Perhaps the best IMHO of the Harmony Codex
Havenāt head that. Will check it out tomorrow.
Also found this - looks interesting.
I can watch music documentaries til the proverbial cowsā¦
I liked it.
pretty sure whatever is left of Kansas has a local concert on Sunday. I might go
Goā¦! GO!!!
https://www.kansasband.com/players/
A old timers few left - I would have like to seen the 2 Steves version (Walsh & Morse).
Itās nice to see member longevity but sometimes some new blood creates a spot of new magic - when the originals accept, back and promote them.
After hearing it, his immediately became my favorite Kansas track:
I listened to this album yesterday.{ The Day is Done}. I also listened to their first album. They were both great. New to me ! Keep em coming.
Caught this today on Musical Box Radio - recognized Chris Braide on vocals, (Braide Downes Association). I might hafta queue (cue? kew?) Roon it up next.
Musical Box Radio is more subdued than Morow - kinda hit n miss but has a wider variety thN Morow - and they play Talk Talk and Manheim Steamroller! There was a GREAT prog station called 100% Progressive but sadly it dun disappearedā¦ 
TMB is available from several sources.
Eighties European night club disco metal techno pop dance 80s funkadelic prog.
Iām not 100% sure but I think I like itā¦
Not toooo prog but they ARE considered to be progish and as I canāt seem to overplay their last album (Every Five Seconds). So I went back to check out the previous album - I almost gave up half way thru (work play - not soundroom play) but I stuck it out and the last three tracks are good.
Iād categorize this as the best cut on the album. Catchy.
Adopted a pair of Mirage M5 speakers a few weeks ago. Cosmetically 9/10. All 4 tweeters (front & rear facing drivers) were beyond roasted. The plastic was even warped from some serious heating up. Three still worked producing a frequency range of about 14.5Khz to 15Khzā¦ Happens when the voice coil is still intact but the cone aināt movingā¦ Replacement Mirage tweeters are NOWHERE to be sourced. Now, I just happened to have a pair of NIB Definitive Technology BP2000 tweeters and a SINGLE BP2000 (long story) that I was using just as a powered sub in my livingroom. I trimmed down the drivers to fit and gave 'er a whirl. New aluminum tweets are a bit brighter - but to my aging ears lets call that frequency attenuation compensationā¦ The tweeters are recessed a bit but I figure as bright as they are this might not be a bad idea. The old woofers were intact but a bit on the dry stiff side. So I put the 4 Def Tech mid-woofers in (had to router out the outer hole a coconut hair (GAWD I hate MDF dustā¦) but the bass was somewhat lacking and felt sounded like it was struggling - as I anticipated it might -trying to use a different driver in a bi-pole tuned ported enclosure - but worth a try. So I put the old ones back in.
The leads soldered to the speaker terminals had the typical breakage or āhanging on by a threadā where they soldered to the terminals - 3 of 4 were repairable by bending the terminal tab closer inward (giving me more lead to play with) and heating up and pulling the leads out a bit & re-soldering - thus eliminating the faulty section of the leads. The 4th had a lead broken short and the terminal was hot glued (someone obviously did a previous fix) so I lengthened the short broken lead with some spare flex lead, drilled a hole thru the basket, ran the lead thru a taught rubber grommet and terminated it with a quick disconnect terminal. Itās hard to get thru the day without a good McGyvering.
I researched ways to soften surrounds and tried one solution - coconut oil. Applied, left over night and it actually softened them right up. Weāll see how they last.
Ran them at work all day and they sound dang fine. Iāll have to put them in a proper room instead of way out in a 3000 sq ft shop as I couldnāt get them to image all that well in the workshop. Good rewarding fun tho. Iāve restored several pairs of Magnepans & other speakers. Someone needs to save them from the garbage!
Total cost - $12 for a can of flat black paint and about 6 hours of fun.
M5s were about $2000 - $2500 in 1992 - $4400 - $5000 in todayās dollar world.
Just what I need - more speakers. MUST be up to 25 pairs or soā¦
Tweeter holes modded to accommodate larger magnet tweeters.
Woofer holes routered out & repainted
Woofers - only one was kinda rough - it went to the back.
Old COOKED tweeters. New tweeters trimmed to fit.
New smaller tweeter terminals
At my late fatherās house we still have his M3ās. I often wonder if they are worth the effort. Your post helps!
Same tweeter - ferro fluid tends to leak or dry out - thus the heated burnout. Places like The Speaker Exchange (round $100 per) will rebuild them but where do you cross the financial restoration lineā¦? The Msi series used different drivers. Mirage (Energy, Athena) got bought out by Klipsch in the mid 2000s. A good thing? Usually not (IMO). Solen (Canada) also had a tweeter that looked like it would closely fit the mount bit as I could find no specs on the Mirage tweeter, matching was a crap-shoot - it was a give it a try-n-see experiment. And I didnāt want to spend $ on something that might not pan out or just cost more $$. The mids on the M3 look like the standard grey disintegratable foam so those may very well dissolve at the touch by now. Perhaps the woofers too? Thatās 4 mids & 2 woofers to refoam. Iāve re-foamed a few over the years - not too difficult but very tedious. Anything under an 8" can be done without removing the dust cap & shimming the voice coil but (some) 8" and bigger require the shim. If the tweeters still work - you would likely fetch a good $$ flogging thoseā¦
Oh well, we canāt save 'em all. I also have 2 pair of Sound Dynamics speakers and only three working infamous aluminum spun horn tweetersā¦ I refoamed the 6S and have the 12S to repair. Apparently a Klipsch replacement diaphragm will work but it wonāt be the original famous orange Sound Dynamics tweet. Once again, it is all about the project - these things arenāt really valuable and not the do-all-end-all in sound.
Just tryin to keep busyā¦
When people know you collect vintage gear, stuff just keeps getting donated or offered. Last weekās SCOOP:
Klipsch LaScalas
Sansui BA-5000 (WooHOO! I canāt LIFT the thing onto my bench)
DBX 4BX
Velodyne ULD15A7 15" powered sub (needs a re-foam)
Plus a turntable, couple of GLI mix boards and a archaic HUGE RCA VEP150 Selectavision Portable Battery Powered VHS VCR Video Recorder 
Should Iā¦? $1500 for all.
Ah who we kidding - I already DIDā¦
I was going to say absolutely but you already did!
I restored my IRS Beta and Iām really happy with the results!
Might do the same with the M3, have to figure out cost to ship to FL
Yeah, after a day of listening, they are just missing something in the vocal range. I donāt think the tweeters go low enough. Looked up - they are 2K - 25Khz. Think Iām lacking in the 1 - 2K region.
Sigh.