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I really like the Yamaha RX-777 receiver. It has 100 watts of power, plenty of inputs, multi room capability and sounds great. A nice feature is the variable loudness control which helps the bass out quite a bit. I would agree with the Synergy Sub-12. I just bought one and it's awesome! I run speaker wire from the B side of the Yammy to the sub. It blends real well, with some experimentation, with my Heresy's.

There are a nice pair of Chorus I's on Ebay, $650 BIN. Guy say he has the boxes also. He lives in Turlock CA, south of Sacramento. These are walnut oil finish. If they were oak, I would jump on them![:'(]

I think I about have it dialed in! Spent a good two hours listening to various types of music, adjusting the volume and the crossover, moving it around etc. I have to say, I am very happy with it now! Crossover is just a touch above 80 hz and the volume around 4, phase at 0. A nearly seemless blend and amazing compliment to my Heresy's! [][li] Thanks once again to the Klipsch faithful for all your help and advise. I really do appreciate it! M

Thanks for the info.! I am certainly going to do a lot more experimentation with it as you suggest. Like most audio equipment, I am sure there is also a "break in" period? It also really brings out the quality of certain recordings. I have 300 CD's in a mega-changer. When I set it to random play, older recordings become very evident! You can barely hear the bass on an older Wes Montgomery CD I have, then a Keb Mo' SACD will come[] on and, WOW, the walls are shaking! I think half the fun is dialing it in! Cheers

I wanted more bass with my Heresy's in a two channel system but I'm kinda cheap nowadays! Had about a $400 budget. Going off the theory that bigger is better, I at least wanted a 12" powered sub. I wasn't much impressed with the KSW-12 in my room. A friend of mine, who is a Klipsch dealer, let me take the new Synergy SUB-12 home to try. I have limited placement options so I put it next to a couch about 2' from the side wall and 1' from the back near a corner. I initially though it was a bit boomy on some material, mainly Jazz, but very tight on others. One thing I did was to stuff a towel in the port. This really tightened the bass up and helped the boom, at least with most music. I remove the towel for movies which enhances the low effects. It is a big black cube, but with a little experimentation and, for the money, I am very happy with it! I have it hooked up on the B side of my Yamaha receiver via speaker cable. I am going to try using patch cord from the pre-in/main-out of the receiver. Problem is I need two 22' runs of patch cord! I will let you know how that works out later. Thanks, M[]

Wish I had room for these!!!

I just sold a nice pair in oak for $450. If you are on the "Left Coast", I would be interested.

Well, they're done? Thanks to all the help and suggestions from you guys, I am finally very happy with my Heresy's! Got the angled risers, damped the mid horn with Dynamat, had Bob Crites upgrade the crossovers, even spiked the risers. I am sure they sound as good now as they are going to sound which is, IMHO, awesome! The crossovers helped the most. I would highly recommend anyone looking to get the best out of their 20+ year old Heresy's to send the crossovers to Bob, you will be impressed! One question, those damned screw binding posts! Any real benefit in in replacing with some good 5 ways or is it a waste of time? Thanks again for all the help!

I have a pair of 4311B's that are a very nice sounding speaker. I also have a pair of Heresy's from 1983. The sound between the two was very comparable, was until I had Bob Crites rebuild the crossovers in the Heresy's. Wow, what a difference! Everything was tightened and cleaned up. Much better imaging, tighter bass, and those glorious mids. I did use a car audio damping material on the mid-horns, big improvement! I had them side by side in my living room and did an A/B comparison. The Heresy's were much more articulate and accurate. There was better separation between the instruments and vocals, especially on live recordings. To be fair, the crossovers and L-pads, pots, in the 4311B's are stock from about 1980 or so. I have been toying with the idea of having them rebuilt also to see if there is as big of an improvement. For now, at least with my equipment and room, the Heresy's are "clearly" better IMHO.

http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?spkrfull&1129978245 Wasn't someone looking for a pair of Heresy's to re-build recently? These look like they might be the ticket. Price may be a little high though?

Hey Michael, I am very calm. Once again, I should have kept my big mouth, or in this case key board, shut! Didn't mean for this to be a "B**** session." I am rather sad as I sold my Forte's this weekend. I now think I want some Chorus I's or maybe II's. Do you have a preference? Mark

In the interest of decorum and good taste, I don't think I will go there! It is pretty funny though! I live about 200 miles away. I did send the guy an e-mail but haven't heard back. There are several guys in that area that check that site every mili-second to find killer deals and turn them right around to make money. I am not one of those guys. If they are worth a lot more than what they are asking, I usually tell them so. Hey, I was raised not to screw people over to make money! If it were something I was going to keep and fix up, that's a different story and easier for me to justify. Boner, too funny!!!

http://www.craigslist.com/eby/ele/92338481.html Sounds like a great deal even if they are marginal. I sent an e-mail to the guy but haven't heard back. Hey Duke, are you there???

OK, OK, OK, let's let cooler heads prevail! We can agree to disagree. It is my feeling that with greater demand for their products, expanded and modernized manufacturing and cost cutting measures that all companies have to endure, some things are going to fall through the cracks. These are modern times and the competition is fierce. Just go to CES sometime and see how many different manufacturers there are just making speakers let alone audio and video products in general. They are all vying for their share of the consumers "disposable" income. In most cases, the good ole days are gone and Klipsch, like any other company, has to make some sacrifices to prosper and even survive. At least they have made the effort to stick to their roots and offer their classic speakers to those of us who went to our local stereo shops as kids and dreamed of the day we could buy some new K-horns! Not many other classic manufaturers in business today have made that commitment! Kuddos to Klipsch for moving forward and remembering where they came from!!!

Is the hissing coming from all the drivers including the woofers? If so, sounds like crossovers. If it's just coming from the horns it's likely the diaphragms which are easily found and easy to replace. You might want to hit up someone like Bob Crites, BEC, or DeanG who know a heck of a lot more than I do.

Oh, regarding the loose wire, the crimp on the connecter was not sufficient enough to keep it tightly on the driver. I doubt that happened in shipping. The dealer, who by the way is a friend of mine, offered to replace it with a new speaker at his expense. I figured it was an easy enough fix and it wasn't worth the dealer going through the trouble. Was not his fault but, I appreciated the offer. The guys at Clyde's Home Entertainment in Redding, CA are first rate, honest people and Klipsch should be proud to have them as an authorized dealer!

I bought these new from an authorized Klipsch dealer here in town. As I said earlier, I am looking for a new integrated amp or receiver. My old amp could be part of the problem although it seems to drive my old speakers very well. I will have a better feel for them when I do get a new amp and give them time to break in. I can tell you that they don't hold a candle to my Forte's or Heresy's but, I know that's an unfair comparison. I am sure they will be just great in my bedroom system.

Ah, which one? Oh, I know, got my JBL D130's back from being re-coned. Put them back in my Fender Showman cabinet and screwed the back on the cabinet, with a regular screw driver, about 1000 screws!!! Plugged in the old SUNN amp and played an E chord on the Telecaster. Funny, but there was no sound? Checked the volume, tubes glowing, connections good but still no sound. Fearing the worst, I hooked the SUNN up to another cabinet. Hey, the stinging bite of a Tele with 140 watts behind it! So, I took out the 1000 screws and to my surprise, I forgot to hook up the wires to the the driver terminals, DUH!!! I now have a chordless power screwdriver and screwdriver bits for my drill! Never drink beer while working on your stuff!!! I do have more but that will suffice for now.

I remember why I'm grumpy, my in-laws are coming to visit this weekend, AAAAHHHH!!!!!

I am in the process of getting a new amp for them. I am currently using a early 90's Sony, yes Sony, integrated from their ES line. It's a solid amp but getting a little tired. I would be looking for a good integrated or higher end receiver. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Sorry for the tube knock, I'm kind of grumpy today for some reason?

I was comparing the bass response to the speakers the RB-75's are replacing. A 15 year old pair of JBL L-1's with a 6.5" woofer in a smaller cabinet. The JBL's go quite a bit lower than the Klipsch albeit not as tight. The 75's are quite a bit more accurate however. Maybe I need to buy a $2K tube amp and then replace all the sub-standard stock tubes, caps, resistors, wiring etc., etc., etc. I am sure that would make them sound a whole lot better!

I recently purchased a brand new pair of RB-75's for a bedroom system. Took them out of the boxes, hooked them up and they sounded terrible??? Quickly found that the horn on one speaker was only working intermittently. Hoping it was a loose wire on the compression driver, I took the front baffle off. Had to search for the right size "star looking bit" for my screwdriver first. What ever happened to philips screws? Anyway, I was a little surprised to see the front baffle and horn were one piece with the compression driver naturally attached to the rear of the horn portion. It seemed pretty flimsy to me. The woofer was screwed to some bracing inside the cabinet. Fortunately it was a loose wire connection on the driver as I thought. Needed a pair of plyers to crimp down the connecter so it would stay secure. They sound pretty good but really lacking in bass response. That's what I get for buying a bookshelf! Maybe they will improve with a longer break-in period? Any one else have quality problems with new Klipsch speakers? I was naturally disappointed with this problem as these retail at nearly $1K and I have not had an issue with any Klipsch speakers in the past.

Told my buddy I was going to break up with my girlfriend. I then left on a business trip for a couple of weeks before telling her. My "buddy" told her before I got home and she had a garage sale that next weekend. Someone got my Thorens table, SAE amps, Carver pre-amp and LaScala's along with half of my albums cheap! Found out later, she was screwing around with the guy I had confided in! They ended up getting married, but later divorced and she got, HALF! JUSTICE Moral; I should have kept my big mouth shut!

Hey Bevis, I would like to have an old Mac because they're coool, ha ha ha ha!!!!!

I am sure there is no reason they shouldn't last that long, but in my experience, most do not! If I pay kilo bucks for a tube amp to turn around and put more money in it to make it sound good, that is throwing good money after bad in my book! How many companies build a new tube amp for a "reasonable" price that don't cut every corner they can with inferior wiring, caps, resistors and tubes? I also can't see buying a 30+ year old re-built tube amp by some shade tree expert who claims they know what they are doing. If I can find an integrated tube amp that sounds as good as my SS's out of the box, and will last for 15 to 20 years for around $1000, I will buy it, today! I am asking too much???