sheltie dave

Gary, if you like Humble Pie, check out the Faces with Rod Stewart, and then go back to some of John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers. Another good British pub rocker group was Brinsley Schwartz, which had most of Rockpile(Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds, et al) and then you can hit anything from Fairport Convention with Richard and Linda Thompson. A good blue-eyed soul album is Ace's first, Paul Carrack crooning "How Long." You would be well served with any of Procol Harum's first three albums, as well. Throw in a few instrumental British surf albums from the Shadows, and I love the vocal harmonies the Searchers and early Hollies laid down. You are really making it difficult for me not having a turntable, you know!

Mike, you have too many amps! The Creek is pretty sweet. Shoot, I thought it was some cheesy Rat Shack remote volume doohicky, and then you go and freak out, telling me it's actually $$$. WTFDIK? I'm waiting to get the shorthorn before I decide what to do with it. It may be real convenient to be able to remotely adjust da volume in Liam's room as he drifts off to sleep. Only problem is - he never drifts off to sleep. He is either awake, fighting to stay awake, or dead to the world. There is a nice set of walnut Corns in Spokane now. I'm glad they didn't come up while I was out there - I would have picked them up and missed the shorthorn. I came across the vodka with coffee beaNS in the bottle, but the shop wanted $70 for it. How about a fifth of Kamakatcha

Erik, it is "interesting" to witness those that want to upset the apple cart. We have people that have hundred, ney, thousands invested in a discretionary entertainment system, and rather than enjoy their system, they choose to either goad or involve themselves in flame wars with no positive purpose or outcome. You did some beautiful work on Ed's Moondogs, by the way I am very happy with today's efforts at the house - I finally scabbled up the tile in the laundry room, got both the washer and dryer hooked up and running, put in three new door sweeps, built and installed two solid oak door thresholds, and swept and vacuumed the first floor. Tomorrow I am going to make twenty gallons of jambalaya and plot out when I will drive to New Orleans to pick up the '56 shorthorn. I have to go to UPS to pick up a Christmas present and send one 299C and tubes up to Craig for a rebuild. Life really is too short to step in some of the muck in recent threads

CWM, I found your quoted statistics to be extremely enlightening. Women are shorter, lighter, and less strong then men in general. SO?? I would expect that when comparing any person who is 6'1" tall, and weighs 200 pounds versuus any other person who is 5'6", 135 pounds. Injuries and fractures related to legs, are these statistics generated in Iraq or boot camp? Looks like non-combat data to me. And the baby syndrome? Is this only in the military? If you look at society, I think the military is a similar microcosm. Were you ever in the Canadian military, and have you ever had any dealings with females in the military, or do you just tilt at windmills to satisfy a need for male superiority? You might need to change your paradigm on how to analyze combat ability by doing rather than by reading. Go to West Point and spend half a day hanging with the bottom 20% "bottom feeders" as they go through Hell Week. And yep, either of the two ladies who graduated ahead of my little bro at West Point would be glad to wipe the floor with you after the five mile morning run at a 6:30/mile pace...if you were still hanging. We had an Olympic shotputter in the Navy who proved his strength and endurace by carrying a main steam trunk valve, all 400 pounds, up three flights of stairs in five minutes. It was an AMAZING show of strength and power, something five husky guys could not manhandle. On the following shift, a 5'4", 125 pound lady electrician moved it back down three flights of stairs in fifteen minutes using her superior engineering skills. She knew how to operate the electronic chainfall hoist. Guess which person needed an emergency hernia surgery three days later?

I could do some research and relocate the Navy sponsored study that determined the optimal crew to staff nuclear submarines was an all-female crew, do to their superior ability to handle stress and the need to make clear, level-headed decisions in rapid sequence. I have met a lot of banana peels who are men. Many of our gender who have argued against women serving in the military or on the battlefield have never cast a shadow on the field of combat, nor heard the elephant themselves. Though my time of service has passed, if I were in a foxhole, the most important criteria I hold is whether my bud has my back, and whether my bud will sacrifice his/her life for me. The converse holds true as well. My youngest brother is in a Stryker battalion in Iraq, and he just held a SCM for a private who raped another private in a shower. Many years at Leavenworth await. Too many armchair quarterbacks will point to this as a perfect example that ladies do not belong in the military, and even the society of men. My brother is glad he can call on the talents of the females in his company - his life depends on them. Your attempt to converse on this moot subject was best undertaken twenty years ago, and the correct decision was made at that time. Ladies are serving, and serving honorably in our armed services. Leave it at that!

Don, "What we have here is a failute to communicate." I don't know if this is coming or going, but normal shipping strategies do NOT apply with FEDEX and UPS. They have monkies, chimpanzees, and gorillas working for them whose sole purpose is to maim and destroy whatever you ship. If you start with this principal in mind, they become a great company I always assume a three inch crush cushion beyond the largest dimension in every face of packaging. For your Hafler, I would have wrapped the face sperate from the body, removed the hand grabs, and put 2x4s on the sides, then wrapped it again. Double boxing or shipping in a pelican is a great idea as well. If you play the game using these packing methods on both sides of shipping, you will have no problems with any of your shipments, Don. I ship some nasty chemical, mainly radioactive, and I make DAM sure I don't get a phone call from Houston that starts, "Bud, we have an issue with this package..." Spend a little more and you won't be posting another photo - they are pains in the asses to get $$$ back from UPS and Fedex. The classic line was delivered by UPS. The guy was all heart when he said "It's obvious this wasn't picked properly, because it broke when it fell ten feet." With this outlook, pack everything like a nuclear weapon

Thanks Bill and Mungkiman! I am thrilled to get this speaker. Years ago, my mom took a picture of Dad and I when I was in diapers at Christmastime, standing next to Dad's modified Shorthorn/radio console. I told my wife I wanted to reproduce that photo as close as possible. Dad passed last year three weeks after we found out we were expecting, so this process will be a significant labor of love for me. Our 11 month old is getting close to three feet tall and thirty pounds, so I have to tie everything together before he is too heavy to hold! Liam has no surviving grandparents, so we are doing everything we can to make sure he realizes his grandpapas and grandmamas love him from Heaven. I hope he can treasure this new photo as much as I do

I e-mailed the gentleman, and he is supposed to CB today so we can meet. Can I get any bets on how this demo will shake out?

Dee, way to go on these beauties! I wish I had the lira to pick up you Bottleheads, but the dishwasher, freezer, rugs, watercolors, and sculpture have depleted my savings to the point where I might have to raise taxes. Cancel that, can't tax myself This is the third large Ebay purchase in the past week that has fallen into a friend's lap when the winner backs out - makes me wonder how many final "winners" are actually buyers versus friends, family members, the seller, et al in on a sting. If you are ever interested, I would be willing to swap yours with my black Khorns. I have the gorgeous mirror matched walnut Belles from the mid '70s, and they far surpass the blacks in visual appeal. Just a thought, because I have you pegged as one who looks at your walnuts and smiles every day

I just won the Shorthorn listed down in Louisiana, and Mike stated it has a k33, k55, and k77 driver setup for a 56 or 61 shorthorn. Were these drivers stock in 61, or have they been added to update the components? Also, what crossover should I expect to find on this bad boy? The Ebay photo was about as focused as a seventeen year old in math class. Mungkiman, do you have any more of the cream cane cloth, or what is the Klipsch SKU on that item? Thanks!

Clu, it makes you wonder what sense of humor God has. So you want to fluck with one of my friends? Ooops, where's your ^&%$*(# wallet now, Beezlebub? Sometimes I wonder if the Old Testament method would be a good deterrent; just call him Four Fingers now. We hope your mom is doing well.

Neo, the REST of Ed's Moondogs are as good as you are ever going to get. The small hit you may take on swapping OP transformers is going to be much less than the hit you will be absorbing trying to get the perfect pair of Moondogs - and based on your catalog of postings - the only pair that will suffice are Kelly's. In my younger days, I would hold out for perfection. Now that I am old, bald, fat, and poor, I hold out for whatever washes across the transom, and I often find that it can be great. If you are this instraigent about getting Kelly's Moondogs, then the wait listening to equipment that is quantum levels lesser must be enormously painful...

Mark, that is a critical point. Smilin bought these rare '60s Corns dependant on a known provenance provided by the auction house. He paid a $5-600 premium for the vintage speakers, which is well in line with how the Corns are valued. If the house cannot provide him with 1960 Corns, no deal! Zebra! Zebra! Zebra! This means you need to buy some antelope furs to lay in front of them zebras

Smilin' my lawyer said he would charge me $50 to write up a one page letter on this. Sooner or later, you will be needing a friendly lawyer that likes you to help with something, so why not start now? Even if you don't get a lawyer to draw up this one, hit your local college law school and draw it up yourself. A fraudulent misrepresentation is a no-brainer, and the vast majority of auction houses are state licensed and registered with the Better Business Bureau. They don't like seeing feedback like this for others to notice. Provided serial #s that do not match with the stated date, Ebay will not hesitate to delete any negative feedback that may arise from this aborted transaction. DO NOT worry about any reprocussions; if the guy does not want to sell truthfully, then you are not obligated to complete your side of the transaction. Ebay cooperated with me and the FBI on a recent McIntosh MC240 I almost sent a money order to pay for. We are not certain if it was a scam, but in three consecutive listings, the gentleman moved from Minnesota to California to Alaska. Ebay ended up banning him and all sales attempts from his computer ISP tagline in Germany.

Smilin' ask the owner to obtain a certificate of authenticity (referencing the date) from the Klipsch factory. Send Trey a twenty to provide you with the expert assessment, and if the owner balks, remind him gently that misrepresenting an item for sale over interstate boundaries may constitute fraud. Involving greater than $500 would throw it into a federal felony. Stay away from making offers other than what you agreed to in the auction. If the Cornwalls are not as represented year-wise, first you must get the deal voided. Neither of you has any consideration given at this point, so get this deal negated FIRST. Get it in writing or e-mail from him. AFTER you get this, then you can try to move on and purchase them.

Mark, yep. Our toddler is just starting to walk, and he pulled a chair down on him yesterday. My wife realized he would do the same on our little corner table in his room, and gave me the "at any cost" green light to get the shorty. Mike threw it back on EBAY with a BIN that was at the top of the ballpark, and I jumped. I just hope the lenses are the originals, because the drivers are not. I just was given 20 linear ft of 12" width red mahogany, 3/4" thick, so I should be able to build a nice cubby on top. I may have to do the road trip down to the Big Easy, as my friend just backed out.

Today was a GOOD day for taking care of business for the American forces in Iraq. They get a giant attaboy for finding the ruthless henchman responsible for decimating the country he was savaging for the last thirty years, some of it with our help/compliance. It is more important to see if w can help start Iraq on the road to a nation-state that can provide its citizens with running water, power, and a stable government with a well-policed economy, which should have been the focus of our incursion into a sovereign country. While the focus in the US was the removal of Saddam, the Asian and Muslim world has a different frame of reference for "success" in Iraq. We had the political and financial might to provide a successful Marshall Plan fifty years ago; I hope we have the statesman to achieve similar success with Iraq. I do not the that Gdub is such a man to achieve this, but I would be very pleased if he proves me wrong. I do not want to see the sacrifices our troops have made, and continue to make day in and day out, not make a difference in this theatre. Our next ten years of foreign policy will be profoundly influenced by this current opportunity. Now that the serious stuff is on the field, I will be running for president of Iraq next year - and my platform is "Klipsch for all "

John, I've located the lady down in the bootheel that has both a single Klipschorn and a single shorthorn. She mentioned neither is for sale, but the next sentence was "I want to make sure they end up in good homes." I told her you would dust and oil the shorthorn every day, twice on Sundays, and take it to church every so often I just bought the shorthorn down in NO when Mike relisted it with an almost reasonable BIN, so now I need to figure how to get it up to St. Louis. My friend that was going to go get it just pulled a fast one and got married and engaged in the same week. I put it in that order deliberately, because and engagement of less than four days is no engagement... If the lady is interested in selling, her shorthorn is yours. I will know definitely within the next month, and I'll let you know ASAP.

Mike, I was digging through the boxes I've collected buying the various items, and I noticed I have a remote controlled Creek volume attenuator, an OBH-10 with power adaptor and remote. I'm going to try it out tomorrow and run the Nak cd into the Dynaco amp. If it works well, you are welcome to it until you get your preamp all built I actually got the shorthorn I bid on(unsuccessfully) down in New Orleans. Mike threw it on Ebay the second time, almost back-to-back, and had a BIN below what I tried to offer him during the first auction. Good show to get some decent attenuators, now you can really give the Rega a workout! We got two inches yesterday, so we're running around in St. Louis with our toques on as well. Happy holidays!

Craig, it is a dam good thing, because the first jewel I bought Colleen this week cost me an arm and a leg.

John, if you don't want Craig's 99D, I think I will get it to power my 299C center until I get a shorthorn. I ran up to $305 and did not meet reserve on Mike's shorthorn, which was not unexpected. It was surprising to see a shorthorn with a reserve, as the value is fairly well established. The distressing collolary is this will probably boomerang back for sale either as parts for more money, or go for sale and move for less money than what was offered the first time. I will be checking down in the bootheel early next month for the singlet shorthorn and Khorn I told you about. If you had your druthers, would you want the shorthorn first, John? My wife realized the little triangle table we have in Liam's room is none too stable when he pulled it over on himself this morning, and suddenly stated I HAVE to buy a shorthorn/Khorn after last month she stated I absolutely could not get one. The world shifts when furniture overturns on a toddler!

Polenta and fresh garden veggies, flash fried, drizzled with spicy olive oil and crumbled cheese.SLURRRRRRRP!

Dee, polenta is an italian or Mediterranean carb, finely diced cornmeal, that you bake, cook or fry. In the right hands, it is part of a delicious meal This should knock off at Least $800!

Since no one has responded on this thread yet, let me offer you a 1964 standup deep frezer, 18 cuft, that squeals like a mouse and WON'T stop working. You will have to come and get it out of the basement though, because I ain't breaking my back getting the boat anchor outta the basement. If you are willing to throw in the speaker wires, you can keep the broccoli as well. If you really drive a hard bargain, I'll throw in a box of polenta.

Mark, there are still 22 hours left on it. I'm sorry my earlier was snippier than I wanted as well - seven trips to the hardware store today, and I still don't have the washer and dryer hooked up without gas leaks at our new house, and the washer floor is off by 3/16 and 5/8 of an inch off north and south, so no laundry until I get it balanced. AND I have to climb over the washer to get in and out of its alcove cubby! Some of the frustrations getting the house set up colored the post, and I apologize for coming across as strong as I did. I didn't mean to look like a hyena, blood dripping from my jaws, standing over the shorthorn. I'm just hoping that Mike has the reserve set at a reasonable level, and that I get the shorthorn for a resonable amount. I have seen Scott and Eico prices artificially go through the roof, and then fall back to a reasonable market rate, due to price leads from this and two other opinion leading forums. We are seeing a climb in shorthorn, Patrician, Metragon and Ranger prices as people begin to realize that vintage horn speakers are an interesting and valuable addition to sound systems. The two vintage horns I saw were a set of Patricians, and a Japanese Coral, which are both two ways, going for far less than they are worth(still open on EBay.) And yes, the single Klipschorn in SoCal went for under $300 two weeks ago, which gives you a very good idea of the top end of the range for an "S" shorthorn.