When I was in high school (class of '59), there was a rumor that the military was looking into the destructive possiblilties of high frequency, high intensity sound. Reportedly they got a JBL 075 to mutilate plant material, and were going to try to cut grass with it. ..... yet, with clean program material .... our orchestra members --- the ones who were audiophiles -- voted the JBL Paragon (using the 075) and the Klipschorns the two most realistic reproducers at the 1960 Hi Fi fair. The Bozaks

Did you know that Karlson advocated that violins have Karlson-like exponential curve ports, instead of the normal "scrolled" ones? I'm not sure whether he was serious or kidding. My Karlson had a peak at about 100 Hz with a JBL D130. My friend's, with a University 6201 12" coax (or triax, if you count the sort of whizzer cone assembly) did not have that peak, but also less bass, and the front board of the Karlson interfered with the treble. I later mounted a crossover and a

All I know is that the several rear loaded horns by JBL sounded precise but bass-shy. I had a JBL C34 rear loaded horn. Almost no bass below 80 Hz. With the bass control turned way up it worked well enough, but taxed the amplifier with about a 12 dB boost. Still, though, with the bass turned way up, it sounded much better than my ADC acoustic suspension speaker. JBL made a rear loaded horn twice the size of the C34 .... I think it may have been called the C55. It had two 15" woofers that were

Rudy81, Well, I have your RSW15 sub and Klipschorns, as well as a Belle Klipsch Center for "wide stage stereo".... I'm in a different room, and tastes differ, but, after listening to the system with crossovers all over the map, for music (80% classical, big orchestras, 20% Jazz, pop, film), adjusting it by ear , I really prefer crossing it over at 40 HZ , because the Khorns sound so much better (tighter, cleaner, better transients) than the sub above that. For some classical music,

I still have a belt drive Thorens TD 124 from 1964, with a SME tonearm and an extra Ortofon arm (not mounted). I'm considering reviving it, but don't today's cartridges require a lower mass arm? My digital camera is broken, so here is a picture with the turntable and the Ortophon arm taken in 1967, during the Summer of Love --- can you tell? [scroll down past blank -- can't seem to get rid of it]

Thanks, Mike. I had a decimal point problem. Do you know of a kind of diffuser that works well some 7 to 9 feet from the listener's ears?

Yes, the supervision sessions almost always screen out those few psychotics who are very occasionally admitted to a program. Moving away from psychosis, there is flakiness. Some graduate programs have a better flake filter than others. Therapists having therapists reduces stress. I have known fairly well approximately 300 graduate students in Clinical Psychology who were training to be therapists. Almost all were lovely, perceptive, compassionate, and insightful people. Perhaps two -- less than 1

[quote user="BigStewMan"]. when the shooter stood on the desk and yelled a religious statement before starting to shoot people--it's pretty obvious that he was doing what he thought was required of him.[/quote] Could be. Or , he could have just been using his religion as a rationalization. As to individual acts of violence or war itself, I think belief systems often get the blame -- whether they are atheist belief systems (like Soviet or Chinese Communism, for instance) or theist ones

"Is it a myth or is it true that most mental health professionals like psychiatrists and psychologists have therapists of their own, just to help them keep on track after dealing with patients with mental issues all day, every day?" It used to be standard practice for a full fledged therapist to have a consultant. Many still do, but some do not. Of course, when they first start out, in many states, they all go through thousands (literally) of hours of supervised practice with regular sessions

"It may be a lot cheaper to buy a couple of K402's with K69s, which will crossover to the Khorn bins at 450 Hz - the point where they cross over to the midrange now. The K402s could replace your Khorn top-hats (i.e., the tweeters and midranges), and will solve the ceiling bounce problems by solving the problem at its source.' Chris, the K402s are the big horns on top of the Jubs, right? I'm not familiar with the K69s ... are they passive networks? Or are they the super tweeters that