Micklipsch

Good times... I bet "Jose" has some sweet 1942 Khorns and knows where Jimmy Hoffa's at, too.

Heads up mods, @Jason31 is a fresh scammer. Just IM’d me with the typical MO message, replete with the scammer calling card word, “kindly.” These idiots never learn.

I’d call it nothing short of luck that I located one with one post in under a week, within an hour’s drive. Damn thing could’ve been anywhere in the world, lol. Big shout out to @Iteachstem. Great guy to know. We ended up chatting most of my way home. This is a great community and I’m glad to be a part of it. One of the best forums I’ve joined.

Wow! What are the odds... Not only am I also in Illinois, but I used to live close to you, in St. Charles, out by Lily Lake, now known as Campton Hills. I’d say it’d be fine in a padded shipping envelope, but I could honestly just drive out to you. You’re less than an hour away, lol.

Anyone else personally own or heard these subs and can elaborate how they may stack up next to say, Klipsch R-12SW?

Thanks, Randy!

I can tag a pair of these for $250 (msrp apparently was $338/each). Opinions overall? And if they’d do justice complimenting Epic CF4s?

Cool guys, thanks! At first I got excited about those eBay ones, but they could be better. The color looks off as they’re a bright gold vs the original’s subdued tone, and the letters sit in the background opposed to the original’s rising above it. Would have to tear off my good factory one and stick on the eBay ones just to match. Not attacking at all, just noting the dissimilarity. I’ll keep my search going for a rogue OEM logo. Thanks again!

Title pretty much says all. I'm thinking the logo is exactly the same across the CF line (1-4), if anyone would like to confirm. Thanks!

Yeah, can't hurt. I'd bet it's the same across the line.

Thanks brotha. They have a dozen or so different logos on eBay, of course not for the Epic line. Suppose I could commission it to be 3D printed. Meh, maybe if I become desperate enough if I don't find an original.

I'm a derp. I didn't realize the listing was that old. I just figured things that populated in that app would be up to date. Yikes..

Unless I’m reading that sale wrong, it looks like he’s just selling a pair of C1 woofers only. If I were a C1 owner I’d probably just buy them to have on the side, out of principle. Or make a custom center out of them, and print my own “Micklipsch” emblem for the grille. lol

No prob! I almost wanna buy the CF2s just for the grille emblem I’m missing on one of my 4s 🤪

Just farting around OfferUp and saw these. Figured I’d throw them up. Not affiliated to these sales. Check out this item on OfferUp. https://offerup.co/hJWqFhwLYcb https://offerup.co/UbL4hawMYcb

So far what I’ve gleaned from all the reading is that the versions or revisions are all over the map and are really skewed. For example this person’s story about colored crossover wiring in his v1s. https://silverfacestereo.com/2015/05/13/epic-klipsch-cf-4/ Are you able to definitively tell mine are v2 based on the S/N?

Good stuff. Once the bananas are in, swapping around wires will be a helluva lot less tedious.

Hey Dave, thanks for the insight on the volume. I think I may have addressed that as well with some internal settings. Either way, what you say about the volume range is consistent with my observations, so I’m probably just getting senile over here. Nah, it’s not my first new AVR but I am familiar with the now-vintage stuff. My dad had a pair of Heresys, Onkyo amp and turntable, etc. Actually wish I had that stuff today but it wasn’t to be. Anyway... Yes, I would be interested in your opinion regarding not bi-amping. Because I’ve only come to understand that it’s a neutral to positive benefit; I haven’t read about downsides. Lastly, I had some fun last night doing some sound testing. It would seem though, that this AVR is getting punked out, for lack of a better description. It cut off a couple times during some louder sampling, like during the end of the intro drum sequence of Dire Strait’s “Money for Nothing”. Made a couple adjustments and played it safer with the volume and it wasn’t a problem. The AVR did heat up quite a bit; stuff sounded amazing considering not being a dedicated amp. I did read that there could be an issue with wiring, and it’d seem possible considering I didn’t use connectors. Waiting on those banana plugs, and beginning research on amps and preamps.

The Notorious WVU! I’m not gonna lie, your resto thread initially brought me to the forums. Thank you, and thank your son for his service on my behalf. Funny you mention the bananas, I have every intention of picking up few dozen. In my excitement, I forwent them to get stuff going quicker, to the detriment of my kids nearby as I spat a few colorful words while suffering the close-quarters twisting method with the posts on the back of the receiver. Look forward to me harassing you on restoration advice as I probably will do so sometime down the line. The satin black has seen better days. I’d rate cabinet aesthetics at a 6.5, maybe 7 after I finish cleaning. The sides aren’t bad, the tops could be worse. A couple befores and after the lemon oil. I’ve also learned the site hates portrait shots, and I’m almost always a landscape shooter but given the vertical rectangular nature of the speakers, portraits work best. With all that said, I’ll be taking landscapes from now on.

@billybob if you’re ever around Chicagoland, I’d like to buy you a drink. Your attentiveness is much appreciated.

Heya! Ok, solved the unbalanced issue. So there’s a test tone feature, and I turned down the test volume of just the right (problematic) speaker to -11db. I thought that was only so that that bad reception-sounding test tone would come thru quieter. Nope. It was my issue. Brought it back to 0 where the left speaker was, voila—equilibrium! Kind of embarrassing but outlining it in case someone on here or across the web hits the same bonehead issue. As far as the volume issue I outlined last night, that’s still there, and I’m still trying to find out if it’s to be expected or if there’s a remedy. Cheers!

Thanks @billybob. Something else I’m contending with besides that, is the right speaker isn’t putting out as much sound as the left. At first I thought maybe speaker placement was the reason why I felt more sound coming from the left, but, not the case. Physically confirmed via touching each woofer during bass. Before hooking them both up, I was testing them one at a time with a single channel and both seemed equal during that, otherwise. Thought I was onto something finding this setting like this, but changing it from -11 to 0 did nothing.

Ok! Bit of a breakthrough! Going through the settings I set it for Bi-Amp A and wired as so. Sound is normalized. Issue I’m having and the same issue I was having with previous Sony bookshelf speakers, is that I need to crank the volume up pretty high to start getting anywhere. For example, sound scale begins at -80.5db. Sound becomes apparent at ~-55. Agreeably loud comes in around 0. Maxes at +18. I don’t remember this always being the case, and felt “damn loud” came in way before 0. Is there possibly a setting to rectify this?

@RandyH000glad to make your acquaintance, sir. It’s a Denon AVR 1910. https://www.crutchfield.com/p_033AV1910/Denon-AVR-1910.html Good call on the volume, because I was getting frustrated turning it way up just to hear anything.

@billybobI’m actually trying to run them bi-wired or bi-amped, so as I understood I wouldn’t need those straps or to otherwise bridge posts. I’m screwing around with the receiver now. I might need to enable bi-amping vs me just hooking the stuff up Willy Nilly.