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  1. http://www.earthlinklive.com/venue.asp
  2. I've got room in mine. Just no RF-7's
  3. Anybody else going? http://progpowerusa.com/ I just got my tickets. Should be a good show.
  4. 130+ ain't so bad although the aerodynamics aren't the greatest.
  5. Oooh are they ever nice. My Heresy's and I have been hiding out in my room with basshorn envy.
  6. When I installed a standalone EMS in my car I also did some maintenance at the same time. One of the things I did was install a new set of spark plug wires. I got everything up and running but the engine made absolutely no power. I spent about a week messing with the cam timing and the fuel maps and spark maps before I realised I'd installed plug wires 2 and 4 in the wrong positions.
  7. So how many of you naysayers have taken directional interconnects(I still call em patch cables) and plugged them in the wrong direction to see what it sounds like? I have a set of cables that I use with my turntable that I'll try switching out later tonight to see if I can tell a difference.In the mean time feel free to laugh all you want.
  8. The night at the roxbury soundtrack. I love that music. Or maybe, I'm Just a Girl by No Doubt. Sometimes depending on who I'm talking to it's almost embarassing to admit that I really like power metal bands like, After Forever Aryeon Beholder Blind Guardian Dragonforce Nightwish Power Quest Rhapsody Sonata Arctica and of course there is my odd jpop addiction.
  9. Nice. I have a Gransfors Bruks as well but mine is the Scandinavian Forest Axe model. How well does that work for splitting? My current splitter is one of those gerber splitting axes with the hollow fiberglass reinforced handle. We had a 90ft white oak tree cut down by the end of our house and I got to split it once the tree people had cut it into 1.5' sections. The gerber worked marvelously.
  10. It's the other way around. The boost control acts as a gain control feeding into the woofer volume so you can add growl to the bottom end without the top end getting harsh and breaking up. But I love it. The 2000RB would be overkill for most all of the gigs I've played. Not that I would mind having one []
  11. Godin A4 Fretless 70's Fender Jazz Bass Seymour Duncan Basslines active pickups Gallien Krueger 700RB 1991 American Fender Tele Plus bubbles 1998 Taylor 310 http://photos.yafro.com/pics3/i/20060308/19/d/a/b/dabac5867cb8525dc18ad25f49f7ed95200603080_full.jpg http://photos.yafro.com/pics3/i/20060308/19/b/7/8/b780118bd52e1733834bc1c6bba01283200603080_full.jpg Ibanez RG series The new toy http://photos.yafro.com/pics3/i/20060308/19/7/0/c/70c52aafd430e605ac55e8a637934eef200603080_full.jpg http://photos.yafro.com/pics3/i/20060308/19/4/5/b/45bbf87608c8b21a55aab6bd2dbc2675200603080_full.jpg http://photos.yafro.com/pics3/i/20060308/19/7/5/d/75d371a481052490e77fc9bea0d10022200603080_full.jpg Rosewood? neck. http://photos.yafro.com/pics3/i/20060308/19/b/4/1/b41e29270d991272ea06853db99826b1200603081_full.jpg http://photos.yafro.com/pics3/i/20060308/19/7/2/e/72e7e5808fdb6f09552783d35c3ac4da200603080_full.jpg Peace, Josh
  12. Oh yes. I love them. Really fixed the highs and took away some of the harshness.
  13. If it's too loud then he's too old? [] //Josh
  14. I got the tweeters from Bob today. Thanks for the quick shipping. I installed em as soon as I got home from work. The CT125 in place inside my heresy. I had already converted my K-77's to being front mounted a few years ago, the CT125 is way easier to mount this way though since you don't have to partially dissasemble the driver to get it off the horn. Just unscrew the driver, pop the horn in the front and then scdrew the driver back on from the back and you are good to go. I used some brass machine screws with lock washers and nuts to hold mine in place. It originally required the removal of some wood around the opening of the hole to get the tweeter to sit flat in the opening. With the K-77 I had also needed to remove some material from the back of the upper brace inside the cabinet because the magnet assembly sat so far forward with the horn remounted. The '81(left side) with the new tweeter, beat up old cabinets. Back in place on my desk where I listen to music all the time. Ok, So first I started listening to some vinyl Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms. I love the album and it sounded great. didn't really hear anything especially new but the album has a certain peculiarity to it's sound to me. Maybe it comes from being recorded in digital, maybe not. It did sound great though. Next up was the 45rpm Back in Black ACDC single at significant;y louder volume. I was impressed, the highs were smoother and yet more solid and tangible then they were with the K-77. Sticking with the vinyl for a little while longer I threw on There Goes Rhymin Simon by Paul Simon. It sounded good but not astounding, the copy I have is fairly well worn. I wasn't really in the mood for anything else from my meager collection of vinyl so I decided to turn on Ye Olde Tyme PC and play some mp3's. First off was a track by Beholder called World Leaders off of the Wish ofr Destruction album, just some good power metal stuff to get my heart rate up a few bpm with male and female vocals back and forth and lots of rediculous guitar soloing. Even though it was an mp3 the cymbals sounded better, overall the high end was a bit more apparent which really pleased me. Keeping in the power metal vein I opened a track by Dragonforce. Unfortunately too much of their music sounds so much alike and was recorded in a manner so as to have every channel so close to clipping that it leaves more than a little to be desired in the way of production values. Soldiers of the wasteland sounded nice but uninspiring due to production "issues". I decided to leave the realm of compressed audio and try some CD's played through my computer. My PC has in it a cheap turtle beach soundcard that was scavenged from the trash pile at work after my soundblaster live ate it when I plugged the power out of my moniter amp into the line out jack on the SBlive. Anyways, First off for CD audio was Richard Thompson: Action Packed - The best of the capitol years. The opening track grabbed my attention and held on to it like something that holds onto something very tight(it's really to late for similes to make their way out of my somewhat beleaguered brain). Turning of the Tide, there was a detail in the drummers brushwork that i had never heard. I sometimes find it peculiar that as a guitarist and bassist I find so much delight in listening to percussion tracks but perhaps it's because it is something I can not do myself. Whatever the reason I was astounded, letting the track finish out I could tell that there was a giant smile on my face. I clicked forward to Vincent Black Lightning 1952, one of my favorite highwayman songs ever and Thompsons guitar sounded great, the string noise was there and the sound and space of the room around him seemed enhanced compared to to what I had heard on previous listenings of this track. To say I'm happy with this upgrade would be an understatement. I'm sure that over the next few days my ears will adjust and the sound reproduction at my disposal will be rendered as normal to my aural capacity But I will still be happy with this mod. Now for some pointless shots of my sony turntable that I bough because I new nothing and was impatient. Oh yes, My Heresy's are assisted in the low frequency dept by these guys that hang out under my desk. The equipment used in tonights listening was as follows, Yamaha HTR-5540(main amp) NAD 3150(phono preamp) 1981 Klipsch Heresy with Crites CT125 tweeter Alesis RA-100(sub amp) JBL 4636 sub cabinets x2 Sony PS-LX350H belt drive turntable Ye Olde Dell Computer with Turtle Beach Montego 3 Acoustic Research patch cables or "interconnects" if you are so inclined. Thanks Bob. Peace, Josh
  15. I just finished installing the first one in my left heresy. I like what I hear. Going to go install the right side now. I'm running a solid state Yamaha receiver too and I think the sound is pleasent. Certainly sounds to me like there is more going on up top yet not harsh. Almost smoother even.
  16. Nick Kim (646) 243 - 5940 East Orange NJ. http://www.kimaudio.com/
  17. I love vinyl but I'm gonna have to say that I think my fully programable Electronic ignition beats out the old points and dwell mechanical dizzy.
  18. I think my Taylor 310 plays bit better then the '51 but I'd still like to play it with some new(er) strings on it. I do love my Taylor but the D-18 is nice.
  19. He's one of the nihilists in The Big Lebowski. He also likes hip hop too in Bad Boys 2.
  20. I like Richard Thompson but I don't think he's the best. There are a number of other guitar players that I feel the same about. It's really a waste of time for me to try and think about who is the best.
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