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Haven't tried La Scalas yet have you? Nope, but worse is the Infinity Quantum line source, 66" tall and 190 lbs each. padded hand truck does the trick

Congratulations and nice set up, welcome back to audio and welcome to the forum. Only a few speakers have done it for me without a sub especially in my living room. Polk SDA SRS 2 and some Infinity Quantum line source, everything else gets help from my Sunfire sub, even my Forte IIs. P.S. we do like pics on this forum.

Great trade, audio is easier than fishing anyway, well except moving Forte's

That's what I thought! one added to the ignore list, oh well read some of his other useless posts, not missing much.

So in other words you have nothing useful to add?

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I have a friend who had these and wanted a set of my Sony speakers. these needed some work and one subwoofer I imagine still needs some work. Two blown tweeters that I found replacements (4 actually) and installed them. Then we decided to trade, I also included a amplifier as these are worth a bit more. The woofers have been replaced with those Mavin Audio, they came with the original and somebody tried to put rubber surrounds on them. I took them off and ordered new foam but imagine these ones will sound better, but will see. Cabinets and grills on speakers are in excellent condition the woofers are also in great condition with the exception of a few wire terminals broken, but use RCA's so don't care and one led is burned out. Also had to de-ox the volume pots and they work fine now. The bad news was the front baffle is only 3/4" thick with a 1/4" recess and it just particle board with T nuts on back. Somehow some moron broke the wood on three of the T-nut locations completely off. So I had to go in and cut two half circles and glue them behind the baffle and then fill the damaged areas with wood putty. I did one but still have to do the other one, I have not even looked but imagine its bad as well. Also the rear plate had no gasket so I put some on. Also these had just an insane amount of poly fill in them and it just seems like way to much, don't know if it was stock or not but I only put back about half. I also liquid nailed the inside of the cabinet corners. So far I am more than impressed that these nearly 30 year old speakers sound so damn good. When I re-foam the original I will a-b them, I also have to replace that LED. Enough rambling, PICS

How far back are you? I tried that with my Forte II's as per the advise of some expert on a review and they only sounded good when turned up loud. I have mine about 9' apart ans sit 12" back. over 3' from any side walls. I found a slight toe in about 10-15 degrees works best for my room for all speakers, the Forte II's at just about 10. As stated start parallel with the back wall and toe in about one inch at a time and sit back and listen. keep doing this until they sound their best and when they get to sound slightly worse then go back. Sometimes a half inch or less will be the difference from bliss or weak thin sounding, all speakers are different. I put tape on my floors for a reference point.

I set them up in the main rig and found the matching center off of E-bay. So far really impressed.

With my Forte II's yes toe in absolutely helps. Most speakers will benefit to some degree with toe in. It all depends on room acoustics, dampening and other variables to the degree of toe in. Try an inch or less at a time and see what sounds better. However there are a few speakers that just sound awful toed in. Good luck.

I made some other stands and spikes for my Sony SS X70ED speakers. Just raised them up a bit and made them way more stable. I used 2x3 pine studs and just sanded them and painted them with textured black spray paint. I also made some spikes at my work out of stainless steel.

Well it happened again, A guy was selling some other Sony speakers so I went and picked them up. They are some Sony SS K90ED. Dual 6 1/2" woofers 6 1/2" woven Kevlar mid and 1" carbon dome ED tweeter. Cabinets are curved to break up waves. Bases are cast steel with spikes and nuts, also came with stainless steel isolation discs for hard wood floors. These are in excellent condition. Sound was not that impressive until I figured out how to set them up properly, they do not require as much toe in as my other speakers, actually hardly any in my rooms. Sound is sweet accurate detailed and they image like crazy. Sound stage is huge, a few times I have heard things from well outside the speakers. They have made me jump a few times as well. I have not listened to them very long but did have to hook the Sony ES SS M7's back to back and the M7's still win. I am trying to figure out how they stack up against the rest of my Sony collection and the rest as well. But still a really great speaker, the only thing I don;t care for is the vinyl wrap but you can't have everything right? I also found out an interesting bit of info, it seems B&W might have had a hand in developing these and a few other Sony speakers. It might explaining the similarities.

Thanks, Yeah actually they do, before I had anything up front you could tell the difference. I think just moving them down where they are now made a difference. I am mainly music but do like clear dialog when watching movies and TV, so far the Totem is the clearest I have had. I have 5 sets of mains that are always in rotation so timbre matching is something I seldom do. It has to sound good for movies but better for music. I also have 8 smaller dampeners and 4 bigger ones around the room. They made a huge difference.

Unless you like to listen at ear bleeding levels I would imagine 100-150 watts per channel would do fine. I have Forte II's and they do require some tinkering with placement, toe in. Also finding the right amp, associated gear and adequate room dampening is a must for Klipsch speakers to sound right. Mine have had the x-overs re-built and titanium tweeter diaphragms. But in the end they are not for everyone. Good luck

I have had the same audio rack and TV stand forever and just kind of got tired of the look. We got a new 60" plasma over our old 50" one. I found a awesome glass TV stand with room enough for almost everything on CL for 40 bucks. My KV-3, KSF C5 or Sony would not fit in the stand so I made a shelf above it but really did not care for the look, it sounded OK but prefer underneath the TV. I went in the pawn shop and they had a Totem Mite "T" center in pristine condition and I walked out the door with it for cheap. It fits just perfect and have to say it sounds better than the rest I have. These don't come with grills but no kids or pets so not to worry. I also found a B&K Reference 125.2 and the Forte II's sound great with it. They sounded great with the ATI also. I think getting all the clutter from around them gone made a bigger difference, the amps are pretty much on same page. I think the reflections off the audio cabinet diminished the sound. I am happy with the results and so is the wife so that's a plus. Enough rambling here are some before and after pics.

No kids or pets, yeah they are a bit tipsy. Like I said I might add some counterweight or maybe re-design them, no too worried if I don't do anything though.

I found some Sony SS K10ED bookshelf speakers for 20 bucks on CL and figured they would match alright with the other rare Sony ED speakers I have. 5" woven Kevlar woofer and dome tweeter that goes up to 80k. They sounded pretty awesome in my dining room test so I built some stands. I used 3/4" mdf and 1 1/2" wooden dowel. I never really have a solid plan when I start out building anything like this. I decided because of their shape to go with a triangle stand. I made the tops match the bottoms exactly and they had two mount holes on the bottom of the speakers so I made the tops match so I could bolt them down. Next I went out a ways for the bottom and rounded the corners like on the Forte II stands and added threaded inserts for spikes. since the wooden dowels were kind of pricey I cut the 3 4' dowels in half making the stands just about 27" tall with the spikes. these turned out rather well. the only thing I would do different is make the front wider because they are kind of top heavy. I will probably cut some scrap 1/2" plate steel and attach under the stands for counter weight latter on. I painted them with 99 cent spray paint.

In an age where just about everyone has MP3 players and ear buds I think most gyms could do without music with a few exceptions. I like loud music also when working out at home. At a gym I can understand that not everyone likes working out to Slipknot.

as much as 70% of information comes from the center channel. I only suggest it for TV viewing. don't forget to turn the sound on the TV down or you might get an echo. Maybe some live concerts would sound good as well with it but you will need to adjust your levels on your AVR.

If they sound bright you might need to experiment with placement and toe in and as stated some more room dampening. Mess around with music settings but ideally you should not use music settings or EQ's because they add unwanted noise.

Welcome! You don't need to hook all the speakers if you don't want to. You will get much better results with a separate amp. Adcom Rotel Carver B&K and Parasound just to name a few. Just hook it up to your AVR pre outs. If you don't want to use your AVR at all a good 2 ch pre amp could be used. If you are going to hook up your TV I would suggest using your AVR and add a good center channel.

Right now I am using my Sony STR DA2ES receiver as a pre amp. When I first got these I was using a Rotel RB 990BX amp and they were kind of shrill and fatiguing when you turned them up but not too bad. The Rotel sounds fine with the rest of the speakers I own. I now have a ATI AT1502 and they sound great with it. I am running a Sony CDP CA70ES E-Motiva IC's and Speaker cables. No equalization of any kind. The Sony really makes a good pre amp. I have tried it with other pre amps I have and seems to sound the same. When I hook them up in my 2ch room its a Sony CDP CA90ES a Marantz AV 560, Niles SI 275 I really don't remember the make of the IC's but they're good and E-Motiva speaker cable. Again the EQ if flat. mrx dad, I don't have kids so there are no issues there and I broke the wife of even trying to put stuff on top of my speaker as soon as we got together

Thanks, I have not pulled out the cross overs yet, Check out the ones on the ES SS M9 ED in this cut away pic. http://www.thevintageknob.org/sony-SS-M9ED.html and then there were these expensive horn loaded Sony speakers http://www.thevintageknob.org/sony-SS-GR1.html

Thanks, best part of all is that I have less than $1000 for all three pairs and a center.