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I guess I am due for a room update though. I’m slowly learning this complicated(for a newby like me) system. I’ve got more acoustic treatment finished up. I’ll probably stop here til I get a custom skylight cover and clouds. It’ll be nice to get to know the system better and learn to know their sound. At this point the sound is new enough and changes take place often enough that it’s hard to tell the changes that I make at times. Cornwalls are inset and trim is in the process. I’m mostly done and when I am I’ll post an update. In my mind it has made a nice improvement in aesthetics.

Nice! I wonder what took him so long to become enlightened?

This parrot is dead! It's not dead. It's only resting.

my fat cat caught another bird today, that flew into the den, through the sliding glass door... which was open, because the temp outside is like free air conditioning... and let me add, this cat is trained like skidboots RIP, all I said was - Hey Buddy, and the rest was left up to my dust pan....

Can we get pictures of the back side too?

Steve Guttenberg's recent YouTube video. Steve is an opinion leader for many in the "audiophile" community. In the video he promotes Klipsch speakers and actually says he's "starting a "one man campaign" to raise awareness of horn speakers".

They sound amazing. They already sounded great. I’m enjoying the extra detail that they bring. It was costly, but I’m in this deep already so what the hell. I’ll really be excited when I upgrade the diaphragms to beryllium. I don’t like to be left wondering what else there is left on the table.

And thus the discussion goes in the usual (unfortunate) direction....."Less fillung, tastes great". My advice to beginners, as previously stated..... Beginners should listen to lots of gear in a variety of settings. Gain experience. Learn what you like. Trust your own ears. Don't be influenced by other folks telling you what you should, or should not, hear. Your ears, your brain, your connection to the music. Assemble whatever system best connects you to the music. Buy lots of the music you love. Enjoy this wonderful hobby for many years. Just my opinion.

Wonder what work they have had done. That input didn't upside down itself...

I won't be satisfied until you meter readers are all using the shit you claim sounds as good as everything else. Let me see those awesome DBT inspired systems!

We had a tomcat here from the time I was about five until I was a teen. One drove my mother bananas twisting around her feet when she baked turkey. She kicked him out of the house once when he almost tripped her in the kitchen. When we sat down and started to eat that turkey he walks up the back steps, bird in mouth. Looks at her, plops it down on that top slab the other side of the sliding glass door and tears into it while it was trying to get away. My brother and I laughed she made me get up and draw the curtains it grossed her out! the Spanish inquisition

I have the 691s on my Jubs and I have been enjoying. I can hear their limitations when it comes to clarity when comparing against my TAD 4002s across the room. They are not as clear nor as smooth as the TADs. But still, they are fine and I think they are the best 2" Klipsch driver I have heard in my systems. I can listen to them all night long and they sound great with any type of music. I am funny about drivers on Klipsch horns. You can surely find what you may say is a better sounding driver, and a driver that measures better. Yes you can. I have tried several. I have rejected a few because to me (my opinion), they stray from what I consider to be the "Klipsch sound", or the "right" sound. What is the "Klipsch sound"? I have no idea how to describe it. But I know when I hear it and when I don't. You can't go wrong with 691s and they are inexpensive.

I have one that is a hunter. He is very neat about his kills. He takes them to his bowl. Still trying to figure out how he caught two bats... at night. Frank, he's a smart bugger...

When we toured the factory last year there were B&C drivers laying all around the lab.

Well, we started here, and it was the only thing I wanted to address. I believe the position does a real disservice to designers and manufacturers, and is misleading to those who are looking for something that will truly engage them. I almost forgot to mention this; the higher the sensitivity of the loudspeaker, the more revealing it is. Few things sound worse to me than a mid-tier receiver through a pair of LaScalas or Klipschorns. The sound is barely passable!

Yes, you are out of line. Almost everyone knows the original retail price was 16K, NOT 12K that regular Khorns retail at. Calling someone out as not being a straight shooter when you don't have correct information is a footing move. Your participation to benefit others? Poor knowledge of a product and running your mouth about it makes you ____ (fill in the blank, I really don't want any more warning points) Did you know in Canada Moosehead is a beer, where you live it's a felony. OK MODS, slap me with a point if I'm out of line OP, those are beautiful, GLWS Mark

Nooooobody expects......

Pining for the fiords.

After doing a little looking around I believe they are the de75. Just comparing pictures back and forth. It looks to me the de750 has a chrome ring just before the magnet. Both the de75 and k691 are black in the area. I was under the impression the k69 was a de75 and the k691 was a de750. The k69 clearly is a different manufacturer. That agrees what I read earlier about them being PAudio drivers. I will say this. The radians I just installed are better than the k691s. But slightly smoother and a little better highs. As in bells and symbals are more sharp and precise like glass breaking. The k691 was a little more rolled off sounding. It’s funny that I swore the music couldn’t be improved any better than i was hearing with them. The k691s really do sound that good. Completely unnecessary that I upgraded them. I’d say they are 5-10% at most over the k691. And they were almost $1000. So take that unbiased mini review for what it is. It’s really splitting hairs at this level in my opinion.

You're obviously not talking about bullwinkle up there. Unreal

No, I mean, you have my avatar to the left here.....what more do you want? Don't answer that.

I'd buy them but there are no green ones. I like green.

We did the same with Monty Python. Evening activities stopped when they came on.

My sister and her guy were in HI for 10 days... on two islands. Ran themselves nuts trying to see"the sights"...Told her they missed the whole purpose of going there. Tourists lol at least they didn't get a room at one of those all inclusive resorts.... and stay on the grounds All you need is a clean bed and a shower with hot water. You aren't gonna be inside but to sleep and bathe...

I thought that this thread was gone. It was all the way back to the 7th page. Anyways : I got 4 bottles of this today as a present for an upcoming birthday. It is THE hardest beer to get in TX as it sells out almost immediately. There's also a one bottle limit on purchasing. This is all they could find after a week of searching Houston and Beaumont. Can't wait to try it.

I am selling my industrial LaScalas that are equipped with K-77 drivers and tweeters, ElectroVoice 1823 drivers and mid-range, Eminence 15 woofers, consecutive serial numbers, and AA crossovers. Rough exterior but still have that terrific sound.

Picked up some Evan Williams Single Barrel Vintage two weeks ago. I don't know diddly about Bourbon, I'm really liking it. Tonight though some of the below, and of course Happy early Friday folks. Took Friday off and because Monday is holiday it's a 4 day weekend for me.

Yes it is. Priced well for a small batch. Smooth and tasty IMO. I would recommend it.

Kris: here is some advice, do with it what you will. First, the box that you got your loudspeaker(s) in is not a shipping container it is a package which allows a dealer to move stock about with reasonable care and not damage the product. Yes I know people ship in these boxes but that does not make it a shipping container. I think you have already figured out the packaging is minimal at best and hence your situation. Second, when you ship anything by the least expensive way you are guaranteeing that it will go the slowest way and that it will be handled the most which increases risk of damage. The fastest method of shipping insures the least amount of handling and the least risk of damage. Third if you make up a secondary package and use 3/4" of hard foam material to line the inside and a three layer cardboard to go around the factory package then request (prearrange this with the distributor) your new replacement speaker be returned to you in the extra new box that you provided you should get your new speaker back in good condition. Good luck and I am sorry that you have had this problem. PS: any loudspeaker which has risers installed needs to be shipped with the risers up to the top of the package to prevent damage. Though it may seem counter intuitive the flat top will take any impact much better than the risers can. That said I always ad an extra layer of 3/4 - 1" thick hard Styrofoam below the top and an extra layer of cardboard or even a 1/4" piece of plywood to insure the top of the speaker is not marked or damaged. The farther a loudspeaker is going and the more handling it will receive determines just how much more packing I use. The fastest shipping method will always have the least handling and the least risk of damage.

The oil temp of my airplane (Piper Cherokee 6) ran 20F cooler with synthetic over mineral oil. My '87 Mustang and an '85 Taurus (both with limited idle speed control) both idled ~150 rpm higher with synthetic oil. My Kawasaki shifts gears with less force running synthetic oil. My '07 Colorado's oil change computer called for 10k oil changes on Mobil1 vs 3k on mineral oil. I run synthetic in just about everything, now.

Mr. Paul's mouth bracing. Note that the braces are not centered. I would have done this if I'd discovered the resonance before I had mine refinished. Yours are striking and quite attractive for raw birch. I'd be likely to just finish them with linseed oil or satin poly. There are lots of mods that provide genuine improvements, the bass horn braces would be one. New caps *IF* your speaker need them would be another. i just picked up a '68 H700 (Heresy) that did not need caps, though my '67 did. Let's prove they are in proper shape before heading down the rabbit hole. Checking ALL of the connections and the seal on the bottom access to the woofer should be checked, especially with your concern about bass output. Later, there excellent mods for the squawker horn and other areas. When you get around to replacing the capacitors, use film and foil. I have used metallized foil caps and have been satisfied, but film and foil is better and is what Klipsch used. You don't want to back up. Your solid wood walls are HIGHLY reflective at all frequencies. The insulation behind them will contribute nothing in audio frequencies because of the stiffness of the wood. It will be especially reflective in the middle ranges, contributing to your description of bright, hard sound. Compared to my 20 year experience with La Scalas, your room may be entirely the cause. Something as simple as Persian rugs (or a velvet Elvis, hee hee) hung in the right place can be enough to kill the first reflection/reinforcement in the midrange. I'm sure you can find a thick tribal style rug or 3. Changes to the room will always dwarf "improvements" to the speakers.

Wow AWESOME setup. Quite creative. I'll keep watching for your updates.

Enjoying music is subjective. Listening to music is, or at least should be, an emotional experience. The reproduction of recorded music, on the other hand, is a wholly reductive affair. It's a fact. PWK would tell you as much. I can't help but notice the subjectivist contingent hold on to their unsubstantiated beliefs with stubborn ferocity, the epitome of being close-minded.

I have both the DE75 and the DE750. The I will have to double check, but I think I have the de75 on my older 510 ( no mumps model) and the DE750 on my 402's. I couldn't really tell if I hear a difference. Then again, the environment doesn't have much for the ability to control the sound. If you can get a pair of the DE750 for $150.00 each, then I would jump on it. I think it is a way better driver than the EV DH1A. My next option would be the Faitals and if price wasn't an option, I would try the JBL 2446 with the BE diaphragms. As for your 8 or 16 ohm issue, if you are using an active crossover, I don't think it matters.

Thanks for the laugh...😂

I consider The PBS News Hour to be right doen the middle and is my primary nightly news broadcast.

Maybe it’s that way and I haven’t looked closely enough? Cincy

@PGA, Welcome to the forum. I don't think you really need much advice, you seem to have it all figured out. If you can afford the separates setup you are considering, I say go for it. No such thing as overkill in my book. Enjoy, Bill Oh, don't forget a couple of subwoofers that will keep up with your RF-7III triplets.

I would re-cap those crossovers and have a listen before I dropped money on new ones. Perhaps the best and cheapest thing you can do for those in my opinion. It would be my very first step before other things happened.

My favorite Eva Cassidy LP. Just remember to play it at 45 rpm. Don’t ask how I know that... Cincy

Call me lucky. It's much easier to make one BTW.

We got home Sunday, Watched football and did nothing else. We have done this enough we do none of the things going on in the ship, no shows no clubs just take a break. Never even went to see what was going on with 90% of the ship, never even went to dinner at night, just ate somewhere else on the boat. On the islands, we just go to our favorite places to swim and snorkel have drinks and eat. Just overall relax, it's the drinks that catch up with me in the long run, and then there's Jamaica, that's a whole other thing.

Sorry, but think "trading up" is a lot of fun Pretty hard to select Jubes/MCM's as a "beginner." Went from KG's to Heresy's, Forte's, Cornwall's, KPT-904's etc. The "journey" was very enjoyable. Cheers, Emile

How about some home made slow baked pumpkin then made into soup This was our dinner on Halloween night Canon EOS70D no flash to give ths image mode depth  

For $900, depending on your budget, I would personally take the heresys and pair them with a decent sub(s). I thought the heresy IIIs sounded amazing and with a sub, you can control the exact amount of bass output you want.