Paducah Home Theater

I don't think his are modified. Since I'm pretty sure you're who I talked to on the phone plus who posted in the Klipsch FB group, keep in mind there's two different styles, the current Heritage ones, and the previous "underground" ones with just a raw lens. The underground ones were active up until three years ago and only came with the speakers, I took a Xilica DSP and got approved settings for it so we effectively had something similar to what is out there now but that was not a Klipsch product. The speakers did not have wood around the lens, did not have grills, most did not have veneer on the front, the entire thing was painted black since it was a pro cinema speaker. You could order them with a veneered "beauty panel" on the front but that's it. It also had the B&C DE-75 compression driver. Anything like about three years old or older will be like this. The ones in the past few years are the Heritage ones with more veneer, much heavier, has the $1,000 Celestion drivers, lower bass response, grills, wood trim around the lens, a Klipsch branded DSP, aluminum binding posts instead of a terminal strip, etc. But, those are much more expensive. Get Mike's if you want a great deal. He needs to graduate to the new ones anyway.

Perlisten D215s.

Open box Advance Paris A10. Done.

I realize REL is king of the "super fast subwoofers" marketing, but when you guys get bored with this, try to graduate up to the big boy subs. Perlisten D215s.

Most people at least in the home theater world are going to cross over their subs higher plus powered subwoofers have a DSP which introduces a varying delay. Look at the graph below, you could introduce an 8 hz dip at the crossover point just by being 5' off in that situation.

FYI we have had great luck with the new Advance Paris A10. VU meters, lots of connectivity, tube preamp if you like things to sound more mellow, very solid amp, great price point, full retail is only $2499.

They will scoot around easily enough on carpet. Those discs would be fine but probably unnecessary. I always put down the foam furniture sliders on hard surfaces.

Marion and Becky down in Nashville use tubes with great results. Personally I'm not a big fan of this in general. Like why would you purposely mix two different amps with two noticeably different sound signatures on the same speakers? Why would you get ultra linear speakers just to use an amp that is not nearly as linear? Why would you pay that much for the ultimate in low distortion just to buy an amp that purposely introduces harmonic distortion? Doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Back in the day Klipsch speakers were brighter and people used tube amps to try to tame them and make them chill out. I just don't think that's necessary or fruitful anymore. Tube amps are cool and fun but there's no need to try to fix the sound with them, you're not really gaining anything. If someone were going to use tubes, at least try to find something very linear, with low distortion. You know, like a solid state amp. Also most tube amps are actually integrated amps, I'd make sure you find something that is power amp only. My only recommendation is something like the English Acoustics Stereo 21c. It's flat from like 14 hz to 70 khz, very low distortion, no preamp, plus it's a historic reproduction of the old Leak amps that PWK was a fan of. That would be the perfect tube amp for the top end in my opinion.

There's pros and cons of the two. Where the Jubilees win: 1. The lowest bass which is nearly nonexistent on the K-horns will half destroy your room with Jubilees. 2. The 60 hz "kick-you-in-the-solar-plexus" bass can rearrange your guts with Jubilees while K horns are nice but I mean your intestines and liver will stay intact comparatively. 3. Klipschorns suffer from a bass bin to HF section time alignment problem which the Jubilees don't have and is noticeable on some things like drums and bass guitar and some lower voices. However the new Klipschorns coming out will have a DSP like the Jubilees which will fix this. 4. Jubilees have a much bigger sweet spot and isn't really picky about placement. where the K-horns win: 1. Klipschorns are much less imposing to set up, I mean the new Jubilees are just ridiculously heavy and awkward. 2. Klipschorns are more forgiving with certain recordings, especially with sibilance. Certain things such as Anthony Keidis on the Red Hot Chili Peppers are almost unlistenable on the Jubilees even though they have great recordings by Rick Rubin. 3. Klipschorns I think are easier to just get pretty right. Just set them up and most everything will be very pleasant. There's a few shortcomings but as a whole I just think you can place them in the corners, have one amp to hook up, feed them most anything, and you'll enjoy it. Jubilees are more picky. 4. Klipschorns keep your hearing in check for some reason. I guess it's just because they're so clean but when I listen to Jubilees I tend to get carried away then I can't hear right for a week. I never really have that problem with Klipschorns. Jubilees are like a big shot of adrenaline, plus big compression drivers are usually designed to throw to the back of the room which the phase plug is supposed to fix, plus anything with super low distortion will do this, for example engineers have to keep an SPL meter in their face with Wisdom Audio installations in sound booths or else they'd be deaf pretty quick. As always, YMMV. Cory

LOL, dude I run Heresy on monoblocks. They are nearly always significantly quieter plus if you get class A A/B monster amps will stay in the class A mode longer which is what you're paying for. Plus monoblocks are often placed near the speakers which minimizes the drop of the effective damping factor. If you're going to spend 36 g's on the ultimate tightest bass you've ever heard, I don't think it's out of the question to splurge on some amps that will squeeze every drop of performance out of them.

I'll be there, give me a call and I can try to answer some Jubilee questions. 270-556-8427. At least check out the Perlisten room while you're there. Fidelity Imports and Playback Distribution both headed by former Klipsch VP's will have several rooms there.

straight from the factory.

Mods delete if needed but I thought some people here would enjoy it and hadn't seen it before. Below are several pics of recent custom builds plus you can get on the website and configure whatever you want, nearly 100 veneers are available. This is the latest, Forte 4 in Bubinga. Cornwall 4 in Monkey Pod cypress Forte 4 maple Cornwall 4 Heresy 4 in teak Klipschorn teak la scala distressed oak rc-64iii in Koa cornwall teak cornwall australian walnut cornwall in heavy distressed oak rc-64iii in Australian walnut various flitches KI-396-SMA-II in matte black with flypoints deleted Forte in vintage cherry Forte in australian walnut

I just got a pair of Australian Walnut CW4 on hand. They exist.

I used a single PB-2000 with La Scala's with better results than I expected. Two is always better though. More headroom, less distortion, smooths out room modes a little. Biggest problem with this statement though is that unless you have a steep slope crossover then you'll still get frequencies coming through the subs that are significantly higher than 50 hz even if that's what you set the crossover to.