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I had the pleasure of meeting Paul in Hope back in 1973. If I remember correctly he was messing around with a miniature locomotive. He took us over to his sound room - McIntosh C28 and Mc2105 - with a full array of product. Heresy, Cornwall, Horns, and A Belle. His unique wall treatment had them all sound almost identical! I sold the line from 1973 to 1979. Back then the Klipsch reps were known as "Road Agents". I became very good friends with a Don Petersen and then lost track of him (hope he reads this post). Those were the days!

yeah two mains and bus is just stereo. PLii adds the center and its a big suck fest if you ask me. i like music to play how it was recorded. stereo for most and surround sound for blu rays

On the original topic (unusual for me ) The price of new Heritage FOR ME is hard to buy, but really when you think about it for this level of sound and build quality it's a pretty good deal. Now add that they can easily last a lifetime with minimum upkeep, figure those hours of listening over the lifetime and it's a steal.

Almost finished, a t-nut dropped in the box putting the driver in the sub. Next to the last bolt. A dab of paint in a couple of spot and then I can call it done. Pic's of the new Copper Cubes!

Listing on behalf of Mrs. Boxx (Michele Croft). Local sale or personal courier preferred, otherwise buyer to arrange shipping. PM MrsBoxx for negotiation and sale details. Palladium P-312W in merlot, fully functional and in excellent condition. Includes complete microphone kit, ~8ft XLR sub cable, and box. Small dimple in primary woofer. Reduced: $2,500. Cash or Paypal only. Located in DFW.

Metairie LA Hopefully he can get the Klipsch product line again. He did a great job previously!

After I get what I want, pre-listened, I plan to augment &/or replace with New Heritage...

I use the premium service. Your right, free is castrated. I really like the higher bitrate. Very noticable.

yep it already looks a bit better, he was proud to say he would be the only one in his class with a black eye.................................

trip to Hope. Tickets to Iron & Wine concert next Tuesday. Tube amp. Sushi lunch with 3 gorgeous women today. Yeah, I'm spoiled.

Thank you for taking the time to give a nice detailed response, I really enjoyed reading your response. Travis

Yep, works fine. As long as you have itunes installed on a pc or mac.

I like that band....they sound particularly good on 80 gram vinyl.

Gibson Audio Mr. Alterman shut it down a couple of years ago (after about 35 years). I was his first customer when he opened his official retail outlet. He is opening again as of a week ago.

Happy Birthday my bearded friend ... surviving the Dallas ebola threat, vacationing in Hope with the Klipsch elite (posh posh), and attaining the heralded position of forum moderator -- quite a year kind Sir. What do you have planned for an encore?

Happy Birthday, Mr. Moderator!

Thaddeus, happy birthday ol chap!!!

Funny, you didn't look THAT old...

Thanks Christy.

It was in New Orleans. Ranked in sales - Heresy, K Horn, LaScala, Cornwall, Belle. Actually sold three pairs of K Horns to three different people in lees than two hours! The store owner was there and was amazed. Good products are are easier to sell! We also did Disco installs and restaurants. We did a club with double K Horn bottoms and a single K Horn mid / tweeter top section. Most of the installs were Heresy's hung upside down near the ceilings. In that era Crown - DC300A, ESL-224 electrostatic, C8 speakers, Phase Linear 700, 700B, 400, RTR, Citation 11 & 12 (assembled and in kit form), Dynamo PAS3 & Stereo 70,Dahlquist DQ-10, QUAD ESL (there was a frame available to stack Quad's), JBL Century 100 & Paragon, Levinson had just introduced the JC-1 preamp, Yamaha rolled out their initial receiver series, and the large utility / deluxe Advent's were hot (double advents - stacked tweeter to tweeter). And even Bose 901's, double 901's and Bose had their own amp & preamp - looked good - sounded like .... We took on Audio Research (D-51, D-75, D76A, SP-3A0 and the Magnapn Tympani 1A (four bass panels and two tweeter / mid panels). Since the speaker was so large, it was a difficult sale - I sold only one set. We also did the Advent TV - convergence nightmare!! The Dahlquist rep that came by at that time as a guest for one of my open houses was non other than Saul Marantz ) I was surprised)! We had an interesting discussion about the Quad ESL 57 (met Peter and Ross Walker at CES in Chicago) versus the Dahlquist DQ-10. I still have his autograph. I knew Davey O'Brien from McIntosh and would take components to the McIntosh clinic at another audio store when they were in town. very nice man.

You should have grab a snack, cause this listening sesion is going to be a long one. Was definitely quite the session earlier today. Got some more days off coming up soon. I reckon the neighborhood won't be sleeping for the next few nights.

HAHA! Just make sure it's Baltic Birch!

I have the same Oppo as you except mine is not D. I put music on USB thumb drive and run into Oppo 103, then direct mode on receiver. It gives 2.1 in that mode and it simply rocks. And they are mostly MP 3.

Just because I love your avatar, yes. And let me clarify, if you guys push us over the 1,000 mark as well. You will be expected! 1,033 and counting!

welcome! do some research to set a price/prices....then post plenty of pictures on this forum. we LOVE pics! unlike ebay, you need a set price/prices here.

Just because I love your avatar, yes. And let me clarify, if you guys push us over the 1,000 mark as well. BOOM! Amy is coming to Hope next year!

I should also remind people a great way to stay up to date on Klipsch things of note would be to sign up on our email list. We send out about an email a week. http://www.klipsch.com/newsletter

True, the only fix is time, glad it was not worse.

Congrats Ibiza! Looks like you just got 2 Channels of fun.

EDIT: Please see the main thread with the latest version of this info:

I have about 2300 songs on my ipods, so it's my default for music. Generally I have connected to ipod to my Denon via the USB cable and ran PLII music, which consists of my two fronts, no center and both subs (2.2). It seems lacking. Is there a better connection? Should I run from the headphone out on the ipod into the preamp? Looking for ideas, thanks. Edit: I didnt notice, maybe this is better for 2 channel section?

I wonder how the Palladium sales are compared to the Heritage line? A set of Khorns are positioned in the middle of P37s and P38s. The Palladiums might have an advantage since it has matching speakers for HT use. I think it would be interesting to see a breakdown of all their speakers sales, but that might be private company knowledge.

I'm skeptical, but not unwilling to test it. I have been challenged to get 77 likes on my start-up companies Facebook page from a competitive co-worker. I'm not above using all my resources, including my all time favorite forum. If I can't earn it from you guys, I will relinquish my title forever. Help push me over the 1,000 mark, and I promise I will do better at popping in here from time to time. (Although that may be a threat instead of a promise... ) Go here, click like. Or share with someone who might like it. It's a really cool piece of technology, I promise!

To me this is a big deal, klipsch in the rock and roll hall of fame, what better place. http://www.klipsch.com/klipsch-and-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-and-museum-partnership

What's the price if you decide to keep it?

Done.

Thaddeus, nice of you to do this for her. I am sorry she has to sell them, but I guess I can understand the need to.

Depending on the generation of your ipod nano, the Pure i-20 dock ($69 on Ebay) is amazing. I use the the built in DAC, but you can feed an external DAC if you prefer. The remote is not the best in the world. Their website will let you know if your nano is supported. http://www.pure.com/product/i-20-vl-61429/

What area ofnthe country did you sell them in? What else did you carry speaker wise? In that era, in the bay area there were 3 or 4 Klipsch dealers within a 20 mile radius, one McIntosh dealer, etc. Things have changed a great deal in 40 years.

I owned a Marantz 2500 for a few months and i can say it was a monster. 250 x 2. I think it was the second most powerful receiver Marantz produced. I'm not sure how it would compare to the 1250 in other areas, but in shear power it would compare favorably.

No, Nano's in both cars which are only bluetooth. It looks like bluetooth SQ is good/lossy, but Airplay offers the best. All my songs are also stored on my laptop with itunes, which of course is airplay enabled. All I have to do is fire it up. The new Marantz I am getting has airplay, so I can go itunes/laptop to Marantz, and the SQ should be great/lossless.

Front Row Seat

Todays singers make so many notes out of one note I can't follow them. For example singing the National Anthem they add about 400,000 note variations that are not required by the sheet music. Some of them use the microsecond re-enforced hardware to instantaneously correct for off key mistakes, so that means I could sing off key and never hit the right key. This was demonstrated on one of the PBS documentaries. JJK

Bump for Michaels DAC. I'm out of the running. I just found out my grow light blew in my hydroponic garden and will not be able to purchase this.

All these semantics about what to call the horn.....it really doesn't offer any insight and is certainly not enjoyable to read over and over again. You could just measure the area expansion rate....oh wait, that would actually be informative. I'd be willing to wager that it more closely approximates the conical area expansion than the tractrix area expansion. Maybe it's better called a "modified conical"...like every other straight-walled horn out there

If coupled with quality subwoofer(s), I'd put them on stands.

I use a particular size of large socket with a 2" OD (1 7/16" socket) to center up the compression drivers with the horn mouths, and shimmed to a few thousandths of an inch of being concentric at the 2" ID snout on the TAD driver, and I use modeling clay to seal any gaps at that interface. Before I did this fine adjustment of the driver-to-horn positioning, I could see FR and phase irregularities in the REW plots at the driver-horn interface frequency. That little exercise made me a believer of being careful about the throat end of compression driver/horn interfaces, and the importance of holding tolerances at the throat of the horn itself. Chris

i have mine on ikea lack tables, but I also have them paired with a very capable sub so I'm not too worried about squeezing every ounce of bass out of them.

Brie, I am extremely humbled by this as I find my communication skills to be quite poor and I am in constant fear of miscommunication. Tthe fact is that the only things I can write about are things that are part of my soul. As to you, I need to express that as a schoolboy in Texarkana we had a sense of pride in being just ahead of Mississippi in education. It has been over my lifetime that I realized that the the teachers I had were the best anywhere and that it isn't about money. The way schools are ranked is so bogus as to be meaningless. Our buildings were falling apart but our teachers were the best and most dedicated the world has to offer. I have the distinct feeling you are one of those. God bless you and your work! Dave