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I went the Audiogon route. The N801's were $11,000 three years ago and the 801D's are now $16,000. Kind of hard to chase. My wife woudl kill me if I spent that much on speakers. As far as enjoyment, I don't know that I enjoy them anymore than my old K Horns, and they did cost quite a bit more, but they sure are nice.

FWIW, I heard a pair of B&W 802D's at a dealer and they sounded aweful. They were not broken in yet. I'm sure that the D series sounds better than those. The 805S (small bookshelf) sounded awesome in a different room. I kept looking for a subwoofer. They were great little speakers. The 805's were driven by Arcam FMJ and the 802's by Levinson (or maybe Bryston). Rotel will not really do 800 series justice. My N801's are just plain outstanding, but to get them there I had to replace quite a bit of equipment. A friend of mine just picked up an older pair of matrix 801's. He has wanted these for 20 years. I can't wait to hear them. I also have a pair of DM3000's (small towers) in my office and they are also excellent speakers. Funny story, I saw the DM3000's for sale locally and I had never heard of B&W's, except for people bashing them here. I figured they must be something special if so many people made a point of saying that they did not live up to their image. I went to hear them, expecting them to be decent, but not much more. I was blown away. The midrange vocals were in such a different league than what I was used to (with relatively cheap Rotel equipment). I bought them and then started reading about B&W's and learned what the 800 series was. The next weekend I bought the N801's. It seems that B&W bashing is what lead to my conversion. Anyway, sorry guys but ain't no turnin' back now. But I do agree that Klipsch are a huge value. It reminds me of the difference between a hot rodded Vette and a Ferrarri. Both offer a lot of performance, more than any average person can imagine.

It is sad when someone is sick and tries bogus vitamins or diet pills and they should be protected. But come on, its really entertaining when people who can afford it spend $30 on fuses.

You need to require the buyer to buy the whole colection. Post an auction, "98 pairs of really heavys Klipsch speakers, will not separate, shipping only, no local pick up."

Really?? Are you pulling my leg? I have heard so much praise for Sonicaps here, and Auricaps. I also remember reading an old article by Edgar where he swore by Sidrealcaps (predecessor to Auricaps). I built ALK's, Type E and Type A's using Solens and was happy with all of them. These small B&W's sound great with their old caps. I figure the Solens have to be an upgrade, just want to know if the Sonicaps are an improvement (at 4 times the cost).

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I think that you have to double the value of the caps and then put them in parallel to maintain the same value of the original cap. The article is a press release but has a very simpel diagram on how to do it.

I was just reading up on this last night when I found an article that I had downloaded on my hard drive. Before charge coupling, JBL used very small film and foil caps as "bypass" caps for the transition zone. Don't dismiss what JBL is doing just because they are non-klipsch. The guys on the heritage forum are very knowledgable and JBL makes very nice stuff. Here is a capacitor question. I am re-capping a pair of B&W speakers (DM3000's - small towers). I can go for Solens at abotu $40 or Sonicaps at about $160. Are the Sonicaps worth 4 times the price?

Check These out, only $550 too: http://www.audioheritage.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=14018

There are other speakers out there that are even more revealing than Klipsch that sound good with a wide variety of source materials. I was lsitening to soem electrostats last weekend that were extremely revealing and just sounded great with everything played on them. Same goes for my B&W's. My suggestion is to keep the Klipsch and get an AH! or Jolida CD player for the less than perfect recordings and keep te hhigh definition source that you have now for the better recordings. What is your source? I had the same problem with my K Horns until I went with a Peach / upsampled AH! CD player. Then most everything sounded good.

I had these Heresys hooked up to a Yamaha CR1020 and on stands about 6" off of the floor. In the middle of a pretty large room they had great bass response. It really surprised me. Maybe the receiver had something to do with it, but then again, the Scott is a great amp (I used to have one). One thing to note, the crossover rebuild has about 100 hours top on the new caps. Maybe they need to break in. I rebuilt three pairs of crossovers at once and none were in the main system so they did not get much time.

I have an Oak academy for sale. It is in mint shape. I am about to apply a new coat of urethane and it will lookliek the day it was made. Let me know if you are interested. You can send me an email through thr forum but please give me an email address for me to reply to. Chris

I used Daytons for the L100T's from a recommendation on the lansing heritage forums. They actually sound very good. I always use Solens on other corssovers and have had very good results. They are proced well and, to me, sound good. My first ALK's sold me on Solens.

I am rebuilding a few pairs of crossovers (JBL & B&W). Does anyone here use bypass caps? When I rebuilt my JBL L100T crossovers, I used 0.01 uF Audiocap Theta Film and Foil caps to parallel the other caps. This was the way that the factory did it and I read that it had something to do with smoothing out the transition on the sounds sine wave from pos to negative. Does anyone here use them? My L100T's sound very good after the crossover rebuild, but them again, so did the all of the Klipsch crossovers that I rebuilt without using the bypass caps.

Spend a few extra bucks and get a Teac AL700P. About $100 in the used market. Or pick up a Panasonic SA XR 25, 45, 50, 70 etc. Great soundign digital receiver for almost nothing.

I have an OAK academy that is mint. I am about to put a fresh coat of urethane on it and it will be just like the day that it was sold new. Excellant match for a pair fo Fortes. I'll sell it for $500.

I did the same thing with a pair of 40 cent resistors. Actualy, I attenuated both the midrange and the tweeters. Worked very well. Just drop the taps on the autoformer and add the resistor.

You can get an upgrade kit for the Heresy directly from Klipsch. Call them and ask for Cornwalls. Direct replacement. All kidding aside, I just modified a few pairs of Heresys and the balance (read bass response) was much better. I replaced the caps with solens and dropped the midrange and tweeter taps to lower them by 3 db along with adding a resistor to keep all values corect. Just before sjhipping them out (I sold the last pair last week) I had them hooked up to a Yamaha CR1020 vintage receiver and they sounded really good. Way more bass than you would ever expect from a Heresy.

I know that I have one for sale so I may be biased but why are you concentrating on the Jolida and not the AH! Cd player? The AH uses an upsample board to get you to 192 and is outstanding. You really should consider one of these. Chris

Its so hard to tell. A pair of the worst sounding speakers that I have ever heard were brand new B&W 802D's (something like $9K) at a dealers showroom. They were not broken in and obviously somehting was wrong. That being said, the same day I heard B&W 805's (bookshelves) hooked to an Arcam preamp (FMj?? - it was about $2500) and an Arcam CD player (pretty expensive one) and it was really nice! I went with a Musical Fidelity preamp but that Arcam was a realy nice piece. A friend of mine has an Esoteric that he is going to let me test drive for a few weeks. Really nice player but teh sticker shock will definately get you. Good luck in your search.

I have an AH! Njoe Tjoeb 4000 "super" player with all options (feet, power cord, upsampler) that also has stock Philips tubes, a pair of Russian rocket logo tubes and a pair of Amperex PQ White label tubes (1963 vintage). New this package would be past your $1500 budget with the tubes but I will be selling for way less. Drop me an email if you are interested. It is a really sweet player that is very well respected and known for being a "giant killer" It is very "analog" sounding. Chris

I added a low volume Panaflo fan to my QSC 1202 for abourt $20. Can't hear it at all, even with your ear up to it. If input impedance is a problem, a guy in Dennver can add a few resistors to make it act like a home amp. Check the basstalk forums. If your preamp has good output this is not an issue.

ibanezhater, I sent you an email. Chris

My CD PLayer is the only Tubed piece of equipment. The tubes do make quite a bit of difference.