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Look at the beginning of the post, Parasound A23.

Very nice looking. How would that grills be to keeping them clean after a while?

As for the looks, I like the RF7 II more with wood veneer all over. To my eyes it has a distinctive, bold and somewhat crude but classy look that mean business. On the other hand, RF7 III look nice all in black, but leaves that "silky" taste in my mind. RF7 II differentiated from other speakers in RF line, while RF7 III tries to blend with the current Klipsch lineup. To me it is not a desirable way to go.

Burson will do nicely. I use DT 990 Pro, it is open model, 250 ohms. It sounds good plugged in most of audio equipment I have. Like the sound of DT 880 more (more flat freq curve), but the money for that was also higher. However, when I plug my DT990 in smartphone, the degradation of sound is noticeable but not that much worse.

The price is more than good. Cart only if new is worth money. A good combo, just tickles my imagination how would it look after a few parties in a man cave . May be put it on a wall shelf so it would be harder to do some damage. Turntables and parties usually do not go well.

First I saw fifteens they were eye catcher. They simply look beautiful. Other than that, I am certainly not against going active if this is executed good. Manufacturer should be the first to know how to match amplifier to the speaker, so I tend to believe they do their best. Of course the money spent on extra electronics comes into equation. However, the whole package should be good enough for people wanting to buy it. Klipsch is experienced enough to to that well. As regards some kind of mini-DSP, also - why not implement it? There are speakers on the market with such usable features, there is no hot water to invent here.

A couple of my friends use Rega Brio-R amps, and it serve them well. Of course, none of them use Klipsch speakers, mostly British, Dutch etc brands. They match well with Dali speakers or Monitor Audio.

Thanks for all the advice. Sansui has been in the repair shop and examined by the experienced technician. The main volume pot is kaput. Left channel is barely audible at minimum, but then drops and completely looses when pot turn to the right. Other than that receiver should be fine. I will look again for the pot at AudioKarma.

Hy there. I was reading all the way from begining of your post and must say my situation is almost like yours. Lately there are more forum members from Europe, I am from Croatia. Given our smaller rooms the Klipsch are one way of answering our demands for good sound. Most probably my wallet is thinner than yours, and chances to splash money for Fortes are for now nonexistent. However I have a nice KT 88 tubes really waiting for highly efficient speakers. Waitng how it ends up for you ...

I have 9090DB for almost 4 years now. Unfortunately the main pot is gone and until now I havent found replacement. So 9090 is quiet still. I regret it...

I am interested to hear what old lenses have you tried with D850 that did not measure good. Because I have a few of old ones too, and have been thinking to switch from analog to digital. Was thinking about D750 or Df, or may be even a 610. I am curious how my 200mm f4 micro would behave, or 28mm f2,8 AiS and 50mm f1,4 AiS...and so on.

Not boring at all , some great memories.

Admire the matching of the house with the audio equipment. Thorens must be the icing on the cake. Nice, simple and very nice.

I have read that many people are happy with solid state power amps and tube preamps or vice versa. They say it provides them smoother sound and they are quite happy with such combos.

Can I ask how did you connect grilles to the speakers? Magnets? It looks really nice, congratulations.

I don't know how would veneering of just a part of the surface look at the end, you will have to match the veneer in color and carefully match the edges with the old veneer. People do that but only those who have some experience. It seems to me a lot easier to veneer tho whole surface. Try it on some board that you put aside, and after a try or two you will know what to do. The most common method we use is to evenly put wood glue on clean surface, carefully put the veneer on, and go over it with an old hot iron.

Somebody mentioned placing the speakers on each side of the fireplace. Question for those who have them placed in such a way - how do the speakers respond to the temperatures radiating from the fireplace? What is a safe margin?

It seems to me like a pretty standard budget drect drive turntable from 1980s. (https://www.vinylengine.com/library/jvc/l-f66.shtml) If it is fitted with standard arm and shell you can put any decent moving magnet cart on it, even a moving coil cart should be ok but I doubt that you will go for such cost from what you mentioned in your firs post. What I am getting here is that finding only the original stylus could end up being more costly and more difficult than getting the whole new cart. Of course, the new cart will have to be fitted on the tonearm but you already know that.

Restored Honda motorcycle, at the local club showing their recent restoration works. Taken on Kodak Colorplus 35mm film.

Ok, take this with the following precaution: I listened the Sixes in dealer shop yesterday. They were hooked up with Roksan K3 cd-player BUT on a low audio shelve and in between a bunch of other speakers in the shop. Placed about two feets from rear wall and the listening position at about 6 feet from the speakers. So not egsactly an optimal listening setup. With that said, the highs were clear but overly bright. Bas was mostly boomy but showed signs of definition that could just be right with proper positioning of the speakers. But what striked me was the lack of mid frequencies, just as the body of the music was lacking. The good thing was that the Sixes clearly put out the Klipsch sound well, they were dynamic, enough of details for this class of speakers. I guess this just showed me how important is rear the placement of Sixes.

When I want relaxing, the album that often comes to mind is Trinity Sessions from Cowboy Junkies. I can pick almost any song from that album and be driven in relaxing mood.

Never heard CV but they are readily available here. The most frequent comment about them is that the new line of speakers sound better than their previous line, and the previous was pretty bad. Anyway, CV speakers are placed in lower grade category with Magnat and such.

I admit to be no expert on the subject, which brings me to much more investigatong job to be done, of course whithin my time limitations. But i would have 1 album in my mind connected to the original post - Sgt. Peppers lonely heats club 50th anniversary temasteted by Giles Martin (son of the original master engineer). As probably known, the album was mastered originally in mono. This was the first time that original master tapes were drawn up from the drawers to do it properly in stereo. I had the privilege to hear the first release in mono (from '67 release) and bouht this new one in stereo. Won't describe my opinions here as I found myself unadeqate with wording, but the difeerencies are audible, and in my opinion both versions are worthwile to own ( unfortunately it is hard to acqire the original monp album on LP). What about this perspective?

Good job, when you are satisfied with the sound the only thing left to do will be to make these things look more pretty I am certainly no expert here but several of my friends that make DIY speakers found it easier to fix bas back reflections (and I believe some mid-frequencies too) in the boxes by applying acoustic wool. I know this is entirely different type of construction and more easy to make (usually simple compression boxes). That is what make these speakers more appealing to DIY-ers. It is cheap and easy to make. Of course acoustic treatment will still be needed if aiming at maximum what the speakers can deliver, but at least it solves one part of the problem.

It is not so difficult to try to rise the Heresies. Give it a try. I had my Infinities QB (which are similar to Heresies dimension wise) initially at 12 inches above the floor. They are supposed to be placed like that but I did not like how they sound. Then I made speaker stands in a way that hi frequency driver is at my ear level when I listen to music. Much better in terms of clarity and stereo separation. If I would do it again then I would make the stands a few inches lower but I guess it has to do with vertical dispersion of sound from ribbon tweeter as well as with the room acoustics.