[Nuckle]

Originally Posted by 330indy

Klipsch Atmos home theater!

Klipsch fan here as well but at the same time I know Klipsch is not anywhere in the league with KEF.

My set ups foundation is 20 year old Klipsch reference.

9.1 Atmos
RF3 x 2 Front
RC3 x 1 Center
RS3 x 2 Rear

Newly added
CDC-5800 C II x 4 Ceiling
SPL-150 Sub

Denon AVRX4300H

I am very please with this set up.

[G80indy]

Nice!

You should listen to the Reference Premiere lineup...
wowzers!

[Joekerr]

Originally Posted by rebekahb

Yesterday was my low key day, we rode our bikes to the levee and then sat on the rocks and drank wine. Today, I need to finish organizing taxes and 2 drawers that would get things stuffed in them. Like someone said earlier, I'm doing things that I had time to do before but made excuses & I ran out of those. I will order some more organizational stuff for my drawers. Absolutely nothing exciting.

I just had one burning question - was the levee dry?

[cmyx6go]

Originally Posted by Joekerr

I just had one burning question - was the levee dry?

On the day the music died?

[flybigjet]

If you're going to listen to music from the 70's-80's-90's, go old school.

My centerpiece is a Marantz 2325. My father bought it new in 1975 and gifted it to me after I got married. It wasn't working anymore and he'd had it in storage for at least ten years and he figured I'd be motivated enough to give it the love it needed.

I waited in line almost three years to have it *completely* restored by a Marantz expert (I had to ship it to AZ and back)-- he basically brought it down to the bare circuit boards and restored it with the best replacement components and caps that he could find. It was a labor of love-- it took him probably close to 100 hours and he'd send me pictures every week of what he was doing next.

It's rated *very* conservatively at 125 watts per channel with a ridiculously low (even by today's standards) 0.15% distortion spec at full rated output. Marantz was known to wildly under-rate their equipment-- they'd burn in a bunch of receivers, and whichever one had the lowest RMS at a given distortion threshold-- that's what they'd label the entire model line's power as.

When mine was burned in on a test rig, it held over 200 watts-- (RMS, not Peak) for six hours.

It's a beast, weighs over 50 lbs, and the capacitors in it are literally the size of coke cans. When you turn it on, the lights actually dim in the room for a second as it sucks in power.

It's paired with a fully restored set of KEF Reference 104/2's that I've had for over 20 years (and finding the one guy in the country that still restores ferro-fluid tweets? That was a trick). They're power hogs and I could never properly drive them with my old Yamaha amps (which were, like most amps/receivers today, rated in Peak watts instead of RMS-- A HUGE difference). The KEF's really need "old school" amounts of power (they're rated at 200 wats RMS), and I never realized the difference until I hooked up the Marantz.

Now? They are STUNNING.

I almost cried the first time I drove them with the Marantz-- I heard things on well-loved tracks that I'd never heard before. The definition on them is so outstanding, you can actually hear a vocalist take a breath between lyrics.

So if you're in quarantine?

Listening to classic tunes on an old-school set up with no modern electronic magic/tricks/gimmickry is a *fantastic* way to spend an afternoon.

R.

[Joekerr]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

On the day the music died?

I started singin'

[rebekahb]

Originally Posted by Joekerr

I just had one burning question - was the levee dry?

The levee was dry but I forgot my whiskey and rye.

[cmyx6go]

Originally Posted by Joekerr

I started singin'

Originally Posted by rebekahb

The levee was dry but I forgot my whiskey and rye.

Ahhh, I'm so glad I'm not the only old one here. Get off my lawn!

[ny325]

Watching car and music videos on YouTube. Can't wait to get out of the house. Everyone be safe.

[rebekahb]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

Ahhh, I'm so glad I'm not the only old one here. Get off my lawn!

Haha, I'm not old. I just love music and have always listened to various genres. The only one I don't care for is classical.

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

Ahhh, I'm so glad I'm not the only old one here. Get off my lawn!

Did you know that the inspiration for American Pie (the song) was supposedly a bar in Westchester County named The Levee (IIRC)? Also, the lyrics are also supposedly drinking whiskey IN Rye, as in the home of Playland Park at Rye Beach.....

[Joekerr]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

Ahhh, I'm so glad I'm not the only old one here. Get off my lawn!

Originally Posted by rebekahb

Haha, I'm not old. I just love music and have always listened to various genres. The only one I don't care for is classical.

Yeah! Speak for yourself cmyx6go! Don't try to lump me and Rebekah in the same category...no, no, no, we might be old at heart (or that's just me), but we're not going to let that one slide past us...

I'm the tender age of 38. But I too like an eclectic mix. The 90's is where rock reached its pinnacle of greatness.

And yes, I understand that every generation before and after me has a different opinion on what decade that pinnacle was reached. But here's the thing they aren't aware of - they're all wrong. And I'm right.

[dinonz]

Originally Posted by Joekerr

The 90's is where rock reached its pinnacle of greatness.

Pfffft. 80s was far better

[rebekahb]

Originally Posted by Joekerr

Yeah! Speak for yourself cmyx6go! Don't try to lump me and Rebekah in the same category...no, no, no, we might be old at heart (or that's just me), but we're not going to let that one slide past us...

I'm the tender age of 38. But I too like an eclectic mix. The 90's is where rock reached its pinnacle of greatness.

And yes, I understand that every generation before and after me has a different opinion on what decade that pinnacle was reached. But here's the thing they aren't aware of - they're all wrong. And I'm right.

I'm still trying to savor my last few months of 39 Joekerr so we're not far apart.

I love 80's/early 90's rock/hairbands. I really wanted to see The Stadium Tour but who knows what's going on with that right now. My Mom always had the radio on and so we would always sing and dance around the house and her jam was more of the 70's music.

I have a hook up on concert tickets and have been fortunate to see so many great artists. In my top 10 was Bob Seger. Set was nothing great but he rolled out in jeans and a white cut off sleeve top. His voice sounded amazing. One of the worst, the last Drake concert was absolute trash. His song selection sucked, was so loud you couldn't think, & his vocals were subpar.

[Joekerr]

Originally Posted by dinonz

Pfffft. 80s was far better

I stand firmly by the last two sentences in my previous post.

[dinonz]

Originally Posted by Joekerr

I stand firmly by the last two sentences in my previous post.

I just dismissed those as being wrong

[cmyx6go]

Originally Posted by rebekahb

Haha, I'm not old. I just love music and have always listened to various genres. The only one I don't care for is classical.

Originally Posted by Joekerr

Yeah! Speak for yourself cmyx6go! Don't try to lump me and Rebekah in the same category...no, no, no, we might be old at heart (or that's just me), but we're not going to let that one slide past us...

I'm the tender age of 38. But I too like an eclectic mix. The 90's is where rock reached its pinnacle of greatness.

And yes, I understand that every generation before and after me has a different opinion on what decade that pinnacle was reached. But here's the thing they aren't aware of - they're all wrong. And I'm right.

38? I'm old enough to be your mother. Damn, I hate when that happens. Now get off my damn lawn.

I love all kinds of music but sorry, '70s Rock and Roll is king. Listening to Zep still gives me the chills.

[Joekerr]

Originally Posted by dinonz

I just dismissed those as being wrong

Amazing what the unburnt gas fumes from a Countach and a Diablo will do to a fellow's mind in such a short time frame. Almost tragic really.

I'm going to beat that leech MKSixer to the punch and get his trademark saying out there first "When you die, can I have your stuff?"

[dinonz]

Originally Posted by Joekerr

Amazing what the unburnt gas fumes from a Countach and a Diablo will do to a fellow's mind in such a short time frame. Almost tragic really.

I'm going to beat that leech MKSixer to the punch and get his trademark saying out there first "When you die, can I have your stuff?"

Watch it you young whippersnapper My mind is just fine which his how it knows the 80s are better than the 90s

And you'll be waiting a while. Hard to kill old weeds like me.

[vreihen16]

My DW's employer finally scrounged up a junk notebook around noon time today, so that she can WFH and not have to drive to their essential service office. While she was driving home, I set up a private VLAN and wifi network SSID to keep her work notebook isolated from the rest of our home network. The new network is named "Get off my LAN, kid!" in case anyone was wondering.

With both of us WFH and competing for limited work spaces, it looks like I'll be spending the weekend building a new home office in my enclosed race car hauler.....

[cmyx6go]

Originally Posted by dinonz

Watch it you young whippersnapper My mind is just fine which his how it knows the 80s are better than the 90s

And you'll be waiting a while. Hard to kill old weeds like me.

I think all the decades have something to offer. I love all Motown, classic Soul, die for the blues. 70s rock - Stones, Zep, Beatles, Aerosmith to name a few. 80's had hairbands. 90's had grunge - OMG Chris Cornell's voice.

[dinonz]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

I think all the decades have something to offer. I love all Motown, classic Soul, die for the blues. 70s rock - Stones, Zep, Beatles, Aerosmith to name a few. 80's had hairbands. 90's had grunge - OMG Chris Cornell's voice.

Yeah - I considered that concept for in my Jukebox - 10 CDs from the 60s, 10 from the 70s etc. but I'm still undecided. In some ways if it held fewer CDs it would be easier!