Travis In Austin

I have heard nothing but great things about these if there are what I’m thinking they are. I think @dtel got one when he hooked his pro active crossover with balanced I/O to consumer amps (RCA) and there was hum. It killed the noise/hum and all was good. Travis

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Some updated information from the JEM Performance Website: https://jemperformanceaudio.com/capacitor-kits Available Capacitor Kits The following is a list of the capacitor kits that are currently available. Kits marked with a * are high frequency only kits. They do not contain the woofer capacitors. The woofer capacitors are shunting capacitors and are not in the signal path. They were very well made and rarely need replacing. Please call 412-401-6915 for kit pricing information or email me at theaudioroom@verizon.net. A B AA B-2 AB B-3 AB-2 E AK* E-2 AK-2* Heresy II AK-3* Forte AL Forte II AL-2 Cornwall II AL-3 Chorus KG-4 Chorus II Quartet Capacitor Kit Installations If you do not feel comfortable installing the capacitor kit yourself, I offer installation of the following kits: A - AA - AB - AB2 - AK* - AK2* - AK3* - AL - AL2 - AL3 - B - B2 - B3 - E - E2 - Cornwall II - KG4 *indicates high frequency kit installation only - NO woofer capacitors. These networks contained high quality foil capacitors that rarely need servicing. It is also best not do remove the woofer door where these capacitors are located as you will need to re-seal the woofer door and check for leaks after removal to insure the woofer horn is air tight. If you are interested in this service, please contact me at theaudioroom@verizon.net for pricing and turn-around time.

I will contact you directly about the parts and the turntable, thank you for your time Jim. Travis

By the way, what brands it turntables do you carry, cartridges?

This is the contact info I have from another thread, is this still current: I don't have much time to respond to questions via this forum but I can be reached during normal business hours at theaudioroom

Thank you for the response. do you sell Klipsch parts other than Calicut or kits such as drivers, woofers, diaphragms?

Has anyone seen @JEM Performance recently, I have a technical question for him.

I believe they are for sale in the Klipsch Museum shop, @dtel's wife should know for sure and have a photo, mockup

Maybe @Chief bonehead will be around here this weekend to verify this. Not sure if ACE will be open on Monday, nothing around here is except HEB and firework stands.

Roy has been teaching us at Jubefests and other venues why in Professional Cinema they offer a similar product in a 2,3 and 4 way, it is strictly a matter of power, getting the sound to the rear of the venue. (A two-way, with a 2" mid CD, will beam the same as a three-way with 2" CDs, and the same as a 4 way with 3 2" drivers). So all he needs to know for pro-cinema is: How large is the cinema? All he needs to know is the depth and width, the depth is going to tell him whether it is going to require a 2, 3 or 4-way, and the width is going to tell him how many systems will be required across the front 3 (LCR), 5 (L, LC, C,RC, R). It's strictly a matter of the power required, for deeper rooms it requires more power and a 2-way or 3-way won't be able to handle it. With DSP he can cross it over without loss of speech intelligibility or high end. Since the UG 2-way had more than enough power to handle a typical home environment that's what it was. Then Roy got his hands on TAD be CDs and made those available and that helped with some of the HF limitations the K-69 had. But all 2" compression drivers start to beam at 7 Khz, even if you could get away with a 1" CD for the HF, it still starts beaming at about 13 Khz, This is born out by the measurements of Joseph Crowe you posted above (which were with his horn, and passive padding). I think the main reason the Axi was chosen is the low distortion (the result of the massive 5" voice coil) and that he could get the beaming up way above 7 Khz with his external extended phase plug. The two top design principles of PWK for accurate reproduction, low distortion and controlled directivity. I don't know how large the room is you are talking about, but when the demonstration pair was sent around the country to various dealers (this was the same pair we heard in Hope), they were sent to a dealer in North Carolina where they were set up for 2 ch listening in a home type environment, and then they were taken to a 400 seat auditorium (Lincoln Theater) where they served as the PA for a live band and, apparently, the dealer was floored with the sound. I can't imagine them having trouble handling a residential media/listening room with a depth of up to 40'. But there have been a few people who went with 3-way (Jubilee 535-B). The one with the most experience on that, Mark, has since gone back to two-way. It may be that it's just your preference, or it could be variables in play when you heard the 535-B, etc. You are not going to be happy with the Everest, not if you prefer the horn-loaded bass sound of the Jubilee. Once you get acclimatized to horn-loaded bass there is just no going back (at least for me, and many others I have talked to). It is the only thing that produces natural bass sound. I have a lot of experience with the Everest, and even though it provides adequate low-end for music, it's a direct radiator and just doesn't sound natural to me. The M2 is also a great-sounding speaker, but you are going to have significant low-end disadvantages with that as well. A 15" woofer, to get down to 30 Hz (it's 10 dB down at 20) is going to have to move, a lot, there is just no way around that, and there is distortion associated with that. What size is the room that these are going in to? If you mentioned that in another thread I apologize, I may have missed it. You are in central Texas like me, right? If you get me those dimensions and/or layout, and a few photos (you can PM them to me), I will see if we might be able to have @Chief bonehead take a look and can explain why you are having a preference for one over the other, room acoustics, and what's going to work best. Maybe it works out we can just take a road trip to Hope, have Jim Hunter walk us through the Museum, and explain the evolution of PWK's four design principles, and then take Roy to lunch and he can explain how those 4 things (low distortion, controlled directivity, controlled frequency response, and dynamic range, in that order) translate into the best sound, what the UG 3 way had to offer vs. Jubilee and how to account for certain things you are hearing. The 402 is his horn, the 510 is his horn, the mumps for the 510 is his patent, the Jubilee LF is his patent, the patent-pending phase plug will be his patent, he selected the 1133HP and the 691, designed the phase plug for the 691, in other words, he is familiar with the all of the things they considered in making those choices, why there is magic you are hearing with 691/1133HP MF/HF, what the limitations/compromises are with that compared to the Jubilee. It may be your personal preference, or the room- higher directivity of those driver-horn combos, and/or psychoacoustics. Travis

Some great history and some laughs

Everyone I have every met.

Where in the NL? Did I ask you that already? You guys are intense about your audio, and even more stark raving madd about your Klipsch. My friend @Timmikid has proven that time and time again.

Thank you and @Ceptorman. Well that's three from Texas (which is all that matters anyway), one from CO/AZ, one from Midwest (MN) and one from TN (where I hang my hat). That's enough of a sample for me to call it. Unfortunately, @carewser it is on your end somewhere and I wish I had more to offer you other than try another browser if you can. I seriously doubt it is a Canada/US Company interface issue, after all you are our 2nd largest trade partner and you are not clamped down like China or Iran, at least the last time I was there. But . . . hey @Islander when you see this can you please check to see if the links above work for you, and if so, if you have ever experienced anything similar to what the Carewser is experiencing with the KGI website, or with your ISP up there? (Y'all are in the same neck of the woods I believe). Other than that, I don't think there is anything left to do on this.

I can’t remember the official number of UG jubilees sold was, as tracked by Coyte/Richard, but there was a good number who bought them when they were not on the Forum. When Cory started selling them in addition to ACE, there were people who bought the UG from PHT who never stepped foot in here (or don’t post) and still haven’t. I don’t think there is any correlation between discussion/no discussion and sales and you can’t compare the Heritage Jubilee with the UJ. The Jubilee is sold through Heritage Dealer network, and the UJ was sold by a cinema equipment dealer until Cory came along in 2015, 2016? This was pretty much the only place to know about them until Cory’s Facebook pages. As far as sales, I have heard from a couple of people that Jubilees sales are exceeding their forecasts, especially in light of their price point and economic downturn. As far as the history of it all, there is an excellent exchange between @mikebse2a3 the very first buyer of the UG and@Chief bonehead where they discuss the history and what led to Roy making them available. It was during a Bonehead Class on the Jubilee, at the Museum Visitor Center and it’s on the Museum YouTube Channel. I will put a link in below.

Thank you Zen.

Where’s @Thaddeus Smith he seems to know where all these signals go, and what to do if someone is in the ether. Or @Marvel. The only thing I can suggest is if you have a different browser you try that. Beyond that someone usually pipes up and says “go to settings and . . .” Which I would never do, and even if I did I wouldn’t listen to me.

Thank you Bill. How is the weather and what is the latest bear report?

Just tried the. Again and got this

I think that’s going to be on your end. I hate to say these words “contact your Internet Service Provider or your software company that that provides your web browser.” I will ask others to check the links, but I do not have special access, found it in google and both pulled up on my phone with Safari. If others have issues I will let the administrator know to see what the issue might be. Can anyone test the links I have above for us please?

It’s Voxx International, and they approved the transfer, by Klipsch, of the land, building, artifacts and archives to the Museum, an Arkansas non-profit and recognized 501(c)(3) entity. It has an independent board of trustees, nearly every member personally knew PWK. The mission, support STEaM through the teachings and examples of PWK. Voxx’s wholly owned subsidiary, Klipsch, continues to support the Museum every year, without fail, in substantial amounts, in numerous ways. Other legends in audio, Fisher, Marantz, AR, Bose, Lansing/JBL, I’m sure do the same . . . Wait, none of them have museums. To our knowledge, the Museum in Hope is the only museum in the US dedicated to consumer audio, particularly the dawn of hi-fi. NMSU has a museum dedicated to PWK, and is open to the public once per year (costs and other shortages caused a pull back). For a great explanation of why Klipsch made this donation back in 2016, with launch in Spring of 2017, see the interview of Klipsch President and CEO, Paul Jacobs on our YouTube channel. It requires a joint effort, local community/City of Hope, major benefactors like Klipsch, but most importantly, members, because they “get it” -what PWK had to teach and consider it to be a national treasurer worth preserving. Thank you for the question. As with any 501(c)(3) all of our tax returns are on line and in the open. Thank you for the question. Travis

How hard did you look? Google Klipsch Discontinued Products and you will get this https://www.klipsch.com/discontinued-products-klipsch Or if you look and don’t find something, I’m sure not everything they ever made is listed, post a thread Need Information About [Product Name] and I would be willing to bet somebody has something. You wanted SW10? https://www.klipsch.com/products/sw-10 Ask, somebody on here will get you where you need to go. Also, use search on here, it may get you additional information. Hope this helped.

Randy, for future reference, and we have all done this somewhere along our audio path, the wattage ratings for speakers in different than for an amplifier. For amps it’s what power they can put out. For speakers it is what amount of power they can take. The speakers are rated to handle 85w continuously, with much, much higher peaks, and above that you will fry your speakers. You will never run them anywhere near that because they are efficient at converting power to sound. Non horn speakers might have a rating of something like 88dB at 1 W. With these speakers, they have a sensitivity rating of 95 dB measured at 1 meter with one (1) watt of power. If you double the power you will get a 3dB rise in output, so 2w 98 dB, 4w 101 dB, etc., Your receiver/amp will be able to handle them easily.

It is a little confusing. Note: Each AW-650 speaker will require a designated channel on the amplifier and cannot be wired in parallel. (See Image Below) What they mean by that is hook one to your left channel and one to your right channel. Sometimes people get more than two and try to hook up more that one speaker to one Chanel and they have major problems. Use 12 ga speaker wire. Any will do. If you are running in yard or if not in a protected area you may want to get some Belden speaker, 2 wires in an insulated cover - designed for in ground. those are great speakers. This is the commercial version