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My 2 cents on way Klipsch and Tubes go together is the brightness of Kilipsch Midrange Horns, especially the K-400 on K-Horns and La Scalas. Klipsch can be veryhard to listen to for more than an hour, I used to like the sound but would get headaches after anhour of listening. Warm sounding Tubes and or Tratrix horns can solve the problem. I listen for 5 - 6 hours now with issue and still have that "Live" sound of a Horn.

Artto Nails it. What is more important than Tubes Vs. Solid State is how well the amp fits your system and your tastes. My tube amps were designed by someone who has the same speakers as mine. Bass is very tight and matches my speakers. Other tube amps, MC240 for example, does not have much bass in my system. But someone who listens to Midrange intense vocals with different speakers would be silly to own anythning else besides the MC240. I generally use Solid State for my preamp and Tubes for my amps. I am sure I could find tube preamp that fits my system, someday I might. Right now I need preamp with HT pass through since I use the same same speakers for two channel and HT. The main reason I like tubes for at least either the preamp or the amp is I try different brand tubes and tube types until I get the sound just the way I like it and not the way the amp designer thinks they can sell the most amps. Outside of Onkyo unless you build the amp yourself paying more than $1000 for amp gets you into the area that sounds good. Paying more $1000 does not garantee good sound though, need to have the amp fit the system, your tastes and avoid overpriced junk.

Has the Audyssey Program run, all eight microphone positions?

Did you change the location of your while installing the new reciever?

I see you have done this before. I used to love writing reviews, after about 5 year it became one big blur. Dave Harris No, I have not done this before, just read enough reviews. . .

What are H- Horns?

Lo-Fi - My College system - Kenwood and Cerwin-Vega. Mid-Fi - CD based System with Forte IIs and Adcom. (Hi-Fi when used for Ear Splitting Rock & Roll) Hi-Fi - Good DAC & Pre, VRDs & La Scala's with Fastracs & ALK Unversals

You would know, if you showed up this weekend... BTW, how is the Mother in law....LOL So far I have built 5 pairs of Eliptracs, and I think they are ready. I think they might not be ready, better send a pair with a Fc around 500 - 600 that can be crossed a with 700Hz network from ALK. Then we will do a Double Blind Study with another Mechanical Engineer using JBL & Selium Drivers and publish the results. Of course I will need to keep the review samples.

How much sound goes to the Rear Speakers varies by Diretor, Engineer, Movie Type. I have seen numbers like 30% & 40% for Rear On-Time. I think those numbers would be close on action movies. Trear jerker romance a little lower. FYI - Don not hate the Academy - Great match when I had Forte IIs. Not so good with La Scalas.

Try rotating the the mouth of that Tweeter horn 170 degress, there will less room room reflections.

Depends on which Preamp. I had Adcom amps with Pioneer Elite and there was a slight improvement with them, especially in power hungry bass. Even the channels that were still using the Pioneer Elite amp sounded slightly better since there was not as much load on them. I would recommend just using the what ever Integrated amp and enjoy it. Then when when the time is right get a really nice integrated or seperates system for the room you also listen to music the most often. Adcoms and Klipsch are good for movies or Rock and Roll but can be harsh for two channel / music.

Dude.

Are the Cornwalls cancelling the Sub out? Try different locations for the sub in the room. Sub(s) can actually work like noise cancelling headsets when paired with full range speakers. This happend to me when I had Forte IIs. I hooked up the sub ran the room eq, it was so cool room was shaking, then I fired up the entire system only to find I less Bass with the sub? I could not change the location until we purchased new furnature so unitl then I used the "Phase" feature to keep the sub from canceling out the Fortes. Now I have the sub in different location and no longer set the phase at 180.

Two are better than one - smoothes out response in room, bass will be more evenly distributed as you move around the room. Try reducing the load on the Sub either run it's Room Calibration or adjust it's crossover. Cornwalls should only need support below 40hertz - Set the cross over on the sub to around 50 hertz or so. Does your sub have room calibration? If this does not help I would get a sub or better yet two or three or four that is the same speed as your cornwalls but goes down to at least 24hertz.

If his experience is anything like mine was He is going to yell: WHERE DID ALL THE BASS GO?????? LOL. And the subwoofer search begins....... VRD Amps. = No sub required for 2 Channel

I'll Third the vote.Using an Academy because an Academy uses all the room I have. Using the same and really good amp across all three front helps but the Academy just has a different Timber and never really matches the La Scalas. Heresy is a little better but still not quite there.

Hot debate topic. But I think there are Good Tube amps and Good Solid State Amps, so it depends which Solid State and which Tubed amp you are considering. Some say Tubes do not produce Bass as good as Solid State. If your only tube reference is a Mc-240 that could be the conclusion that you would draw. My Tube amps produce plenty of Bass, too much for some pre-amps. Better question would be which Amp is a better fit with the rest of my system? or a better fit for when my system is complete?

Uverse overall has been good. DVR works great. For HD with 5.1 you need a Fiber Input. 5.1 Only works with the Motorola VIP1216 when using Fiber for Audio and Component for the Picture. Since HD is limited to 720P neither of these has been an issue, actually with my MX132 from 2002 it is a good fit. Internet uptime has never been an issue but sometimes there are very sporadic very short, usually just a couple seconds and its back, outages since we are far from the node? Are you within 2,000 feet of the Node? I am just under 3,000 feet, the max they allowed when mine was installed.

Good solution. Using Firefox works also, elminates need to use paragraph tags.

Are you measuring Resistance or Impedance? Which Klipsch Speakers?

+1!!!! You want to impress someone, have them bring over THEIR favorite music. My boss was over at the house the other night. He had his iPad with him, I just let him go at it for about an hour... ear to ear grins. And, a lot of "I've listen to this song a hundred times and I've never heard THAT..." He's trying to figure out a way to get some La Scalas in his house now. JROD, How does the RC64 blend with the La Scalas? I have an Academy, no room for another La Scala.

I purchased a DAC over the Holidays, on the Second day I moved my CD Player up to my office. I bought another DAC for my office a couple of days later. . . iPad remote runs my imac, I do not even get up from my chair any more. It is amazing how much a good DAC makes when playing Redbook, even more amazing what a good 24/96 FLAC sounds like.

What ever they brought.

I respectfully beg to differ. I would rather buy made in the US products if I can and have paid more to do so. IMVHO made in Arkansas and lineage may matter a lot to any new markets this deal with Audiovox, if it is completed, may open up. For example, well heeled Asian audiophiles may prefer to buy Klipschorns LaScalas, Cornwalls, and Heresies made in the US as a status symbol and as they may still care about lineage more than the average audiophile and music lover here in the US excepting of course many of the Klipschanatics who hang out here of course.I would describe most of the rabid Klipsch fans in this forum as music lovers first, audiophiles second. just my 0.002 db Oh, I have no issues with disagreement. It just seems to me that, if well-heeled Asian audiophiles desired American made Klipsch, they'd just have purchased it now? My point is that there are those who report Audiovox will not make a spec Cornwall. That would be their choice and, at that point, it won't matter where anything is produced. If they DO make a spec Cornwall, it will -- in fact -- be a Cornwall and, again, it won't matter where it is produced. If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, acts like a duck, etc... What is the difference between a Recession versus a Depression? A Recession is when your neighobor losses his Job, a Depression is when you lose your Job. Therefore It must not matter where it is made until you lose your job. Or maybe it matters when your country slips to second world status since they are not competitive or it is made here but all the good engineering and management jobs and profits go overseas? Then the key is to ask "why?," and analyze the underpinnings, not demonize an acquisition that we can all see makes $$$ for the purchaser. I am a Klipsch fan and listen to Cornwalls every day, but I don't romanticize that Klispch -- in a business sense -- is any different than the Audiovox group, as they've made their own strategic purchases to further profit. All I'm reporting is that the product, as we know it, will be the same in terms of sound reproduction or it will not. Either way, where it is produced is not important in terms of the end user. If it sounds like a good horn speaker, you're going to get the same folks buying unless the sound is not what attracted them, anyway. (i.e., if it was just the brand, which will still exist.) As cold as this sounds, lets not pretend any of what is ocurring relates to people: that was never part of the overall equation. That's just the way it is. I have a basic understanding of Economics, Adam Smith, International Trade etc. you are right according to the academics. But at some point we have to give the tie to the local guy and support companies that support U.S.A., it does matter. If it is not a tie to the victor go the spoils . . .