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Will the Xillica make a difference over other active crossovers (namely Yamaha) in 2-way stereo setup as regards quiet background. I mean the difference that you can hear.

Very nice speakers. Like the color and veneer. The price is a bit high on them, but if they sound well this is a good investment. Happy to see opinion 82s vs F3s.

And what would be the cure for cheep solder stations without adjustable temperature? Getting a decent one?

Nothing to be sorry about, in my opinion. I also don't mind raising up older threads if there is a point to it. Always wanted to hear these JBLs, never had a chance. And happy to see that PWK design inspire other people to build good looking and nice sounding speakers.

And how is comparison between them?

No shifting gears on the steering wheel on the Porsche?

For open baffle I suggest you check Jamo R909. Not in production any more but it can give you a true picture what open baffle really is when produced by a reputable company.

Jamos are nice sounding speakers. Of course it depends on the actual model , but whan comparing with the speakers of similar build and price, the owner can be satisfied with them. C109 are nice towers. Solid drivers.

I don't know if I understand your post well, but if you try to enter into a speaker which is new (and I suppose in the warranty), you could easily loose the warranty rights. If after re-connecting the tweeter does not work my suggestion is to try to consume your warranty, be it a new speaker or repair. Without opening the speaker itself. Contact your seller and see what is possible to do.

Project entry level turntables are reputable to be one of the best bang for money, they are usually without flaws, but as in this case there could always be an exception. I suspect that Klipsch also knows that and would not partner with Pro-ject if this would be a bad product. Hope everything ends up well for you. And I would not so easily reject Pro-ject unless you have something else and probably more expensive in your mind already.

How is the sound with speaker grills on? It looks to me like the cloth material that could affect the transparency of sound reproduction.

I have first 4 original albums on LP, and I have purchased the new remasters on LPs (2014 - the first album deluxe edition with extra tracks Paris Olympia, II, III, IV, Houses of the Holy and Physical Graffiti). All new remasters sound better to my ears, but I do not have very revealing speakers for the time being, so I can not give meaningful opinion on some sound details in recordings. Bonhams drums on Moby Dick sound fantastic on reissue.

Good decision. I have been using Oki Noki for a few years. Similar specs, work good. Not mine but in local record shop that provided the record cleaning service for very little money. Now they closed and thinking of getting my own record cleaning device. Will be looking at the prices of this...

I run my RF42 II with Onkyo TX8050 also in 6 ohm mode for a few years now. All OK with the speakers and the receiver. You should not have any problem with your combo, just play and enjoy.

You have probably found solution for your problem - room acoustics. I am in a similar situation, also have room nodes in the bas region and will do some traps soon.

I do not know about waiting up for them to open up. Never heard of such thing. My tubes were working A-ok from the second they were turned on. But then, I may be wrong...

I can confirm from my own experience what pzannucci says about tube amp and bass, although it seems to me that you could count in some other issues here. First, you have pretty large room for that speaker. Remember that you are talking with the audience that usually is not so familiar with metric measures. Then it could be that you are expecting too much of bas from 160s. But they should not sound dull in any case. So try to play with speaker positioning.

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I dunno how will Plastidip work with horns, but is sure is working well on cars Should not be much different than other elastic spray lacquers. Waiting for results.

Youthman, how far from the wall are your RF7II? Are they really that close as they appear on the picture in your first post? Apart for me leaning more towards the heritage sound, my limited living space does permit placing the speakers on the rear wall or max. foot from that wall.

Very nice, congratulations. BTW, I like the dog on top of the right speaker .

I was not to happy with any of those bookshelves regardless of the producer in this price range, at least what I have heard. The best so far to my ears were Monitor Audio Silver 2 (or silver 100 as they changed the names in their new lineup from 2017). In that camp can also be Tannoy XT6. If thinking between RP-150 and 160, I would go for the 160.

May be this Korg DAC http://www.korg.com/us/products/audio/ds_dac_100/ It has been on market for a good time now and should be discounted. Best results are gained with supplied software which works best on windows, a bit less good on MAC OS latest versions (as I read on the net). Not working on Linuxes.

Sherwood should be 2X100 W, so I would not say underpowered in any way for your speakers. In what condition is the Sherwood? How old is it? If kept in a dusty or humid environment the dirt may be to blame. And I would be checking the connections from the receiver to the speakers. Speaker cables, interconnects if any etc. If speakers are new, then I would tend to seek the source of that crackling somewhere else.

Hello Wim, happy to see your nice job on the subs. I see you are using Xilica, can you tell me where did you buy it and for how much money here in EU. Can send me a PM. Thanks