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Whew, that was a ride and a half getting caught up. I'm STILL laffin! Then again... Wait what are we creating in here??? Oh, nm... Going to fire things up! Hmmmm

We can let him slide for posting those two great LPs on the same page... and it's still daytime!

it's more like this @AndreG.

Let's see if I can still catch a cheap flight

The new year starts well , I'm just working , 18 hours a day , beside that I have to build so many audio cables, continuing with the restoration from my vintage Klipsch KG 3.5 and help a friend in the renovation of his apartment .

BTW I have historically been somewhat of a tight *** as well, but I have recently changed careers so I'm doing better now than before, and also since I just bought a house, all this gear is barely a drop in the bucket of my spending. I think that made it easier.

Nice! Black like I prefer, but somehow in a bathroom situation, the silver one looks like it's easier to keep clean and sanitary. Am I a picky shopper or what?

Because....we ended as lovers.. Dusting off the woofers tonight!!

I've only seen a couple others that I think would be worthy of sharing the stage with the wonderful guitarist Mr. Beck. Sure that Eric Clapton has played with him. Not sure if Robin Trower ever did, although his style might be more similar to some of Jeff's work. I mean are there many out there that can extract then impart the levels of emotion out of a guitar as only he could? RIP BIG loss to our world.

@Mossy bottomMet him in 67 when he was playing for the Yardbirds and have rarely missed a show since. Had two to his stop in Cincy in October and couldn't make it. Sucked big time and now this? Just crazy. He bent those strings and took it to another level from the beginning. Never took a prisoner. You always left dragging your jaw about something he pulled off.

OMG R.I.P. Guitar master

It's been a while since I've posted vinyl though. Someday... I will rediscover all of them! Had to crank up the memories that come with that Black Sabbath, halfway through it now!

But You have to admit, You have more posts here in this thread alone than I do in the whole Forum... 😄

"That's what your mouth said..." Let me call it in a more simple manner. BULL

Yes, please bear with me, I´m only a beginner.... 😇

OH Yeaah! @AndreG. That "Classic" Sabbath that I remember when it came out is a nice one too! Early JP I can handle being on repeat-play.

@JohnJHey John, this one is for You!

I use my Scott 222b integrated amp to drive my JBL-4430 speakers, as well as a pair of Quad ESl-63 speakers. Obviously, speakers which are quite different in their design and strengths/weaknesses. While I have several other amps, I always seem to leave the Scott in the rotation for one of my systems. I would suspect a 222b, in proper operating condition, would match very well with a pair of Belle’s.

I know this tune very well , we procued a water-lasershow at an exhibition with this one. Maybe the best song that Mc Cartney produced ever.

Look what popped up for sale over night, it must be a sign. https://omaha.craigslist.org/ele/d/omaha-klipsch-klipschorns-walnut-all/7577189213.html

Simply amazes me that people have that kind of money to waste I worked at a Marina Most of the boats moved maybe twice a year

BTW People that have pretty roached spkrs might consider a textured finish like DuraTex

Is that the new Technics / Discwasher collab they were showing at AXPONA?

Did it. Have some skill if you wish to attempt it all on your onesie... I took my time and had the usual frustrations with little silly things. The autoformer loves to be in the way every time you turn the board over - I didn't really wish to de-solder either it or the hook-up to the terminal cup. I've only performed it on one speaker thus far, and can't claim to hear a difference - not nearly as much as when I Crites-ed my Fortes several years ago. I chose to go factory with this re-cap, since I wasn't familiar with the Chorus II "sound" (that, and the $500-plus cost of the Crites boards is currently a little off-putting). A before-and-after comparison of frequency sweeps using ARC Genesis doesn't show much change either... my guess is that the original caps were still within spec. I at least have the satisfaction of knowing it's doable, and that these caps should be good for quite a while. Not sure it was worth taking up most of a morning of a day off, but now I know.

no problem

What spoils it for me is that it says audio-technica instead of Technics.

Definitely! I just started painting the bottom and the removable base, I was hesitant using a foam roller, but man, I followed the instructions and the results are great! I was able to apply two coats and still see the grain pattern. Tomorrow I will upload more pictures!

@chuckears, my experience with recapping a pair of Chorus 2 crossovers was pretty much inline with yours. I could not tell a noticeable difference one way or the other either. Mine was a few years back using retarded cheap (at the time… everything is doubled or tripled now) Erse and Bennic polyester caps before the JEM phenomenon was what all the new kids were into. Had the same “meh” moment with a pair of B-3 crossovers similarly recapped. In both cases I chocked it up to the stock capacitors likely still operating in spec. A pair of AAs with the “cans” however, was another story all-together, DAY AND NIGHT. Up until that point I could not understand why anyone liked the AA crossovers. Tried them in La Scalas with the AL and AL-3 stock and each time was let down. It was as if the tweeters were missing until the recap. Already had a pair of Chorus 2s but got the crossovers cheap off eBay as an experimental pair, likely from someone who went the Crites route as I didn't get a terminal cup, and just like you I remember dreading dealing with that delicate autoformer. To make sure I didn’t dig myself deeper into a hole I “breadboarded” them.

Plinth...water down the drain. Cool...:

I've been looking at the Sheeran Guitars by Lowden, but the cheapest one is about $680. The back and sides are all a 5 ply lamination and solid wood tops. No bracing other than for the top. No binding on the body. They look beautifully made, even if simple.

So CCC&C will be 9 years old on Feb. 6th. No party planned at this time😐

After living with the Heritage Jubilee in my smallish (13’ x 17’) living room for about three months now, I have a few insights and tips that have improved my enjoyment that I’d like to share. Apologies for the length but I wanted to include as much detail as possible in the hope that this is helpful for anyone who has purchased them or may be considering a purchase. I also apologize if some of this may be old news to some, such as Underground Jubilee owners, but it was new to me. The first major insight has to do with positioning the Jubilee. About a month after getting the Jubilee someone on the Klipsch Forum asked me how I was liking them. My only complaint at the time was that I couldn’t listen to a lot of the not-so-great recordings on this system. I was unable to EQ them to sound decent the same way that I did on my other systems. So, I decided to use my UMIK-1 microphone with the REW software to see if I could figure out the bad recording mystery (which I had recently learned how to use during "the speaker project that must not be named" 🙂). Thanks to Klipsch Forum member @Chris A for all the help with REW, interpreting the measurements, and help with the solutions during this effort too. First, I made a few near field measurements at 1 meter on-axis horizontally to see the response in the mids and highs uninfluenced by the room (above the Schroeder frequency). My first measurements were at the height of the dividing line between the LF and HF sections, about ear height. I wasn’t sure where I should be measuring these speakers, and this seemed like a reasonable place to try. However, the response was not flat at that that location. It looked more like a bell curve. There was a broad hill from about 4 kHz to about 11 kHz and a tail off above that. So, I moved the measurement position to on-axis vertically as well with the K-402 horn. Now the response above the Schroeder frequency was nice and flat. This information turned out to be the key to what I was experiencing. When I moved the mic to ear height at the main listening position (MLP) to see what was going on there, the response looked similar to the 1m ear height measurement. Now I understood why the bad recordings sounded worse on this system. My initial setup was to place the Jubilee snugly in the corners at 45° just like Roy had them in the Hope lab listening room at JubFest. This gave me a smidge more separation than pointing them at the listening position as I usually do with speakers. However, doing that in my small room put the K-402 horns too far off-axis horizontally at the MLP. Also, the short distance to the MLP (a little over 9’) put them off-axis vertically as well. That was causing the upper mid and lower high frequency emphasis that was making the bad recordings sound even more shrill. So, I turned the speakers to put the K-402 on-axis horizontally with the MLP. I then tilted the horns down to put the K-402 on-axis vertically with my ear height the MLP. At this point I must mention what seems to be design issue with the Heritage Jubilee top-hat (HF section) that may not allow the horn to be tilted in the way that I was told was intended and what can be done about it. I’ve included pictures where you can see what I’m about to describe. The mounting bracket at the horn throat/driver is fully adjustable and is not the problem. The issue is with how the front baffle and base board are attached together with two L-brackets. I believe Roy mentioned a JubFest that these brackets are supposed to be bendable to allow the horn to be pointed down. However, because the front baffle is butted up against the front of base board and the L-brackets only have circular holes for the screws, any attempt to turn the front baffle down may be prevented as the bend in the L-bracket cannot move forward with the front baffle. I believe that the screw hole in the L-bracket at the base needs to be a slot so that the screw can be loosened allowing the L-bracket bend to move with the front baffle. ***** Update – @Chief bonehead replied to my Facebook post about this saying he had no problem pointing the horn down as is. So, I guess I was in error with my assessment of the L-bracket situation. However, I think I still prefer my method of tilting the horn described below as it doesn’t involve messing with the factory adjustment of the horn/driver bracket or deforming the L-brackets. ***** So instead of trying to tilt the horn down that way, I simply placed a spacer board under the rear of the top-hat base board on top of the bass bin. I determined the angle of tilt that I needed by placing my tripod-mounted UMIK-1 at the MLP at ear height, pointing it at the throat of the K-402, and measuring the angle from level. This was about 6°. So, I experimented with various spacer board heights until I got close to this angle. I ended up using a 2.5” x 2.5” x 18” long poplar square dowel wrapped at the contact edges with some three-layer Duralux shelf liner to prevent the edges from digging into the MDF. This was placed under the rear of the top-hat just behind the two rubber pucks that support the top-hat when it’s level. This got me to within 1/2° of my desired angle. You can’t really use a bigger spacer than this as the two front veneer panels are very close together, a little over 1/16” on one speaker, using a 2.5” high spacer. Any attempt to go to a steeper angle would require lifting the front of the top-hat as well. This might lift it off the three rubber support pucks at the front edge and cause it to slide forward. I can’t imagine needing a steeper tilt than this unless you had an even smaller distance from the speakers, which is unlikely. If you want to try this method of tilting the horn, I recommend that you temporarily put some cushioning material between the two front veneer panels before starting so that you don’t accidentally crash the veneer panels together. I used two pieces of Duralux for that. I’m glad I came up with this method of tilting the horn since it is so easily changed or undone. I wasn’t too keen on loosening the bracket holding up the heavy Celestion driver or bending the L-brackets. Once I had the K-402 on-axis in both directions at the MLP, the response there above the Schroeder frequency was now fairly flat. I put on a few of the not-so-great recordings. They now sounded like they do on my Palladium systems and are correctable with a similar amount of EQ. This also corrected an intermittent imaging issue I experienced. On some recordings, the instruments or vocals at the speaker positions would sometimes be higher than ones in the center, appearing to be at the horn throat height instead of level with the rest. Now, everything is always level and solid with the acoustic center always at ear height. So, my conclusion from this is get the main listening position on-axis with the K-402 horns in both directions for best results. My front wall may look even more like a wall of speakers now, but the improvement is worth it. The second major insight has to do with bass room gain. It might be expected that putting a speaker like the Heritage Jubilee in a small room corner might lead to some pretty large room gain. I could hear such a gain when I was close to the corners. However, I thought I was spared this at the MLP since I didn’t hear that when listening there. Well, it turns out that I just hadn’t put on the right program material yet. One day, I decided to listen to some tracks from the Lord of the Rings soundtrack. The deep organ bass on this was so overblown that I couldn’t continue listening. The measurements I made for the positioning issue showed my why. While there was some room gain in the mid-bass at the MLP, most of that gain was below 30 Hz, peaking in the mid 20’s. Only the sustained low bass the LOTR soundtrack made this obvious at the listening position. Luckily, the processor that I am using in the Jubilee system, the Emotiva XMC-1, has two equalization presets that allow up to 11 PEQs to be defined per speaker per preset. REW was used to determine two PEQs per channel that were enough to tame this at the MLP in my room. This very low bass room gain was quite large. The largest peak required more than a 10 dB cut to correct. So, if you are going to have Heritage Jubilee in a smaller room, you will need some way to do bass room correction. It’s unfortunately that Klipsch does not allow the end user to adjust the DSP in any way (apart from the gain knobs that allow different amplifiers to be used with the LF and HF which wouldn’t help with this). This would be a good way to do such correction. Now that I have the speaker position and room dialed in, the Jubilee sound better than ever. The response at the MLP goes out to 20 kHz close to spec and the -3 dB point for the bass is about 16 Hz. I even get useable response (-10 dB) down to about 10 - 12 Hz (depending on which channel is measured since the room isn't quite symmetrical). These speakers have not been over hyped. They are the real deal. Last week I went to a concert at Lehigh University featuring the Lehigh University Orchestra and Choir. (My son sings bass in the Choir.) It was another opportunity to hear what a live, unamplified orchestra and chorus sounds like. I have to say that of all the speakers I’ve owned over the years, only the Jubilee seems to successfully reproduce the detail, dynamics, and sheer power of a live orchestra and chorus. One other thing the Jubilee do best is producing the “performer in the room” tangibility, that feeling that you could reach out and touch the performer. A few days ago, I purchased a used CD at a thrift shot of the Persuasions, a “doo-***” a cappella group, doing covers of U2 songs. While it’s not something I would normally buy, I was mainly interested in the recording as demo/test material. It was done by the audiophile label Chesky Records and was recorded direct to digital (no overdubs or remixing) in a Manhattan church. The imaging of the semicircle of the singers with this recording is amazingly precise and realistic. The “reach out and touch” feeling is astounding, as is everything else with these speakers. After three months of owning the Jubilee, I have no regrets.

RIP: Good Music Good Times

That reminds me a couple of month ago I made a simillar experience , I was looking for a new Klipsch mod speaker project for this winter season . I saw them in a german sec. hand market and thought " they ´re great " . I was quiet impressed about the sound as well without any mod, never ever expected taht at all !

Okay O will improve it more. I saw you did some extra dampening inside, better wrings and connectors. PS I forgot to order the 3 ohm resistor I think it is worth every penny too. Ive seen people spend well over 3,500 US dollars for the same 8 inch speakers and could not even get close to this sound. In my opinion the cabinet sounds very rich The recording I did was all 14 feet away at 86 db anywhere from 10 to 12 watts.

Nothing wrong. It’s sitting on an entertainment center that is 96” long. Wasn’t sure if it’s worth upgrading the center. I can get the RP-450C on sale as well

6C33C-b Test 01-10-2023 klipsch 8 inch mid tower speaker. Tascam DR-40x handheld recorder on air. The Key to You - playback video.

@CCG Got the final Solution now ! Have ordered 2 x 6,2 uF & 2 x 8,2 uF Clarity Caps from UK , Model ESA 250 V +/- 3% will bypass each with a 1000pF ( = 1 nF or 0,001 uF ) Silver Mica as I did with my RF7 Evo´s as well .

a few candles cant hurt , a picture with Spanky and old Chucky would be great

actually... Yes. Sushi is a generic term for anything wrapped in rice...Spam included. Those spam musubi are not bad. I've eaten plenty of them. sashimi is raw fish/seafood... exclusively. uni is not a fish... sea urchin. an interesting paradox in HI They like the meat cooked.... seriously cooked... but, will eat most any fish raw

Fun little Sunday afternoon project. Never had a bigsby before. Decided I had to have one with the "F" logo.

She let's me have my fun, three systems in three rooms, one being her office. I'm just trying to find ways to weasel more systems in the house😈.

Oh my gosh, such sad news. He was a great guy and a big asset to this community. Rest in peace Brandon

I had the same issue with risky forward tilt on my 402 setups. I removed the front brackets (that don't bend) and installed door hinges from Home Depot. Look and work just fine. Can tilt safely forward/backward without fear of breaking the horn plastic.