Eric B

So, I'm walking through the local thrift store, and at the bottom of a pile of *really* ugly furniture is a coffin type stereo. I can't really tell what it is, but it does have a sticker on the back saying to use genuine 'some brand' tubes. Are these units worth the $40 they want for it, meaning is it a good place to start by getting one of these and taking it apart? These units were produced way before my time. I don't know a darn thing about them. I know I read a post in here about someone stripping one down for the amp, but I need a little advice about what I'm looking for... I'm sure like most things there are good and bad ones... thanks

I seemed to have opened quite the can of worms [] Everyones suggestions for the toe in were right, now to fiddle with how far out of the corners. I thought I read somewhere in here they were called cornwalls as in "in a corner, against a wall"

Does this make sense? www.wavebourn.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=585 Could you turn these into tube amps? crazy....

There are two 1592B's and two 1590C's Plus a matching preamp. From a cosmetic standpoint they've had a rough life. They've been labled, stickered and written on. I thought they might have some redeeming qualities, or collectiable value. The last thing I need is audio Junk taking up space. Thanks for the input...

I have the opportunity to rescue some old Altec amps. Do you think it is worth my time? I don't know if they work, I can't test them where they are and getting them out is going to be a big production of many friends or a small crane. I was hoping they were tube, but alas solid state. That said, these were made to drive horns (big ones!). Sorry about the poor quality, all I had was my cell phone to take pictures. Anybody know anything about these? I did find a spec sheet here http://www.voiceofthetheatre.com/1594B.th.htm

Too funny... If I was rich like Steve Jobs this would all be a non-issue thou. I'd build a seperate 'listening house' I did get her to admit Quote: "These speakers DO sound good" It's a start.

Yeah, you really pushed her buttons, eh? For God's sake, Eric, toe-in those speakers! (They'll sound better!) I've been experimenting with toe in and placement (I've only had the Cornwalls a couple of weeks) I'm lucky to have a fairly large room down there, it's about 26 wide X 30 deep, so when you are sitting in the middle the imaging is sweet and doesn't seem to make that much difference if I put 15 degrees of toe-in on them. But now that you bring that up I'm going to get out the protractor and pay a little more attention. I'm still experimenting. It's a work in progress. And probably will be forever, but I'm ok with that!

Actually, she was pretty good about the cornwalls when they came home, When I showed up with the audio rack and moved everything into it.... not so good. She's not going to be happy when (hopefully) some day I show up with some k-horns for the front and move the cornwalls to the back for my (hopefully) someday kick butt home theatre

I'm not sure why, all I did was move a new piece of furniture into the rec room I guess it's because I'm a "controls" freak...

...or by a set of used yorkvilles that have been on the road for 10 years...

They make a whole bunch of stuff for just that purpose, available at your favourite guitar shop. There are so many signal processors around it's nuts. Could you not also use a studio style mixing board (like I do) and push the levels (gains) from the inputs too high and send them into the main bus. You'll get your distortion no matter how low of a signal you send from the main outs

Thank you for all the kind welcomes, Hopefully I don't annoy too many of you with silly neophyte questions. I knew I'd find a lot of smart folks in here. Let's start with this: Recapping. Is it as simple as replacing the cap? I have a pretty extensive electronics background, so that I could do, or is there more to it? Can I access the electronics by removing the rear panel with the binding posts, or do I have to remove the 15"? (Cornwall II)

I had two of those many years ago... I think the guy who sold them to me called it a 'terminator bin copy' It was bigger, but the same basic shape as the 'Scalas and had a 15"Celestion sub. Two of those could supply bass for an entire school gym.[]

These are the amps

The NAD currently serves to drive a couple of Yorkville Elites via an old Inkel mixer for my guitars. It's taken me a long time to get that 'just right' I'd prefer to leave it alone if I can get these Crowns to work.

Hi everyone, I'm (obliviousy) new to the forums and more so to the world of Klipsch... I've always been an audio guy, have some reasonably good pieces and some leftovers from a DJ business many moons ago. But enough about me... ...So I'm driving home from work through the country and there is a big pile of 'stuff' at the end of a farmhouse driveway. It's clearly the remnants of an unsuccessfull garage sale with a 'free' sign on it. I see kids books. I think, the kids would like some, and I stop. Now, under this pile of stuff are these 2 ominous black boxes. They aren't pretty. Look like they've been stored in a barn for a couple of years. Then I see the little Klipsch logo. Hardly containing my excitiment I pick up these monsters myself, throw 'em in the back of the wagon, and drive away. ...I've picked up freebie speakers before... they usually need cones or other repairs, and these looked pretty rough. A quick gentle vacum and removal of the grill revealed the speakers and horns to be perfectly intact. I dug out my old NAD 2200 and plugged in my Sirius radio just to see if they would come alive. ***** I understand why you are all here now... even in my garage the sound blew me away, the highs, the lows... the singing guitar in the mids. I tried to run the 2200 up to the clip. I couldn't. It was just 'too much music' I've never heard anything so loud, but so clear. ***** I am a believer. Fate brought me to a pair of unwanted Cornwall II's on the side of a road, and now I must follow the path. ...ok enough about that... now I need some help to get started. At the moment I don't have any tube equipment, or 10k for a McIntosh but I do have the NAD which makes them sing. I know <some> Crown amps are highly praised, so after looking around I have found a couple of Crown CT-410's hxxp://www.crownaudio.com/pdf/legacy/128418.pdf (I don't know if live links are allowed here so change hxxp to http) They were from a commerical application but the numbers on the specs look like clean sound, they will run 8 ohm (stable to 2).... and the price is right. Will these get a guy started? Or am I wasting my time?