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I have yet to have an issue with either my R6's or X7's. I would recommend either set and often do. From what you wrote it sounds like you are really hard on your equipment. I know some 'In Ear Headphones' come with detachable cables but the hardware to support this feature introduces weight. While the idea is good the extra weight just is not worth it in my book. If you take proper care the cable should last a very long time. More chance of dropping your 'In Ear Headphones' in a cup of coffee than breaking the cable. http://www.klipsch.com/Education/headphones-faq

Are the 11's that much better than the 7's? Oh the temptation !!!

Good FAQ here: http://www.klipsch.com/Education/headphones-faq I think it would be good for the FAQ to be right on the product pages. The FAQ is not easy to find but well worth the look. I have a pair of the X7's and I got my wife a pair of the R6;s. Both are awesome in their own rights.

The MX119 has toslink and optical outputs so you could use a headphone amp/DAC with TOSLINK or coaxial inputs. I use a couple of these and they work great. Turtle Beach Ear Force DSS 7.1 Channel Dolby Surround Sound Processor. I bought two of these at $14.99 and now they are $13.99. I also bought a 2x4 TOSlink Optical Audio Splitter Distribution Amplifier Amp Distributor Multiplier. Can select two different toslink inputs and have four outputs. I am only using two outputs right now. Both outputs go to each of the Turtle Beach DSS devices. http://amzn.com/B003O0KICS http://amzn.com/B00GEG1KO4 Nice thing is the headphone amp does handle Dolby but downside is it does not handle DTS. Works very well with my Klipsch X7 'In Ear Headphones'. If you don't care about Dolby the SMSL SD793-II PCM1793 also works well. I use this DAC in the bedroom. http://amzn.com/B00A2QLPJM

This might help... someone just bypassed the connector which is one way to do it!

Been a long time since I posted here but my Klipsch Promedia Ultra 5.1's got the loud hum a couple of years back and I just switched to the Klipsch 2.1 set I also had. Just no time to look at it. So the Ultra' s have been setting in my storage area for a long time just waiting for me to look at them. Well I picked up two 100uf cap's from Radio Shack and my Klipsch Promedia Ultra 5.1's are as good as new! All good again!

I also remember OB in the 'Members Weekly Music Recommendation'. Very sad news. OB will be missed. Greg

Talkie Walkie - Air Audio CD (February 17, 2004) Original Release Date: February 17, 2004 Genre: Electronica 1. Venus 2. Cherry Blossom Girl 3. Run 4. Universal Traveler 5. Mike Mills 6. Surfin' On A Rocket 7. Another Day 8. Alpha Beta Gaga 9. Biological 10. Alone In Kyoto The official website for `Air`. http://www.intairnet.org/ http://www.intairnet.org/intro.html Air (band) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_%28band%29 Air is a French duo, consisting of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel. Nicolas Godin studied architecture at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles whereas Jean-Benoît Dunckel studied mathematics before forming a band in 1995. Their debut EP, Premiers Symptômes, was followed by the critically acclaimed album Moon Safari, the re-release of Premiers Symptômes, The Virgin Suicides (soundtrack), 10,000Hz Legend, Everybody Hertz, and Talkie Walkie. Although Air's music is often referred to as electronica, their form of electronic music really owes more to the synthesizer sounds of the 1970s such as Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Pierre LeBouef and Francis Lai. Other influences are psychedelic rock pioneers Pink Floyd; Krautrockers Tangerine Dream; Jean-Jacques Perrey (although there are some echoes of dance music styles in the production); and French crooner Serge Gainsbourg. Air's music also has jazz inflections at times. If you love Electronica this group from France will fill the bill. Listening to the catchy rhythm or 'Air` songs you will find yourself playing the song in your head throughout the day. Greg's picks: Alpha Beta Gaga and Cherry Blossom Girl Yes Greg really likes this CD!

Yes... YouTube is a fun place! Ginger Baker Airforce on TV-Sunshine of your love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-Ej7R8KV7o 12 gates to the city. Ginger Bakers airforce http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00024BWDT1Q IRON BUTTERFLY In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida color clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnUolzqcdDM Frank Zappa - The Purple Lagoon With John Belushi as the Samurai, 1976. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkxf4OyBWIs Andreas Vollenweider - Night Fire Dance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NL1NRPEqik Clannad - Newgrange http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2_iI7nLeKg kraftwerk- autobahn The Mavericks - Dance The Night Away http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CBSpj422iU MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rar6MO9ybC0 Traveling Wilburys - I Won't Back Down http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YokNQw_eK6Y Traveling Wilburys - Handle With Care http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcCDUzPIoVU

Average White Band, The - The Very Best of Average White Band Audio CD: June 16, 1998 Original Release Date: 1997 Label: Music Club Records Total playing time of 78:19. Genre: Soul/FUNK - 01 - Pick Up the Pieces - 02 - Let's Go Round Again - 03 - Put It Where You Want It - 04 - Atlantic Avenue - 05 - When Will You Be Mine - 06 - The Jugglers - 07 - A Love of Your Own - 08 - Cloudy - 09 - Cut the Cake - 10 - Work to Do - 11 - I Heard It Through the Grapevine [Live] - 12 - For You, for Love - 13 - Queen of My Soul - 14 - School Boy Crush - 15 - Got the Love - 16 - Person to Person - 17 - You Got It Average White Band - Official website http://www.averagewhiteband.com/ The Average White Band From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_White_Band Let's grove! No one is like the Average White Band. With great horn section and unique sound that is just a joy to listen to. Yes the AWB is still touring and their music will live on for many years to come. Let the funk live! Greg's pick.... It has to be track #1 - Pick Up the Pieces!!!!

Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells II CD Street Date Sep 22, 1992 01 - Sentinel 02 - Dark Star 03 - Clear Light 04 - Blue Saloon 05 - Sunjammer 06 - Red Dawn 07 - The Bell 08 - Weightless 09 - The Great Plain 10 - Sunset Door 11 - Tattoo 12 - Altered State 13 - Maya Gold 14 - Moonshine Notes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Producers: Mike Oldfield, Tom Newman, Trevor Horn. A second "variation" on the album that put both Oldfield and Virgin Records on the map probably didn't seem like such a bad idea--especially with a guy like Trevor Horn enlisted to help produce. That said, TUBULAR BELLS 2 is quite good. It is a derivation, naturally, but one that has been fleshed out, further expounded upon, and given a modern '90s gloss. Horn's is relegated to the background, but his involvement is vital. He makes Oldfield's permutations flicker with an Art of Noise resonance, and the songs--which really play as one grand suite--have a palpable luster immersed within the absolutely excellent production. All of Oldfield's trademarks are brought to the fore here; the music is pastel, austere, vibrant, twinkling, and eccentric. For this second chapter, Oldfield brings along everything from synths and guitars to glockenspiel and other assorted percussive instruments--including tubular bells. Maybe history can in fact repeat itself. Mike Oldfield From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Oldfield Tubular.net, an open website dedicated to Mike Oldfield. http://tubular.net/ Tubular Bells II on Tubular.net http://tubular.net/discography/TubularBellsII.shtml Active forum on Tubular Bells II http://tubular.net/forums/ikonboard.cgi?;act=SF;f=32 I am not going to say a lot about this CD. If you remember the original Tubular Bells release from 1973 then you must pick up Tubular Bells II. Greg's pick is track #7 - The Bell. Crank it up!!!

Julia Thornton - Eye of the Storm Import CD ( England ) Category: Classical, Harp Street Date: Jul 26, 2004 Yes this is the same Julia Thornton from Roxy Music. This CD is not rock it is 100% pure classical and 100% pure harp. This is some great relaxing music. If you like to relax to soft classical and you love harp.... then this CD is worth a spin. I actually got this one in a little over a week ago but saved the review for this week. 01 Pavane 02 Prelude No. 1 03 Diatonic Prelude 04 Prelude No. 3 05 Prelude No. 1 06 Prelude No. 2 07 Prelude No. 4 08 Sarabande {From Violin Partita No. 3} 09 Chanson Dans la Nuit 10 Pavane & Variations Released as a result of fan demand, Julia Thornton's Eye of the Storm has only been previously available as a limited edition cassette sold at live performances and has fast become a collector's item. As a solo recital, Eye of the Storm is the perfect counterpoint to Julia's lushly orchestrated 2003 EMI debut 'Harpistry'. http://www.juliathornton.net/ After winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, I studied there for 5 years, winning many prizes including the Julia Leney and Renata Schefelstein harp awards, and both the harp prizes at the Royal Overseas League competition. I was also awarded the Mathias Prize for the best performance of his Sante Fe Suite at the International Harp Competition in Cardiff. After leaving college my career involved a mixture of teaching, orchestral and solo work. I performed with a variety of orchestras, opera and ballet company's, and gave recitals including performances at the Cambridge, Beaumaris and Cheltenham music festivals. I began working with Bryan Ferry in October 1999. I performed both harp and percussion on his 'As Time Goes By' tour, which was a collection of 1930s standards such as the title track. Together with a band which included a jazz horn section, a piano and a string quartet, we toured for almost a year, starting in the USA, and visiting Europe, Russia, South Africa and Indonesia. My work with Bryan has taken me all over the globe, to some of the most beautiful concert halls and famous venues in history. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?&xml=/arts/2004/11/01/bmharp30.xml&page=5#3 It takes some pluck (Filed: 01/11/2004) While on a tour with Bryan Ferry, Julia Thornton confused the local press in Hong Kong, which ran a picture story wondering whether that was Jerry Hall, Bryan's ex, on stage. Several fans wrote to her suggesting she should be the next Roxy Music cover model. For several Ferry and Roxy Music tours, she's been contributing both glamour and her exceptional harp and percussion playing, as well as establishing an adventurous solo career and doing sessions for newer artists such as Susheela Raman. She says the archetypal "ethereal harpist" couldn't survive these days - the modern harp requires a lot of stamina for one thing: "There's about seven pounds' pull on each string." Thornton has also had to be tough and resilient in her career. After finishing her studies at the Royal Academy in London, to which she won a scholarship, she found herself taking "surreal bookings". She recalls turning up at one birthday party in Kensington to be told she had to change in the broom cupboard. "Then the wife found out I was Jewish, and she wanted me to get in touch with her son at university - she thought I'd make a suitable girlfriend." Thornton got the Roxy Music work after the wife of Bryan Ferry's producer heard her play at a yoga class. The exposure on the band's tours helped get her a major record deal with EMI, and in 2003 she made a record, Harpistry, which was widely admired. But she wasn't entirely happy with the result. "I had to please too many people there was a serious amount of compromise involved," she says. One thing she disliked was the over-polished production "You hear a Paul Weller or Eric Clapton record, or someone like Glenn Gould playing, and it's full of character - nowadays in classical music, everything has to be perfect and clean. Any slight imperfections are edited out in the studio, the edge is lost. A friend said to me recently that there are no session musicians any more, we are merely sound-wave donors." EMI was pushing her as a Vanessa-Mae type classical babe. "At least they didn't ask me to take my kit off," she says. "And I met my husband at EMI - he works in the art department - so it wasn't all bad." Having "asked EMI to drop me", she has taken the formidable challenge of setting up her own record label, Crossways, and recently released a more strictly classical album, Eye of the Storm, which features preludes by Bach and Tournier. "I loved the idea of selecting music that has a special place in one's heart," she says. "Pieces or songs that, as I was studying the harp with my teacher Daphne Boden, I grew to love like old friends." It's a risk, but she's happier with her new freedom, and is now experimenting writing her own material. Last month, she played some sophisticated electronic music at the Ocean in Hackney, east London. As for her being the next Roxy Music cover model, "the suggestion would have to come from Bryan perhaps we'll leave it at that, shall we?"

Great selection....Super Session is one great CD!!! That YouTube video was very cool too.. I did a review of the remastered CD on 06/14/2006 right here on Klipsch. The remastered CD did add a few unreleased songs that were not available on the LP version. "Blues for Nothing" for example is one great song that is only on the remaster series. http://forums.klipsch.com/forums/permalink/746774/747958/ShowThread.aspx#747958 Thanks for sharing!

Let's have a Rock and Roll Halloween! Alice Cooper - Mascara & Monsters: The Best Of Alice Cooper Street Date: Jan 16, 2001 01 - I'm Eighteen 02 - Is It My Body 03 - Desperado 04 - Under My Wheels 05 - Be My Lover 06 - School's Out 07 - Elected 08 - Hello Hooray 09 - Generation Landslide 10 - No More Mr. Nice Guy 11 - Billion Dollar Babies 12 - Teenage Lament '74 13 - Muscle Of Love 14 - Only Women Bleed 15 - Department Of Youth 16 - Welcome To My Nightmare 17 - I Never Cry 18 - You And Me 19 - How You Gonna See Me Now 20 - From The Inside 21 - Clones (We're All) 22 - Poison Greg's pick: Track #21 - Clones (We're All) The Alice Cooper Group: Alice Cooper (vocals); Michael Bruce (guitar, keyboards, background vocals); Glen Buxton (guitar); Dennis Dunaway (bass, background vocals); Neal Smith (drums, background vocals). Producers include: Bob Ezrin, David Foster, Michael Wagener, Desmond Child, Jack Douglas. Compilation producers: David McLees, Brian Nelson. Includes liner notes by Jeffrey Morgan and Alice Cooper. This is a one-disc distillation of the four-disc box set THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF ALICE COOPER, and as such represents the cream of the shock-rock legend's output. The earlier songs (1970 to 1974), featuring the original lineup, are classic rock & roll. Managing the difficult feat of being both clever and commercially accessible, these songs were of course a huge influence on the late-'70s punk rock that followed (Johnny Rotten auditioned for the Sex Pistols by singing along with Cooper's generational anthem "I'm Eighteen"). The later material here, from "Only Women Bleed" to "Poison," is just as well crafted--Cooper performs with a combination of irony and malevolence that a certain Marilyn Manson no doubt studied long and hard. http://www.rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=75806 Most rock fans know that Alice Cooper wrote the book on shock-rock from the late 60s through the early 80s, with his outrageous costumes, horrific stage theatrics, and smart-assed hard rock songs about teenage rebellion. In 1999, we presented the long-awaited The Life And Crimes Of Alice Cooper 4-CD box set, and everywhere Ol Black Eyes went to promote it, the fans loved it. But they also said that they were dying for a single CD with nothin but the biggest hits. We listened, and here it isa deluxe expanded and remastered version of his Greatest Hits, originally released in 1974 on Warner Bros. Records, updated to include his very best through 1990. Mascara & Monsters features 22 mortifyingly massive hits on a single monster CD, including Schools Out, Im Eighteen, Under My Wheels, Welcome To My Nightmare, Poison, and more.