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Dman, this is all good info. What are the slopes of the current Klipschorn network?

Canon makes a wide range of photo-printers that use individual ink carts. The BC6 series carts (used across many models) are between $10-12 depending on vendor. Try pricegrabber.com I have had HPs (fast but mediocre) Epsons (touchy as the devil, demand Epson paper, and prone to clogs) and now a Canon S-9000 (I think the replacement model is i9900). I'm sticking with Canon.

I suspect your music is hitting the resonance of the system, which will vary somehat between drivers. The CW is tuned to about 38 Hz . This stanza could be exciting the system resonance in a big way. If you are really freaked out, get both woofers replaced with a matched pair. It is possible that your "flapping woofer" is developing a problem with the surround or spider, but, short of abuse, that is a rare thing for a K33.

"You sissy! You sissy! You're Just Like Gunga Din! Be careful where you sleep tonight, You don't where it's been!" -Divine, "Jungle Jezebel"

Dear Amy, thanks for your hard work on the forum and the Heritage presence on the main site. As you know, the Cornwall III thread has been one of intense interest. Here's my 2 cents, and if you'd pass it along to to the CW III design team, that would be wonderful: 1. The CW is a big speaker and there is no getting around that. So, make it narrower (by about 4 inches) and make it deeper (by the same amount to preserve the volume). 2. Give it a gently curved front to make it look more moderne (not misspelled) 3. With the increased depth either re-create the K601 or use the K501 (whatever the the LS is using). Please don't let it be "just" the Heresy's big brother with the same mid and tweeter horns. It deserves better than that. 4. Promote it and the other new Heritage units, and promote them vigorously. Take the "invisible speaker" HT crowd head on and do some consumer education. What K&A needs is an Evangelist. Someone who can reach the older Boomers in McMansions and educate the younger boom-car crowd at the same time. Devoted CW II owner (4 of 'em) :

The Richard Heyser review in Audio, 1980 remains the definitive K-horn review. I need to dig it out & scan it, unless one of our fellow members already has done so. It's buried deep in my paper archives, somewhere...

Sony 63086. It's the Columbia Symphony, BTW, not the NY Philly

The Bernstein/ NYP 1959 version has been resissued. It's still the definitive symphonic reading. Yes, there is a little tape hiss in the quiet passages, but the performance is still the benchmark. The CD comes with American in Paris (of course) and Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite. Sorry, it's early and I can't lay my hands on the CD to give you the label/number. Amazon has it.

"Drums Along The Mohawk" ?

Uakti, especially "Aguas de Amazonia" with Philip Glass. I have bought about 7 copies of this as gifts. "Mudanin Kata", David Darling. "Passages", Ravi Shankar and Phillip Glass. Listening to this right now. "Voices of Forgotten Worlds"

If you look at the factory tour pix at: http://forums.klipsch.com/photos/ you see that plywood is still used, at least for most inner parts.

Thanks, yall. I think I have registered with Headwize forum but they were having problems last night so I need to try again.

Hi, I'm looking for a pair of headphones $100 and under. Koss Pro4AA came first to mind, but the SO doesn't care for vinyl earcushions. I don't think Koss makes fabric cushions for the 4AA, and also these suckers are heavy. I had a pair in the 80s that I traded for some albums. We're also thinking about wireless. I haven't looked at wireless in a long time so I don't know how good those have become. Thanks!

I still think it possible to make these with stereo lithography. The interior space would made first, then coated with release compound, and then sprayed to make the outer wall. I think the technique can make underrcuts as is required foir the driver mounting flange. I work with some fab guys that do the S-L stuff frequently, I'll ask them. Might make a good intern project.

The affinity between cats and Klipsch Heritage products is well-documented in this fourm, not to mention my avatar. My theory is that the Heritage products are the right height and size for cats to feel comfortable jumping up on them. I keep Velux blankets atop my four CW IIs to comfort my cats and protect the finish from claw marks. My cat's don't claw the grills; they only claw one particular portion of my box springs. I'd put wire or plastic screen over any port large enough for an animal to get in. My cats are too big to get through the CW ports, but that might be a problem with young kittens.

"...the tooling for the K600 could not be located". Sorry, Michael, whatever they told you, it's a dodge. These horn shapes are very simple to reproduce from any clean existing example, with suitable compensation for the distortion experienced when a mold made from of a finished product. Optionally, stereolithography makes it quite easy to make this shape in small runs, in sufficient wall thickness for a workable horn. Powderd metal fab is another option. Mind you, I'm not judging the design (which I've not heard) but as someone who has been involved in reverse-engineering and prototyping, I smell some evasion here. I am also suspicious of the rational to raise the first crossover point to 800 Hz. Isn't there just enough room (maybe with an added inch of depth) to squeeze in a K500, if the K601 is simply too much trouble (whatever the reason) ?

Scaling horns up is not merely an excercise in mathematics; for a bass horn, the folding geometry would have to change. Changing the folding scheme affects the upper bass/lower midrange as well. Then there is the matter of the room itself supporting a 20 Hz wave. Most domestic living rooms don't do a very good job, due to size and flexure of walls windows, doors and floors. However, if we use the auto cabin model, a tightly sealed room with more rigid boundaries would allow one to sit in the pressure domain of the wave. The current HT crowd won't go for this sort of remodeling. I'm not sure I would want a bass horn to go to 20 Hz. There is very little (some say no) musical information below 32 Hz even on the best recordings, and trying to reproduce the acoustic 'trash' below that point introduces more distortion of all kinds. If you want to reproduce sound effects, buy a subwoofer, and keep your Klipsch Heritage speakers for the other 99% of the music.

Yeah, that's a loofa. Some friends of mine grew them when they were popular in the 80s as shower scrubbers. The chore of peeling, de-seeding and drying was too much trouble so they gave up.

As a creator and user of acronyms, that term comes to mind. An acronym can be created from the first letters of the words, and, among the in-group, it can be phoneticized with unwritten vowels to make it sound like a legitimate word. I have not encountered the exact concept Gil is describing as applied to humans, the acronyms I create and use apply to objects or operations. Maybe the folks at Oxford English dictionary could help.

Content, yes; complacent, no. I have reached the point of diminshing returns with four CW IIs in my HT set up. One of these days I want a center made from Klipsch components, versus the home-made MTM I am using now. As I've said before in this and other forums, the audio-tweaking industry relies for its existence on middle-age men with decling hearing and rising, or at least ample, disposable, incomes. Once the hearing rolls off and the disposable income rolls up, these guys (including me) are in the zone. Can be cheaper than collecting cars, keeping a mistress, or gambling. More fun than these, I say.

I always understood sibilance to mean an extra hiss or "tail" on treble percussion, or perhaps at the very top end of a alto's voice. It was once explained to me as beats between harmonic distortion peaks, indicating that the tweeter diaphram is in severe breakup at some combination of power input and program content. As distinct from mere brightness, which is a uniform exaggeration across the treble range. I think that with Heritage products I am now spoiled to hearing horn treble. Just today I was listening to some Phillip Glass and the triangle and chimes were simply there, along with the rest of the music of course. I have noticed about my CW IIs that I can hear the persistant ringing within a treble percussive instrument, after it is struck, be it triangles, bells, chimes or cymbals. I can't hear that as well with direct-radiator tweeters, possibly because of the hysterisis of their much-heavier diaphrams.

This looks like Outlook, which is noted for its spelling and grammar faux pas, not to mention its security problems. I recently discovered that Word docs carry a setting for language with them. I received two from co-workers here in the U.S., and one doc was set to French language and the other to Danish. So, each was flagging most of the English words as misspelled. One of my (human) word processors unraveled that for me. Another reason to hate Word and pine for a return to WordPerfect, which I still use for non-vocational writing and personal correspondence.

I've never had any problem soldering to them. Just tin the bare part of the lead well, let it cool and wrap your wires to the rest of the crossover tightly around the tinned portion. Wrap fine solder around these bundles, heat until the solder flows and the rosin cooks off, and your're done. You don't want to pre-heat these inductor leads, as I recommend with gold bananna plugs, since you might melt the plastic jacket or the layers between the windings. I normally solder short leads to inductors (any type) and then bring those leads to a terminal strip to join up with the rest of the crossover. I like Euro style conector strips. Heritage line has usually used screw-type barrier strips.

Al, please consider making a 600 Hz drop in for Corns also, thanks

For the VHF frequencies of 88-108 MHz, where American FM is broadcast, the ionosphere is normally a non-issue. The portion of transmitted power that strikes it goes right through into space, as do TV signals. There is a sweet spot of frequencies, about 9-12 MHz, that the ionopshere reflects reliably at night. During periods of intense sunspot activity, portions of the ionsphere may get dense enough to temporarily reflect VHF signals. I tend to agree that you may have overload and/or multi-path issues. Another possibility is ducting. When the atmosphere has layered weather systems, like fog, ducts are created which allow distant signals VHF to sound strong.