AndreG.

Welcome to the Klipsch Forum, please choose your poison.

Now I´m done! 😄

There is a picture comparing the vintage and the Crites fabric on their page, here are some of how it looks on my grilles:

This is really a big gap for me, nothing on either CD or Vinyl in my collection as of yet...

Every now and then a visit to your local library gives lucky but unexpected results. Let´s hope we´ll hear more from that trio! What are You enjoying besides the music there, @MicroMaraGeorge?

Easy, make them EvoTec K Horns! 😀

Streaming some tunes while working on my Heresys:

Went veneer shopping this week and this is it, 2 x 2 meters of american walnut. It´s a bit thinner then the stuff used on the cabinets, so I´ll use two layers and sand down to a matching thickness. The wood looks more reddish than i really is, will have to get a little "creative" to match the colors as best as possible.

First one turned out ok, IMO. No Randy, no staples, didn´t want them to be seen later. And i didn´t want to buy a stapler just for this. Just glue and clamping, starting with the large areas. The edges I "pre-folded" with clamps and a heat-gun, that made gluing around the edges easier for me afterwards.

Yes, but finally it´s coming together. One cabinet is done, the other I mentioned above. After that I only have to wait for my tweeters.

Got this one from a member over at the German DUAL Forum. Excellent condition:

I´m also busy with getting the grilles done, finally. To be honest, I´m a bit intimidated - will they turn out straight in the end...

So after writing with some knowledgeable people, i decided to take off the lower edge on one cabinet after all. I was convinced that the missing pieces were to large an to close to the edges to be filled up with wax...

That reminds me, a long time ago, me and my sister on the road, somewhere between El Paso and San Francisco....

"The Hu" meets "Dune".

This old stuff definitely has a cool factor to it... I´m always torn.... But I guess, in the end it will be a newer Yamaha amp for me, once I have the bucks to spare.

Black is Beautiful or Back in Black?

Welcome to the Forum! Nice LaScalas and no hopeless case, I think. First, it would be useful to have pictures taken of those paper-labels on the back of the cabinets. This makes identifying age and type of wood easier, even more so if we´re talking value. (Keep them!). Restoring You have several paths open to You: Leave as is and sell. (Meh) Just sand down and oil and wax or re-stain. This is especially easy if these are un-veneered birch cabinets. Sand and apply a veneer of Your choosing. How much work You want to invest is up to You, Can´t say much about value ( I´m from Europe, Heritage stuff is crazy expensive, even run-down stuff...), others will chime in with more knowledge for US values. My two cents and good luck!

Time for Ifukube San again:

Occasionally the sun broke through the rain-clouds... by mistake.

Playing the CD which contains this track reminded me of a thought/ poem that is partly mentioned in it: "Weißt du wirklich, was das heißt: allein zu sein unter den Sternen, preisgegeben der Unendlichkeit, die dich frieren lässt, sobald sie dein Bewusstsein streift? Wahrscheinlich weißt du es nicht. Die wenigsten haben es erfahren. Es ist das grausamste Glück, das man sich erträumen kann. Einige, die es durchleben mussten, haben dabei das Beten wieder gelernt; andere verloren den Verstand." "Do you really know what it means: to be alone under the stars, exposed to the infinity that makes you shiver as soon as it touches your consciousness? You probably don't know. Few have experienced it. It is the cruelest happiness one can dream of. Some who lived through it learned how to pray again; others lost their minds." Nikolai von Michalewsky I devoured his SciFi books as a boy and i still return to his stories every now and then. The music is from the OST that belongs to the very well made audio books.

Now playing: Talk Talk - The Color of Spring