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The second one is a little more gouged and has some marks in the veneer that looks like things were moved across them or stacked wrong. I'm hoping some light sanding will even those out as I don't want to go too far into the veneer. But maybe they'll work as is. Definitely a shame they painted them. And the "kid" even said they came from the factory like that as it's how his uncle ordered them. Right. White Heresy's would be about like hen's teeth.

I've looked inside of both and haven't found any extra tags to date them to. Oh well. If this second one doesn't look as good as the first after the paint comes off, the possibility of painting is there. But, I agree in that the walnut does look nice and I have a pair of JBL L100t's that are walnut and look really good. The pecan on my Norman Lab Model 9's looks really good, too. Funny, when I was in Ace Hardware a little while ago buying a couple new plastic scrapers, I told the guy what I needed them for. His eye lit up and said, "that's Heresy to even think of painting Klipsch speakers that didn't come that way!". He told me a buddy of his in college had a pair of Klipschorns that he painted.....wait for it....John Deere Green! None of his friends could believe he'd done that and the owner of them just thought they were the cats meow. Farmer maybe? Most likely. Thanks for the info, Bruce. Kip

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Maybe it was just they type of white paint they used....or the amount. It's quite thick.

Hmm... I thought I'd read where the earlier ones had round terminals and later ones were rectangle. I had another pair of Heresy 2's with the rectangle cups. No biggie really.

I recently picked up a sad pair of early Heresy 2's (round terminal cups) where, apparently, the original owner painted them white. And really thick. There are no tags on the back of the cabinets so I can't "date" them but haven't looked on the inside too much yet. I've got 99% of the white paint off of one cabinet and will start the second one soon. I used the Citristrip for this....worked well along with a find bristle copper brush for the grain. They appear to be Walnut once the paint was removed from the first one. The first cabinet had no major damage to it but the second one is more dinged up and some small gouges in it. It may end up being a re-veneer job to get them looking like they should. Some of the white paint got on the motorboard, inside pieces where grills sit, and pack panel. Is the best matching paint going to be the Valspar #40 sheen satin black for the fronts and backs? I've been researching threads for an hour or so and see where some use this and others paint them black and then put a lacquer on that. I'll try to post some pictures soon.

Me being a Carver guy, yes!

Bump. Anyone?

Could also be the spider around the voice coil has come undone in a section underneath.

My Carver is a home amplifier...not pro version. It's just had a major overhaul by some Carver "guru's". I do have a couple of Peavey/Crest amplifiers that I could bi-amp with (one is 300wpc and other is 180wpc) but I don't see the point since there is no power increase and I don't see those sounding better than mine by a long shot.

You should be fine with that amp at 240wpc. Set the gains by setting a source on the preamp with nothing playing. Turn the preamp volume up to about half point or a tad more the set the gains on the amp all the way up. You should hear some hiss back the gains down till hiss is gone then turn preamp volume back all the way down and play something you're familiar with that's dynamic. Adjust the gains on the amp now to where the channels are balanced out. That's always been the way I did it in car audio with gains. It always depends on what the voltage out is on your preamp as to where the gains get set on the amps. My Carver amp, M-1.0t MKII Opt 002, produces 460wpc on my CF-3's and has no gain control. At least that's a start.

They'd never be used in surround. I got out of that years ago. All 2 channel now.

Minky, why don't you just start your own KLF-30 thread instead of dredging up the old ones.

Any other opinions?

Mine were loose enough that I removed the back panels, sanded the melamine down, and reattached them with with wood glue and screws using 1" squared frame all around the inside. They were much more solid.

That looks great! Awesome job! I need to do that to my JVC QL-F4, too, one of these days.

Is anyone up the way coming down this way anytime soon?

Pictures? Model numbers? Location?

Odd. I wouldn't think it would have too slow of a NIC in it but who knows. Surely not a 10/100.

Was there a definite price listed?

If they just weren't in WA

Ok...just let me know

Reminds me of factory Ford radios back in the 80'same and 90's. They had a back light bulb for the display that always seemed to go out. I changed out a bunch of those thru the years. Wonder if it had something like that.

I don't do home theater these days. Had a 6.2 channel setup in my house in DFW back when I was the rep for Sunfire, Elan,and Integra/Onkyo. But these days,it's just 2 channel for movies when that even happens. What makes me wonder about the lack of bass out of the RF-7's in my living room is how the KLF-30's had no bass in there with the rear firing ports. Unless you were 20 feet from them which was in the dining room.

Well, if the money pool was flowing without end, that would be a viable option. Lol