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1210GAE 😍👍

Ain't she pretty! Sorry, I have the GAE in Black, w/SME 309 arm. Congrats on a fine machine. Enjoy getting to know her.... Happy spinning 😜

Throw 'em down and go Mustang! She should sound great!

WTG @mustang_flht Awesomeness! Now you can get into the Groove I am sure you will find many hours of great sounds with this TT

Here you go

Hello everyone ! I present to you my new turntable, I received it yesterday, it's a Technics SL-1210G (the one with the bronze brass platter). It's wonderful, I'm listening to Charlie Hunter Trio on it. @KROCK has the same (in Silver it seems to me) for its mono monitors https://www.discogs.com/fr/master/819466-Charlie-Hunter-Trio-Bing-Bing-Bing 🤩

FedEx delivered my Halloween treat yesterday. I took advantage of a @Paducah Home Theater blowout deal on some KI-102-SMA-II to use as six Atmos speakers in my Jubilee 5.0 system. Unfortunately, I've hit a bit of a snag. The only painted ones in the blowout stock were the black ones with the 70V transformer for use in distributed audio systems. However, it turns out that this model speaker does not have dual speaker wire connections to be able to simply not use the transformer. So, I'm going to have to do some minor surgery on these to disconnect the transformer and connect the crossover directly to the input cup. I'm hoping it will be fairly easy as the solder connections on the input cup are big enough for even my terrible globby soldering. 😁 If I can't do it properly, the boys in Paducah offered to have me send the speakers to them for modification. The other option is to find a 70V amp with at least six discrete channels. However, that's looking like a more expensive and complicated option than the conventional multichannel amp I was considering. One other thing I need for this system change to the system is to replace my 7.1 processor with an Atmos/DTS-X one. Since the funds need to build back up for that, this Atmos upgrade to the system may take a few months to complete. One interesting thing I noticed about these speakers is that the tweeter phase plug looks like a scaled down version of the custom wide dispersion phase plug on the Heritage Jubilee.

As I used the 1210 Series three and a half decades ago as a prof. DJ , I´m happy that these outstanding tt is still alive and beeing better than ever before. Have a lot of fun my french vinyl buddy Guy 😁

Am I allowed to say That is a sexy rig 🤘

Don't worry @KROCK I've got a nice lil stack of lp's I'm going to get into in the next couple days. Just for you since you've been teasing me! Gotta suit up right now and hit the leaf duty here in the hood!

@OilyBoy and @KT88 love the photos. You guys Rock. Travis

My current configuration. The Quad 606 I bought cheaply four months ago and installed new electrolytic capacitors, because I want to drive the bass with it and with a Quad 306 the K402 TAD. At the moment I have other projects, when the time comes and it is ready you are welcome to visit me, I probably have the only UJ in Germany.

Thela Hun Ginjeet Heat in the jungle

Generally speaking, EQs work best when you’re reducing frequencies rather than raising them.

I have three THX-504-L speakers that I plan to use as LCR in a home theatre setup. I'll be building a media wall/baffle wall at the end of my room into which the speakers will be mounted. I am assuming that a sealed enclosure behind each speaker will give me the best results but I'm unclear what volume the enclosure should be. I did email Klipsch support but they just said: I can't afford to use a professional installer so can anyone here provide any information please? I'm just after the optimal volume for the enclosure. Thanks in advance.

I bought some Klipsch Icon VF36 speakers used only to find out the one of the K-138 tweeters are toast i also found out they are no longer manufactured thanks Klipsch. They are used in several models from what i have seen and i have noticed that you can buy the diaphragms off Ebay. But while taking mine apart it looks to be a challenge i cant seem to get the tweeter separated completely anybody had this problem? or repair ? please send me in the right direction on these or show me the complete breakdown of these any help would be nice Thanks Roger

I still haven't invited you because it's still not operational with the active crossover. Not because I didn't want to invite you. There were so many other things to do in the family. The passive version as it still is would not have been good enough to demonstrate. Feel free to think it over until spring. You are very welcome.

I have the impression that many new owners of old vintage Klipsch speakers always act much too fast and are much too impatient. Replacing the bass chassis would be the least sensible thing to do. My 1977 bass chassis in my Lascala play like the first day. You should innovate a little more systematically. As DeanG says, first swap the caps for polyester types if the original Aerovox are damp. Later change the rubber rings between K55V and K400, they are mostly crumbled but very important for good sound. The diaphragms of the K55V could...later then maybe also be exchanged. The K77M tweeter should be completely ok if they are still original. You can remove one of the diodes in the tweeter circuit to open this circuit. There is not much more to do. Maybe you can reseal the bottom plate with insulating tape to be able to drive the K33 full bass. Many new owners are not only impatient but they are doing way too much. Worst if you do everything at the same time.

Tx Heinz , very appreciated

He already has

Congrats guys 8-) My wife has bought Belles for our living room and approved new Jubilees for music room... Better than a motorcycle 8-)

I know that ChrisA has lowered his K402s a if I recall correctly a measured improvement. He no longer posts here...

Claypool is always a good show and that made it an even better show!

I know the feeling LOL. i was told i had the only 3way system ever sold in europe. but i found it hard to believe, and Klipsch has no records as far as i know. having said that, i am kind of convinced that i am the only owner of a pair of UG jubilees (2way/3way) in the Netherlands. so now we can form a european association with 2 members 😎🤣

I guess, infinite baffle. Thanks all.

I prefer a sealed enclosure with a port at the rear for optimal sound because I want the woofers to dig as low as they can ,

even the spec sheet says infinite baffle. I mean that is straight from Klipsch. I may not be a "professional installer" but I do sell Klipsch speakers, including a lot of architectural stuff and I have a ton of them in my house. they are all installed as open baffle and I have zero issues with them being that way.

It is @OO1

make sure to use the Formula V = l x w x h to calculate the internal volume of the enclosure based on the dimensions of the RP-504C II which is the closest to the THX-504-L HEIGHT INCHES (MM) 6.87" (17.4 cm) WIDTH INCHES (MM) 32.06" (81.4 cm) DEPTH INCHES (MM) 15.08" (38.3 cm)

the k-138 are out of stock , klipsch may not make new batches , call klipsch Parts directly 800-554-7724 or email klipsch link ▶️ https://support.klipsch.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

I'm just after the best way to install them as there is no guidance on that from Klipsch that I can find. They just suggested "reaching out to a professional installer" but I'm not in that market.

Welcome @wokbelly1...

I dont have experience with te HF200. The funny thing is.. i bought my Jubs with original k69 drivers. at that time i did`nt knew that there were people upgrading their jubilees with different drivers. total newbie. about a year later i bought a beautifull pair of Cornscala type D with 510 horns (with mumps) and the Faital HF20AT drivers, also 16ohm btw. they were a project from a dutch forum member (dont know if he is still active here). xovers were from Crites but the cornscalas lacked every form of magic. I had a pair of new xovers made by Werner Jagusch (mast_mutter on Ebay), the same guy who build the 3way xovers that came with my jubes when i bought them. this was an improvement. later i got to chat with Craig from Houston TX on the forum (Born2rock) and what a coiincidence.. he was using this exact same drivers on his 2way jubilees. (5 of them in one room .. legend). He told me this would make a significant upgrade over the K69 driver so with a little help from Craig via Messenger i swapped the drivers between the Cornscalas and the jubes. (and turned my jubes into 2way). i also took the 510 horns with mumps out of the CS and swapped them for my 510s (tweeter section of the 3way jubilee) so if i ever want to go 3way with the jubes i have the new version of the 510 horns waiting in storage. Funny thing is that the Cornscalas sounded better with the K69 driver than with the Faital. Maybe had to do with the pairing with the xovers.. dont know. Anyway the Cornscalas are now sold to a new happy owner and i kept the Faital drivers. I am still reading about upgrading to the new Herritage Jubilee drivers, i foud a whole article from Chris on DIYaudio about this upgrade, but i`m not sure yet. I added a picture of the 3way passive xovers that came with my jubilees, i still own them but i think they are better for lets say a Khorn or some other beautiful project. If anybody is interested in them feel free to send me a message. But when Craig did the REW magic and dialed the Xilica in there was no going back. all of a sudden the jubes came to life. Last picture you see Craig (Who was in NL at the time) dialing the jubes in with the THTLP subs upside down in the corners behind them. I also lowered the horns so the driver height is at ear position. on Craigs advise.

Sometimes a push in dust cover can be vacuumed out

I have my McIntosh C50 with 8-Band EQ Tone Control setup within easy reach of my listening position and it’s very instinctive to adjust while listening for the most musical and realistic reproduction when recordings benefit from it and easily bypassed with one button push when listening to excellent recordings. miketn

Nothing was purchased from me. So I guess another faux “upgrade” from you know who.

The youngest looking 70+ year old Adrian Belew still having fun

In this order after speakers: Room treatment Good amplification Good sources Good cables Comfy chair Top shelf bourbon Warm wool socks Other important stuff that I might have forgotten Equalizer

In my experience, the higher wattage brings a greater solidity to the sound, especially in the bass, where the sound gains a feeling of more authority. Of course, this assumes that all conditions are equal, as in the amplifier being the only change in a given system. When comparing one system with another, the room size and dimensions are probably different, along with the speaker positioning. I bring up speaker positioning because of the effect it has on both speaker sound quality and sensitivity. I have the impression that to achieve their advertised sensitivity, most Heritage speakers should be located very close to or directly in two adjacent room corners. If your room makes this inconvenient or impossible, the speakers will not be located in the ideal 1/8 space, but in 1/4 space, or maybe even in 1/2 space in extreme cases, far out into the room. Most often, the speakers will be located in an approximation of one or two of these spaces. Accordingly, in a listening room like mine, where neither speaker can be directly in a corner, due to a baseboard heater on one side and a large room opening on the other side, the speakers can't achieve their potential sensitivity. As well, the speakers are voiced to sound correct when they're placed close to or directly in the room corners. Chief bonehead is welcome to correct me if I'm wrong. Once these speakers are placed along a wall, rather than in a corner, their tonal balance will change, with the most noticeable effect being weakened bass. This situation calls for the help of a subwoofer or two, just to regain the proper bass response, not to augment it. I had wondered why some people are quite happy listening to La Scalas without subs, and had thought it was because of different tastes in music or the like. However, thinking back, at least one LS owner posted a picture of his system with the speakers placed tightly in the room corners. In that situation, his La Scalas would certainly produce more bass than mine, apparently enough to totally satisfy him. This combination of factors makes it hard to compare one system with another. In the absence of absolutes, we may just have to fall back on that inexact ranking by satisfaction level, maybe something like 1: "I give up. I'm buying Bose!" 2: "Could be better. A lot better." 3: "Pretty good on a good day." 4: "Really good, but could benefit from some upgrades." 5: "This is it. It's all I've ever needed or wanted." Sound about right?

I have 3way jubs but i turned them in to 2way as advised by most of the forum members. I never heard the 3way fully dialed in since i was on my own at that time and did not have the know how about DSP and REW. So i used them whith a 3way passive xover from Werner Jagush and also with a DSP with the factory settings from klipsch. but all the magic was missing offcourse due to the lack of REW and tuning. By the time that Craig came over to do the REW/Xilica magic i allready turned them into 2way. offcourse i kept all the parts and stored them. so i can turn them back into 3way anytime. but i have to say that at this moment they sound magical and the soundstage is bigger than big so i dont see any reason to do that. and the upside is that they are a bit smaller (lower) now (not that size is a problem in my room). if i could name one thing i like the least (or love a little less) about my current setup it would be the lack of real deep bass which by now i tackled by installing the THTLP subs and sometimes i miss a little agression in the form of bass punch from the jube LF bins. they dont move much air. everybody says the bass is the big difference with the Herritage jubes (no subs needed etc.) so i am very curious on that issue) but i do have to say that my room is quite big, has a very high ceiling and i also have not done anything about soundproofing yet so i m not sure how good my acoustics are at the moment. But Craig told me they sound awesome and come close to his system (which is a fully tuned sound proofed room) sorry for my bad english. speaking is always easyer than typing.

I agree with about half of what you say there, and not at all with the other half. Yes, in spite of all the measurements, home audio can still be pretty subjective, with some very dedicated fans of one type of equipment or another. Where I strongly disagree is with your statements that minds cannot be changed. That suggests a closed mind, or even two or more factions, each with their own closed minds. That's the opposite of what the Forum is about, as I see it, anyway. We're here to exchange and share ideas, and to share the joy that our sound systems bring us. Yes, I know that some guys would not ever want to admit to using the word "joy", when they're sober, anyway, but that's what great sound, or great bikes or cars, for that matter, can bring us. Yes, belittling and name calling, in other than well-intended attempts at humour, bring down the level of everything good on the Forum, so that's obviously no good. I'll mention something that I think I've only mentioned once before, a long time ago, so there should be no eye-rolling if I relate it again. Here it is: I've been a big motorbike fan since I was a teenager, and I still enjoy talking about them. One day I got chatting with a co-worker, back when I was a millwright. He told me that over a long period of time, he'd owned a BMW RT sport-touring bike, a Harley-Davidson Sportster, and a Honda Gold Wing. He'd found that each one was a good bike, very effective at the type of riding it was intended for, and just what he liked when he'd owned it. What made him laugh was that each bike had its own group of dedicated, maybe dedicated to the point of being rabid, deadly serious fans. As far as each group was concerned, their Chosen Bike was the greatest thing on two wheels, and anything else was pretentious trash, ridden by ill-informed suckers who either would benefit from hearing what they should be riding, or who were too far gone to learn anything at this point. Sound familiar? No, we don't have to get along, but it's a much better Forum if we do. Also, there's so much that we can learn here. As well as making friends, I've probably tripled what I knew and thought I knew when I first joined. Let's keep it that way, friends.

After looking at the Jubilee setup in the picture and your comments about them fiddling with the DSP bass/treble gain controls, I'm fairly confident in saying that you probably did not hear Jubilee as they should sound. Unfortunately, I think some of the blame rests with Klipsch for not providing adequate detailed guidance for properly setting the Jubilee up. The manual is definitely inadequate for the task. After having them in my relatively small living room for a year and a half now, I have some of my own "lessons learned" that I'm hoping will make it into a future version of the manual or at least a Klipsch blog post linked to the product page. The first is to have speakers positioned such that main listening position is as close to on-axis of the K-402 horn as is practical, both horizontally (i.e., via proper toe in) and vertically (i.e., tilt the horn down as necessary). The manual gets the toe in part mostly correct but does not mention anything about possibly tilting the horn down when needed. Next is getting the in-room bass response correct. This is where Klipsch really needs to provide guidance as what I'm about to say I only know because of my own experience or from information that came directly from @Chief bonehead. Unlike the Klipschorn or the Underground Jubilee, the new Jubilee does not need to be near a corner for full bass response. Roy has said on this forum that the Heritage Jubilee is designed to curve flat in half-space (on the floor away from the room walls). This is not mentioned in the manual. So, once the new Jubilee are placed near walls or corners (as they will likely be in most normal-sized rooms), there will be room gain that will cause a departure from flat response. They can start to sound boomy. In my room most of this gain was in the very low end (20 - 30 Hz range), so it wasn't apparent when listening to a lot of pop/rock material. However, once I put on material that had significant content in that range (e.g., certain orchestral music), things became unlistenable. This cannot be corrected with the gain knobs on the DSP as that's not what they are for. Some other form of bass room correction is needed to fix this. Unfortunately, the Jubilee DSP cannot be used for this as the end user cannot modify the settings. I feel that this is a mistake on Klipsch's part. They should open up the DSP for those who know what they are doing. This forces the user to use an additional level of processing for bass correction, either automatic room correction systems like Audyssey, Dirac, etc. or manually with another DSP or parametric EQ. Luckily, my processor has a multichannel parametric EQ built-in that is compatible with REW. So, at least I didn't need any other external gear to do this correction manually in my room. I have a feeling that the people running the demo at that show weren't aware of any of this. Therefore, they were constantly fiddling with the bass in the hope of getting it right and failing.

Watching as well!

I have yet to have an issue with either my R6's or X7's. I would recommend either set and often do. From what you wrote it sounds like you are really hard on your equipment. I know some 'In Ear Headphones' come with detachable cables but the hardware to support this feature introduces weight. While the idea is good the extra weight just is not worth it in my book. If you take proper care the cable should last a very long time. More chance of dropping your 'In Ear Headphones' in a cup of coffee than breaking the cable. http://www.klipsch.com/Education/headphones-faq

Good FAQ here: http://www.klipsch.com/Education/headphones-faq I think it would be good for the FAQ to be right on the product pages. The FAQ is not easy to find but well worth the look. I have a pair of the X7's and I got my wife a pair of the R6;s. Both are awesome in their own rights.

This might help... someone just bypassed the connector which is one way to do it!

Been a long time since I posted here but my Klipsch Promedia Ultra 5.1's got the loud hum a couple of years back and I just switched to the Klipsch 2.1 set I also had. Just no time to look at it. So the Ultra' s have been setting in my storage area for a long time just waiting for me to look at them. Well I picked up two 100uf cap's from Radio Shack and my Klipsch Promedia Ultra 5.1's are as good as new! All good again!

I also remember OB in the 'Members Weekly Music Recommendation'. Very sad news. OB will be missed. Greg

Talkie Walkie - Air Audio CD (February 17, 2004) Original Release Date: February 17, 2004 Genre: Electronica 1. Venus 2. Cherry Blossom Girl 3. Run 4. Universal Traveler 5. Mike Mills 6. Surfin' On A Rocket 7. Another Day 8. Alpha Beta Gaga 9. Biological 10. Alone In Kyoto The official website for `Air`. http://www.intairnet.org/ http://www.intairnet.org/intro.html Air (band) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_%28band%29 Air is a French duo, consisting of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel. Nicolas Godin studied architecture at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles whereas Jean-Benoît Dunckel studied mathematics before forming a band in 1995. Their debut EP, Premiers Symptômes, was followed by the critically acclaimed album Moon Safari, the re-release of Premiers Symptômes, The Virgin Suicides (soundtrack), 10,000Hz Legend, Everybody Hertz, and Talkie Walkie. Although Air's music is often referred to as electronica, their form of electronic music really owes more to the synthesizer sounds of the 1970s such as Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Pierre LeBouef and Francis Lai. Other influences are psychedelic rock pioneers Pink Floyd; Krautrockers Tangerine Dream; Jean-Jacques Perrey (although there are some echoes of dance music styles in the production); and French crooner Serge Gainsbourg. Air's music also has jazz inflections at times. If you love Electronica this group from France will fill the bill. Listening to the catchy rhythm or 'Air` songs you will find yourself playing the song in your head throughout the day. Greg's picks: Alpha Beta Gaga and Cherry Blossom Girl Yes Greg really likes this CD!