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Off to my 50th class reunion manana..this is gonna be a trip

If you have the chance, watch this docu about Syd Barrett. A lot of original footage and first witness accounts.

Just sit there and go incognito. I KNOW ya got a haircut so just smile when someone else does. Make sure you spell your name correctly AND legiblbe on the "HELLO MY NAME IS" sticky. Break 'em out stud muffin. You got this! 1 Tony Orlando and Dawn Tie A Yellow Ribbon ‘Round The Ole Oak Tree 2 Jim Croce Bad Bad Leroy Brown 3 Roberta Flack Killing Me Softly With His Song 4 Marvin Gaye Let’s Get It On 5 Paul McCartney and Wings My Love 6 Kris Kristofferson Why Me 7 Elton John Crocodile Rock 8 Billy Preston Will It Go Round In Circles 9 Carly Simon You’re So Vain 10 Diana Ross Touch Me In The Morning 11 Vicki Lawrence The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia 12 Clint Holmes Playground In My Mind 13 Stories Brother Louie 14 Helen Reddy Delta Dawn 15 Billy Paul Me And Mrs. Jones 16 Edgar Winter Group Frankenstein 17 Dobie Gray Drift Away 18 Sweet Little Willy 19 Stevie Wonder You Are The Sunshine Of My Life 20 Cher Half Breed 21 Isley Bros. That Lady 22 Sylvia Pillow Talk 23 Grand Funk Railroad We’re An American Band 24 Dr. John Right Place, Wrong Time 25 Skylark Wildflower 26 Stevie Wonder Superstition Have fun and be home by midnight! Pictures or it didn't happen. FLASH FLASH PRIORITY: DON'T FORGET YOUR HEARING AIDS & YOUR PARTIAL!!!

everything I do makes noise or stinks

Watch for K-63-N's or woofers on auction and snag when there. I'm fortunate to have two of them plus a NOS 10" neo woofer that came with my current CF-3 v1's.

She is radical! One of the best videos I've seen in this thread. Thanks!

I got a new coffee skill 😁

I inherited my Dad's Heresy Speaker set, don't know if they are 1's or 2's. After opening up the back of it, seems to be circa 80's based on the size of the caps and the font (lol). I love these speakers and it doesn't seem too hard to fix? I just don't want to break them more. Can anyone point me in a good direction of replacement parts or maybe trouble shooting whats wrong? I'm definitely lost.. Problem: One of them stopped working, no sound Initial trouble shooting: Checked connections to amp, ran the speaker wire through hand to make sure it wasn't pierced/crimped. checked the connection to the cabinet. tightened all the screws on the board. No sound. took my multimeter and checked continuity on woofer, mid, and tweeter. got a beep and all three. Assumption is its the capacitors or what looks like two little transformers? Question: Where can I buy new parts, not totally sure what new parts I need. Thank you!

Watch, someone outta no where will come up and start a convo. If not just lean back and throw those platforms up on the dinner table and watch the looks ya get when ya fire up that big Cuban. 😂

Just because a counter is going up doesn’t mean that anything worthwhile is happening.

Used parts show up on eBay every so often- replacement diaphragms haven't been available for many years now. CF-2 and KV-4 share the same driver the CF-3 & 4 diaphragms are the same but magnet is larger for higher sensitivity.

Yur a young jitterbug

I did.

Someone gave me a bose sub once, the little box that went with the cube satellites. I broke it open to look inside and it looked like a cheap 4" speaker worth about $3. It was really sad, now if they charged like $99 for the whole set you could understand, but not even close.

I’m not sure, I’ll have to try the tone generator app on my phone. They do sound marvelous and I was shocked at how flat the response was when I measured them. I need to mount the horns properly. I think the dip at 8.2kHz was a reflection off the top of the cab.

How about Klingon-Opera: https://www.discogs.com/release/24976171-The-Hu-Rumble-Of-Thunder

Ah, but how about all the overtones and harmonics that are up around 30-50Khz that interact with lower frequencies. Rupert Neve had consoles that could pass frequencies up to 50kHz. (Part of the reason they cost so much)

Gots to have a good tweeter to get all the way to 20kHz.

Funny stuff besides the khz talk. Then the blast from the past Celestions that were brought up. Just one thing @MicroMara needs to be someone on the receiving end of that if it was a coffee shotgun! Pulled off the road after a deluge of rain plus an hour of heavy wind that preceeded the storm I have to get through.

As @billybob pointed out it could be one side of your amp/receiver/source is toast. I have a pair of 81's here and zero problems. Prolly be something simple or could be more complex. Speaker balance knob centered on the receiver? Kinda tough w/o knowing what your running. Check the dead side wire on the other speaker if it's not the balance? Something's goin on.

Marketing.. Marketing The Wave Radio isn't bad on its own, but the other stuff 🙄

I was like that several years ago and then after subscribing got down interesting pigeon holes. Mostly travel and then documentaries, and now historical religious studies along the rest. The last one had a reputation so he had to distance himself from it/him...Dunno but both of you guys are more subdued. Must be retirement. 😎 Good to see everyone posting and hope all is well.

Thanks :-)

Ha! That was me my first ten years on the Forum. 😎

I agree but what's up with all of the LIKES and jukebox posts?

I agree with point number one, which is why I rarely do it. I listen to music. But unfortunately, for the time being at least, I have to do that through the equipment. There is nothing wrong with seeking out gear that better connects you to the music you love. Diminishing returns kicks in at some point, but it's up to the individual to decide if they "go further" or "they are done". I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy the means almost as much as the end.

I agree that when doing quick changes of amps, unless you level match, the louder one will always sound "better". But for me, putting one amp in the system for a whole night of listening, then doing the same the next night with a different amp gives me more information. It's not all about aural memory. But usually, one of those amps will elicit more enjoyment from the music than the other. And you aren't stressed with trying to quickly listen in a flawed A/B type situation. And when the dust settles and you hear absolutely no discernable difference, you can say this method was as successful as if one was clearly better than the other. Sometimes I even live with one for weeks before reinserting the competing amp. You really need to be in a relaxed state when making these decisions.

If you WANT to hear a difference you will...especially if you are talking about 5 or 10 minutes between amps to change wires etc.... and of course not between a $50 amp and a $10,000 amp... that better be obvious. But to REALLY compare you have to match level within 0.1 dB........and wait for it...I will be told I am full of sheet.. My $0.02 YMMV

why do we NEED to get over 50,000? Is this under the belief that at least 1 will have something worthwhile to contribute? or is corporate saying less = shut it down.

Why not just purchase replacement pegs? Simply Speakers and Parts Express are just two places that sell them. Keep the grills on and you'll never have to look at the cones again!

Yup, acetone is kept seperate from them in my locked tool space. However, once the weld dries it can be wiped clean. The power up test did not find any issues with the RF-7s. Other than cosmetics. Now that the kids are back in school I plan to take a half day and fix up the speaker covers by rebuilding the pegs. Hopefully getting the issue out of sight will keep me from making things worse while trying to pop things back out.

I've never dated my speakers before, so I'm going out on a limb on this suggestion: May I suggest a nice bottle of wine to get the conversation going?

Just some statue's in front of another old building, the Louisiana State Capital building. The building is not cool like the other but the statue's are nice.

Classic. 😀😀😀

I just cleaned up my 30's with natural baby wipes wiped the wood surfaces first to run out the moisture a bit 1 wipe per speaker worked great they look like new now and they were pretty bad about 10 years of dust.

Bella Fleck and the Flecktones? That album must be sitting on the bottom of your shelf. JJK

I know that.

What is really interesting is Digital audio... let's say the recording part, is sampling. I'll use a sampling frequency of 88.2 thousand times a second. That's double a regular audio CD. You record the signal level 88.2 thousand times a second, like a picket fence going by. When those get played back at the same rate, just individual levels, you hear all the audio frequencies, tone, percussion, etc. It's magic!

I agree with Shakey. I’ve dug so far down the rabbit hole the next shovel full will put me into China. As you start spending more and more coin you will hear differences in presentation -

Hi there Andre and friends. Andre, look at that album and see if 'Jim Bell' is in the musicians lineup as guitarist. I will tell you more...

Today, out of nothing, I changed the gain setting of my iFi Zen Phono preamp to mm (see Pic). It had been on Mc high ever since I bought it. Although I have an mm cartridge, back then, I thought the Mc high setting sounded louder and therefore better. But today, after setting it to mm, I realise I was wrong all along. Set to mm, it sounds slightly less loud, but it is so much more well balanced, the highs and the lows I mean, and there is so much more subtleness to the recordings. I listened to Daft Punk's RAM, side 1 up to 4, Charly Hunter's Bing Bing Bing (jazz), and some obscure but excellent JS Bach harmonia Mundi record by Kuijken/Leonhardt, and the subtleness increase is present in all genres.

So today, I came home from work early as I'm not feeling well, and my apprentice is not either. I just spoke to him by phone and he says he has tested negative for Covid, but still feels bad. I'm old and broken down, so feeling bad is not unusual for me, but he's young and strong, and for him to be feeling that rough concerns me a bit. If you are a praying person, please send up some words for Ryan's health. That said, I thought I'd take a minute to sum up this thread for any interested parties by saying that last night I made the decision to spend a fair amount of money ordering a number of parts that will be going into my Cornwalls in an attempt to make them sound more like what I want. I won't detail what I'm planning here, as such things are understandably frowned upon by the good folks who host this forum, but I will be discussing the work on my YouTube channel, the link to which can be found on my profile page. It will be a couple of weeks before work begins, as it will take a while for all the parts to arrive from the various vendors. When it's all said and done, assuming I'm happy with the outcome, I will have a lot of original Klipsch parts for sale, and I will post them here before putting them on eBay, and that way perhaps someone can repair/restore their speakers with original parts. Thanks!

Hey Scott, did you know that the late Roger Modjeski said at the Burning Amp Festival almost a decade ago said that sonically he sees nothing wrong with an electrolytic capacitor. He also said if it were not for the tiny amount of leakage all electrolytic caps have he would have not problem using one for a coupling cap in a tube amp. Shocked me when I first heard him say that but at one time big electrolytics were used on the output of many amps and receivers. Nelson Pass still has projects that use a big, talking 10Kuf, on the output of the power transistors blocking DC getting to the speakers. Changed my attitude towards electrolytics in the audio path. What I have found restoring and recapping many old receivers from the past is heat is the enemy of capacitors. I always make it a point to check every capacitor I take out recapping and most test within tolerance and still work fine. The problem ones are always on the board that are upside down inside the amp or receiver trapping heat. They are almost always bad. Naturally there is always a failure of any component in an electronic device including capacitors sometime. Just a note on why products from Passlabs have capacitors that last for decades. IMHO that is. Companies like Nelson's use quality caps rated well above what they will ever see as far as voltage or watts never stressing them. That and keeping the inside of the product as cool as possible also contributes to long life. Very little average current is passing through a Klipsch speaker crossover. On an average of only a few watts at most. Most are out in the open where heat is not a big problem as well. Other than leaking oil most are not what a tech would call bad and will still function fine. One thing for sure though, changing capacitors will give you a different sound. Most say their speakers treble is brighter after doing so. Klipsch is now offering polyester capacitors for those desiring new capacitors with J&M and Dean selling and replacing them. For Klipsch crossover replacement or recapping Dean is the man to see. Getting back to what you perceive as a problem it is hard to believe there is something wrong with your drivers or horns along with your crossover capacitors testing OK. That is the reason I say your room or the amplifier you are driving them with could possible be the problem. Many times I have thought I had a problem during a test when it turned out to be my method of testing was not correct. Just saying. Do you still think the problem is in the speaker itself? You may want to throw some new film caps in just to see. Like me you probably have some in stock. Would not take must time and you never know. We cannot test everything that the ear hears. I am really happy to see another electronic guy on this forum. Look forward to learning from you and sharing our experiences. At one time I did make a living with electronics but not in the audio field. Except for a short time repairing car radios early in my 20's. Electronics now is just a hobby to pass some time doing something constructive in my old age, 74.

OK, so while I have been working in audio electronics for a while (since 1977), I am the new guy here, and I understand my place as such. So I definitely would not like there to be a "capacitor war" on my account. That said, I believe there's a lot more to cap replacement in crossovers than "is the old cap really bad." Changing from bipolar electrolytics to film caps can change the sound of a speaker, and not necessarily for the better. Sometimes, a crossover designer will voice a speaker with a certain kind of caps (and inductors, as well) that have maybe a bit more than the minimum ESR (or DCR in the case of inductors). Replacing these with "better" components can change the sound of a speaker considerably. I have a pair of smaller Advents on my main workbench as test speakers, and a couple of years ago I recapped the crossovers (it was necessary, the caps were seriously leaky) and I replaced the bipolar electrolytics with thumb-sized Nichicon film caps. This got rid of the excessive midrange reaching the fried egg tweeters (which is why I checked out the crossovers in the first place), but the VERY low ESR of the Nichicons made the top end brighter than normal. I've gotten kind of used to it, but at first it was bothersome. I may still add some 1 ohm resistors in series with the tweets to tame them down. That is, if I ever have time to fool with it.... The Cornwalls I have include what I believe to be the original oil caps. They tested well, and they're not physically leaking oil (and yes, you DEFINITELY can smell it when that happens), so I don't plan on replacing them any time soon. I don't think they're the root of the problem. I will be replacing the horn gaskets soon with some supplied by a friend who used to build PA speakers, and we'll see what that does. I just have to get them - and some time - first.

All dims approximate, H W D small 21 32 18 27hz med 26 37 21 24hz large 34 42 28. 18hz xlarge 47 45 30 14-15 hz

Well, a question as old as mankind. With a woman it can be bad, but without also. With woman it can be good, but without also. With Klipsch speakers it is always good.

DJK has recently commented that the LaScala doghouse is physically larger than it needs to be so why not use thicker material to stiffen the doghouse walls? If you have the physical space rather than build a LaScala build a Bells? If you have the room for a Belle why not rather build a Peavey FH1(see yellow image below)? The FH1 provides the same depth as a LaScala as well as a little additional width over a Bells so you get a larger mouth and a longer horn for a lower cut off and none of the wasted horn path as in the LaScala immediately after the first major 90 degree bend. This will result is some improvement in performance. There are other modern designs available as seen in this Caire design (bt01.pdf see below) though it is starting to get large for most domestic situations but has very good extension and could make for a very nice two way design with a K402 up on top. Caire have several other similar designs. Hope this is of interest. Best regards Moray James. bt01.pdf