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The above Lux sells for approx $9500 new. McIntosh is a better value imo. Look at the specs, Mac is like .005% THD @ rated power output, full range (Ok the Lux is .006, pretty much identical). And those blue Mac output meters. Never heard a Lux, but I have the Mac. IMO, Mac is the standard to judge all others. Don't know if I shall ever own a Mac, but its sure nice to dream.

@STSOE Don't own a klipsch sub, own a svs sb-3000. This I will tell you, klipsch warranty is 2 year on the sub electronics, svs is 5 year on everything. Can't tell you how many peeps pop in here complaining about their klipsch sub stopped working. 10 out of 10 it is the amp. Or the Pro Media setups (desktop pc), had one of those years ago (the 2.1) and the amp failed 2 or 3 years in. Into the garbage can she went. SVS builds excellent subs, powerful, either ported or sealed cabinet, you choose. Their customer service is superb. They also offer 45 day return and they even cover return shipping charges. I purchased a sb-2000 first, sent it back and re-purchased a sb-3000. I was refunded 100% on the sb-2000 and they covered the return freight charge too. Never balked one step. Live on line chat during business hours too. On the svs main page, they also have an outlet store link too, where you can save 8 -15% on a product. Same warranty. SVS employs DSP on their sealed subs and they are solid to 20 hz or lower. My sb-3000 has a phone ap to access all the settings too. The vented cab products have the ap too but I'm a sealed sub guy myself. I own a pair of Klipsch Cornwall 3 SE purchased new and am very pleased with them, but when it comes to subs there are much better choices out there imo. Klipsch could do better on their sub amps and warranty. Klipsch sub warranty info: https://www.klipsch.com/warranty-subwoofers Your choice.

Camellia Bakery is 55 miles from my house, I didn't know they were in Slidell. I'm gonna have to visit one day, pick up a king cake. I'm betting you know their products from their bakery in Chalmette many many years ago.

65 lbs. Lux is still made in Japan. https://www.stereophile.com/content/luxman-l-509x-integrated-amplifier

I guess the alcohol clouded my perception a wee bit My bad.

Wow, that is pretty special. I have never personally known anyone born on 25 December. Got an old friend from high school on the 24th, but no 25th. HBD Christy, the world celebrates your BD too Now dats special.

Well that sucks! Lets hope they restore it soon.

And I bet it will be some good eatin!

Same here. Merry Christmas to all, especially you Elden.

We call em merliton squash down dis way.

Still have my pair..........they just hang a wee bit lower now. Nice song selection.

This is why I really like my SVS SB-3000. Sealed cab sub and SVS employs a user adjustable DSP amp to make the response flat down to 20 hz. I've owned six subs over the years (20) to date, 3 vented or bass reflex, and 3 sealed. BR never again. I purchased some dense rectangular foam sheeting from the local hobby store. Going to try plugging my CW3 ports and see what it does to LF output. An experiment, have an idea what will result, behave like a sealed cab, lose output below 50-60 hz or so. I listen to lower sound levels anyways, try to preserve my old ears, already damaged from career, past hobbies, and age. Rarely do I exceed 90/95 db peaks, music output.

Chris, thanks for taking the time/detailed explanation. Makes a lot of sense. I have never heard Jubes, much less Jubes with DSP/active XOs. Perhaps one day I will have the opportunity to hear a properly time aligned system.

Yes, I've read everything I could find on the subject here, and some research on the internet. Granted PWK didn't have the tools and resources we have today by a long shot, didn't have REW. No doubt he relied upon engineering, experience, and his ears ultimately. Thx for the explanation/input. One thing I have seriously begin to question lately is the sonic accuracy of a bass reflex cab. Using both sides of the LF transducer to reproduce or create sound. Has to be some time smear there. And easily 90% of home speakers manufactured today are BR cabs. But on the flip side, what percentage of the music that we hear at home (our sound/music room/home theater) is reflected sound? Depends on the room, whats in it, and treatment no doubt.

Chris, I have spent enough time here to discern you are pretty much an expert on REW and have a great knowledge of Klipsch Heritage/Pro line in a mechanical and practical sense. But respectively I have to question this need to "time align" drivers. Carl mentioned this aspect couple days ago on the Texas pair custom exotic/reconditioned Klipschorns posted and got me thinking. One, if critical transducer time alignment is so vital, why wouldn't PWK/Klipsch have lengthened the overall horn length of the tweeter vs the squawker? Make them equal length. Or perhaps they addressed minor time alignment errors in the XO? Second, sound travels @ approx 1100 feet per second or 13,200 inches per second (correct for local temp and pressure), doesn't matter which frequency. 20-20k hz. So given a missed time alignment of say 16" from diaphragm to diaphragm (the actual sound wave/pressure generator), this would account for a time error of 0.001212 of one second. Who thinks they can reasonably discern such a "time error" in a loudspeaker, in your LR or home theater? Or the reflected sound vs direct sound in any listening room short of an anechoic chamber. Clearly reflected sound takes longer to arrive at one's ears, much less a one millisecond error in time alignment of transducers in the actual cab. You thoughts/comments please. Perhaps I am missing the big picture here. Wouldn't be the first time. "One of the more important properties of sound is that its speed is nearly independent of frequency. If this were not the case, and high-frequency sounds traveled faster, for example, then the farther you were from a band in a football stadium, the more the sound from the low-pitch instruments would lag behind the high-pitch ones. But the music from all instruments arrives in cadence independent of distance, and so all frequencies must travel at nearly the same speed." source: https://www.texasgateway.org/resource/141-speed-sound-frequency-and-wavelength

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Detailed explanation of model and serial #:

Here is a good start: https://www.klipsch.com/klipschorn-history

Really nice. Oh yeah.......NASTY thru the gears!

76F and sunny here in southern LA this afternoon, very pleasant. Cold front coming in tomorrow.

Sounds pretty nasty, we need some pics. I had a black 72 Dodge Demon, 340 4 speed, sweet running car. Traded it straight up with a guy for a red 72 Corvette, 454 TH 400. He wanted my Demon bad! I see you're from MI, the epicenter of great American muscle cars in the 1960s and on. Used to be quite a street race scene in Detroit, least what I read about in Hot Rod over the many years.

I'm hoping 454 - 4 speed. Clearly Dave's father likes to "smoke um" every now and then

Is that a 1972 Chevy Malibu SS sitting in the driveway? Never mind, I went back a page and read your father's Chevelle. Super nice, 454 4-speed?

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