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Your'e probably fine with the excellent Anthem. Its extra power will provide clean, exciting, peaks and prevent clipping, which could take out your tweeters. Keep unattenuated low bass out of the main speakers, and the center and send it to the subwoofers, by setting your main channels to "small," the correct setting! The preamp-processor (or AVP: Audio Visual Processor) that you feed the Anthem with should provide this option. With your towers, an 80 Hz crossover to the subs should be about right. I'm not sure about your center. How large will your Home Theater be, in cu.ft.? In my 4,257 cu.ft. room (of average liveness), your towers would provide THX's full scale (peak power) of 105 dB above 80 Hz at 64 watts. The subs, to reach THX's 115 dB below 80 Hz, would probably be fine, given their max power of 122 dB, and the fact that there are two of them, even if that 122 dB spec is exaggerated a bit. No one, including THX, advocates those high levels in a moderate sized room, because early reflections confuse the issue, causing the levels to be perceived at higher levels than the actual, physical, intensity, or SPL (Sound Pressure Level) in dB. I tend to run movies at 5 to 7 dB below, most people more like 10 dB below. Keep risky users away from your volume control (party guests, audience members, overenthusiastic audiophiles, children). If your processor has Audyssey or Dirac, and you have the patience, use it. It may take you a day to get it just right. If you don't have the patience right now, you can always do it later -- I put it off for about 2 months, and tweaked it for near ideal reference transformed into smooth preference for a few more months (modified Harman curve (Google), bass as they show, but treble flat). Congrats on starting a great system!

Used every day for music, and ~~ 2x per week for movies: 2 Klipschorns (AK4) (set at SMALL, as weird as that may seem, see "Audyssey FAQ Linked Here"and bass management X-over to subwoofer set at 60Hz) 1 Modified Belle Klipsch also set on SMALL, 60Hz crossover to sub 2 Heresy IIs Small, X-over to sub at 80 Hz 1 RSW 15 subwoofer used 2 ways simultaneously 1)crossed over at 60 Hz or 80 Hz, depending on the speaker, for bass management (soundtrack music, dialogue, see above, and music-only listening. 2) for Low Frequency Effects, the LPF for LFE is set at 80Hz, because the usual 120 Hz for effects is often pushed too hard and can be bloated (see "Audyssey FAQ Linked Here").I have tried many configurations I have tried many configurations over the last 16 years. The above is what is widely recommended, and it sounds great with all Blu-rays, SACDs and the majority of DVDs and CDs. The Khorns and modified Bell have tight, clean bass down to 60 Hz, and the whole system +/- 1.5 dB above 700 Hz to 16K Hz. Below that, the bass is gradually turned up, for a Harman-like room curve, but with flat treble and midrange, but the bass crawling up to + 9 dB at the bass end. Used most days for TV: Klipsch Promedia 2.1 with somewhat attenuated (by ear) EV T35 tweeters on top, fed by EV X 36 crossover, with L pads. In storage: KG SW subwoofer for old TV set- up What happened to the signature area equipment lists?

Welcome, @TMjeffro! Don't be a stranger! Although, it would be hard to be stranger than some of us. For those who haven't heard them, Bozaks are very sweet speakers, with rich bass. When I got my Klipschorns, I spent many hours days trying to decide between a pair of big Bozaks, a pair of B&W 801Fs, and a pair of Klipschorns. They were all excellent! I picked the Khorns because I liked the brass and percussion, and, generally the attack and dynamics on them best. Later, they were improved a bit with an AK4 upgrade. Bozaks were exceptional with cello and strings in general. Bozaks will always be among my favorites. In the good old days speaker creators used to drop by stores to meet customers, &/or chat with store owners, sales folks, and customers for what seemed to be hours on end. One time Paul Klipsch and Rudy Bozak ended up at the same store at the same time. They were actually friendly competitors, and respected each other. Remember respect? But the store owner provided some props, and they were photographed: Below are Paul Klipsch, Joe Minor, owner of Berkeley Custom Electronics (where John Curl used to work -- many happy hours) and Arthur Fiedler who bought Klipschorns. He later said, "For my own listening pleasure at home, l like the Klipschorn. It has wide range, clarity and exceptional definition."

Some people, who do not have tinnitus, are just unusually sensitive to distortion in the high range. In your case, now that you have revealing speakers, the distortion may be coming from the sound source, your CDs, streaming, even SACDs, revealed by your Klipsch speakers, but glossed over by others. Quite a few speakers -- even some high end ones -- veil the noxious treble distortion on some CDs. Klipsch speakers are not among them. I was once playing a bad CD and my daughter said, "too loud!" As I turned it down, I said, "Yeah, those piccolos." She said, "No, the brass!" Different people are bothered by different aspects of sound, and different types of distortion (some kinds of distortion, I'm convinced, are unnamed and unmeasured). Some cashiers get ringing in the ears if they toss coins into the cash register drawer, rather than placing them gently. Have you found any recordings that sound good at high SPL on your Klipsches, without the discomfort you mention? If you do have tinnitus, or a precursor (is there a precursor?) there is an over the counter drug some people swear by, at least they used to. I won't swear it is not hogwash. AFAIK, there are no scientific studies backing it up, but it has been about 15 years since I heard it mentioned. It's Lipoflavonoid. I think it is supposed to increase blood flow to your inner ear. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/tinnitus/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20350162 Definitely see an ear, nose and throat doctor (ENT, otolaryngologist). PrestonTom is quite correct, a PCP may not know enough. Even they sometimes know little about the demands of music or audio. I knew an audiologist who stubbornly insisted that hearing above 8K Hz "does not matter" -- I suspect because hearing aid manufacturers ignore that final octave and one quarter, since people with hearing loss usually don't hear much up there. I would have liked to get her and an equalizer in the same room for a demo.

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I'd just try turning the computer volume to about 25% or less, and see how it sounds. You will grow more nimble fingered in manipulating the Klipsch volume control in time. I love the 2.1, but the volume control is truly it's worst feature. Sing goddess of the bitter wrath of Achilles.

Start over with Audyssey, using this: "Audyssey FAQ Linked Here"

RIP Mr. Connery. You entertained me from Darby O'Gill and the little people on. My Fave: The Man Who Would Be King. In the theater, the sound was fine, and the soundtrack L.P. was good, but the current disks and TV masters have a horribly screechy soundtrack. It's my hope they will release a memorial Blu-way with restored sound (and picture). Anyone who wants to can write Warner and ask for a reissue, with good sound and image, and restoration of the vital 10 seconds of culmination. Why they cut that out, I'll never know. One of John Huston's best. One of Sean Connery's best. One of Michael Caine's best. One of Maurice Jarre's best scores Screenplay by Huston and Gladys Hill One of Kipling's best.

My great-grandmother was bitten by a water moccasin (cotton mouth). She grabbed a butcher knife and cut out the bite area on her arm, poured whiskey on it, and had a few swigs. She lived on to later be either struck by lightning, or illuminated by a side flash, ground current, or some such. She lived through that and moved to California in time for the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. But she reproduced well, and there have been 4 generations since. My daughter was in a band named Water Moccasin in honor of Granny.

When Klipsch started crossing over the K77 at 4,500 Hz, they used a 36 dB per octave Xover to protect it. I think this was done for the first time in 2002 with the AK4 Khorn.

Welcome to the forum! The setting wuzzzer is referring to may be labeled "Subwoofer yes or no" You want "no," or else the Yamaha may send the deep bass out into the ether, instead of into the Klipsches. Try turning up the bass, if there is a tone control for bass, and experiment with the "continuously variable loudness control," that should give you bass EQ something like this, and the SPLs listed: Have you tried putting the speakers in room corners? You may need to get a good, powered subwoofer. And/or a bigger amp.

Learning and memory usually are not improved much by repetition. It is true that learning Ebbinhaus's nonsense syllables is helped by repetition. It i said that repetition is helpful in learning nonsense. Efficient learning is aided most by high meaningfulness. This is supported by the depth of processing model and others. Material that ranges from medium meaning, "that's neat," or "isn't that strange," to high meaning, "Oh wow!" is learned best. I would think that presented correctly, only a minimum amount of homework would be needed. Some things are learned in an instant, without effort. Sometimes it is the sound or the rhythm. In my case, there are certain things I heard once and will remember forever because of rhythm and sound. One is M i ss iss ipp i, another is 6.02 X 1023 and another CH3COOH. They all have a memorable rhythm.

Ah yes, supermarkets sold Lps then. Kids shopping with their parents got to see a variety of albums displayed, as @DizRotus said, in the checkout line. I remember the jazz soundtrack The arm was golden because he pumped a great deal of an expensive drug into it. The drug is not identified, but assumably it was heroin. "Mom, why is his arm golden?" My next door neighbor and I listened to this album, at high volume, endlessly, sometimes with spontaneous dance. An English lady was standing behind me as I looked at a Beatles album, tsk tsking. She said, "They come from the very worst area -- Liverpool." My local Safeway market in Oakland, CA had a mix of new releases (pop, rock, jazz and classical), plus a low cost introduction to classical series that introduced several of my friends to the genre. They also had Fiedler and the Boston Pops. They had the Fantasia soundtrack (in stereo -- it was the first movie in stereo -- others followed 12 years later). Speaking of Disney, he had TV biopics of Beethoven and Tchaikovsky (in three channel stereo!, Left channel on FM, center channel on TV, Right channel on AM) on his show. Supermarkets, at least in Oakland, also had books -- real books, not best sellers. I was introduced to Caldwell, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Nabokov, Huxley, Orwell, Heller, Steinbeck, Graves, Ellison, etc. at my local supermarket, and a few at the drugstore.

@alabama83 If 89.6 is the true sensitivity, your new speakers should be 1.6 dB louder (1.6 just noticeable differences) than your old ones.. Klipsch's sensitivity ratings are for performance in a typical listening room, rather than in an anechoic chamber. Such a room should add about 4 dB to the sensitivity. So, if the above is correct, your in-room sensitivity should be about 93.6 dB, 1 W (2.83V into 8 Ohms), at 1 M. Some room gain and boundary gain would add more, some less. Putting the speaker near a wall, or in a corner may increase the apparent sensitivity and the SPL. How all this works, or doesn't, can be seen by looking at the Klipschorn. When Klipsch started measuring sensitivity (in the 40s??) hardly any speaker company had a (good) anechoic chamber. My 1958 book Hi Fi by Martin Mayer doesn't have a single sensitivity rating in the whole book. In the 60s, the Klipschorn was rated as 104 dB at 4 feet, rather than at 1 meter, in a living room. This was also spec'd as being 54 dB EIA. To convert that to at 1 watt at 1 meter, add 49 dB. 54 dB + 49 dB = 103 dB, which is what JBL got with one of their 54 dB EIA speakers. These measurements may have been taken between 500 and 2,000 Hz only, or using a wider chunk of the frequency response. For the Khorn, Stereophile got 101 dB, but that was on top of a furniture dolly, in a driveway. Let's say the true sensitivity is 101. If we were to add 4 dB for being in a room, we would get 105 dB, which is Klipsch's published rating for a Khorn in a room. If Klipsch adopted Paradigm's practice of publishing both an in-room and anechoic sensitivity, that might solve the problem.

Vinyl Lp Haskel Harr Drum method (mono), so I could learn to be a better Jr. high school snare drummer. A great one I got later was the Westminster Classical Sampler one of the highest fidelity recordings I've ever owned. This was a weird one. The sound in the theater (6 track Stereo 70mm Todd-AO) was unbelievably good -- many members of our orchestra went to it together, and the consensus was that it sounded "just like" a live orchestra with great dynamics down in front of the screen. The score was bouncy, lighthearted and sounded massive, with a 114 piece orchestra. BUT the record was lousy, sounded compressed, and had some print through (which may have meant that it had been transferred to tape, because the soundtrack music elements were recorded in 6 channel on full coated 35 mm magnetic film, which is very unlikely to allow print through because it is 6 times as thick as tape, and there was no print through audible in the theater. Even with its problems, the album was an incredible best seller. Subsequent versions of the soundtrack on CD were almost as bad -- just no energy, and no transparency. BUT the DVD (no Blu-ray yet) has excellent, dynamic, 5.1 audio, providing you adjust the SPL of the marching band near the beginning to live band level, and leave it there for the whole movie. After that were decades of classical, jazz, a little rock, etc.

As usual, the question comes to mind, "What's the matter with us?"

I think John Adams was concerned about that, at least at first. He was not in favor of there being two political parties, but thought citizens and candidates should take stands on individual issues, without a party position being a cloud over them. When he mentions "Our Constitution" here, he probably means the Massachusetts Constitution, for which he had written the first draft -- the U.S. Constitution hadn't been written yet. "There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution." -- John Adams, Letter to Jonathan Jackson (2 October 1780), "The Works of John Adams", vol 9, p.511

I believe this was the "standard" one, if there was one. It'll be interesting to see if there was a variation. Man, there were people who complained that it was not flat, but it seemed better, punchier, and more exciting than JBL's C34 "Scoop" with identical speakers.

In the late '50s and early '60s I had a Karlson my dad built for me with a JBL D130 (15") in it, and a friend had one with a University 6201 (12") in it. In both cases there was a nice bass punch, and they both liked a 4 to 8 dB boost in the bass, with no apparent increase in distortion, due to them having some front and rear horn loading (??).

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I think that was the Heyser review of the Klipschorn in AUDIO magazine. "Then a funny thing happened. The sound of a slammed car door sounded like a slammed car door on the K-horns, but sounded like muffled "whumps" on the "wider range" system. The same with helicopter fly-overs (quite frequent where I used to live) and with the sound of distant traffic. I never forgot that experiment nor its ear-opening ramifications with regard to sonic accuracy versus measurement. Quite true, I have listened to many excellent subwoofers that could shake the walls at 10 Hz, while the K-horn produced little sound pres- sure even an octave above that frequency. But in my personal opinion, accurate percussive bass is a specialty which a properly set up corner horn seems to have to itself." @Msuwendy: The room counts for a lot, as does the position in the room, and the listener's position in the room. If either you or the speakers are sitting in a null, it can turn down the bass within a certain frequency band by quite a lot. Google "Audio: room acoustics and nulls." After getting yourself and the speakers in the best position, turn up the bass on your integrated amp, if you can. It's possible that there are no tone controls. If so, then consider an equalizer, IF you have a processor loop, or a way to make it work.

I used to work at a telescope/microscope company (late 1960s, early 1970s). The largest portion of the sales were shipped via UPS, and they were packed extremely well. One day a guy from UPS walked in with a large, heavy, expensive celestial telescope mirror that was broken in half, literally in two pieces. He said, "I just want to confirm that this can't be repaired." Silence. Everyone just stared at him; some mouths may have fallen open.

The median income in California is about $64,000 before taxes. By definition, of course, half of the people are making less than that. The mean income is about $92,000, clearly showing why the mean is a poor measure of central tendency when there is a very wide range. We moved out of California (mainly due to traffic and crime, not finances), and landed in a state that had slightly lower income tax, slightly higher property tax on a percentage basis, but marvelously lower property tax in dollars, because the houses are much less valuable. The rule of thumb when we moved was you could expect a house twice as large at one half the price. We have no sales tax, while California cities have about 9% or 10% sales tax, depending on where you live (varies by city/county). Only the wealthy in California have a total tax of 50%, although I've heard that figure bandied about. I have had only a nodding acquaintance with two such individuals in my ~~ 55 years in California. The wealthiest person I knew well in California paid about 38% total taxes, I think. My family knew a Californian -- I'm pretty sure he was a Republican -- who said he was proud of paying high taxes, because that served as an indicator of high achievement financially -- it was sort of a badge of honor to him, and he said it was the price of living in a decent society. He, indeed, was a high achiever, and sought challenges. He once walked from Oakland to Yosemite, possibly on the John Muir Ramble Route, and returned with a few missing toenails.

Wine country is mainly Sonoma, Napa counties. north of SF, with in Marin, Humbolt, and Mendocino contributing some. In Oregon, the Willamette Valley has about 600 wineries. Coppola has wineries in both California and Oregon. Even my favorite auto mechanic had a winery, Cakebread. Jack Cakebread graduated from UC Berkeley, went to graduate school at Stanford, and was the middle generation running the garage. He was a good friend of Ansel Adams, studied under him, and sent him wine until Adams could no longer drink it because of illness. Jack's sons run the winery now.

Is cnut or cnutish a word? Have I missed something? I assume it refers to the Warrior King ... are you using it this way because he -- or someone -- referred to the whole area as the North Sea Empire instead of using the names of the countries conquered? Or am I way off-base? I agree, Orange County is less cool name. It it seems rather divided, being the home of Disneyland, some very wealthy residents fictionalized in The O.C., as well as poverty areas, trashy motels, and the smell of gasoline. Saying San Juan Capistrano evokes images of swallows.