lighting guy

Thanks everyone, a lot of good info to consider. Steamer- I now live in the hometown of your favorite team. []

thanks Garth, after posting, I think technically I was asking about active vs. passive xovers, right? (I'm only a lighting guy after all ). I'll check into ALK and ask him. As far as PWK stories, I never could see him , but his back fence abutted ours. Sometimes I could hear his model train running out of his house and I think around his pool. Modest, older home, not a McMansion. His second wife was the German (and French, I think) teacher at the high school. She was very short with dark hair, he was very tall with white hair. Quite the couple! I met him one Sunday afternoon, briefly. After shaking my hand, he took out his famous notebook, jotted something down and proceeded to ask me a very technical, mathematical question. I could only stare blankly and reply "Uh, I'm sorry Mr. Klipsch, I don't know." Took the wind out of my sails, I thought I was a pretty smart high school senior! Nice guy though, I could tell he wasn't trying to make me feel stupid. I did have a few older friends who worked at K&A. Great people. They really were happy there. They always looked forward to the Friday afternoon beer and music sessions. BTW, excuse the "differnt" in the Subject Heading. We don't all speak that way!

Hi, another newbie here, but actually a long time Klipsch follower. (I used to live right next door to PWK himself, but that's a whole other story). Recently became the proud owner of a pair of '78 horns, built the year after I left Hope High school. In the rush to get 'em cranking I bought an Adcom GFA 545II (100 wpc) and an Adcom pre and they ROCKED, but not the clean, musical sound I know they're capable of. So, I did a lot of time in these forums reading about the different crossover mods and amps, SS vs. SET, etc., etc,...... put a recapping project on the to do list.............. Well, I've just joined a local audio group (where I seem to be the lone Klipsch guy) and expressed my desire for trying tubes. One member loaned me a pair of Wright 3.5 monoblocks. Plugged my low end cd player direcly in and............WOW............... that's what I'm talking about ! Now I know what it means to hear musical clarity and sweet vocal hormonies! I'm now a SET believer! But what about the chest thumping low end I also love out of these monsters? I'm sure someone out there is running SET on the top and SS on the bottom? Yes? Do I need an electronic crossover or can Al K. build a set for me?