hurdy_gurdyman

>>You people with your last words and tributes make me throw up!!!! Where were you all yesterday, last week, a year ago? No one has ever mentioned John Ritter on this site before now, now that he bite it, Oh he waaas suuuuch wonderful person. GET A LIFE PEOPLE!!!! Your weak mined. You act like this guy was your best friend because you saw a rerun of three's company once. Or you bought Johnny Cash's CD and he is now your long lost brother. MOVE ON !!!<< I for one am old enough to have watched EVERY episode of three's company (watched them several times over) and the Johnny Cash Show, which was a favorite in my family. I am a big fan of each, and my grief, as I'm sure are many others, is real. Dave

I grew up listening to Johnny Cash, who was my parents favorite artists. Then, in the seventies, Three's Company" was one of my favorite shows. Both men will be missed. I, also, will play Johnny Cash on my Heresy's later. Dave

Thought I'd add that I just picked up a LK-48-B off ebay at a good price. This is by far the best souding tube amp I've owned so far, better then my Fisher 500C even. Thos old Scotts are great! And, my Heresy's love it! Dave

Being a new owner of a pair of old Heresy's myself, I must agree that these are amazing speakers. VERY detailed, at times almost too much. Can make bad recordings almost unbarable, but good recordings can sound unbelievably good! Dave

I added an updated response graph for my Heresy's after doing several tweeks and placing on 7 inch stands. Gives a good look at what a few tweeks can do. Liking them more all the time! Dave http://www.geocities.com/the_hurdy_gurdyman/ Click on more upgrades.

I'm going to try repairing the veneer. If that doesn't look good, I may just put on new veneer. I re-veneered a cello once so a speaker shouldn't be that dificult. Dave

Oops, forgot the dot com. http://www.geocities.com/the_hurdy_gurdyman/ Monkeys go with barrel organs, not true hurdy-gurdies. Dave

Actually, I build and play the hurdy-gurdy. Check me out here. http://www.geocities/the_hurdy_gurdyman/ Dave

Hi all, Last week my wife and I were out hitting the garage sales when I spotted these ugly looking stained plywood boxes with some veneer missing on a couple edges. I was intrigued by the horns in them as the tweeters were looking a lot like EV T-35's. I went and took a look on the back. Klipsch Heresy. Cool! I asked a young lady (college student?)if they worked and she said they were her boyfriend's and he said they work. I asked how much. She said $5.00. HUH? SOLD! They were hooked up to a Sound design receiver, so no wonder her boyfriend wasn't happy with the sound! When I hooked them up I found one tweeter wasn't working. Opened the back and found a wire unhooked. Tweeter now works fine. I've been tweeking since I brought them home (I'm an addicted tweeker). They have improved a lot with the tweeks. To read what I've done and get my impressions, you can check here on the Decware forum. http://www.decware.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi? board=General&action=display&num=1062359380 I don't get this lucky often. They sound VERY good on my vintage Scott LK-48-B integrated. Dave

Hi everyone, I'm new here, but found this interesting thread and wanted to contribute. I recently picked up a pair of heresy 1's. I also did the basket and horn damping thing,only I used plummers petty. This is a very worth while tweek and clean things up a lot. The main reason for my post is concerning the claim of great bass with the back off. I also own a pair of EV fullrange wolverine drivers in an open baffle. You need to hear open baffle bass once to appriciate this. Bass is super clean! No boxiness of any kind. The Klipsch with the back off has esentially become an open baffle. Besides having less box sound, an even bigger reason for clean bass is the radiation pattern. A normal box has an omni-directional bass pattern, with bass going in all directions equally. This excites a lot of room modes, thus causing response problems like boominess. An open backed, or dipole, speaker has a figure 8 pattern. This has energy going only to the front and back, with almost nothing going off to the sides. There are far less room modes being excited. The bass will, therefore, sound much cleaner, but won't go as deep. Hope I've been able to help a bit with this contribution. BTW, I love the tweeked heresy's. Going to a music fest tomorrow and won't be back till Sunday night. Will log in again then. Later, Dave, hurdy_gurdyman http://www.geocities/the_hurdy_gurdyman/