welcome to the madhouse, HOHUM

MACS has a rescue dog too. Seems to like him. What breed you getting?

My speakers are floor standing JBL L65 Jubals. Three-way, 12” woofer, 5” mid-range and the 077 ring radiator dome tweeter. Both mid-ranges and tweeters are fine and meet spec. Because of a microorganism present in Hawaii, the foam around the woofer cone has disintegrated twice before. To give it a longer life, it was suggested that I do an accordion fold / pleat instead of the traditional foam. Paid more for it but it came out great and the speakers will probably outlive me.

So new cone, “splattered” on the backside to give it more rigidity as well as bring it to proper spec, and new gasket on the outer edge of the frame. The only bummer is that one of the dust caps got damaged in shipment but it doesn’t affect the sound so I guess when I show off my speakers, I’ll only pull off one of the grills. 😁

Later on this week I’ll be bringing the other components up from storage and putting everything together. Gonna buy some 12 gauge copper speaker wire and dump the ones I originally used 45-ish years ago.

Once I fire it up then I’ll decide whether or not I want to upgrade some of the components as well as getting a turntable again. Also gonna build a couple of carpeted speaker stands to get them off the floor and maybe even angle it a bit.

I know not everyone will appreciate my excitement but that’s totally cool. I’ve always preferred music coming out of big speakers rather than headphones so it’s just a personal choice. As they used to say, different strokes for different folks.

Hahahahahahaha! That’s a good one Theodore! 😂

I regret ditching my big cabinet speakers. I had some floorstanding fronts similar setup to yours but when I did the basement theater/gaming room I sold them off for a big Polk sub and 5 channel small speakers. Doesn't sound as good when I crank music through them at high volume. But I rarely have the house to myself to blast music anymore so I put my money into the truck's stereo. I've always done an aftermarket stereo in my vehicles, the Ram got the biggest practical one yet. I've done some crazy bass focused builds, but this one was the most well rounded with more focus on sound quality than volume.

Polk OWM5s for the sides

and Polk XT15 bookshelfs at the rear

Bose sound bar

Sony 10" sub at the front

Acoustech 10" sub at the rear

(Acquired over the course of about 5yrs)

All angled towards the sweet spot which is my seat on the couch. Good for both tunes and cinema

I've got pioneer components in the living room running through Bose 601's. It's loud. It sounds great.

I've got Klipsch Promedia 2.0 connected to my puter. It's loud. It sounds great.

😟

You’ll blow your ears out, kid!

Like Mr. Holland's Opus?

Rolling on into Tuesday. Best of luck to you all

Dentist appointment this afternoon. Happy I don’t have to walk there.

The judge changed his mind. Said Thedacare did not meet the requirements of the injunction.

Now that's loud.