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Charles T

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  1. BTW, I just watched your review again about the Heresy III's vs the RF 7 II's. Did you ever happen to try the Heresy's up on stands to get the tweeters up around ear level? If not, you should have. You mentioned that the RF 7 II's beat the Heresy III's in presence, height and spaciousness. I bet you'd change your mind if you heard the Heresy's up at ear level. It makes a HUGE difference and I get that "surround" or "holographic" effect quite easily in my room, and my tweeters are actually about 4" above ear level. One simply can't make proper judgement when the tweeter of one speaker is 3' above the ground where the other one is barely 18" off the ground. Even with the rake back of the risers, it doesn't help. The sound is still being emitted from knee level.
  2. Looking through the forum, I've noticed there's quite a few members here in FL, a lot in somewhat Central FL. We should all have get-togethers every once in a while. I think it would be fun. Get to listen to different systems, share tips and tricks, etc, etc. Curious... Why do you say your life is much better because of the friendship? I could use some hifi friends. All I have are my brothers. Literally, no one else around here that I know care about hifi or audio in general.
  3. Thanks for the complement! I thought that name sounded familiar. I've stumbled across some of his videos on YouTube in the past. That's one heck of a theater system. I knew he was in Florida, but not literally right next door.
  4. Correct. The front baffles of the Heresy's are exactly 3.5' in front of the wall, and their centers are exactly 2' from the side walls, toed in slightly where their paths probably cross about 15' behind me... Well into the mud room. Maybe even further! LOL In my seated position, my ears are right at the top edge of where the woofer and midrange horn join. So the tweeter is about 4" above my ears. But you know what, it actually sounds better this way than inline with the tweeters as I sat on a couple of stacked pillows to get my ears at the same level as the tweeters. It still sounded good, but there was just something about it that didn't sit well with me. Being below the tweeters actually sounds better, at least for me. In fact, these tweeters sound like a really good silk dome tweeter. I think I might have already said that elsewhere... Come on down and give them a listen. I have a NAS drive full of FLAC ripped CD's as well as Qobuz and Tidal. You want it, I got it! LOL
  5. Thank you! True, it's a lot of sound for this room (12.5' x 15.5' x 8.5') IIRC, but it sounds so good and has an overall effortless sound. A rather big sound improvement was with the recent addition of the plush area rug. It helped out a lot! The subs aren't even turned up a 1/4 of the way, and they blend seamlessly with the Heresy's. I have them mounted on top of IsoAcoustic isolators. They are the same model number isolator, but one is a year newer and re-designed, so it's a slightly different style and as you can tell, slightly shorter as well (the one on the left). But... They do their job and made a noticeable improvement in the sound, cleaner, tighter. Here's a view from the kitchen door, and the Ikea cube thing holding my LP's...
  6. Thanks guys. It's a small, simple system, the smallest and simplest I have had honestly, and is probably one of the best overall performing systems as well. I'm still shocked every day at how "audiophile" sounding these Heresy III's are. Dynamic yet delicate, detailed yet smooth, can effortlessly play loud without strain and stay engaging and exciting without fatigue. With the combination of the Heresy's and the old Polk subs (don't knock them, they do extremely well when properly set up and connected via high-level inputs with Wireworld Oasis 7 bi-wire speaker cables - much better than the JL e110 subs I have sitting in the closet for the past year), it's a wonderful combo that, sorry to say, simply blows those old Cornwall's out of the water in every way. These Heresy III's are just so much more advanced and refined all the way around and with the help of the subs, extend down much lower and maintain excellent detail and texture. With that being said, I am kind of looking to upgrade those subs as they're going on 12 years old now and are a little lacking below 25 Hz or so.
  7. We have two gingers, but six mews in total... Weasley on the left, Edgar on the right.
  8. Other than just the gallery, I don't see a dedicated area for members systems and such, as well as no area for new members meet & greet or anything like that, so here's this instead... I just wanted to make a quick post of my system and just lightly touch on my history with Klipsch. I was 4 years old when I was first exposed to Klipsch, in a pair of Cornwall's back in 1979. Not that I actually remember that, but still. I grew up with those speakers in my father's system. Move ahead 20 years and I was able to have said Cornwall's in my own system for around 7 years. In that amount of time, I replaced all of the original motor-run caps with new ones from Bob Crites. Shortly after that and hearing the stock tweeters come back to life, but still a little too rolled off for my liking at the time, I contacted Bob again and purchased a pair of his drop-in tweeters. I also modded the stock crossovers slightly to make the midrange into a true bandpass filter instead of the squawker blasting all the way out to its limits, creating that honk and shrill all of the older Klipsch were known for (unfortunately). Spending very little money for those upgrades and mods really transformed those old Cornwall's. The other unfortunate thing is, he wanted them back so he could sell them, so I removed the Crites tweeters, put the stockers back in and left the crossovers modded, and he sold them a couple weeks later. Really sucks because I really liked those speakers, but didn't make the big bucks back then to buy them off of him. Oh well. Move ahead another 14 years or so and I now have a pair of Klipsch that I can call my very own, a pair of mint Heresy III's, purchased second hand from a gentleman up in Georgia a few months back. He bought them new and barely used them for the year that he owned them. Anyway, here's a list of the gear and a pic just taken moments ago... With a kitty! Preamp | Amplifiers: Schiit Freya + | Schiit Mani | Schiit Aegir x 2 Analog Sources: Music Hall MMF-7.3 w/ Ortofon 2M Bronze DAC | Digital Sources: Schiit Bifrost 2 Multibit | Bluesound Node 2 | Roku Ultra Speakers: Klipsch Heresy III | Polk Audio PSW505 x 2 Power Conditioning: Blue Circle Audio | APC Cables: Audioquest | Wireworld | Pangea Audio | Mojo Audio
  9. I would have to hear a pair of IV's along side my III's to make any kind of decision on which is better. I don't care one bit about the extra bass extension of the IV's as I use dual subs (which you do not notice them at all until they are called upon). Dialed in perfectly, they just make the III's sound like a much larger, fullrange speaker. The thing that I'm interested in is the midrange and more importantly, the treble. In my system and room, the quality of midrange and treble I get out of my III's are I think pretty close to perfect. I have read several times now that people say the IV's midrange is more natural, textured and full, and the treble is more airy and/or has more "sparkle". The improvements in the midrange might just be a good thing, but the treble may be the deal breaker for me. I don't want more air and sparkle. That extra air and sparkle just might be more like bright and shrill to me. We just attended the 2020 Florida Audio Expo in Tampa a few weekends back, and a lot of the systems that people were drooling over and raving about were rather lifeless, thin and overly bright to me. In fact, usually when you come home from listening to a bunch of high end systems costing anywhere from $80k to half a million bucks to even a full one million dollars, good chances are you're going to come home to your system and be highly disappointed with the sound you're getting out of your system. When we came home, I pulled up a LOT of the music that these rooms were demoing their systems with on Qobuz, easy to do since I also have Qobuz. Long story short, I was rather shocked and pleasantly surprised that my system actually sounds better than I'd say 70% of the systems at the show. Anyway, I'm going off topic now and will stop here. But in short, I would have to hear the IV's right here in my room on my system to see what all the hype is about with them, and if they really are anything I would want to upgrade to one day. OR maybe Klipsch will do an upgrade kit to update the midrange and treble of the III's to the IV's status.
  10. Virgil Fox used to have a blast with this one all the time!
  11. I've noticed quite a few members here in Florida. Me too... Lakeland.
  12. This is how I have mine set up, kind of. I've been playing a bit more with sub and speaker placement this weekend and I now have the subs moved in a 1/4 distance of the wall width, and the Heresy III's out a little further towards the side walls as well as a little less toe-in. I think I might have found the sweet spot finally.
  13. The only issue with this is that where the subs sound best may not be where the mains sound best and vise versa. Depending on living area and constraints, stacking the mains on top of the subs may be the only choice, but if you have the room and the means, then I would always suggest locating the best spots for the subs and the best locations for the mains. Sometimes to get the best quality bass response in a room may require locating each sub on different walls which you clearly wouldn't be able to locate the mains in those same areas. P.S. - Yes, I know I'm new here to the forum, but I'm surprised to not find a "New Members Introduction" or "Meet & Greet" area or similar here on the forum. If there was, I would have posted there first. 😉
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