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I will be making a stereo pair. I meant sets... I am sure they would sell.

Also, everyone keep in mind we are one of the only major loudspeaker companies who even have a message board on their website. With Amy getting the heck outta Dodge, I'm left to monitor things here myself (with Alex and the couple moderators we have grandfathered in from the old forums). I do what I can to maintain and monitor the forums, but I definitely do not have the time to look at every topic or even every sub-section. If we had a dedicated community manager whose job was to ONLY work with the forums, then I could see something like this existing. I must simply say at this time, thanks for the suggestion (it's not a bad one - it is just one that needs moderation on a greater level than what we have), but don't look for that to happen any time soon, if ever. On the subject of forum moderators - I've been toying with the idea of recruiting a couple more from our user base. Amy's stance has always been you guys are "self-policing", and I will respect that. However moderators on a forum are a necessity. No action will be done on this yet, but I'm considering it for the future. I also hope that by shooting down this particular suggestion, I'm not shooting down the possibility of future suggestions being made here. We will consider all suggestions made regarding the forum, so please keep them coming! Not that I want the job... or there is a job available... But I have moderated on a couple large format forums and still do on an ongoing basis for Internet Brands on one of their Automotive sites.

if you're going to make one... you might as well take the time and make 2 or 3 of them...

I am wondering if Klipsch, or the family, has every thought about putting out a coffee table book, not about coffee tables, but about the history (in pictures) of Klipsch and PWK?

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I think I would leave them alone also...

Paw? is this a trick question? BTW, how has life been living with these for several weeks now?

OP... you have a cnc machine there... can't you just draw the plans and digitize the rings your self? when I look at the physical layout it's relatively simplistic and very straight forward once you decide on a dispersion pattern. there perhaps is even a different pattern you can develop that might be better.

Oh Say Can you See...

please take plenty of pictures BEFORE LEAVING.

thanks for the invite... I am not behind the orange curtain anymore otherwise I would surely go.

I usually smear bacon grease all over just my body as opposed to the cabinets and floor... but hey, whatever floats your boat.

I think a 2" driver is what I want next...

Anything good here? http://lasvegas.craigslist.org/msg/4502839633.html

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Pass judgement... I think they look damn fine. Those speakers look WAY MORE refined and "finished". some folks complain and don't realize that there are price pressure considerations and when you offer them premium product of no compromise they say... "Wow, those are so expensive". damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Here... let me help.

that makes no sense. it's that idea that really stops progress. we're not talking about advertising... banners... sponsers etc. We're talking about a sub section in the Garage sale thread, like "alerts", that would be specifically a place for companies to put in goods and services... it would also be a place for those companies, many of which are one man operations, to keep potential customers up to date with new ideas, goods and services and to answer potential customers specific questions. A concise point of attack for potential customers to get access to AUTHORIZED resellers, upgrade artists and the like is only a good thing. of course, this would not be free for those advertisers... unless Klipsch wanted it that way.

Horn lens looks more highly developed/refined. I think they look good for what they are trying to be with price point considerations being factored in.

1...2... what's the difference. A day without a Cornwall is like a day without Sunshine!

Outstanding... I am so happy to have found the Klipsch Family.

You have to hear them directly. There's no way to "record" them and compare them without sacrificing the essential differences in sound. A tube or a transistor is an ingredient in an amplifier. More than being marked by a specific sound, those individual ingredients have certain characteristics when used in a design. The ingredient doesn't guarantee any certain outcome in sound. "Audio amplifier" is one a many kinds of circuits that use tubes/transistors. Transmitters, receivers, and power supplies are other kinds. It turns out that tubes are the almost perfect device for audio amplifiers when compared to transistors. This would not be true for video amplifier inside a TV, or a power supply inside a computer, two circuits where transistors would be superior. The success of an audio amplifier (at the high end) is all about the character of distortion it produces. The ear is very, very particular about what kind of distortion is tolerable. This is why tubes shine for audio amplifiers. A vacuum tube triode is a naturally perfect amplifier where a transistor is not. A transistor is more of a natural switch. You have to force it to perform well as an amplifier, by adding a lot of correction circuitry. A simple triode needs none of that correction circuitry to perform nearly flawlessly as an audio amplifier. That's the easy objective part of the comparison. Because transistors are far cheaper devices today than tubes, there is a tremendous incentive to try to force these transistors to perform like triodes (just like there is a huge incentive to use artificial flavor in packaged food instead of natural flavor). And engineers have gotten very, very good at doing just that. So, a handful of transistors + a lot of cleverness = a good sounding SS amplifier. But it doesn't really change the nature of the device. You would think then, that there would be some kind of universal agreement that for audio amplifiers, tubes sound better - - but, of course that would be too simple! The problem is complicated by three things: 1. Desires and goals of the user 2. Desires and goals of the designer 3. Difficulty to categorize subjective ideals Users all talk (especially among audio enthusiasts) as though they have a common goal for the sound they like. Believe me, that is not true. Forget the words they use, they all have different ideas about the meaning of "good sound." It's like asking "what is good food?" And, on the other side, every designer has a different set of goals they are working to. In a big company, like Sony, or HarmonKardon, designers are driven heavily by cost. The company wants a series of amps selling for $399, $599, $899. The engineer must first and foremost meet these goals or face the boss. In a smaller company, where maybe the engineer is also the owner, he might be willing to have the cost be the lowest goal, and make the sound quality be the highest goal. But is he using the same sonic reference points as his customers? His competitors? Anyone? Or, is he off on his own journey looking for the sound he has come to love? For example, ask 10 artists to paint a picture of the Grand Canyon, or ask 10 poets for a poem about love. That's exactly the kind of latitude that exists for any engineer designing an audio amplifier. One painter may make an almost photo-realistic painting of the canyon, while another uses a huge brush with intense swatches of brilliant color which conveys the emotion of the canyon more than any specific geographic detail. Which one conveys "Grand Canyon" the best? Depends on who is viewing it, right? Making really musical sounds from records, tapes and CDs is really just like painting and poetry. Choices have to be made by the "painter" about what is important to convey to the listener. Those choices have undeniable consequences. For instance, if you choose to reduce the measured distortion (THD) to the smallest possible number (0.001%) you will need a lot of corrective circuitry. Using that circuitry has the good effect of lowering measured distortion, but the bad effect of making the sound seem smeared and lifeless. Think about medicine: there is ALWAYS a long list of "side effects." On many modern medicines, one of the most common side effects is "death." Amplifier design works exactly like medicine design. You must accept all the long list of side effects along with the benefits. For all these reasons, an enthusiast who wants the best possible amplifier, must experiment with lots of amplifiers, and learn about these good and bad effects, and find out what tradeoff satisfies their ear (doctors often have to prescribe several different blood pressure medications for a patient until they find one that has the least objectionable "side effects.") All amplifiers are a set of compromises between the good and bad effects. All of them. There is no perfect amplifier. All listeners have different tolerance for side effects. At the very top end of the audio mountain, where people have had years to experience all the different options, and come to their conclusions, you will find both tube amplifiers and SS amplifiers! My god... I can not make heads or tails out of this.

Musical Fidelity A300 Dont know if this is a good deal or not...

I think the empirical experience is very clear on these to this point... that somehow Jupiter has really something special to offer. How this is accomplished or why it happens to be this way is anyone's guess... but it's a truism, these things are WONDERFULLY NATURAL. Sound comparison is a little more problematic for me as I am one of those AB/back and forth observers and I think this is especially true, for me, if things are really close in comparrison. However, I also think it is relatively easy and fairly unmistakable, when you are layering upgrades, to know if that upgrade is of benefit or moves you forward after you have lived with something for an extended period. Change isn't always good, but it is however change.

I'd do any polishing OFF the speaker if possible...depending on how you want it to look, fine SW works great but if you want a mirror finish your going to need elbow grease or a polishing wheel. after which you want to clear coat otherwise oxidation will occur over time.