Hi Folks

[toober]

Hi everyone, and thanks for having me. I was introduced to this place by RexEverything, but joined anyway.:D Looks like you have a good group of audio nuts here, so I should fit right in. I'm mostly into tubes, horns, and vinyl, but I play with lots of different stuff. I think I'll go have a look around now, and again, thanks for having me.*wave*

[Fast Forward]

Hi everyone, and thanks for having me. I was introduced to this place by RexEverything, but joined anyway.:D Looks like you have a good group of audio nuts here, so I should fit right in. I'm mostly into tubes, horns, and vinyl, but I play with lots of different stuff. I think I'll go have a look around now, and again, thanks for having me.*wave*Welcome to Tape Heads,,and my condolences on being a friend of Rex

[MacGyver]

hey! welcome!! i may not be the biggest tape freak here, but i do love high-end metal cassettes! a word of warning; I CAN'T STAND HORN DRIVERS!! i once had these late model three-way JENSENs with horn tweeters. i lived with them for most of the seven years that i have been into high-fidelity audio. my experienced impression of them? *headache* to clarify; every time i sat down to use my system,those DAMNED THINGS SCREAMED THEIR GOSHAWFUL HARPY SHRIEK AT ME UNTIL MY EARS BLED!! YOU KNOW, LIKE THIS!!!!!! i was ecstatic to find the WONDERFUL sounding PIONEER CS-G503 four-ways and get those dad-blasted JENSENs out of my Hi-Fi once and for all!!!! to be fair, perhaps you or someone else can convince me of the merits of horn drivers. heaven knows i could never convince myself!!!! (DAMN, IT HURT!!!!) o-o:-)


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[Web Police]

Welcome to TapeHeads. We have forums for just about everything, post if you get the hankering

[BroonsBane]

Welcome! :-)<-

[toober]

Hi Broonsbane, nice to see an old friend here. I used to post in the vinyl only spin list in the music forum. I always hated the moniker "jaymanaa", so I changed to toober over here. Good to see some familiar faces.--smokin--

[BroonsBane]

Hi Broonsbane, nice to see an old friend here. I used to post in the vinyl only spin list in the music forum. I always hated the moniker "jaymanaa", so I changed to toober over here. Good to see some familiar faces.--smokin--

Ah yes, the (in) famous jaymanaa ;) Never would have known it was you :)

[Scorpion8]

Welcome! Jump right in.

[utahusker]

Welcome from another tubes, horns, vinyl and open reel loverBig->

[Rex Everything]

Hey Jay ya ol'fart! Welcome to tapeheads*Hi5*

Glad you could figure out how to click the link I sent ya :D

You being the MOTY and over here now is really stirring the pot. You have learned well old Jedi :D


Can't wait to check out your posts :-)<-

[Jay Pemberton]

hey! welcome!! i may not be the biggest tape freak here, but i do love high-end metal cassettes! a word of warning; I CAN'T STAND HORN DRIVERS!! i once had these late model three-way JENSENs with horn tweeters. i lived with them for most of the seven years that i have been into high-fidelity audio. my experienced impression of them? *headache* to clarify; every time i sat down to use my system,those DAMNED THINGS SCREAMED THEIR GOSHAWFUL HARPY SHRIEK AT ME UNTIL MY EARS BLED!! YOU KNOW, LIKE THIS!!!!!! i was ecstatic to find the WONDERFUL sounding PIONEER CS-G503 four-ways and get those dad-blasted JENSENs out of my Hi-Fi once and for all!!!! to be fair, perhaps you or someone else can convince me of the merits of horn drivers. heaven knows i could never convince myself!!!! (DAMN, IT HURT!!!!) o-o:-)

(Bold faced, italicised emphasis mine.) I haven't heard anything about these, which says a lot about them, I'm guessing. It could be they were purposely designed with exaggerated and rough sounding highs, which would explain a lot. Both as to why they were flops and why you hate them. Properly designed horn speakers are not shrieky on their own. Powerful, sensitive, efficient and clean, yes. Check out a set of Altec Lansing model 19s, which used many of the components of their large A7 Voice Of The Theatre speakers, for a start. Cheers!

And on original topic--Welcome, Toober!

[toober]

I'm not familiar with those Jensens either, but one thing I learned very quickly was that horns are very fussy about amplification. Like most folks, I feed mine low powered tube stuff. The crossovers in general are extremely fussy too, which I would be willing to bet was part of the reason they gave you bloody ears. Lots of speaker manufacturers back then tended to make things sound "bright" as a sales tactic. Pressure from some distributors even forced designers to change their crossover designs from what really worked, to what would sell. There's an old story that goes around about people listening to Klipsch Heresys and Bozak 302As. First time buyers would typically buy the Heresy, but many would come back after awhile to "relisten" to the Bozak, then trade. I don't know if that's true or not, and I love Heresies (after just a little crossover work), but the story goes on to say that Rudy Bozak eventually gave into this pressure, which is why the 302s sound so much better after "modding" the crossover back to what he wanted.

[toober]

Hey Jay ya ol'fart! Welcome to tapeheads*Hi5*

Glad you could figure out how to click the link I sent ya :D

You being the MOTY and over here now is really stirring the pot. You have leaned well old Jedi :D

Can't wait to check out your posts :-)<-


BTW, that link didn't work, but I found it anyhow.:rolleyes: I don't really want to stir the pot, but this place seems interesting, and a little more layed back. I don't do too well with micro-management or being talked down to in something as simple as a rules sticky. The whole AK thing for me, is simply the friends I have made there over the years. Some of those guys are the best folks I've ever hung around with, and I see some of them are already here. Who knows though, I may get the boot over there, for joining here. I got in trouble for joining the last audio forum I tried, and they didn't even have a whine and cheese section.:p

[MacGyver]

(Bold faced, italicised emphasis mine.) I haven't heard anything about these, which says a lot about them, I'm guessing. It could be they were purposely designed with exaggerated and rough sounding highs, which would explain a lot. Both as to why they were flops and why you hate them. Properly designed horn speakers are not shrieky on their own. Powerful, sensitive, efficient and clean, yes. Check out a set of Altec Lansing model 19s, which used many of the components of their large A7 Voice Of The Theatre speakers, for a start. Cheers!

And on original topic--Welcome, Toober!


thank you. i believe they first came out in 2000. they were three-way bookshelves with a carpeted, pro-sound reinforcement look, that were part of an entire series from two-way surround and center channels (a matching subwoofer as well) and m, to a four-way 15'' woofer floorstanding model. i got the entire surround set including the sub at the kennewick SEARS. i used the set with my PIONEER VSX-D1S in PRO LOGIC for a couple years straight. i had no idea at all of what i was missing until i got good stereo floorstanders. those JENSENs really werent the worst speakers in existence, but they certainly had awful highs. i do recall that they did disappear from the stores pretty fast...

[Rex Everything]

BTW, that link didn't work, but I found it anyhow.:rolleyes: I don't really want to stir the pot, but this place seems interesting, and a little more layed back. I don't do too well with micro-management or being talked down to in something as simple as a rules sticky. The whole AK thing for me, is simply the friends I have made there over the years. Some of those guys are the best folks I've ever hung around with, and I see some of them are already here. Who knows though, I may get the boot over there, for joining here. I got in trouble for joining the last audio forum I tried, and they didn't even have a whine and cheese section.:p

Yeah, I hear ya on the friends thang. The thing to do is get them to all come over here and then you won't miss them. :)

You think there's any chance of getting EW over here?

[toober]

Yeah, I hear ya on the friends thang. The thing to do is get them to all come over here and then you won't miss them. :)

You think there's any chance of getting EW over here?

Nah, I doubt it.

[Rex Everything]

Nah, I doubt it.

You need to set up an avatar and a fancy tag line for your account :D

BTW, go check you're email.

[Scorpion8]

The lack of a good tech isn't so much a function of them-vs-us, but just traffic. We have hardly any traffic in the "my receiver goes into protection...." posts, and as a tape-oriented forum we'd need someone who also has a lot of experience in tape decks. I actually invited one of the guys who has helped me out immensely, but my points above were what he cited as his reason not to move at the moment, besides having more than enough off-line referrals and walk-ins for his local business. It'll come, or we'll create a home-grown one.

[theblackknight]

hiya sir !! welcome !


ya probably remember me from the other sites ;)

[toober]

Hi all, just wanted to make a parting post as I go. After reading quite a bit in the cheese and whine area, it has become clear to me that this is not a place I want to be associated with. Being a posting member here would be the same as condoning the slandering and besmirching that goes on here, and I do not. Like I said before, I don't agree 100% with "all" the moderating styles on the net in general, but 99% of those at AK are good folks (IMO). The one (and only one) run in that I had at AK, was obviously just a personality clash. I don't expect everyone to like me, and of course, there are going to be people that I don't care for. Life is just too short to waste it hating. I think you guys could have a really nice tape site here, but I would really suggest that you try to move on. I truly hope you guys can get happy, Jay

[BroonsBane]

I'm sorry you've decided on that Jay, it would have been great to have you around.
I for one, am quite happy though and I tell ya, it's infectious! Like I said recently, stick around, the best is yet to come :-)<-

[MacGyver]

i am currently trying to convince him to reconsider via PM. trying to convince him not to throw away a wonderful admin and so many potential friends...

[Scorpion8]

Hi all, just wanted to make a parting post as I go. After reading quite a bit in the cheese and whine area, it has become clear to me that this is not a place I want to be associated with.

I think if you examine that forum, you'll find that most of those posts are from the period when members were flooding over here because of issues at AK. There hasn't been a real active "hater" post allowed to continue in awhile, and we've all accepted the idea to just move on. I'm sorry if you go, but I think you're doing it for the wrong reasons. I think you'd be welcomed to stay and contribute. Jim

[MacGyver]

I think if you examine that forum, you'll find that most of those posts are from the period when members were flooding over here because of issues at AK. There hasn't been a real active "hater" post allowed to continue in awhile, and we've all accepted the idea to just move on. I'm sorry if you go, but I think you're doing it for the wrong reasons. I think you'd be welcomed to stay and contribute. Jim



indeed, please don't leave...

[MacGyver]

please, there are so many good, caring people here. here's an example...


http://www.tapeheads.net/showthread.php?t=1059

[Des-Lab]

Well we're sorry to see you go. But we won't begrude you for it. This site obviously resonated with you in some sort of positive way if you took the trouble to come over-and still frequently "check in"-albeit without saying anything.

If you read reply #5 in THIS (http://www.tapeheads.net/showthread.php?t=1181) post, you should see that TapeHeads was not built up on a grudge to exist only because of an axe to grind. Check out the rest of the site and what we are all really about. Maybe you'll change your mind.