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To add a few more sub options and further confuse things also consider the Outlaw Audio subwoofers. Here are their 3 top subs. All on "sale" right now too. http://www.outlawaudio.com/products/ecs.html http://www.outlawaudio.com/products/lfmEX.html http://www.outlawaudio.com/products/lfm1plus.html Outlaw Audio has built a strong reputation for very good value. Do a little research on the Outlaw subs and you'll find very favorable reviews of all of them. One common thread across all of the reviews id great "bang for the buck".

The one thing I've learned in the years that I've been playing with this audio stuff is that someone is ALWAYS "raising the bar". For me it was a trip to Mike Lindsey's house and hearing his refurbed (by Greg Roberts) KHorns. Stunning is the only word I can muster. I always thought I had a pretty nice system but what I listen to is a $10 Wal-Mart clock radio in comparison. Thanks Mike... You just cost me a freaking fortune...

Nevermind... The owner just called me and told me that after 2 weeks on CL with no "bites" he put it out for the garbage man last Friday. What a waste!

The "asking" price is $200. Assuming (1) I can't get it any cheaper and (2) $250 in repairs I'd have $450 in it. Is a 1900 worth $450?

There's a Mcintosh 1900 local to me for sale. The owner says that one channel is out on it. Worth looking at? At what price? Is it even worth fixing?

I hosted them at photobucket and embedded links rather than have the Klipsch site "host" them.

Do a Google search on DIY RCM. There's lots of ideas ranging from simple manual operation to completely over the top (the German site... WOW)

Actually the movie was Honky Tonk Freeway. I know WAY more about that film than should be allowed. My then brother in law was a production assistant on that film. In the end is was an exercise in losing money. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082525/

As I've posted a couple of time I'm in the process of restoring a pair of beater La Scalas. I've bought the veneer (red oak) and I've begun installing it. Obviously I'm running it vertically but what about the top of the bass bin? With three sides running up & down what do I do with the top of the bass bin? Granted there will be VERY little of the top of the bass bin actually visable to anyone but just konwing that it's "wrong" is one of those goofy things that drives someone like me (yep... OCD...Big time) crazy. So which way on the top veneer. Side to side or front to back?

I considered a like method. Of the two one is very faded but still sort of readable and the other is nothing more than a totally white rectangle on the back of the cabinet. Since the "stamped" serial numbers match I was hoping for a really good image that I could "doctor" to look like original labels. All of that said I've now basically given up on trying to reproduce the labels. Assuming I at some point try to sell them (doubtful) I'll simply direct the buyers attention to the stamped serial numbers. If a potential buyer is THAT hung up on labels... well he can just look elsewhere. Like my "audio mentor" said to me many many years ago... "Trust your ears. Buy the stuff that your ears like. When it's all said and done it's YOU that has to live with and listen to whatever you buy". Oh well... It was perhaps a good idea... It certainly wouldn't be the first "good idea" I've had that turned out to be a not so good idea.

How can you live in Mount Dora the antiques capitol of the known world and NOT know the word provenance? []

I'm in the process of rebuilding and refinishing a pair of 78 La Scalas. As such I'll be nuking the original labels. What I'm looking for is a really good .jpg or .gif of a La Scala label that I can edit a pair them with the original serial numbers and apply to the backs of my newly rebuilt La Scalas. Yes I know it's really "petty" but should I ever choose to sell them at some point (doubtful) I'd like them to have as much original provenance as possible. THANX!

I really hate to dissapoint you but I have two ex wifes who will dispute that assesment. [] Thanks for the kind words. If I ever reach the point where I choose to be a jerk over a few bucks I hope someone shoots me in the head.

I too am VERY curious to hear how the Selenium drivers sound compared to to K-55s.

I drove my La Scalas with an Emotiva UPA-2 for a few months. It was a good combination. I recently sold it in preparation of getting a UPA-7. It'll be driving a pair of DIY Cornscala mains, an Academy center, a pair of Heresy surrounds with the remaining 2 channels driving my IB subwoofer. I can only hope that once running it'll all sound as good as I think it will.

A crossover specially built to use with the Crites CT125 tweeter.

Drove right by you last week. We have an office in Fort Pierce and one in Labelle. I had to go from there to Labelle so I went by way of Okeechobee and across. Next time I make that trip I'll see if I have time to stop by. THANX!

Thanks... Always (OK most of the time) good for a chuckle The sad part is that I had a pair up until a few weeks ago. I sold them. In the days after I shipped them I thought "dumb a$$... you should have diagramed them... DOH). I'm toying with the idea of changing directions speaker wise. I'm trying to decide whether to get another pair of them or build the ALK universals with perhaps the 4500 change. A couple of good pictures would be great. THANX!

Anyone have the A/4500 schematic? I'm curious about a couple of the values. THANX!

Thanks!!! Considering that they were built out of basically "scrap" materials without spending any coin I'm pretty pleased with them. GotHover... I'd like to have a short chat with you sometime. Either by email or phone, doesn't matter. Please PM me your prefered contact method. I'm interested in (1) Trachorns for La Scalas and (2) your experience with ALK CornScala crossovers.

OK... Let's try something else...

OK... Can someone tell me how to attach pictures. Nothing I've tried has worked. HMMMM... Nevermind... PhotoBucket seems to work...

Well I've been listening to them for a solid month and I'm pretty pleased They started out as a pair of Cornwalls that I was unable to sell. I ended up selling almost all of the drivers for really good prices and still got more $$ than I was asking for the Cornwalls. Go figure... Anyway I tore in to my La Scalas a couple of weeks ago intent on a full restore/refresh. I had to have something to listen to. I took the old CW cabinets and installed a pair of the PH-800 horns mated to K-55-M drivers from the front. The rabbeting job isn't bad but I'd like to have done better. Since my pair of CT125s are going to end up in the La Scalas (or some derivitive) I needed a pair of tweeters on the cheep. I managed to win a pair of blown K-76s on eBay for $2.43. Got the here and began surgery. I already had a pair of the APT-50 tweeters and threaded adapters unused from another project so I mated the K-76 horns to the adapters by way of CA and epoxy. They actually turned out pretty well. I wish I had thought to take photos of the process. Anyway... The new franken-tweeters were rabbeted in from the front like the mid-horns. Again, not as perfect as I would have liked but certainly good enough for "temp" CornScalas. What about the crossovers??? I never did sell the Type-B crossovers originally in the Cornwalls. With the help of Mr. Crites and a few $$$ I was able to convert the Type-Bs to Bob's CS2 crossovers. Again I failed to take pictures. My apologies... I'll do better next time... Last weekend I got tired of the "unfinished" look of them without grills and began ratting through my vast collection of assorted crap to figure out what I could do about that. Low and behold I found a pretty good sized chunk of a medium brown grill cloth. Just enough to make a pair of CW grills. About 2 hours of table saw, miter saw, air nailer, gorilla glue, and sander and I had myself a pair of frames. Another couple of hours stretching and stapling and I had a pair of grills. I had intended to use velcro to hold them in place but I must of done something "right" (for a change) because they're just a lightly snug fit without any additional fastening.

I have a pair of K-33Es available if you're looking. They were pulled from my Cornwalls. #1 is intact save for a couple of inches of the top layer of the surround where it stuck to the motorboard and the other was reconed by SpeakerWorks after what the original owner (his son actually) described as "an unfortunate rowdy grandchild incident" $75 for the original and $50 for the reconed one. These go on EB for $100 each but I prefer to deal with Klipsch forum members and will gladly eat a few $$ to avoid the EB hassles.

As a distant decendant or Mr. Twain (maternal family name Clemens) I vote YES.