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There's a wonderful book out...damn if I can remember the author, but I think it was written either in the last part of the 19th century or very early 20th century. It's call "On the Sensation of Tone" (I'm almost positive). My dad owns a copy, but since moving up to CT with my mom, he took that and all his other books with him when they left me the house!
I only play the keyboard/piano/organ by ear and don't have the necessary sheet music training to qualify myself to answer your question correctly, but I think that maybe every third note in an octave has a frequency shift (?)...most likely I'm wrong.
I do know from all the years being around pipe organs that in the pedal division of most large church/auditorium pipe organs with a 32' Subbass or Choralbass rank/stop, the lowest C on the pedalboard will play that bass note at about 16 cycles per second. That particular lowest C organ pipe, if it's of an open stop variety, will be roughly 32' in length from its mouth to the top of the pipe, and wide enough for a 6' man to crawl through! It takes a lot of regulated air pressure to blow that note to its fullest extant and produce a loud 16 Hz tone that will fill the entire church/hall with sound that you can both hear and feel! At 16 cycles, you can practically hear every individual beat each second...no other acoustical instrument can produce a bass note quite like a pipe organ (one reason why Mozart penned the phrase "The King of Instruments" to the organ)!
I don't know the makeup of bass guitars, but I'd guess that it's low E note, being at 40 Hz, will be about an octave and a half away from a 16 Hz frequency...Hopefully an expert in these matters will set you straight.
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You know what really frosts my balls on this otherwise wonderful forum? Our avatars are all squished in! I'm mean...just look at it! Mine and m00n and fini and others...they're awful!
I'm a pinhead (oh well, I've been called alot worse!)
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Crackin' yer knuckles ain't no joke, but this is:
There's this lil' fury koala bear high up in a eucalyptus tree eating leaves and berries, and he's bored to death of the Outback! He thinks it's high time he needs to get away and explore the countryside, and just then a tour bus comes his way, heading back to Sydney to drop off its load of dusty, tired tourists. The koala bear says to himself, "Self, I've never been to a big city before...should be lots o' fun to go and explore Sydney." As the bus slowly passes his tree down the dusty trail, he hops on top and becomes a stowaway to experience the many new adventures that await him in Sidney.
Once in the big city, the lil' koala is dumbfounded by the strange sights and sounds. As the bus comes to a stop signal, he decides to jump off the bus into a small tree beside the road. Once down from the tree, he's standing right in front of a brothel. He's never experienced one of these before, and decides that it's time to let his hair down and have some fun, so he ventures inside!
The Madam behind the front desk does not see the small koala enter the room as she prepares her girls for a profitable night. The lil' bear climbs up the stairway and into the first room he finds with an open door. Inside is the most beautiful naked woman he's ever seen (big difference from the women of the local Aborigine tribe)! He jumps up onto the bed and announces, "G'day Miss, 'ow about a roll in the hay with a lil' 'orney koala"? His presence startles the ***** at first, but seeing how cute and cuddly he is, plus she never thought about getting her freak on with a koala bear before..."Oh bloody hell, why not!", she replies, and the ***** and the koala have the most insane, most unnatural, and definately the most unmoral sex imaginable!
When it's all over, and they're both relaxing and smoking their ***s in utter content, the ***** gets up from the bed and announces to the well spent koala bear, "Well, mate...time to pay up". Our friend the lil' koala has a puzzled look on his face and responds, "What you mean, Miss? I'm a lil' koala who lives down under. I 'ave no money, an' besides, we never pay for what comes natural". Dissatisfied by his response, the ***** picks up a dictionary and hands it to the koala and retorts, "Look up the definition to the word 'Prostitute'!" The koala bear opens the book and thumbs through its pages, and comes to the very word:
pros*ti*tute (pros'ti-tyoot') n. 1. One who solicits and demands payment for sexual intercourse.
"Blimey..." says the little koala in amazement. He then hands the dictionary back to the now smug ***** and tells her, "Now open the dictionary an' look up the meanin' to the word 'Koala'". Bewildered, the ***** reaches for the book, opens it and searches for the word. Upon finding it, she begins to read:
ko*a*la (ko-a'la) n. An Australian arboreal marsupial that has dense grayish fur, is found living in eucalyptus trees, and primarily eats bush and leaves.
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HDBRbuilder...AMEN!
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DPman, welcome, and ditto to what JM said.
My dad bought the very Cornwalls I'm listening to right now in '79, and they're showing NO signs of deterioration whatsoever...these Klipsch will outlast even its owners. These horns are incapable of being fried they're that efficient.
The only recommended procedure to extend the life of your drivers is to do nothing to them, as far as I know. Don't spray Pledge, 409, or any other aerosol or cleaning products on them. Don't even use a feather duster on 'em! Just play them and enjoy them (and it's probably best not to use an amplifier more powerful then what your model recommends, to be on the safe side...the experts on this forum can give you the complete skinny on that note).
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Either or, he's going into business for himself! Bully for him...good show!
Hope he does well.
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----------------On 1/9/2003 12:53:27 AM fini wrote:The guys pictured on the instructions have the same hairstyle as you!fini----------------
...And they're naked to boot! I hope m00n wasn't in his birthday suit tryin' to lighten the load on that ladder! Sorry, dumb humor...
Sorry about your accidental accident. You're wrist will mend, and your Klipsch will sing, but not just yet, I'm afraid.
Wish I could tell ya I feel your pain, and then relive a traumatic event to share with you like all your friendly Klipschans have thus far. But I never broke a single bone in my body yet! I have no experiences of shearing pain shooting through any parts of my body that have been brutally mangled by a fall...I did sprain my ankle once falling down a flight of stairs, but that doesn't count.
Throughout my short 6 year career in the U.S. Army, the only pain inflicted upon my person was during a football game when the opposing team's quarterback squarely threw the spinning football directly into my "sack", causing me to curl up in the fetal position (and remain so for the rest of the game)...I should have never jumped up to block the throw when being only a few feet away from his pass attempt!
Get well soon, buddy. That HT will be the sweeter now that you've contributed more than just "blood, sweat, and tears"!
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----------------On 1/8/2003 12:22:13 PM Ray Garrison wrote:jt1stcav,"Well, since you asked, here's my opinion......So, what do I think people should do in today's business climate to have some sense of security and plan for the future?START YOUR OWN DAMN BUSINESS AND DON'T BORROW ANY MONEY FROM ANYONE TO DO IT.The opportunities today are greater than they have ever been. It's tough, but if you are good at something, something you enjoy doing, you can usually find a way to make a business out of doing it, and only by being responsible for yourself can you promise yourself a safe and secure future."----------------
Thanks, Ray. Sorry to hear about your misfortunes (and they were many), and how you and your wife (hope she's doing well) and GRL are beginning to show a healthy profit for all involved. May it continue to gain strength and succeed in these volitile times!
Your advice is well noted! And it's something my dad started doing roughly 3 years ago when he took on his present job at Foley-Baker, Inc. Because he's close to retirement age, he decided it was time to do something he truely enjoyed as a hobby and make it into a business venture that perhaps could carry him and my mom well past their retirement!
He is extremely happy with his present position, and Foley-Baker, Inc. (FBI) is doing extremely well for a small business. But my dad knows that even while retirement isn't mandatory with FBI, his disability may someday force him into retirement. Sitting around waiting to die while retired is not in his cards, and he's always had this hobby that he enjoyed tinkering with on his own time, but never thought much about it turning into a serious business for himself...not until now! For over 45 years he's fiddled around with repairing and restoring antique vacuum tube radios; he kept a few to add to a small collection he has, and for fun has retored vintage radios from the 30's through the 50's for family and friends. Since moving back to CT in '99, he's noticed that this hobby is taken quite seriously throughtout New England the other parts of the country...he did some research and came to the realization that he can actually make some serious money with this hobby! There are actually hundreds of thousands of diehard radio collectors throughout this country who cherrish their own collections, and there are lots of vintage tube radios still out in the market being bought and sold all the time (not just at flea markets and antique shops, but online as well, i.e., eBay). The majority of these antiques are not in the best of shape due to their age, misuse, storage in attics and barns, etc., and there is a huge demand for individuals with the expertise to repair and/or fully restore these timeless classics (actually, the market is huge)! He placed a small ad in their local newspaper 3 years ago, and his side business has taken off dramatically! He's not getting rich (yet) on this venture, but he has made enough to supplement his full time income while providing a sizable nest egg for he and my mom! As long as the demand is there for someone to restore a family's 1938 Zenith AM/Shortwave console radio or a 1941 Philco Transitone bakelite table radio, then my dad will continue to do what he loves best!
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I'm a Klipschan for life, so I know what I'll be listening to 10 years from now (hopefully, still to my '79 Cornwalls, plus any other Heritage models I pick up along the way).
subegt, in June of '84 I bought a pair of JBL L-112 Century II monitors, only because I couldn't afford the Cornwalls at the time. I purchased the JBLs at Robinson Barracks in Stuttgart (I was stationed with the 51st Signal Bn. at Krabbenloch Kaserne, Ludwigsburg)...where were you?
HornEd, PWK is probably seated at the left hand of God Almighty, with his "Bulls#%t" pin proudly displayed on his robe! Frankly, I'd love to see Klipsch recreate an evolutionary "Cornwall III" in the not-too-distant future! Hey, I think it's a cool idea...I'd buy 'em!
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That figures...they had a list of employees close to retirement!
Dammit, why do these greedy bastards continue to get away with this? Is this practice even legal?
Seeing that Ray and HornEd have years of experince in these matters of business, maybe they can shed some light on this whole fiasco...In their opinions, what can be done to create new jobs for this country, what can stimulate growth and the economy so people can earn a decent wage and make major purchases on homes, autos, and Klipsch loudspeakers? Do they think George W. is on the right track with his plan of tax cuts to the poor and middle class, or is he only into making the richest 1% of the American population even richer?
It's bad enough that there's talk of war with Irag, reinstating the draft, and now threats from N. Korea...this country of ours may never recover from the recent events...maybe the damn terrorists that attacked our citizens on 9/11 have damaged our way of life, or do our present woes stem from events that took place way before any attacks?
Your comments please, gentlemen...
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Jim, Thanks! And yes, my CWs survived 2 days worth of partying without a scratch (or a single drop of Jack and Coke)!
To Mike and Jim, and anyone else bothering to read these posts...Mike, I'm so sorry about you being laid off (and right before Christmas, like I said). I hope that you, Jim's dad, and anyone else who's been let go because of corporate greed, get back on their feet and survive as best they can until another good paying job crosses their paths (and not crappy clerk/cashier jobs for teenagers, either)...This country needs to create new, high paying jobs with some sort of security for the employees and their dependants. When Congress are voting "yae" for huge pay raises for themselves, they need to earn that raise; they need to start acting, and do what's right for this country, to create good, reliable, high paying jobs for every American citizen (before all the damn illegal alliens take what little is left)!
My dad has just beaten the layoff game several times in the past 10 years by finding a new job each time (before the layoff "ax" cut him off permanently). His first replacement job after the first layoff attempt wasn't any better pay-wise, and the benees sucked. And that company went bankrupt 2 years later, so he went searching and found another lower paying job before his position was "axed". This company was much bigger, and he struggled to pay his bills for several years because of cutbacks in wages and other crap...until greed took over, and it too, went bankrupt! Just before he got the "ax" from this job, an old friend up in CT who couldn't afford to pay my dad what he was really worth years ago, was finally doing good for himself. He offered my dad a position as a CAD Engineer that he simply couldn't refuse, so my dad was hired, and my parents were transfered from sunny FL to cold, snowbound CT (where I grew up, I was born in NY state)! My dad was one of the lucky ones, and now he works for a small family-run business that has survived corporate big business, competes against them, and wins big-dollar contracts from the greedy corporations because of their proven track record! Why couldn't this success story be spread across the nation for others who have been laid off and have filed for unemployment? Why can't this nation prosper and grow? I sure wish I knew!
And I have nothing against the Labor Unions...if they could also work with their employees and prove to the nation that they can overcome the adversity in this country's unemployment, create good reliable work for everyone, without all the strikes you hear about in the news, then that's great! I know I don't know a thing about unions, and have never been in a union, but I hear so much negativity about them from others who have been union workers that it scares me. And if unions are so great, then why is Jimmy Hoffa wearing concrete boots in some bay somewhere? I'm not knocking unions, but what can they do to help this nation out? Stop the bickering and striking, and improve the workforce in this country!
This is just my opinion...
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Um...I seemed to have left my books in school. Why don't YOU enlighten me about "Labor Unions".
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----------------On 1/5/2003 11:24:06 PM michael hurd wrote:Can you e-mail anthrax ?
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Naw...why waste good anthrax on him. I took a healthy dump just now, and it's coiled up inside the bowl, with lil' pieces of undigested corn kernels poking out here and there...let's e-mail him that, the dumb s%#@head!
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Sorry to read what happened to your dad, Jim. We all hope he does sue!
This whole mess with greedy corporations laying off their skilled American workers, especially those who've stayed with their employers 10 to 20 years, just so they can save themselves money by hiring unskilled workers from some 3rd world nation who'll slave for them at $1.20 a day with no health benefits or a pension whatsoever...it just makes me sick to my stomach!
Fifty years ago, our dad's dads, and their dads before them, thought nothing of staying at the same company their entire working lives, making a decent living for themselves and their families...it was the American Dream! Corporate heads provided what they could to entice a good employee from leaving them and work for another firm, or worse, their own competition! Benefits like health/life insurance for workers and their entire families, stock options (that seemed to grow all the time), paid vacations, holiday pay, overtime pay, raises, a super pension and retirement package to keep the employees motivated, knowing that when retirement did come, they would generally still be taken care of, and any other benefits that kept the employees happy and eager to continue their employment there. Life was good!
Nowadays, all you hear about in the news are job layoffs, plant closures, the huge unemployment rate, union squabbles and strikes, and companies that have been in business for what seems like forever now closing their doors forever, and their faithful employees all of a sudden out of a good paying job. But what really gets my goat are these huge, greedy corporations that decide to save themselves 1.6 billion dollars annually by shutting down all their American plants, laying off literally thousands of well trained workers (usually around a major holiday like Christmas), and opening a new plant in Columbia or Indonesia to thousands more unskilled, uneducated workers who'll work for miniscule pay and no benefits of any kind...Oh, but that's good business, and to help out 3rd world nations. To hell with them! What about our own people in this country, which is supposed to be the greatest nation on earth? And don't even get me started on Enron and Worldcom...
I've been employed by the same little company for almost 17 years now. This family-run business only excists because it is contracted out by a huge corporation that requires its specialized services that we provide. This giant company can't function well (if at all) without us...they have tried once years ago to slimline their operations by not renewing our contract, and they almost failed at their task, so our contract was renewed! Even though we are needed, we're still treated like dirt at times. Crap rolls downhill, and we're always hit the hardest! We're not given any of the big corporation's many benefits; we do have our own company benefits, but they're basic and few (though better than nothing). The corporation tells us to jump, we say how high, regardless to whether it will benefit us or hurt us...we are playing in their back yard, so to speak, and for that priveledge, we must follow their guidelines regardless! They expect 40% of our total earnings to pay them "rent", so we can remain exclusively theirs. If they profit, we profit as well, but if they lose money, we lose more than that! They can still function (although not at peak performance like throughout the Reagan Years) during the latest recession and from the 9/11 attacks, albeit at a loss...For us, it means eventual layoffs or cutbacks, no more overtime, raises or bonuses, full time is reduced to part time, etc. I work on an hourly rate, plus commission for each piecework completed. When the corporation is at its busiest, I make a huge profit along with my employer. Now, during the corporation's slump in business due to the present economy, they inturn raise their prices by 5%, which means we have to follow suit. They can still operate at a loss, while my employer struggles to make sales of any kind because our profits are no where near what the corporation brings in; at times our profits are in the "red", so our company's CEO has to dip into his own personal funds just to make payroll for his employees (he can't afford to lose any more employees than he already has because of little work and small paychecks). Sometimes I make between $400 to $600 less than what I should be making right now. My salary has dropped by $3,000 from what I grossed previously, but my bills, utilities, food and gas, and property taxes, have continued to climb. Thus, I've had to sell some high ticket personal items (and half my audio equipment, i.e., my McIntosh MC7200 power amp, my AMC CVT-1030s vacuum tube preamp, practically all my Carver components, and other miscellaneous gear) just to get by. And at my present pay rate, even as slow as I am, I would take a serious pay cut if I quit this job in favor of something in town (I live 50 miles away from my job; there are no real high paying jobs where I live unless you're a professional, i.e., a doctor or lawyer. I could become a truck driver hauling phosphate or strawberries, or I could become a cashier at Wal-Mart).
I'm no businessman, nor a politician, and I don't understand how big business and politics work hand in hand. I don't understand the stock market and how it runs people's investments, or how it can make you rich in one day, and how you could lose it all the next. The world economy baffles me, but I guess this mess here is all intertwined along with governments and businesses from all over the globe. And with global terrorism affecting you and me now (where before it was always to someone else in the world), what can anyone do to make it right again? Or does the planet need to be totally destroyed by WWIII for everyone to finally see the light?
It happened to Jim's dad; it could still happen to me. Losing your job (and possibly your self-respect) is a terrible thing. As long as I can still afford to pay my electric bill each month, I at least have what's left of my audio system to enjoy, and I can escape the horrors this world throws out at us.
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Happy anniversary! How are ya gonna celebrate?
I don't know how to figure out my Klipsch ownership anniversary date...my dad bought the CWs new in '79 (can't remember if it was spring or summer; the cannabis had started to take its affect on my brain cells), they were used continuously until March of '99 when my folks moved to CT (he left them and his entire system down here in FL with his sons; they have no room in their tiny townhouse), my brother used them until May '02 when I swapped him my Magnepans. And I've used them ever since (about 8 months).
So do I count how long I've used them, or how long they've been with our family? More brain cells dead...
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...And whoever the sucker is that buys 'em will think he outsmarted all of us Klipschans who spent good money (and/or got great deals) on our Klipsch. That is until he plays 'em for the first time...I'd pay good money to watch him kick the drivers in!
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Dammit, did you ever luck out...that's a true inheritance! Those loudspeakers are beautiful! I wish you the very best in restoring them.
They remind me a little of my dad's first stereo speaker pairs he bought in '62 in an Army PX while stationed at Chartres, France. Actually, there's really no comparison...my dad's are a 2-way sealed bookshelf with a 1 1/2" cone tweeter and 6" woofer in an enclosure that looks alot like yours. On the cane grill is a little plaque: BELL, with a triangle shape and the letters "TRW" in its middle. The loudspeaker's back panels read: Bell Sound Division; Thompson Ramo Wooldridge, Inc., Columbus, Ohio, Model S.S.1...can't find anything about them on the internet! The internal construction looks very similar to yours, including the bracing and the batting. Unfortunantly, the original woofers were discarded (no idea when) and cheap Radio Shack 6inchers with whizzer cones were put in their place (tweeters are still original). Without their original woofers, they might as well be burned. They sound heinous!
I'd love to get another tube preamp...maybe a classic from Fisher, H.H. Scott, Marantz, McIntosh, or now from EICO...see:
http://users.rcn.com/fiddler.interport/EICO.HTM
The EICO ST-70 is new to me...maybe I'll go integrated instead! You have a sweet system right now; I can understand your reluctance to go back to your Carver/Polk Audio system (I sold most of my Carver gear. The CD player will be next...never thought I would until I heard McIntosh; see my link), I hope you enjoy it for many years to come!
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And I was going to mention www.partsexpress.com, but I don't think they have what you want. Stick with Rick's source! Have you called on Klipsch yet, or is the grill cloth you're looking at for another manufacturer?
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I don't have a HT or a DVD player, but I'd contact Sony pronto and ask them. I've got a 16 year old Sony SLV-575UC Hi-Fi VCR that had a transport FUBAR a few years ago (and it's definately not under warranty anymore), and they took care of it fast (and it's still in use today)! Call them now before your warranty expires...you can't afford not to.
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----------------On 1/6/2003 3:23:24 AM m00n wrote:Yes, the other cones are fun to clean too.
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Uh...what other cones are fun to clean, m00n?
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Klipsch-like?...uh, NOOOO...I don't think so, dude!
Doesn't he mean "Junk-like"?
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----------------On 1/5/2003 10:52:27 AM fini wrote:Does anyone else miss the lower-case "k", or is it just me?fini----------------
fini...chuckears started that thread days ago, but the topic is still open and on page 2 of this General Forum.
And yes, I miss it, too!
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I cracked my ring finger knuckle up against my Cornwalls when the screwdriver slipped as I was installing my speaker cables a month or so back...hurt like a son-of-a-*****, and it even bled a little, too! Thank God I didn't smear any blood on the raw birch backs along the terminal strip...that would have sucked big time.
The cat coughing up hairballs just reminded me it's time to give my 4 cats their Cat Lax treatment...looks like Cod Liver Oil in a toothpaste tube, but my kitties love the stuff!
I don't own a chainsaw at the moment, but I used one once to clear out scrubs from a fence...it cut GOOD! Damn 2-stroke engine needed to be primed all the time, though...what a drag.
Why is it when you fart in the pool the bubbles travel up your back? While I'm driving my car, my farts travel up across my stomach and right up my nostrils...PU!
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I think with the B3 network, nominal impedance is 8 ohms, but I'm not sure. Special Message HDBRbuilder and ask him. Also go to "To ALK or Not To Alk" thread for a possible answer.
How many time has this forum pi@#ed you off .
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HornEd, aside from that beautiful 2-point rack of Klipsch horns protruding from your Nordic helmet, your avatar looks to be in normal scale...just wondering if the avatars are readjustable to a normal looking width.
God, look at poor m00n...it looks like the forum administrator "pooped" his head out onto every post he makes, and he has enough problems with a busticated wrist!
Don't mean to pick on our favorite m00n!