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  1. Hi folks not sure if everyone is aware but I have been pretty much forced into retirement or at least semi-retirement. So, for the last few years I have been relegated to just repairing my previous customers' gear I already built and rebuilt. I do have some good news most of my health issues have stabilized except the Knee replacement surgery I'm having done on the 20th of this month. If that goes well once I'm rehabbed, I'm hoping to start taking a limited amount of new vintage rebuild work in again. But enough about that. With the impending medical costs looming I'm going to be selling a few pieces of gear to try and cover some of the cost. I thought offering them to where it all started at a minor discount would be a nice thing to do, If Klipsch finds this inappropriate please delete or close the thread. The 299C I'm offering was my own for the last dozen years. I ran this in my Livingroom until about 6 months ago when the original above chassis high voltage power supply can capacitors decided to finally give it up. I had already rebuilt it with all my tweaks including the above chassis bias test points and controls (except the previously mentioned power supply filter cans). Now I have replaced/upgraded the high voltage power supply filter cans. So, it now has my complete deluxe rebuild. The tubes. All the small signal tubes are vintage USA made in top notch shape, the output tubes are a brand-new set of burned in hand selected matched JJ brand 7591S and the Rectifier is a brand new Sovtek 5AR4. Cosmetically I'd say 7 out of 10 only because the bevel around the face plate has a few blemishes/scratches which the picture always exaggerate. Currently this service would normally cost north of $600 plus the cost of the amplifier, tubes it might need and return shipping. It will be treated warranty-wise as if I just rebuilt it for you. Which is lifetime (My physically able to repair it lifetime). One year free of charge and $75 bench fee after a year. The amplifier should easily operate trouble free for many years. It sounds gorgeous! The perfect match for any Klipsch Heritage and even a few not so hard to drive modern Klipsch. $900 plus shipping cost. I think if you check eBay you'll find this is an excellent deal. Please email, text or call with any questions craig@nosvalves.com 810-287-6135
  2. Well it's pretty simple in my view, he states the outboard power supply made very little difference when plugged into the preamp on the top (same brand). But made a 30% guesstimated improvement with the preamp on the bottom. The top preamp has a well-designed power supply the preamp on the bottom not so much! So sure it can...if the gear is crap in the power supply department!
  3. Okay I went ahead splurged picked up a pair 500-SA mounted them up high on the front wall. Seems to work darn nice... My sub seems to now be my weak point. My 2002 era KSW-15 is just to slow blubbery to mate well with the Belles and the rest of my speakers.. I was digging around Amazon and eBay the Reference R-12SW can be had cheap! The review I've read all seem great many call it tight, articulate and distortion free. At $200 each affording a pair is pretty darn easy! Any thoughts?
  4. 👍Do you have 4 extras lying around you want to donate? 😁
  5. What the heck are you doing around here? I seem to recall you saying "a cold day in hell" LOL!!!
  6. Thanks! Not sure I just know they need to be efficient enough to be level match by the available adjustment in the receiver. The timber match I would think is secondary. Which is really what my question was about since Klipsch does not list that spec. only that they are Dolby Atmos compatible or compliant.
  7. I found a newer manual that I believe states you can do rear surrounds or Dolby Atmos height front not both. It actual spans 3 pages talkiing about speaker hookup and Dolby Atmos. So I guess I just saved buying 2 of the 4 I was thinking about.
  8. Thanks everyone. Wuzzzer my ceiling is at an extreme slope (cathedral) with the lowest (8ft) wall on the right side of the room and the highest (about 16' to 18') on the left. So ceiling mounting or firing them up is not possible. I was considering doing 4 of them. Two mounted flat about 10 to 12' up on the front wall pointed downward toward the sweet spot and another pair up just under 8' on the right and left walls angle to or near the listening position. I'm just spit balling rioght now since I'm current laid up with a bum knee.. health wise the hits just keep coming nothing life threatening, just annoying as all get out. Check out the attached picture of the page with speaker hookup and layout gopt the TX-NR636 receiver it looks to me like they have you wire the front and rear height speakers in Parallel per channel. PS the manual is dated...at the time of publish I do not believe Atmos was supported or maybe even in existance. It was added through firmware update so the drawing might be useless since they do not refer to the rears as height speakers. .
  9. Been I while since I've posted around here. I was looking for some idea of the efficiency of the various Atmos Elevation speakers Klipsch offers. Like the R-104SA, R-40SA R-41SA or RP-500SA. Stating complies with dobly atmos doesn't tell me much LOL!! I'm trying to decide if they will at all blend intyo my al;ready none comforming surround setup. I'm using Belle Klipsch as the mains, KLF-C7 center and Heresy rears. Was thinking about adding sides and 4 atmos up firing since my Onkyo TX-NR636 Receiver supports it. It has + - 12db for level matching so I can lower fronts and center to match the Heresy's and raise the elevationb speakers to meet that. What do the home theater gods have to say? Thanks Craig
  10. This amp was my own personal stereo VRD that someone talked me into selling to them... Trust Paul I don't believe anyone on the planet has tried more tubes in VRD's that included me. In the end you'll never go wrong with any "VINTAGE EURO Made" Mullard or Amperex in either the AX7 and AU7 slot.
  11. 👍 or the reverse.....well unless your a fan of distortion. These types of suggestions usual have an origin in guitar amp circles where distortion is king! Not at all advisable in the Hi Fi tube amp.
  12. Yeah that looks special alright.... a brief peak gives me a chronic headache..
  13. Christ I figured COVID took you out! Yeah I always have had trouble letting go LOL!!
  14. Yeah someone around here was nice enough to send me a manual for a MC2000 these later year 4 or more tube per channel McIntosh amps have bias controls and test points. The vintage models I'm used to working on could have been modified to do the same but that would be a sin to any true McIntosh lover With these newer units only being around 20 years old I serious doubt many have needed repair McIntosh amps are really reliable even the vintage ones will keep working and working long after they should be for there own good!
  15. Self bias takes care of tube drift? Please explain how it does that continoulsy?
  16. Your first new amp? You must be getting forgetful in your old age
  17. They may be great amps but the description of the Spirit V on that USA audio website makes me want to barf it's so full of BS..
  18. Well pain before pleasure begs to differ LOL!!
  19. Did McIntosh change something I'm not aware of in the later versions? McIntosh as never produced an amplifier that required manual biasing that I know of. They do not utilize a cathode resistor so they would be considered a fix bias amp. But the output design is very different then anything on the planet and is self balancing fixed bias to a degree. To me any amplifier that does not have the ability to test and adjust the bias is always off by some degree. Even those modern Primaluna jobs with the logic board controlling the bias. Nothing wrong with cathode biasing I think it has a really warm natural tone to it kind of rolls with the punches! With Push pull amps closely matched quad of output tubes are very much advisable.
  20. I have to ask what are you mega watt SS guys doing posting in the Tube section 🤷‍♂️... Us tube guys all know you have long ago burned all the hairs out of your ears to know what sounds good
  21. I use the DE-10 and have for a good many years its not a spring chicken either but it is most definitely very good HF driver for sure. I've never cared for the Beyma but I've never used it when I had the ability to attenuate it.
  22. I'd imagine which would be better would depend on what your EQ'ing it with and how good it is theoretically if your able correct it making it flat throughout its range I'd say EQ should be better. But I've always found the simplest path to get the job done usually sounds the best to me.
  23. Thanks! Better than it has been in a long time. I've had a pretty horrible couple years. long story....
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