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Klipsch Cornwall loudspeakers, excellent condition. Perfect working order, some cosmetic blemishes from years of love. These are vintage, unmodified, from 1976 in the Laquered Walnut finish. Local pick-up in Salem VA only. $1800 Serious, reasonable offers only.

Woofer has been sold. Thanks guys.

I have one here.

Klipsch La Scala loudspeakers. Birch ply, stained cherry/pecan color in good condition with some wear. Tremendously dynamic sound, extreme high efficiency at 104db per watt. These are the same drivers as used on the Klipschorn loudspeakers in a smaller enclosure. 1983 build, made in the USA. $995 - Local pickup in Roanoke VA. I may deliver to a not so distant address if you don't have a truck but you should of course stop by to see and hear them first. For more images, see also http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=260267352333http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem260267352333'>

The Rogue Audio preamps have phono stages that are based on the Stealth and which are scaled down for their application. The Metis preamp and Cronus integrated amp have a MM only version with a fixed 47k load. The Perseus has a fully adjustable MM/MC stage which most resembles the Stealths flexibility. All of the preamps have a pure tube line stage and excellent sound and build quality. The latest versions of the Rogue Audio preamps are very quiet, despite being pure tube designs. -Bill

Hi Mike, I am a dealer for Rogue Audio and I can say that not only are the amps made in PA, but they are all made by hand and to order. They have wonderful quality and customer service. They are located in Brodheadsville PA, which is probably only like 30-45 minutes from your house. You have no excuse not to visit! ;-). The MM phono stage is excellent, not merely good. Mark O'Brien is the head of the company and is a vinyl fan. The unit also features a headphone amp and remote volume control. It weighs 55 lbs and sports output transformers capable of 90wpc. The amp can come configured with KT77 or EL34 output tubes. The phono section and headphone amp are solid state and offer very low noise and excellent linearity. The preamp and power amp sections are pure tube with solid state regulation. It has a very dynamic and clean sound for a tubed amplifier, with very good frequency extension and bass control. It gets those things right that many tubed amplifiers cannot, yet it still has the soundstage and flow of a tube amp. It is one of my favorite amps and offers a tremendous value. Definitely worth checking out. The bias is easy to set. The amp has a built-in meter that is very attractive and is of good quality. It has the switches to select which tube that you are seeing the reading of and the adjustment pots under a metal hood in the top of the chassis. They even include an insulated tool for the purpose. Parts quality throughout is amazing. Most amazing is that you get all of this for not too much more than a Chinese made unit with similar power! -Bill www.rogueaudio.com

As firitz has indicated, they really don't have low bass output and if that is what you want, you need to add subs. A pair of CV scoops and an electronic x-over would be most impressive... and deafening ;-). -Bill

I actually meant to post it here. I think it is better for discussion. I don't really expect anyone here to buy them, I just thought that I would give you guys the first shot, as I did with my Cornwalls. Then they go out to eBay, etc. I'll put them on the "Used and Demo Gear" page on my website first also. It is fun to see if there are any comments about a particular model. The La Scala is more ubiquitous, so I doubt it in this case. My Corwalls were what I found to be the very sweetest version of many IMO, after researching them quite a bit. They are my favorites and would have been keepers at least for a while, if I could have made them work in my room. -Bill

Hi, Sorry about the ommission of price. I am super busy these past few days. I am selling them for the going rate, $1000, you pick them up. Here is an image of them and a link or three of others so as to conserve bandwidth here (we all know what La Scalas look like anyway, eh?). They may be a little lighter and golden looking in your homes lighting or in natural light. The color is fairly accurate on my monitor but a little dark and a touch red perhaps. http://www.uptownaudio.com/used/lascala2.jpg http://www.uptownaudio.com/used/lascala3.jpg http://www.uptownaudio.com/used/lascala4.jpg http://www.uptownaudio.com/used/lascala4.jpg

I have a pair of '83 La Scala for sale here. They are in perfect shape electrically and feature the Type AL crossovers, K-77 HF drivers, K-55-M / K-400 squawker, and K-33-E woofer in each. They were originally bare birch but were stained a rich orange lacquer color, darker than golden oak, more like cherry or pecan. I'll post pictures later if anyone wants to see them. there are some dings and I will be touching up the worst spots but there will still be places that you might want to redo if you are finish picky. -Bill

The plastic post is a "key" to line-up the tube pins with the appropriate holes on the tube socket. You just need to be sure that it goes back in the same way that it came out. The pin is probably rattling around inside the amp chassis and you could perhaps super glue it back on as a reference but it may not stay put like new. It will not effect the operation of the amp at all. -Bill

They must have sold them both ;-). I heard the K2 a few years ago and did not really care for it personally although it was rather impressive. The Everest is obviously the larger and more majestic of the two ;-). -Bill

Hi Audio Flynn, The Njoe Tjoeb is an older model Marantz CD player that is modified to add a tube output stage. So if you know what budget Marantz stuff looks like, then you know why it seems "less robust". In fairness the transport tray really plays no part in the sound of a well designed unit. I have never liked marantz gear sort of their very top end stuff and could never justify paying for that. Hi Carl, I am an authorised Jolida dealer and have been for ten years. I don't sell any modified gear but I can do modifications when needed. I don't believe that there is any merit in modifying CD players and really don't even like to modify their amps. The reason is that there are so many choices of CD players available that it is wasteful to pick one that is not performing to your satisfaction and then proceed to "invest" more money into it; I just recommend other models that meet the customer's needs. As far as the amp mods go, I typically only do really useful mods such as adding sub outs. The guys that have their own "my Jolida is better than yours" mods are just trying to pull customers away from other dealers and even squeeze a few more dollars out of them. Jolida can't warranty something that they haven't done. I have even seen some of these "mods" that don't do ANYTHING electrically, but rather just add different feet, etc to dampen the units. That would not void the warranty but I wouldn't want to pay for it either. The trouble there is that the Jolida gear was never designed to be a high end pproduct but a great value. These "mods" rob the units of that value - yuk. The Jolida JD100 player is their third generation CD player. I have been around to see the very first introduced and have of course tried out and sold each version. Their initial attempt at a tube based player was much like the Njoe Tjoeb in that they took an existing, budget player and modified it. It was a disaster as it was very unreliable. It sounded great! Really, it was one of the sweetest sounding tubed CD players that I have heard. It wasn't the most resolving or particularly neutral sounding unit but it had a HUGE soundstage. I mean amazing! The trouble was that it would skip if you tapped it or tilted it, etc and ultimately they all just stopped reading discs. The second generation player was much better in terms of reliability and was also a modified player but still had a cheap, plasticky feel to it. It lost the warmth and depth of the first player but gained resolution. It felt like and sounded the most like the Njoe Tjoeb to me. It maybe wasn't as well built as that even but it was very affordable and really didn't float my boat overall. The JD100 was the result of that learning curve. They just could not make a player of the quality that they wanted by modifying other products. With the JD100, they stamped their own heavy steel chassis and built it from the ground up. It is built like a tank and if you have ever lifted one, you know what I am talking about. The inside is very clean and well laid out and the output stage is a real tube output stage, not just a tube buffer like some other units. It also uses what may be the most common tube in the world in the 12AX7, so no funky stuff there. I like the player alright but they had to double the price of the unit to make it into its final version here at almost $1000. That puts it up there with some pretty stiff competition and no matter how I like the robust build quality and the smooth sound of it, I can always find another player that has better sonic traits. It is also a little on the warm and fuzzy side for me sonically and I like a very natural sounding front end. Many of my customers really like it and we just one yesterday actually. No one that bought one has ever claimed that I twisted their arm! -Bill

You should have had a plan for upgrading based on the driver specs. I guess you just "got lucky" and aquired a set of drivers that work and now you need to find mates. JBL does make some of the best horn drivers available. If you like those, you will love the TADs. Check these out: http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pna/v3/pg/album/compare/0,,2076_310070071,00.html I have never really been a fan of horn loudspeakers of any type. I do like the cream of the crop in the Tannoy and the TAD systems but don't really have any need or room for them. They are simply too big and too loud for my space. I have a customer who really likes the larger than life dynamics and has built a humongous, custom TAD system driven by an equally humongous stack of Bryston x-overs and mono amplifiers. It is ridiculously powerful and loud, but that's what he wanted. Personally, I prefer the Tannoy Dual Concentric designs for their near perfect phase and full frequency response. Either system is way more expensive than the Klipsch system, so the K-horn certainly has it's place in the price to performance ratio if you figure in loud and large at the top of the list. They certainly have a lot of fans around here and deservedly so. You will likely want to remove the x-over and use an active, adjustable filter such as those by Bryston or Marchand to get the thing to come back together properly. Set up a couple of lawn chairs out about 20 yds from the back porch and enjoy it before the cops show up ;-). I assume that you have it but you need a really big room for those to gel with any sort of drivers as they are so large and also require hard corners to get the low frequencies at the same level. I have seen photos of some small rooms with huge speakers in them that you would not believe. If I can find the one that I am thinking about, I'll share it. It hurts my ears just to think about it ;- ). Funnier still, I have a scale model of Tannoy horn loaded loudspeakers here that are really cute. They are a beautifully finished pair of working speakers that use 4" Dual concentric drivers and are only about the size of a shoebox. The real speakers were a vintage set that had a 15" Dual Concentric driver and so would have been just larger than the Cornwalls! -Bill

Hi Dave, Funny, but it worked for me (crumby map though ;-). Here is a better link that gives directions as well as better maps: http://www.uptownaudio.com/map.htm We are across the street from the Kroger (lower level Towers Shopping Center) in what was the original Record Exchange location. I've been there for ten years :-). -Bill