jclayton76

I would, in fact the first pair of Klipsch I ever heard were the La Scalas. They belong to my father-in-law and I heard them when I was 16, which was in 1992. He still has them but they are no longer hooked up, they just sit sadly in a spare bedroom. He told me he'd give them to me if I ever had a place big enough for them, which I don't. My house is only 1650 sq. ft. and the living room is only 15' x 20'. I'd gladly try them out in the living room but the entertainment center my wife bought only allows for speakers 20" on each side, which the Chorus II's are just small enough to fit. My next house I'm definitely going to plan for enough room for the La Scalas or even Klipschorns.

Ok, so an update. I sent the amp to Peachtree for repair for $250, I don't like to spend that much especially since I'm probably going to a tube integrated solution in the near future but as it was the amp had little to no value. At least now they'll go through and bring it back up to spec and it'll have a year warranty. It's only 3 years old, so kinda weird something happened so soon. I'm with mdeneen, I think it might have just been a terrible coincidence. On the bright side, my new Crites titanium tweeters and crossovers came in Friday and I spent all day yesterday and today listening to music on the Chorus II's through my 7 year old Harman Kardon AVR which actually does a pretty good job. The only thing I've noticed that I don't like is the serious lack of low-end with these. I can't believe a speaker with a 15" woofer can't produce some wall shaking bass. The bass does sound clean and tight, and I paired them with a cheap sony 8" powered sub I have and it actually complemented it pretty good but I'll still probably look for a 10" or 12" sub.

So I picked up a pair of Chorus IIs yesterday that are in excellent condition but when I hooked them up to my Peachtree Nova integtrated amp they just didn't sound right. The audio was very low for the volume position and seemed muffled. A quick check of the drivers with my ears confirmed the tweeters were not working. Not a problem as I had already planned to order some titanium tweeters from Crites along with new crossovers. So I took the tweeters out to check they were indeed dead and not just unplugged. Ohm meter read nothing so yeah, dead. I left the tweeters out and continued listening last night. This morning I decided to listen to some more stuff and noticed the volume was strangely low, even at 12 o'clock on my volume knob which is very loud with my JBL L36s. I turned the knob up to 2 or 3 and it was still low. Then I noticed a flash inside my amp and the sound was gone, not a pop but just muted. I then saw my amp volume knob turn itself back down (never seen that happen) and white smoke poured out the top. I raced over to unplug everything and get the amp away from my system and potentially out of the house if it caught fire. I noticed something rattling around inside as I carried the amp, so that's probably not good. I'm guessing I blew a trasistor or something as the tube that's part of the preamp stage was still glowing after the amp failed and it looks fine. I'm wondering if running it without the tweeter plugged in lowered the impedance to a level that killed the amp. I checked the impedance on both Chorus II speakers and it was just under 6 ohms without the tweeter in. I would think this isn't too bad for a modern amp but maybe it is. Hopefully some of you on here can shed some light on this.