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Chicory in coffee is NASTY. Sorry dtel. Someone had to say it.

He's horney.

YES!

those are pretty

Can you hear me now?

Mine goes cold from the pot to my cup. Ice is additives. Welcome Alex2X3. I see chicory as an acquired taste. Not one I have acquired. I will drink it ... but, there is a good chance you will see m going for cream and sugar. I'm drinking Peruvian for a few days. y'all wanna see how fast I can revert back to "feral" ??? Wife is going to be gone for a few days. Leaving today and is planning on coming back Friday. Weather may shorten her stay. She has some fun stuff to do ... a board meeting, trip to the dentist [across the line] ... fun stuff HurricaneBud is sposed to make an appearance tomorrow thru Sun. No wind associated with them by the time they get here. We can get a few inches of widespread rain... that can make flood. Good kick off to the rainy season, even if it isn't a monsoon storm. We were talking about whether the LS will fit in the car. I need to take a couple more look/see's. It will be tight, but I am pretty sure they will go. If they swell in transit, I might have a problem. 37.5 inches between the wheel wells. That should be OK. It's from the seat backs to the rear door ... more to the point, the slope of the "hatch" ... It is pretty vertical, but the speakers are pretty thick... ya know what I mean

If anyone would like coffee from Panama, Costa Rica or El Salvador let me know; visit weekly

Hi @Turbonated, let me add my voice to Emile's in welcoming you to the forum. I am the conflicting opinion he warned you about. I'll start off by telling you there is a majority and minority opinion on center speakers; mine is the minority opinion but the correct one, I believe. Get the best center speaker you can afford. The concept of "timbre matching" is way overrated. The center speaker never plays the exact same content as the L/R and is the most important speaker in your system. In a dedicated 5.1 (for instance) system the L/R plays mostly music while most of the dialog comes out of the center. TV and movies are ninety percent dialog and 90% of the dialog comes out of the center. A high quality sound from the center does NOT bring down the sound from the L/R no matter what. If you get accurate reproduction and clarity of male and female voices from the center, that's what you want. There is no movie I've ever heard of where a character moves from the far left side of the screen to the far right side of the screen where he is talking non-stop where a "timbre matched" sound is required for a seamless transition from each of the L/C/R speakers. Never. You asked if the RC-62 II is a good match for your speakers. The RC-62 II has an excellent reputation, read the reviews on Amazon. It has a positive rating of 4.7 out of 5, an almost unheard of high rating. I have never heard the RC-62 but it is two woofers short of my current RC-64 which most people here rave about. I have another center with Usher drivers, an MTM design with 7" woofers the same approximate size as the RC-62 II and I am a fan of the sound that 6" to 7" woofers produce for voice. If you are looking to buy new you might check with a Klipsch forum member who is a Klipsch dealer, @MetropolisLakeOutfitters. He has a golden reputation on this board for good price and outstanding service. If you click on his name ^^^ you will be able to send him a PM if you want. I think you will be more than pleased with the quality and clarity of the sound the RC-62 II puts out. I look forward to reading your review of your RC-62 II confirming to our fellow Klipschites that I was right.

During the blockade, the French mixed chicory with limited supplies of coffee to make their coffee stretch — and even used it in place of coffee altogether. While chicory does't have any caffeine, it does share a similar flavor to coffee, which makes it a decent substitute in times of need. The root of the plant is roasted and ground. It is added to the coffee to soften the bitter edge of the dark roasted coffee. It adds an almost chocolate flavor to the Cafe Au Lait served at Cafe Du Monde. The Cafe Du Monde Coffee and Chicory is traditionally served Au Lait, mixed half and half with hot milk. Why You Need to Switch to Hemp Coffee in the Morning

I've had my mic, including rew and a new laptop, for 6+ month's... I still have not used it. One thing that worries me is that many folks use the system to flatten out response to the point where the dimensions in the presentation (the forward elements and pushed back elements) is also very flat and uninspiring.

Community Club Dark Roast was it for me until I discovered Kenya AA. On ice cubes of course for summer time.

Welcome Alex I'm kind of the same I like my coffee and not interested in others, most people wouldn't like what i drink anyway. Lived around New Orleans all my life and after many years of training I am stuck on Community brand, Coffee and Chicory. I have cheap taste buds what can I say, although when traveling whatever coffee they have is fine as long as it's not weak. Making some now as I drink the last cup from the last pot ☕

I like freshly roasted beans from Cuba, et C. for the most part to me, it's all coffee.

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

Yea, easy to do, it wasn't very bright. That was for @Marvel or @DizRotus

I think we're going to like these as well.

I would eat the cat before drinking that sheet.

No chicory in that crap! Not to mention the price per cuppa. People drink that stuff? Really? 😂 😂 😎

If the whole idea of that was not bad enough the picture for the video didn't help at all.

Sometimes the signal gets out of phase electronically when it travels through components so the wires are crossed going to the drivers to put it back in phase acoustically.

Welcome to the forum Alex2X3😊 and the best thread to make your first post. I see two more Gents dropped who I hope will be regular contributors. Yesterdays stress test went well and should hear the results in a couple of days. Generous offer on the coffee Mike!

SOLD

For whatever it's worth and for whoever didn't see this from a couple days ago elsewhere, I measured the RF-7II and 7III in an apples to apples comparison recently. I had the microphone close to the horn, I backed it up to the listening position, I even took them outside, always the same amp, same position, same settings, same everything. No matter what I did, there was always a significant bump in the response at 1.8-1.9 khz on the RF-7II comparatively. Certain Tom Petty riffs were more annoying and twangy on the 2's, maybe due to that spike in the low treble I mentioned. More importantly, literally everything above about 5.5 khz had a pretty solid 3 usually 4 db boost on the RF-7II. String attacks, cymbal shimmers, strings strapping the frets, all were significantly brighter on the RF-7II. If there was no material up there it sounded normal, pretty similar. Some voices were nearly identical between the two. Bass measured very similarly. There was a dip around 420 hz on the RF-7II which is right where a calculated standing wave ought to be, and isn't there on the 3's probably due to the slanted internal baffle, which I thought was interesting. I'd be surprised if all that on the top end was distortion artifacts.

Maybe $300. Just slapping together stuff and thinking it's worth that sum is rarely a valid move. Properly designing the crossover to match the components and matching the components to each other with the crossover is the only way to go. The front loaded horn without at least a lot of bass port assist will not be anything even comparable to folded horns used by Klipsch and others..

Nice work Jim. First class all the way. I hope the buyer will post some positive reviews, about the sound, on my original thread. If his reviews are negative, I hope he posts them here! LOL!!!!

No but he bionic now, well for most things, also he does slightly glow in the dark which is handy.

It takes a shade under 3 seconds from when I push power on the remote to when it shows an image on the screen. At that point it's fully booted and 100% responsive. I'm using CEC. I turn on the TV, which turns on the receiver. By the time the tv displays an image (6 seconds), the receiver is already online. I posted a pretty extensive review here: http://www.avsforum.com/forum/90-receivers-amps-processors/2982420-axiim-q-uhd-wisa-review-using-klipsch-wisa-speakers.html

Any early word on whether the Klipsch Three might support Airplay 2 to be part of a mulitroom setup with an Apple TV connected stereo? I've been using the Three for a year now, together with the Klipsch Stream app in a multiroom setup with a Klipsch Gate plugged into my main speaker system. The performance is very uneven sadly. When it works, it's great, but every second time I power things up, one or both of the Three or the Gate don't connect and I find I've got to reboot everything.

OK Hearing not being what it used to be. I am wanting to look at graphs , figures, correction's etc... I will admit I am a Dumba$$ when it comes to this stuff But I am willing to learn / try. I downloaded the latest REW software and I bought the Umik-1 I downloaded my individual mics calibration code, codes. I connected to my pc which is also my main source for music. I tested/ calibrated the SPL It was at 94ish DB with the mic setting almost between the speakers and straight up (I did not have a long enough usb for the mic to reach listening position (I am going to get an extension cable for that issue, PC must stay put.) I actually did a small graph / measurement for bass 20-200hz sweep and saw an approx 20db drop at 40HZ Everything else looked pretty much like a good shallow climb. I do all my messaging etc from laptop and the REW is on my pc so I will get the pics straightened out tomorrow so I can post measurements 1 thing I read is I can run a measurement and then use EQ to fix, but then it states using a minidsp to load the eq on NOW I AM LOST (Remember DUMBA$$, Thats me, not ashamed to say it. I can do lots of things but this is not 1 of them and I would like to get on a good path without months of catching up reading My whole reason for getting the mic and rew is I would like to be able to play with my speakers add tweeters, decouple from the floor, raise and lower them you know that whole obsessive compulsive cant leave stuff alone thing. and then be able to measure what this or that change did for the sound. Who's with me ?

You'll get all the bose stuff.

Oh I completely understand but no coffee bean was harmed by association so at least one good thing comes from there. Getting to the point though where my favorite seller was bought out and all the good stuff ended. Migrated at that time to Costa Rican whole bean coffee regular roast from Coffee Bean Direct. I believe I will try some from USNRET and see how it is.

Brand / Flavor?

Well, then, you should be able to disconnect the tweeters and enjoy the new, superior, bass output!! LOL.

I know you don't like it now, if I had known before you could have real coffee, it was just a reminder so you wouldn't forget you don't like it. To me pure coffee taste flat after drinking Chicory for so long.

That's exactly right about the Chicory, but now that it's popular they forgot to lower the price considering all the fillers. We go to Cafe Du Monde after a night in the Quarter, I like the cafe au lait but rather just straight coffee if it's been a rough night. Hemp Coffee, never tried it, but I have no fear of developing Glaucoma, I take preventive medicine for that.

Are these the ones your ordered instead?? If so, as PWK used to say: "There's not a dime's worth of difference." Okay, so maybe a penny, but that's all. No need to get the ones in the original Super Heresy recipe for success. https://b2b.parts-express.com/speaker-cabinet-port-tube-4-id-x-4-3-8-l--260-411

Amp camp Amps with linear power supplies on the fostex BK-16, and Crown XLS 1002 on the peerless bass also have a marchand Bassis on the bass. Bi=Amped basically The amp camps sound as good as pretty much any tube amp I can recall.. Set up is coming together nicely IMHIO. Soundtrack to Dark Knight playing really liking the tighter more accurate sound of the bass, perhaps those sharper peaks on the measurement mean less distortion elsewhere ?

Cool room and very nice K-horns, good luck with your search!

Glad to hear it!

I will always trust my lying ears over measurments. I use them (measurments), as a rough guide for basic parameters of the overall speaker. There is often truth in the old adage, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

REW is an amazing program that leads to endless tweaks. There is always something new to learn about it -sort of like Photoshop. I would start by using REW + your UMIK to get the best SPL graph with minimal room reflections by positioning your speakers. Then, phase-2 is to dial this in by creating an EQ filter in REW (using a light hand and favoring negative corrections over adding sound), and then exporting this filter to your mini-DSP. I'm not sure what method the mini-DSP uses for this, but other programs accept a .wav file exported from REW that contains the EQ correction filter. This is a good tutorial that applies to everything you are asking about, except it exports a convolution filter to Roon rather than to a mini-DSP: https://community.roonlabs.com/t/a-guide-how-to-do-room-correction-and-use-it-in-roon/23800 One more note - that 40hz suck-out could be a room null right at the spot you have your UMIK. Trying to correct a room-null by adding sound doesn't really work.

You're it.

The only factory specs give the size (15 inch), power handling (30W continuous 60W peak), weight (41 pounds), and impedance (16 ohms 3.2 ohms DCR). No Thiele-Small parameters that would indicate how it would perform on non horn loaded enclosures. I don't think that sort of data had been developed in the early 50s. I did measure the resonant frequency myself on the one that I had and it was 24 cycles per second, IIRC.

I am using a Mcintosh MA6600 to drive my new Cornwall iii’s. It sounds great While my amp is 100 W more powerful than the 5300 I very much doubt that will matter. The fortes are so efficient that they won’t need much more than 20 or 30 Watts at the very most . While my speakers are a little more efficient I seldom see the wattage meters go beyond 5 W. And it is crazy loud at that point.

This. No loudspeaker will sound worth a tinker's dam in that space. Whenever I moved the stereo was the last thing in the truck and the first thing in the new house so move "move in music" could be played. The sound was always horrible at first but improved greatly as rugs, furniture, and drapes were brought in.

Well, I now have a pair of Klipsch ‘Super Heresy 1.5’.....WOW! I finished them earlier this evening and plugged ‘em up to my 240, put Fleetwood Mac on my turntable, adjusted the volume and dropped the stylus. What happened next can be described as nothing less the miraculous! Cluadej1’s design/recipe/genius helped me to transform my Heresy’s from ‘good’ speakers, to TOP performing something to hold onto, don’t want to stop listening to speakers! I spoke with Claude on the phone for a good while last weekend, and he couldn’t have been more helpful or friendly! What a great guy, this forum is lucky to have him and his knowledge, that he shares for FREE! I updated him earlier on the success, he was happy to hear it. He’s offered to take some measurements for me next week, as we live very close. I’ll most certainly be taking him up on that, I’m curious both about his opinion of these wonderful things, and what the numbers tell us. Im sure we will share any info. Remember, my set of Heresy’s are 1.5’s...I guess. They were made in April of 85’. The rear looks like the first series. I replaced all the caps with Dayton metal foil polypropylene audio grade caps(1% on the 2uf’s and 5% on the 33uf) I recapped and listened to them before doing any mods, in ‘stock’ format. The recap was a significant improvement on their own. Not in the bass, just overall ‘smoothness’. Most noticeable recap of a speaker I’ve done, now that I think about it. I also lined the cabinet with egg crate acoustic foam. I used the eminence pro12a woofers, which were quite well made at their price point imo. I popped for some nice replacement binding posts as well, wanted some bling I guess.lol I went with Claude’s recommendation of leaving the taps as is on the autoformer, for now, as the 1.5s squawker is 2-3dbs or so hotter than the original recipe for Super Heresy. We will see what happens when tested next week. Initial sound is great as is though. Another thing I did, and come to think of it, I don’t think I mentioned it to Claude, was to make new rear panels. I used 3/4 in Baltic birch. Now on my speakers they used 5/8 ply for rears, I had some 3/4 birch ply laying around. So my rear panels stick out about 1/8 inch(the originals were ‘sunk’ in about an 1/8 or so). This was nbd to me, I painted them, and they look great. The extra thickness can’t hurt either. I did this because the anal, historian in me wanted to be able to go back to ‘stock’ if I ever sold them and people weren’t crazy about mods. Well first off, I now know I’m not selling them anytime soon, and I’ll probably sell the k22s to recoup some of the cost. But I have some NICE rear KLipsch panels with the labels that I’m certain will not enjoy life in my storage area lol. But oh well, still glad I did it. As for sound,, the bass is MUCH IMPROVED and this speaker now sounds full, the mids just come oozing out with gorgeous detail and the highs remain smooth and lovely. There seems to be much better clarity and coherence of the music. Soundstage is more defined, probabaly from the caps, the detail and dynamics are elevated and cause the music to sound ‘realer’ more involving. I’m impressed! Overall I can’t recommend this mod enough, it really takes the Heresy up to the next level. I’m hoping to compare to a set of Cornwall 1s I’m just finishing restoring for a friend. Now perhaps I need to let these settle in a bit, as well as my ears, and excitement! Ive actually snuck away from a family gathering to ‘quickly’ update those in Klipschland! Ill be posting a number of pics tmrw when I have more time. The worst part part of all this was installing the port. Fortunately I have a router, but it’s still no fun, lemme tell ya. The end product looks great though. But be forewarned, if you don’t have basic woodworking skills and a router. Find a friend to help with the ports.

I would like to see their definition of audiophile speaker. What “elusive” quality is it they possess? To me an audiophile is someone who enjoys sound as a hobby and part of life. Therefore a speaker favoured by such a person would be by definition an audiophile speaker.

When I bought the model under these, Quartets in 1989 I believe, the Quartets were $1,100 in 1989 Dollars, and I believe the newer version of your speakers which was the Fote' II were $1,400 a pair! So while these are NOT entry level speakers, neither are they at the Top of the Heap in the Klipsch line up. I do however believe they are one of the best bang for your buck and articulate speakers in that price range Roger

Not to drive you crazy, but for the future your Onkyo might be on it's way out if you ever get hold of a 18 to 25 watt vacuum tube amp for those Forte's of yours. Good luck!