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    Hope PWK Birthday Bash ?

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

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    I will have the jubs setup on Friday in hope engineering listening lab for those who want to hear them in a typical listening room. We will also have the mclaren 905’s protos at the visitors center playing. I hope to have it where you can listen to your own selections. 

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    Heritage series drivers?

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

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    7 minutes ago, OO1 said:

     -Eminence  , Klipsch  for woofers  

    -Celestion for the Mids  of the Cornwall-Heresy-Forte ......HF for the Jubilee ,  and  the tweeters for the AK-6 -AL-5 ,

    -klipsch  for the Tweeters for the Cornwall-Heresy -Forte  series .

    -Atlas  for the K-55X  Mids used in the AK-6 -AL-5   .

    Correct

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    Klipsch Heritage Jubilee vs. Underground Jubilee Upgrade

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

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    On 2/9/2023 at 1:59 PM, DrWho said:

    Woah.... For all these years I thought you were just way more sensitive to modulation distortion, and the multi-way approach makes a ton of sense in that regard. Are you still listening to the same music / same loudness / etc... ? Or maybe music preferences have shifted?

     

    I never thought you'd go 2-way (or I guess technically 3-way if you're running subs). I'd love to hear more about the pros/cons of why you've made the change.

     

    My biggest criticism of the new heritage Jubilee is it feels like that compression driver has to work hard to dig so low in frequency. It reminds me a bit of those old lowther designs where they try to use a single driver over the whole audio range. My biggest praise of the new heritage Jubilee is Klipsch finally has a bass horn that sounds great. Not a hint of tubbiness at all, and it doesn't have that "too accurate" sound of lascala / khorn that makes rough recordings sound really shrill. Roy blasted some Tool for us at Axpona last year and the bass was incredible. Overall the Heritage Jubilee is definitely an upgrade.

     

    I know I'm nitpicking about the HF performance...I think it's just worth noting that there's some compromise there (as are all things audio / engineering related). The place I notice it the most is in the oompf of a snare drum thwack. It gets crunched up a bit instead of having this thwack that hits you in the neck. You could get that thwack back pursuing some sort of 3-way with the Jubilee, but then that crossover to the highs would destroy your imaging - and there's probably not a way around that (yet). I remember the UG Jubilee having more thwack in the snare, but it comes with some tubbiness in the bass. The Heritage Jubilee is definitely the better compromise, but that snare drum sound is sooo important for a lot of music....maybe less so in the jazz / orchestral realms that a lot of audiophiles listen to.

     

     

    Anyways, this stuff comes to mind because Mark has always been someone in my mind with a super fine detector for modulation distortion. I'd really love to get your thoughts, Mark, on the UG versus Heritage sound if you've had a chance to compare them side by side. Unfortunately I'm going off memory and very different environments when I got to hear them in person.

    Doc. Come to the birthday bash and hear them in the lab. Then you will understand why I chose the celestion…..and you should have done what I did. In my proposal, I added…..and I will ALWAYS have large speakers. She said yes…..

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    K-31-E/K-282-E Replacement Question

    in Technical/Restorations

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    9 hours ago, TVS said:

    I just ordered some K-282-E woofers (part number 1067961) from Klipsch to use as spares/potential replacements in my KLF-30 as discussed in this thread. When they arrived, they looked nothing like the original woofers. A current Klipsch employee then told me that these are not the correct part number and that the correct replacement is 121235 K-31-E which is no longer available. I also cannot find listed anywhere where a K-282-E was used by Klipsch. The woofers I received look to be made by RoHs. Does anyone know why a K-282-E was suggested and what Klipsch speaker it was actually used in? 

    The 282’s became the replacement woofer for the underground jubilees which also used the k31. Since the klf 30 used the k31 they should work as well. Try them and see what you think. 

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    Former “Klipsch Lifer?”

    in Lounge

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    Bottom line, if you want to talk about mods and your own “upgrades” then please go somewhere else. There are plenty of other sites. By the way I read the posts on other sites so I see the complaining. 
     

    there should have never been a “modification” section on the forum. Back when a forum was being discussed, I strongly opposed it. Paul W Klipsch was NOT in favor of modding his speakers and I wanted to make sure that a forum bearing his name would not have a “modification” section. 
     

    I know that the forum went ahead with the “modification” section but here recently, this has gotten out of hand. So if you don’t agree with this, sorry. Mods and so called upgrades are not allowed on the klipsch forum anymore. I’m locking the thread and please don’t start other threads on this. 

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    Does the AK6 Klipschorn need false corners?

    in General Klipsch Info

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    56 minutes ago, OO1 said:

    Chief bonehead

      On 5/5/2022 at 8:16 AM, Frzninvt said:

    This is not true regardless of open or closed backs the Klipschorn still needs a solid corner with ~ 4ft on either side of it to perform to listed specifications.  That will never change and is listed right in the documentation.  Don't believe still ask Trey Cannon and he will confirm it for you.

    They have to be in close proximity to a corner. Not in a corner. 

    That’s correct. 

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