oldmako

Threw my Nakamichi BX-2 (??) in the dumpster 30 years ago.

Because I did not know that at the time, and every place I called did not have a suitable replacement. Only Bob Crites. I would have preferred to drop in the proper replacement. My first phone call was to Klipsch. Maybe I got the B-Team that day.

Crites has a suitable replacement woofer. Or, used to.

Regarding the spikes on the CFs, In the KLF line, and perhaps the CFs as well that spike is a threaded affair that resides within a hard rubber foot. It can be retracted IOW so that it won't destroy your flooring. You might want to take a look. The entire foot assembly can be unthreaded, the spike then flipped around and rethreaded into the cabinet leaving just the rubber. My first pair of Klipsch were CF-3's though I am not certain if they are the coveted version or not. Mine have the 3 inch deep ports if I am not mistaken. I urge you to chase all leads to resurrect them and get them back in top shape. You will not be disappointed, especially if you jam a LOT of power into them. Mine came alive when I hooked them up to an ancient Phase Linear 400 - "the sonic turd". I only paid 240 bucks for mine. I then invested a few hundred bucks in having the crossovers being completely rebuilt by Bob Crites son. I don't recall the exact nature of the malady which drove me contact him but there was an imbalance or loss of signal of some sort. This was an excellent solution and I was very happy with the results. They came back 30 percent larger than they were and his work was absolutely beautiful. Sadly, mine are just sitting upstairs and are not even hooked up. My Cornwalls took their spot. My son in law has his eye on them but I am dragging my feet. Good luck in your quest.

Thank you, billybob. I have been AWOL for quite a while. Life. Curveballs. Plate tectonics. Coriolis. Unfortunate stuff like that. My quest ended with my Cornwalls and now I am of the age that I need to start culling the herd. While that SUCKS, my daughter will be thrilled! She just needs a larger house!

Shazam. My special lady friend had been "cleaning" and the connections were dorked up. One loose and barely a wire touching. Whew!

The tweeter and the midrange on the same speaker.

I am verklempt. Neither of the two horns appear to be working on my port speaker. Is this indicative of a bad crossover? Or something else? I thought perhaps I could swap the crossovers L to R and give a listen to see if it followed, but I'm kind of a dolt and just guessing. Any additional ideas?

No, but I got my sphincter bleached!

Funny thing about A/B tests and Klipsch speakers... My very first pair were monstrous CF3's. I had only heard Klipsch bookshelf speakers before, I believe they were the RB35s at my brothers place. Was blown away that such a small pair of speaks could produce that sound. Not that volume, that sound. So when I saw a pair of Cherry CFs for sale on CList not ten mins from my crib I jumped. No idea what I was going to look at. I didn't know CF3 from a BM or a DC10. So I give a look and a listen and every bone in my body says, "You cannot possibly put these two phone-booths in your tiny condo irrespective of how they sound!" They were audible sex to be sure... just huge and gorgeous. (THE GUY PUT ON AN FM TALK RADIO STATION for the audition....what the hell?) So, I hem n haw. The the guy lowers his price. Hmmmm! Ten mins and one HIDEOUS offer from me later ($250) they're in HIS truck and he's following me to my crib to HELP me unload them. My bemused neighbors had NO idea what they were in for. Fast forward a year or so and I see a pair of Mint Walnut Fortes nearby ($400). Of course I go get em, STAT. I A/B them with my CF3's expecting them to sound better because by now I'm all over this forum reading all about Heritage, etc etc. So I'm ready to be blown away. I'm not. Don't get me wrong, the Fortes sounded positively fantastic, but better? No. DIFFERENT? Hell yes! So much for A/B settling the score once and for all. Then came the KG5.2's. Similar result. Then some KLF20s. Similar result. Then the Forte IIs. I didn't bother! I just hauled them into the bedroom and set em up. EVERY TIME I tried to validate a new purchase I've come away with a smile and the feeling that I didn't really need new speakers after all. But I never quit looking at CList! So now I have Cornwalls, KLF30s and CF3's along with a several others and I love them all. Do I prefer some? Yes. These Cornwalls are just sublime. But if I want to wake the dead? The KLF30s and a down-firing 15 inch sub (on a crawl space no less!) can really summon the cops FAST! Got a house now and there are Klipsch in every room but the crappers n kitchen. Too old to move all the crap around now and too blind to see all tiny crap on the back of my gear so that I CAN A/B them. I just hook em up and enjoy.

Sorry, I have never A/B'd them. I'm a slacker. They both make me smile, that's about all I can say.

When I was in high school I was standing in Audio Associates listening to a pair of Heil ESS AMT 1's (?). They had some weird tweeter and I thought they were absolutely amazing. I think they were 400 bucks a piece. As a HS kid, they might as well have been 4000 a piece. No way I could afford them. Fast forward to my old age and my audio gear, most of which I bought for pennies on the dollar when compared to their original prices. When I consider how much enjoyment I am getting out of 40-50 year old audio equipment it makes me smile. When I amortize the enjoyment that a 500 dollar piece of gear would have given me over 40 YEARS I realize just how "worth it" that gear was at the time. Too bad I was making 1.75 per hour! I found a 40 year old Marantz 2240 on Clist (in near mint condition) long ago. Craigslist. 40 bucks. It was probably 450 bucks when new. Yes, it had a few dirty pots when I bought it but that's it. I added one can of aerosol magic and have enjoyed ten years of smiles. I am about to send it off to have it recapped and throughly gone through. All this to say that even at 1000 dollars, a pair of Fortes is a pretty good deal in my opinion. You'll give them to your kids after you're gone.

Nor do I. Many thanks for turning my pic into an actual pic!

IMG_5805.HEIC Interested party says that this passive is bad. "Creases" says he. Is it? Interested party no longer interested. They just appear like marks from something bumping up against at some point. I bought them like this. I don't believe that the speaker material itself is damaged. But I score pretty high on the "Just how ignernt are yew anyway?" scale. What do you think? ** I can't get the close up pic to load. Says the file size is too big. My ludditeness rules the day.

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