LousyTourist

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Oppo is the way to go. The new chipsets in these DVD players sound quite good to my ears. I went waaay upscale on digital years ago with some Theta gear, then switched to a mid range universal player (ie a dvd player) a while back and no longer have any interest in upgrading digital anymore.

Good choice on the receiver. Casters, on the other hand, may not be the best idea. You may want to experiment with how the speakers sound while on casters versus sitting directly on the floor. I know the slightest gap between the floor and my Klipschorns decreases bass output.

Oh yeah. I got mine in 1979 and have never let them go.

Back in the day I ran my Klipschorns with a Sony VFET preamplifier... sounded real good to my ears but I was young and not overly critical. Lost that guy in the shuffle years back. They are pretty much hen's teeth now. Fast forward to a decade ago or so... picked up a 300B SET, and that sounded great to me. I go by 'pounds per watt' and that baby packed 4 or 5 pounds per watt, so I knew it was good. A while later, I found (and had rebuilt) a Sony VFET and I replaced the SETs with it. The lower bass tightened up (a bit) as I guess can be expected from SS, and otherwise it sounds fantastic. I had looked into the F3 but it was a bit too pricey for my blood. It's on my list of things to try someday, but I have to win the lottery first. Actually, I have to start buying lottery tickets first.

$50 for LaScalas.... wow. That is about 10x less than the lowest I've heard trashed versions go for. You surely won't need (or want) a 100 watt receiver to run them. Certainly not the 100 watt receivers you buy at the Best Buy or equivalent stores. The kind you need to put a brick on so they don't float off the shelf. Hard to believe something that light weight has 100 of anything in it. Find a vintage receiver of the same era, a 30 to 50 watt variety will be MORE than enough to finish destroying your hearing. In fact, if you can listen to those speakers for any length of time with 1 watt running through them, I'll come out there and shake your hand.

Bob, thanks for the bump. People I havent' read from or thought about in years here. I had an annoying 9khz bump inroom, I added the P trap but I didn't seem to hear any difference. I am now fairly convinced it is due to the cement floors and walls in the room. I replaced the stock AA's with your model A network, and that was a big help. Also replaced the tweeter although I didn't notice any particular improvement there. Probably my 57 year old ears more than anything else. I'm also not sure about people obsessing over how flat the response is. My in room response is +-5db from 50Hz to 20khz. I think that is pretty darn good. With an acoustic suspension subwoofer I get down to 25Hz within -5db

I don't quite understand... you have both the Marantz and the HK, if I read your post correctly. You should be the one telling us which one sounds better. For my money, I'd go with the Marantz, because I've had them in the past and they were good. I know nothing about the HK model you mention.

I guess I'm a little surprized at the need for a sub with Jubilee's... I was under the impression that they went lower than my klipschorns, but I'll never know, my days of buying big bux speakers are decades in the past. I run a 'regular' sealed, servo controlled Velodyne 15" with my khorns. It fills in between 20 (or 23) and 32Hz or so which is where the khorns give up the ghost. I have had dreams of an Edgarhorn Seismic sub, but a refrigerator sized box has low WAF. The Tuba, if it can really be built for $500, sounds too good to be true. Unfortunately, my woodworking skills extend to licking envelopes, or cutting off fingers, so even that would be too much DIY for me. The Danley looks like they sell you the precut stuff for $1000 or so, all you need to supply is fasteners and away you go.

I just use Q-tips and Caig DeOxit. Pull most of the cotton off the Qtip and dip in Deoxit, scrubba, scrubba, scrubba. A thin strip of brown paper bag is also helpful. Has a mildly abrasive quality, good for polishing the outsides of connectors. Also wet with Deoxit.

DTS-10 is a horn loaded sub. Goes to 11Hz according to the doc. http://wardswebllc.com/Danley_DTS10/

My year, 1979, is quite good. I think it was the last year of alnico magnets. Earlier years when the class A crossover was standard are considered best by others. I switched from my AA crossover to BEC's A crossover and am quite happy with the results. The AA was mostly made to offer more protection to the tweeter from the 200w monster amps of the day.

I had a pair for a while as upstairs speakers. Bigger than I thougt (and bigger than my wife thought, so out they went) -- but they sounded great. The name "Heresy" comes from the idea that speakers that size (small, from some points of view) have no right to sound so good.

Speakers that make a statement without even being turned on. Their other stuff is ultra high fi, I imagine the speakers are in the same league. Yes, probably quite pricey, for those whose living rooms can hold speakers of that size without looking like they overwhelm the interior space.

I have never seen these guys in real life, I was SHOCKED at how big they are! The size of Lascalas easily. They had a $2000 price tag on them, much too high for my blood. Anyone in New Brighton, MN that wants a pair... my guess is they would take an offer. I doubt they can get that kind of money for them, but I could be wrong.

yeah, I would dump the ALK networks first. What seems odd to me is that the woofer has nothing more than a 2.5mh coil as a lowpass filter with both ALK and most other networks.

Geez guys, let him live with the speakers for a month or a year before pestering him about upgrades. Who knows, he may just like them the way they are! The only upgrade I would seriously consider is replacing the crossovers with a fresh batch of BEC's type A crossovers, because the 30 year old caps are probably shot. And that won't set him back more than $150 or so IIRC.

I figure if your stereo has more than one source component, you are an audiophile.

Do. Not. Want.

Beauties! You should get top dollar for them. But, as the old adage goes, things are worth what people will pay for them. Put them on epay and let the market decide what they're worth. I'd put the reserve price at about twice what the craigslist goofball is willing to pay for lascalas and cornwalls.

I'm of the opinion that cartridges improve marginally over the first week to a month, but no huge difference. I'm also of the opinion that turntables are so NOT plug and play, that if you don't like tweaking and adjusting, and tweaking some more and adjusting some more, over and over, week after week, month after month, that you should probably send all your records to me and buy a nice CD player. I've got to say that if your TT sounds thin, you have done something substantially wrong, and should probably give up; again, send your records to me.

According to my pea brain, and what I remember when my betters were talking about this, the thing that prevents these variations from making a speaker sound absolutely horrible is that as frequency changes (and the impedance), so does the ratio of power to output, so that when it is 'hard' for the amp to drive the speaker, simultaneously it becomes easier for the speaker to create output, and when it becomes 'easy' to drive the speaker, the speaker does not create as much output. So it all evens out in the end. Anybody looking at impedance graphs will quickly surmise that a) the impedance of any speaker is all over the map, so something else must be at work to prevent wild changes in output.

Well, I can't add too much to what has already been said, but I will put in a plug for the early solo Jerry albums. Live shows are a bit of a crap shoot, IMHO, as deadheads are quite forgiving when it comes to their fav set, so you will find some fans of a particular show and when you listen to it you think, lordy, the boys took a while to warm up THAT night. Have an 86(? I think) Winterland with a SMOKIN Morning Dew that has been hard to get off my player lately. The good thing about the live shows is you shouldn't have to pay for them, so listen first, and if you like, look for a DP or similar to come out if you want better production values. I do not advocate the digital copying bit though; that's only because I am not a fan of digital in general.

Yes, the CD player performance curve has a big knee in it; past a couple hundred bucks and you need to choose between a new home and a new cdp.

Good job. I'd keep the type A's if I were you, replace the caps as they are probably toast.... and consider the PWK slogan "If you don't like what's coming out, you wouldn't like what's going in" -- I have no good reports of matching Crown amps with Klipsch horn loaded speakers.