chambers1517

Cool, I would love to hear some Jubilees, I would love to sit and talk theater ideas since I am building a new one.

Yes I am in Lenoir city. I really didn't get any responses the last time and since I really wasn't sure what I was going to due, I didn't pursue it any further. I have an optoma h79 but left the screen dehind since the people who bought my house wanted it. I have the speakers in storage until my new house is complete, about a month away. This setup was incredible but after talking to videophiles they suggest to never use an acoustic screen. There is no other way to use a center lascala. I went behind the screen while I still had this setup and there was a lot of light going through. This would be reflected back with a solid screen. The screen was a DaLite microperf. I had a center lascala in the wall and could go behind it. Thanks for any help. My new room will be 22x26 and have 8ft ceilings. With a center lascala there is no room above it for a big enough screen. I tried a center Heresy with the Khorns but felt the Khorns were being underused. Phantom mode always sounded better. When I got the center Lascala it was much improved.

I have 3 lascalas and 2 khorns that I had in my theater. We recently moved and I am about to build a new room. I had a lascala behind a perforated screen in my old theater but always wondered how much video image I was loseing. I am considering selling my old speakers and going to hereseys. Iwould place them under the screen and not use a perforated one. I would also be able to go to a 7.1 system. All of my speakers are the same vintage, late 90's. Is this a good idea?

I don't know if I can explain this the way it was explained to me, but I'll try. The best lp and phono can not match the specks achieved by the cd format. The lp can not match the frequency response along with every other speck of the cd. A cd sounds the same every time you play it. An lp changes every tim it is played. If someone shuts a door or the needle tracks slightly differently the sound changes. Tap on your phono while it is playing and there is a thump. The turntable is basically a mike. It turns mechanical energy into acoustical energy. Reel to Reel, casette, cd etc. are not affected by the enviroment the way a turntable is. He said there is no way to achieve live acoustics without live feedback. I don't know but it did sound really good. If you put the needle on a record without the turntable turning, and the amp is on. Someone can speak into the record and you will hear them through your speakers. Try it.

A friend and neighbor has a great invention. He has a cd player that introduces feedback into the audio. I don't know how it works and he wouldn't tell. He says cd is superior to phono in every specification except environmental interaction. When you listen to live music you get feedback. A phono introduces feedback also. Sounds and vibrations are picked up by the needle and platter. This gives it a live feel that a cd doesnt produce. Listening to his cd player is incredible. It really has a live feel to it. If you hit the side or top of the case there is a loud thump just like hitting a mike or turntable. It doesn't introduce anything odd just depth and realism. He is trying to market his idea and I think it is great. What do you guys think?

To explain in more detail. I have a front projector. It is a high end unit. In my old theater room I had a center lascala positioned behind an acoustic screen. The khorns were in the corners. I trialed a solid screen and noticed a noticable improvement in picture quality. I also found due to my room width, I was sitting too far back for the khorns. My new room will be about 17 ft wide and have 2 rows of seats with the first row about 14ft back. I have been considering putting the 3 lascalas on the ground with the screen above them. Then surrounding the screen with an acoustic fabric with the lascalas behind it. This will solve several issues. First I can get a solid screen material for improved video. The 3 lascalas will all have the tweeters at the same height, they will also be hidden behind the fabric. The L and R lascala can also be angled for optimal sound.

I have a month until I have to move. Anyone have a newer set of lascalas to trade for some khorns. I'd rather trade now than after I move them. Anyone close enough to drive it?

I have 3 lascalas and 2 khorns. I am unable to use my khorns in the front in my new theater room. Would I be better tradeing my khorns for 2 more lascalas or just using them for rears.

I will be sitting about 15 feet back. I have a 14 foot wide room now and sit about 12 back and notice a tremendous difference at adout 8 feet.

Is it better to have Khorns at the wrong sitting distance or lascalas. My new room will be 17 foot wide and I will be sitting back farther than optimal. I have my center lascala recessed into the wall behind a perforated screen in my current room. I was considering 3 front lascalas and recessing all 3 and covering the front wall with acoustic fabric. I think 5 lascalas would still sound great and I can angle them at the listening position. I am considering selling my Khorns and purchasing a fairly new set of lascalas.

Considering putting my equipment in an adjacent closet. The only IR repeaters I can find are about 1000 bucks. Anyone know of a good repeater for a reasonable price?

Anyone be interested in tradeing a pair of lascalas and a pair of KW-120-THX subs for a pair of khorns.

This is really the biggest issue I have with the khorns. They require a wide spacing or a short distance. They are not optimum for a theater room.

Here is a question for everyone. My current room is only 14 foot wide. I sit 14 foot back from the screen. I can tell a big difference when I move forward. The khorns really open up and sound much better. My new room will be about 20 foot wide and I will still sit about 14 foot back. Is this back enough to be optimal. Also my center lascala is up in the wall now with the tweeter level with the khorn tweeters. Will it sound as good sitting on the floor?

To explain a little better. We are building a new house that won't be complete until Jan. We put ours on the market and already have a contract on it. My projector and screen stays. A friend had an optima h79 with the stewart screen and had to sell it so I bought it. So instead of having to store my klipsch I decided to sell since my center is too big to go under the new screen.

I am still doing the theater but I have a 120 inch Stewart studiotek screen. This was a great deal a friend made me. The screen is not perforated and I don't have room underneath for a lascala. After having 5 matching speakers I would never be happy with anything other than a lascala between the khorns. All 5 speakers have the al3 networks. I bought all 5 new and they have never been touched.

After talking to my local dealer he said 4500 for all 5 would be a steal for someone.

I am in Lenoir city Tn. About 6 miles south of Knoxville.

If you go search for chambers1517 in the home theater forum 8-13-04, I have pictures of my room and speakers there. Also all 5 have the matching grills.

Here are the khorn serials- 058591440 & 058591441 and the lascala serials are 025494342 & 025494343. The center lascala is behind a perforated screen that I have to take down to get the serial. It is newer and has never been stained. The others are stained to match the khorns. All 5 have the factory components and look like new. The only flaws are a slight scuff on one khorn. Only noticable from up close. I am unable to accomodate these in my new house or I would never sale. I have had them since new. I will probably sale these or trade for a klipsch thx ultra system.

I have 2 oak khorns and 3 lascalas that I am going to sell. They are all from the late 90s or 2000. What price would be fair for these. They are close to mint. The only reason I am selling is because I am moving.

I am building a new theater in my basement. I can build up to a 30 x 20 room. I have 2 khorns and 3 lascalas. Within this size what would be optimal size for my speakers. I read on avs forum that the entire front wall and half of the side walls should be acoustically treated. Wouldn't this degrade my khorns. I also wonder which is a bigger trade off. Raiseing my center lascala and placeing it behind an acoustic screen or raising the screen and putting the lascala under it. Video performance would be better with the lascala under the screen but what about sonically? Sorry for so many questions but I need advice from the experts.

While I was getting into 5.1 surround, I had a set of lascalas for fronts. I started with a small set of klipsch as surrounds. Don't rember what they were. I used the trade in program and worked my way up. I went through about every klipsch tradeing them in for the next more expensive model. I now have Khorns and 3 lascalas. 2 things I remember. The 30's are one. I had them to the sides of the couch and the lascalas in the front. I would often run them in 4 ch stereo and blast away. When turning the 30's off, there was a loss of bass. When turning off the lascalas it sount like throwing a blanket over the 30's. The 30's are great with good bass, but when directly compared with lascalas they can't keep up. The other thing I noticed is the heritage speakers sound similar, they just get louder the bigger you go.

I have a set of Silver Science SS-XB-70-8. I also have 2 klipschorns and 3 Lascalas. They are set up in a home theater. My audio shelves are in the wall above the right Khorn. The left Khorn is about 17 feet away. Im not completely anal about it, at least I have the same length on the fronts. I know this topic is spicey but it is some honest observations. I live in Knoxville Tn. and would love to try more if anyone is close by.

Deny all you want. until you prove in a double blind test your insults mean nothing.This test is extremely flawed, that's the point. You sound like 2 of my friends. No blind test is fair to them. No criteria can be met that doesn't influence results, to them. The only fair way is to know what your listening to, then you can really tell a difference,to them. yeah I get it.