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Finally going to get off my rear and get the LS cabs I bought about 4 years ago put together. I will have some K400 horns on the way soon, which will complete all the components. I have a pair of K33 woofers, and some EV 1828R mid drivers. The tweeters will be the eminence mounted on the external baffle (shown on top of my old pair of LS). I kept those when I sold my other pair of LS. Using the DHA2 crossovers from the old pair as well. I have opened up the doghouse in each to do the bass mod from DJK. I still have to enclose the back of the upper section and add ports, make the separate mounting plate for the woofers, but now I have real incentive to get them DONE! Bruce

Gary….it sounds like a good time was had, and it was successful. Good stories I'm sure….congrats….Bill

Mine aren't going to look like that... speaker envy! I will probably paint these. Would love to pretty tthem up with veneer, but at this point I am more interested in listening to LS again Bruce

Think you had a tough work day? Riding up after a hard days work, West Virginia coal mine early 1900s.

At LONG LAST, good evening my friends! I have not had time to read back through the week's pages but it seems all is under control here I am sorry for being so LAME with the photo details from the Las Vegas extravaganza, but they ARE loaded in two places/two computers for use and safe archives... Between TWO Canon cameras, the combined high res photos and 720 HD the total in the file transfer was 39 GIG !! There are SO many stories, I just don't know where to begin, but, I will simply post images here and there from this long list of photos... In short, the show was a TOTAL success and I will also share with you all a letter/report that was sent to us which is amazing stuff and has our heads spinning already ! I will be sure to get that to you all before the weekend is out, so...............wait for it............... Enjoy your evening, and stop by RTM later and say hello..........I will be in Music Hall relaxing with some vino and good music with the fellows there sometime after 8pm. eastern... ..........Gary

Hello everyone, I am new to the forum but not unfamiliar with Klipsch. A good friend of mine has 2 pair Heresy’s, 2 pair Cornwall’s and a pair of Khorn’s. I have replaced crossover caps in all of them and the original diaphragm’s in one with Ti. After looking at a number of small speakers to replace a pair of tweaked NHT Super Zero’s I finally picked up a pair of RP-160M’s. I used to build speakers when I was younger, everything from cabinets to crossovers. My brother and I would use our front yard as our anechoic chamber laying the speaker down on the grass facing up into the atmosphere to do near field measurements for mechanical phase correction etc. I knew looking at the horn design in the RP series it had potential, compacted rubber coating on the Tractix horn to eliminate resonance? Who does this? Only Klipsch. The 6.5" Spun Copper Cerametallic woofer is nice and tight as well, very rigid and light weight. Klipsch did an amazing job with these drivers. They have serious potential! After listening for a few days I thought they should have had a little more clarity in the high frequency and upper midrange so I pulled the crossovers and sure enough to hit the targeted price range Kilpsch used a relatively inexpensive poly cap in the tweeter, a sandcast resistor and an electrolytic cap in the woofer circuit. These had to go. I ordered a pair of Jantzen Cross Caps to replace the Klipsch 3.9uF ones and put a couple of ceramic disks that I had lying around across the 43uF electrolytic, stage 1 complete. Now the horn is coming alive! This made an improvement in the high frequency clarity that let me know I was right about these drivers and moving in the right direction. Next step was to replace the 43uF electrolytic with Jantzen Cross Caps, the 9ohm sandcast resistor with a Mills type and add some 0.1uF Audyn True Copper bypass caps. But that required rebuilding the crossover boards, 43uF of poly cap is too big for the pcb behind the binding posts. I purchased a 3.5" wide x .25” thick Poplar board from the local hardware store and rebuilt the simple crossover. I used Velcro to attach it to the bottom of the speaker housing. Due to the size of these speakers the crossovers needed to be very compact and as it turned out the positive spade terminal on the inside of the binding post had to be rotated 180 degrees so it didn’t touch the crossover. I arranged the crossover so the upper binding posts go to the tweeter and the lower to the woofer circuit. I added a little constrained layer dampening (peel and stick type) to the Tractrix port for good measure as well, it is plastic and it dose ring a bit when you tap on it. You think they imaged before? Holy crap, the clarity will blow you away! It turns out I was correct in my assessment of these drivers. This horn is the finest Klipsch has ever designed, the culmination of years of thought and research and probably reading these forums to find out what all of you have been doing to their speakers. The balance, linearity and amazing clarity from the Ti diaphragm and the Cerametallic woofer are astounding. Every bristle of the brush on a snare drum is individually defined. Voices have an airiness to them and each instrument is individually discernable. For this price these are unbeatable. By the way I stole them for $299.99 and free shipping from ebay, brand new in the original boxes! I probably spent $150.00 or so on the crossovers alone bringing the total around $450.00. A great deal on speakers with such potential.

Another pair SAVED Matt ♪ ♫ ♪

Thanks to suggestions from the Budget Soldering Station thread, I pulled the trigger and got this Hako FX-88D today. I made a quick trip to the Speaker Ranch to figure out how to use it and Mustang Guy told me he was was scheduled to get its big brother delivered later in the day. I left before it got there, so I'm hoping it came in. Craig gave me good soldering tips, suggesting I not hold the actual soldering iron itself by the hot end. Point well taken. I tried to return the favor by explaining to him the best way to set up a nearfield computer speaker setup which I'm sure I didn't explain very well because my computer speakers are CF-4's. As you guys know, I'm not real good with words. I'm expecting to put together five Overnight Sensation DIY kits in the next few weeks and fix some crossovers on another of my DIY crossover misadventures. My goal is to to learn to solder at least well enough to get two of the speaker kits working properly. Aim high!

And that's just getting back and forth to work, you could imagine how rough the work was, tough people.

Keep your arms inside the ride...

Built like a brick ****house. Nice home as well. :-)

Most likely a Chevy small block crate motor. Northstar engines were very popular for a while, also. Fiero tranny. Google V-8 Archie for some details. I did a front wheel drive engine into an MGB. Pretty easy except that the water pump had to be electric and remote mounted. S-10 bell housing and clutch mated to a T-5 tranny. The standard MGB rear end was plenty strong enough, but the gearing needed to be reduced to make 1st gear usable.

Some coats of paint on today. LOTS of coats 6 coats all over. About 20 coats on the tops (lost count) edit: oh yeah, I REALLY wanted to paint them fire engine red Matt ♪ ♫ ♪

All I could think of when I read "bass head" was something having to do with this...I am disappoint...

So I said I'd start a thread, so here it is. Last weekend I purchased a pair of Klipschorns in the garage sale forum (from silversport), local here in Chicago. I thought I'd post a couple pictures (as requested) and give some thoughts (also as requested!). I currently own now the Klipschorns, Cornwalls, and the RF-3 surround set up (fronts, center, surrounds, and went with the 15 inch sub). I have also owned quartets for a couple of years in the past and spent a couple good weeks with my friend's forte's (I tried them out for a few weeks before giving them to him as a wedding present). So that gives you an idea of where I am coming from. First off, my room is less than less than ideal. I am building a room in my basement currently, but the Klipschorns put a big dent in the budget for that room, so not sure when it will be finished. So for now I have them in my family room. They are not hooked up to anything good, really either. I have them hooked up to a Denon AVR received that I bought a couple of years ago to start my SACD listening. I didn't have anything back then that had the separate hookups for each channel, so I needed one. I hope to get my Marantz 1060 back over here to hook up to them, but a friend is currently borrowing it. Have to find something for him to purchase first before I can do that. So anyways, my initial thoughts. They are everything I had ever heard they would be in the high end and midrange. Certainly exceptionally sweet. Definitely the best of all of the Klipsch or any other speakers that I have ever owned in this regard. The main thing that really jumped out at me was the imaging, or whatever people call it. The separation from instruments is amazing. The singer sounds like they are standing 10 feet in front of me. I can tell exactly where people were playing their instruments, and can pick them out with ease. I know this is a finicky thing with Klipschorns, but the way my room is set up must be ideal for the placement. I believe I'm about half as far away (where I'm stitting) as the length of the wall that they are on, and I have heard that is pretty close to what you want from Klipschorns. The place where I have issues is the bass. Which is no surprise whatsoever. They are not in ideal corners, as you can see from the pictures. I knew that this would be an issue coming in, and I'm not fazed by it. When I turn up the bass on the EQ it helps. Usually I'm keeping it pretty flat on recently recorded music, but on the classical music (which I listen to alot), I have to turn it up a bit, as the recordings were recorded that way, and the lack of bass from the speaker makes it worse. I will say that the bass is also unlike bass I have ever heard from a speaker, which is what I was also told to expect. I actually like it quite a bit. The bass is not punchy like a kick drum, but when you listen for it, it's totally there. I listen to it and think, "hmm, I'm not hearing much bass", and then I listen closer and say to myself "actually, I really do hear it." And it's really cool, to be honest. It seems that I like this type of bass quite a bit more than like a normal woofer, at least for certain types of music. Most of the music I listen to is either classical, jazz, or folky type stuff, and it really fits with that music well. Considering hooking up my KSW-15 to complement these, as it is not in use at the moment. Any suggestions on that? Or not a good idea? So anyway, I love them! Wouldn't give them back if I was offered double what I paid. They were a speaker I have been dreaming of owning for years, and I'm not disappointed, even with the room hurting them. When I first set them up I thought my wife would make me move them out of this room. She's like, "they're gigantic!" I told her to let them sit for a few days and see after she adjusts. And she told me the other night that she kind of actually likes them in there. Now I just have to find a way to move the T.V. and equipment rack to a more ideal location. So, that's the story I guess. I'll post a few pictures here so you can see the room and the pictures. Oh and Bill, we're definitely taking those sliders off the bottom. The white is just too visible, definitely contrasts too much. Anyone have suggestions for what to put on the bottom so that they can slide a little, but not be obtrusive? Just some felt stickies or something? So, see the pictures. Any suggestions or questions are definitely requested. Edit: Oh ya, sorry about the mess. Dang kids always getting their toys in the way!

Looks nice, that cane goes well with just about everything.

Those look great EXCEPT for that one tiny bubble Mark

Matt, You're an inspiration. Can't believe how fast you get them from beaters to keepers. Keep up the good work. Mark

Yes. Those are winter tires. Bought a wheel and tire package 4 years ago. VMR 701. The foam and circular cardboard are between each rim. The rims they protect are my summer rims..... Yes I am over protective. All that foam/circular cardboard came with the wheel and tire package. Kept them as in between coasters. G.E.M

I am finally finishing the space above my garage. The space will not be a formal living room style space but more of a man-cave. The space is mine alone, no need to compromise, so speakers will be a really big part of the decor. 2 channel, no TV, wood stove, woodworking bench, my grand-pa's hand tools on display. It will be a play room for me mostly and of course my grandson. Listen to music and read mostly. I think milk paint in light orange will go well with pigeon gray walls. I have two sets of "klipsch corners" along the short walls. Not quite sure which set to use first. The corners look like this:

If you have the knowhow and the equipment to make an accurate speaker sound the way you want, you are better off than allowing all the people between you and the live recording make it sound the way they think you want it to sound. I think an accurate speaker has a better chance of sounding good with many different kinds of music because of it's flexibility.

......ok, here it is.....and thank you all for your compliments, comments and good wishes Local Tribute Artists’ Las Vegas Debut Leads to Movie Fame & New World Tour Kenny LaBelle and The Diamond Collection co-star in New Musical Documentary – “Diamond Mountain” On April 21st – April 24th, the Suncoast Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada played host to a unique music event featuring twelve of the world’s favorite Neil Diamond tribute acts. The first annual DiamondFest weekend kicked off with the premiere of the highly anticipated movie “Diamond Mountain” featuring the trials and tribulations of thirteen Neil Diamond tributes artists from around the world. Director Steve Tatone began his project by filming Kenny LaBelle and The Diamond Collection in August of 2014 at The Majestic Theater in West Springfield, MA. After that filming, Mr. Tatone said The Diamond Collection “absolutely blew me and my team away with their high-energy, perfectly orchestrated and performed concert. We captured on film the magic of this amazing band led by a vocalist/guitarist Kenny LaBelle who gave his audience and our film so much more than we bargained for.”. After traveling the globe filming 12 additional Neil Diamond tribute artists, Mr. Tatone asked that The Diamond Collection be the premier band to back up the twelve cast mates for the Cast Concert. Sharing the stage with The Diamond collection were five members of Neil Diamond’s band, Tom Hensley, Ronnie Tutt, Mark LaVang, Bill Cinque and King Errisson. The Diamond Collection has been performing Neil Diamond’s music for the past sixteen years across New England to a growing legion of fans. As a result of the overwhelming audience response to the band in Las Vegas, Tatone signed Mr. LaBelle as his Musical Director and The Diamond Collection to be the core band of Tatone’s new Neil Diamond Broadway-style Musical Experience titled “Diamond Mountain Live!”. The “Diamond Mountain Live!” World Tour commences this summer and is slated for performances all across the USA, Canada, Europe and Australia over the next 18 months. When LaBelle was offered the opportunity to tour extensively outside of his western Massachusetts home base, he stated: “This is a dream come true for me and the band. We’ve worked tirelessly for years to present Neil Diamond’s hits and deep album cuts in a way that connects our audience with the soul of his music. Our show is more than a Tribute to all things ‘Neil’ – it’s a presentation of his massive canon of work with new arrangements and a passion to do the man’s words and music justice. This world tour gives us the rare opportunity to spread the music of Neil Diamond, as interpreted by The Diamond Collection, to fans in different countries and of all age groups! We’re grateful to be a part of this amazing project and humbled that Steve and Neil Diamond’s Bandmates think so highly of our musical skills. We can’t wait to get started!” Please visit The Diamond Collection website at www.diamondcollectionrocks.com for more information

As suggested in the thread above I stuffed socks into the midrange and one tweeter is definitely not working. Also as suggested I brought donuts and coffee for the crew, plz enjoy, viz:

John, the imaging is greatly improved. I thought I would have issues with reflections off the top of the cabinets, and tried placing different materials, but couldn't tell a difference. I am using the same tweeter that Bob Crites originally used, but it's on the Eminence horn. I lined it up with the mid, and moved it back and forth in small increments until, for want of a better word, everything came into focus. The only other way to do this is using a digital crossover and multiple amps. Then you could leave the tweeter at the front and delay it's signal in the crossover. I'm not against going active, and see the merit, IF one is willing to use good components. You still live the same place? I could bring the tweeters by some weekend and hook them up to see if you could hear the difference. I made no crossover changes.

An Onkyo Integra A-9711 pushing 80 watts per channel in to a pair of Heresys will piss of the neighbors AND get you a visit from the local sheriff office. Ask me how I know that.

Is there a power choice switch on the back? 120/240 volt? I'm sure it does it automatically. Hopefully is something easily overlooked. Good luck Ali.

Late start on the DD this morning. Went to get all kinds of blood tests (just routine) that were done at a local hospital really cheap. I need to know what my partying capacity is for the Hope trip! Time to kill some weeds around the homestead and dig up the lines for the pool that I'm rerouting. Back in the day I ran a lot of Buicks with the 3.8, including the grand nationals and even had a park avenue with the supercharged version. That is one fine motor with lots of potential and they could take all kinds of abuse.

Did anyone say La Scala Referb

Most likely a Chevy small block crate motor. Northstar engines were very popular for a while, also. Fiero tranny. Google V-8 Archie for some details. I did a front wheel drive engine into an MGB. Pretty easy except that the water pump had to be electric and remote mounted. S-10 bell housing and clutch mated to a T-5 tranny. The standard MGB rear end was plenty strong enough, but the gearing needed to be reduced to make 1st gear usable. You can put any motor in anything if you have the time, money and patience. 3.1, 3.8, 4.3 small block will fit easily, bigger motors will fit but throw too much weight over the rear wheels. Fiero's used Chevette parts for front brakes among other things if i recall, go juice is nice but you want to be able to stop as well. Maybe better than 4 wheel drums with no power assist but not by far, don't cheap out and do it half assed because those Fiero body structures were no stronger than old beer cans. GM had sorted out all the problems on the suspension in the '88 model, but this is an '86. The suspension is the first priority over the engine type. It has to handle power, or it is not worth it. I thought of keeping the original engine and going with a turbo, that option is still not out, but a little harder to do than the V-8 swap. The 60 degree engines are easier to fit!

I love this!! awesome work.. I have a ton of RP equipment and would love for my equipment to sound even better than it already does.. is this something easy most people could do with guidance from someone such as ur self from over the internet? I know how to solder and have a very nice propane torch soldering gun made for electronics with many different tips..

As rocking loud and clear as Klipsch speakers play, low volume resolution and punch are what I feel they do best. Bill

Your volume knob doesn't go to 11?

Klipsch igroove from eBay Sent from my SM-G920V using Tapatalk

Holy crap Sarge!

Most likely a Chevy small block crate motor. Northstar engines were very popular for a while, also. Fiero tranny. Google V-8 Archie for some details. I did a front wheel drive engine into an MGB. Pretty easy except that the water pump had to be electric and remote mounted. S-10 bell housing and clutch mated to a T-5 tranny. The standard MGB rear end was plenty strong enough, but the gearing needed to be reduced to make 1st gear usable. You can put any motor in anything if you have the time, money and patience. 3.1, 3.8, 4.3 small block will fit easily, bigger motors will fit but throw too much weight over the rear wheels. Fiero's used Chevette parts for front brakes among other things if i recall, go juice is nice but you want to be able to stop as well. Maybe better than 4 wheel drums with no power assist but not by far, don't cheap out and do it half assed because those Fiero body structures were no stronger than old beer cans.

I just got my 37's pinned up and they are very perfect for my room. I have had P39's, Belles, Cornwalls, RF7's, RC7's Heeresys, KLF 20's, KLF 30's and maybe something else and these are it. The KLF 20's in this room were second best but then I never had them hooked up to these electronics. My wife is in love with the looks, their physical size is perfect and they of course sound fantastic. At a fair amount under $4k I think they're a very good buy. I will keep these forever. Can't wait for the sub to get here

Funny, if you saw the size of my house? Strictly 2-channel, no matter how big of house I have. Just no interest in HT... I believe these "little ones" are already spoken for. We are calling them the "Black Betty's" - no interest in Khorns either, perhaps it's just me I guess. Pure Scala Man Matt ♪ ♫ ♪

Uh oh... Here we go...

OH BOY! Lol [emoji41] Maybe she'd felt differently? It happens.

I really like the sound of this! Yes, Please Can't wait to see how they turn out. You got my wheels turning, "beckster" Matt ♪ ♫ ♪

I believe that is an old EV design used on their versions of the K-Horn. The mid horn is a reentrant type somewhat like you see in a bullhorn. But unlike the bull horn there is only one "fold" and the driver is positioned at the front which becomes the throat of the mid. Then the back of the driver is used to drive a tweeter horn. The constructor added a T-35 / K-77 above the mid. WMcD

FYI. CL link expired.

Yea baby..... Buick 455 stage 1 motor..... 360 hp and a whopping 510ft lbs of torque at just 2800 rpm ...... Back in my 20's I had a few old Buicks. Back when I was in the Army you could find me and my buddy working at the on base auto shop. We would work there all weekend till they though us out at closing time. Man those were the days.... getting enough money together for a new cam and the case of cold beer Didn't drink coffee back then.......didn't even know what Klipsch was...... as far as a system. it was in my Buick.... Pioneer KP-500 Supertuner and Jensen Triaxial's... lol lol MKP :-)

Ya, I've had yamaha before and have always been happy with them. I just had them for so long I wanted to try something new.

This is his newest available... https://community.klipsch.com/index.php?/topic/163169-transcendent-sound-the-masterpiece-pre-headphone-amp/?hl=transcendent

Very cool project!

Those new Klipsch RP models are decent for the price if you don't pay full retail and add a nice sub into the mix. Throw them on C-list, lots of JBL fans out there will pay what they are worth.

How about "What I ordered today"... So I sold my Belles and Cornwalls and with the funds ordered a pair of P37s in espresso. I had P39s and they were way to big. These should be perfect. Driving them with a C2500 tube preamp and B&K Reference 200.2 amp. If I need a sub which is likely I have a sweet little Martin Logan Depth.

Ok dude, you got me there?????????? High quality mascara applicator. MODERATOR MODERATOR step in here please

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