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Hey guys, Greetings from a happy new Klipsch owner. Growing up, I was a music fanatic. Would confiscate the Sunday paper to drool over the AV receivers and speaker ads. I used to pump my dad's system whenever he and my mom would leave the house. I studied music in college and the chair of the music department (an awesome mentor and great friend) introduced me to Klipsch. I want to say he owned a pair of KG-3's. He also was responsible for installing klipsch speakers (reference bookshelves) and denon receivers in all of the music classrooms on campus. I remember going with him to the local hifi store and hearing a pair of RF-7s when they were new. Needless to say, I've had my sights set on owning a pair of klipsch reference speakers ever since. A couple months ago I got a pair of RP-160m's (powered by a yamaha tsr-5810 - Costco version of an rx-v581) in cherry finish and I couldn't be happier. They sound fantastic. Last weekend I made the call to pick up the R-12sw, which was on sale, to replace a super entry level yamaha HTIB sub and help round out the bass. Man does my system sound good now. I've been spending the last week dialing things in (speaker levels and delays, etc) and rarely turn things up past -20. Sub set to about 40% gain or so. My buddy (fellow HiFi head) asked if i caught "the bug". I told him I always had it, just was never in a position to justify pulling the trigger. Super happy to finally make it happen. Definitely money well spent. Cheers!

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It might help to remember this isn't a private chat room, it's a public ad-free internet meeting place sponsored 100% by the Klipsch corporation. Klipsch, Inc. spends a lot of money in advertising to present a public image which is designed to do one thing, sell speakers. Klipsch Inc is gracious enough to provide us a place to comment and give us wide berth on what is allowed. What they ask in return is that we follow common sense posting guidelines. The all-volunteer Moderators do a great job keeping us as a group within posting standards which ultimately keeps this Klipsch Forum viable. If Chad had the job of moderating every thread he wouldn't have time to do anything else and it would not surprise me if Klipsch, Inc shut it down to go to support more current social media like Facebook, like nearly every corporate entity does. I'm happy to have this Klipsch Forum, and I'm happy to be a member. Mods, thank you for doing your job which helps keep this place going.

The eye has passed over us and our family and home are safe. We never felt like we needed to go to the "safe room" so I feel extremely blessed. The wind blew hard but I never felt threatened. Praying everyone else is safe and your property is as well. There are some bands behind us but shouldn't be near what we had tonight. I'm headed to bed. It's been a really long past few days.

Thank you Mr. Klipsch for all of the enjoyment.

AAAAAAAAAH, so THAT is what the floor molding is supposed to look like..........mystery over....

Purdue welcome to the forum. You'll find lots of info on building LS here. I recently built a set from scratch using 1" baltic birch 17 ply plywood and it was a journey! I'm about to build a set using 3/4" BB for another friend. The hardest part is cutting and aligning the "top/point" of the doghouse. Gotta cut it at correct angle and square. I suggest building/buying a good 90 degree vertical jig that you can clamp top pieces to so you can cut the 29-30 degree point angles. Then you have to clamp/glue the point together. HDBRbuilder was a great help to me. He is ex Klipsch employee who build a lot of LS's in his day. Knows all the details and shortcuts. Ar you going to veneer these? I used lots of screw, glue and clamps to built mine then veneered over the plywood. Took longer. This next set I might use finish nails since they will be in my friend's 70 x 140' metal building. Good luck on your build. Make sure that if you use Bob Crites 15" cast frame woofer that you widen the 15.25" distance between the two sides of the doghouse to 15.5" unless you want to grind the aluminum frame to allow it to fit.

You ain't kidding. The frustrated English teacher in me has had to bite his tongue with surprising regularity around here. (Not to mention around the entire Internet.) What's surprising about it is seeing how so many people here who are so obviously very intelligent can care so little about making sure their communication is clear and correct. The rest of the Internet is full of dumbshits, so I expect lousy spelling out there.

poor taste is entirely subjective, and I was poking at you - like I would have Carl, Jim, Brian, or any number of other members. I won't remove the image, so that context is maintained for others, but I do absolutely apologize for offending you.

when i saw the CCC thread yesterday, i feared that something like this would eventually happen to Chuck’s thread. And i apologize to Chuck for not speaking up. Not that it would have done any good; but, I should have said something. But come on Moderators, please stop overreacting and deal with the individual(s) that are ruining threads. if you want to solve an issue, deal with those responsible instead of removing an entire thread. If you don’t, those that ruin threads will just move on and ruin another thread. Locking a thread, hiding a thread ... probably hasn’t ever solved a problem, as the same behavior just surfaces in a different thread. Deal with those violating the TOS. Or just shut down the entire forum because this is all getting to be a rather pathetic. Just read that the thread was unhidden with the photos removed. That was the right decision in my opinion.

if'n... Love it! One bodacious southern conjunction!

I think my friends in Wellington, Ft. Lauderdale and Jupiter are.coming through ok. Last word I saw is that @Youthman is going to come through ok. Ifnthat is the case I'm very glad to hear that.

Billybob, hope you're okay.

3:10 am. None of the 80'plus pines have come yet { thank god} but a lot of the branches all over the roof and yard be safe everyone Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Same with us. You on the west side of the eye us on the east. We did. 80mph sustained with 100mph gusts. The TV meteorologist described this wall of wind similar to a smaller derecho which is like a tsunami of wind. Pretty darn scary. I used to think these "events" were kind of cool until Charley came through like a buzz saw in 2004. A single totally exposed 80ft pine tree with a 30in diameter trunk could still topple and fall on any of four neighbor's homes including mine. Charley knocked it's twin down back in 2004 and it would have landed where our master bedroom is. Us too. Bill

Still good here in Plant City. Power has remained on.

Hope good news for all. We start surveys 0300 out of New Orleans

Well I've all ready have had a few large pine tree branches fall on my roof , about 8" in diameter The trees are over 80 feet tall what a sound they made hitting my roof For the last year I have been on my HOA to cut them down but they have refused to do so But so far so good here in lake mary, But we just got a flood warning and watches for our area Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thinking of the people in the path of this. Best wishes to everyone in the path of this. I've been watching the path of this with a lot of interest. I am to close on a place about a mile from the beach in Gulf Shores this week. My parents retired to Biloxi. I saw the destruction after Katrina went thru. It's a horrible thing. Biloxi didn't get a lot of the headlines since New Orleans got hit too. I always think of the people that are in the surrounding areas that don't get the publicity of the big name cities. Again, best wishes and prayers to everyone in the path...

Full of Win

Another beautiful woman and some great looking speakers

Great picture, no doubt keepers

PWK thought of everything

The article had me up to the point where the author says that an employee should feel grateful for having a job — any job. The idea that anyone should be "grateful" to have a job is utter bullshit — it's the kind of propaganda that employers have been spewing for generations, and have been using as a tool in an attempt to keep workers under their control and afraid to exercise their rights as workers. The fact is that a job — every job — is a business arrangement between an employer and an employee. The employer gives the employee money in exchange for services rendered. An employer isn't providing a job to the undeserving simply out of the goodness of their heart, the employee provides something of value to the employer and the employer pays for it. This is Business 101. Although luck may enter into someone's ability to find a particular job in a particular location at a particular time, once a person is hired it is their value to their employer (a result of the employee's knowledge, skill and expertise) that keeps them employed, not any charity from their employer for which the employee should somehow feel grateful. Every day that you show up and do good work you are earning not only your pay, you are also earning your continued employment. Workers need to realize this fact of the business world and stop feeling like Bob Cratchit, who was unfairly made by Scrooge to feel grateful for finally being given what he had earned in the first place.

I hear you @totalcomfort - thanks and thanks all for the warm welcome!

Welcome.....lots of good people on here. Congrats on getting your system dialed in, it's rewarding when we notice an improvement.

done.

I have a couple of those Panasonics, they sound very good with my Quartets and with my ribbon speakers. I doubt I will ever buy another analog receiver. My main Coda amp and IRD pre sound better, but not by much, at least on the Klipsch. The difference is greater on the Bohlander-Graebner towers, most likely because of the lower efficiency and ohm characteristics they present. The Coda runs class A for the first 12 or 15 watts and I doubt it needs that much with the Quartets. The pre can be run at zero gain.

I have two large bottles of green for sale, $30/ea

CCC is unhidden...questionable pictures have been hidden for Chad's review. Just for the record, I did not hide these threads. Christy

You could start a new coffee thread

I think Mr. Tarheel was just using RTM as an analogy. Only Cable Coffee and the Goodby NoBS threads are hidden and under review that I'm aware of.

What in the world could be threatening in the CC&C thread? That thread and RTM are probably the friendliest, feel good threads on the forum and the longest running.

La scala or belle. Then pleeeeease get a big boy sub to go with your big boy speakers.

Very nice Paul.....................poor Dan, gone too soon.....................

Nah, I'm good to go. I'm always up till about 1am anyways. Wife and I are chillin on the back porch. Super peaceful even with strong winds blowing.

Someday get another pair, or maybe a pair of Jubs, and build a room especially for them! That's what we did (for Khorns) and we've been enjoying them in their new room for several years now. It only took us 30 years to get around to it, and 3 years to do it. Both music and movies sound great. Originally, we were going to be "pure" and play 2 channel music in 2 channels, but now we try every music disk 2 ways: 2 ch and PL II, which [additionally] sends derived channels through our Heresy II surrounds and our modified Belle Klipsch center. The multichannel effect is wonderful with most discs, and, of course, so is SACD classical with 5.0 or 5.1 "real" channels. A funny thing happens: the clean bass attack of both the Khorns and [fully horn loaded] the clean Belle center predominate (partly because those three are usually louder) and they seem to hide the fact that the surrounds don't have as accurate bass. We bring in the subwoofer as low as possible, to let the Khorns shine, but the sub does provide "basement" -- below 40 Hz -- on some music and most movies. When we turn off the sub on some music, we hardly miss it. The Khorns go down to 30 Hz in this room, fairly smoothly, and extend, although attenuated, to below 24 Hz, according to REW and a calibrated mic. Someday, we may build a horn loaded sub -- cleanliness is next to ... [abiding by forum rules].

Contact Bob through his web site: http://www.critesspeakers.com/ Speaking of crossovers, are yours stock? I presume they are Type AA. The Type AA has tweeter protection built-in.

Looks fantastic... I should have done more this when I was living in Memphis.

Looks like a good trip, those Cornwall lll's look great, I love those grills with that color cabinet. Bet they have some bass set up like that, many have not heard the Cornwall lll, they really do sound great.

Not always. I know plenty of parents who find their kids " unrecognizable" after a year or two away at college. My daughter was exposed to this crap will at school but fortunately she placed more valued inwhat her old man had to say then some academic who couldn't survive outside the cocoon of the university walls

Sound advice!

He did a concert in Ireland in 2014. His voice hadn't changed at all. A truly wonderful artist. Bruce

The best value is to stab your ears out with a pencil and not listen to anything.

I am going down with the ship. Remember Plant city will be on the east side of the center unless this storm does something crazy. I am sure i won't be posting for weeks as the power will be out most of the state for days or weeks.

It is an up cut circular saw with a 30" blade! It has locking mechanisms to hold the product in place (and square) and can automatically miter itself. Even pushes the product to the right length (+/- a 32nd). Tech comes in a week to get it up and running. Some of my guys want to do it but it's in the price and probably worth the wait.

The links jjptkd posted above would be my input (since I wrote most of it). The actual "Heresy History" (second link above) was written by former Klipsch employee, Mark Kauffman, a co-worker and friend. JRH

I paid to have that built. I gave it to the forum with the understanding that it was to stay within the domain of the forum. It was to be returned to me in the event that no one wanted to store it any longer. Use of The Vault was not a right, but a privilege - it shouldn't have been used for an audioKarma sale.