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  1. ClaudeJ1 wrote:

    "Late 60's. Had a paper route in Detroit. The pickup station was about 2 blocks from the Hi Fi Workshop (Klipsch Dealer)."

    About that same time I too frequented Hi-Fi Workshop in Royal Oak, MI. It was there, or possibly Almas Stereo in Birmingham, I first heard Klipsch. Alas, Hi-Fi Workshop is long gone. Almas is now in Royal Oak and no longer sells Klipsch.

  2. Just for kicks & grins, Maron states that the K402/Paudio combo is what he didn't like (that seems consistent with my memory of his comments)

    I do wonder if his attitude would change if he heard them with the TAD driver?

    However it looks like I am just deluding myself

    Really???

    As though you know anything about human hearing....

    Hmm

    Zip it!

    As painful as it may be, you might want to read that long single paragraph ad again.

    If you want to hear TAD drivers, don't listen to these. The available drivers are only described as, ". . . the best smoothest driver ever made the TAD killer BEYMA CP-750ND."

  3. Don't be so hard on PWK.

    I agree that what you've done makes a positive difference and I suspect PWK would haved agreed. I interpret his comments to mean that it doesn't make enough of a difference to make it commercially viable.

    Klipsch took rather pedestrian components and got the maximum out of them. DIYers can "upgrade" to get improved performance, but those "upgrades" were not deemed by PWK to be justified by the marketplace.

  4. How handy are you? That price seems high for a fixer-upper.

    I have one that I totally rebuilt with new boards and components. It sounds great. At a minimum, those ancient electrolytic can capacitors need to be replaced. If you enjoy working on such things, go for it. If you have neither the ability nor inclination, you'd be better off getting something new or professionally restored, IMO.

  5. Thebes, "What kind of a real man keeps a diary?"

    I wouldn't call it a diary, but PWK carried a notebook in which he'd record the day's events, including bowel movements.

    Nobody questioned his manhood! Ecentricity perhaps, but not manhood.

  6. Ben-

    I built Webb transmission line speakers, more than 30 years ago, from plans in Speaker Builder.

    That was a 4-way design using KEF B139 woofer, KEF B110 for the midrange, KEF T27 tweeter and Celestion HF2000 super-tweeter. Many years ago I dismantled the large floor standing speakers, sold the cross-overs and the HF200s and made BBC LS3/5A clones from the B110 & T27. The B139s are in transmission line subs. I still use the LS3/5A clones and the subs in my modest HT system.

    Speaker Builder was great. I miss it.

  7. Ben-

    I re-read the Sanders article the other day. Roger Sanders describes the construction as "simple." There are few DIY projects I won't tackle, building the electrostatics described in that article would be a challenge.

    The forum member (I'll leave it to him to identify himself if he wants) getting the mylar is thinking about using it to refurbish Magnepans. That too would be a daunting challenge.

    Realistically, I know that it probably will never be put to use. But, for the cost of postage, it's still in circulation among the audio enthusiast world. There's a much better chance of it being used now, than there has been for the last few decades sitting in a box in my basement on top of a heating duct.

    Did you ever build any Speaker Builder projects?

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