sheltie dave

Chaletclub, how much do you want for your shorthorn? I noticed your listing, and am interested in providing a good home for an historical Klipsch. Does yours have the same geometric top as the khorn, or is it just a rectangular box? I am looking for a mono speaker for our toddler's room, and this would fit the bill if it is a corner speaker. Feel free to e-mail or PM me if you want; if you want to continue the Ebay route, I will be bidding.

Milton, for $40 you can't go wrong! Pull da trigger

Happiness is having our sheltie alert whenever he feels Liam is getting too near a door or danger. Shiloh has decided he is in charge of keeping an eye on Liam. Liam thinks when doggy barks, it is time to turn around and chase doggy. It's great fun watching this

Kelly, Flip's was a place where you could walk in, throw on an LP you brought from campus, kick your feet up, and listen undisturbed for an hour to a four thousand dollar sustem in 1980. It will be greatly mourned. While I have been known to jump in the car on a Saturday and drive four hours one way to Kansas City with friends for bbq lunch at Gates, then dinner at Amos's, then drive home to St. Louis, it pales when compared to your stereo store from the days when you had the $300 system. I picked up six CDs of different bands that I heard for the first time at Flip's today. Every single business I have purchased stereo equipment from is now shuttered. It makes me feel older, if not old. I like "old" being the qualifying adjective for my equipment, not me

Kelly, Paul and George are my favorites. With the Beatles, you are always wrong most of the time, so I stopped discussing most aspects years ago. It was really great to see Ringo's technique improve over the years. A little bit of trivia - of the two drummers featured on John's first solo LP, which one recorded nary a lick on the Beatles first two albums due to inability to stay in the pocket?

Maron, I conversed with Flip for half an hour yesterday sitting on the couch in their A/V room. He is truly a gentleman, and was a good friend of PWK. One of my favorite college dorms stories involved Flip's in a tangental manner. One of my buds wanted to pick up a turntable freshman year, and being the resident expert on audio, he asked me for suggestions. Paul had a '69 Cutlass with a Rocket 350 engine that I just loved, so I suggested we head up to Flip's in north county, a fourty minute trip one way. The ride was glorious, the showroom was stuffed to the gills with delectable gear we lusted after, and the showstopper was the demo Flip did on a new Bang and Olufsen turntable. To illustrate the low tracking mass of the tonearm, he deliberately nudged the tonearm across the entire first band of the new Telarc Firebird suite lp as it played. We were horrified, until he replayed the track and we heard nary a pop or scratch. Paul was hooked; money changed hands and back to the dorm we headed. Soon the new platter was hooked up, and Paul popped in the room next door to borrow my roommate's prized original Parlaphone pressing of the Beatles butcher album. He threw the album on, fired up the music, and all he--proceeded to break out. Paul repeated the saleman's demo, and my roommate went beserk. He grabbed Paul, spun him around, clocked him in the eye, and threw him over the couch. The next thirty seconds were straight out of WWF, Junkyard Dog and Rick Flair going at it, only this was real. My roommate finally settled down when he realized I was crying I was laughing so loud. Others were screaming Oles! and doing Three Stooges whoops. To this day, we laugh at the inside joke whenever someone mentions that they pulled a "record demo."

My favorite stereo store in St. Louis is closing at the end of the month. Flip's is where I got my B&O turntable back in 1980, and I spent much time window shopping, learning, and listening to good equipment and good music with friends from my college days to the present. I told Thom(Flip's son) that I would post on their closure here. They have some good deals on stuff that I would love to have, but obviously will not be getting. Examples include a Music Hall MMF 5 turntable for $350, a Denon AV reciever(4802) for $18xx, a Mark Levinson top of the line CD player 50% off at $3,000, a bunch af Maggies, various Denon and Western Electric preamps($900), and a projection screen for $600. Falling business volume and increased competitive pressure from the big box cookie cutters have claimed the second high end store in St. Louis this year. This store taught me a love for Klipsch at an early age, and last night I counted seventeen sets of Khorns that friends bought from Flip's with my assistance. I think I'm working in the wrong field They have a single set of Heresys which I have bid on, with no other Heritage or other Klipsch in stock. Drop me a line if you might be interested in something; I would be happy to get more info, put in a bid, or exchange phone #s. RIP< Flip's.

Jeff, thanks for the spades reference! They are exactly what I need so I won't be using any more *&^%$$#@! when I try to hook up speakers. It is interesting that the creature comforts we demand on equipment today were not present fourty years ago, and we look at this earlier era of electronics as less advanced. If you reflect on this for a minute, many of the amps and pre's we have were hand built as weekend projects by our parents and grandparents. THEIR paradigm was what can we afford, and how much can we buy if we build the sucker from a box of parts. One of my goals in the next year is to buy and build a good tube preamp so I can learn more about theory and operation of these voodoo boxes. I think that much of what we have and where we are in the world has been reached because we stand on the shoulders of giants, and I hope that we can wisely steward these gains.

"Happiness is just around the bend" Brian Auger and the Oblivian Express, circa early '70s

Another good way is getting depth charged on a submarine!

Kar, Matt took a pass this time, sorry. He had a grandfather in failing health and needs the money for the semiplanned plane flight home

Kar221, I am going to call Nuclear Matt this morning. He has my oak Heresys at his house, and I will be picking them up this week. He has repeatedly begged me to sell them to him, so let me see if he wants yours.

Happiness is...a wonderful first cupa joe in the morning. Deep, dark, and black, with smokey tendrils of steam rising in ribbons. Happiness is...a sleepy baby snuggling in your arms and drifting into slumber as you sing "Puff the Magic Dragon" as your mom used to do for you

She gazed at Nick and drew deeply on the cigarette. The rain beat a stattaco rat-a-tat on the window. The silence stretched. "Danger is what I like," she said, stubbing the cigarette out. Rising from the chair, she walked in the bedroom, hanging her silk nightgown on the door hook. Nick followed,loosening his tie as he crossed the threshold. He knew this would lead him to a single end, no matter his power. Looking up, she gasped at his manly stature. The words rang out in her smokey contralto, "Sometimes, less is more, honey. But, in this case, I need more. Please call in Craig."

Gary, if you are cringing every time you think of spinning an album, how much did you like the Mac phono? I will probably never use the phono section unless someone gives me a turntable, so I would not be averse to sending it back to you if it would get you out of a fix. No way should you need to buy a phono preamp to use with the Marantz! The Mac sounds great, but I would feel better if it would provide a greater utility for you. One of my friends in the old tube radio club here in town is restoring a Scott preamp (the one Craig loves) and wants me to run it in my system, so I would not lose any flexibility if I did send the Mac back. I love the walnut cage that matches the walnut Belles, but my days of unfettered listening will be few and far between. We are still at the tender years of the children pipeline I am still interested in checking out the Jolida 1703 hybrid integrated three channel, and like a French pig snorting for truffles, I have found a blue light special on one. I won't pull the trigger unless my cousin decides he wants one of my Scotts, or if you could use the Mac. Just let me know whether this would be a good solution for you!

When I was in the Navy(never again volunteer yourself!) we kept a happiness log to record things that we missed in the real world, things we hated about the pigboat, and things we did to keep our sanity intact or shattered. The log entries always started with "Happiness is..." In honor of friends current, lost, and in memory, I would like to fire up a new Happiness Log. Happiness is... having FEDEX finally deliver 10 NOS Telefunken ECC82s (12ax7s) to the crack house next door rather than to me signature required, after 5 pm delivery, as I put on the package THREE WEEKS ago in Seattle. One of the guys, in a nod, brought the opened box over to me in the street because we have a "cool Lassie." When asked what they were, I told him TNT igniters Thank God for lack of perceived value!

Raquel Welch, wow!!! And her daughter is beeaaauuutiful as well. Thinking of them gets my turntable up to 95 rpm, and I don't even own one. Your handwriting would be less shaky if you just quit hitting your fingers with the hammer, Fini Colleen decided to disassemble and paint the Black Forest walnut fugly cabinets in the kitchen while I was gone, and then decided it was too much work and stopped to let me do it. If I didn't have the system set up at the new house, after 18 hours and much grief rehanging everything yesterday, the only Klipsch I would be seeing would be in the prison magazines.

Mike, hope you won the pallet. Last time they had some nasty Boston A100s and a bad Teac powered mixing board there. Did you liberate that TV power transformer? I actually got the Sherwood dumpster diving here in St. Louis behind an electronics store. A Crown D75 caught my eye, and I ended up totally in the dumpster, something my Dad claimed for years I would end up doing if I didn't change my ways. I decided to pass on the Eico. Since I am becoming domesticated again, I am going to spend the mula on a beautiful watercolor with twenty roses. I'm sure this will put a bloom on the night rather than a hide on my ***, if you catch the drift

Mike, I have a line on an Eico HF 81, and I can't have it coming here. If I get it, would your be willing to give it TLC and put it up in your orphanage for 6 to 8 months, to be nurtured and cossetted by your Cornwalls? It is represented to be in "fine" working condition, which means it still passes noises and nothing currently is fried. While cynical, as Dean has stated, if it ain't checked thoroughly, it still is fourty years old torward broken. PM your address if you are interested. I rebuilt the Sherwood mono 6bq5x4, and am driving the third Belle with it. It's an easy chore to find all the sound shorts in the house now - I just crank the Khorns and the Belles, and anything not well secured starts a buzzing and a dancing. It also forces me to play material that has at least five seconds in between songs if I am to beat feet downstairs to change selections without suffering further hearing loss

Guys, went on a search and came across a few great Brook amp references. They actually built a 12a line SPECIFICALLY for the Khorn! Interesting stuff, and obviously PWK had some intense discussions with some of their engineers or vice versa. http://digilander.libero.it/paeng/the_examination_of_the_brook_amp.htm

Clueless, fool me once, shame on you! Is this the special folded base horn RF7s I have heard about? Where does the sound get out? And how can you change stations...I definitely need to get a set like this Kain in college. In a karmic universe, I can see numerous manila business envelopes, shaving cream, and thick phone books; baby powder and hair dryers, numerous door pennying; doors roped together; and floor floods. POOR roommate

Paul, I don't know if you have reached audio nirvana, but methinks you are well on the road to Shambala. Lest you think I reside in the SET end of the universe, I was listening to five hours of music today at over 120 dB slow weighted on an Audiometrix cal'd meter. I was painting upstairs, and I had the front door open. When the mailman came by, he stopped for ten minutes to listen to Midnight Oil. He actually had the nerve to try to schedule another listen for tomorrow I can remember back about '75 when the Led Zep bio "Thunder of the Gods" came out. They should have had a photo of a Khorn on the cover.

Bill, if you bought two new LCD TVs, does that mean you want to sell me that worthless ole flatscreen? We are looking for one for the new living room Gary, yup, the easychair they had at the hospital was green, now that I think about it. At 2 in the morning, they brought me in to the OR to watch Liam's birth, and asked me if I wanted to watch the C section and videotape it, or if I wanted to be with my wife and talk her through it. One look at the business end and I knew I would be murdering a doctor for hurting my wife like that, so I stayed with my wife. Liam was born listening to Santana's "I'm Winning," followed by the Moody Blues "Question" and Blue Oyster Cult with "Godzilla." I wonder what the tea leaves would portend with this song trio?

Gary, you are a bloodhound. Two more things - if you can I am looking for two 7199s, and there is a singlet Cornwall with walnut veneer holding at $66 on Ebay. There are only 2 hours left; the guy is up in Syracuse. Would this interest you or Win? I can't, as the necklace still has to be paid for...

Tony, no MCM , but there are two La Scal pro bins at Dutch's Pawn in Spokane, WA that I poes 2-3 weeks ago. They were asking $400. It is in 2 channel.