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  1. missed the big week event but i did finally spend a hour last night with natalie and terry morre , and of course the awesome palladiums. they were magnificient. terry has a home theater design/install enterprise and has the full palladium home theater line up in his main demo room. the hour passed fast and i was invited back with a special invitation to bring my own amp/pre and cd player and terry would set up the 39's for just 2 channel , and i could go at it with my own cd.s. i am definetly going to do this next month. later for now. paul
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    p-39f cost

    scott - wow palladiums and citrus.... no palladiums, but we have mennello tangello (2) , marsh white and ray ruby grapefruit, naval (unsure of specific) and sunburst hybrid tangerine, and 2 key limes. the tangellos and tangerine are hurting this year. lack of water and the heat has limited yield. the tangerine set blossoms seems like 3 distinct times , but because of weather each time they would loose most all blossoms or tiny fruit. and now i think the tree is stressed after blooming so many times and the continuing heat spell.recent rains and watering has helped but i wont see much product for this tree this year. i think some birds ate some of my grapefruit babies too.oh well. home depot and lowes dont seem to get the one gallon stock like i used to see in the 90's. but i did just pick up a root bound one gallon page orange at lowes last week for $9.xx . .i can imagine my citrus problems are quite small compared to your operation. do you have any links to pics/chat about your palladiums. thanks regards paul
  3. they look fantastic. i love that warm color of the wood.
  4. colin - can we get your experience listening to the palladiums? thanks paul
  5. i have a sansui G7700. i like it. it drives my rf-7s sometimes. i have sampled a few ss amps with my khorns and settled on a 9w 300B tubed integrated amp . i think khorns do have a upper limit for watts per ch...... its 100 (400w peak) i think peak is for transitory passages , not sustained. do you listen to your music with headphones off of your sansui ? if so how do you like that ? just curious. happy listening. paul
  6. roger is spot on... location and conveinence of looking over and pick up is important. meeting the owner and getting a idea of the units history is good too. saveing the owner the hassle of shipping can mean a good deal allaround. paul
  7. well put. lps in 2009 (esp old ones in your collection) do require more work to enjoy. interestingly cd's require more effort than down loaded or other high tech programing. each with differing degrees of auditory satisfaction for the listener paul .......... by the way ! who are those people anyway!!!!!
  8. mr. thump great job. you can pat yourself on the back for sure. recently read the vendor reply by klipsch to the fine p-39f review in stereophile magazine. a little winded and shamelessly selfserving ...... but that is what the space is for. at least klipsh doesnt have any roy halls responding for klipsch ( on the vendor comment pages of stereophile)..... hehe would have been nicer (imo) if there was more specific mention of the forum and the real people who did the palladium. paul
  9. hello - fyi the product page is showing the rf-7 as discontinued ... looks like the new product info (when it gets up) will need to include a link to the original rf-7 ! i like the rf-7 i wonder if the new crossover is identical to the original ? paul
  10. fyi there is a tangental discussion of these issues over a diyaudio if interested here is the link www diyaudio.com/forums/showthread/t-118666.html paul
  11. marvelous marvel... what a cool trick. rolling papers. i will have to dig around... but i think i have some JOBES around well about the actual damage. i got these off of ebay some time ago. owned by a salesman from 'sound advice' store. he had purchased them new. they were located in a near by town so it was to easy to do the deal. he auditioned them for me and they rocked. his wife had 3 cats and he pointed out to me the damage the cats had done to the grills ( got a good deal $800 for the pair and the center... the center was in ex. shape). i looked at the speakers at his place ... they looked ok. got them home and discovered cats had clawed through the rubber surrounds on one speaker. the seller made it right by me and i got a klipsh replacement. one of the other speakers had about a 2 inch sparation of the surrond , i think that was a weakness in the original assembly. i found a replacement for that on ebay. so i have these 2 speakers . one with about 10 cat lacerations in the butyl and one with a butyl separation. looks like it may be worthwhile to try to fix at least one and attempt to salvage the other. thanks the rolling paper trick idea. paul
  12. thats what i'm thinking. i refoamed some medium size infinity speakers awhile back, it was kinda fun , and i think the sound was not noticeabley changed but i dont think i want to redo these with a different (not butyl but polyfoam) product. thanks for the observation. paul .......hey .. wait a minute - your cat is waaayyyyy bigger than mine. and rudy weighs 20lbs.
  13. no problemo. i am not to savey on all the information highways available and sometimes really dont think i have the time or brain cells to explore it all. anyway. i am discovering the p-39f's and i am kind of cranked right now because... a local highend a/v business ( a soundecision in tarpon springs, florida ) is takeing delivery of the palladium p-39f hometheater lineup this week and i have been fortunate to be invited to its premier openhouse thursday evening. a new day is dawning.... needless to say i am looking forward to the listening experience. paul
  14. speakerexchange got back to me. here is what they say. no speaker manufacturers provide replacement surrounds. its all aftermarket. no good butyl surrounds are available in the klf 30 size. and even if they were they are difficult to redo. what is available is polyfoam. if they have the speaker measurements they can provide polyfoam. hmm. i wonder if anyone has done there k-31-k's in polyfoam ? paul
  15. i actually just stumbeled on this stuff while 'bing' ing palladium p-39f. mr.thump has presented some great insight into what makes the palladium tick. so far i have only read a couple of his blog notes... they are very cool. check it out , click on BLOG paul
  16. good deal. why mess with success. whats old - is new again , yadayada.. rectangular crossover access looks good. matches box. while old style circular jobber matches ports. . pics on the klipsch products page never are very revealing with black products. never enough light. those grills are available from klipsh (56$ ea). just priced them recently as i am missing some grill nipple thingies on my recently acquired used maple RF-7's.
  17. well what i meant was if you already own it and you like what it does , enjoy it for awhile. is it going to burn up..... i dont know. lots of different integrated's out there serving there owners relatively well. if you got the itch to try something different , most of us eventually do. listen around , read the sterophile mag recommendations for the price class equipment you are interested in if it is newer equipment (like the outlaw, etc). google it. i do that alot. i have a a/v yamaha with more bells and inputs and outputs than i will ever use . 100w/ch 5.1 (i only use 2 ch) its in the living room for the tv and the klf 30's. got it at best buy about 200 something $ works fine for what it does at its price. hth
  18. i think the 1070 is a integrated unit. are you buying it or do you own it ? if you own it... enjoy it. may be get a tuner and turntable with your 1k ( anything left over get some headphones and cables). enjoy the music for awhile. make any sense ? paul
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    p-39f cost

    thanks for the link and info. i cant seem to get my mouse to work with the Kcorner site... it could be a problem on my end. i can get way closer to a purchase of these beauties at 15K as opposed to 20 K.... i wonder if the price of materials/production/marketing/end sales , etc - goes down , there will be a 5K price drop ???? .......... naawwww. i doubt it. [|-)] but i guess if marketing and product quality is creating demand greater than current wherewithall to produce price will be max. paul
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    p-39f cost

    i have been searching the web for available info on the palladium and have seen the price listed as 15,000 and 20,000 can anyone comment on what they paid when they purchased or what they cost now ! thanks paul
  21. looking for source for these. i have 2 speakers that have surround tears that need rebuilding. these are the surrounds that are rubber like. thanks for any tips in advance. paul (these are not available from klipsch - however they do have replacement speaker for $122)
  22. congrats on the aweome stereophile magazine expose. if i were prospecting to set up a '2 channel' system around these beauties i would look at my budget. first i would be over budget with the speaker purchase alone. ...hell the new speaker cables i would in all likely hood have to have for these would be around 3 weeks takehome pay (after 401K contribution)..... but if i were to find a 'pair' i would have to make do with the amp/pre/integrated/ cd/phono stuff i have. i would like to know if my mac 275 V and modwright tubed pre would get close to doing the pals justice? i have a 9w 300B integrated that works my cornerhorns ... what about a amp like that driving the pals ? and then i have a few old school 100+ watt/ch recievers from the 70's . would it be fun to see how these do with the pals? well to finish up... i think you will optimize for the best presentation. ss and tube. high end and modest end. go with 2 ch. less clutter and obfusication. good luck and success with your new product. hope to visit hope someday. paul
  23. hi - can anyone bring me these speakers > in tampa, fl. paul
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