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KLIPSCH HERITAGE SERIES HISTORICAL REFERENCE DATA (V.4 – 27 January 2016) by GroomLakeArea51 with additional information from The Historian 1 2
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Troy is very thorough... been listening to him for years. my response always is... measures great, sounds terrible. don't use measurements to determine whether or not something sounds good... USE YOUR EARS. if you want a baseline or ballpark, then start/begin with specifications. -
OK, I just skimmed the entire thread, and did not see the following mentioned anywhere: Look at Figure 8 here. This is a typical distortion characteristic for a class AB amplifier. This happens to be a brute, an Adcom GFA-565, but lower-power class AB amplifiers distort in much the same way -- their distortion curves will just be "slid", in entirety, toward the left side of the graph. The important point is that the distortion at very low power (left end of the graph) is almost 20 dB higher than it is just before clipping (right end of the graph, just before the point where the curves suddenly shoot upward vertically). So if you're connecting your 99 dB sensitive speakers to this amplifier, and it's spending all of its time below 1 Watt, you're experiencing about 20 dB more harmonic distortion than if you used a low-power amplifier with just enough headroom to handle transients. Too much of a good thing is a bad thing. Unfortunately, that even applies to too much power. -
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People think the bass is bloated like on Cerwin Vegas or something. That's not the case at all. If you twist the bass knob and give them some juice they can thump. But basic frequency response without there being extenuating circumstances such as EQ or SBIR shenanigans just isn't going to be bass heavy. -
That would surely get a more even look that could then be refinished. -
I've had items in worse condition, and dented dust caps on the back side wouldn't bother me. That's a great price.
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Yeah...what about that? Man, we need some audio engineers who can speak plain English to chime in. I feel like I'm reasonably intelligent and I think I understand some of this stuff, but I have to admit that I've never had that AHA moment where it all clicks into place and I can say, "if I do X I will get Y result". But, maybe that kind of clarity is just beyond me. Heck, I still think it radio is absolute magic, let alone television across the airwaves. 🤫 -
In my head that sounds good in theory. -
Now....what about the "low watt [i]high current[/i] thing I've read about here and there? Would this help my Heresy 1 perform at low volume? Or is that just my brutalized hearing.... -
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