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Good luck with sale. always been intrigued by these but looking for something with higher power to run with my khorns after running lower powered amps recently.
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I have heard these Chorus II's they sound fantastic and where the reason I searched for mine. Tim is a stand up guy feel safe buying. GLWS,
Thanks, Jerry. Come get these and start you a chorus II ht setup!
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thanks. there is a typo: the mini-monos were bought new in Jul 2012, not 2013.
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chorus ii's:
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oak chorus II's with Crites refreshed crossovers and titanium diaphrams. They look nice. Cabinets solid, dust caps perfect, finish very good One has a minor ding on the front corner. Not that noticeable to me with the oak grain. pick up only. demo welcome. $650
quicksilver mini-monos bought new in Jul 2013. Excellent condition. original el34 tubes and and a new jj 12ax7 tube (one of the original chinese tubes went bad). original boxes, packing. $800
will try to attach pics with this post. Can email more by request.
Tim
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How do they sound?
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Craters and Freighters is good and a lot more reasonable I would think.
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This was the year I was finally going to get to go. I'll go next year if they have it.
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Every now and then I bring the chorus II's in the room where I run my khorns and hook them up. they are sitting a couple of feet from the khorns and are about 17 inches from the wall. When the chorus' are not hooked up and I'm running khorns alone, I swore I could here a difference in the bass in the room. I walked over and felt the chorus passive and it was vibrating with the bass licks. Adds a nice little punch too! Anyone else had this experience with a passive sitting nearby another speaker and hearing the extra bass? Adds a nice little kick!
Tim
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pm sent on the vrd's.
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Good job. Let us know how they compare to the heresy 2's!
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Juicy Music Blueberry extreme w/lomc. It is in very good condition cosmetically and sonically it has that magic to me. The remote control is hit and miss though and I need a remote so I'm putting it on the block. For those that don't need a remote it is a nice option. The manual remote works great. Has the 6H30 Russian NOS tube. Will include the original EH 6H30 tube as well.Had this unit posted a year ago and agreed on a price with Jeepers but then I had second thoughts and wanted to A/B it with another preamp before letting it go. I sent a PM to Jeepers saying hold off. Before he saw my PM he had sent the check. I sent his check back to him of course as soon as I got it. It was my fault and in hindsight I wished I'd gone ahead with the deal. That has been the only transaction I've had on this forum buying or selling that was not flawless and enjoyable.
Anyway, I've have not had any problems with the unit in the year and a half since I sent it to Mark Deneen and got a clean bill of health on it after Ihad problem blowing fuses a few times. Mark told me to just use the main black power on/off button to turn it on/olff and not to use the standby mode on the other button. Since he told me this I have not had a single problem with the unit. I have enjoyed the music so much listening with the preamp in my system. Ran it with dynaco st-70, mcintosh mc2100 and mc2105, and quicksilver mini mites. was great match with all. Asking $1200. Knocked it down a couple hundred since last time since it is a year older and the remote control issue. The pictures are the same ones from last year but this unit has been kept in my rack in a smoke free and pet free home. No changes in condition that I can see from these pictures.
Will ship but I welcome local transaction and audition by forum members.
Tim
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OK thanks for the dimensions and for the post. Definitely something worthy of serious consideration.
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Boomzilla, how big is your room?
Tim
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Heard a lot (good things) about the mc30's w/klipsch on this forum but not as much about the mc60's. Would appreiciate hearing from any mc60 owners using those amps w/klipsch speakers, any klipsch but particularly the khorns if there may be some of those. And, if there happens to be any that have used both would love to hear how they compared.
One thing I like about these is the gain controls. I use a BBX pre and I like it best at the highest gain so it is an adavantage to be able to adust the gain on the amps.
Tim
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congratulations on the good deal. Nice collection too. Now a pair if khorns and you are all set!
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colinoates, I think you are on to something. I am a devotee of the pipe organ. K'horns can handle the 16' pipes with total authority as they are at 30hz or so. 32' pipes are at 16hz and out of range of ANY speaker you can fit into a room. One needs a sub for that. PWK designed the Klipschorn for cost and size as well as performance, and fully understood there was a few percent of the repertoire that would not be covered.
However, the NATURE of K'horn bass is also different from that of those "mushamusahwhumpwhump" things you hear on the road and in many HT systems. It's CLEAN and accurate. I've a recording of the Franck Chorale in B Minor. That chorale has what I call "quiet bass" in it. It's 32', and my Klipshorns by themselves get the bulk of it nicely. It's tight, quiet, and you both hear and feel the distinct vibrations in the air as individual waves. And, yes, a few things in the room or windows may rattle a bit.
I remain convinced there is no other loudspeaker one can purchase at any price the provides the combination of accuracy, range, efficency, size, and price of a Klipschorn. PWK told me personally that the Klipschorn's size was designed for 32hz waves and there was no way to make it smaller until someone invented a shorter 32hz wave!
Dave
Ah, the khorn bass. I can feel it in my chest even at medium loudness on some songs. Dave described it well. Some of us grew up with the big drect reflect woofers so it is different when you first hear it. Distortion free and TIGHT. Highly addictive and soon I was hooked. I don't prefer a sub, seems to interfere to me but I don't listen to the pipe organ stuff that goes so low.
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had both and my preference is for Heresies for either application. Could go on and on about why but keep the r-f's and listen to the h2's is good advice until you decide which you like best.
Tim
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Small world!! Fenderbender came to my house and left with my awesome Khorns and exotic ESNs, plus my VRDs. I sure hope you are enjoying them. It was a sad day but I bought the first parts of my MCM-3 Grand system with that money. I built an almost identical pair of ESNs for the MCM system as I used passives at first. ALK designed those networks specifically for my MCM setup and the design has long since been downloadable from his website.
You will see pictures of these networks in the coming weeks as I saved/shelved them for several years and will be "bringing them back" to use in a special project I'm working on........and that I'm excited about. Stay tuned.
As far as what the special features of ALK Jrs. are compared to AAs.......I have forgotten all that good stuff. Dean can help with that. Dean built mine with 12 ga copper foil inductors and AudioCap Theta caps.
Mark, when fenderbender bought the khorns from you, they were stock except for the ESN crossovers, correct?
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Nothing like brand new, all original, all Klipsch! Congrats.
chorus II's, quicksilver mini-monos in Arkansas
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Stil have the chorus II's for local sale.