weitrhino

There are no accidental Carver fans. This was always your destiny.

I refoamed a pair of Advent Baby II's with less than stellar results. The instructions recommended shimming but did not include new dust caps or give clear instructions on dust cap removal. So I decided not to shim the coils and ended up with one of them rubbing a bit. Both speakers went into a box and have never been used since. One day I'll dig them out and try again. Using shims would seem to offer better results.

I believe the Tangent line of Klipsch speakers appeared at the point where the company was changing hands. IIRC they were blowing out a lot of driver inventory ahead of the company sale, trimming the fat so to speak. I picked up a pair at a local second hand shop last year for something like $40 to use in a bedroom.

Did someone say 'Game on' ?

I never realized there was soooo much love for the M1.0t on this board. Fine. It's a good amp by all accounts. I've never owned one but personally I'd recommend the M500t. Both amps are MkII candidates but you just can't beat those terrific meters!

Welcome slbenz. I agree with the post above!

Welcome back my friend, to the show that never ends.... Hope you have a beefy amp behind those Amazing orginals! If you find yours lacking I have a PT2400 to move

I live in a social backwater where there are no record stores anywhere inside of a 2 hour drive. Well, I can get to Florence, SC in about an hour but I haven't found a store there worth a crap. It's disgusting, really, but that's how it is. So I lean on Plixid.com for samples and then order what I like. It's a crapshoot but there's always something fresh.

Load us up with pics! Tell us about your build process! Give us your listening impressions!

I hope you start a thread on your Orions.

Thanks for posting, Bob. It's always nice to hear what may be coming down the pike. I just hope some of it will be affordable to the common man, the very same who laud Mr. Carver's designs for giving them the ability to enjoy true high fidelity without breaking the bank. I doubt many of us could afford a pair of updated Silver 7 tube amps, the auction pair having sold for $32k. I love to see 'em, but highly doubt I'll ever own them. There are a lot of Sunfire Classic Vacuum Tube Pre-amps out there without the phono stage and remote options. It would be nice to see a package available to retrofit these preamps, or even a new preamp to rival or surpass.

That was funny!

Sure, but they are often $60 for a used CD.

Does anyone have a copy of Mike Keneally's Sluggo CD? It's long OOP and made of unobtanium and I'd really like to get a copy.

I appreciate the suggestion, Dave. I was beginning to think this thread was about as popular as a fart in church.

I just posted a rave about Kronos Quartet in the What Are You Listening To Now thread. Needless to say here I was deeply impressed. Is there anyone familiar with Kronos who might have a suggestion on which way to go to explore their vast catalog?

Not the same in the silvers. The Originals had the honeycomb 4 ohm woofs, the Silvers and Plats had the 16 ohm cones. http://www.dynavox.com/index.php?cPath=31_67

Sorry for the quality. I received it as a pdf.

Looks like your repairs on those 700B's will be good for another 21 years! Seriously, you'll fit right in with this bunch.

The following chart shows just how far the sales of recorded music have fallen over the last several years. While there is no analysis accompanying the chart, there are many notable points of interest that may help define the causes of this decline. I found it interesting that music sales were already in decline from their peak around 1977 until a new delivery format made it's debut around 1982, the Compact Disc. Doubtless the huge rise in sales that came after was largely a factor of back catalog reissues and remasters selling along side current releases. I also note the Telecommunications Act of 1996 significantly relaxed broadcast station ownership restrictions which subsequently saw explosive growth at Clear Channel Communications as they consolidated ownership of some 900 radio stations in the USA. Thereafter, Clear Channel expanded their use of automation when they also acquired Prophet Systems, Inc, maker of the digital Prophet NexGen automation system in 1997 allowing for a radio announcer to appear as if in a local market when in reality he may never have set foot there. The result of using the same blueprint(s) for such a multitude of radio stations left a 'plain vanilla' flavor heavily applied across the country and stiflingly little variety. Also by 1997, I submit most of the popular re-releases on CD had already been exhausted ending the meteoric rise in sales with relatively little new music seeing the light of radio severely hampering artist exposure. The public saw less and less on which to spend their hard earned cash while spending time enjoying old favorites in higher quality. Meanwhile, the slow development of the mp3 file was beginning to take hold in a very public way. Shortly thereafter in 1999 adding insult to injury came the advent of Napster setting off a wave of free music sharing. Though the use of Napster peaked in 2001 music sales were already in sharp decline. I submit file sharing activity was not the chief cause for the loss of music sales, rather the afore mentioned factors were along with ever escalating prices for CD's. The RIAA did not help itself at all with it's vicious pursuit of the file sharing public by suing children, grandmothers, and college students. In fact, I submit the backlash to the RIAA's draconian tactics simply hastened the pace of file sharing. Where the music industry goes from here is anyone's guess. It would be interesting if it would unite behind the SACD and DVD-A formats in an attempt to launch another spike in music sales or get squarely behind a high resolution file format and hasten the death of the Redbook CD. Compelling quality and variety of new music would be necessary to move the public toward these formats, along with some measure of transfer restriction. A file encoded on a disc in such a way as to only allow for transfer from the disc to a machine, but not between machines, could offer the benefits the industry needs to stay afloat. Both may ultimately prove too difficult to achieve. http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-recorded-music-revenue-per-capita-2011-2

Of course, the Beatles said it all with Piggies, indicting corporations and governments all at the same time. Have you seen the little piggies Crawling in the dirt And for all the little piggies Life is getting worse Always having dirt to play around in. Have you seen the bigger piggies In their starched white shirts You will find the bigger piggies Stirring up the dirt Always have clean shirts to play around in. In their sties with all their backing They don't care what goes on around In their eyes there's something lacking What they need's a damn good whacking. Everywhere there's lots of piggies Living piggy lives You can see them out for dinner With their piggy wives Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon. *"one more time"

No, actually for now they will be used as HT mains because the house has built-in surrounds and rear surrounds by Cambridge Audio. Eventually I expect them to migrate into my son's room when he's old enough. I'm already holding the M500t and DTL200 but he's only 10 and not quite ready for them. He may get the old JVC RX-805 receiver till he's proven himself capable of respecting the equipment.

Strolled into the second hand/pawn shop yesterday afternoon and grabbed these for $40. The kid behind the counter thought they were JBL's so he sent a girl over to look at them whereupon she had to spell aloud 'K L I P S C H' apparently unable to pronounce the word. They really had no idea because she first insisted the brand was Tangent because that was a word she could say. Anyway, I got them home and gave them a good wipe-down while sitting on the tailgate of my truck and I must say they are in pretty decent shape for 1985 production. They had been decently cared for, I suspect, until they entered storage for a lengthy period as evident by the thick dust on the terminal cups which are good candidates for replacement owing to their spring-clip terminals. There is only minor veneer chipping at the bottom rear corners and a few small snags in the grill cloth invisible from a few feet away. One grill has a glue spot where the nameplate used to be. Both could use replacement hook and loop fasteners to hold the grill frames in place. They play just fine, in fact they sound pretty damned decent if a bit small compared to my Plats which I expected. I ran them up to a volume level I'll likely never surpass with no detectable distortion in any of the 6 drivers. All in all I'd have to say this was a pretty good acquisition. And my wife didn't even notice them sitting there next to my Plats!