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A good friend made a pair of Linkwitz LX521s, which are full range dipoles with cone drivers. Minimum amplifier power is 8 x 60 W, crossovers and equalization by a miniDSP. I was surprised by how good they sounded, very detailed and focused. He had them on his back porch inside the pool cage. Apparently, they were deemed unsuitable for the inside decor, but out by the pool was okay. Maybe she was onto something, though I think they look fantastic. In her defense, she had put up with another of his projects, a pair of Linkwitz Plutos with subs. His Plutos looked like PVC plumbing with exposed drivers (pretty much what they were). They sounded great too. To my SO, I mentioned replacing our 90 lb PSBs with a pair of LXminis. So far, no joy.

Changing to a 12AX7 could work in a 122, but is probably not a good idea in a 147 without a circuit modification. The higher gain of the 12AX7 will severely unbalance the push-pull drive. (Maybe that will sound good ) Regarding drivers, also the PD-5VH (40W). Atlas told me that it is the same as the Goff top hat driver he sold years ago. Though still a bit bright, I like them both.

I still have a pair of PSB Stratus Gold i. They're too large to ship and I won't sell via CL. I suppose my offspring will have to deal with them.

I cooked a large bone-in pork butt on the Weber Smokey Mountain. I've always cooked pork butts low-and-slow (225F @ 18 hrs +) but this time I cooked it . 275F for 6hrs, wrap in foil and cook for 3 hrs. It came off with a 200-210F internal temp. Wow did that come out moist! It almost pulled itself. Sides were glazed brussel sprouts and slaw. Alas, no family in attendance. We did a vchat with them though, a pale substitute. When family is present, there are no left-overs. This time, three bags of pulled pork went into the freezer.

The following comment and photograph were posted Aug 14th in the "Winwood new Gimme Some Lovin..." thread. I was curious about this too. In a recent unrelated email conversation with Bob Heil (Heil Sound), he disclosed that he has played Hammonds since he was twelve and played theater organ professionally. He also extensively modified B3s, including the installation of two preamps. sayeth Dr. Heil: The dual preamp B3 is in other Traffic videos. There's a '71 video in which he plays a C3 that appears to be so modified. Edit: Organ Forum thread about Steve Winwood's Custom B3 and C3

It Lives! Nothing special for supplying power. The only solid-state devices in a stock setup are the rectifier diodes in the Leslie power amp. For the future, you might consider a couple of things related to power. As you have noticed, the Hammond has no AC ground. An IEC connector will fit in the outlet box and a ground can be added. It also has no fuses. A fuse added to the preamp will protect the power transformer against a shorted rectifier tube or filter caps. You can read more about it here.

I remember the store on, what was was it? Nebraska? Equipment stacked to the ceiling and barely enough room for one person to slip between the stacks.

Gotcha beat. I chopped an A-100 and sold the two Jensen P12Ns and the AO-35 reverb amp on ebay . For the last ten years or so, I've been looking for an empty A-100 cabinet to convert it back.

I'm not exactly sure what he means when he says it "has a helmet" but I assume since he was hearing a nasty buzz from that low-end speaker, I just need to know if I should replace it, or have the speaker reconed. Any thoughts there? Positive, exciting news! Helmet? Maybe it has an aluminum dust cap. Regarding recone of the Altec or a replacement - not knowing anything about the Altec, I'd vote for replacement with an Eminence Delta 15b. Check around. It's an oft-recommended replacement for a stock driver and is a known quantity, The performance of the Altec in the Leslie, even one in perfect condition, is an unknown. Unless it were reconed using an original kit, there is no assurance that it would sound and perform like a new Altec. Also (if that's not enough) , the $100 cost of the 15b may be less than the cost of a recone of the Altec. You might even be able to sell the Altec basket for a few $$ to help defray costs. See if you can get the model number of the Altec. I'd be interested in running a simulation of it in the 122/147 cabinet to see how it compares to the Delta 15B.

I've never seen one for sale either. I made this one. I did see spacers in the Leslies used by a southern rock band touring in the '70s (JBLs and Macintosh). There's not much call for such a thing these days. We have real FOH systems now.

What does that mean? Doesn"t the Altec just sit directly on the lower shelf? Is the speaker frame such that the cone extends into the baffle? The hole for the 15" speaker in the Leslie is smaller than 15", more like 12" (IIRC). The extra material is needed to mount the cross frame holding the upper bearing for the drum. If a high-excursion driver is put in there driven with power, there will be a buzz on bass notes that varies with volume as the cone/surround strikes the the bearing mount and/or baffle. Usually a spacer of some sort is put in to provide clearance. I've never heard of it with a stock 40W amp. Edit: and stock speaker

Even before the Covid era, I rarely went to a theater. I view them at home and am quite happy waiting until they make it to DVD or Blu-ray. Lately, we've been binging on film noir DVDs borrowed from the local public library.

I always loved the song and the voice, It's a nice performance too, but the organ sounds fizzy and sterile, like a clonewheel driven straight into the board with the overdrive cranked.

Cool beans. The set the whole thing on its side reminded me of part of the First Gravy video. Jackie Ivory, Gene Ludwig and Dr. Lonnie Smith talk about moving a B-3 into The Hurricane, Pittsburgh, PA. The B-3 was put on its end and hoisted up onto the bar to get to the bandstand which was, I guess, behind and level with the bar? The clip is about 1 minute long.

I empathize. As a saxphone player, I've done a few safaris myself. I (almost) stopped after I went to a 0.125 RPC and sold the Guardala Brecker model.

Mom put me on a piano bench at five or six. She tried teaching me herself for a while until she got frustrated because I couldn't get triplets. (Triplets? What?) Then to a piano teacher. At eleven I started saxophone in public school ('63). That was pretty much the end of piano lessons. I picked up a guitar in '67/68 (Hendrix! Doors!). Played e-bass and string bass in high school. Until about ten years ago, it has been saxophones. The piano was used to arrange but never to play in public much. In the mid-90's I rebuilt and started playing a Hammond. I still have three saxophones, five e-basses, two guitars, one chopped A-100 and a couple of Nords. The flute and clarinet were donated to a local charity that fixes up instruments and gives them to public band students. Retired by covid. I want an e-piano with a decent action for the house.

No speakers, so a bit lighter for the move. I wonder if they are still around? Often, both amps and speakers were removed to lighten the transport for gigged A100s, though not by much. It still took four of us to lift one sans amps/speakers into the side door of a van using ROKs.

A description of the procedure from the Hammond-Leslie FAQ - 1.9 Caveat Emptor - Buying a Hammond

... here's a video of two guys moving a spinet up stairs using a ? I've seen the shoulder dolly in action and was impressed. I suspect an A-100 weighs less than a spinet, even with the speakers and power amps installed. [video:youtube]

The stock 122 (6-pin) uses a DC-controlled relay to switch Leslie motors. The switching voltage needs to change from 0V to at least 35V to switch from tremolo to chorale (or vice versa, I forget which). The balanced audio rides the switching voltage. It switches the DC, controlled by the momentary foot switch (fast/slow/stop). There is no preamp per se. It uses a transformer.

The Leslie does have a power supply. It powers the tube amp and also the 300 VDC used to power the preamps in Hammonds that need it. The preamp in early Hammonds had a power supply that powered only the tube filaments in the preamp, 6.3 VAC. The high voltage for the organ's preamp was provided by a tone cabinet. Why did Mr. Hammond do this? Maybe to ensure that users would be tied to using a Hammond tone cabinet with the Hammond organ. I don't know. Hopefully some Hammond gurus here can pipe in can provide some history.

That DC is provided by the Leslie to power the preamp in old Hammonds. I don't need it (and don't want it in there).

Yup. Probably 5:1 no-post to post. Often it's because I think the content would be of little interest to the community (kind of like this reply ). But wait! If you like the Turkey, and there was a time that I did too, then you might get a kick out of this review of it. It was written in 2001 on epinions.com. You're not repulsemonkey are you? Wild Turkey Love or Who Needs Romance When You've Got Kentucky Bourbon?

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That"s not good for the music making. A bit more info. Are you plugged into Ethernet on both sides? And using a low latency audio interface on both sides? This was a round-trip network delay test between source/destination WAN IPs. It was measured by my ASUS router. The minimum round-trip time was 63 ms. Usually, the one-way delay is taken to be half of that.