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Gia won a fish... At a local church feast.... Her name is goldy the fish !

This specific pair is sold, as of today, June 11, 2018. However, I will have two more pairs in the next couple of weeks. The SUPER “Super Heresy” These are the speakers that lots of folks on the forum and on Facebook have been talking about, but most don’t have the time, cabinets or components to build. Now’s your chance to acquire a pair of these awesome modified Heresy I’s that were originally researched and designed by our friend ClaudeJ1. Here’s the original thread: I had exact duplicates of the rear panels cut from half inch Baltic birch, so you will receive the new rear panels configured for this build, plus the original panel, should you ever want to revert to a regular Heresy (which is very unlikely, but you never know…) I have the first pair complete, and planning to build two additional sets. This first set has a black Duratex finish. The other two sets (which are in process) have either a walnut oil finish or a stained raw birch finish, each of which are very nice. Here is the first: Beautiful black Duratex cabinet. Sharp edges, great low profile texture. All cabinetry joints have been sealed and reinforced with strong adhesive. Slanted risers included. Top of the line K55V SOLDER TERMINAL DUAL PHASE PLUG mid drivers with new OEM diaphragms. Heavy cast K-700 horns. New driver to horn gaskets. New Fastlane Audio HF Elliptrac tweeter horn with DE110 driver. This is the only set that will have this tweeter set. The other sets will have either Crites CT-125 (one set only) or Klipsch K-77. New Eminence Kappa Pro 12A woofer. Excellent quality crossover components with ClarityCaps in all positions, a new Erse 2.5mH woofer inductor, and configured to the type B crossover configuration that is required for this build. Cabinet lined with acoustic eggcrate foam as called for in the design. Rear ports installed as called for in the design, installed with Liquid Nails, and sealed with pure silicone. I am not building these to turn a profit. The overall cost of the materials is high, but worthwhile. I am building so that others can enjoy the outstanding design that ClaudeJ1 spent a lot of time putting together. I will ship these, but that will be the responsibility of the buyer. Located in the South Bend, IN area. These will be posted here on the forum, as well as on the Klipsch Owner Classified Facebook page. Please PM me with interest and questions. This pair - $950 plus shipping.

Are you going to detonate?

We're trying to grow chile aji amarillo. The bush full we harvested a few years back has finally been exhausted. Peruvian cuisine is just not the same without it. Edit: there fixed it. aji = chile in Peru

My son in law has a chile pequin bush at his house. The darn things are basically all seeds. They're good to throw in a sandwich.

I have chile pequin [Bird Peppers] that grow w/o help beyond the shelter of the house. Chile tepin grow in the mountains out here. There look about the same. Tepin are round, pequin are a little bit pointed. Very small peppers. Size of a pea or less.

They're fine down to the upper 30's but need to come in for frosts and freezes. This is the second season for the big plants. You just cut them back to sticks like roses and they bounce right back.

Peppers going like crazy this year.

Sorry to have snagged these from you, K5SS. After a buddy sold me his P-37Fs last summer I got the Palladium bug. I'm trying to replace the 7 ground level channels of my system with Palladiums. I grabbed this pair and the ones listed on US Audio Mart from Brooklyn (listed in another forum post) to be the surround channels. Now I have to find a P-27C to complete the setup. I'm a long time Klipsch fan (first pair purchased in 1984) but have not joined the forums until now.

It has been a while, but we have found a house, and our offer was accepted. This time it will not be a dedicated home theater, but a Home Theater/2 channel setup in our living room. The dimensions are approximately 19' w x 31' l x 30' h. The house is build of 1' thick clay brick covered in stucco, including the boveda ceiling (not sure how thick the ceiling is though). I just ordered 3 75' xlr cables for the front channels. The 14 channel amp will be in front for the time being until we get the new Synergy style horns made...at which time we will dismantle the 14 channel amp and make multiple 4 channel amps for all the active speakers. I am hoping to have 5 Synergy style horns, and use my old JBL surround speakers for atmos channels.We plan to have our turntable, and a stereo preamp for the turntable up front, but the rest of the equipment will be in another room(other than the speakers of course). I just ordered Roxul for my room treatments, and it should arrive some time after we move. Here are a couple of pics of the new room...

Firstly, get them out of that alcove. Next, as long as your basement is unfinished like the picture shows, the sound is going to suck. And I'm trying to be nice here. Hard, reflective surfaces are terrible for acoustics. That's where you need to start. Shakey

When he replies tell him Rick is on his way over to get them...

Tried macro mode on my old Nikkor. Last batch of Fuji Superia Xtra 200 35mm film that was available locally. i think Fuji discontinued this film now.

How are the new plants doing?

No caffeine for 24 hours due to the nuclear stress test tomorrow morning😦 In the plus category the recent tooth implant went well🙂 That's about it on this end......

I like this idea as well and agree on not blocking the windows/door. Congrats on the house.

This is the basement wine cellar where my wife will be making beer, and wine. I have Roxul on the way.😊 We will see if I have enough coming. I ordered as much as we used in our old Home Theater, but this time we have a very tall ceiling. I am not planning on ceiling panels this time as we want to maintain the look of the room.

@Chris A et al Any reason NOT to download the version that allows multiple iterations to be run at the same time? They offer it both ways single and multiple

Basement ceilings are often too low, but that is a solvable problem. How high is your ceiling? If lower than 8 feet, put a small amount of absorbent material (thicker is better) on the part of the ceiling that is a first reflection point as seen from the Main Listening Position. Sit at the MLP and have someone hold a flat, light weight mirror FLAT against the ceiling. Be careful! If you can see the speaker in the mirror, that's the spot to put the absorber. Repeat for each speaker, but don't rinse. Some people would suggest doing the same for the FRPs on the side walls, also. Others would not. You do need to break up and/or absorb the reflections over most of those walls, and put carpeting or area rugs on the floor. Use absorbers and diffusers (see acoustical catalogs, perhaps make them yourself -- search this forum and others, under DIY absorbers / diffusors), use book shelves with lots of books, pottery, art objects, and maybe some absorbers behind the books or vases, here and there. What you want is variety, complexity, and decent visual aesthetics (or esthetics, if you are modern), and getting rid of slap back echo, or too much echo, period, while not making the room too acoustically dead. A good subwoofer coming in around 60 Hz, as @JohnA said, would be good. My Belle (named Michelle) is a flush mounted center channel and goes down to below 60 Hz, where there is actually a little peak. The flush mounting may be responsible for the bass extending that far. The Belle will be cleaner than most subs as far down as it goes, so run a test disk (or REW) and see how far yours go, in their environment (location matters a lot), and experiment with putting the crossover there. Your room is so big that you might have room for a DIY horn sub, which should be as clean as the Belles. Once again, search all forums. You might ask @artto what he recommends. He has a less than 8 foot ceiling, and at least at one time had some absorbers on the ceiling, sparingly used. If you go to his page, the pot bellied things all over his walls are Bonner diffusers. There are instructions on how to build them somewhere in Paul Klipsch's Dope form Hope (available here). Don't put a coffee table in front of the listening couch (reflection). If you have a Marantz or Dennon AVR (but I doubt it, since you are posting in 2 channel), you probably have Audyssey. Audyssey or some other room correction device can be good AFTER you get the room as good as possible with acoustical treatments. Please keep us posted.

Don't over feed him, unless your trying to bulk him up for a recipe one day. 🍽️

First thing: Belle Klipsch (and La Scalas) do NOT lack bass. They lack deep bass. In a good room, you might notice the low E of a Double Bass is a little weak and maybe not. There is little output below that. OTOH, as has been stated, you have them in the worst possible space. The concrete walls reflect the mids and highs so much and in such a chaotic way that they cannot sound better than crap. When the room is finished, furnished and dead enough that hand claps don't produce a noticeable slap-back, your room is ready. I will recommend they should be about as far apart as you sit from them and flat against the wall. Start with them at least 4 feet from any corner. You may toe them toward you if you need more highs. Two good subs not placed symmetrically with respect to the floor plan (not exactly in the middle of opposite walls, for instance) and crossed around 60 Hz should give you good low bass. A good sub is -3 dB at 20 Hz or less and should be able to hit 115+ dB at 1m.

Naw I'm just drooling...have not contacted him. If I had an account on that site I would, however...

YES ^^^^

Thanks Bill - I may pull it in a couple of days. Not hard pressed to sell, but wouldn't mind if it goes for my asking price.

I saw Ana Popovic at the Musical Instrument Museum last night and I couldn't agree with more. The MIM hall has about 340 seats and should have had great sound, but it was much too loud, so the sound was very muddled. This was very unfortunate, as she is a prime guitarist and played with a good set of backing musicians. I did find that a set of foam earplugs (free from the MIM staff) made everything sound much clearer.

Of course...who is going to do the grocery shopping, and cooking? LOL

Will you be letting her out for occasional exercise, meals, good behavior?

True and the mains would be too low as well.....would be a cool look tho imo.

The earliest version of the Georgian used the same bass horn, licensed by Klipsch, as the Khorns of that time. This bass cabinet did not have the back chamber opened up into the "sinus" cavities, so the EV 15WK was designed for the smaller back chamber volume. I don't know what effect that would have when using the 15WK in a vented enclosure because complete factory specs are not available.

derp, done. thanks.

Yours look better than the outdated natural oak look. Would love to have that stain for my Chorus IIs. 👍

Looks like it says Oak and the previous owner restained them in what looks like walnut stain. They look good!

The musicians, recording and mastering/pressing are good. It just mustn't have been in the cards for them. Wikipedia say they were studio musicians and worked with Sheryl Crow after their record.

Well I liked Wendy's stuff for a while. I did have some Texas chilly a few years ago and I had to have a chug of ice cold beer after every spoonful. Not because of the jalapenos but because it was really hot physically. JJK

hi. to answer your question on the consecutive serial #'s... no, there really isnt any significance to them being consecutive, just that it means they are a matched pair made together. many times dealers would substitute another speaker for a damaged one or a warranty issue if the customer didnt want to wait for a repair from klipsch & most people back then didnt know or care if the serial numbers matched. having matching #'s does help the resale value though. also for many klipsch speakers the grain of the veneer is matched so they look the same. glad yours are a matched set. you can verify what version they are by checking the serial number date of manufacture, also by the internal wiring. theres a long informative thread on here for epic owners that has great info on these speakers. also, can you post a pic of the labels &/or speakers? i could be wrong but i dont think epics came in walnut, they were black, oak, cherry & maybe mahogany.

When your whole team is built around one player and he basically quits on the team there's not much they can do.

Sunn was big in the '80s then Fender bought them and sold the brand until 2001-2002. I recently heard a band using Sunn PA boxes with the same midrange horn. Didn't sound bad but the high frequencies beamed pretty badly.

If only PWK had incorporated Piezo Tweeters in his systems,the world would be a better place.

Yes

Bose fanatics? Oh never thought about those or the other extreme, people who do somewhat have bass, trunk rattlers. I was really thinking about some of the loons that make the news, for a start and to be pc.

It could be worse, at least it's not the lowest form of life known.

SOLD: RC 62 II Good for you my friend. Bill

You need RF-7III's. No really.

I had a set of Magnapans and loved them too. By "audiophile" standards (whatever that is really) these are NOT audiophile speakers. But, they sound great and are fun to listen to as well. Having returned to audiphilia after being out of it for decades, I am finding that most "audiophiles" look at the price tag first (must be expensive), the looks second (be pretty) and the sound third.

Maby not the minimalist setup but the parts used are minimalist, as far as what could be spent to do the job. I love the sound I get with lesser than optimal equipment, amazing performance for the dollar. 100% Those answers are a big part of why I have not read any of these magazines in 30+ years, they tend to have opinions that are adjusted by pre determined ideas and cost , not by performance. .

I enjoy the opposite scenario. Rather than trying to justify an extravagant cost, I like to impress my friends with high quality sound from minimalist systems. The best example of that was at a gathering of old (redundant) friends from college at a friend’s house, where Bose 901s were used for TV sound. I brought a pair of single driver Karlson slot enclosures made of foam board using a plastic framed 3” driver that cost less than $5. The photo shows it before the final side was hot-glued in place. The sound was good by my standards, but amazing by their standards. To maximize the impact, I would power the speakers with one of my several class D chip amps powered by batteries. I would play the same driver in free air then play it in the foam core enclosure. Obviously, the difference was startling. One friend said, “It’s like turning water into wine.” Another friend was chagrined to acknowledge the system sounded better than his expensive stereo. We sometimes forget that even Heresys are large speakers by the standards of most. We also tend to forget that most people who enjoy music do so without speakers that are large or expensive. One of my most successful DIY projects is the boombox shown. The drivers are Radio Shack 40-1197 (made by Fostex), the amp is a SURE TPA3110 class D, and powered by a SLA 12v alarm system battery. I’ll often enjoy music from that unit while outside building tapped horn subs, or refurbishing La Scalas. The sound from that bass reflex (a single rear port shared by both channels) enclosure is very good. The diminishing return factor demands much larger speakers and much more money spent to gain a small advantage in the ability to enjoy the music. The last photo shows a TPA3118 “Wiener” class D board powered by 8 AA batteries.

Amen to all the comments here. I just found out 2 days ago on another forum. He was one of the best. He could have been the guy to hand out Bullshit buttons after PWK passed. I hope they are now having some great conversations about horns up there!