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Happy new year all! Time for more Coffee and less Cocktails, same amount of Cables. . . . . Who am I kidding, no will power.

On Dec 10th 2019 I was medically terminated from Glad Mfg after 28 years of company service. 401k!! My dream of having a pair of Klipsch Heritage Speakers is right there! The Cornwall’s IV! Every one thinks I’m crazy even some of my all knowing music lover friends. People I share my dream with poo poo it so fast! I’m here seeking shelter from the dream killers!

Man, let me tell ya. Back when I was about 16 or 17, me and a local padna used to ride his ole dirtbike on the lake levee to Jefferson Downs, a horse racetrack and pastures in Kenner, LA. We'd go pick psylicide mushrooms (purple ring on the stem) out of the cowpies bright and early, especially on foggy mornings. Come home and wash em and either make this terrible tasting "tea" extract from em, or slice em up and eat em on a hamburger. You talk about trip! Best free high I ever experienced. But it made me really nauseous most of the time, def didn't want to eat while tripping. We once made up a gallon of "tea" and took it to an all day concert @ Tad Gormery stadium in New Orleans. (A GF turned me on to mushrooms first time.) We got chased out of the pasture once by a guy toting a shotgun. Never discharged it but def put the fear in ya! Good thing I finally grew up, graduated high school and got serious about life. Never touched a shroom again after probably 18 or 19.

I wish I could share my experience of sharing with my neighbor the beautiful experience of Klipsch after years of crappy speakers! I get into talking about Klipsch, some say rather animated! The neighbor started to laugh and said he didn’t have a clue what I was talking about! I was speechless! I found something he didn’t know more about! Neighbor has a ‘ER’ complex. Better, faster, cheaper, 🤮

Collards and black eyed peas........sour kraut and pork.......both sides of the Mason/Dixon line covered ......Elijah Craig Small Batch X2........Rose Bowl.......early to bed.......finish Jack Reacher novel. Happy New Year..........

It still tastes pretty bad.

You're supposed to mix the tea with kool aid.

Just one? I'd be a repeat offender! The highly controlled environment would suck though! Need some of that 60's San Fran "reggae" cranked in just for giggles n Schiits! Now I'm having thoughts of Grace and Janis once again. Stevie never really did much for me. hahahaha Yea, time to power up and crank 'em. Ya just solved my problem on what to play! This place is evil

There was a report on 60 minutes just a couple weeks ago where in the USA doctors are using a one time treatment of LSD in a highly controlled environment to help people stop cigarette smoking. And some people with terminal illnesses, helps with their overall mental health. One good trip and they quit smoking.

my wife didn't understand either. When I brought my LS in and heard them.. she got it. And she likes the looks, too.

the Versa Note is a motorized packing crate for LS.

I have posted this vid before, but it is apropos to this thread. My perfect speaker review vid, not a word spoken. Whether heard through headphones or through ones speakers, I think one can hear a degree of quality coming through the world wide web. Kendrick Sound.

Listening over the internet from a recording of a recording regardless of how consistent the method is an exercise in futility.

https://houston.craigslist.org/ele/d/houston-1974-klipsch-klipschorns/7047885098.html no affiliation.

I spent some days mucking through the cow patties in Tillamook searching for the magic. I was a member of the 'tea' party back then, too! They were ok in spaghetti sauce.

I track Khorns in Excellent/good condition as well as Avg/poor condition. Believe it or not Khorns in Avg/poor condition average $1386 so the $1300 asking price is a bit low, but not crazy low. It might be a good pickup for someone because deals for Klipsch in Texas are hard to find. I would expect Khorns in that poor shape to be in the $1500 range.

The heck with the naysayers, buy what you want as long as you can comfortably afford them. You only get so many trips around the sun.

I used to drop acid, but that was half a century ago... I think... maybe it wasn't... no, it really was...

I could be happy with that set up.

Yay Jimbo! Ya FINALLY stood up for your team! Quirky is right! So here w/go w/an insight from Nick's FINAL score w/30 seconds left yesterday. Made a fashion statement in Harb's face. Saban lines his team up in the "victory formation" on the 2 w/30 seconds left, runs a play and scores to make it 35-16. I could have walked in there for the score! Why'd Nick do it? Remember Harb's tweets ripping Saban on recruiting from 3 years ago??? I think it's safe to say Nick does. Not really sure but knowing Nick and the way he is? Ha! Hit the link to refresh your memory. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/jim-harbaugh-nick-saban-and-an-awkward-citrus-bowl/ar-BBY1R8V?fbclid=IwAR0doFBeljVHLltSWrhkjbpFoaWHEDYwbrbT_0Pm0RvpvkMDG7lG2Pi39yE Harbs is 0-5 against OSU and 1-4 in Bowl games Two years left on his contract. Yea, 10-0 sounds about right. GO BUCKS!

It really screwed up my plans for the day. I expected 49-0 in the first quarter so I could stop watching and get in some exercise for the start of the new year. After Bama's first play I was thinking everything was going to plan. Then they really got me to thinking they could hold their own. Up 2 at the half and running at will....I actually started to believe.....I should have known better. Overall the B1G is doing better in bowl games than expected so that is cool. Wisconsin v Oregon had to be tough for the cheese head crowd, I felt good for the Oregon QB after the game. Meh, it is just a game and I don't have any skin in it and there is always next year. I'll actually be happy to see Patterson out of there. He was not the answer, IMO, this year or last. Time to get back to a relentless Defense and a QB that is not so up and down. I'll be happy with 1-11 next year as long as that 1 is November 28th, 2020

I 1st was introduced to Klipsch in the 70’s. It has always amazed me that Klipsch deploys such an underwhelming marketing scheme. The general buying public was bowled over with heavily advertised Bose junk product and so much $ has been wasted on truly cheap and lousy sound. Klipsch could have dominated this market and kept the sustained caliber of this industry at a much higher standard. Instead the public got duped by charlatanesque speakers and now lives with a distorted benchmark for quality sound reproduction. Every theatre that uses Klipsch product should feature some audience notification of its application. Get your Cornwall’s, flaunt them, enjoy them and do what Klipsch does not do - educate your social circle about quality sound reproduction.

I understand grasshopper. My father wasn't very handy and he passed that gene on to me. I was forced to learn a little while renovating a 1894 Queen Anne in our historic district but it was learn as you go. Spent 10 years working on that monster part time and week ends. It was a thing of beauty though with 12' ceilings, 9 fire places and all natural wood work. I stole it in 1975 before the crowds returned to the down town area.

Interesting hacienda you've got there except for those half-pound spiders. I'd have a sawed-off ready for them if I couldn't move!

A new pair of CWs would look great in your living room, do it, you only live once. They will give you enjoyment for the rest of your life, and then pass them to a family member.

Your going about it the wrong way.. Just turn it up !

Well, in our first house we built a room for our Klipschorns. While building the room, the Klipschorns held forth at the head of our bed. When the room was complete, I took my infant daughter in there to hear Chopin. She grew up to be marvelously musically literate, and plays several instruments. When we moved into our next house we built a room for our Klipschorns ...

Menudo is traditional fare here. I'm OK with it ... as long as it's prepared properly. Otherwise, it tastes like what it is. Chuck, you will appreciate this. Recalling your wrestling match with the tone arm.. I exercised my mechanical prowess on a lockset. It was sticking and had a wallowed screw hole in the door. Replacing that loose screw was what kicked this off. It would back out and stop the door from latching. OK... Replace the screw and things stop operating ... binding. Whip out the can of Tri-Flow [WD40 w/teflon], spray the striker. Helps that, but the knob is binding. Go to loosen the handle and it has one phillips and one straight screw holding it in ....... this was a sign I ignored and should have stopped right there.... but I didn't and took the screws out. Pulled it apart. A short screw and a shorter screw. Lubed it. Operating nice and smooth. Do ya think I could get the second screw to line up? Bet it took me a half hour to get the blasted thing back on the door. It does work nice now. So, it wasn't totally wasted effort. I run into a lot of that type of thing here. Everything was cobbed together from the git. Reclaimed materials. The backside of the house is clad in aluminum lithography plates. The redwood is from an old railroad station. The windows came from that, too. The glass has wrinkles/waves This English/English spellcheck doesn't like the American spelling of aluminium.

Poo Poo them... happy to hear from you again...the power of love and music. Klipsch Cornwall IV. . . Cool

I know. However there is no one close to being good enough to replace him that has his history, his school connections, and whatever else it is that he has, including money.....From a recruiting standpoint, it would be an enormous mistake to fire him. At this point I don't see that as any option. I still like him, particularly because he's a quirky, funny guy who just wants to be the best the guys can be on the field, but also a motivator that doesn't quit, no matter what. Old school, Bo style damnit. Shit on him all you want, he doesn't care. Nor do I.

That must have been a real frustrating game to watch for you true-Blue guys. Michigan looked really good in the first half, then the offense might have well have stayed in the locker room for the second half.

Sounds like more fun than I had ... even with y'all needing to work today. Boy did alright for being at work. Got prime rib dinner. Fireworks. A band, and beers starting at 6PM. came home with a buzz and a girl. Oh... he did get back from work at 10PM. Stopped at the bar and rolled in here at a little after midnight. He needed to be back at work at 8.

I still love mushrooms, the normal ones.

I like that!

They are getting harder to find, especially in great shape like these appear to be. Some people paid 20k for those a few years ago. I think they sound superb. They are 3-4 people on here that have Palladiums and Khorns, they all chose the Palladium overall. They are stunning in person.

Yeah, don't buy a broken oscilloscope. You can do quite a bit of troubleshooting with a multimeter of some sort or a VOM. The scopes colleges usually flog are older models, and one should pay attention to calibration dates. If you are actually interested, talk to the right people, or go to some ham fests if they have them in your area. There is a chance you may find a better scope...you may have to pay a little more, but you'll probably do better than an off brand 4 meg scope. I have a B&K 10mHz scope I bought for 40 dollars years ago, and have been wanting to upgrade. A local retired friend hits the ham fests, so when he seen a Tektronix 2246 for 100 bucks in perfect working order, he couldn't pass it up. He has his share of oscilloscopes, so he passed it on to me for 100 bucks.

Pretty good buy.

Buddy if you need to use one I’ll ship you mine to borrow for how ever long you need I have two. A bench and hand held models Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Welcome Home! Glad you got what YOU wanted. Long time clockin in and out but hey it's life! Put your feet up and enjoy it! Pissing off the neighbors is ALWAYS a good thing! Have at it!

I suppose a description of the "why" is probably in order... A single-height AMT-1 from ESS without wings has response down to 610 Hz without any modifications. The issue with the AMT-1 in this configuration is that it begins to show phase lag below ~2 kHz, its polars widening horizontally and vertically, and experience a sudden rise in harmonic distortion above ~95-100 dB (1 m) below 2 kHz. Meanwhile, there is another discussion of horn-loaded AMTs that describes the Hawthorn Audio (now defunct) "Rainier" loudspeaker which used a third party AMT with an integral horn as its midrange/tweeter driver, crossing at 350-450 Hz: https://web.archive.org/web/20121030134740if_/http://www.hawthorneaudio.us:80/docs/RainierAnnouncement.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20140404005044/http://www.coreaudiotechnology.com/the-rainier-by-hawthorne-audio/ All this gives a clue as to what is occurring with the ESS AMT-1: it's running out of horn support at 2 kHz and lower frequencies and its polars widen, and then the diaphragm reaches the end of its available displacement at lower frequencies when played at higher SPL at lower frequencies. So the solution to using an AMT-1 below 2 kHz is to add more ribbon support in the form a horn extension on its side walls and to double the height of the ribbon in order to give it more support in the vertical axis (and it turns out, no horn walls are needed in the vertical axis when the AMT-1 is doubled). After chasing down the AMT (with horn) used in the Hawthorn Audio Rainier loudspeaker, a full-range dipole, it became obvious that the ESS AMT-1 would also benefit by the addition of trough-type horn by adding side wall extensions and also by doubling the height of the ribbon by doubling up on the vertically--since the AMT-1 is so inexpensive at $155 each. The results are shown above, and are encouraging to say the least. When it became clear that the double-stack AMT-1s with horn side walls or wings could also reach a lower cutoff frequency and also present much lower harmonic distortion levels below 2 kHz due to the added acoustic support of the ribbon(s) in both the horizontal and vertical directions, it became a no-brainer to try it. This is exactly what Rudy did over his holidays and is what you see in the pictures. Many thanks to Rudy for taking the ball and advancing it thus far. I see a lot of potential for this configuration in kit form to solve many complaints that Klipsch Heritage loudspeaker owners have on this forum. The "fastness" of the horn loaded Klipsch bass bins, also described as very narrow spectrograms--indicating fast rise and particularly fast decay times relative to direct radiating woofers used in all the ESS loudspeaker models, etc., make these bass bins prime candidates to successfully mate with the winged/double height AMT-1assembly. So the Khorn, La Scala, Belle, and I suppose Jubilee bass bin (if you want to go that route) make these prime candidates for a particularly spectacular sounding hybrid dipole/horn-loaded bass loudspeaker configuration that can really knock your socks off in terms of resulting sound qualities. In addition, Klipsch loudspeakers having direct-radiating woofers are typically designed to be more efficient than other manufacturers' direct radiating woofers, and this also benefits the use of the above stacked/winged AMT-1 assembly such as the Cornwall, Heresy, or any other Klipsch loudspeaker having direct radiating woofers that extend their output into the 1-2 kHz region. Using a stacked/winged AMT-1 assembly will enable crossing over at a much lower frequency to the woofers (typically 800 Hz or lower, if desired). This improves the sound quality of the entire loudspeaker due to the added directivity control of the AMT-1 to lower frequencies (sort of like Palladiums) as well as providing a dipole sound that increases the apparent depth of field substantially. The back wave can be absorbed at the stacked/winged AMT-1 assembly if it is not desired to have a dipole radiation effect. In addition, the midrange polar coverage of this doubled AMT-1 with wings does not experience "pattern flip", or the loss of vertical polar directivity below 2 kHz like the stock Klipsch Heritage midrange horns. Using AMT-1 assemblies instead will alleviate issues with floor and ceiling bounce that are problems for older Heritage loudspeakers using K-400 series midrange horns. There have been many "audiophiles" also which seek to enhance the depth of field via use of dipole-type radiators, and this configuration with its lower crossover frequency capability (down to Khorn and La Scala crossover frequencies of 400-500 Hz) brings a planar-type of depth of field and delicateness of presentation to the older Klipsch Heritage designs for those owners that are dissatisfied with their current stock or "upgraded" third party loudspeakers. The downside? Not much if you've got the ~$830 to spring for the complete "kit", an extra amplifier lying around to power the bass bins, and a little time to knock out a couple of wooden wings (shown above) to hold the AMT-1s. Chris

I like the bass. Not as deep as I’m used to, but not as lacking as I was expecting. Limited listening, but for now, I’m not getting a sub.

I know. I've heard your crossovers........................................

Well, you can stick to your Larceny then. I cracked one open a couple weeks ago. Almost dumped it but ended up giving it to my son in law. The differences in peoples taste preferences never cease to amaze me. That's why I give zero credence to reviewers. The only way you can tell if you're going to like something is to buy a bottle and try it yourself.

Michigans coach is quirky and strange for sure, he's a fricken booger eater on national television!

You are exactly correct.....unfortunately. Not the first time that happened this year.

We now have a sample size of 2, which includes myself. I bought my 600M's sight unseen and unheard from @MetropolisLakeOutfitters at the end of Dec 2018. I am more than pleased with mine.

Had the whole fam damnily over last night. It was awesome. Fire pit was going in the back yard. 396's were spewing music out of the garage. Lots of exotic beers and a little bourbon flowing. At 11 or so we set off some fireworks. On the flip side we all have to go back to work tomorrow. On to 2020.

Go Blue!

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