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    WTB: Klipschorn Pair

    in Garage Sale

    Posted

    On 3/8/2020 at 10:37 PM, What's a DAC said:

    I am moving up in the Klipsch universe, hopefully. I have a pair of Forte ll's that I have been experimenting with for a couple years. Just replaced the tweeters with Bob's titanium version and am on a waiting list with Al to snag a pair of crossovers. They sound pretty darn good now so hopefully it will only get better. 

    I had a friend, many moons ago that introduced me to KHorns. He had a pair in his living room and drove them with a Marshall tube amp of about 25-30 watts. They blew me away along with their cat, dog and parakeet. 

    I just recently picked up a gently used Emotiva amp that sounds impressive for the money. 

    I am now on a quest to procure a pair of these Klipsch beauties. 

    From a newbie standpoint (well kinda) what would be considered the best year to look for? I am not really sold on any particular finish, except I prefer wood as opposed to black. 

    I also am not interested in taking out a mortgage to buy them, so no new models are in my foreseeable future. 

    I live in Arizona and would consider driving to several attached states to get them (California-Southern parts, Utah, New Mexico, West Texas) are all within a days drive. 

    Thank you for reading and helping.

     

    Headphones w/ R-15PM Turntable bundle pack?

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

    Posted

    On 1/22/2017 at 11:32 AM, cvillon said:

    Hi all,

     

    This is my first post. I recently bought this bundle, which is simple and beautiful for listening to vinyl on speakers:

    http://www.klipsch.com/products/r-15pm-turntable-pack

     

    The speakers listed are powered bookshelf speakers that also have the option to turn on a Phono pre-amp (by switching 'Line' to 'Phono' on the back). The design is meant to be 'no fuss'.

     

    Which brings me to my current fuss. HOW CAN I USE HEADPHONES WITH THIS SETUP? Please tell me if this is possible (with additional components) because I have been reading conflicting information.

     

    Attached is a photo of the back of the right speaker. The line/phono switch is what an audiophile salesman (who was not personally familiar with the speakers) said could be the feature that would let me be able to connect these speakers to a standalone phono pre-amp and/or headphone amp. Can anyone back this up? Does anyone have this setup w/ headphones?

     

    It would be really disappointing if there was literally no way to be able to hook up headphones with this setup. Why didn't Klipsch include a headphone out on the speakers???

     

    Thanks for reading!

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    Put the speakers 2 ft apart and put your noggin between them!

    what to look for when buying a turntable

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

    Posted

    On 4/25/2019 at 7:37 AM, mopardave said:

    went for a visit to Kevin's Monday to meet and check out his system.  Very nice set up and system sounds fantastic.  He played some of my disc material and then his vinyl .  The vinyl sounded much better.   I'm now thinking about getting back into vinyl.    When shopping for a turntable what specs should I be looking at?  Looking for used as I certainly can't afford a $7500 table, what are the brands to look at that are audiophile quality?   Technics, oracle, Rega.   What brands should I look at?   Audio Technica LP-120 any good?  Just looking and getting familiar with turntables for now. My price range used would under $1000.   Thanks

    Project is pretty good. Comes with an ortephon cartridg- can upgrade the cartridge also add a cork/rubber pad if your phono is in same room as speakers if you crank it-best 15 bucks you'll ever spend. Basic setup under 500 bucks. Can always spend more money later

    Backs on Klipschorns?

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

    Posted

    5 hours ago, HDBRbuilder said:

    LOOK CLOSELY AT A BELLE!  It is assembled without any main cabinet miter joints...all butt joints...all panels used have fine veneer edge-banding on them...it uses an ungawdly amount of SCREW fasteners...the pilot holes for all of this including blocks (some GLUE some NOT GLUE...some glue on one side and not glued on the other) have to be VERY PRECISELY aligned during assembly...there is absolutely NO MARGIN FOR ERROR!!  Metal "L" brackets are used, too...and must be HIDDEN...which was part of the design to begin with....the list goes on and on...as to WHY it took so many man-hours to assemble!!  Of all the production designs it is the VERY LEAST able to be rapidly be built!  PERIOD!  TRUST ME!  I worked right by the Belle section...and the builder or builders were responsible for ONE box each...if it was a pair...one builder had to build BOTH of them!  Belle builders were the most stressed-out of all the builders!!  BUT they were also the MOST RESPECTED!!  Everybody learned HOW to build them, but almost NOBODY wanted to be a "regular builder" of them!  Belle builders were selected for a number of reasons:  ability to pay SERIOUS attention to detail; NON-DRINKERS ( a hung-over builder could not do it!);  having an "eye" to figure out how to solve a problem before it multiplied itself further along in the build; etc....etc....  All it took was ONE un-fixable problem to turn what was SUPPOSED to be a matched pair into a pair of SINGLES...one shot with black!  The finely-veneered panels had to be PERFECT in every way, to include having absolutely NO VOIDS in the poplar lumber-core, or immediately under the fine veneer.  You couldn't even use pneumatic screw guns...had to use hand screw drivers and a "yankee" screw-driver so you could FEEL the torque when assembling and NOT strip out any wood holding the screws!  LONG BAR CLAMPS WERE A NECESSITY!! to ensure everything was already precisely aligned and TIGHT before using the screws...you absolutely COULD NOT use the threads of the screws to PULL THINGS DOWN!...the list goes on and on!  The entire cabinet had to FIRST be built, and THEN partially dis-assembled FOR SANDING AND FOR APPLYING THE FINISH...then it was RE-ASSEMBLED...not quite all the way..for installation of stuff in final assembly...and testing...then it was shipped in two sections...or as an entire unit!!  Things changed while I was working there on the shipping mode!  Of all the speakers built it had the least use of staples involved and the highest use of screws!!!  NO FINISHING NAILS WHATSOEVER!

     

    Back when I worked there, a good K-horn bass bin builder could knock out about two a day max...if everything went together right...mostly because of so many sub-assemblies that were already waiting to be used.  A Belle builder normally took three days to complete ONE cabinet...sometimes longer if there were unanticipated issues involved...up to FOUR days!!  Make sense?

     

    Even when the foreman would leave the cabinet shop for the "honcho meeting" with the plant manager...and many of the builders would don their safety glasses in preparation for the short nail gun war....LOL!....the Belle builder would be left out...and continue working...because HE KNEW he would NOT become a target...all it took was ONE dent in the wrong place on a Belle being built and whomever CAUSED that dent would get FIRED!  SO, as the foreman returned, his eyes would be on the floor around the Bell Builder(s) and if he saw ONE finishing nail or 1-1/8th inch staple there would be HELL TO PAY!!  He did not really CARE about all the nails and staples on the floor around everybody else's building stations and tended to let it slide...but the BELLE station had better be EXPENDED-AMMO-FREE!😉

    Boy that brings back memories. I had a cabinet shop for several years and to blow off steam we'd have a grillout and a nialgun fight- this was way before paintguns. 

    Backs on Klipschorns?

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

    Posted

    23 hours ago, jimjimbo said:

    Personally , I think Klipsch has made a very good decision to hold off on the reintroduction of the Belle (if it ever really does happen...)  I can't imagine anything but minor cosmetic change, but perhaps a tweaking of the drivers and crossover would be in order.  I have a feeling that @Chief boneheadhas already given this at least some passing thought......

    If they can do to the belles what they did to the khorns hell yea (however my opinion comes from '78 speakers to 70th anniversary)so why not? I'm thinking there's a whole new  generation out there that would buy-not including us old farts

    Backs on Klipschorns?

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

    Posted

    22 hours ago, YK Thom said:

    The Belle is IMO the most beautiful of all the Heritage speakers, rivalled only by the modern Palladium series which were magnificent looking. The return of the Forte seems to be successful and was a very good idea. Bringing back a modern Belle would be icing on the cake. They have a look that works with the decor of many homes, nailing down the all important WAF that helps drive sales.

    If they came back with a new version of the belles i would probably  one of the first buyers

    Backs on Klipschorns?

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

    Posted

    22 minutes ago, jimjimbo said:

     Let me ask you, what are the alternatives that you see? Just interested…  Bob Crites is very focused on Klipsch. I don’t really know of any other vendor that is as closely focused as he is or, has the depth of knowledge that he has about parts. 

    Well there's volti but that seems double crites(or more). From what i was told crites wanted to supply parts to klipsch but? I can say in my 78 kcbb's the boards and tweets plus the M squawks made a clear difference

    Backs on Klipschorns?

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

    Posted

    1 minute ago, HDBRbuilder said:

    I have a good opinion of him and what he is trying to supply for those who cannot any longer get original replacement parts from the company...some people think he is getting rich...but that is not really the case...he sees a need and does his best to supply that need...he had a good DIFFERENT business going long before he started out doing the network board thing...and slowly added to what he saw as a need....I have nothing of his in my speakers...YET...but we are old friends now...known him for years!  He will NOT sell any garbage...you can rest easy on that account!

    No i have some of his upgrades in my older khorns no complaints! And if he makes some money doing it america at its best! Also "Electric Mud" to you

    Backs on Klipschorns?

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, HDBRbuilder said:

    DID you know that we installed a pair of Belles in the very first "Rolling Stone Mobile recording studio"?...as studio monitors...mounted upside down angling downwards at the ceiling?

    5 minutes ago, HDBRbuilder said:

    DID you know that we installed a pair of Belles in the very first "Rolling Stone Mobile recording studio"?...as studio monitors...mounted upside down angling downwards at the ceiling??  THey pulled up with two semi rigs beside the plant...joined the trailers together...and we mounted them inside of it?

    ?  THey pulled up with two semi rigs beside the plant...joined the trailers together...and we mounted them inside 

    So whats your background? Sounds like you might have been around the block

    Backs on Klipschorns?

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

    Posted

    Yeah well i love em. For a small(er) room i think they're hard to beat. I thought about getting some 70th la scalas to match  my Khorns but im thinking i might do better with the belles. Eventually they will be in a Minimum 24 × 40 room with a12/12 roof but that is 2 years from now running a mac 6900 now but Will have tubes by then

    Cornwall iii

    in General Klipsch Info

    Posted

    8 hours ago, polizzio said:

    Thank you gentlemen for the warm reception. There is a door stop on the upper hinge which I did re-adjust to prevent contact with the CW (by a couple inches), but it would hit the CW first. I may have to rethink a more rigid solid stop. Def don't want any contact whatsoever. If the SWAT come busting in, it would take a painful hit. I live alone and there are no small children or teens involved at this point. I'm 61.

     

    Can't nail a stop into ceramic tile :)  

     

    I only had the 280s for a month, and they were very impressive. Along with an SVS sb-3000 for movies, serious low bass authority. Hard to go wrong with the 280s for the price. But I wanted something nicer that "big black boxes" at this point in my life. I like wood so i splurged big time. And acoustic sound design in Vegas had them at a great price. He must have purchased like 15-20 pairs and blew them out. These CWs will be with me til death.........short of another flood.

     

    I have a pair of BIC (DV-64 I believe) towers I purchased after my house was flooded in August 2012. Low end but they did the job. Not bad for $280 a pair delivered. Going to sell those, and probably the 45 day old SVS sub too. The SB-3000 is an amazing 1000 watt sealed sub, massive 13" driver.

     

    I've had some interesting stereos in my lifetime. When I was 20 I had a pair of Peavey SP-1 loudspeakers (horn tweeter and 15" woofer in a vented cab) and a CS-800 amp in the LR. 400 clean watts per channel, and we used to see the clipping lights blink pretty frequently. Had to use pillows to keep feedback out of my turntable, cds had not been invented yet. 8 track yes, but that's not really hi fidelity. Led Zepplin, Santana, Allman Bros, and Pink Floyd were regulars. Couple hundred vinyl records. Neighbors were not very enthusiastic about my music. I was a young rebellious butthole then.

     

    I really like great bass guitar riffs, and solid rythmik kick drum melodies. Fleetwood Mack Tusk is pretty cool with the sub. I run my bass hot. No flat Audyssy here.

    Massive DMB fan, and Floyd and Gilmour too. Classical and jazz too. Pretty much anything but rap. Just doesn't work for me. 

    Get yourself a ceramic(Not masonary) drill some plumber's putty and drill a hole

     Put a pin in protect those speakers!!

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