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Plan on spending $250 for decent shipping, like Craters & Freighters. Insist on it, in fact, because most storefront pack & ships can't package something so big, heavy, and yet fragile as this. First Cornwalls (all 86s) $99 storefront shipping + Fedex Ground = crushed corners and deep scratches Second Cornwalls $250 Craters & Freighters packaging on a skid by motor frieight=pristinecondition.

To second what Bob said about ESR, I have some 30 year old film caps that still measure within tolerance for capacitance on my (consumer grade) C meter. But their ESR is probably way out of spec by now... I am wondering why no one has come up with a consumer level LCR (with Q, DF and ESR) rig that is USB-able to a PC...so much instrumentation, even pro gear, has gone that direction. I have seen some of these for manufacturers, but they are in the kilobuck range.

We have four CW IIs and a Klipsch-derived center with two 8s...no need for a sub. Between the HT set up, the cat castle, the aquarium, the treadmill, etc, etc, we don't have much room for another piece of gear. I might add that with the Yamaha RX2500 receiver, we can parametriclly (sp?) notch (or boost) any of 12 bands, on individual channels. The center channel has a 1.5 dB notch at 63 Hz dialed in to cure a bit of boominess. This is great, but I think the next band is 120 Hz, and the resolution of the EQ is not fine enough to catch 80 Hz. Maybe someday we will EQ the four mains. The 80 Hz hump is not always intrusive on all types of music.

Thsi is Flash, a 9 year old greyhound, who retired from racing at age 3. His human is my pal Lee in Biloxi. Flash loves to catch the frisbee in midair.

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Can't speak to audible difference with a bug guard removed. However, I have two cats and they shed. Cat hair gets into everything and every few years I take the covers off my receivers and blow them out with canned air. Unless you have a really pristine home ecosystem, I'd leave them on.

well, never mind...none of these features works in IE or Mozilla, if it's this much trouble it ain't no fun. If yall really want to see it, look in Wikipedia Geramn edition under lautsprecher

I forgot...this site and Mozilla don't get along..my one reason to drop back IE

Sigh...I will try again...the site acted like it had added the pic and I got the "image" icon but...let's see...

I found this on the German Wikipedia site under lousdpeaker (lautsprecher, I think). It looks to have no expansion for much of its length, so I question whether it is meant to be a loudspeaker or a signalling device....don't know if those things in the mouth are sandbags or pillows for taking naps... Ultratieft%C3%B6ner-Skulptur_Hoge_Veluwe was the original file name, if that means anything to anybody...

I prefer amber, which is harder to find than green or gray. I also like amber mirrors, but those are rather rare. My current sunglasses are $10 polycarbonate amber shop glasses from Home Depot. I am hard on my sunglasses, so in the past I have bought the two for $5 specials at the French market in New Orleans. I'm going there this weekend (yeah!) and maybe I will go by and see if those folks are still there.

http://mortgage-x.com/general/indexes/prime.asp Here are the charts on prime and mortgage rates I was looking for...hope they will be useful to someone

They may be a fine design, but there is not $295 worth of parts and workmanship there. The seller has some other interesting speaker stuff for sale.

I have bought some stuff from GR and they are nice as Pi. A pleasure to do biz with. Another good dealer out there is Apex Jr, which has Klipsch K1077 8 inch woofers in stock. They also have an interesting assortment of oddball drivers and parts. www.apexjr.com

Gil, you're right about the operating regime. These are not horns at all. The intake side is called an inlet diffuser, and the output side is called a thrust cone. http://rcaf-atc.org/misc/bomarc.bomarc8.html These 'normalize' the flow of air (and exhaust). They are closer to what we call phase plugs.

Well, to sell things, one must advertise...so why aren't we seeing new Heritage ads in the all the usual mags? There is re-education of the high-dollar listening public to do and Klipsch is flubbing this big time. Yeah, I know the non-Heritrage stuff is the real money-maker, but Klipsch can't blame the secondary market if new Heritage falls flat from lack of advertising.

The Cornwall I versus II discussion has been the subject of several threads, the Search functions hould find it. I have CW IIs and I like them better than the Is. I'm not sure if anyone has made a side-by-side comparison of the II and III yet.

Thanks Bob!

yeah, that's it..,. so how do we use the X and Y terminals if we need them? do you have a table of dB vs. connections that include the X and Y? thanks

8 systems? [] And I thought we were wacky to have three, soon be four! The SO's study: Cambridge sats + sub driven by old Yammie HT receiver, inputs from computers (Mac/PC) and iPod Main system: 4 CW IIs, plus homemade MTM center, driven by Yammie RX2500. Klipsch derived center soon. Turntable, Laser Disc, CD, DVD and cassette deck My study: Sumo Electra, Sumo Polaris driving Dahlquist DQ-10s. Also Scott 333B tuner for the few times I still listen to FM. DVD player mainly used for CDs Not counting the garage: Aiwa boombox and 1960 Zenith AM FM table radio for listening to Click & Clack and Wait Wait Don't Tell Me on Saturday mornings.

Bob, what are the X and Y terminals on the Klipsch autoformers for?

Guess I overlooked that the issue is with a CW I, (removable back) and uses that "tissue paper"damping stuff...did not know it was that snug...yow!

another thought...is your K55 screwed on to the K600 all the way?

Danger, Will Robinson! If your back panel is impinging right on the driver, something is wrong. There should be some clearance there, a gap of about one-half inch at least. You should not be squeezing the horn & driver between the front and back panel. I suspect that at the factory, final assembly noticed this and backed off the back panel screws to "make it fit and let'r rip". Dissapointing, but it happens. My suggestion is to take the back panel off, and add some weatherstrip gasketing, about a quarter inch thickness, to the back cleat, then see if the back panel can be screwed oin snugly without squeezing the horn. You may have to shim it a little more to get it right. The Cornwall II has a front-to-back brace that, I think is a 2x4, between the woofer and midrange, just above the input terminal cup. The CW II cabinet is less resonant than the earlier cabs not just because of the brace, but because of being made of MDF (we just threshed that thread thread-bare)

One of our many legacies from Bell Labs and Western Electric is the 19 inch on center relay rack. It was devised in the 20s (I think) for holding amplifiers at relay stations for the phone company, which then was Ma Bell to almost all of the U.S. It has become the de facto standard, and may be an EIA or NAB standard by now too. Need I mention that it should be configured with the heaviest items (usually power supplies and power amps) at the bottom for stability? I only mention this because I saw someone remove racked equipment from the ground up and was then very startled when it fell over on him, fortuanatly nothing was energized.