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My 40th Klipschiversary


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I somehow forgot that my 40th "Klipschiversary" happened this past October. I wish I had remembered. I would have celebrated when I was at the La Scala class at Klipsch in Hope back in October. I know the exact date from the sales receipt. On October 4, 1984 (40 years ago), during my junior year of college, I went with my fraternity brother (who already had a pair of Heresy) to M&M Stereo in our college town of Lewisburg PA and purchased my first Klipsch speakers. It was a pair of kg2 in oiled oak. I went through my college photos, and I found what are probably the only pictures of the system I had at the time. Unfortunately, you can’t make out the speakers well, but you can see the first audio equipment I ever purchased. It took a bunch of sleuthing on the net to figure out what models the Onkyo gear was since I don’t have any paperwork for those. I still have the Yamaha brochures, so I know for sure what those are. You can see the very dusty top of one kg2 in the first picture at the bottom below the shelves. The other is in the shadowy corner behind another fraternity brother’s leg in the second pic. You can also see part of the “A Legend in Sound” banner that I got from the dealer that got lost somewhere in the intervening years. So mad at myself for losing that.

 

This is the gear list:

Onkyo TX-35 Stereo Receiver (45 watts per channel into 8 ohms)

Onkyo Integra TA-2044 Cassette Deck

Onkyo CP-1022A Auto-Return Turntable

Yamaha CD-2 CD Player

Yamaha GE-3 Graphic Equalizer

Klipsch kg2 Speakers

 

Anyone else remember their Klipschiversary? 😊

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2 hours ago, MMurg said:

Anyone else remember their Klipschiversary?

LaScalas 1979.  Don't recall date, was warm weather so summer.

 

Dorm room at Miami University (Ohio)

 

I always get a kick out of what percent of your life have you owned them?

 

Owned them for 45 years, I'm 64 so 70% of my life.  Very few things do I now have, that I've had that long.  

 

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I didn't own any real Klipsch until son Josh brought a pair of Heresy IIs home from school and gave them to me as a present. Before that, though, in the 1980s, I got to use some LS cabinet clones made by the late DJK. I was in a church in Wisconsin with his brother and we borrowed a pair of the bass cabs and separate horn tops to use as a p.a. That's what pointed me toward Klipsch.

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12 hours ago, MMurg said:

I somehow forgot that my 40th "Klipschiversary" happened this past October. I wish I had remembered. I would have celebrated when I was at the La Scala class at Klipsch in Hope back in October. I know the exact date from the sales receipt. On October 4, 1984 (40 years ago), during my junior year of college, I went with my fraternity brother (who already had a pair of Heresy) to M&M Stereo in our college town of Lewisburg PA and purchased my first Klipsch speakers. It was a pair of kg2 in oiled oak. I went through my college photos, and I found what are probably the only pictures of the system I had at the time. Unfortunately, you can’t make out the speakers well, but you can see the first audio equipment I ever purchased. It took a bunch of sleuthing on the net to figure out what models the Onkyo gear was since I don’t have any paperwork for those. I still have the Yamaha brochures, so I know for sure what those are. You can see the very dusty top of one kg2 in the first picture at the bottom below the shelves. The other is in the shadowy corner behind another fraternity brother’s leg in the second pic. You can also see part of the “A Legend in Sound” banner that I got from the dealer that got lost somewhere in the intervening years. So mad at myself for losing that.

 

This is the gear list:

Onkyo TX-35 Stereo Receiver (45 watts per channel into 8 ohms)

Onkyo Integra TA-2044 Cassette Deck

Onkyo CP-1022A Auto-Return Turntable

Yamaha CD-2 CD Player

Yamaha GE-3 Graphic Equalizer

Klipsch kg2 Speakers

 

Anyone else remember their Klipschiversary? 😊

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kg2 receipt (Large).jpg

Very nice...! It's quite difficult for me to save money for a full hifi system especially with 2 jobs and going to school. But it was worth every penny when  bought my first Nakamchi BX-125. I still have it today for playback!

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