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    What would you do?

    in General Klipsch Info

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    My Advice:

    Learn about the different technologies and sell the products based on that. Compare the cheaper monster cable to the more expensive, and explain why the more expensive cable costs more. It doesn't really matter whether you think they make a difference or not. Ultimately, it's the customer who decides whether they want to spend the extra money or not.

    If a customer asks you if you think it makes a difference, just say, I haven't done a comparison on my system at home, but I plan to try some day. I've had friends/other customers tell me that it made a big difference, though. You aren't lying to them by saying that, and they will probably be satisfied with the answer.

    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.

    Klipsch print ads

    in General Klipsch Info

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    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."

    Howdy from a new member...

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

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    By the way, I had a friend that got me into hifi when he started with a pair of ESS AMT 1B's ...

    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:

    130b_2.JPG

    Howdy from a new member...

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

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    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!!!

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