sheltie dave

I let our sheltie pick out the CDs we play most of the time. I still don't let him put the CD in the player though, because it is a slimline version and only three inches below the AES. I draw the line when his eyes start glowing red and he wants to play Aphrodite's Child "666" for hours on end.

Mike, I'm glad to see that you have finally admitted the truth - it takes a daddy amp to drive those Cornwall mothers! After reviewing the Encyclopedia Brittanica that Paul Parrot has posted, I finally realized that Paul is not really who he says he is...he was Deep Throat back when he worked for the Nixon administration. Then he hooked up with a speaker manufacturer in Massachussetts and began a long deep cover operation...due to his love of push-pull tube amplifiers, he took the nom de guerre "Paul Parrot", ie pp. He creates divisions in the Klipsch forum, and ultimately will cause a massive paradigm shift to purchasing BOSE speakers. ARR. I read all this in the new bestseller, "The Wellbourne Enigma," which analyzes repetitive passages in the Bible for audio advice. I won't be getting these anytime soon. Made the mistake of cleaning up and then organizing 2/3 of the audio gear in the basement rec room against one wall. The three Belles and two Khorns sound incredible with oodles and oodles of base(or is it bass ) and Colleen got extremely irate over "loosing" the longest wall in the house to my speakers. We comprimised - I didn't buy the single Khorn on Ebay. Whoever got that bad boy should buy the Allens!

Hallwalker, congratulations if Bob has not already sold them. They will be a great Heritage setup! I wanted to jump all over these, but we had a few cash outlays for purchases today and the wheelbarrow is almost empty. A new 20 ft3 upright freezer, a new dishwasher, and a very old (geologically) diamond necklace for my wife. I know what I'll do, every time she wears the necklace. I can't wait, hoping I have fourty years of taking her to formal society functions - and all the time as I gaze at her in loving fashion, I will be thinking - that should have been the Cornwalls from Arkansas. I could have had the Cornwalls from Arkansas. Those damn Cornwalls...I wonder where Russelville is?

Ed - I am sorry we didn't stop by when we had the chance to hear your system en toto. It would have been glorious! I was just snorting and pawing the ground to get back home, and I had to drive all but 3.5 hours on the trip. Gary, the worst part of the labor process was...the easychair. It was a death lazy boy, the most uncomfortable chair I ever tried to sleep in. It was so bad I threw the pillow on the floor and fell asleep lying on the linoleum. When the charge nurses changed shifts, the new nurse apologized to my wife and demanded I leave the hospital. With bad hat head and totally discombobulated, i guess I did look homeless

This weekend I want to catch their "new" rockumentary on the folk movement, think it is "A mighty Wind." Like the allusion to a fart, 'tho I just picked up The Best of Peter, Paul and Mary for my almost year-old son. Puff was my favorite song in kindergarten, and I can remember asking Mom to sing it to me every day. The perfect bookend to this classic duo would be a new cohort film set in three or four cities that follows four or five forum members from when they are wee little ones to the present moment. Throw in a good mix of "A Confederacy of Dunces," one of the great books of American literature, dashes of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," and a gothic tinge of "Wuthering Heights," with Fini and me as the scriptwriters Two scenes come to mind immediately...the 6'9" starting basketball center with the five inch afro coming down to the dorm room to deseed his evening js using, of course, DSOTM because I had the foldout version, and he liked most of the strange music I played; second...because of the prolonged water fights between two girl's floors and our floor in the dorm, there were actually small pointed plants growing through our well-wetted carpet. We didn't mind because the girls both wore bikinis during their raids, they would make pit stops to roll on our chia pet carpet(well before chia pets!), and we had shower curtains installed to protect the Ohm C2 speakers. Must have these scenes in the final cut, Fini!

Neo, ask and ye shall recieve! Don't forget the thanks part, now

Paul, at the risk of chasing tails in circles again, look at your push-pull paradigm. Consider human anatomy, specifically the ear's ability to act as a natural dynamic sound expander at low volumes and a compresser at high volumes. Consider that many on the forum have experienced loss of hearing and a significant threshold shift as we age. Now consider that Klipsch speakers are completely outside the normal constraints for loudspeakers. Consider that vacumm tube amplifiers are far outside the normal constraints for sound amplification. This is the point you are at, Paul. Maybe bruised, battered, and forced to write bad checks, with your ears on a permanent compression cycle, but you are here. Now consider that many people using SET amps, because they do not need to listen to van halen at 115 db instantaneous peak at five paces, can enjoy listen to "The Planets" at 102 db at five paces, with a different degree of musicality, seperation, and clarity. Paul, no one is making claims that SET amps will drive speakers to audio nirvana at 115 dB, nor do these claims need to be fostered. Open your heart and accept that nirvana can be reached earlier, and more consistently, in many genres with SET amps and yo, yes, even you, can achieve salvation. Next up on the turntable, Neil Diamond with "Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show," followed by the Doobies with....(fill in the blank...)

Fini, Bob has the HK 430 and my LaScalas. He plays them at unholy levels and loves them. The police visit every weekend. If you tell God this detail, there are enough neighbors of his complaining that I will be roasting in ---- rather than listening to Jubilees in heaven. A small oversight; however, knowing Bob, a needed one!

Paul, you may consider chilling out in regard to pushing your push-pull paradigm. Having digested the entire bank of records in that original reference post (burp, thanks,)and knowing a fair amount about both PWK and audio amplification development, it is relevant to reference PWK's most prevalent quote - to paraphrase, "What the world needs is a good five watt tube amp." The khorn, and Klipsch's other horn speakers, were designed to first provide maximum efficiency and secondly minimize distortion. PWK mentioned the two khorns with a Belle center as a great system, with a twenty watt summed center channel for the Belle. He engineered a summed passive center channel signal and recommended using a mono amp to drive this signal for the center Belle. With this system, you could reproduce IN ITS ENTIRETY the dynamic peaks and output of a symphony orchestra. This is not something I would recommend you strive to achieve, however. You can come darn close, however, even with a SET amp in the right conditions. Many of the forum members work on the listening room environment so they don't need to flog their amps, or don't need high watt output amps, to realize adequate listening levels. It may take a subtle level of reasoning to realize, rather than needing to ADD 10 dB of headroom at the push-pull end of the spectrum, you can SUBTRACT 10 dB from the background noise floor, and spend your money on quality without needing volume. The paradigm that you choose to operate within is tailoring your responses, Paul, and that is where feather ruffling is occurring. That, and citing or quoting references and pulling information out of context.

Craig, I cannot believe my eyes! I just read that you prefer SET, and then you mentioned something about getting screwed? While we are on the subject of whirled peas, is it true that a consensus has been reached, and you, Jazman, Kelly, Guy, Ryan, and Big Busa are going to open a cappucino and tea shop in San Francisco? Synthfreak will be spinning the tunes, and y'all can provide the comic relief while Parrothead can chant push-pull to the classic Clash sell-out, "Should I stay or should I go."

Thanksgiving is almost upon us, so I would like to pause and reflect on may of the good (and bad) events in the past year with my Klipsch buds. The single greatest event outside of marrying my beautiful, patient wife was the birth of our first son. Fifteen years ago, Liam would have been born stillborn, as he had his cord wrapped twice around his neck and then around his arm, but the "modern" fetal monitor noted his heartbeat would disappear whenever my wife shifted positions at the hospital. After we got home, Colleen's sister, who has CP, freaked out and tried to kill Liam two nights running, so we were run through the state psychiatric system. Fortunately, we now have her on meds that have reduced her anxieties to a managable level. A new house, a new used car, three new jobs for me, and new used Khorns, Belles, Heresys and various equipment litter the basement at our new house, and we enjoy getting them workouts when we can Fifteen years ago while on a six month Mediterranean deployment, I wrote in our happiness log that "happiness is my sheltie running a security alarm drill at 2am in the morning, as a cat goes skanking across the yard." Well, it occurred last night, and afterwards I had to warm up a bottle, feed the tyke, and change his diaper while he blew me raspberries. I got the first part correct - I just did not realize there would be a second half that went with the first. We all have our petty quirks and idiosyncracies, especially related to audio; in our pursuit of excellence let's not forget to give thanks by helping those who can really use a kind word, a hot meal, or good used clothing that you no longer want, need, or can fit in this season. Tell those you love that you love them. Give thanks to God, or to a special person that brightens your life. The measure of a person's soul is weighed by those he helps.

Mike, repeat after me - if the TV has been placed in the yard, and left there for three months, then it is not stealing to scavenge parts off it. What you are now doing is called curbside recycling here in the gentrified midwest! You do have to be careful though, in that lots of people in Washington have guns and like to use them on deer, elk, and moose. Make sure you wear lots of orange, and if the locals do take interest in your shopping activities, tell them your hand is stuck on the power transformer you are removing from the tube tv Marvel, an out-of-phase speaker is bad juju. It will cancel out the correct in-phase sound by creating standing waves, making Madonna sound like the Morman Tabernacle Choir. Now that would be the Immaculate Conception!

Neo, tapping on the tubes is akin to hitting yourself on the head with a hammer...why does it hurt? Because you are hitting yourself. The tube ringing from mechanical oscillations, either due to you, electrical or accoustical shaking, is a microphone effect. Like a microphone, the tube will transmit these oscillations through the electronic circuitry - amplifying both the good musical information and the unwanted spurious noises. Loose fitting tubes will also have undesirable reasonances. While very slight in nature, they can become very pronounced when boosted 20 to 35 dB. Dean, Kelly, Guy and some of the other tube gurus can fill you in on tube dampeners. Just don't use a couple tampons to dampen the tube oscillations like one of my friends at the low end on the evolutionary tree - his famous statement to his wife when they got home was "Jesus Christ, honey, they musta come out of a hot ....." He had a rough time for a couple months.

Wolfram, I checked, and there are blackplate RCAs in there. I spent more time this morning keeping the rug crawler from detaching the power chord from the wall socket than really listening to Joni Mitchell, but the Dynaco ST70 still sounds great. I am going to hook the the Silvers on the AES-1 tonight, and wed the other system with the Belles. I spent a couple hours today trying to source a twisted plastic conduit that will attach via an internal threaded hosel to a wall socket. There has to be a good conduit setup with socket screwdowns that will babyproof power wire runs. Right now they are Liam's most preferred teething toys

Kelly, you forgot to post the picture of the M-60 sitting on our right khorn! It is getting jealous its brother gets all the glory. I would love to still be able to hear 20-20k, within 3 dB, but I am long past that point. Also, the room everything resides in also is not of surpassing audio design quality. I think too many people on this forum get so wrapped up in an elliptical paradigm of "the perfect setup" or "the perfect tube amp," that one forgets listening and enjoying music should be of paramount importance. The Quicks, as you noted, can create a very enjoyable listening experience without causing my ears to fall off. I got them for a mere pittance of what some people have invested in their amps (thank you, Dean,) and yet they also are two or three worlds above what some can spend on their amps. I listened to Mike's setup out in Washington, and he probably has 80% of what Big Busta has for 10-20% of Busta's outlay. I still want one of your SVSs, Mike. I'll send you the Crown PL4. Perspective is relative on this site. You have guys like Parrot, squawking that SETs are a POS and clipped wave forms; Guy, who has esoteric equipment I will never even see, let alone hear, who declaims to the huddled masses below; and people sharpening their axes on grindstones and discharging caps on enemies It would be a boring world if everyone liked the same test tones I do.

Didn't meet too many people in eastern Washington that liked Klipsch, so I decided that any new health physics technician I came across that liked music or held common interests would be hired. As it turned out, Mr. Safety Bear was the only guy, other than Mike Stehr, that liked to talk Klipsch, so I hired him. Like me, he likes to eat, and he always impressed the state regulators with his rugged demeanor and willingness to work in frigid weather. He insisted everyone wear safety glasses and a hard hat, and threatened to shoot anyone who didn't do such. We finished the project a month early!

I ran with one of your suggested, and found a factory wired AES-1 down in Atlanta. The guy lives less than a mile from where I picked up the Khorn/Belle trio!I could have picked it up and saved the shipping... The flip side of this geographic karma is Minnesota, where that Aussie sold his AES to Wolfram, and the kid from Germany tried to boondoggle me on an MC240. I'll never buy anything from the land'o'lakes.

Hello Dean, I have been chomping at the bit to throw the monoblocs into action for the past four months or so, but first the lack of a high quality preamp, and then going out to Washington state to play demo man relegated the MC60s to the back burner. I am planning on firing the 'Silvers up tomorrow, and am interested in a few tips from you and others in the know. First, with them sitting fallow for four months, should I bring them up on the variac first, or power them up with speakers attached, and allow them an hour or so to run idle? Second, I will throwing them to the Khorns. Would you recommend using the 8 or 4 ohm taps? I could do a back search on your comments, but I have been up since 3 am WA time and you were noted for your extensive and expansive posting conversations, as your better half has noted A longggg search! Third, our little munchkin is blooming - hope yours is doing top of the pops as well! Ciao

Arf, I spent all of October and the first half of November in Washington, so no get together yet I do have two 299cs and an LK72, all without cabinets, and our ten month old would be very happy to pull vacumm tubes at a moment's notice. I thought you were up in Troy, or has my mind slipped another two cogs?

Arf, I made it back to St. Louis from the great northwest and you are invited down to listen to the khorns at your convenience! Feel free to bring one of your extra cabinets if you want - I'm looking for one. Glad to hear you can shoehorn the new 7591s in, as they can be a real ***** at fitting.

Tom, Ebay DOES NOT provide a blanket $500 transaction insurance policy! Their "insurance" is a $500 total payable policy against ALL transactions conducted by the fraudulent seller. This is an important distinction, as it ensures that you will not be able to recover much of any contested amount when involved in a significant purchase. Never try to deal with anyone who insists on a Western Union money order, and if you involve yourself with an escrow company, verify that they are properly established, registered, bonded, and insured in the state of licensure, and that YOU have selected them or concurred with the seller on their use. As we have extensive resources on the items we pursue on Ebay, you should also vigorously educate yourself on the financial processes available to complete these transactions. Don't let your eagerness for a great bargain obscure your need for prudent financial behaviour. The best way to ensure you are happy is to either kick the tires in person before you pay, or have a local forum member do it for you. Some of us are actually trustworthy, present bloodsucking leach excluded

Gary, I was laughing when the photographer took the photo. I hated Bose when I was in high school, and got exposed to the radio station Klipsch the first week of college. That is all it took - Bose is a dirty woord in our house. What did you expect me to look like? Rad safety engineers have to be fast and sleek to stay the ---- out of the way of heavy equipment, operating equipment, falling equipment, equipment on fire, equipment blowing up, and radioactive equipment. We get to do it while wearing respirators, protective coveralls, shoes, and gloves, and then we have the Nuclear Regulatory Commission watch us as we take stuff off. I'm glad noone has really noticed, but Liam's left middle finger is fully extended. Maybe we just have to start swearing in a foreign language, as babies can imitate both the spoken word and body language!

I made it home for a long weekend, and today the entire entourage traipsed to the local mall to get our Christmas photos taken, including (naturally) or beloved sheltie. The shot went well, and at the end, we got some Mom/son and Dad/son photos. I especially like this one, taken when the photographer asked me what I thought of Bose speakers. Although I had too much tact, you may notice that our son Liam certainly does not

Tank, I would wager they are heresys, either home or professional. They are not known to produce groundshaking bass, but they probably would be the best component in 90% of the churches where I have darkened the stoop.

See pawn shop first dibs.