tromprof

Have you tried removing the pictured coffee table. In my music studio where I have the K-horns, a stray music stand or chair will ruin the wonderful imaging I get with them. This might explain the difference sitting vs. standing.

Jolida is not the company they once were. There a now two companies using the name, Jolda.com and Jolida.net (http://jolida.net/fedcourt.htm) and they are fighting it out in court. Apparently an American company owns the U.S. rights to the Jolida name and has a second factory in China making stuff, and the original Chinese factory is also making Jolida branded gear. I believe your DAC is the "American" Jolida, not the Chinese one. I recently purchased a preamp from the original Chinese Jolida and am very pleased with the quality and service (I dropped and broke the remote, and they only charged me $20, including shipping, for a replacement). As far as I can tell, the Chinese Jolida is still making the gear with the great bang for the buck that made their name in the first place. Apparently the same can't be said for the American Jolida. The two companies also seem to be having a bit of a price war, and the gear on the Chinese site (Jolida.net) is really cheap. My new preamp was a steal!

I agree. I would start with the stripper first and see where that gets you. Veneer is thin stuff and a sander will go through it pretty fast. Even hand sanding can be tricky. That said,my Dewalt random orbit has been a nice tool for a long time.

All the above are very good. My picks are: Donald Fagen-Morph the Cat, David Bowie-Bring Me the Disco King (Heathen CD?), and the opening to the Wagner opera "Die Walkure". Have fun.

That's contrary to what I've read. Do you have a link? From Bill Fitzmarice's website: "Not impressed yet? Add in the cabin gain of an average room (12dB per octave below 30 Hz) and you can end up with flat response to 10Hz with 110dB sensitivity." ( http://billfitzmaurice.net/THT.html ) Sounds like the right room and good placement will have something to do with it though.

Not true. A 20hz test tone on my tuba table is loud and strong (and shakes the window glass!), so it is great fro home theater. The larger Tuba HT will go to 10hz ! []

You may have seen this but here is my tuba table build thread. It really isn't that hard to make, the hard part is not going too fast and screwing things up (at least for me). http://forums.klipsch.com/forums/t/142985.aspx

I believe that those are La Scalas that have been updated with grills... Chris Yep, they are La Scalas with a full grills. Way higher WAF, and it keeps the cats out.

Size is the downside of the tuba subs, but the Tuba Table is not that huge, and its "table" design helps it blend in. It is the middle in the attached photo with La Scalas on either side.

As the lucky owner of both K-horns and La Scalas (basically the same as Belles), yes, the Belles need a sub woofer for music. Morph the Cat (Donald Fagen) sounds kind of dumb on the La Scalas when compared to the K-horns. Horns have to be long and big to get low frequencies, and that is the trade off with the Belle and La Scala bass bin. As big as they are, the bass bin is too small for low bass. I built the "Tuba Table" sub for my La Scalas and have been very pleased with the result, both for music and movies. The nice thing about my tuba is that the transition is seamless between the La Scalas and the sub. I am not sure what problems the tuba sub is supposed to have, but I have not found any with mine. []

It doesn't have to be either or with your amps. Niles Audio makes a nice A/B amplifier switch. I have a couple and used it to switch between tubes for 2 channel, and SS for home theater. http://www.jr.com/niles-audio/pe/NIL_DPS1/

Ditto! Unless money is no object, then by all means buy them new. [Y]

I have this same situation, but the other way around. My K-horns have the A/4500 networks and CT-125 tweeters, and the La Scalas are stock except for a Crites A network (which is sort of still stock?). Both sound great, but for me the big difference was the 4500 network. Like you, I am not sure what difference better or worse the tweeters make when I go back a forth between them, but the network really improves an already good midrange. When things improve economy wise I think I will make the switch in the LS' as well. [8-|]

I can't comment about the AL-3 crossover but the A/4500 was a nice upgrade from my Crites A network in my K-horns. I have the CT125 in my K-horns, and stock K-77 in my La Scalas. Can't say which I like better, but you have to switch to the CT125s if you use the A/4500, which I think is money well spent. One of these days I will get around to making this change with the La Scalas as well.

I guess this wouldn't be a great place to brag about trading a cheap wah-wah pedal for a nice pair of Heresys.[]

In addition to restoring the crossovers you might want to explore different amps. As you might know K-horns are very sensitive to different amps. I hooked a Sony ES series integrated to mine once, the highs were so accentuated I thought it would make my ears bleed. On the other hand, my 1970s Yamaha amp and receiver both sound very good with no upper nasty harshness. The same was true of my old Fortes as well. Of course the holy grail with K-horns is tubes!

La Scalas are a very different beast from the Fortes and Chorus speakers. A huge sound stage, much more accurate and clean sound, but not a lot of low bass. The bass is big, but cuts off pretty sharply around 60hz. Make sure you have the space for them, they are as deep as they are wide!

Fortes are wonderful speakers, and Chorus even more wonderful. I don;t remember the Fortes having better bass, but rather the Chorus bass being a little more tight, the mids and highs clearer. I owned a pair of Fortes for over 20 years, and depending on the amp the bass could be a bit uncontrolled. The best they ever sounded was right before I sold them when i had them hooked up to good 20 watt tube amp; the bass was just right. You should be happy with either speaker, but I still lust after a pair of Chorus to have in the basement.

I have a 50ft. RGB video cable running to my projector from the PC and the signal seems fine. I also have a couple of 50ft. HDMI cables so I can use my plasma TV as a monitor for my computers, again no problem. I have read however that some monitors are more picky about signal strength than others.

I can find 3/4 inch BB in Cincinnati for $58.00 on a 4x8 sheet, and $35.00 for 5x5 (Rockler, and its really nice stuff). Paying $75.00 a sheet is way too much!

I have a 9 watt amp running my K-horns, and so far no explosions. That is the beauty of Klipsch speakers, when it comes to amps it is quality, not quantity.

If you have decent wood working skills you can build a tuba sub for around $400 that will have a build quality better than anything available commercially. I built mine out of a combination of 3/4 and 1/2 inch baltic birch. (http://forums.klipsch.com/forums/t/142985.aspx) It works beautifully with my La Scalas for both music and movies, and I am sure it would do the same for your RF-7s. If you are near Cincy I would be happy to let you hear it.

No one?

I am not against "upgrades." What I have a problem with is a blanket statement about how "bad" the K-400 sounds. Yes, it can be improved (as all things), but it sounds pretty good as is.

Ditto! I think this is a case of the perfect being the enemy of the good. I myself have tweaked my K-horns using Bob Crites' products, but the K-horns were pretty damn good to begin with. Like all things, the k-400 is not perfect, but for many of us it is good enough (for the time being).