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ok guys as promised today, here are some pics and some initial thoughts. let me first start off by saying i always give short reviews and say i need more time to listen but gear goes through my living room quickly. these are staying for longer as i really want to see what they can do for me. plus the wife loves them. so here is a couple pics showing the size difference with the rp-260F's and of course the difference of the finishes is just night and day. so right off the bat you can see they are much taller than the 260's. they really remind me of my rf-63 in size. in fact they are almost identical in size to the rf-63's but much prettier to look at. i absolutely love the finish on these and the wife does too. so that makes it an easier buy for anyone. these things are monstrously heavy. bottom heavy too. almost feels like the base plate is made of cast iron. good thing though as that is how towers should be. here is a shot of the left in its resting place for now. want to try and get them spread out just a tad farther but that will depend on a few things like entertainment center if i get a new one and sub when i figure out what i want in here. and here is the nudey shot for all you dirty old men now lets get down the my first impressions. upon firing them up they sounded bad right off the bat. ah ha! easy fix, audyssey was still set for my rp-260's. so i just chose to turn it off and let them run large, no sub, no eq. which is how i love to test what a speaker can do with music. ill start with the bass. TONS of it as you would expect. i would say shocking amounts had i never heard the rf-63's but i would say they have a similar amount, HOWEVER i do think these are a tad cleaner sounding on the low end. if they stay i will be excited to hear them on a power house amp vs my denon 1713. ran through quite a few songs and the bass just kept a smile on my face. now lets talk about highs. they are as you would expect from klipsch. crystal clear. i do feel these are extremely smooth and articulate at the same time. and i think it has to do with the 3 way design and a smaller tweeter not having to do so much work. as i sit here and type and watch braveheart on blu ray the strings and pipes in this movie sound so good on these speakers. they have an almost airy quality to them as i have heard with ribbons on other friends setups before. and on to the midrange. i really think this, besides looks, is where the palladium pulls away from the reference line. etc and i have talked via PM before i got these, and i asked his opinion on these vs his la scala ii's. he basically told me that they weren't way better than his lascars. he said however he thought the midrange sounded more open and airy at lower volumes than the la scalas, and that the soundstage was maintained even though the foot print was much smaller. he said there was no way he could fit 7 la scalas in his room and that this was the next best thing. i agree with what he said 1,000% i feel the midrange on these is some of the best i have heard from a klipsch speaker. to me if someone who was married wanted the best klipsch home theater he could have, and wife said he could get whatever he wanted, but they didn't have room for heritage then the palladium line is for that kind of person. la scalas and khorns can get you same performance for less money and TO ME are just as beautiful as the palladiums. but not everyone has that kind of space. or for the man with deep pockets, these are for him too lol. for me, with shallow pockets, what i bought these for was a few reasons. reason one: put the doubt to rest. who wouldnt wanna try these out just to know they may or may not be for them? reason two: i said that if klipsch made a rf-63ii in walnut with a curved cabinet or a gloss finish like the icon w i was in 100%. loved the rf-63. however didn't care for the rc-64, and that is why that set is gone. then klipsch came out with the RP stuff. not even close to what i was hoping for. tried it none the less, and its good but not for me. reason three: this is the most important reason to me. when my wife finishes college soon we will start looking for houses. now while a house with a theater sized room is important to me i have to be a realist and think that i may not have the exact room dimensions i am after. and if the right deal came on a house without the room then we are going to buy. now a home theater is happening period. at least in the living room for sure. but i would imagine since my wife enjoys the theater equally as much as me that a dedicated room will happen as well. however if i don't have enough depth for a false wall, as much as i love the cinema line it will go bye bye. i'm just not the type that wants that stuff out visible in my room. so over the next few months at least, i will run these palladiums through their paces, and if they are worthy contenders for a eventual theater room then they will stay in my possession until we find a home. SO, those are my first impressions and story behind my purchase. hope you guys enjoy the couple pics. one weekend in april, michaelandklipsch will be flying out to hang out for a few days. my house WILL be cleaned before them for sure. when that happens i will get out the nikon and take some youthman worthy photos. id eventually like to get a pic with a 904, p-37, cornwall, reference speaker, and an icon w just to show all of the series i have owned.

Hey Chuck--I bought my nine year old granddaughter a guitar for her birthday--I’ll give you the same advice that i gave her, “stick with it and by the time you get to high school you’ll be the cool chick.” Feel free to disregard my advice.

Funny, I just got done griping about the rain and my phone alarm went off with a flash flooding alert. I'm not talking about it any more.

I know that Hickory, in this area, has no rot resistance, so I burn it as soon as it's seasoned. Ash has no shelf life either. The Emerald Borer has damaged the Ash trees in this area. I have a couple of hundred trees that I processed for heat for the past few years and have a few years of trees to go. Great job dropping it where you wanted it to go. Wife's going to let you buy more speakers with the money you saved, right? Schu, did you show this guy how to fell a tree?

Fine Food post night #2... Stacked Cheese and Onion Enchiladas with homemade New Mexico Chili Red sauce, and over easy eggs.

So I'm sitting on the deck and I notice the nearby Shaggy Bark Hickory Tree is leaning over my house! The lean angle had actually changed and was certainly more threatening to the house. Should I call a tree service and have the professionals remove the tree? Nah, too expensive with the cost estimate North of $2,000.00. So I decided to fell the suspect tree myself. Here are my results!

Interior work complete for now. Jakes new favorite place....digging in the box woods.

Good Morning yet again crew Alright, finishing up the third cup, the boat cables are waiting, will update here later tonight. Full bottles of "Repel" skeeter spray placed throughout homestead. Now that the "Brain Box" is back in the watercraft, i will be crankin tunes all day. The 95 year old guy next door is pretty dam cool about it/me, i do play some Country just for him every hour. With 8 speakers and 2K watts (78Wpc@8ohms) it does not take much volume, the boat being seated between two garages, tend to make the sound carry a tad.

who says we're not?

Yep Mark I started a thread "Neil Young's Pono" and then abandoned it. DizRotus picked it up and did some reviews for us. Got the limbs hauled to the road. Used a blower to clean up the yard and road. Freshly showered and off to lunch. I saved myself $450 doing the wax myrtles so I think lunch is one me. Hit 84 here yesterday. 70s already this morning. Cheers Gents

My Sunday forecast looks awesome so I bet your Saturday is gonna be the same!

Been raining here for the past 4 days or so. Everything is squishy outside. It sounds like the dog is walking on a soaked sponge as he meanders the back yard. We've got some sunny and mid 70 days coming up. Maybe I can paint some trim on the outside of the house today. I'm about half way through a bag of Nicaraguan and have a 2 lb bag of Kona waiting. I'm humming Carly Simons "Anticipation".

morning guys, Very nice 60ish degree today think I will see what I can get into outside.........................................

That reminds me of a lightning strike. In my case the lightning left one inch diameter blackish colored crooked trails through the stump down to the sewer pipe and eventually to the house and melted the aluminum siding. These crooked thingy's were very brittle however. The lightning hit tore the bark of the first 20 feet of a one hundred year old oak tree. I was standing in the kitchen eating a doughnut looking out the window when it hit and I said to myself, "That ain't right". JJK

Pruned ten wax myrtles standing on an eight foot step ladder yesterday. Used a saw with 20" bar. Overkill and heavy but it's what I had. More dragging limbs to the road this morning for the City to pick up. A little sore and sun burned.

Keep this up everyone..............Boxx would be so proud, and so am I We got a good thing going here !! ..........Gary

If at all possible, I really don't want to paint them black. I very much want to use the Watco Natural, and preserve the look and grain of the birch. Admittedly, they will still look a bit rough, but that's ok, I'm not going for perfection on these....it's not really possible (for me). I have not started the black painted one, still have quite a bit to do on the first one.

Rosewood Klipschorn

as my 11 yr old daughter would say OMG. Lol. The speaker gods smiled on me today as I finally grabbed a minty,25 yr old, original owner, KB WO, consecutive s/n pair for a few ticks under 2K American. Cond 9/10..... Over hill and dale, I drove 370 miles round trip and now listening to the awesomeness of Steely Dan and Pink Floyd......

Oh hell, with all the great weather reports from you guys, and the fact that it's pretty decent here, I just may feel compelled to go out and trim back a couple of our tall grasses and a rose bush or two. Paint job looks great Chuck. Great colors and quality work. Still waiting to schedule our job. Cheers.

Moderator is so old hat. Let's change it to 'Conviviality Emissary'.

"I'm about half way through a bag of Nicaraguan and have a 2 lb bag of Kona waiting. I'm humming Carly Simons "Anticipation" Ya Know, if someone in Colorado were to read that statement they might think we are having a good tome here.... Hmmmmm ....."if someone in Colorado...." ......I wonder what he means by that ................

Looks great Chuck. Your painter did a very nice job.

This is a Wax Myrtle Mark. Not very full this time of year. The berries are used to make bayberry candles. These are the ones I pruned back yesterday. Don't look like much now but they will come back.

The people who sold those to you are going to crap when they see how nice you made them. Another pair of Klipsch heritage speakers being resurrected always makes me smile!

"I'm about half way through a bag of Nicaraguan and have a 2 lb bag of Kona waiting. I'm humming Carly Simons "Anticipation" Ya Know, if someone in Colorado were to read that statement they might think we are having a good tome here....

Taken with Nikkor 135mm f2,8 Q.C. lens on transparency film:

We never can stop, can we? LOL!

The guy in your link sure did a better job than this guy.

Gary--you must be working too hard as i haven’t seen one of your meal presentations in a while. I will say that Genevieve appears to have a knack for cooking--that dish looks very tasty. It’s only missing one thing, and i’m sure all of you know me well enough to know what i’d top it off with. Steve

I've dropped several over the years close to homes but this was the toughest one yet. I used a long steel winch cable tied 3/4 of the way up the tree and a come-a-long to pull an opposing force on the leaning tree. I then used a 12K lb rope to pull the tree in the direction I wanted it to fall. The tree actually fell on the pulling rope. I guess that happens when your planning and saw cuts are good. Now to cut, split, and stack this for next Winters firewood.

Best song writer in the business--hands down, by far. Haven’t bought it. Considered seeing his concert; but, read that he was doing very little of his old stuff (pre-80s)--which happen to be the ones i like best. My impressions? I do a pretty good Bullwinkle and a decent Yogi Bear, and I’ve nailed the Randy Mantooth on acid impression.

Dang, I dont own any of those amps. I do believe there will be some interesting comments when the results are posted. I bet someone will get their panties in a knot over it.

Wow, fantastic weather today!! Pretty much spent most of the day outside, working on just one of the beater LS. Still a long way to go, but definitely making progress. This first one has some nice grain, and I hope to preserve that somehow... Will add the post sanding pics in the next reply. Two speakers, one was partially painted black, the other was not. Pretty rough....

Morning gang I was so busy installing my electronic package on the boat i forgot Taco Tuesday! My Circuit(S) turned out to overdrive the input to the new Amp, so trouble shooting is the order of the day. I guess i build chit too dam good, time to dig out some resistors to calm this device down. Two pots consumed yesterday, nonstop, took a little time to eat/drink, boat is now covered due to Drizzle. One day rain event, nothing planned, Coffee and stare at you guys for awile. Painting looks great Chuck, that is a quality job.

Well it wasn't '10 years after'......................

I must have gotten them mixed up, sorry. She looks a lot like Thad from the back.

It will be like

Morning gents Everything looks pretty calm going into spring. Was on another forum last night and watched jimmy fallon for a change and Neil Young was on. Pono was Laid out to the public, and the way it was presented sounded like the best "Cleaned up" tracks available. I may just look into this later this week, i know we have a thread or two going on said subject. Looking at the weather, the watercraft project should be done within a week. First cup down going for more. Sat, first 80 day of the year !

Careful with the belt sander. You'd be safer with an orbital and 100 grit pads. Looks great Jim! Also looks like a lot of work. Glad you're bringing them back.

You go jimjimbo.......keep us posted my man...... MKP :-)

great job , it looks a lot safer now for your family -

I meant if they refuse to give you a refund, hit them up for the manual they supposedly bought to work on your gear that didn't get fixed. You don't need a manual to not fix something. I certainly did not mean give them anymore money.

So I got this free from a local guy, and I thought maybe I could fix it to prepare it for sale. From what I can tell it needs a new driver. It works fine and has some healthy bass to it, only problem is that it screeches a high pitched noise every time it "woofes." Replacement woofers on eBay are roughly $50 but I don't plan on keeping it, so I figured I would leave it up to the new owner to purchase. If anyone is interested, shoot me a PM and let's get this poor little guy back to work again. Cabinet is in solid shape, couple surface scratches, nothing that dug into the box, no dented corners.

Going to Philly and not to the Italian Market? Not to Pat's for a cheesesteak? Shame on you!

1, My Khorns are newer than that and I can pull a lead off the mids. Not sure what you are talking about here. 2, Depends on the seller. Not everyone is like we are. I opened the bass bin when I bought my LaScalas.

I'll be the odd man out. A big amp will add some meat on the bones for various reasons but mostly because a quality big amp is better than a cheap amp. Think about an audio amp in the 200wpc category.

You see on the screenshot above where it says "region free"? Those play over here. I did that on both Tangled and Maleficient, works fine. Region free is more expensive but they exist on eBay. What I don't understand is why you can't even special order the things. I mean why can't I go on best buy's website and order one? No I have to order it from somebody who can easily get it overseas then have them ship it. It's insulting. I know what you mean. I pay a hefty premium for 'Region Free' vinyl LP's all the time...

i am positive that particular (bubbled) capacitor need to be replaced. usually busted caps shows bulged tops or sides, indicating that it has leaked. the reason i said this is because i just replaced one of my capacitors to solve my crackling issue even though it didn't leak. so a leaked capacitor definitely make things worse. is it the capacitors in group (4 pieces) or the one on the right side alone? courtesy of dbert.