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That's an understatement. If you look around without bias and see what's going on in all aspects of life it should terrify you. So put on some of your favorite music and enjoy.

Well........ that´s a nice Record . Phil Manzanera " 801 Listen Now " 1977 / Polydor Label / Printed in Germany

I think we are all on the same path in this forum, unfortunately or not we all just really need to walk it ourselves before we can appreciate the steps others talk about. It was a giant step for me to spend more than a weeks take home pay on my first pair of La Scalas. And like @Racer X said, I kicked myself for not doing it sooner. I remember a PM with another member years ago where we both came to the conclusion if we had just taken all the money spent along the journey so far, at that time, we could have bought a pair of Jubilees had we known where we were headed. Thankfully the price of Jubilees is now far more than I spent by a factor of at least three so I don’t feel so bad anymore. Or so I tell myself, lol.

Thanks for the kind words, The Toolshed amp sounds better than it looks... Amazing clarity that I have never experienced in a Push Pull amp. Layers and layers of detail . Dead silent background and zero mechanical noise or hum. I am really enjoying this through my Forte IV, perfect combination.

Henry brings up a good point... a good soldering station. My preference has always been Weller. Only because I have the most experience with them and parts are cheap & easy to come by if you need them. I currently have a WES51. I have had it for about 10 years and it is still going strong. The new(er) one to replace it has a digital display WE1010NA, but other than that, it should be the same great iron/station. Weller is not the cheapest, but they are great products. They get up to temperature extremely fast and the temperature regulation is unmatched. Soldering tips are also nominally priced, so that is a plus.

Next up: Who was alive back then that did not love Bob's music or him himself?

I guess mornings have turned into my music time the last year. Youtube led me to "Smokin' OPs" then I went to this HUGE release from back then: Like always some tunes come to the forefront as faves even when four or five hits were on the LP like on this one

You will need a few pieces of equipment if anyone decides to build this project. I have been using this soldering station for a number of years. I am on my second one the last one giving me good service and a lot of hours. https://www.parts-express.com/Stahl-Tools-STSSVT-Variable-Temperature-Soldering-Station-374-100 You sill also need solder of course. Get the 60/40 solder. Yes the one with lead. The non lead solder takes skill to use and not worth the bother for such a little amount required in electronic work. More problems result from poor cold solder joints than any other problem with builds. You want to make a good mechanical connection first then heat both parts enough to melt the solder and not the iron melting the solder onto the parts. Do not be afraid of overheating components. They are hard critters to destroy. The new tiny components used these days are placed on a board on a solder pad by a robot. with the solder already there. Then they are put in an oven and heated enough to melt the solder on the pads underneath the part. Those parts are real tiny. If one sneezes looking at one good luck ever seeing it again. Of course you can burn a component up but you are more likely to not flow the solder than to destroy a component. I cannot remember ever overheating a component soldering where it did not work. You will also need a multimeter, preferable auto ranging. Even a very cheap one will be accurate enough for this. I have some $5 ones that still work as good as the expensive ones I have. Test every resistor before installing it with the meter. Less chance of making an error this way. There is no adjustments that need to be made after assembling this amplifier. No reason for you to be inside the amplifier poking around while it is on and hot. I do recommend building a light bulb current limiter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRFRwOnLsZI Not hard to build and parts can be had at a hardware store. With it you will not see smoke if you make a mistake. Other than these things you will need what most every handy man around the house has as far as tools go. I hope there are those that follow through and build one of these amplifier.

Fresh air in here is nice, humidity is only 80%. The levels here in the swampy area are more than Central FL was when I lived there. Smells like my chlorine cleaner in here so I opened up, sprayed the sills with bug-killer. `Bout due for a haircut so I'll be busy this am. Finish this mug and I'll get a move on it.

Not a hymn, but put it in context and it's close!

Looks very good. Better than I had hoped for.

Mike Stehr does great builds. I admire the work he does. Glad to see him join in the fun. Just a reminder, let's be friends and get along on this thread. This site is not a diy one so I am want to keep this thread here in the Garage section where the people in charge of this forum may let this thread continue. I am going to use the KISS system when describing this build as best I can. Keep it simple stupid for those that do not know what the KISS system is. A lot of companies have the KISS sign in their engineer room for their designers and engineers to remember. I like simple. One reason I like this design. Simple, works and sounds as good in the midrange and highs as anything I have buiilt. And easy to build point to point. I like simple when it comes to diy electronic projects. More complicated circuits need a pcb board made for the components to make them practical. I have been watching a teacher of electronics at a college and one the first points he makes is what he is teaching is another language. The language of electronics. If I use a word you do not understand you can google it for more in formation. For example I may say star ground. Google amplifier star ground and you will find the info for what it is. It is the one place that all the grounds of the amplifier are attached. This will prevent ground loops that cause noise. This is the best time I have seen for someone to learn and enjoy electronics. When there is so much info online and youtube videos to watch and learn. When I first started playing with electronics it was much harder to learn. One pretty much had to take a at home course or find and read books on electronics. I am self taught so if I can do it you can too if you have the desire. When I make a mistake on this thread, I make mistakes, plenty of them, please use a constructive way to point it out. Let's try and keep it positive. This is Maynard's amplifier, not mine. I just built it. I have never designed a circuit of any kind. I have an idea of how to do it but no desire to do so. I leave that up to the young minds that like that sort of thing. I am a long time member of the diyaudio.com site. But the guys there can get way over my head when discussing circuits. It is all I can do to know what long tail pair and constant current sources are. Very talented individuals there. My dog woke me up early this morning having to go outside so I am doing some rambling early this morning.

things are getting kinda scary

Here are more recent pics of Tim's amp. Trying to get a good shot of the paint but the flash makes it look too white, there is some nice depth from the metallic base coats but pics don't do it justice.

It’s amazing that it took only about 200 years to poison our own home so badly. Industrialism and capitalism made us very comfortable and well-entertained, but it involved, and continues to involve, so many short-sighted decisions. When companies went from being owned by their founders, people of vision who would think of the long-term health of the company, and sometimes even its employees, things were better. Many of the problems began, or became worse, when boards of directors took over. Their only goal was that each quarter-year must earn more than the last one. This made them very rich, and hurt everyone else. Now the costs of that thinking are finally impossible not to see. You can’t have ongoing and maybe infinite growth on a finite planet. That should be obvious to anyone, but it doesn’t seem to be. However, things can be improved. Remember the deadly “pea soup fogs” London, England, had in the 1950s? The worst one, The Great Smog, lasted only five days, just Friday to Tuesday, December 5-9, 1952, but it killed thousands of Londoners in that brief time, and many more suffered permanent lung damage, which shortened their lives. Around 4,000 people in that one city died in those few days because of that poisoned air, apart from those who died of more usual causes, and present-day estimates rank the total number of smog deaths to have been around 12,000. This was a problem that had been building up for centuries, with many complaints in the 1600s, and some going even further back. Industrialization made the problem much worse, but even then it took a disaster like The Great Smog to finally spur the government to take serious action. However, look at London today. Those fogs and smogs are just a memory of the mid-Twentieth Century. That success story gives me hope that the current problems can be overcome. The main issue is the scale of the climate problems. It took a long time for the world to get this bad, and it could take a century to restore the seas and skies of the planet to, say, fairly clean 16th Century conditions. Our children are sharing the conditions that we experience. It’s our grandchildren and their children who will live through the worst of it. Of course, the fact that Earth’s population of humans tripled in a single lifetime (1950-2015 = 2.5 billion - 7.5 billion), is a big part of the problem. Those 5 billion people born after many of us have the same needs for food, clothing, shelter, and transportation as the rest of us. We have to reduce the demands we make on the soil, the plants, the air around us, the seas around us, all these things, or we could have a drastic population crash, preceded by brutal and bloody “climate wars”, as large parts of the world, in a band around the world, centred on the Equator, become unliveable, and continue to expand. All our finest scientists and statesmen (and not many politicians are statesmen and stateswomen) living today can do is chart out the start of what is needed to begin the recovery, in the few decades remaining in their lives. Big and possibly painful (to us relatively rich world citizens) changes have to be made, starting yesterday, because the less fortunate are suffering and dying today, from the conditions caused by the decisions that made you and me so comfortable. Just as the Stone Age didn’t end because our ancestors ran out of stone, we don’t have to wait to run out of oil to end the Oil Age. We’ll find other ways to do things, and the sooner the better. But you already knew that. BTW, I just learned that they were called pea soup fogs because of their yellowish colour. The smogs were caused by the almost universal use of coal for heating and factory processes, and the soot particulates attached to water droplets in the air. At some points, the smogs were so thick that people looking at the ground couldn’t see their own feet.

There I sit in the middle of the night at 72 F, listening to music for the first time in many weeks, the tt is spinning Mike Oldfield´s " AMAROK " . My hearing first has to get used to sound in a sonorous way again. I have built so many cables in the last few weeks, it was no fun when everything runs under time pressure and you no longer come to listen to music yourself. Somehow strange. Everything is somehow strange, after Covid, everything tastes different, smells different, already strange.Long Covid ? My doctor has that under control. Yes, the last few weeks were not so funny. The big school vacations are now over, everything goes its way again. Yes the summer, for over 6 weeks no more rain, during the day up to 105 F . Germany's largest and most important transport river, the Rhine River, has low water, shipping must be stopped, the forests are burning, the otherwise green grasslands have turned into steppes, the trees are dying. One is already thinking about the development of mankind and the general global climatic, economic and security situation. There are no particularly better times ahead.

Another track set that is burned into my mind is on the Love It To Death album Enjoy Ballad Of Dwight Fry and Second Coming

That is a great album 🤘 One of the best drum solos is on the Killer album Enjoy Halo Of Flies

I think this is a great deal for RF5s. Unfortunately I don't have a need or I'd be all over these. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/437822661722318/?ref=facebook_story_share Sent from my SM-G986U using Tapatalk

Inclined to agree. I happen to have a pair slated for a pair of HI, but the splits appeared…… Currently using the SMAHL in CW and LS in the living room. I can’t say enough good things.

Yeah; seller just wants money ... and does not even want to provide Klipsch with a copy And; $113 to ship a $20 Express envelope? Question ... if "you" had these, would it not be the honorable thing to do to give these to the Klipsch museum? Ad-on ... send the seller a note to donate them to the Klipsch museum. Haha; maybe if enough of us do he will "rethink" it and do the right thing

Or the customer will get a voucher toward the next purchase, but there won't be any more product because the company goes bankrupt from legal fees.

I’ve at times in my life considered myself an artist, but I don’t think it’d look right. I even thought of masking them up, but that wouldn’t look right either.

I was curious to see which woofers were in mine. Turned out they are K43’s. My top sections are consecutive serial numbers, but one had a K-77 round and the other was a K-77 square. Crossovers are getting re-capped and I bought Dave’s tweeter’s to replace the K-77’s. A small project has turned into something bigger. Luckily I have another set to listen to while I work. The stencils definitely could be made. I was just wanting to save some time if there was a template out there.

when ever I am selling something and someone makes an offer that is below my expectations, I NEVER feel insulted or put out... I just move on. in essence, something is only as valuable as what someone is willing to pay... whether its a gold bar or a oak equipment rack.

@nickyboy6100 That’s why I haven’t tried to open mine. I would think that as long as it seals it doesn’t matter what you use to replace the old seal(s). I’d prefer something easier to remove. Just in case. As for the stencils if we can’t find someone to make them for us I guess we’ll have to cut our own. Frisket film and an xacto knife.

I am kinda working well .. Nice to have a Product with my Name onnit. 😛

Not defending deception, but this is ridiculous. Only the lawyers make money on class action suits and the average customer gets $1.98 or less. This may well push them out of business, so I hope whoever filed suit will be proud of themselves.

@Islander @geoff. What confused me with the crossover was the 4 caps rather than 3. Then I realized the neon green zip ties and hot glue. Not exactly what I would have expected from Hope, Bob (RIP), or from JEM. My 75 LS AAs didn’t have big oil cans and were surely built in Hope with what they could get. As for the cabinets they are fiberglass. Which I really like. I’m considering some minor restoration such as painting the HF face and the tops since they show the most wear. I wanna keep the stenciled sides. Need a new stencil for the small Klipsch on the front. Also want to clean up the trim. I know it’s anodized, but its way worn and I’m not sure what route I’ll take. Probably just light sanding to make it more “even” on the faces. All in all it’s how they sound and I’m pleased. Hard to say if they sound better than my 75 LS though. Different room, different amp, etc.

Little Sweetie (11).pdf

I'm sorry but some of the young guys on this site might. I do plan on detailing how I go about building an amplifier though. Try to be step by step. May not be the correct way but my way. I like to keep it simple. Anyone on this site that can do handyman chores around the house or do some repairs on their car should be able to build an amplifier such as this simple one just from the schematic. I can point to the parts I used and where to buy them and I am thinking of making a parts list at Mouser where all one has to do is buy what is on the list to get the correct part to make this amplifier. I have done it before for some young guys on some other audio projects. Maynard has a list on his schematic on the parts needed. I just need to add Mouser's part number. The Chassis came from Amazon and the tubes and special tube parts came from Tubedepot. I hope more of these little gems are built. One can stick their chest out and tell their friends "I built that." No real electronic experience is needed. Just the basics skills anyone with common sense can learn. My reason for doing this is other sites have had members doing this very thing which I enjoyed following along. Just want to pass it along here. Having fun with something to do is my reason. Let's all get along on this thread and have some fun and possible learning something from an old man. PS: Almost forgot. One way to get around that IEC cutting out is to do what Maynard just told me he does. From his pen: I get around the IEC socket dilemma by using a hard wired cord and strain relief.

Think this is the best production ever made from Mike Oldfield " AMAROK " 1990 / Virgin Records / Printed in Germany a real acoustic sound experience ....

Good evening friends , early midnight here , full moon , 72F at night , 102 at day , the hottest summer ever in germany Thought it´s a nice idea to listen to some late night music ...smooth and gentle Norah Jones " Feels like home " / 2007 / Blue Note Records / 1rst Press Release

Started with BDBs, have always loved, then that newer episode above. It is one of those that each song is a chapter in the story. Have to listen to the whole thing! Then this one probably my second favorite release. The "intellectuals" that ridicule us all the time over here love:

Thought about yankin this one sometime... I spied it w/my lil eye in an old crate of my "mostly sealed stuff" the other day. Whoda thunk Donovan would sing the "Billion Dollar Babies" on Alice's lp??? Not many. Such a fun lp and still hangin up near the top. Everyone had somethin on a track and the final result proved they were still the real deal after 7 other lp's. Great group of guys! Now Alice has done a complete 180 and is still rockin! Talk to him now and ya get complete coherent sentences. roflmao

You need a chain of custody, maybe a letter or note. Man, don’t you guys watch Antiques Roadshow. To get that kind of money, he’s going to need more than, “I ended up with a folder full of stuff that used to belong to Paul Klipsch.”

Looking at the other things he is selling, he doesn't strike me as hard core Klipsch guy. He just came across something at an estate sale and knows he has something of value. There is only one person I know of where these might have come from, that may not have wanted Klipsch to end up with them.

Really wanting to profit for those items if authentic. Shipping $130.22 for a package of papers!

When we’re these made? Crossover AA, k55-v push pin, k77 square. Haven’t opened doghouses. Crossover redone? Is it just black lacquer over the fiberglass? They sound great! Carver powered! Thank you kind Klipsch friends!

Heyco PG-7.

I was talking to my guitar amp tech friend. He’s does not work on receivers but he suspects with the pop on shut off, that I have a capacitor(s) out of spec.

My daily driver is a restored, ABSOLUTELY dead quiet, wonderful sounding MC2105 coupled with a modern Mac preamp. I just love the sound of an autotransformer amp. BUT, Mac equipment is more than I feel spending on this second system. I was thinking of an upgraded Adcom 555, BGW Model 100, Crown D75, Hafler, et cetera. I am open to suggestions. Thank you very kindly for each thoughtful response.

Great album Enjoy your midnight spin

car wax does have UV protectors but for a natural oiled wood finish im not sure its a good idea to put car wax on it. the other suggestions for covering the tops or full speaker with a sheet or other material & UV film for windows will work or at least greatly reduce sunlight exposure. but for a product you can apply to them thats not a wax & wont harm the veneer, is a marine/auto product called 303 protectant, its used on all kinds of surfaces from vinyl/rubber to fiberglass & even wood veneers to protect from UV fading & damage. its always best to test any product on a small area on the bottom to be safe & only spray it lightly onto a clean rag, not directly on the speaker surface. probably best to cover the speakers &/or put a film on the windows.

That makes for a nice sub-centric respite from my Alice Cooper Saturday am! Reminiscent of the HU, with a different energy, thoughtful moral to the lyrics @EmilC

Yes this feels odd if only because I cannot conceive of a reason that those don't already belong in Museum/JRH's hands--and for free. Does no one just do the right thing anymore? Rhetorical...

Very strange...he made a scan of everything and now he is overloaded to copy these scans? „The Klipsch Museum asked for a copy, but because of a personal situation I was unable to provide them“

It's bleaching... not yellowing.