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Being a luthier I work with wood all day. I used to sell Deco furniture and fixed this stuff all the time. I think trying to delaminate a speaker cab with an iron is a big can of worms. The heat can separate the plys beneath. Then you are in hell. They never come off as well as you'd like. With laminate chips You can square off the laminate and patch with a slightly thicker laminate of similar type and grain. Patch it as best you can, sand flat with a flat sanding block, and touch up the new piece's finish with something from your hardware store that looks close. If you like you could laminate an entirely new cover over the edge to edge surface. Remember that you need to make a clamping caul the entire surface area to be glued so even presure will be applied edge to edge. I usually use plywood with a plexiglass laminate to keep it flat. Cut a piece a bit larger than the surface to be covered, spread titebond thinly over the whole surface and lay something weighty on top of the caul for several hours while it dries. You can then sand to the edges and try to match the finish of your new piece edge to edge. This looks quite convincing if you can match the stain/laquer closely. Challenging without a spray setup. Quicker setting adhesives like 3M spray don't leave any wiggle room if you miss your grain line but are quite good if you are handy and accurate. For bigger chunks especially on edge crunches you can square off the damage area with slightly outwardly beveled edges. Then make a chunk of wood slightly larger to fill with edges beveled opposite of your hole. Glue it in with superglue then sand all the edges flat and clean up the finish. Laminate as described if you wish. With most of these type repairs remember less is more. The smaller the area you work with the better chance of it looking good. The quicker you get in and out the less chance of chasing your tail. The simplest repairs while not invisible on close inspection look quite good from listening distances and will last indefinately. I'd avoid wood fillers. They shrink and degrade over time. Colored epoxy works better on small spots. Mix a paint tinting pigment in it when you mix it up. You can get real close to the finish shade that way. Email me if you want further clarification. If this doesn't make sense its over your head and I'd recomend having someone else help you.

Well I've found Stereophile to be a bit arrogant and dismissive at times. I have been listening to my Cornwalls now for 4 weeks. At 50 or 60 hours a week that is around 200 or so hours. 10 hour listening days still make me miss them when I have to go home. No fatigue. They make great music sound totally engaging and lousy music sound totally unlistenable. This is exactly as it should be. I find I am able to fully hear the detail of all instruments present if they are recorded properly. Amazing for a speaker that can be found used for $1000 a pair or less. Passive crossovers and one amp per channel and they still pound out low end while singing clearly in the mids and shimmering in the highs. Astonishing.

Howdy. Been lurking for a week or so. Thought I'd intro myself. I have a small guitar shop in Columbus Ohio. Fifth Avenue Fret Shop. Half the place is a repair shop the other is Vintage retail. I've got a decent setup in there where I listen to mostly Vinyl all day while I restore old guitars. Not a bad life. Here's the system: VPI HWjr stock, bearing a Rega 300rb w/Incognito upgrades and a Benz Glider HO. Sits in a Bright Star sandbox. VPI vacusuck thing for the records. NAD 660 CD recorder through a Theta Pro somethingorother DA converter. '80's NAD 1133 preamp, NAD 2200 poweramp, and an NAD 43something tuner I rarely use. MIT Terminator 2's all around except a 50' run from pre to amp with that coax cable thing from MIT. .......And of course '85 Klipsch Cornwalls. Pretty decent low buck hifi. I had a pair of KG4's in the system for a long time. A few weeks ago a client hipped me to a pair of Cornwall I's totally stock and immaculate. His wife made him sell them because they were too big and didn't fit the decor. The steep price of love. Paid the whopping sum of $650 for them and he "threw in" a Scott LK72(like the deal needed a sweetener). It needed a bit of service but is fully functioning now. Lucky me. First of all the Corns are stupid good sounding. ...And I thought the KG4's sounded amazing. Yikes. I've been A/Bing the Scott with the solid state NAD stuff. I notice the horns love the tubes. Really smoothes out the rougher edges. The low end from the NAD rig is far more detailed and punchy. I'm actually preferring the Solid State at the moment as the Scott seems a bit distant and blurry. Not as clean or clear as the NAD. Could be the Scott needs a rebuild but I suspect it just may not have the goods. Dreaming of Mcintosh tube stuff. Never heard SET stuff but it sounds interesting. I just love tubes on guitars--wouldn't play without them. Funny how I'm digging the SS on the Corns.... Anyway I'm out of money now so no big tweeks or new components in the near future. If I never did another thing to it I'd be totally satisfied with the sound. Took the KG4's home to replace a set of Advent Utilities I bought in '79. Sound great with an old NAD 3020. I'm going to try the Scott on the KG4's too. So there you have it. I'll chime in if I feel the urge. Nice forum. Phil Maneri