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Jim. I have a pair. Pm me

Coming home to aliso Viejo ;-)

Maynard. Thank you for the kind words. Mat is a friend first. He has been kind to me when there was no benefit to himself and has been a mentor. VPI builds great gear. If I can't fit the customers need, maybe he can. If you speak with vendors at shows you can see competition but you can also see mutual respect. High end audio is a tough biz for many reasons... tearing each other down helps no one.

Ive owned the VPI 299D and enjoyed it thoroughly. Inspired by for me didnt mean copied. Its a great amp should provide a lifetime of use. Ive encouraged Mat to build amps... he has declined such invitations and stuck to continuing VPIs core missions. VAS too has an outstanding reputation,I do hope they continue to sell more of these. I will say that I LOVE VPI Tables.. .owned alot of them.... still on the lookout for a NOS Scout II. Mat is beyond a stand up guy... this was not a deception... may not be everyone's taste but not misleading at all IMHO.

Nothing beats ALKs ES networks for imaging.

Still for sale.

Not mine yet. I could use both pair to make the deal easy for the seller or just 1 pair. Pro splits are a fun speaker.

Haven't but got the pm yet but can't wait to close the deal. JC sent me some 223 horns. Maybe time to try them out.

I'll buy both pairs. I can setup for shipping. PM please.

Yes. The neo 16ohm. Crazzy nice driver. Almost impossible to get.

Selling off spare parts. Have a pair of the highly sought after BMS 4592-mids. One of the finest mid ranges I've every heard and can be crossed over low. $1050 shipped. Price is very firm. Throat Diameter 2" / 50.8mm Impedance 8 or 16 ohms Frequency Range 200Hz - 9kHz Sensitivity (1W/1m) 118dB SPL Max SPL 136dB SPL @ 150 watts AES Power Handling 150 watts above 400Hz Peak Power Handling 1,000 watts above 500Hz Recommend Crossover Frequency 300Hz Minimum Impedance 8.3 ohms @ 5kHz Flux Density 1.95 T Voice Coil Diameter 3.5" Mounting Information Overall Diameter 5.24" / 133mm Overall Depth 4.17" / 106mm Mounting - 4 M6 threaded holes 90° apart on 4" diameter circle Net Weight 5.28 lb. / 2.4 kg. Materials Diaphragm Polyester Voice Coil Material Copper Clad Aluminum Voice Coil Former Kapton Magnet Neodymium

I heard the Rival this weekend. Its in deed a very very fine speaker. As always the fit and finish is superb. Re: value and price... Purchases are personal choices... to each their own. I like what I heard.

It can't be built for the part cost at that price. Ive spent a few years developing parts that go into the bigger ben. If its sold... get at me. I now make a 20H choke. Going from 2H to 20H has some improvements :-). If it were mine, Id be running some 6LGGCs... RCA if I could get them... call it good at that.

Hey guys. Thats an honest 5watts with the El34s. 6.5 to 7 with KT88s. Its a really nice amp.... super quite.

The H/K is gone... but I can always make from for some Heresy.

Still around... mostly just lurk :-).

Here they are all settled in.

2 steps forward, 1 back. By adding the 1/4" mdf. The k55 contacts the back. Just enough to flex the panel. I used by router and dug our 1/8" to clearance for k55. Everything fits so nicely. Per ALKs advice I set the mid range at -10. (12, -2) and -8 on the tweeter. I assumed the k55 was 110db and the k24 was 95db. I think this was wrong. Perhaps the k55 is 106-107db? When I went from -12 to -10. Everything came into it's own. The tweeter was great at -6db but was starting to tickle. Exp told me to pull it back further and thus I got to -8. Tge bass is smaller than a cornscala but man is this a wonderful sounding speaker.

As an aside, The Slant risers make the speaker. Ive built a set for my cornsclas... they make the speaker look like art...

I forgot just how good the heresy is. Ive been seeing parted out heresy and thought this would be a fun starter speaker. Show how far you can take it without really recreating... just modifying. I have big monster Cornscalas but the Heresy really does hold up on its own. Im a bit miffed I had to trim the inside of the cab bracing but why doing so, the tweeter fits perfectly. My biggest compliant is the crossover. The cornscalawal should allow me to rebalance the sound... esp the tweeter.

Ok... not sure if being read but hey why not. Cabs got done... 1/4" ply on all sides... demanded the front and rear to hide the additional laminations. The back panel was only 1/2" so I added 1/4" MDF to the rear to stiffen it up. I went with Fastlane eliptracs. They were 2/16th shallow so we fly cut the mount to fur it out to be flush with the front. I then realized my driver (eminence ASD1001B) prevented the horn from sitting flush. After a 1/8th" removed from the front baffle cleat... God bless the finish router and some sand paper. With the eliptrac tweeter and the cabinet modified to fit perfectly I can see the finish line.

The Beyma was crazzy hot in every application of heard it. The de10 is my go to. It's not the last word but is fast and detailed without cutting my ear apart. My personal fav in he eminence asd1001b. It's a ti but doesn't sound like it to me. Parts express makes a d220 close with a polymide diaphram. If you can make it fit. It would be killer. Polymikde has such a great sound. The driver is larger than we are used to and a difficult mount.

Hey everyone... did a rewrite of this to share more about the project Im working on. Ive been a fan of Klipsch and tube amps for a long time. Given my amp choices, horn or single driver speakers are the preferred choices. Normally I build big honking speakers... I even built one my wife kicked out of the house... too large. In an effort to finally get some speakers in the TV room I went after something she has accepted before... the Heresy. She has liked it before due to its limited height... it doesn't block the windows. I love it as, its a 1950s VW battle with a Porsche engine hiding under the hood. The Heresy is an honest 96db speaker. Good for 50hz or so on up. Its a sealed box so no bass hump. Its mid bad is solid and its a fast speaker. Id consider it a gateway drug. I went of CL in search of a local purchase. In a perfect world I would have found a gen 1 heresy. You want this type as it has the screw on K55 driver... the same mid range in other Klipsch speakers like the Cornwall, LaScala or K Horn. Unfortunately as I planed to gut the speaker and start over, the only one in my price point was beatup and a gen 1.5 Heresy. $400 later it was delivered to my door. The plan is to use a ALK Crossover. Its adjustable and will make a Heresy actually sound good. Attenuating the mid and HF is super important and I still have HF hear and want to keep it that way. The woofers as K22 are perfectly fine.. maybe even good, but the Eminence LFA12 is better and closer to the pro K24 spec. The Tweeter as a K77 is good. Its even rebuild able now with new diaphragms should you need, but as I have access to Fastlane audio's elliptical tweeter... why not use a modern bad *** tweeter instead. Fastlane's tweeter lens is $100 for pair. The B&C DE10 or DE120 are my choices and are fantastic. I might go with Eminence ASD1001B as its American made and a solid performer too. I measured the drivers and got to selling all the parts I would not use on eBay. The Mid horns were the usable but not my cup, K701 with the bold on K53. (No one wants a K53/K701 combo). It got sold off for $100 to a local buyer who had his own project. I was able to purchase a K700/K55 push pin style (My preference on the K55) for $180 to my door. Normally this would be $200-$240 but I got a good deal. This will now make the Heresy a OG classic which has been upgraded. Same looking horn, but metal instead of ABS and Screw on instead of bolt on. (You can roll drivers if you wanted to now.). The cabs were less than ideal. Klipsch builds with 3/4" ply and 1/2" ply for he back panel. We laminated 1/4" to all the sides of the speaker... giving us a new corner edge and a stiffer cabinet. The front and back are edge banded to hide the lamination. The inside of the back panel had 1/4 MDF added. This will provide a key to center the back panel and panel increased surface area when its inset inside the cabinet... Long story short, its a hair smaller now but a ton stiffer. Additionally I love the look of slant risers on the Heresy. I went to Bob writes and ordered a set. Ebay sales: K77 Tweeters sold for $90 E2 Crossovers sold for $50 K22 Woofers sold for $80 New parts: ALK CSW700 crossover $350 Eminence 12LFA $130 Fastlane audio Tweeter Lens $100 Eminence ASD1001B $50 pair K700/K55 $180 Wood Work $200 for extra ply/finishing costs $40 for the slant risers ____________________________ $810 $240 -$220 Total: $830 Im into the whole speaker for ~$1250. Its a lot of money for sure, but there is no way it would sound remotely as good. Work has just started but I wanted to show the starting point, and plan. Here are the before pics.

Paired these with a cornsclala. Simply amazing. Combo of fantastic tight bass and the mids of an single ended amp. Happy to ship.