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You're welcome. I have the same situation with my tube line stage preamp...the selector switch only has 3 inputs for Aux, CD, and Tape (and only 3 pairs of input jacks). Since there's no Tape output RCA jacks, I can't record on my Nakamichi deck, but that's okay since I haven't made a recording with it since '99, long before I bought this particular preamp. If you still like to make recordings on your reel-to-reel, you may want to consider another integrated amp.

I own '79 Cornwalls (considered I's that are being sold regretably due to space) and I've read here that many prefer the I's over the II's in overall sonics. Since I've never audioned II's I cannot say which would sound better...only your ears could decide that. And as far as I know, no Cornwall is sealed (maybe a pro model or an early prototype? Correct me if I'm wrong)...they're all ported. The smaller Heresys are in sealed enclosures, although there may have been a ported pro model, I'm not sure.

I've never used a Kailin, but I'm assuming you can "play" cassettes thru a cassette deck connected via the Aux line-in input. You won't be able to record on your deck since there's no line-out jacks thru Aux, though.

www.oldradiomagic.com Let's see if this works... EDIT: If this is what you meant, flannj, the link works for me (I'm using IE7).

I have a general audio website and I've added Mark and Craig's business websites to my links page...they're not banner ads, but they'll do!

You don't wanna use Cakewalk 4.0...it's an old DOS sequencer from '88. I definately need to upgrade!

Yeah, I'm not diggin' it much either. Like the previous look better. Oh well...

I wish...got a snowball's chance in hell of that happening down here!

What a fascinating story, and excellent work, Greg! Glad the Klipschorns made the journey safely.

I'm not creative enought to come up with one, but this caption gets my vote![Y]

Cut-Throat, this site explains the story of the now-deceased bunny with the pancake (and other objects) on its head: http://www.syberpunk.com/cgi-bin/index.pl?page=oolong

Your dedication to your wife's memory is an inspiration to us all, Bruce! Wish you all the best with your new life. Yeah, Michael...it'll be 5 years for me next month...we've all gained friends here due to this forum, and for that I thank Klipsch for providing us all a place we can call our second home.

That would've only seemed right since you refused them the first time he offered them to you (and the seller had them already sold to another afterwards...hope that buyer took it well that you got 'em anyway). Regardless, enjoy!

Well, I feel those Tekton Design monitors with the 6" Fostex drivers must be pretty good since several Klipsch owners use 'em too...I miss my Loth-X; maybe someday when my finances allow I'll look into these single-driver loudspeakers and give them a shot with my 8 watt per side SET amp.

I had a pair of mint Loth-X Audio Amaze fullrange single-driver/crossoverless monitors in 1/2" solid cherry cabinets (no MDF). They were transmission line loaded, with a Stefan Stamm-designed, Fostex-custom built 6" single unit tri-coned paper driver with an inverted cloth surround (the paper was impregnated with a proprietary polymeric resin for lightness/stiffness). In the center of each driver was an aluminum alloy phase plug, and they each had a 23,000 gauss Alnico magnet. These 8 ohm monitors had a frequency response of 55Hz-20kHz and sensitivity was 96dB @ 1 watt/1 meter. Best of all is how they sounded...in a word, awesome! Highs were extremely clean and shrill-free, and they had a midrange to die for! They obviously lacked bass, but my subwoofers took care of that and they mated perfectly with the Amaze. I wish I could've kept 'em, but I wanted to buy a pair of cherry RB-75s more and needed to cash in the Amaze to help finance them (sucks to be poor). Still, the discontinued Loth-X line made outstanding single-driver loudspeakers, and they're definately worth looking for.

Glad I got my deals on audio and camera equipment when I did! What a copout..."unfair competition"..."undersell" my arse! The men and women of our armed forces who sacrifice everything to volunteer to serve our nation (especially now in time of war) deserve all the breaks they and their dependants can get, to include discount prices on all products sold thru AAFES/BX/PX! The low prices served us military personnel quite well for many many years...I don't remember hearing the local competition complaining while I was on active duty...and I did just about all my LP and CD shopping, to include clothing and the appliances and furniture I bought for my apartment off post at these local competing retailers here in the states and in Germany (most of my food shopping was at the commissaries due to being close and the fact I usually ate out at the local restaurants or in the mess halls anyway)! Since when did the government become "politically correct" all of a sudden and give in to big business? These businesses near military installations weren't hurting, and they still had their civilian customer base shopping with them. So the AP clubs go out of business instead, and the civilian employees then lose their jobs? I hate politics!

You can purchase the 640P on AudioAdvisor and return it within their specified period if you're not pleased with it: http://www.audioadvisor.com/prodinfo.asp?number=CA640P

I think the audio-technica AT440ML is a discontinued model now (replaced with the AT440MLa), but it's still in stock at various online retail outlets like Amazon.com, and I'm sure replacement styli are available as well. Since your dad's AT440ML has only 5 hours use on it, it's obviously got plenty of life left in it. They're respectable budget cartridges with excellent reviews and mate well with Technics 'tables, so as long as it's not worn out, I'd keep it and enjoy its sonics. Ditto with what's been said about the Cambridge Audio azur 640P MM/MC phono pre, but the other phono stages on your list are just as good IMHO, so you wouldn't go wrong with any of them.

Damn property taxes will be the death of us yet! After you mentioned the statement you got in the mail, I was afraid to read the rest of your post, thinking you were gonna say you put the LPs you just bought up for sale!

That's a great story, Mike![] Wish there were lots more oldies stations like the one you mentioned on the air today, especially when we play these vintage radios. I can't seem to get into listening to The Bee Gees or Tony Orlando & Dawn on my Emerson or Zenith...the only local oldies station in town plays music from the '60s and '70s; that's not "oldies"! I want big band and popular tunes up to the '50s; tunes that are appropriate for playback on these antique radios.

That is a real shame. AAFES always seemed to charge wholesale prices and carried a huge variety of merchandise back when I was on active duty ('80 to '86). My Nakamichi DRAGON 3-head autoreverse cassette deck back in '84 retailed for about $2500 or so, and I bought it new at the PX in Stuttgart for $800. My Denon DP-62L manual turntable retailed for over $600 I think, and I got it for $300. For AAFES to have become a more profit making enterprise than a wholesale retailer for our military personnel is a major crime IMO!

Even on eBay or AudiogoN the Palladiums will remain too rich for my blood. Maybe in 20 years a used pair will be more affordable, but not anytime soon, I'm afraid. That's okay...I'm happy with my Cornwalls and the RB-75s! Like the Palladium and the Klipschorn, two totally different design approaches and sonic signatures...one isn't better than the other IMHO, only different. I'd love to be able to compare the two, though...

Mike, that's a nice tabletop Philco your friend has...love the wood cabinet. As cool as bakelite cabinets are, there's just something special about real wood (maybe because it was once a live tree)...the grain pattern and how it shines when its restored, I dunno. Pete, that was $40 well spent for the high-boy. As far as I know (my dad's the expert, not me), your Philco is just an AM radio. I believe the dial markings were different back in the '20s and do not represent the actual standard station indicators used on AM today (I have a '33(?) Emerson mantle radio with its AM dial that reads 0 to 100). And the early plastics that were used on radio dials back then always seem to yellow like that due to years of heat from the dial bulbs IIRC (they were originally white from what I was told).

Erik, that li'l transistorized SW radio is the neatest thing...just a thought; your dad could whoop up a batch and market those things and make a killing! I'd bet there are radio enthusiasts out there who'd want 'em just for the sheer novelty of owning something that small. Pete, he said 4 to six weeks to restore the Grundig? Wow, that soon? Last I was in his workshop, he had so many customer's repair orders to finish he had actually considered turning away some jobs just so he could catch up (luckily he's never followed thru with that and most likely never will...he's grateful for all the work he's got, many from repeat customers)! That late '20s Philco high-boy console that OB refered to is extremely nice! My dad sold one very similar to your model a few months back to a collector up in Ocala for IIRC $400 or more. My dad also had two Zenith TOs that he restored and sold...they performed flawlessly, but he too wasn't happy with their sound quality. I never heard one so I can't comment on the TOs sonics...I can't imagine shortwave sounding really good on any radio, but that's me.

A little garish, dontcha think?[^o)] Actually, it looks to be quite a feat in architectural and engineering design, worthy of a music museum or something along those lines (the piano legs and the roof support intrigue me). But for a home...well, even if I could afford such a lavish home built (and I do love music, especially compositions written for the pipe organ), I wouldn't go so far as to have an architect design me a house that looked like the Mormon Tabernacle instrument! I would venture to guess that piano/bass house in somewhere in Asia...maybe Singapore?