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I'll add to this slightly old thread as opposed to opening a new one. I just purchased the 1800 model which is 80 W per speaker. I haven't hooked them up to the Heresy rears I have, as yet. I've run them simply for testing and the sound is very good, using ML LX16 as test speakers. One note on the unit, the speaker terminals are spring type with a very small opening. The profile of both the transmitter and the receiver/amps is very low so they are trying to use a low profile connector. I had to use pins on the cables I prefer for this in order to get them into the spring clamps. The supplied cables were very small and short. I wanted longer cables and 12 gauge would not fit easily, but pins worked with a little convincing. I have not loaded up a sub woofer, likely won't. These will either drive Heresy rears or the ML LX16 as a stereo pair connected to a satellite radio. A kudos to Jeff at Amphony. They were not in production for a while due to Covid. I reached out to them after seeing some very positive testimonials and in particular Jeff's name as being someone who was helpful. He told me he'd keep my name and when they were back in production he'd reach out. That was about 4 months ago. I didn't really expect to hear from him, but I was watching Amazon where I know they also sell. One day poof an email from Jeff saying they had units and he'd like to offer for me to get one before they went to a more "public" / Amazon posting. So I ordered a unit. It arrived, and one of the speaker receiver/amp power supplies was bad, it would cut out about once per second with a hard "thump" through the speaker. A quick test, no load, showed the supply was putting out its rated power of 36 Watts. I sent a note to Jeff and without any hesitation he shipped a new unit which I received and it is fine. That was pretty good service I'd say, in this time when companies have to deal with limited production and replacing a defective power supply no questions. Jimmy Buffett via satellite on the patio ... now where's my boat drink?

So they finally reached out and offered about $50 in restitution. Wow. Thanks. I gave them a lengthy lecture about customer service. Oh well, I'm sure it went right on the floor or waste basket.

@Bozo73, I feel your pain. I’ve had field techs put signal boosters in, then others take them out. The best seems to be to disconnect as many outlets as you can in your house and eliminate their signal boosters if possible. Law school wasn’t inexpensive! But handy, although I’ve never gotten out of a traffic citation even with my lawyer in the car at the time.

To make a more generic point, in this wireless day and age, we should not forget that sooner or later a cable generally comes into the overall communications channel, and how much our lives depend on this is pretty amazing. My wife and I have essentially unlimited cell data so we did hot spot internet but it wasn’t very consistent and was much slower.

@babadono, we appear to be the only users of provider B in our cul-de-sac at least for land line services. My wife is a retired lawyer. We have a very strong history of winning law suits. Hmmm? Never tell the opposition your background.

I am really trying to make direct contact with an "escalation manager" to discuss compensation. But more so to get them to understand their people have been completely negligent in causing the problem, in providing meaningful resolution contacts and in follow up. Next message is to the PR person again, with draft letter I'll send to communications commission.

Ok, I’ll offer this experience. We use two communications service providers; A for cell and home security, B for internet and TV. We live in a cul-de-sac where the development is no more than 11 years old, aka somewhat recent communications services all in ground buried cables. Contractors for provider A were in our area putting in fibre optic cable. Poof, our provider B services went out. I asked the provider A workers, hey guys any chance you dislodged a cable for my internet and TV from provider B. No way was the answer. Wife saw provider A guys working in two different in ground conduit/junction box locations right at the time the provider B services went poof. Hmmm. Provider B works over the ether and checks our in-house gear and says they can’t see anything, aka, can’t get communications to our house. Hmmm. I call provider A, every single number I can find. No one, not one human being can tell me anything about the work in our cul-de-sac, or get a field foreman to come and check things out. I reached out to the PR folks of provider A and told them the situation. They passed along to escalation folks. One escalation manager assures me their field techs could not have affected our house because, provider B doesn’t have any in ground cabling. Wow! Provider B provides services essentially Canada wide. This guy could tell, without looking at my house or checking installation diagrams that I have above ground cabling, even though there are no above ground cables within miles and miles. He just blew me off. Provider B sends tech to our house, 11 days after the incident because they laid off too many field techs during Covid. Field tech fixes the problem in 2 minutes when he finds the location of our in-ground cable and tells me the original connector was forcibly removed. Hmmm. I am still waiting for the provider A escalation managers to return my third call to them to ask why their people a) caused the problem, b) lied to me about the installation of provider B’s cables, c) were completely rude to me. I hope no one ever goes through this type of issue. Major pain with family trying to work from home, do job interviews over the internet and oh yeah, we missed the Olympics because we had no TV. I don’t expect satisfaction, provider A is not on my Christmas card list.

I love to see old gear revived... well done!

Moderators can delete. Best I not rant about internet services.

Call sign CHAOS by retired General, Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis. Interesting, a bit too much on his leadership influences but the stories from his long career were good. Didn’t see eye to eye with two presidents and both situations did not end well. He would be interesting to meet.

@zeagan, if you need B&C drivers check Q Components in Waterloo. Have purchased tweeter drivers and woofers from them. Happy customer, no other affil.

@Chiliarches, I think you are in the US? There are some good custom cable makers in Canada, a company in Ontario named Take Five Audio and a person on Canada Audio Mart... no affiliation with either, they both get very high ratings. I’m sure there would be equivalent on US Audio Mart?

@rplace I used a pair of Martin Logan LX16 connected to an Akai AM-2800 in a smallish bedroom turned reading room. I thought the sound was very good... amt tweeters, very good ML speakers.

welcome to the forum. @HDBRbuilder can elaborate, but my understanding is they are initials of the cabinet makers. See my discussion in thread 1980 Heresy under Ask the Historian, @JRH

@Coytee... it seems like a pop up, and or pop up add window. Google to see how to distable pop ups in that browser. Hard to disable adds, but again you can Google how to limit or disable them in that particular browser. Pop ups are very annoying! There are add blockers that you can get, either as an add in to most browsers or a physical one based on the mini Raspberry computer platform. Good luck.

Wow.

Just getting closer... Luxman R-117 is in with tech for a full refresh, can’t wait to get it back. Got an Outlaw 5000. 5 channel power amp for the rest of the channels and just picked up a Sony 55 inch OLED tv to finish things off. Now we have to do wiring, wall mount(s), furniture, painting and decorating. Budget is nearly depleted! Oh, and build Heresy clones with son-in-law to be.

Parting Kiss bourbon barrel aged ale. Dang, I have to buy it in baby size growlers. Every Tuesday it seems.

Nice! Enjoy that setup.

Q Components in Waterloo Ontario appears to have them in stock, I put 4 in an online cart, no warning came up. I’ve purchased B&C woofers and tweeter drivers (12CL76 for super Heresy and DE120) from them in the past. Not sure that helps US forum friends but anyone in Canada , should check them out... no other affiliation than satisfied customer in the past.

@Sylvania I hope my daughters care for me as well as you have.cared for your father-in-law .. my Klipsch Heresy are in place! welcome to the forum, great post!

@No.4 sorry to have affected your dinner plans or thoughts! Nice speakers! Look up a wine called Alzero by Mr. Quintarelli... there is simply no way of describing it. After his Amarone or tied with it, best red wine I’ve ever had, subject to future tastings. Only one of those left downstairs, but a friend who has Proac K6 and Octave gear has more! Glad your pre is still fantastic.

Have seen THE JIMMY, in Toronto, Vancouver and many times in Las Vegas. Vegas is the most fun. Everyone gets dressed up. And when the concert starts everyone gets up, sings and dances the whole concert long. If you don't like that, then don't go. In Vegas, he used to hold a pre-concert party, big one at MGM or somewhere else along the strip. It was big. I only went once, couldn't do it and the concert in the evening!

Facebook live feed. He’s doing more in Nashville so check his schedule, do search in FB for Jimmy Buffett and Coral Reefer Band there may be live stream for next one.

Jimmy Buffett concert, first of this crazy year, just finished in Nashville. Fun to watch and see the whole band back together. I think they enjoyed playing for a live audience.