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I think Todd's advice makes a lot of sense. Know enough to give the customer technical information on the products but avoid giving opinions on whether the products improve performance.

$2000 each.

I saw this posted on FatWallet and thought I'd pass it on... http://www.vanns.com/shop/servlet/item/details/542999287/klipsch-klipschorn-oil-finish Free shipping too!

Ahhhhh... I'm finally garnering a little seniority around here! Been a member for about a month now. Welcome.

Congrats on some great finds. You almost make me want to go on a thrift store prowl.

Thanks for the detailed procedure and for passing on the tricks you learned. Watch out Norm Abram!!! I was wondering if you did anything to fill in gouges or square up bumped corners before starting with the veneer.

Thanks for the synopsis. Back in the late '70's I went with a buddy of mine to audition speakers. We brought Aja and Abraxas. When the auditions were done and he'd closed the deal on Heresys, we got to sit back and enjoy them on K-horns!!

They look GREAT!!! Congrats on a successful and, I'm sure, very satisfying project.

Perhaps they are borrowing from this slogan circa 1972: Ad copied from johnyholiday's thread on print ads.

This is a very impressive collection. Well done Johny and all contributors. I especially enjoyed reading the 1957 brochure. A full half century later can anybody argue with the statement on page 11?: "The basic structure of the Klipschorn sound reproducer is fundamentally correct; improvements in detail will undoubtedly occur, but the basic system need never be changed."

Congrats! Great speakers at a fabulous price. I'm a little jealous. Enjoy!!

Looks like a Hell of a tour. Thanks for sharing!

Those were the ones! Does anybody remember what they called the tweeter element? It was something unique like a folded plastic envelope that squeezed and contracted to produce an omnidirectional sound field. I remember when I auditioned them they produced a lot of sibilance. EDIT: Armed with the name of the speaker, I searched it out on the internet. The tweeter was a folded ribbon design called the Heil Air Motion Transformer named after its inventor, Dr. Oskar Heil. Looks like I was wrong about it being omnidirectional. It's a dipole radiator. Here's a Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Motion_Transformer And a pic from ebay:

Thanks for the warm welcome, guys! For those who asked, my Klipsches and I are still in Houston. This looks like a great forum and I'm glad I found it.

I'm new to the forum, but a looooooooong time Klipsch owner. By way of introduction, here's my story: Back in 1974 I started shopping for new speakers. I'd narrowed the search down to some ESS (remember those? Squeezed air tweeters!) and a specific model of JBL. I could find the speakers individually, but never together at the same store for a side-by-side. Finally one day I stopped into a HiFi store in Dallas and they had both speakers. I spent quite a long time doing an a-b comparison and noting likes/dislikes about both. The salesman kept trying to point me to a third speaker, but I kept shooting him down. Finally when I'd finished my audition, he said "Now can I put the others on?" I rather grudgingly agreed. Well I immediately tore up my ESS/JBL list and knew I'd be buying a pair of Klipsch Heresies. I went off and did some research on the brand and learned the Heresy had been in production for about 20 years with essentially no design changes. They must do something right! Anyway, a few months later I was working in Hammond, Louisiana and saw an ad that an individual in Baton Rouge was selling a pair in walnut for about $350 if I remember correctly - about half price! They were soon mine. I used them for a few years and then they went into storage during an overseas stint that ended up lasting... 11 years! In the meantime I acquired some Mordaunt-Short Signifiers and some KEF 104aB's. When I ended up back in the States in '88 those Klipsch still sounded as sweet as the day I'd packed them (except the bass end couldn't compare with the much larger Mordaunt-Shorts). The M-S foam speaker surrounds disintegrated, however, so the Heresy became my main speakers again. Move ahead to about 1994 or so and I was at a friend's party. He'd just gotten a new pair of speakers and was bragging them up. They were Chorus II's and he'd gotten them that very day at Houston's Home Entertainment on a buy one get one free deal!!! I could hardly sleep that night and was outside the doors of Home Entertainment when they opened Sunday morning. SOLD OUT!!! But on checking the computers, there was still a pair available at the store across town... MINE!!! A new in box black pair for $900. Those are the ones I'm listening to today. The Heresies? I've got 'em tucked away in a corner now, but after 33 years I'll bet when I hook 'em back up they'll sound as sweet as ever!!!