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Well, I've owned my Custom 3s for over a year now. For them to work for me, I had to make a modifcation by using off the shelf ear plugs instead of the tipsthat came with it. The best seal-sound quality I got was the large double tip, but it would hurt after wearing them a bit. The next best was the large single tip, but the seal would come and go when I move my jaw or head. The headphones almost became impractical to use till I came up with the mod. I would puncure a hole in the middle of a set of earplugs and place them where the eargells would be. Worked out great. So far, the most usefull situations with these headphones is when I do personal studio work with the band I'm in now. It's the next best thing to being in the control room to monitor the sound while recording. Before, I would wear ear plugs, put on a set of over the ear headphons and crank them up to overide the accual instruments. Using the Custom 3s with the mod, I just use them by themselves at normal volume. Keep in mind, my Ludwig drums are loud, yet I can hear them through the Custom 3s during recording instead of hearing the drums directly. Great for experimenting with mic placing. Other uses would be on trips and such. I have compared them to the Reference Series of Klipsch speakers, which I own some. With some bost on the top and low end, they can come close. But like with all headphones, you don't fell the music with your body like you would with listening through good speakers. (But with the nomad lifestyle and roomates, it's still the next best thing to good external loudspeakrs) I have also compared their sound to the sound system of the House of Blues in San Diego. They sound about the same. (They eather use Electro Voice or EAWs, I forgot.) The other set of headphones I have been using for comparison, (for work as an example) are the studio AKG K240. (Over the head type) Without any EQ on them, they sound verry simmilar, but the Custome 3s can play bass heavy music much louder witout sounding overdriven like the K240 would at the same voulume. I still use the K240s when I work because of the ease of takeing them on and off. But for trips, the Custome 3s become more practical because of their size. That's all I have for now.

Its cool. Glad you cleared up the intention to keep the atmosphere here positive. Yeah, I think it would be tough to find a bunch of picks of hot girls with Klipsch unless theres a bunch of Photoshop hackers here to rig up a bunch of them. Thats all I have to post for now here for now. Rendering glass Klipschorns take forever to render. Thats why I only sat up this one scene with those in there. Although they were neat to build.

The rendering was set up to be humorous or non-serious. It was something Id done a few months ago and this was a rejected camera angle I threw up just to be involved with the thread. (The final pic was posted up on a real art websight.) But my impression of this thread was that its suppose to be fun, and Im sure some here would dig the glass Klipschorns.

It's not a beautiful women but it's an exotic female.

--To colterphoto1 -- Hey. Its been over 15 years since I last heard a pair of Heresys. I presently own a pair of rb5. How would you describe the difference between their sound characteristics. I know they both sound great and can really crank out clean sound. Just curious.

Perfect. That was the same exact amp I used before it died.

Im interested. Ill be willing to bring my vintage Klipsch designed EV Barnet cabnet http://www.hifilit.com/hifilit/Electro-Voice/117-5.jpg which I converted into a sub-woofer if you have an amp to power it. A main capacitor blew on mine last summer because of the heat.

For some reason, when I posted up the 2nd pic, The 1st pic disappeared. Heres another pic with both setups.

Heres a pic of what the speaker setup looks during rehearsal. The mid and high horns are not as musical as the RB-5s. The mid horn is an old University horn with an 100W rms pager driver, and the tweeters are Realistic horns. The University horns sounded better with the original alnico drivers, but one of them got blown and I couldnt find a replacement diaphragm that would fit in it.

Early this month, I purchased a pair of horn subs to finish a full bandwith horn PA setup. Today, I brought over my Klipsch RB-5s and my Kenwood receiver over to the rehearsal space to try them out in a 2 channel setup. Typically, during band rehearsals, The subs would be hooked up to a mono Peavy PA head 250W@4ohms and the mid and high PA horns would be hooked a Kenwood power amp 100W per channel with a DBX active crossover. When I did the Klipsch set up, I had the Kenwood power amp power the subs and the Kenwood receiver power the RB-5s. This is probably the closest Ive gotten to experience a Klipschorn / EV Patrician performance, although I still never heard a pair of K-horns so its still hard for me to compare. The sub horns are of the B-52 brand and houses an 18 inch driver in a folded horn enclose that goes down to 30Hz with efficiency at 104db @ 1w. and can handle 700W RMS. The sound was typical of the Klipsch sound; clear, detailed, and lively. But with these subs, the sound was HUGE. The room couldnt handle full bandwidth music at high levels without becoming a rattle trap. These subs make the kind of bass that you feel in your guts. The RB-5s can put out sound thats as loud as a pair of portable 2 way PA speakers twice as big when theyre against the wall. The corner horn sub I made with a vintage EV cabinet and an 8in Kicker solo baric would just extend the lower end of the bandwidth with the same kind of loudness and quality. But when this setup is used with the B-52 horn subs, I got the sound pressure along with the extended lower bandwidth and quality. It was fun. Pitty I dont have the room for these subs in my house.

Coming from a professional 3d computer graphics artist, that is defiantly fake. The obvious giveaway is that the perspective angles dont mach between the Tanny and the TV, and the parts of the room looks painted-in on the top left. Other problems, no shadows and light reflections surrounding the bottom of the speaker. Heres a good example of fake klipsch speakers. . .

This post is a continuation to the one about the corner horn sub being tried out at the warehouse. Heres a pic of the corner horn sub and my RB-5s being used during a mixdown of some digital 16 track recordings. Thats the bass player squatting between the monitors, focusing on the sound of the mix. I havent got to posting the corner horn sub with the latest modification so there it is(on the left corner.). The PA speakers seen in the photo are only being used as speaker stands. On the night before, the drum set was at the same spot and the RB-5s were stacked up higher over the set to be used as playback monitors. The loudness and accuracy of that monitor setup was very useful during the recording session.

I highly think it would work. I would suggest getting the cabinet first, then attempt to measure its cubic inches, (pain in the butt cause the shape inside is no cube) then get a high performance driver that can work with that space. I found a brochure of the EV speaker line in the mid 50s and that cabinet can go down to 35Hz.

I finally got a chance to do more experimenting with the modified vintage corner horn. I bought some longer wood screws so that I can mount the sub facing into the cabinet. This made switching the ohms from 4 and 2 easier. I have noticed an improvement of the lower end. It dropped the useful low end to 35hz and the frequencies below that became even more audible when driven harder. The efficiency of the unit became challenged when I brought it to work. I rigged up an audio setup with a pair of Altec Lansing computer speakers with it?s sub_out going into a vintage Kenwood amp that has around 25 to 30 watts per channel. I was able to clear out a corner along the wall were an X-box was projected on to. People at work who stayed for the X-box/ Wolfenstein party was amazed on how good the bass sounded and how loud it was coming from such a small speaker. Saturday, the next day, I took the sub, my RB-5s, my Yamaha amp and CD player to my band?s practice space for some real fun. The PA head there can put out 350 watts at 2 ohms which is what the sub can handle. I had sub woofer out hooked up to that and CRANKED IT UP. I had to stand next to the building across the street to hear how clear and full the system sounded cause it was distorting my ears when I stood next to it. To really work the sub, I put in a bass/ tecno track with lots of low sub base. That sub can move some air. The really low base was very audible, but unfortunately the cabinet was to light to handle the high excursions cause the whole thing was visibly shaking. With the music I listen to normally, Punk Rock and Ska, it made enough clean bass to vibrate the concrete floor. I could literally fell the air vibrating out the sides of the cabinet and see the dirt and beer caps move around in that horn path. When one of the other band members showed up, he thought I had the 15 inch PA speakers hooked up. After playing with this, I think Klipsch should make corner horn subs. All a person needs is just one corner and it could be made small. I?m sure it would have a high wife approval factor. I?ve seen Klipchorns being sold on Ebay because of the Wife issue. I still would love to here this thing next to an actual Klipschorn for comparison.

I wish I have some gear to measure the efficiency and frequency response of the unit accurately. I was able to generate tones at specific frequencies in Sound Forge on my computer. According to my ears, the response seems flat from 100Hz to 50hz the sound is slightly lower at 40Hz. At 30Hz the sound was barley audible. At 20Hz, I cranked it up and was able the see the window blinds move. I did the same test with my RB-5s and the bass drops sharply after 50Hz. The bandwidth that this system covers works fine with most of the material I listen through it anyway, which is punk rock and 1st/ /2nd wave ska (I have the Social Distortion version of Ring of Fire also). Another horn subwoofer solution I was considering before I got this was the CerwinVega T-36/750 which houses an 18in driver and has a cutoff frequency of 32Hz, but that would be too big for my small apartment also. Down the road I may try different things like mounting the driver with the front of the cone facing in, ex. Right now its wired with the polarity reversed so its firing into the horn. The horn actually starts at a port instead of the driver so my guess the sound feeding the throat comes from the change of air pressure in the cabinet instead of the radiating surface of the cone. The amplifier driving it at the moment is an 8 year old Kenwood 100 watt per channel at 8ohms. The Kicker driver is wired at 8 ohms. (It can be set at 2 Ohms also) The signal comes from the sub output of my Yamaha RS V596 crossovered at 100 Hz. In case if anyone is interested, there is now a pair of Baronet speakers up on Ebay if anyone has the time and money to experiment with this ideal. I have to go now, theres an early local Hardcore show for me to attend and then a New Years Party. Happy New Year everyone.