GreenGardens

So cherish forever must mean 4 months? I am sure you have legitimate reasons for putting your stuff up on Ebay, but man... that was really quick. You should at least put the equipment up in the garage sale portion here or in the Alert section if you just want to only sell on eBay. Not sure of the market on a single 1977 designer (ugly) khorn... but your EV Patrician should do very well. Good Luck!

I second Speakerfritz on this. I use brown 16-gauge lamp cord for most everything I do, internal cabinet wiring to home theater and stereo. It seems to not look dirty over time and blends better with wood... or just paint it as needed. For my sets of Heresy I and II's I just use a pair of equal length cables put banana plugs on one end and cheap spade connectors on the other. Here is a scientific article on why plain lamp wire is just as good if not better than high-dollar cables: http://www.roger-russell.com/wire/wire.htm However if you absoultely need real speaker cable to not be made fun of your friends,Monoprice is the cheapest around for cable, so are thier banana plugs, and any other parts they sell (nice place). I haven't been let down by any of thier products so far... they only sell high quality Chinese Junk! A really cool product for a custom look with pretty decor and in-wall/ceiling installations is this cable: http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10239&cs_id=1023902&p_id=2821&seq=1&format=2 So for the Heresies I would use lamp wire and invest the left over money on a nice subwoofer or two and a good pre-amp with multiple audio outs to make it all work. Keep in mind the Heresy is 2/3rds Klipsch horn... and you are really just substituting the efficient folded horn with a much less efficient form of bass... that is adjustible and can be moved around in the room. Many consider the Heresy/Subwoofer combo to not only be a good bang-for-the-buck, but the best sounding system they own.

I had my eye on that speaker, I wasn't willing to drive the 600 miles and pay that much... especially with a seller who only had 6 feedback. Went for $1050, probably could have done better with a different account and better pictures. Not a bad deal for arguable the best driver configuration in a Khorn: University SA-HF mid with huge wooden horn, early T35/K-77, a Stephens 103LX2, and the Type A network. If it was closer, I would have bid more. I really hope the buyer picks it up and doesn't have it shipped. Good eye though, make sure you put these down in the alerts forum on the Garage Sale section, it get's more people to see it. I really love these old Khorns, but they are extremely hard to find partners as many were sold as Mono. Also the vaneer has that awesome patina that you wouldn't want to redo and the old drivers and network create a sound too unique to upgrade! So you pretty much buy as is and pray it's a winner.

Almost fogot the info on the speaker... Here is a DIY guide for building that speaker with a nice preface: http://archives.telex.com/archives/EV/Speakers/DIY%20Manuals/Patrician%20IV%20Part%201.pdf http://archives.telex.com/archives/EV/Speakers/DIY%20Manuals/Patrician%20IV%20Part%202.pdf

Well two things on this: A. It is rare to hear a guy had a speaker so awesome he had to settle for a small K-horn when later trying to build a pair. Gotta love this B. Do you think he would have been happy to let it go for $5000 or any amount? I am sure he is mad in letting it go more than the money it is worth. I think the best thing would be to take some pictures of it in it's new home, send them off and let him know it is being loved. What kind of fun would it be if we paid fair market value for everything we find? No exitement in the hunt, no awesome garage stories sale or no sweet thrift store finds. It could have ended up in much worse hands, nice "salvage" job!

I am a fan of Top Gear, the UK verison of course... the US version that came out is horrendously terrible. Do you get the reasonably priced car to take around the track?

It is just a Logitech USB steering wheel for PC, I think it is the same model that they had for PS3 until last year or so. It might not work for all games, but I do think they work... if you already own it, it's worth a try!

Did you get the game yet? A buddy of mine got it on opening day and he says all good things... I know he didn't talk to me over the entire holiday weekend. lol. The sad thing is I got a PS3 over a year back because I wanted a Blu-ray player and it was one of those times when GT5 was right around the corner. Well I still haven't got any games for it yet, but do plan on getting GT5 and probably getting a logitech G27. I don't know why it is, but I only buy a system for a specific game. I got my N64 for GoldenEye, then only got two other games: Perfect Dark and San Francisco Rush. Then I bought my XBOX and only purchased two games... Halo and Halo 2. haha. Good times.

The good news is you still have one good speaker to help diagnose and swap parts to figure out what's messed up. After you play around with your K-horns, you will find that it is pretty easy swap out parts and get to what where need. Check all the connectors, with travel something might have come loose. You could put a speaker wire from your woofer out on the bad speaker's crossover to the other speaker's woofer and vice versa to rule out any crossover network problems. You can also check your "bad" woofer from the good crossover doing this method. The good news is you probably paid around $2000 for your pair... even if you decided to upgrade your crossovers and both woofers and other parts, you will still be at what $2500-$3000 for a good as new or maybe "better" setup. If it is a woofer, you could probalby pick up another K-33E or whatever 15 inch woofer it has for cheap ($100 to $200 shipped) or just buy a pair of Crites replacement woofers (around $300 shipped per pair) so they are guaranteed to sonically match. I personally wouldn't worry about reconing or working on the existing speaker unless it is a solder point or something really cheap and easy. If ending up with a bad woofer and/or the good woofer as spare parts, they are worth money on Ebay or the Garage Sale. Since the cabinets are in good shape, that is the biggest concern, you got a steal! New k-horns are $8000/pr... and they are well worth that.

I will agree, I would like to see how well they sound. I am looking for a decent pair for air travel. The closed backs and integrated microphone interest me. I have some Sennheiser HD-595's which I use when my Heritage speakers cannot be cranked up. They are pretty darn good, I paid $250 3 years ago. They are $150 with free shipping from Amazon right now. My only complaint is not a complaint, but a note about the design. They are open-aire which means the sound "bleeds" from them... the good news is you can hear people talking to you, the bad news is they can hear your tunes. Not trying to pimp out other brands of headphones, I love my Kliphsch speakers. It's just not their bread and butter, you know. As far as headphones go, get them from Amazon (only direct if an authorized seller) if available as pricing is lowest usually. Otherwise I would go to headphone.com and search; they have the other Klipsch Image line, just not the Image One (yet). Also this is the best place to see decent reviews and compare against other models.

Congrats! Just wait until you get them pushed up in the corners at your own house... it is an amazing feeling. Test it out a bunch, but if they are not spread too far apart, you may not need that 3rd middle speaker to fill in the "dead" space any more. If you do need a 3rd speaker, maybe you could pair up your less efficient La Scalas in the middle and adjust up and down to fill in. Worth the $2,000? haha.

WAV format, huh? Well I guess disk space is cheap enough these days. I would probably start converting the remaining CDs to lossless FLAC format, to save a bit of space, and make sure all the metadata is good. Also nice when you want to squeeze more songs on a portable media player or a household media player that supports FLAC natively. It seems like the standard for open source lossless has been FLAC for the last 5 or so years... steer away from regular WAV, lossless WMA, and any apple offerings (ALAC). The quickest and easiest way to achieve what you want is to get the $20 Winamp Pro and let it rip them for you. It will connect to the CDDB and grab album covers, artist, album title, song listings... if available or you can enter your own information if you would like. This product will also support .wav as you have already been using. The nice thing about doing it this way is it will create the folder structure for you and create the proper ID3/metadata. This way you don't have to rename files and waste tons of time. Also it will help when searching for a specific song, album, keep your tracks in order, etc. I have ripped soooo many MP3's and other formats to come back and regret that I didn't give them more bitrate, or didn't label the songs correctly. The best free "Windows" solution, for the value consumer such as myself, is more complex and involves using VMware Player, a Linux distrution called Vortexbox, and some patience. However, after setup, you just fire up the virtual machine, link the proper CD/DVD drive, and let it work it's magic. Pretty much it is the free way to create one of these babies: http://shop.smallgreencomputer.com/VortexBox-1TB-Automatic-CD-ripping-NAS-vb1000b.htm There are other solutions out there too, but most of the decent ripping solutions do take a small amount of money, like $20-40... Winamp, dBpoweramp, etc.