michaelwjones

Thank you. They are lovely in tone & appearance. I auditioned them though a Decware Zen Triode and was sold. Those 3 or so watts were quite nice. Now they have 5 watts to play with 🙂

If a grammarian walked into a bar... • An Oxford comma walks into a bar where it spends the evening watching the television getting drunk and smoking cigars. • A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly. • A bar was walked into by the passive voice. • An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening. • Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.” • A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite. • Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything. • A question mark walks into a bar? • A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly. • Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type." • A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud. • A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves. • Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart. • A synonym strolls into a tavern. • At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack. • A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment. • Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor. • A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered. • An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel. • The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known. • A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned a man with a glass eye named Ralph. • The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense. • A dyslexic walks into a bra. • A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines. • A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert. • A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget. • A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony.

"Opps! ... I did it again" as Brittany said: a pair of Heresy 70th Anniversary.

That sounds like an interesting story....

It can't hurt. I had a van not so long ago and when the sun was out in AZ, it would toast your left arm even with the window up. The window tinter, well versed in Arizona sunshine, had a 3M UV film that was a bit more that 10% reduction in light, but claimed to eliminate 90% plus of the UV. After it was done, I could not feel the sun on my left arm as I drove. And the A/C wasn't straining anymore. You can buy it on line and install it yourself. Its not hard; it just looks like you screwed up the install until the sun finally dries out the film to size.

I don't believe its unreasonable to not want your speakers to deteriorate. Not only do they change color, they can dry out and joints can open. (BTW, that happens with vinyl wrapped speakers as well. Not only does the cabinet dry out, but the vinyl out-gasses and dries out. Plus I've not seen vinyl wrapped Ls Scalas... ). UV films for the windows will help, but not eliminate the issue. Keeping them out of sunlight is the only real solution. While I generally keep my drapes closed, I have a cotton sheet over my Walnut LSIIs which I can pull when I want to look at them. Not the greatest solution, but I don't live in a cave. 🙂 https://woodworkly.com/does-sunlight-darken-wood/'

While the general rule is changing the small signal tubes exhibits the greatest change in sound, swapping the power tubes can also alter the sound. I recognize a significant improvement in sound between Chinese 300B tubes and KR and Western Electrics. In one amp, a "lesser" Mullard KT-88 sounds much clearer than the higher price Gold Lion. Your results may vary, but different tubes, like different transistors and digital op/amps, have differing sonic signatures. The key is how satisfied you are with the sound, rather than the source components.

Did you use the dealer locator form Klipsch? Several are listed in Vegas and showing Heritage & Reference in stock. https://www.klipsch.com/dealers

Got a friend who does FB to contact him & we're seeing if you can coordinate schedules for a viewing and audition. Easy to pick up since I have to be back in Jackson Center Ohio tomorrow.

Those would be great, but since I don't do facebook... oh well

Great badges, too!

Look at the label on the rear of the speaker and see if there is "B Stock" written after Forte IV. Like this: The box the speaker came in will also have a label stating "B Stock."

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I've not heard one of these, but its pretty small and seems to hit all your requirements. https://totemacoustic.com/product/kin-amp/ There is one on US Audio Mart now for $400 (not mine).

Thanks; I just looked at the atrtape site. In the for what its worth department, Emile is including a tape splicing kit. I told him the picture brought immediate flashbacks of my father's Ampex 15ips machine with all the tape I broke and was taught how to splice back together. Hope I remember after all these years. Surely it's like riding a bicycle...

F/U PM sent. 🙂

The weight of the speaker should give stability to the stand; the fill is to damp resonance of the tubing (and add "some" weight).

63 years.

And in my Harbeths, the cabinetry is 12mm plywood. Its resonance is part of the design of the sound of the speakers.

My take on "top tier" are those commanding 75% margins from doctors, lawyers and hedge fund bros for their unique "distinctions." Piega and T+A, very exclusive Swiss & German builders respectively, have been building crappy sounding speakers in aluminum enclosures for years. I don't see a mineral cast Les Paul from Gibson on the horizon. Except for some very special resonator guitars, wood rules in nearly all stringed/vibrating instruments. Material is not the issue; its the synergy of all the components that matters.

Several years ago at the Frist here in Nashvegas fully restored M-Gs were on display and and are truly works of art, IMHO. I guess that's why they were on display at the museum...

No; while I have only been on the forum three years, I can see the venom in some posts. It's ugly.

You could also make us guess the most lutefisk you've eaten at one sitting...

I've used shot, but thought it was pricey and the stand became nearly unadjustable due to weight. Skylan recommends dustless kitty litter for their stands. Sand and rice work as well.

Gone in 60 seconds... literally!