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5000 staples?

Heresy's with the CT125's really are sweet. I love mine.

Marvel is responsible for my sickness. Although I have spent far more on gear to make music then I have on stuff to listen to it. I think if young people are pointed in the right direction they can develop the taste for quality and are often willing to work and save for it. My first electric bass was paid for by working minimum wage as a janitor(cheap but well playing yamaha), my first guitar was a Taylor acoustic. Soon afterwards I bought my 70's Fender Jazz bass. Current count is 4 guitars, 3 electric basses, 2 tube guitar amps, and 2 bass amps. My first speakers were some JBL L46 that just happened to come my way. I gave my little brother his first pair of speakers to have as a dorm room setup, a pair of Sansui SP50 with an HK/430. The SP50's sounded fair to middling but now he has a set of L46. Someday I'm sure he'll own some Klipsch. After all, he's made the pilgrimage to indy.

What sort of basting sauce works best on the H3 grill ? I can hear a difference on my H1's if I don't have the grilles on them. The difference is slight enough that I keep them on so that people don't put things in the horns. Back in my single guy man cave apt dwelling days I kept the grilles off unless people were coming over(like once).

It's probably terrible.If you send it to me I can dispose of it by selling it to the aforementioned purveyor of used items and I'll send you the $1.05 they give me for it. I offer this service free of charge

Technical prog metal at its insane best!!!! If only I had the money and time for progpower this year.

I picked up Silver Rain last night at the local purveyor of used Compact Discs. []

One day on my computer I had a midi file of Scott Joplins The Entertainer playing while I viewed http://youtube.com/watch?v=T3htuEtR_6Y The effect was somewhat surreal, or disturbing, or both.

BOMB POPS! [Y]

That's a pretty cutting remark! So I guess Colter had a close shave but it turns out he's ok? Talk about a brush with death . I hope none of those MCM's attack him now that you guys have parted. If he had disappeared I know his fellow klipschers would be combing the area. -Josh

I thought the title was referring to HB89 []

Shopping with the wife at the Hamilton Place mall, Chattanooga TN. Walked into Pacific Sunwear and the sound was all bloated and crummy bose cubes on the ceiling. A few minutes later we wander into GAP. Ahh, this is better I think to myself. A few minutes later it occured to me to look around for the speakers. Some white Klipsch boxes were hanging from the walls.

I always assumed the grainy sound of some cymbals and other high freq's was a result of foldover aliasing ruining the cymbal harmonics. Not that it is THAT prevalent in CD's i listen to but Cymbals and other high harmonic content always sound more real to me on vinyl. blah blah blah.

That's just really strange. I need to hook my rear speakers up and give it a try with some records in DPLII. Although I currently have my phone pre run into the main L/R channels on the 6 channel input jacks so my receiver can't do any processing on it at all. I'm really curious about what in the recording is causing DPLII to distribute the sound that way. -Josh

[:|] Weird. You sure you got the VA unit rewired correctly when you changed those pots? [] My brain's been puzzling over this one all morning. Is it just some weird phase thing that's "confusing" the DPLII ?

I do think that analog cables can cause a difference. Digital cables... maybe. One thing that I have found slightly annoying within this thread is the comparison with Cat5 patch cables in a TCP/IP network scenario. Network traffic using TCP/IP packets has the ability to resend lost packets with the packets each containing information about who is supposed to be before and after them in the transmission. IIRC the digital output from a CD player or other such device is just a blind stream spewing bits at a high rate, if some of them get lost they are lost forever. I had an interesting experience a few years ago when Iused a CD-ROM drive as a standalone player, http://forums.klipsch.com/forums/p/24820/205899.aspx#205899 The CD drive with my EL-cheapo cable sounded better then the PS2 which was using one of those cheap plastic toslink optical cables. Or maybe the DAC setup in the reciever is weird. I also tried some 12 gauge solid core house wiring as speaker cables and didn't care for the sound compared to 12g monster cable. But to worry about the directionality of speaker wire still strikes me as odd. -Josh

bump. I got around to doing the simple version(just changing taps and adding a resistor) last night and it sounds great. I think it's a lot easier for my ears to pick up on some detail in the lower midrange and bass that I just wasn't noticing before because the squawker and tweeter were so loud. I also realised that I had never gotten around to damping the squawker on the left side so I broke out the sculpey modeling clay and had at it(the sculpey in the right channel was still pliable after 5 years so I figured it should be good for another few. Ahh, I'm listening to music now.

That ones easy, just install Windows XP.[6] This is an honest question about something I've not understood when this has been brought up in the past, Your amplifier outputs are basically AC current, so wouldn't the flow of electrons be bi-directional? Caps used in crossovers can't be polarized, they are specifically non directional because of the AC so why does it make a difference with the speaker cable?

Beautiful job. The directions probably would have worked fine for Boiled Linseed Oil. Tung Oil is a completely different animal though(as you discovered). They really do look great.

I use Marvel's heat gun.

IMO the HK/430 isn't that great of an amp. Usually not bad for the money but not really a hifi amp at all. The ones I've used really seemed to lose control at higher volumes with the bass sounding pretty flabby. -Josh

Maybe I can offload some of that Cat3 I have out in the barn on some unsuspecting fool for his audio gear.

I spent a few months with Bruce's H2's before passing them on to him. During this time as a side by side audition with my H1's I thought that the H2's were too laid back and mellow sounding compared to the brash in your face sound of my H1's. At louder(100dB or so) volumes the H2's seemed at the time smoother up top and more controlled sounding although slightly leaner in the bass dept. The H1's certainly lost some of their high end high volume grain when I swapped out the K77's for the CT-125's, for instance now I can listen to my 45rpm single of ACDC's Back in Black at over 100dB and it doesn't make my fillings hurt. I think I am probably gonna go for the crossover as you described in the cornwall things. I'm rambling...

NEW! FIRST TIME EVER! First recording ever made in Russia by American technical and musical staff and equipment. Recorded by Mercury on Location in Moscow, June, 1962. BYRON JANIS Prokofiev-Piano Concerto NO.3 and Rachmaninoff-Piano Concerto NO.1 Kyril Kondrashin - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra. I picked up a copy of this the other night on LP. It's a Mercury Living presence 35mm magnetic film recording. It sounds amazing, Byron Janis piano work is outstandingly full of energy yet articulate and delicate where need be. The recording of the piano is nice and close and very full sounding. I'm quite happy I picked this up[] -Josh

Don't go knockin' my K57s, now... Maybe that's part of the aggressive midrange sound I love in my Heresy1's I'm sure we'll figure out something good with the crossover.