Mark Z
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14 hours ago, BadChile said:
I'm backing off, not sure I'll get the bass I'm looking for over the Chrous2's, I may regret it, they are beautiful. You're up BadChile! Thx for the pics and the chat Dom.
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Thanks @BadChile! I too would like to see some pics!
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43 minutes ago, Domenic said:
Where in CT? I grew up in CT. Hartford then out to Litchfield area.
I'm in the Farmington Valley. Avon.
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The buttering, I wish! After 30 years she's got my number!
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Always does, that's precisely how I ended up with my current amp! Do you think my wife will buy "they're smaller" than my Chorus 2's? They ARE shorter.....
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Hmm. I'm in CT. thinking......
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I've had that same problem, I end up sending them to my iphone where it asks me the size to save it and then loading them from there. Kind of a pain.
Where are you located, Dom?
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I did new caps on my 1994 Chorus2's and 1985 Heresy's. I used Dayton Caps from Crites. Night and day difference on the Heresy's in high's and clarity. Chorus 2's were a bit brighter, but not nearly as pronounced as the Heresy's. The Heresy's were also much easier as they have the Type 2 hand wired crossover set vs the cramped printed circuit board on the Chorus 2's. LaScala's might have the hand wired set up too.
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Yeah no doubt. I had done some surrounds before, and this was a little more involved but just as easy. Here's a pic of the "weight cone" (under the dust cap) intact before I did final trimming and worked it into a perfect circle. The second photo is the backside that attaches to the spider, you can see the remnants of the old spider I hadn't cleaned off yet (sandpaper worked well). It's all hidden under the dust cap, but I figured the more balanced it was and symmetrical, the better the weight distribution remained neutral. I weighed the "extra" cone material in the same square inches from old cone material, it weighted less than 1.25 grams, so that plus the weight of the epoxy makes it slightly heavier than original, but I can't believe that will make any difference sonically based on ~ 45 grams of weigh total.
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I just re-coned one of my KD16's with the SS kit, and it is perfect and looks completely stock. I left a review on the SS site as to the directions (as supplied were for a speaker with a voice coil not a passive), but once you figure it out, it works great. Unlike the originals, the SS cones have an "open" end to accommodate the voice coil, and the originals are "closed" with a formed paper peg the size of the hole in the new cone to attached the spider. You have to cut the weight/wax cone end off the old cone and when you assemble the new cone it gets inserted into the new cone and epoxied to the new cone and spider. You need to leave about 1" of old cone above the wax so theres sufficient surface to glue. The whole assembly (old cone end with wax and weights) was 45.27 grams. The whole process removing the old cones/spider, cleaning the basket up, trimming, fitting, and reassembling was easy, and took me about 90 minutes going slow and double checking fit and centering etc. Sounds great and looks perfect. Note that the pic in the cabinet caught funny light, the cone is not bluish, its darker like the first photo. Anybody doing this feel free to contact me for help.
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Hi all, yes still in CT, although HI Fi Stereo house is long gone. I do still have a bunch of equipment from them - we were able to buy trade ins on the cheap! I did the passive cone replacement (from Simply Speakers) this weekend, pretty easy job and looks exactly as the original did. Sounds as it should also. I weighed the weights in there as I had read some people were asking what they were, for anybody who finds this post, with the cone end, and wax/weights intact, they weighed 45.27 grams. I figured the cone and wax to weigh about a gram or so, safe to say the weights were ~ 44 grams.
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Hi all!
Long time Klipsch fan, first time poster....lol. I caught the "bug" working at a local CT based HI FI store in High school in the 80's. From then on, my Realistic System just didn't cut it....We carried Klipsch, B&O, Polk, Luxman, Carver, Nakamichi, Yamaha etc., and a few others. Of course running the K-horns off a Carver amp playing the then "new" CD's and rattling pizza trays off the walls of the business next door was a weekly event. I learned some great Greek swears when they all came running into the store to find us in the "big room" with it cranked up. I've owned quite a few Klipsch speakers, including some of the newer stuff for surround, and oldies like Corwall 1's in birch (which I veneered in oak), and currently own a pair of 1985 Heresy's in oiled oak, and a newly acquired set of Chorus 2's my buddy owned and had stored in abasement for the last 12/13 years. I'm come a long way on the resto of those, including Ti tweeters, a lot of cabinet work, rebuilding and veneering the stands, and rebuilding the crossovers. They sound great. I have to re-cone one of the drones, so I ordered kits to do both so they match. One of them had significant holes and some surround tearing. I glued it up for now and they seem good to go. I just finished the cabinets with Tung oil, they look great. Currently driving them with Luxman M-02/C-02 and they sound fantastic.
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Luxman vs Pass Labs
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I ran my Cornwall 1's, Heresy 1's, and now Chorus 2's off a Luxman C-02/M-02 with very good results. I found the Luxman stuff to be pretty punchy and very smooth. I recently switched the Luxman set to another room and replaced them with McIntosh MA9000 integrated (I wanted the 8 band equalization with my old ears but still seem to gravitate back to flat on many recordings), which also sounds great with the Chrous2's.