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ClaudeJ1

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  1. No, he can't. PWK left us 22 years ago. Fred sold the company 12 years ago.W need to get real about this. emos are one thing, but posting the recipe for a fine dish is a NONO for the finest chefs in the world. I just want his recipe for broiled bass with lemon butter (if he has one).
  2. Speaking of nice photos, did you ever install those Four 12" drivers into the Snail Horns you got from me over a year ago? Just curious as to how they might sound and/or measure.
  3. Since commercial recordings get "stepped on" so many times and so many ways, what's one more Step? At least the user has the final Control Step instead of out of control idiots with large checkbooks!
  4. Yup. And the total fallacy of some "Audiophiles," is the statement: "I want my speakers to give me the sound as the Artist intended." PWK did it right with his recordings and hsi 2PH3 Array of Horns. The rest of the recordings TODAY, have been Stepped ON a half dozen times in the Mastering stages with so many Electronic Toys.... All driven by the idiots with a big checkbook the say: "Make everything louder than everything else."
  5. I don't need a fix. I have zero problems with mine driving horns at either 4 or 8 ohms, passive. I have 3 of the originals and one Mk II version. I'm sure guys that had problems were trying to drive 84 db space heater speakers with too many watts. No "solution" needed here.
  6. You are lucky the price went back up. They were available for like, $150 new for a while, which would kill your attempt at selling. I have 4 of them myself, so not need. GLWS.
  7. ClaudeJ1

    What I Got Today!

    I have 2 pairs in my Walnut SH 1.0's with E networks w/refreshed caps of the same value. Maybe SH 1.1 would be more appropriate, since not raising the horns up to a Cornwall b2 Network level (and the leads are already reversed for the horns). This (built in the E network) polarity change gets better phase response and creates a better sounding version vs. my original with the less attenuated horns. I should have never commented that it was, effectively, a "b" Network with reversed polarity. The confusion it created was unnecessary and the KISS rule should have been applied. The less you do to an E network Heresy, the better it is. My bad on that note.
  8. The Carver Tube amps sound "better" because they use their inherent Microphonics as part of the feedback circuit. In other words, they "listen to the room" they are in. I use a microphone for the same feed back in solid state. It's an apples and elephants comparison at best. Not Class D vs Glass. It's not that simple.
  9. PWK told me it was a waste of good copper just to drive a #30 gauge wire in the K33 WOOFER. So only worth the time to YOU, as my bs meter is pegging about doing that to a frikkin' Tweter!
  10. And if you have any extra, you can use it to Jump Start a Diesel Locomotive! bs alerts notwithstanding.
  11. You can just use an E network with the same woofers, that's all.
  12. You skipped the keyword "value" when stating YOUR preference for permanent Tone Controls over neutrality.
  13. Apparently the real question is "Will it still let us ROCK OUT on having them NOT in corners?" If it does, then no amount of factual feedback from Amateurs will suffice. Only fanboy emotional "testing" responses will be approved or retained.
  14. And you ain't Paul Klipsch, so what? And you know I'm not wrong about horns on walls, corners and no corners.
  15. OK, then, I should have said to Marvel: It's my OPINION that a Khorn against the wall is not as good as a Khorn in a CORNER that "completes the horn" as it was designed over 75 years ago to go below 60 Hz. at it's full effective length. One of the things I learned from Paul, who urged me to join the Audio Engineering Society, is that, I have a very low tolerance for bullshit in audio. Selectively allowed to exist on this forum from favored posters. Not naming names of course, because that would only be another opinion. However, this forum has less of it than many of the others out there for anyone looking. As to your "curves challenge," I'd like to see YOUR curves from 1977. I was 23 when I could finally afford Khorns, with my very first bank loan, while you were a 13 year old, new teen ager. It's not like we had free software, computers, and cheap omni microphones available back then for the task like we do now. So the average amateur, like me, has very few excuses for not having DATA to back up their "conclusions" so strongly and incompletely stated. I had Khorns for 30 years with a mono middle. I sold them in 2007 to get MWMs with K-402s with subwoofers. There's still a lot for me to learn about bass below 60 Hz. either way. LOL. besides all that, the Midrange is where we live, remember? And you designed way more Mid Horns than bass horns, last I looked..............................until very recently, of course. Also not an opinion. If my bullshit opinion was not deemed to be of higher quality than the rest of them, why do you even bother with it?
  16. Your point was made nearly false by mentioning "brick wall" and "rocking" as an adjective. It was clearly your fuzzy reading OPINION. Now go mount those 12" drivers into the Snail Horns I sold you for less than the cost of the lumber. Then you can start a thread when you measure them in and out of corners and show CURVES instead of mere WORDS, however Incomplete your data or points of reading might otherwise be.
  17. I'm glad you find this forum to be free entertainment, Chief. I would also, if I were in your shoes. LOL If my "opinion" is factually wrong, then why did Paul create 4 ft. corners to Complete the K-Horn Mouth in his own home, while also writing about it in the Dope From Hope? Yes, a Khorn in a living room, against only a wall, is not as good as in a corner, especially since PWK recommended having "sealing flaps" for use in a corner to increase output above 300 Hz., aye? Also, why did everyone get on my case when I posted YOUR curves of the U-Jube NOT in a corner with it's 60 Hz. drop off? I just want to know the threshold of where and when fact suddenly is deemed to be public "opinion?" I had to build one of those false corners in order to move my Khorns to an apartment for a year in 1978, until my wife and I bought our starter house. Having and early influence of PWK in my teens, certainly got me going after the Physics of it all beyond just Consumer Music Enjoyment. My father's name was Paul. My only son's name is Paul. Paul Klipsch was the same age as my dad's mom (my most influential Grandparent born the same year as Paul Klipsch). Whether it's mere coincidence or divine intervention, I have certainly enjoyed the Paul connections in my life, and still do.
  18. Perhaps you can't even imagine how many speakers I have heard over the years, which would also more than validate my "opinion." IjJust measured Khorns without false corners years ago in 1977 with a db meter which is all I had then. A Klipschorn is only a 4 foot long horn out of a corner, with a rear exit, and it does have less bass against a wall vs. a PROPER sealed corner. Where are your measurements? Speakers do not have "brickwall cutoff." Horns can actually output bass below their cutoff. So basically, all the "rocking" you did was mostly 60 Hz. on up. Get back to me when you have curves that contradict this. I'm betting you won't either way.
  19. This is why I have Yamaha Pre Pros for 2.1 and 7.2.4 Dolby Atmos. High end performance with everything built in, including the fabulous ESS Sabre DACs. Now all newer stuff from China is good and it's cheaper if you select carefully.
  20. Saul Marantz himself told me to use Tubes on top and Solid State on the bottom, in 1976. I have always followed his advice. It has never failed me. Had all really good tube stuff in my teens, 20's and mid 30's. I'm done with all the fussiness and permanent "tone controls" and "euphonic distortions" of tubes. As pleasant as they may be, I now prefer affordable "straight wire with gain," which modern class D amps do easily and without load dependence. Now all I do is add more amp channels and more drivers. Real progress when you get your head out of the 70's.
  21. I can understand also. I was a Tube guy once. I just got more experience later in a different direction. Kept the best and kept going. Personal choice is still Personal Choice.
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