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Gotta love the walnut. Those look gorgeous. Let us know how they sound. Peace, Josh

I have heard the so called ALK replacement and the stock AA crossovers but not for any extended length of time. At the time I could tell they were different but I did not have enough time to formulate an opinion as to which one I liked better. I play electric guitar and bass. The Fender Jazz bass and Telecaster which I love are despised by some of my friends, but we agree to disagree due to the fact that tone is a very subjective thing. Tone is a four letter word but it doesn't have to be bad. Peace, Josh

I recently rearranged my apt and moved my jbl L46 speakers off of my desk(I have a huge desk)and onto the floor in preparation for my new heresies(on the way, but not here yet). Once on the floor the bass seemed to bloom a little. I figured this was because they were so close to the walls so I moved them about a foot out from the wall and it seemed to help flatten the response out a bit. I also noticed that the bass and lower mids seemed a little "loose" and not as well defined as they had been on my desk. I thought this might be due to the fact that my mammoth desk was a steady base and now that they were on the carpet they were not as stable. I figured carpet spikes would propably work, but first I piled a stack of books on top of my speakers to weight them down a little, this seemed to help a little but I wanted something more permanent. I went to the good ol home depot and picked up 4 12x12 paving stones. I placed one paving stone underneath and one on top of each speaker seperated by a thin strip of vinyl cutting mat to protect the finish. To my ears the paving stones seem to add mass to the cabinets resulting in tighter better defined bass. Am I crazy or does this make any sense. Please let me know what you think. Peace, Josh

Here is my two cents. Good speakers can still sound good with a mediocre amp. My dad has a pair of jbl 4311 studio monitors he got back in the early seventies. Over the years we have gone through(but not thrown out) a number of different amps. When I started listening to music when I was little(early eighties) I think we had a JVC ss receiver that put out about 35 watts. The JVC has since stopped functioning on one side but the preamp section still works. Somewhere around 1990 we got a Technics receiver that put out 55wpc stereo, we didn't have a TV at that point so HT was out of the question. The technics amp turned out to be a real piece of junk, it was pretty noisy with a good bit of added hiss Mid nineties we got a sony receiver that sounds pretty good for the money, but boy does it run hot. When the sony has to go in for repairs, which it does on occasion my dad pulls out his Dynaco 70 and hooks it up using the old JVC as the preamp. You are propably wondering why he doesn't use the Dynaco all of the time, well it has some issues that must be fixed before it can be pressed into active duty(new tubes and I think I recall him saying something about filter caps). My point being, all along we've had decent sound because of the good speakers. When it came time for me to buy some thing to power my jbl L46s(two way speaker, 8" woofer,3/4" direct radiating tweeter) I resisted peer pressure saying bigger is better and went with a Yamaha that puts out a measly 75wpc. For the amount of money I had to spend it had pretty good Thd specs, as well as having all that DD5.1 DTS junk we like so much. Well I think good speakers deserve a good amp, but can still be enjoyed with a mediocre one. btw, my dad still uses zip cord and not "real" speaker wire Peace, Josh

Way to go, Heresies RULE Are these your long awaited much debated college speakers? Mine should be here this week, I can barely wait Peace, Josh

Boxlight is a pretty good projector company that we used at work. boxlight.com Some things to remember when looking at projectors. Lumens = brightness, the more lumens the brighter your picture. The contrast ratio is also something to keep in mind: the higher the contrast ratio the brighter you can have your whites and still have your black look black, not dark gray. The more inputs the better You will tend to have less signal degredation if you have everything plugged straight into the projector instead of going through a switcher. Component video(RGB)is definetely a benefit if you have to use long cables from your source to the projector. Projectors can be fun but expensive little toys. If your bulb burns out and you need a replacement expect to pay a few hundred dollars for a new one That said I would still love to have a projector. Just some ideas, hope it helps. Peace, Josh

I think that just about any of the tracks off of The Blue Man Group cd "Audio" would propably kill a bose sytem. Track 6 entitled "Tension 2" had my friends Promedia 4.1 subwoofer feeling somewhat overworked, so I can only imagine what it would do to bose' excuse for a subwoofer. Tracks 1 and 12 off of Victor Wooten's incredible solo electric bass album "A Show of Hands" ought to work fairly well to expose the weakness of the bose sub and "jewel" cubes. Track 12 is 4 and a half minutes of "classical" electric bass, slapped, plucked, fretted and strummed. This CD requires a speaker system that can accurately reproduce tight deep low bass frequencies, vibrant clear mids and open smooth highs. When a bass is "slapped" a few things happen: on the initial impact of the thumb or fingers hitting a string there is a very low sound created much like that of a kick drum, at the same time as the string hits the frets a fairly high crisp sound is made, then as the note is held and the string resonates you hear the actual fretted note. Most of what I've described the bose acoustimass "module" and "jewel" cubes seem to have a little bit of trouble with. I looked on the bose website and I can't find frequency response charts for a single one of their products. I've emailed them to see if they have any answers. But I digress(gets off of soapbox) Peace, Josh

Here's a link http://www.bestbuy.com/Detail.asp?m=1&cat=783&scat=&e=11077600 Peace, Josh

Hi, I got a cheapie optical cable at bestbuy I think it was about $15. It works fine and it came with two mini optical adapters for use with some of the minidisc players and the like. What I got was a Recoton VDC901. Peace, Josh

Q-man, I am a Digital Media major at Fullsail. www.fullsail.com It's pretty crazy here. Basically I'm getting a two and a half year associates degree in 14 months. I have classes scheduled at pretty much random hours around the clock, so I stay rather busy studying. I still have lots of time to sit around my Apt and listen to music while I'm reading. My new(used)heresies should be here sometime this week, I'm going to use them as my mains but I'd love to see what they would sound like as surrounds with some LS as the mains. It never ends does it... Oh well thanks for the info. Peace, Josh

Reality sets in. I think I'm gonna have to take a pass on this one. Seeing as how my current income is in the form of student loans I don't have that kind of money laying around. But still those speakers haunt my dreams. How soon were you thinking of selling? Its possible that I might be able to save up some dough over the next few months. Ah the joys of being a student. Peace, Josh

I came across these on JBLs website: http://www.harmanaudio.com/search_browse/product_detail.asp?urlMaterialNumber=K2.S9800WG You don't see these at best buy now do ya. I also saw a bunch of nice goodies on the japanese harmon site, including some 4312s they call a consumer home theater package, these appear to be much like the incredible 4311 studio monitors. I did not see any hartsfield but I did see some L88s on there. It's odd how the japanese market has a seemingly wider range of nice products than we have here in the states. Almost as if the speaker buying public in the U.S.A. is thought to be a bunch of suckers. Peace, Josh

"I would recommend using a coax cable for digital rather than using optical. Coax has higher bandwidth. Think about this: 1) Optical - the electrical signal from the DVD is converted to optical so it can be transported to the receiver via the optical cable. Then in the receiver it is again converted from optical to electrical. 2) Coax caries the electrical signal straight away to the receiver." Higher bandwidth??? Even if you are using a coax digital connection its still digital so it will still go through a DAC(digital to analog converter)to be converted from digital information(ones and zeros) into sound. A coax cable is more susceptable to electromagnetic interference inside a crowded av rack than an optical cable in my opinion. I currently use one of each type of digital connection on my Yamaha HTR-5540 and personally I can't tell a difference. Peace, Josh

Q-man, I live in orlando. How much are you thinking for your La scalas I'm a student and thus on a budget but still very interested. Ever since my dad and I visited John Albright and listened to his LS based HT I've wanted a pair. Peace, Josh Brown

playstation 2 Yeah I know but it certainly works. And the ease of getting it to play foreign DVDs is an added bonus. I currently have it set up with s-video and digital optical audio out. I may switch to component video, but i don't know that it's worth it on my 14" toshiba. You can also program it to auto select DTS over dolby digital or vice versa. Did I mention it plays games. Peace, Josh

Definately on of my favorites is Maura O'Connell, An irish singer with an absolutely stunning voice. Check out her "Blue is the colour of hope" album. She puts on an incredible live show, I've seen her twice and both times her vocals totally blew me away. Tracy Nelson, Also another gifted vocalist from the blues-folk scene. Peace, Josh

Oh now I am really drooling. You guys are sick, but thats my kind of sick. I play electric Bass and the setup I use with my old Fender jazz bass is a Gallien Krueger 700RB bi-amp head plugged into a 2x10 cabinet. I know this is a different type of amp but the 350 watts from the 700RB into the 2x10s is enough to shake every window in my parents house and be heard at the end of our driveway a few hundred feet away!! I can't even begin to imagine how solid you guys systems must sound. IMHO you can never have to much bass as long as your mids and highs can keep up. Keep up the good work Peace, Josh

My little brother has a copy of kind of blue on cassette tape that someone gave him awhile back, the liner notes mention also the difference in pitch due to the speed on one of the tape machines being slightly off. This cassette version includes the alternate take of flamenco sketches, I also thought that there was another alternate take on this release but I could be mistaken. I personally don't have a whole lot of faith in the so called 20 bit CDs due to the fact that once its on a CD it's still only 16 bit no matter what. The bit depth merely determines how many seperate amplitude or volume measurements we can have. 16 bit is 2 to the 16th or 65,536 different numbers to represent the amplitude of the analogue signal. The problem comes not so much in the bit depth of a CD but in the sample rate of 44.1kHz. There is a rule in digital audio called the Nyquist theorem. the Nyquist theorem states: The Sample Rate must be at least two times the highest frequency recorded. So the highest frequency available on a CD is 22.05kHz which is well beyond the range of human hearing. The problem is that recording that high a frequency we are recording only a triangle wave, not a rounded waveform, we basically have one sample point for the positive(compression)side of the waveform and one sample point for the negative(rarefaction) side of the waveform resulting in a harsh sound ,not very natural at all. But the human range of hearing stops at 20kHz(if you've never listened to anything loud at all) its true, but the interaction of these high frequencies is noticable. This is where we get harmonic overtones and a sort of fullness. Whats even worse is this triangle wave distortion occurs as low as 16-17kHz, well within the range of most peoples hearing(the last time I checked I could hear 17.9kHz pretty easily). This is why vinyl is better, a good TT setup can reproduce frequencies up to 40 or 50kHz I think. One problem with vinyl being as soon as you play the record once you start to wear down those small high frequency ridges. SACDs and DVD audio have much higher sample rates and bit depths than a standard CD, thus are supposed to sound more natural. I'm Sorry if I seem to ramble(gets off of soapbox) Peace, Josh

Oh my word thats insane. The old city manager for the movie theatre chain I used to work for had something like this. Complete with stadium seating, a massive popcorn popper and a full size 35mm film projector. Only they weren't his, he was "borrowing" them. Yep he ended up in jail. Lol this is gorgeous. Peace, Josh

btw Justin, My desk is big enough to put two cornwalls on it and still have room for my computer. Maybe i should build a double decker desk Peace, Josh

Oops, I wish I had the room ... and the money... but i just bought a pair of heresy's. The heresy really does have a fair amount of bass imho, the place i've heard them the most was at an outdoor concert back home. There were these concerts every friday night in this park downtown and one evening while i was wndering around i looked up and on the side of this lamp-post was a klipsch heresy in flat black. I stood there in awe, amazed at the sound that was coming out of this little(relatively speaking) speaker. The people in charge of the PA had screwed 2 of those red vinyl covered hooks into the top of the cabinet and hung it on the side of this post. For being in the open air with no wall of any sort behind it to reflect low frequencies it still sounded full and deep. that night a bluegrass band was playing and the seperate instruments were very discernable, no thanks to the sound man Positioned properly in a smaller sized room the heresy should have plenty of low end. Good luck on selling your Cornwalls. It looks like you have a nice cat. I've got a cat back at my parents place, he's a sweet old fat thing but he hates music and thus hates our speakers. Peace, Josh

I have a ps2 which I do most of my gaming on these days. I also had a dreamcast which I left with my little brother when I moved out to go to college. When it comes to racing games I tend to like consoles, but for First person shooters my PC definately wins out. I don't know how many late nights i've spent playing Starsiege Tribes. But now that i've moved out I really don't have that much time for gaming, I'm in school about 40 hours a week so i'm pretty busy. Peace, Josh

On a serious note, Buying something just because the guy who started the company is from the same ethnic background as you is not really a valid reason for a purchase. I'm sure there are better ways to show support for people of your ethnicity then buying a product which is not generally speaking high quality. Thats my two cents. Peace, Josh