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    Attention : jtnfoley ,Klipschorn oppurtunity

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

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    Those are the ones , after talking to the guy and him wanting to get rid of them . I figured if you could go see them in person you could pay him what you thought they were worth . It is hard to tell from a picture , if you offered him $1100 -$1200 for a pair of 1990 and had to do a little work on them it might be worth it to someone . That is a call for each person to make on their own.

    NH Criags List - Klipschorns $1500

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

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    I think Khorns are few and far between in the Northeast..........either there's not many of them, or those who have them don't want to give them up, can't say as I blame them.............seems to be a fair amount of other models here, Cornwalls come to mind...........Hang in there, you'll find a pair...........

    Yeah, I know. K-Horns perhaps someday.

    I was referring to availability of other models. I missed a set of Chorus IIs ($400) while waiting for another seller to respond, couldn't cross paths with the seller of a set of original Cornies, then DID find a set of Cornies which were sold out from under me.

    So, I grabbed a set of nearly mint oiled walnut Quartets (well, mint until I knocked a corner of the laminate off the top :cry: ) just to get my Klipsch fix. I was first respondant and paid $225.

    So far so good... my NAD T653 runs out of steam before the quartets start to break up ;) Normal listening and movie levels and they are sweeeet.

    I know where you can get a pair of 1990 Klipschorns ,out of Brooklyn for $1400- $1500 . If interested let me know 315 797-4053 ask for Mark , I screen my calls ,so start talking when answering machine comes on and I will pick up.

    Klipschorns and amplifier hiss...

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

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    I am running VRD's , I have Craigs blueberry -juicy music and I get the hiss with it . Craig has my Diva M7 pre-amp ,and to me it takes out just about all the hiss, if not all the hiss. Maybe he will post his impressions of my Diva.

    Mark,

    I get about the same hiss out of your Diva as I did out of my blueberry here in fact I get something out of it I never get out of the Blueberry a small amount of hum out of my woofers (very small) but its there just the same. Now that said I can hear nothing much out of either setup when I stand up two foot away! so I guess I don't understand why this stuff is even brought up if others are getting the same noise as I am. I mean I could see if you could hear this stuff from your seated position or within say 3' of your speakers, but I can't remember the last time I listened to music with my ear up to a 104db speaker [;)]

    As far as the Adcom I suggest you do like others and try to isolate the noise by shorting the inputs of the amp and see if the amp is really the culprit making the noise. A power amp is going to do its job and amplify whatever is presented too its input. The lower the input sensitivity of the amp is the more it will amplify it.

    Craig

    Craig,

    I wonder why that is, at the gathering when I swapped them ,no one heard any noise at all with my system . I wonder if it is the tubes , don't really know, just thinking out loud I guess and as you said if you can't hear it from your listening position ,it does not matter to me any ways.

    Klipschorns and amplifier hiss...

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

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    Your hiss is most likely preamplifier noise, not amplifier noise. See if it doesn't fall off or disappear with your amp on if you turn off or disconnect the preamp. Yes, naturally it's the efficiency of the K-horn, but only in tandem with the amount of preamp output noise and amplifier gain. I've had to do lots of gain-matching between preamps and amps in the past. Is the gain of your 545II adjustable? Try turning it down if you can.

    lc

    On my VRDs , the noise is there if I don't turn on my Diva preamp. Once I turn on the Diva pre ,the noise is gone.

    Klipschorns and amplifier hiss...

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

    Posted

    Hello,

    I have a pair of Klipschorns (1989 ) that are being run by Adcom components (GFP-565 preamp and GFA-545II high current amp which is rated at 100 w rms). Speaker cable is high end Kimber. This combo sounds very good except for the idle hiss when no music is being played. I suspect that this is due to the high efficiency of the speakers.?.?

    My question is, is there a better match for the Klipschorns in terms of a amp/pre-amp combo that sounds good and is more quiet during idle? I love the sound with the combo that I have now but the idle hiss is getting very annoying.

    I would also like to know what others are using for the amp/pre-amp components with the Klipschorns with great success...

    Any input would be appreciated...

    I am running VRD's , I have Craigs blueberry -juicy music and I get the hiss with it . Craig has my Diva M7 pre-amp ,and to me it takes out just about all the hiss, if not all the hiss. Maybe he will post his impressions of my Diva.

    .FEED BACK DESIRED ,[Daed , Dr. Pyro, thanks Whamo] Central New York [Utica N.Y.] Get Together

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

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    You know one thing I'm seeing mentioned here is comments on LP playback. I think all that attended this get together should take the playback at Mark's house with a grain of salt. This was just a simple quick setup and hardly what most of us LP's lovers would consider even remotely a good LP playback setup (no offense intended on this Mark). Yes getting up and down to flip LP's is a hassle. BUT even with a moderately priced modern turn table or a proper conditioned vintage rig and GOOD CONDITION LP's the playback of a good vinyl rig will wipe the floor with anything but high end ($2000 and up) CD players. Also building a nice LP collection is at least 10 fold less expensive then purchasing Cd's. But no LP will never be as convenient as CD.

    You want to hear excellent LP playback a good numbers of members here have top notch setups that would wipe the floor with CD rigs with sky's the limit budgets IMHO A record cleaning machine or good hand methods is a absolute must for used LP usage.

    Craig

    Craig,

    I should send you my CD player[on 2nd. thought no I shouldn't ,you probably would take me up on the offer ,and I want to relax and settle down for awhile[;)]] ,I think you would really like it , the reviewer on 6 moons compared it to his $1749 Cairn Fog reference CD player and Dr. Pyros Sony XA9000ES SACD is a high quality CD player and it is built like a tank ,probably goes 20 - 25 lbs. So we were listening to pretty high quality CD players . The phono I have is a decent one from the 70's a Technics SL-1700 direct drive semi automatic with a Shure catridge, not top of the line ,but in its day it was a decent turntable. With both the CD player and the turntable ,one could tell the difference with a quality recording over junk. I played one of the older crappy CD, The Best Of Mountain , it sounded terrible very flat ,one dimensional sound . I played a fairly decent LP and it sounded better than another LP ,I played earlier . I know that the LP's ,I had left laying around ,are not some of the "best" recordings out there , and some of the CD's I played were very good recordings . So all things have to be held in perspective . It took me all of 2 min. to setup the turntable.

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