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I mentioned once that my daughter is a very talented illustrator. She painted a Christmas card for me. I think she did it very beautifully

@geodr I stopped responding to your emails because of your email spam blocker. I’m sorry, but I will not be filling out an online form request to send email to you. You either want to communicate or you don’t. 40 years is a long time. Since the speakers are still operating, the capacitors aren’t “bad”, but they are aging out. You also need to be able to test ESR/DF to know whether or not you should change them. By the time you go through the trouble of doing that, you might as well change them out.

I wish You guys a happy and healthy merry christmas! Greetings from rainy Berlin, Andre

The smoked old fashion, I would like to find this device he used.

same to you bud

to the KC . 8.45pm here, we finished the holy evening dinner two hours ago . I was the chief and cooked the whole meal in the kitchen. Was a hard job , took more than 4 hours . I´m full now and don´t want to move again. I lay on the sofa streaming international christmas music , not loud just as backround music . This tune is called " rejoice christ child is coming soon "

Always watching, Billy! 😉 Thanks for being here!

Morning gang, Christmas Eve, -1°, just finished some eggs over easy, sweet potato hash browns, and chicken sausage. Now enjoying the French roast from Starbucks that was on sale at Costco for $13.99. Christmas tunes on the Cornwalls this morning. Speaking of cocktails, met a friend at a speakeasy this last week for a drink or two. Had a smoke old fashion that was smooth and nice to drink. For Christmas dinner I'll be firing the Big Green Egg up for some brisket and ham, having the family over, which hopefully results in us down at the bar in the basement with cocktails and music on the big rig.

No one performed this song like Gerald Wolfe. Merry Christmas to all who celebrate. https://youtu.be/NOfZwGSBOkA Maynard

It is the season for Christmas carols My wife loves the Christmas carols - me I only like a few favourites

@scalawag Most of us have something of theirs somewhere. Merry Christmas Everyone! Stay safe out there. -20 here tonight. lol

the above is only the menu for Christmas Eve , on Christmas Day we make raclette on the second cheese fondue

I have for sale a pair of Klipsch Heresy II Walnut Oil. Local pickup or reasonable delivery/meet up. $900.00 $750.00 Bill

I had LaScala... Lack of bass made them leave

You may be better off just using your 25% Klipsch Forum discount on a new set of Lascala’s. 🤓

I agree with you about the ceiling heights. I’d like to have a cathedral ceiling, as I’m sure many others would, too, but not many homes are built that way. As for subwoofers, I have neither kids nor pets in-home, so my audio gear is safe from curious fingers, noses, paws, and claws. Accordingly, I use front-firing subs. However, to reduce or eliminate early reflections, and to bring them closer to ear height, my subs are positioned above the floor, one on a small table and the other one on an LP storage box. This works well, with the bedroom subs also, and the subs are on neoprene pads, which may reduce the amount of bass energy that could enter the ceilings of my downstairs neighbour. I live in a condo apartment, so I keep in mind that there’s no point in pissing off people I may have to deal with. What goes around, and all that. The funny thing about bass instruments, and the subwoofers that reproduce much of their music, is that they play below our optimized listening range. Our ears and brains are primarily tuned for for sensitivity to speech and sounds of possible danger. Deep bass notes almost never fall into those categories, so we’re not able to “decode” them as accurately as mid-range sounds. To quote two people: first, PWK, who famously said, “We live in the mid-range.”, and my father, who played string bass (upright bass/double bass) in a jazz band when he was younger, and said “The average person in the audience can’t even tell if the bassist is playing in tune.” Accordingly, it’s hard to evaluate the performance of a subwoofer. With regular speakers, you can listen for clarity, fine detail retrieval, especially in voices (for the reasons mentioned above), accurate timbre (Do the voices and instruments sound like actual voices and instruments, or at least come close?), consistent frequency response at different volume levels, dynamic range, and so on. With subs, on the other hand, you may need to depend on magazine reviews, because they should have the test gear that can “hear” what our ears can’t. Unlike regular speakers, subs operate in company with speakers (the “regular” is assumed), not on their own, so they have to be evaluated on how well they integrate into a typical system. A vocal, guitar, violin, or cello solo can be carried completely by a speaker on its own, but a bass solo won’t be restricted to the subwoofer, since the bass instrument produces tones that are higher than the subs’ operating range, sounds like the player’s fingers on the strings or keys, for example. In a store review years ago, I read how a guy went to the store with some of his test music, and wanted to test the sub he was interested in for presence and “slam”, at high volume, of course. When stuff started rattling in adjacent departments, the music got turned down pretty quickly, but he naïvely didn’t understand why. He thought the shop was showing poor customer service. It really does take all kinds of people to make a world... The point that I’m making (finally!) is that some (or maybe most) of the things that we do to get great performance from our subs is mainly theoretical. We think that this or that should help the sub sound its best, but most of the time we’re guessing, unless we’re dealing with one of those monster subs that seems to distort time and space in its vicinity, like one of those fan subs. They definitely do what other subs can’t do. Sure, we can tell if the sub goes noticeably deeper, or if it has much more power, but that’s most of it, in my case, anyway. Adding a second powerful sub (850 watts RMS) did smooth out the bass response, eliminating a strong bass peak right in front of the sofa, so that was something. Anyway, we do the various tweaks at the barely-audible level, hoping that they’ll add up to make a change that we will be able to hear, and they often do. Happy tweaking, and happy listening!

I spin these even "out of season" !!

I think we're having venison. We are going shopping tomorrow. Told wife that I am not making an expedition of it. I want a couple strings of LEDs... to light the back of our pantry shelves. Some lite Christmas shopping. I'm not making it a life or death thing. If they don't have what I want... oh well.

Hey, Selling a pair of Klipsch Epic CF-3 V1 speakers. They are in pretty good cosmetic shape. Mostly small scratches, as well as a few larger ones on the sides (pictured) and a more noticeable one along with 2-3 visible scuffs on the back of one (also pictured). The other one has a lighter scratch like that on the back. Grills are in good shape. Under the grills they look great as well. These are the rare V1s with the 5.5" ports. These also have consecutive serial numbers. No modifications have been made to these. Though I do recall briefly removing the crossovers to fix the terminals awhile back, as they had trouble tightening. But they seem okay now, though a little loose on the negative terminal on one speaker (but it still gets tight enough to hold wire). These speakers have been also tested and pack a punch. The CF-3s have been in my family since I was a baby. They were purchasd new by my father back in the 90s. Looking for $700 OBO. Feel free to message me for questions, more photos, or feel free to shoot an offer. (Excuse the current mess. Also that's just cat fur on the grills) Pics: https://imgur.com/a/iz5aQMB Local pickup only in Central California. Thank you!

Is it possible ?? I have had many sets of speakers These have stayed many years.. But Technology moves on Thoughts ?(

Coulda been equipment synergy .. I am happy with KLF 30, so ai will not be revisting the issue

Eagles defense has been pathetic so far, other than 1 play by Sweat. BTW, where do you watch NFL? I'm no longer with ESPN+ and looking for alternatives . I tried some of free options here but ads make me crazy.

I seem to remember someone posting about using permanent glue. Sounds like a very bad idea. Isn't hot melt ideal, strong but you can break it loose if need be? I remember installing granite counters in my old house and my friend who owned a granite shop told me to use cheap painter's caulk, not the expensive GE Silicone that I was going to use, because once installed you can never remove the sink without braking the counter. Same idea here.

According to unofficial sources, a new simplified income-tax form contains only four lines: 1. What was your income for the year? 2. What were your expenses? 3. How much have you left? 4. Send it in.

The data sheet doesn’t say, but I think those might be polarized. OTOH, I haven’t had my sixth cup of coffee yet.

The Wife wanted to go somewhere warm for Christmas. I did not want to disappoint her. I went all out and spent the cash. I turned the thermostat up to 62 degrees

Guess I didn't have to look to hard. https://www.amazon.com/Cocktail-Smoker-Flavors-Wood-Chips/dp/B0B5M1PVCF/ref=asc_df_B0B5M1PVCF/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=598232183169&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=18063730353122768787&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9024602&hvtargid=pla-1731972073391&psc=1

What do you think are the typical tolerances for Al-electrolytics? And, I suppose, if you really want something at or very near 25MF you could buy 100 of them and sort. You should find three or four around 24-26MF.

Merry Christmas Dave , take care of that flu ..

I probably would have cheated and used a 22uF and a 27uF - both within 10%. The problem you have there is if you didn’t glue them down, then they are largely only being supported by their leads, and the inside of a loudspeaker is a pretty hostile environment. I’m surprised you didn’t update the blue mylars while you had them out.

Dave, how much do the THTLP’s bring to the table when paired with the La Scala’s? Ive considered pairing a horn loaded sub with mine for years. I’ve just never pulled the trigger. I’ve had larger Klipsch pro speakers in the past and miss the low end they provide.

ESR @1kHz is about the same as a Mylar.

You only need to lift one lead of a cap to measure it.

Concert halls have ceiling heights which exceed most of the home applications. From my experience listening to home theater systems with ceiling mounted speakers was very unimpressive. The sound was very localized, possibly due to the relatively short ceiling height, which made stereo/home theater seperation very limited, similar to listening to elevator music. As for the subwoofer, I have an older SVS PB12+2 which uses two downward firing subwoofers that can fill a room with bass. I prefer the downward facing subwoofers because they are kid and pet friendly. As far as placing the subwoofer towards the ceiling, I'm not sure what is to be gained due to the long sound waves.

Try some new caps if curious but be sure to save your old ones just in case.

Just thought I would add to this discussion. I have a sub-woofer with the same power supply issue. Found a couple of stuffed zener's which got the switch mode supply oscillating but not reliably so I knew caps were a problem as well. I decided that the design of this supply is very weak and to rip it out completely. I removed all the PSU component's off the PCB till mainly just the amplification part was left. Then I fitted a 300VA toroidal transformer and its works beautifully. Now I dont have a supply that can fry up anymore and should be much more reliable than the original. The worst part of doing this was removing all the unnecessary parts off the original PCB esp the small transformer and the bridge rectifier. I can go into detail if someone whats to know how to do it

To find out you have to remove the x-over, desolder the caps, discharge the caps and then check the values of the caps with a meter. If the meter shows the values indicated on the caps, they are in order and do not need to be replaced, then you can solder them back in.Once you have removed the x-over you can also measure the values of the coils, you can leave the coils on the board, the measurement is done at the solder points

As far as I remember you didn´t liked the RF7 I . There´s no reason to replace them.... imo. Revise them optical and maybe the x-over caps if neccessary and you´ll be fine . Pitty that I can´t get them here . Don´t forget to use origin Klipsch Parts

And be prepared to spend a lot of time to get things done nicely. The first time you do a job, it takes a while to learn what needs to be done (layout, parts, etc.) so be ready to spend some time to get a professional looking result. Here was my solution to big caps in the Chorus IIs: Just before I installed the final caps. Or ordered for several speakers and was short a few caps so I was waiting to check capacitance and match pairs.

My two cents? John is a good guy to deal with. What is pictured is what you'll get! I had their DTM-7 for a while and it handled the tv setup nicely.

Don’t confuse sound reinforcement with sound reproduction. Two different animals……

You are safe if you’re wearing shoes with rubber heels…..,, right ?

Somebody upgraded the la scala to al4 using an upgrade kit from Klipsch.

https://www.va.gov/vso/ https://nvf.org/veteran-service-officers/ Yes, refer above links.

Neil, a lot of the work our company does is aging and dementia. I'll ask our lead doctor tomorrow. He's got the credentials and connections: Rick Rader, MD, FAAIDD, FAADM, DHL (hon) Director, Habilitation Center, Orange Grove Center Member, National Council on Disability President, American Association on Health and Disability Board, American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry Executive Committee, Friends of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Medical Advisory Committee, Special Olympics International Emeritus Advisor, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Dept of Health and Human Services Editor-in-chief, Exceptional Parent Magazine Member, National Academy of Practice in Medicine National Medical Advisor, National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals