Mattevt

Thanks blsamuel! Great info!

Maybe this is the wrong place to put this, but it seems to get a lot of traffic. I'm not totally sure how this happened but the preamp plug that runs from the satellite to the sub broke. As you can see, that cylinder should be connected to the cord so that I can plug it into the preamp imput. I have a bad feeling I can't do anything about this. But I thought I'd ask.

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For some reason I can't view the sound card board... I won't be able to ship my KG 3.5's to Alaska (where I'm moving) until January, so I bought a Promedia 2.1 set and I'm going to just use my laptop for all my music until I can ship out my whole system. My laptop is about 3 weeks old, and it has a "SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD Audio" card, or so my hardware information says. I don't know much about sound when it comes to computers and their capabilities, but I've heard only good things about Promedia. Will a good pair of speaks make up for an integrated sound card? What are the benefits of upgrading? What are my upgrade options? Thanks alot for your responses, Matt

Great links. Very informative and visual! Thank you.

Where can I get tall boxes and 1" styrofoam sheets? Thanks.

Thanks! I really appreciate it.

I'm going to have to ship my KG 3.5s to Alaska. How should I package them? I don't even know where to start. Detailed instructions would be nice, because the thought of this is making me nervous. ha ha. Thanks for the advice.

So, my room dimension problem would be solved if I could put my KG 3.5s close to the base heaters. I'm scared to do that. Is this a healthy fear? Is there a way to shield the speaks?

Spin It Again by Acoustica is a program that will record your vinyl to the computer. You just need a reciever, turntable and the proper connectors. Everything is explained and it's really easy to use. It has features that will help you clean up the clicks and pops too. Also works with tapes. http://www.acoustica.com/spinitagain/

Wonderful news! Thank you.

My KG 3.5s are more than 10 years old. I was wondering if there was anything I should be looking for in terms of upgrades and replacement to the speakers themselves (I don't want new speakers yet, and I can't really afford them anyway.) Thanks

YOU ..... effin' bastid ... i Did ... try to get that dam bug on my screen ....[8-)] ha ha glad I'm not the only one.

That sounds tedious, but interesting. I'll probably try that, or a variation thereof. I appreciate all the responses. It was also nice running into a couple people from the homeland of cheese and magic hat.

They are about 8 feet apart. When I listen, I'm usually 9-10 feet away.

Good to know! I'm fairly sure I'll be contacting you before I leave for Alaska in August. Out of curiosity, for what price (if any) would you part ways with your heresy's.

Being fairly new to this I don't know an effective way to put this into words... I notice a more full sound, I guess is the best I can come up with. It wasn't exactly "bad" toed in it just sounded...narrow(?)

I could say with full confidence that my room is less than ideal. Considering it's a basement sectioned off by the stairs by some drapeage. There are no usable corners. I'd have an easier time if the heater wasn't wrapping the only usable pair of corners. I guess I'm not looking to use the room as a vehicle for the sound because honestly, if I move a table, I have one free corner. The matching corner goes into the laundry room. Come summer time everything will be back to good. I guess I'm just surviving right now. I'm just curious if anyone else experienced similar circumstances. What would be the benefits of toeing in vs. not and vice versa given proper room dimensions etc.

disclaimer: I looked for a relevant thread to post this in...I may not have looked hard enough. So I had been toeing-in my kg 3.5s for quite awhile. I didn't really have any legitimate reason for it, it just felt like the right thing to do for some reason. Today I "un-toed" them. Vast (positive) difference. Thoughts?

Never mind. I figured it out.

And please keep us updated. :-)

The sound becomes slightly distorted and I it seems to fade slightly for a split second when I return the balance to 50/50. After a second short while it goes away and seems to be fine. However, I realized that I was doing the testing with my turntable. And it may have been the vinyl that was dusty or flawed and I was just paranoid and began to assume that something had to be wrong with it after it fell over. I was not able to reproduce the problem with my cd player. Re-Cutting the wires seems to have done the trick. But here's my question...would a bad speaker wire connection have caused it to go into protect? Is it possible that while I was taking it apart I knocked some part or connection back into place temporarily? I wouldn't be able to tell by switching the tweeters now because the sound seems to be fine. I'm overwhelmed with the knowledge of the participants in this forum, I hope to learn a lot by frequenting the various threads. Thanks for all your insightful responses. Matt

When I called Klipsch tech support, he told me to play music through the woofer only and then through the tweeter only to see if I could make it go into protect mode to isolate the problem. Both were still connected to the terminal cup when I played them individually, it's just that one or the other was unhooked. However, I recut the speaker cable and all seems well, I still notice that the highs seem a little shaky. Thank you for the responses. -Matt.

Thank you for the reply, Whamo. I took out the terminal cup which entailed unhooking the speaker wire when I had everything out of the cabinet I experimented with the tweeter and woofer again. This time the woofer functioned normally and the tweeter did as well the tweeter definitely sounded better than before however the highs were still a little shaky. After returning everything to the cabinet the speakers sounded good again, not great but good. When this problem originally started if I positioned the speaker a little leaning forward it sounded normal again, but eventually no position would work and it would continuously go onto protect. I feel that it could have been a problem with the connection somewhere, but that was fixed when I took the components apart and reassembled them but I am almost certain that there is something wrong with the tweeter. i noticed certain shakiness when the balance was at 50/50 but only for a brief moment. I'm sorry for sounding like a novice, your help is greatly appreciated. I have a Yamaha RX-595 receiver, a Yamaha CDC-655 cd player and a Realistic LAB-430 turnable. I put this "system" together from scratch on limited funds.