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Mahogany stained with B collar.

John, hard roaded VOTTs are about $400 to $500, if everything works and they are 416 woofs and 802/806 drivers with 511 horns. Bands whipped the snot out of these, back in the day.

Floor Loudspeaker Reviews Monsoon Audio FPF-1000 loudspeaker Specifications Sidebar 1: Specifications Description: Three-way, reflex-loaded, floorstanding loudspeaker with low-compression port. Drive-units: planar magnetic tweeter, two planar magnetic midranges, two 6.5" polypropylene-cone woofers. Crossover frequencies: 400Hz, 5kHz. Frequency response: 32Hz–20kHz, –6dB. Impedance: 4 ohms. Sensitivity: 88dB/2.83V/m. Recommended amplification: 30–250W. Dimensions: 52" H by 10" W by 12.5" D. Internal volume of woofer bin: 20-liter. Shipping weight: 75 lbs each. Finishes: walnut veneer, matte black. Serial numbers of units reviewed: None. (The speakers tested were from the first production run and lacked identifying labels with serial numbers. All subsequent runs, Sonigistix says, have silver labels with serial numbers near the speaker terminals.) Price: $1199/pair (2001); no longer available (2005). Approximate number of dealers: undisclosed. US Distributor: Sonigistix Corporation, 201-11782 Hammersmith Way 7, Richmond, BC V7A 5E3, Canada. Tel: (604) 271-2237. Fax: (604) 271-2250. Web: www.monsoonaudio.com.

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mike, that bites. Shoot me your # and I'll ring you tonight.

The Sony SS M7 and SS M9 speakers are quite delectable. I would not kick them out of be, or out of our house.Like all Japanese companies, they sent a lot of shit over here and tried to keep their best shit home.

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The large format Altec strengths just happen to dovetail with the large format Klipsch weaknesses... Altec mid to upper bass is quite good, the K33 is not so good and then lousy. Altec high frequency response is more relaxed and smooth, although less detailed. The K77/T35 is at times an even worse bullet to the ears. The La Scalas are the poorest frequency balanced Klipsch large format speaker, while A7s are relatively smooth for such a big chested enclosure. After much contemplation, I made my 1963 KHorns into my favorite speakers - by dropping in JBL 2470 midhorn drivers with Tractix horns, and JBL 2404 tweeters and ALK extreme slope crossovers. It takes less modding to make Altecs world beaters, but most folks here won't care.

It grows much, much better with plutonium.

Working? If yes, then a very good deal.

And Maynard, correct me if I am wrong, but every citation I have ever read has tagged Stuart Hegeman as the driving force behind the design of this Lafayette series, something he confirmed the one time I chanced to meet and talk with him. Could you give us the further details of your statement about the actual background?

John, I would use Craig first. I would consider a full rebuild, if you want to squeeze the most out of the 600. Two questions - does your neighbor still have the assembly manual for the 600, and does he have the matching tuner, which would be the KT500 or LT50? I have been looking for both of these for over 4 years now. These are the three pac I have... Thanks, Dave

Thebes, I'll trade you a Marantz 8b, if you willl alllllow the twwwwins to drrrrink a litttllle bit with (hic) mmmmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Germerikan, how can Penn State be so desperate for funds when they just raised a record amount of money? Penn State announced yesterday that the school received $208.7 million in donations over the last fiscal year, the second-highest amount ever collected by the school. Donors also set school records with 191,712 supporters providing 323,271 total gifts. The fundraising success is of particular interest, if not surprise, given the child sex abuse scandal that enveloped the school late last year. Though a closer look at the numbers reveals that Penn State’s fundraising has actually suffered somewhat when compared to past years, support for the school is undoubtedly at an all-time high despite the ongoing scandal. And to copy from a friend's post over on AudioKarma, here is FisherDude. I have a different perspective on the relative harshness of the NCAA penalties. I think they're essentially meaningless in actual practice, and here's why: 1. $60MM in fines spread out over 5 years. That's $12MM per year. Penn State's total endowment and similar finds is $1.831 BILLION as of June of last year. Even at a very conservative return on investment of 3% per year, the fund would earn $54MM per year. $12MM is less than a quarter of their annual income from the fund. It's meaningless. 2. Loss of scholarships: Scholarships are given to students who want to attend the university to play football. Who wants to go there to play football now? Nobody who thinks they have any chance of a successful Division I football career. So, until a sufficient number of years go by so that the memories of the atrocities start to fade, and quality football players actually have Penn State on their short list, the loss of football scholarships is meaningless. The only players who would have been candidates for the scholarships are players who felt they had no chance to play football for a decent school. 3. No post season play or bowl games for four years: Since the current football players are being allowed to transfer to other schools without penalty, and no additional new quality football players will want to enter or transfer to PSU, what are the chances that the school will actually make it to the post season anyway? Exactly zero. 4. Vacating all wins since 1998: This means that Paterno will lose his title as the winningest coach in Division I history. What will this mean to him? Nothing, he's dead. What will this mean to the players who played on those teams? Nothing. They all know they played their hearts out, they all know they played their best, and they all know how many games they won. The players from those years gone by will be completely unaffected. 5. Several years probation: Please. The damage to the football program was already done before the NCAA handed down their penalties. The penalties are going to mean nothing. Here's what's really going to happen: 1. Penn State will play every football game going forward, exactly as if nothing has happened. 2. Attendance will be down significantly, revenue to local business such as restaurants and hotels will be down significantly, and sponsors are already starting to back out of their contracts. 3. There will be other, as yet probably not fully understood, negative impacts on Penn State's financial well-being. The lawsuits that will be filed by the victims will only be a small part of this. For example, Penn State clothing sales were $80MM in 2010, $60MM last year after the scandal broke, and are estimated at no more than $45MM this year. 4. Penn State will probably finish dead last in the Big 10 for several years due to the lower quality of players. 5. Penn State will begin to be known as an outstanding academic university, instead of being known for the football powerhouse that regularly filled Beaver Stadium's 106,500 seats. Several years into the future, the memories of what happened will no longer be top of mind for the general public, better players will once again want to go there, the scholarships will be reinstated, and Penn State will begin its rebuilding, and the NCAA will have had exactly zip influence on any of it.

Frank, sorry to say this, but you need to start another thread. Threadcrapping to derail a thread is not good. For all the good Penn State does - a different thread is good. This is about football/NCAA penalties.

The Penn State University administration will NOT resist this - it was their own contracted investigation that revealed the depth and tenure of the criminal conspiracy, and I'm sure the Freeh investigation worked diligently and hand-in-hand with both the NCAA and the PSU Board of Trustees, keeping them informed. PSU has already signed their consent of the findings andthe penalties. Bear in mind the PSU Board of Trustees paid $6.5 million for the eight month investigation. The Centre County Prosecuting Attorney's office has an annual budget of about $1.7 million. The NCAA's compliance department has something like fifteen lawyers, total. Neither the state of Pennsylvania, nor the NCAA has the resources and money to completely and thoroughly conduct a criminal and NCAA compliance investigation, so they have taken the Freeh report and utilized the findings for the NCAA's quasi-judicial infractions and fines. Everyone involved realized there was a loss of institutional control, and I think everyone realized a long, drawn out investigation would eventually cripple the entire university. Nothing is ever going to be completely understood or even proved beyond a reasonable doubt to some, so it is best to be brutally quick and efficient in the punishment phase, and have the option to address more punishment if needed at a later time. The criminal cases continue. Hopefully the healing for the victimized children can continue. Today is another good day for them, after two decades of bad days. May God give them the grace and strength to heal.

Joe was never the saint that PSU tried to market him as... http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/15/us/triponey-paterno-penn-state/index.html

I don't find it hard to believe at all. When a twenty five year old team manager who was the starting quarterback comes and tells you the retired defensive coach was buggering a ten year old, it isn't too hard to understand. You don't turn it into inappropriate touching, and you don't fail every single boy who was put at risk for the next twelve years due to your insanely selfish self interests. Funny thing, folks try to pass Paterno's conduct off as old school denial or misunderstanding. Where I grew up, in the arch conservative mid Illinois town, the old school denial would have been refusing to go to the police because you took care of the mfn bastard personally, to the point where he never walked out of a shower again. At any time, with anyone. It is sad, but Sandusky will soon find out that the big jail has its own protection society, even if PSU and Paterno did not. I have a nine year old son, so I have very strong feelings about providing safety and creating a safe haven for children. I don't find much gray in this situation, where a university, a football coach, and a sexual predator all found themselves on the same side of a situation for many years. It isn't hard to understand, and it isn't hard to figure out where Paterno's legacy lies, because of one decision.

Forrest, I would recommend getting four to six larger portable panels that are decorated/covered with murals or symbols that are sympathetic to your church's central tenets. You can even get two sided murals, so your parishioners don't get bored with the same views every time. Build frames of nice oak or walnut finish, and go to town on the above rockfill. These give you the best of all worlds - portable, flexible, non permanent, and visually attractive. I have done this and they work out quite well, and make for an inviting space. I would even go out and make two of them slide in pockets for large photos of your worshipers, especially the kids. No one will ever complain about these!

I had two good pickups, and am real happy about the classical cds. This will get Liam almost up to speed . I don't know how good this is, but judging from the tubes and worksmanship, I would say quite good. Milspec boards, JAN Sylvania 5932 outputs, 6SN7 drivers, and a VT232 rectifier, Thermidor power transformer and choke, and UTC output transformer. Woot!

Thanks, Josh. The speaker is one of the Frazier Mark VIs I finally put back in service.

I'm starting down that path, Mike. The arc duplicates the pattern set by the headshell, so it isn't too difficult to cut and bend. I just need to get the right thickness, and then blunt bevel rasp the edges so it doesn't do a nasty little metal cut number on the old finger.

This is the missing fingerlift..

I picked up a Fairchild 412 Basic turntable from 1957, and the Ortofon SPU headshell that is installed is missing the fingerlift and two screws. Does anyone know a source other than Ortofon for this little jewel?

What a wonderful gift for a housewarming, Gary! Music for life.[H]