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Reading the blog, there is this statement that is a little bit out of order: "As the stylus follows the grooves of the record, vibrations travel through the metal wires inside the tone arm and arrive at the cartridge at the tone arm’s end." ​We all know what Amy meant to say, but it might confuse someone that doesn't spin vinyl.

Love the penny!!! Currently rebuilding a couple of Russco Studio Pro B. One with the MicroTrack that was first put on it new.

I can't do too much to them right now. Second time I have broken my foot in 6 months! The CF-2's are out of the rotation right now, and moving them is going to be a bit longer...

nico boom: John Frick went on to become a salesman working from Hope all the way up into Canada. I dated his sister-in-law for a while. Stayed at his house in Fayetteville a few times, once when Gary and I were on a week long road trip through the Ozarks. I made a few trades with Ron Elmore, and knew Rick Fawcett very well. IIRC Ricky lived in PWK's old house for a couple of years. Those years are a blur....

I like the screen idea. My k-horns are in a detached building in a dedicated listening room away from the animals. The woman of the house is a dog groomer and boards others' dogs. For the area they have access to; I have Altec Lansing 9842D's mounted on the wall as they would have been in the studio. Animals can't get close to them. The room my CF-2's are in is gated off to the dogs. I haven't had any problem with the two cats trying to claw them. She trains her animals very well! Also, as to the declawing of cats; HORRIBLE! They can't defend themselves without claws and the practice is utterly cruel.

The only method I have seen done and what was recommended by Klipsch (at least I know it was what was done in the 70's) is to flip them and mount them against the ceiling.

This was done by the previous owner, along with the new capacitors. I use the adhesive, stretchy type of rubberized strips for weatherproofing vehicles, then spray that with rubberized vehicle undercoating to damp horns. The way this cabinet is built, there is little resonance to worry about. The horn is actually twice as thick as a comparative Klipsch horn. I have sold all my Heresy except for a KP-201. I kept this pair of Beta Sound. In my listening area, they sound better on a stand with a tilt back the same as the Heresy rise, but about 10" off the floor. The tuning slots on the rear mean that you have to play around with position much more carefully.

Debating on whether to put in an L-pad on my CF-2's to tame the horn a bit. The horn has had extensive damping done on it. The plastic lamination on the motor board has been removed and replaced with a high gloss piano finish. This is a series 1 version. The cabinets have been refinished. That is the extent of work done on these. Suggestions on L-pad, or changing the attenuation on the horn? The horn just seems to over-power the woofers.

Played a lot of poker with BG, Bobby Joe, and Gary, and others. In those years, fun times, Hope was.

I somehow missed the '76 photo. I will make sure to send a link to John Jones daughter. The '75 picture I posted she did not have and has very few of his time at Klispch. He was one of Paul's first employees. I think, in the first 5. You are right, BG is not in the picture. Boy, those names sure bring back some memories! A LOT of good times!!!

My first Heresy's were signed by Gwen Cox.

I moved to Hope in '76. Knew Andy well, also! It was a great counterculture in Hope in the late '70's. Nothing like it. What a wonderful time period to have been there. When i moved back to Prescott in '96 (worked at the Industrial Park so I went by the factory everyday), it just wasn't the same place. I have an ex-sister-in-law that lives in Oakhaven and has for many years. Did you go to any of the "Harvest Festivals"? I need to find the pics I took at the last one put on.

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If you are going to remove the trim, the easiest way to remove the oxidation is with an aluminum truck and trailer wash that contains hydroflouric acid. Any truck wash will have this. You need to protect the trim from air immediately after washing. I always thought that plating the trim with black chrome would look nice.

Gary was killed in a car wreck in the '80's. He bought Belle's Mercedes from PWK. I have some pics of that Mercedes going down an old logging road in the Ozarks to get to a swinging bridge over Big Piney. One of my best friends in Hope. I have seen Bobby Barham's sig on several pair. He was plant accountant later and sold me my first pair of Heresy's. I paid $400 for a pair in raw birch direct from the factory. I had done a lot of environmental work for Klipsch at that time. People that know a lot about the plant know that in the '70's the rendering plant that was located at the neighboring chicken plant was causing a LOT of odor problems. I was able to get the EPA to finally take some action to correct a slew of problems. Took several years. The State refused to act, and the EPA had to be dragged kicking and screaming to enforce anything. Long story.

I would be willing to trade for any Klipsch speakers with Gary Wheelington's signature on them. I sold my Belles, thanks to my ex-wife, that had his signature on the tag. Other people's signatures from '73 to '80 would also be desirable. I missed a pair of Klipschorns last year on the 'bay. Lots of stuff for trade. Just want to get back something signed by people that I know and have known (folks that are no longer with us).

I have a pair of CF-2's I might be persuaded to part with, but I am a long way from you!

Has anyone taken one of Coursera's online classes? My son turned me on to them. I plan on taking this one first: https://www.coursera.org/course/digitalsounddesign

I use Cat5e for making my own RCA interconnects for such distances. Twisted wire does cut down on the noise. Two Cat5e cables, use the white with stripes for -, and the colored wires for +; or the other way around. I twist the cables with a drill motor. You will need more than 50' for a 50' cable, to account for the twisting of the cables. hope that makes sense! I should also state that my ears don't hear a lot of difference at this age, so zip cord should be fine also and be the easiest. Making cables from Cat5e is a lot of work, but one guaranteed to eliminate cable noise. Obviously twisted wire is necessary to protect the signal in data transfer, and does the same for signals other than data. You can also slip a wiring shield over this cabling if you are crossing power wiring. Make sure that any cable you run does not run parallel, or alongside, of power cables. If you must cross power wiring, do so at a right angle to the power wires. Remember that at 50', you are reaching the limit on HDMI without amplification. I never understood (yes, I know it has to do with profits of designing a new connector) why consumers didn't force the use of ethernet cabling for all digital signals. The use of Cat5 would have made everything easier for all of us!

I should have also noted that the 8" between the main part of the house and the room over the garage contained decoupled studs. Most of the sound came into the house from the stairwell.

My next to the last HT room was the easiest. Bonus room over a three car garage. 2x4 side walls with cellulose, false wall for the projector screen with 1' of fiberglass, wall against the house was 8" cellulose, ceiling was 14" cellulose. room was 22'x42" with a large bath and open kitchenette at the rear. Something about the sloped ceilings made it very easy to equalize the sound. Anyone building a new house with cellulose, make sure that the insulator uses adhesive! Otherwise it will settle and lose both the energy and sound insulation properties. I always prefer fiberglass to cellulose for sound insulation, but this room worked very, very well! Always easiest to design pre-construction. My latest room build is going to be inside a separate garage building with existing 2x6 fiberglass insulated walls with 16" cellulose in the ceilings, designed for K-horn mains, Belle center, La Scala rears, and Heresy fronts. New walls inside (2) will be 2x6 with fiberglass. Interior treatments will be added as needed.