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My 56 lbs package had a safe round trip, but it probably wouldn't hurt to add a little padding to your shipping box. When they had my AVR at the repair facility, I received an e-mail stating that my unit was repaired but had another problem that could be fixed for $$, or they could give me a small trade-in credit towards a new purchase. I replied no thank you, I will live with the problem, just send it back to me. A few days later, I received an e-mail stating they decided to fix the other issue for no charge, and the unit was shipping out that day.

Onkyo just did an extended warranty HDMI board repair to one of my receivers. They sent me a shipping box and pre-paid Fedex delivery both ways. Few weeks for shipping and repair, so have a back-up ready if sending out your main receiver. http://www.onkyousa.com/Support/service_info.php Funny thing was that my Onkyo worked perfectly for years until the day I got a new Denon receiver for Christmas. I think I will re-install the Onkyo in that system because the sound is comparable, but I prefer some of the features of the Onkyo. Another thing to consider is that Onkyo power amps generate a lot of heat, so they need more air space around them.

I listened to a demo of the R-115SW a couple weeks ago. It sounded really good.

Your Denon X-4000 with Audyssey Platinum MultEQ XT32 automatic room acoustic measurement and correction will do your audio calibration for FREE anytime you change a speaker location or move some furniture, if you take a few minutes to plug in the supplied calibration microphone, place it at your main listening position and follow the simple instructions displayed on the video screen. A few presses on your remote should do the trick. The recommended procedure is to measure at 8 listening positions, but if you are anxious to be done and listening already, your Denon allows you to finish the test and save settings after the first or second measured positions.

The Heritage inspired, Made in USA Wireless Concept Speakers sound and look good. My listening session reminded me of the tone and clarity of a live band in a cozy club, on a smaller scale of course and as well as could be expected for the exhibit's environment while using a smart phone as a music source. Most everyone who saw and heard them while I was there wanted to take the speakers home. The structure behind the concept speakers in this picture was the Reference Premiere Atmos home theater demo room. That was nice!

I believe someone already mentioned them, and I have bought repair parts from Simply Speakers that appeared to be OEM quality. Delivered to my front door. You can get the bare diaphragm or the pre-assembled face plate if you don't feel like soldering the fragile wire. http://www.simplyspeakers.com/klipsch-speaker-replacement-diaphragms.html http://www.simplyspeakers.com/klipsch-replacement-speaker-diaphragm-89486a-faceplate.html http://www.simplyspeakers.com/klipsch-replacement-speaker-diaphragm-k77-89486a.html

I had the pleasure of meeting Alex L., Klipsch employee and forum member at the CES. He was very enthusiastic about the Heritage line, the beautiful "Made in USA Wireless Concept Speakers", and the new Reference Premiere speakers as he demonstrated all the different exhibits. Alex impressed me as a dedicated, hard working representative of the Klipsch speaker company, and a good ambassador to the forum community. I also had the honor of meeting Klipsch historian Jim Hunter. He shared some interesting historical comments and played some tunes through a vintage tube amp connected to the 1947 Klipschorn. Right around the corner was the current Khorn, La Scala II, Cornwall III and Heresy III display. The Klipsch Reference Premiere speakers are a great new product for people wanting high quality sound at a fairly reasonable price. (I am referring to normal people, not extraordinary forum members with custom built systems and / or extravagant expectations, although you might like them as do many listeners.) The Klipsch speakers have a clean powerful sound that I would easily recommend to someone shopping for loudspeakers.

Boxx was a very admirable man. He had a great attitude about family, community and country. I never met him, but after I joined the forum last year and he invited me to visit the RTM thread, it was fun to see that his and my lifelong music listening choices were often similar. When he shared the story about the Coke vending machine he bought in college then converted into a beer dispenser and still owned after all these years, it was like we had known each other for a long time already. I will always have fond memories of Boxx and how he made our world a better place.

Lacewood Heresy III's

At home and listening to some of Tchaikovsky's music as performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra and recorded for Walt Disney's Fantasia movie soundtrack, then years later transferred to a CD and now played back on my home stereo at the same SPL readings that I noted during the recent live orchestra music performance. I am very pleased with the sound of my Klipschorns. Impressive for a 1940 recording of 1890's music played through a pair of 30 year old speakers.

I went to The Nutcracker Ballet last night and sat front row center as a forty piece orchestra performed the music of Tchaikovsky. It was excellent. I was not permitted to take pictures of the ballerinas on stage, but here are some screenshots of my SPL meter.

The Heresy III crossover network is mounted directly to the inside of the speaker wire terminal cup, screwed onto four plastic pegs. If the shipping box was set down hard, the styro packing would protect the speaker, but the small plastic pegs may have sheared, allowing the somewhat heavy crossover to yank on the wires, possibly disconnecting it from the tweeter. I would ask the repair center to remove the six screws holding the speaker terminal cup and look there first.

I recently installed an Electro-Voice DC-One digital electronic three-way crossover for my Klipschorns. After I set the correct time delays, thanks to advice from forum members, I experimented by changing the time delay 0.08 milliseconds plus for the right speaker, decrease 0.08 ms from correct for the left speaker, which caused my speakers to sound wider apart. The inverse will make the speakers sound closer together. Also by playing a 500 Hz test tone through just one speaker channel and gradually increasing or reducing the time delay farther from the correct setting, the apparent source of the sound would shift around the room, incrementally and relative to the manipulated out-of-phase between the woofer and midrange driver. That helps me understand why some arbitrary horn or crossover mods might make it sound like you have a wider or narrower sound-stage presence, and why some upgrades MIGHT NOT sound good if the physical or electrical parameters cause an out-of-phase condition that degrades the way things sound at your listening position. Could be part of the reason some speaker system modifications (even high quality parts and components) don't work as hoped for and are eventually removed by their owners. The interesting thing is that plain old factory stock horn-loaded Klipsch speakers sound as great as they do, in spite of their horn paths, non-exotic parts and cost dictated design compromises. Makes me feel even more impressed with what Paul Klipsch did so many years ago.

You guys made me want to look at my woofers. FWIW, the K-horn K-33E, La Scala Industrial K-43E and Cornwall K-34E are 4 Ohm.

My answer to your quoted question is; I can not determine your crossover points looking at the phase and FR plots because your woofer, midrange and tweeter time alignment is correct, so the crossover transitions can not be audibly measured. About my E-V DC-One digital crossover, the (free download) Editor software is easy and intuitive. Most parameters can be selected from drop menus, typed into menu boxes, or click and dragged around the graphs by mouse pointer. The unit connects to the PC with a USB wire. Settings can also be adjusted at the front panel of the unit without needing a computer. I have only listened to the new X-O for a short time. The audible differences to my previous digital active crossover are subtle but worthwhile. The words clarity and spacious have crossed my mind during a few songs.

While scrolling through the forum a couple weeks ago, reading a thread about passive crossovers, I saw a recommendation for the Electro-Voice digital crossover. That reminded me of my intention to upgrade from my DCX-2496 digital crossover after listening to the active x-o system for a few months, so I bought this E-V DC-One. The EQ settings in my picture are just for display, my tri-amped K-horns sound good with minimal EQ, but it is fun to play with the 31 band graphic equalizer and the 9 band parametric equalizers.

The design, equipment selection and your construction quality are very impressive.

A year or two ago, someone used pictures of my very unique Klipsch speakers for a fraudulent ebay auction, asking for payment outside of ebay. Every time I reported it to ebay and they removed the auction, that person would hijack a different reputable seller's account and run a new fraudulent auction. As I tried to track that fraudulent activity, I discovered the person was running hundreds of fake ads for good looking items (speakers, guitars, motorcycles, jewelry, etc) at irresistible Buy It Now prices. Ebay shut them out due to my efforts, but there are so many auctions and C-List ads that we must always be aware. It is good to know that members of the Klipsch community are looking out for each other. Thanks.

Thanks for sharing your review on the Cornwall II woofer upgrade.

Thanks for the info about the soon to be released Pink Floyd album. On a side note, the band called Australian Pink Floyd does an awesome live show, and will be performing in several eastern US cities during the next week.

I like the big sound of live music.

Looking at the sawtooth pattern a few posts earlier, my reaction was this is getting complicated, but your latest explanation and graph make it easy to understand now. It is like the piece of a puzzle that allows me to see the big picture. The flexibility and precision of the digital active crossover allows the woofer, midrange and tweeter to perform their best as individual units, and better together as a loudspeaker system.

Thanks. I don't have any of her music to listen at home to compare, but the theater sound system was superb. I would pay just to play some CD's through those speakers.

Row A put me a lot closer than the thousands of fans behind me.