At 05:54 PM 4/20/2007, Neon John wrote: >On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:55:16 -0400, John Day ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >The day I told him I played a trick on him. I invited him around to > >hear my system. In those days a pair of home-brewed Klipsch > >look-alikes. He raved, until he saw that the amp wasn't the big > >glowing thing on the bench, I was using a simple National > >Semiconductor LM2875 amp and some standard 3 core mains cable top > >connect it to the speakers. We still talk, but he is a little less > >boastful now. Sadly the Corner horns didn't survive a divorce and a > >move to smaller digs. > >I feel yer pain buddy! My real Klipsches didn't survive a fire.
Sad, isn't it. But in those days I had a house with a good size listening room ( 16m long, about 6m wide) that could handle them. > Gawd >I miss those horns. Those proved that excellent speakers make >everything else in the system relatively unimportant. And the efficiency! I got turned on to horns by a now sadly departed friend who had some upright folded horns that could fill his place with only three or four watts. >John, did you copy the folded horn design or just the looks. The whole nine yards, so to speak. I based the design on a couple of articles, possibly even academic papers, it is a long time back now, that described the horn and its mathematics. > I've >pondered trying to build another set but I think that degree of >woodworking skill is just beyond my capabilities. Well, don't despair. I have seen places that will accurately cut materials for hobby cabinet makers and the likes. I beleive some of them will do speaker stuff as well, give them some good accurate drawings and they will do it. As for me, well it would need to be a design that takes up no more than a square foot of floor space each! John >John >--- >John De Armond >See my website for my current email address >http://www.neon-john.com >Cleveland, Occupied TN >All great things are simple and many can be expressed in single words: >Freedom, Justice, Honor, Duty, Mercy, Hope. -Churchill > >_______________________________________________ >time-nuts mailing list >[email protected] >https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
