Invidiosulus
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Define “permissions”.
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Busy time yesterday.
We had the annual blacksmithing festival in town so the kids and I walked over to check it out.
A few blocks further up in town, the City Drive-In was having their annual Ramp Festival.
After I walked the kids back over to the house I walked back to the drive-in to check out my friend Dan playing his all request piano show.
Then I walked back home and made a sheet cake for the middle child’s birthday party.
Apparently she told her friends that she was having a party at the park this afternoon so I obliged and told her I would make a cake and buy some drinks.
After the cake came out of the oven I made some beer-battered fish tacos for dinner.
Then I walked back to the drive-in, for the third time, to catch the band that was playing.
My usual crew was there and had gotten roped into running sound.
the setup wasn’t great but we made the best of it and folks had a pretty good time.
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7 hours ago, Dave1291 said:
Freak out? Call Dad! 😂
Oldest: Dad there's a freakin squirrel in my house. I've got the dog in the crate and the cats locked in a bedroom. This thing is running all over the house who do I call.
Dad: HAHAHAHAHA & HA! Suit up and get after it! Don't look at me. Go get it girl!
20 minutes later
Oldest: I got it Dad. I put Joel's big coat on (he's 6'3), my hat and gloves, grabbed the broom and got it cornered. Then I chased it with the broom out the back door!
Dad: Good girl! 😂 💪
Oldest: I've even got it all on video I'll send it to ya. 😂
Guess I could have told her if ya get a bat in there flyin around she could borrow my old tennis racquet hangin on a nail in the garage. Blah, I'll save it for another day. Gotta have a tennis racketl
Carry on
I am dad 😆
The past two times I had a bat in the house I just grabbed a cardboard box and waited for it to fly by and smacked the box up in its face and caught it.
No tennis racket required.
It’s been about a decade since we’ve had that problem as we no longer have an open chimney.
Some days my reflexes are still stupidly fast for stuff like that, other days I’m not so sure.
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On 4/22/2024 at 9:57 PM, Marvel said:
Yes I do, but it's in pieces. I had replaced the 7199 driver board a long time ago and got a different one to replace it. I need three 9 pin sockets and forget to order them.
Was that the Audio by Van Alstine board that you first put in?
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On 4/20/2024 at 4:30 PM, Tarheel said:
There is a guy in Kernersville, NC that builds Dynaco ST-70's from scratch. Great reviews and very nice work. Saw his ad on usaudiomart. Tempting though I have no use for more gear.
@Marvel still has an ST-70 iirc.
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Sampled some bourbon yesterday.
I forgot I’d taken another pic of one of the trains last week.
The old footbridge across the river is pretty low over the tracks.
you can just about get some shots that look like you are on the train.
A bunch of empty coal cars heading north.
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Walked over to downtown to grab a beer with my neighbor yesterday evening.
Right after we crossed the river I spotted CSX 3028 heading north and I managed to run out on the old bridge footing and snap a pic.
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10 hours ago, Schu said:
Or a V a g
I’m sure Volkswagen AG products can also use Klipsch cardboard over their rear windows when necessary.
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And only $109 on Amazon.
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1 hour ago, Schu said:
Should?
😛
I mean, if we are talking digital then there are a lot of variables regarding the quality of the sensor used.
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2 hours ago, JohnJ said:
Yellow Touches Black...
Jump Back!
Yellow Touches Red...
You're Dead!
These weren’t the ones we played with.
He has a very nice, and slightly inquisitive, corn snake that I held for a while.
It was cute and kept trying to explore the sleeves of my black denim jacket.
Dude has a recording studio upstairs and I was VERY interested in his 5-string Rickenbacker bass among other things.
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5 hours ago, Marvel said:
Schu, are you looking new or used? If you are ok with used, I would checkout KEH Cameras in Smyrna, GA.
KEH is great.
I’ve also had good luck with Adorama and B&H’s used departments.
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1 hour ago, Marvel said:
What's the top one? The scales are interesting.
I think it’s a type of bush viper.
the next ones are a Green Mamba, Coral snake, and a cobra.
This was maybe a fourth of the snakes he has.
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I went over to a friend’s house tonight after a show here in town.
He’s got a very interesting collection of pets.
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2x 4" ports at 7.5" long, tri-amped with DSP EQ, measured in room at 1m with psychoacoustic smoothing applied.
This is with a K-33. Some day I'll try a K-43.
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7 minutes ago, JohnJ said:
Acquired yesterday. Drove through those eerie amber colors of that eclipse between Knoxville and Nashville to split up the trip.
Actually these have a well respected provenance! I'd have to check before I laid that out.
Been a long time since I've have Klipsch that would crank! These do it so articulately and with a lower than usual frequency response that I disabled my SB-3000, it can only be adjusted down to 30Hz. The K-48-Es trounce that without a problem.
The double pleated shades & latex pillows won't cover this environment for this so I'll be taking care of that next.
Awesome!
There are some really great speakers out there in the KP line.
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11 hours ago, Marvel said:
I've had a few boxes of things in my office from when my daughter moved out of town. One has papers detailing a lot of the family past. Lots of photos, although I also have bunches at home. The front row (adults) starting from the far right. Paternal great grandfather, great great grandfather, great great grandmother, great grandmother.
My great great grandfather passed away in 1923 (born in 1843). His wife was born in 1849, died in 1946.
I have some older pics from a studio that are in excellent shape.
These little people’s Great Great Great Great Grandparents.
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5 hours ago, JohnJ said:
No, RSA or RSL something. One of the boxes got sent from TX to FL to NC to VA (40 mi from me); to TN to TX to FL to NC to me and it was broken by then!
FedEx is the best in the SE USA!
The former usps the worst.
Absolutely not.
Our local FedEx drivers love playing geoGuessr with packages and deliver them to the wrong location and then send the confirmation pictures of the delivery so you can try to figure out where they actually delivered our packages.
USPS around here is great.
The most amazing shipping experience I’ve had was via DHL.
i ordered some camera equipment from a company in South Korea and they only shipped overnight via DHL.
Even with the higher shipping cost the overall order was cheaper than any other vendor.
Less than 24 hours after I placed my order, DHL was knocking on my door in Banner Elk, North Carolina with a package shipped out of Gangnam Du, Seoul, South Korea.
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1 hour ago, Peter P. said:
Is there any reason why you can't just use an equalizer to smooth out the LaScala's response curve?
I know there are ahem, "purists" out there that poo poo tone controls and such but I say use 'em
if you got 'em and no one will be the wiser.
Yes and no.
Standard two-way tone controls aren’t going to be able to give you the precision that’s needed to flatten out the response.
The Chief has previously shared some parametric EQ settings designed to knock down the response peak at 148Hz which help to clean up the low end sound a lot.I would imagine the latest LS has some of that baked into the active crossover box.
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45 minutes ago, nickyboy6100 said:
How do the 8” woofers sound compared to the 15”. I meant to ask this when I first saw you did this. Thanks in advance.
They sounded very good but the drivers I used wouldn’t play as low as the K-33 or unfortunately quite as high so they had a little trouble getting to 400Hz.
they were flatter through the middle of the woofers normal range however and had a very nice quick attack.
The original woofers that Dennis used are now unobtanium and I haven’t been able to find T/S parameters to exactly compare.Making my plenum angled and adding some wedges to reduce the internal volume would probably help with the high end.
There were some other woofers that might work better that are still available, but at a higher cost compared to the budget drivers I used.
In the end I swapped my K-33 back in and I’ll probably go eventually to a K-43 or an Eminence Kappa 15C.
I do think there is merit to the PPSL function and I’d like to build a pair of Dennis’s dual 15” PPSL subs to go underneath my KP-250s.
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4 hours ago, Woofers and Tweeters said:
A few examples are in my sig line.
99.9% of LaScala owners will never change their old speakers, so the port mod is for the 0.1% who might. He came up with the PPSL using four 8" woofers in place of the one 15" too. That is for the 0.001% to try.Hey, I’ve tried that.
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With the port mod and active EQ to manage it on the low end as Dennis recommended, my LS are pretty solid to 35Hz.
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On 4/1/2024 at 10:40 PM, the real Duke Spinner said:
I remember having some article on this years ago...
Can not find itm .. Anyone remember. ???
From @djk
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Just some notes for both the stock and the (vented) ported LaScala.
Porting does not reduce the basic efficiency of the LS, it does however reduce the massive 140hz peak, porting also smooths out the overall response above 100hz, and reduces the dip at 200hz in the stock LS.
To get the most out of the ported LS mod you need an EQ similar to the EV Interface A box, it has 6dB of boost at 35hz. You can boost a sealed LS, but that inceases the cone motion, EQ at Fb (port tuning frequency) does not increase cone motion. Less cone motion, less distortion.
Any equalizer with a subsonic filter can be changed to do this as well, usually it's just a matter of changing two resistors per channel. I buy used Audio Control EQs from eBay when they go for cheap, the 520 is a nice 5-band piece that is designed to complement standard tone controls and be easy to use.
Foam
Both versions of the LS benefit from a 2' x 2' x 1" piece of foam behind the woofer. It really smooths out things above 100hz.
If you are using subs all the time, you can leave the stock LS sealed and reduce the back volume by about 1/3, and use the foam. This totally reduces the bottom octave, but smooths things out above 100hz. Use non-porus fill to reduce the volume.
On axis, the above modified LS will measure flat to about 800hz, and very smooth too. You may use a 650hz or so crossover point on a good horn and driver combo for a nice two-way at this point (or retain the stock Klipsch setup).
Thanks are due to Carl Huff for his extensive work and measurements.
Stock LS
http://cdn.avsforum.com/0/03/037f91bb_DIRAC_LEGACY_01.jpeg
Reduced volume stock LS with foam
http://cdn.avsforum.com/d/d6/d6ed5986_DIRAC_LEGACY_PADDED_LESSVOL_02.jpeg
Carl's measurements were done with a gated measuring system, in a garage, with the door rolled up (open). In room response will show more bass below 100hz due to room gain.
In room non-gated measurements show the ported LS to have 7dB more output in the 31hz band (1/3 oct analyzer) vs the stock LS, and 3dB more output in the 50hz band (both without EQ). Using the EQ makes the 31hz band only 3dB down from the average level above 100hz.
The contour lines of equal loudness (sounding twice as loud) in the 30hz~40hz region are only 3dB~4dB apart at a level of 90dB, so even without EQ the ported mod sounds like it has twice the deep bass. With the EQ the bass sounds very solid on music, most people would not require a sub (except tor video).
But
Using a processor like the Waves MaxBass a subwoofer for video is probably not needed either. The 'feel' of bass is mainly from high energy below about 60hz or so, above 60hz there is more of a sensation of 'tone'. The Waves unit takes the fundamental note and generates 3rd and 5th harmonics (an old trick used when playing a piece written for a 16' organ on an 8' organ). With a small speaker like a Heresy this has the sensation of 'tone' when playing those 16' notes, but not the 'feel' (as it has no real energy below 60hz).
Using the Waves unit with the ported LS can make you feel the notes as low as 10hz~12hz (when it converts them to 30hz and 50hz) because the ported LS has lots of output there. The Waves unit also has the provision (on some versions) of removing the damaging infrasonics below the Fb of the box (although the recommended EQ does this as well).
As a side note
The Waves unit makes the Heresy sound like it has bass, but without the 'feel' of the sub 60hz notes. Why would you want this? It works well for apartment dwellers, or wedding dances (those people like the sound of bass, but don't seem to like their teeth rattling).”
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Jokes?
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An album by a black woman singing a song about black women.