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$100. How'd I do??

Speaking of fun......I just cleaned out an upstairs bedroom that was a catch all for the unloved or unneeded items I have accumulated over the last few years. Amazon boxes, rolls of bubble wrap, picture frames, RP-280 F speaker cartons, and such. My inspiration was that I have offered my house to a friend for a week so that he and the family can spend some time on the coast. I usually stay at LF's place anyway so it's not an imposition. I told LF this morning that I was not going to get in a big hurry as I have had the annual spring back issue. I had planned on spreading it out over a few days. Started a 9:30 this morning and had it cleaned out and vacuumed by 11:15am A good use of a rainy day!

. . . in color, I just look in a mirror.

Picked these up for $100 today. First Heritage purchase, I think I made a good choice? Haven't listened to them yet so not sure if everything is working 100%. For the price, frankly I didn't care.

Roger that. I don't use the "round up" brand, it's too expensive. But the stuff I use is the same chemical.

Photos? This is, after all, a photography thread. I’d like to see Starry Night done in wood.

Our first color TV was a Heathkit my father assembled in the mid-60s. Since it was built into the wall, it stayed in the house when we moved in ‘66, so we built another Heathkit to be a built-in in the new home. I say “we” because my father let me do some of the soldering. In addition to early color, we also had early cable in the Kalamazoo area. There were only about ten channels, but it was great to get WGN from Chicago, WKBD from Detroit, stations from Fort Wayne and South Bend, as well as the 3 local stations. We built one more Heathkit color TV when we moved again. Those early Heathkit soldering and electronics assembly experiences were precursors to several Dynakits. Those were the days.

Nah - look what’s in his hand 🤐 Im clean cut these days — But in my youth I had long hair past the shoulder, as was the custom of the day

DP fan here but only saw once. Speed King ending still send shivers up spines... Otis Redding ...my my my...Posted Dictionary Of Soul album here. Posted Otis Blue youtube earlier pages... Pain In My Heart/My Girl/Shake...Happy Song.

I could post a pic of the LP ... but Otis Redding at the Monterey Pop Festival

Pictorial description of this thread right now...

Yes, one normally leads to the other. I usually have no choice which one has to come first.

On their stands and rockin'! Confirmed that all drivers are working. Really exceptional midrange and the bass is very tight and defined, even with them a couple feet off the floor. Listening to my free spotify premium trial right now to get accustomed to their sound.

Update, got the front extended trim veneer but haven't flush trimmed them yet. Will do tonight and then apply veneer to second speaker. Won't be long before the ole finish goes on.

Same here. I have a few more new 90's records since this was taken.

You need to start saving for college and their wedding when their born.

This is just prepping you for the next big dress purchase when she'll no longer have your last name. It hurts, but in a good way. I've purchased one wedding dress already and have one more to go.

I had to dig a little deeper in my pocket.... But that's what Gia picked out... When she tried it on.. You should of seen the excitement in her eyes... What I paid for was service.... And a big smile on Gia's face.... Just like the MasterCard commercial... Priceless !

Beautiful dress Mike. She'll remember this day for years to come.

I would play them with a known good stereo receiver or integrate amp, etc and start at low volumes. Make sure the drivers are all working properly. Get it to a normal listening volume and listen. I usually put the receiver in mono mode so left and right speakers have the same exact signal, they I compare left vs right. If everything sounds the same, enjoy. If not, look into recapping your crossovers or perhaps buying new ones. Congrats!

Heresys have never been Baltic birch. The birch plywood ones were made from custom ordered Klipsch-spec cabinet-grade plywood with minimal voids in the plys...usually made by Georgia-Pacific. These particular Heresys certainly appear to be birch veneer over MDF...they offered that veneer because so many people have furniture that is birch-veneered plywood. I haven't seen very many birch-veneered MDF Heresy II's around, and I'm also not sure just how long they offered the birch veneer on them. They could be fairly low in numbers produced. Birch veneer has been popular for decades, simply because it can "stain-up" to have the appearance of so many other wood veneers...cherry, black walnut, etc....at much lower materiels cost. Even though, with the advent of the Heresy II, the birch plywood Heresy disappeared, there was likely still a demand for birch-raw speakers so that the purchaser could stain them to match other items in the home with stained birch veneers. The old HDBR/HBR was the largest selling "heritage" speaker Klipsch ever produced.

Warming the coffee mug.... Brewing coffee !

Was this when The Wizard of Oz first came out

Terrible, you should sell them to me for $150 to make your money back, and learn your lesson properly.

I saw them -- Made in Japan Tour. Rory Galagher and FleetwoodMac opened. I do not remember the ladies being with FM. I don't remember much about that one ... except there were bottles flying when they wouldn't let Deep Purple on stage... David Bowie... I kinda hung around the cops ... they looked the most normal. The glitter kids. and they came costumed... A circus

round bottom spikes so I don’t tear up the risers positioning them

I'm not really a zep fan.....

Aerosmith draw the line.... I don't remember buying zep 1 and 4.....

Color? Did you grow up rich?

19" Philco and Bose......must sound sweet

Q: How many New Yorkers does it take to change a light bulb? A: None of your F...ing business.

Just picked Gia's first communion dress..

Denis i am thrilled to be heading back to Maine and be the next steward of these beautiful speakers it was also great to get to meet you and your wife! They should be hooked up by lunch time! James J

REI Co-op CTY 1.1 Simple Hybrid. I've had the same used bike for over 10 years. This is definitely an ergonomic improvement.

The wires on the crossovers definitely need attention, although looking original. It does look as though they wired up their entire sound system with wire you wouldn't trust to tie up old newspapers. To answer a question, I got a Onkyo A-7090 amp in the deal too... very happy on my end. I'll try to post some pics tomorrow or later tonight

There is nothing that needs done to the speakers. Use your common sense and don't turn the volume up to 11 and you should be fine. @WillyBob asked a good question about the amp ^^^. You do want to be careful about firing up an old amp because if it has problems it could fry both the amp and the speakers. +++ EDIT: I saw @dtr20 had the same concern as the rest of us and spelled out the "common sense" I was referring to. Once you get your LS's Khorns up and running please post some pictures and we can offer suggestions on upgrading/updating some components known to need some TLC after 40 years. FYI assuming all the speaker drivers work and the Horns are in good shape, your friends gave you a gift worth about $1250 $2000 which will still play great today. Congrats, and welcome to the Klipsch forums!

You've asked a question that I've also asked myself. It seems odd that Klipsch would not find a way to extend the concept of a three-way hybrid horn-loaded/DR woofer tower loudspeaker aimed at the HT market. They have now apparently abandoned that approach. The Palladium series was obviously designed for a certain type of buyer and a certain type of marketplace "image". The entire line of loudspeakers was designed right before 2007 and was apparently aimed at certain slice of marketplace buyers...then the world changed. I suppose that the Palladium line did what it was designed to do--except that the market changed rather dramatically in 2007-2008. The buyer markets in these countries have never really recovered in the most affected counties like most of the EU, Russia and North America, but rather changed the marketplace buyer profiles. I'm relatively sure that the Palladium line never lived up to its marketing projections due to that wider economic event. Klipsch was not alone. To understand what distinguished the Palladium line, I think a focus on the engineering parts that really make a difference in sound is warranted: horns, drivers, crossover networks (in the case of passive crossovers), and how those elements are arranged spatially relative to each other. The box that they're assembled into is more or less a marketing point: it's just a box from an acoustics performance viewpoint. So what was different about the Palladium series was its 3-way design using horn loading for the midrange and tweeter, and cone-type direct radiating woofers, and apparently a higher quality crossover network design that handled the frequency response better than their other HT loudspeaker line(s)...plus perhaps a couple of other design points that aren't discussed here. The drivers and crossover networks had design and material features that may not be readily apparent to the casual observer. So why don't we see those improvements in the present Reference series? Cost. The Palladium line always cost more than the Reference line--quite a bit more. Three-way designs cost more than the lowest-cost two-way designs because you have an extra driver, horn and two extra passive crossover filters, as well as the added integration tasks to consider. Why hasn't Klipsch incorporated lower cost approaches in order to incorporate the three-way design (two horns and woofers) into the Reference line (i.e., the "mainstream" line for 95% of all HT sound system buyers of Klipsch products)? Because if you're going to make a lower cost loudspeaker, it's easier to do it using fewer drivers/crossovers than to decrease the costs of all three drivers/horns/crossover filters at the same time. Most listeners of products at this price point maybe have a less fussy set of requirements for their loudspeakers (as evidenced by some of the comments in this thread). Not all ears are created equal, and the idea of hi-fi varies from individual to individual, and especially when different cost regimes are thrown in for good measure. (I'll stop exploring this subject at this point, but I believe that you get the drift.) Can Klipsch again design and market a "Palladium line"? Certainly--if the market exists for those slightly higher priced products. Chris

I'll have to look I have given a few away

I love the look of these. I'm keeping these 100% original. No crossover work, no diaphragm changes, no staining the cabinets. Just a little dusting, detailing and listening. They're not as mint as I was hoping but for their age they're gorgeous. Some pencil marks from a kid I assume. Have to track down an eraser. Also, is there a name for this style and color of grill?

Try all possible configurations, and go with what sounds best in each situation. I've used both LARGE and SMALL at various times. I now use SMALL and a 80 Hz crossover for almost all movies, because I can hear slightly clearer, less boomy, results. But, for a few movies from the era of magnetic soundtracks, I use LARGE because I need a little more bass impact, and LARGE gives me that. Since setting speakers to LARGE tells some sound systems, "Don't use the subwoofer," to get the subwoofer with a LARGE setting, it may be necessary to set for LFE + MAIN. Below is (I hope) an REW graph of my doctored-for-mag-soundtracks in-room response with the sub turned way up and the front (Klipschorns) set for LARGE. I hear more impactive bass with LARGE, and I can detect no phase cancellation by ear or by REW. I believe that the part of the graph that shows the K-horns and sub adding nicely is the part between 100 and 200 Hz, because that bridge isn't there with the fronts set to SMALL. Don't ask me why it occurs at 100 - 200 rather than around 80, since the x-over ws set at 80, because I haven't the foggiest notion. But it "fattens up" those magnetic tracks, and makes them sound more like they did in the theater. Examples of films improved by this are Lawrence of Arabia, and Ben-Hur (1959). Lawrence can be helped by a little treble cut, due to outrageous brass. I also was convinced by Roger Dressler (formerly at Dolby) in a technical note at "Audyssey FAQ Linked Here" to try changing the LPF for LFE to 80 Hz (down from the 120 Hz that is the standard, and what filmmakers expect), while leaving the regular bass management crossover at its normal setting (also 80 Hz) on the grounds that LFE in the 100-120 Hz zone is lot of boominess that can cloud the deeper bass. Setting the LFE filter to 80 Hz can help clean that up. So far, I've run 7 movies that way, including Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Dunkirk, and they certainly were not lacking in deep bass, and sounded very crisp. Also, music disks that use 5.1 are "not well disciplined in their use of LFE", leading to muddiness, acording to Roger, therefore can be helped by lowering the LPF to 80. Most of my SACD multichannel music discs are 5.0 rather than 5.1, and the few 5.1s seem fairly well disciplined, so I can't vouch for that part.

No nothing yet

So are you going to grow ... Some dreadlocks ?

How about these? Maybe try House of Hifi or Rainbow Recording. You may be able to pry a pair out of him. https://www.facebook.com/House-of-Hi-Fi-765906860126515/

Not me, I have not had one in 30 years, I know that sounds guilty and a story but it's true. I would imagine much better now, wish I had some right now, not Coytee's.

Thanks Richard! These are moving to the retired life of indoor use. I don't think my son would let you take them back...

What I was contemplating was using a right or left side to reduce the footprint. This would in time be paired with two Pro La Scalas so I am not worried about higher notes.

Thanks. I've been collecting for quite a few years. really need to sell some off. The wife is about full up with speakers.

I paid a family several years ago to pick up those 4 double stacked mwms up in Maryland. The guy owned a night club. He got a divorce and had them hidden in an airport hanger. I've moved several times since then. When the economy got bad.....I slowly talked myself out of using them. Jc

there are a pair of Tuba HT subs and some home built horns