sheltie dave

Steve, you will always be fighting the battle dictate by the room dimensions, unless you have the speakers throwing onto the long dimension, and the long dimension can handle a full wave length of the lowest frequency generated by the speakers. You otherwise are fighting nodes of standing waves, and also the constrained passive that I mentioned. Getting the bottom anchored as best you can helps create the proper balance for everything else.

Yes, that unit has done a shitty service. I would send it to Craig and ask him to do the works.

Warren, I have a line on a 260. Do you have one with the black/silver label, or the long gold line label, and is yours the 1614, 6l6, or EL34 output tubes? Dave

I would get in touch with Mike Galusha at Audiocircle, connected with the Denver Audio Mafia. He can set you up with something good.

Fifteen people made it over, and Willie’s Wurlitzer were the cats meow. Wow they were good!

Your bass is a little weakened until you move the speakers out away from the wall a foot. The passives on the back like to breathe, and the bass performance will improve. your sheltie will tell you when you get it right - he will sit on the couch and tip a jaunty ear. Beautifyl setup!

We have a full house.

We have rsvps from Steve Bo Kent Debbie Phil Ken mark Kevin Mike Don Willie Gordon Susan Adrian Gabe anyone else?

Final call for attendees until Wednesday...

Doesn’t anyone in Missouri or Illinois want to come in for a listen?

I’m running them up to Jon ver Halen in Chicago, at Lowther-America, Rudy.

Guys, I have a pair of Oris 150s, but I have sent off the Lowthers to get them reconed. If I don’t like the results next summer with the Lowthers in the 150s, you two would be welcome to split them if you have not sourced others. Btw, any idea what this is? I think it is a legacy Azura lecleach, with a 17” axis, a 1.75” throat, a mouth that is 24” x 17”. The material is white fiberglass, with the matte white flow coat on the exterior.

How can you differentiate size between a 150 and a 200 horn?

10% distortion at full output(3 watts?) Yikes. And a review done with speakers that are 24” and 29” apart. Sometimes the devil is in the details. while $200 is not a lot of money, I would have suggested a used Decware SE84 for $400, which would have put you in a less compromised amp with some quality parts.

We will be hosting a music listening session on Saturday, October 27 from noon to 6 pm at our house in south county. We are almost directly off 255/270 at Telegraph, so it is quite easy and straightforward to get here. Of special note - Willie will be bringing his 1938 Wurlitzer push-pull 45 amplifiers that he has modified and restored. We will have these playing with Altec 19s, a Juicy Music Merlin preamp, an Arcam cd player, Denon TT with a Denon MC cartridge, and a Eastern Electric Minimax step up preamp. Willie has done an incredible restoration, and it will be worth your while to hear what pre WWll technology can deliver. In the den, we will feature Thiel CS3.6 speakers, driven by a Threshold Fet1 Series 2 preamp, Threshold S300 Series 2 amp, Thorens TD125 turntable, and Sony cd player. In the family room, we will have IMF Reference 80 MKii speakers, a Ming Da 2A3 preamp, Harman Kardon Citation ll amp, and a Sony cd player. If weather permits, the patio system will be Klipsch Cornwalls, an Eico HF81, and mongrels barking. We had 16 people at last month's GAS gathering, and likely will have a large crowd for this month as well. If you plan on attending, please bring a hors d'oeuvre and let me know in an rsvp. Thanks, Dave

Mike, I am still interested if you are around...

Dave dropped the price to $250, a screaming project deal.

Years ago there was a Scottish gentleman who used vaporized ammonium hydroxide to antique age a pair of homebrew JBL L300 cabinets. They came out perrrrrrrfectttt! You need to dig that thread up over on AA or AK. It is called fuming.

Larry, it took some digging, as I couldn't access my saved files on our Chrome laptop, but I did find them on Marantz and Fairchild cutsheets. Marantz published at 35 watts, input sensitivity is 1.3V RMS into 250K. Fairchild 255a... less than 1 volt input required for maximum rated output Fairchild 260... input sensitivity @ 50watts, 0.9 v RMS Fairchild 275... less than 0.7 v RMS required for rated output

Awesome decisions that shutter vital lines are incredibly stupid. There is a reason why Khorn were only spec built for over a year. And why the Forte and Chorus were offed for two decades, and why the Belle, Cornwall, and other speakers like the Jubilee were offed, or not offered in WAF format. Again, Klipsch is a business, not a van filled with Deadheads looking for a miracle. If you want awesome, buy some Chorus lls and have SET12 build you some crossovers. Now THAT will be awesome, and cheaper as well.

Why not now? Because now large speaker sales have only 20% of the sales volume that they had 35 years ago. if you don’t believe me, look at what Klipsch is doing. Look at what most of the brick and mortar stores, and the big box stores, are doing. They only bring back a model if it will increase overall sales, generate profit, and be sustainable for a decade or more. the Chorus would scavenge sales from both the Fortes and Cornwall’s. Klipsch has many years of sales numbers, and they are not about to introduce another model that would would weaken sales of two models they already have in production.

Larry, I have the 260, two 275s, the 240 mono pre, the 245 mono pre, and three turntables. I still have to find a mono and a stereo Fairchild cartridge, so I can field an all Fairchild setup. the 248 is the ganged Stereo 245. I’ll check on the sensitivities when I get home. dave

Warren, I picked the Fairchild up and have restored it. It is quite good, and sounds great on a mono Khorn with its partnered Fairchild 245 preamp. If if you are anywhere near St. Louis you can stop by for a listen. Dave

Rich, let me know if you need a couple 6sn7gtb.

I would grab a good quad of EL 34s, the 6bl6s, and the 6cg7s, march over to his house, install the new tubes, and test the sucker out. It is one of a few “forever” amps, so you don’t allow a reasonable one to float past you without some effort. if it is in the Midwest and you are not going to buy it, let me know. I have a friend who is jonesing for one.