crossover point for all of your 41s to the subwoofer. Most common is 80 hz, 41s set to "small" in AVR. If low bass reproduction isn't really important to you, then yes the RC-42II is a good match for your 41s.