lynnm Posted March 21, 2003 Share Posted March 21, 2003 Take a look at this one !! http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3317616245&category=23323 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt1stcav Posted March 21, 2003 Share Posted March 21, 2003 Made for Das Fatherland in the early '70's(?)! What is up with that "Y" shaped device? Better imaging? I'm not familiar with the Euro/Dollar exchange rate, but is $6275 and change a good deal? They do look original to my untrained eye, but painted white? (yuck!). And that device has got to go! Shame I can't read German. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frzninvt Posted March 21, 2003 Share Posted March 21, 2003 Just copy the text, go to http://www.freetranslation.com set the parameter to German to English and violah - translation! I do it all the time for items from Germany, France, Austria or Spain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynnm Posted March 21, 2003 Author Share Posted March 21, 2003 LOL My "cheap" comment was tongue in cheek. That so called "Decoration" on the face really is almost a sacrilege. How do you spell ugly in German ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt1stcav Posted March 21, 2003 Share Posted March 21, 2003 ---------------- On 3/21/2003 11:00:58 AM lynnm wrote: "How do you spell ugly in German?" ---------------- I think it's "Der Gröβenücheine stunken ughlische Klipschörner!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BerndH Posted March 22, 2003 Share Posted March 22, 2003 Jim, Nice translation for ugly, but i think you meant "hässlich", and that they are. Hässlich are not only the removable Y Aluminium profiles, more hässlich is the finish of the bass bin. The so called "Rauputz" is a finish for walls, some sort of cement. I don't found a correct translation for this word, that could explain it better (found only plaster or finery, don't know what hits). In short words the seller, a hifi dealer, gives in his description more advertisment than technical information. 3990 Euro are about equal to 4000 US$. New Klipschorns in Germany cost about 9000 Euro ~ 9000 US$. And when i mean new Klipschorns, i don't mean the 2003 model, the price is for the previous model with K33-E, K55-M, K77-M and AK-3 network. The price for this pair of used Klipschorns is IMHO the upper limit and i don't think the seller gets a bid on it. Bernd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt1stcav Posted March 22, 2003 Share Posted March 22, 2003 Oops, Bernd...please don't take this the wrong way. I wasn't making fun of your German heritage or language (I'm half German on my mom's side of the family...her folks were from Dusseldorf). I assume you understand my loose translation: "The big f&$#ing stinking ughly Klipschorns!" But you have to admit, those Klipschorns are heinous, häβlich (is this spelled correctly?), or any other way to say ughly! Why install aluminum "Y" brackets to their faces? And "Rauputz" is a finish applied to their wood cabinets? Yuck! I wonder if you mean a finish like stucco (wet cement, sand, and lime) or even sheetrock? Whatever the owner used on them, as far as I'm concerned, he ruined a perfectly fine pair of expensive Klipschorns! I also doubt whether the seller will get any bids on his auction. If someone does win his auction, then I feel sorry for the buyer's bad taste in design! If you don't mind me asking, where are you from, and do you still reside there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horonzak Posted March 22, 2003 Share Posted March 22, 2003 If I had the extra money. I,d buy them just to run a tank over them. They are BUTT ugly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mungkiman Posted March 22, 2003 Share Posted March 22, 2003 Did you also see the raised panel La Scalas with the platform shoes? Original? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3014232565&category=14993 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynnm Posted March 22, 2003 Author Share Posted March 22, 2003 RRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAALPH !!! At least those look nearly original and could be easily restored . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artto Posted March 22, 2003 Share Posted March 22, 2003 I'm going to buy them! I want to know how he made those "y" things. I bet those "y" things sound awesome. They kind of remind me of those old Mercedes "gull wings", in WHITE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BerndH Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Jim, I didn't felt offended, i really laughed about your translation, it was fun for me. I'm from Erlangen near Nuremberg, that's about 400 - 500 km from Dusseldorf. Bernd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Cornell Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Looking at them it looks to me like they were ganna try to make a big PIE emblem, then stopped! Figure this, i bought a 1975 set of k-horns, about the same year as these, and i only paid $1,200.00! Only thing i did to mine, was place a solid oak molding, along the outer edges! Nice walnut, original, if anyone pays that much for those, id say there desperate! Regards Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BerndH Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Those Klipsch babies like La Scala or Klipschorn are not cheap here. Look at this La Scala auction http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3316710824&category=23323. But the prices for used Klipsch heritage product are to expensive. Since we changed from Deutsche Mark to Euro at the beginning of the year 2002 the prices increased. Some people seem to exchange 1:1 opposed to the official course 1 Euro = 1,95 Deutsche Mark. I don't believe the Klipschorn shown above and the La Scala here will sell. Price to high. Bernd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale W Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Those are'nt half as ugly as the homemade lascala's that are on e-bay right now . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill H. Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 BerndH, Greetings. It is a small world. I was stationed at the Old Herzo Base 80-83. We went into Erlangen many times for dinner at a place I Think was called the American lounge? Memories................ A nice city with one of the first McDonalds... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt1stcav Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 ---------------- On 3/23/2003 4:36:08 AM BerndH wrote: Jim, I didn't felt offended, i really laughed about your translation, it was fun for me. I'm from Erlangen near Nuremberg, that's about 400 - 500 km from Dusseldorf. Bernd ---------------- From 1983 to 1986 I was stationed in Ludwigsburg, about 40 km north of Stuttgart. I knew a friend who married a German girl from Erlangen, but unfortunatly, I couldn't attend the wedding there. Such a beautiful country though; I really enjoyed my stay there. I did visit Dusseldorf (home to my mom's parents, but we no longer have any living relatives in Germany anymore), and I've visited most major towns and villages from up north in Hamburg, all the way to Hannover, Wiesbaden, Wurzburg, Strasbourg, Heilbronn, Munchen, down to Neuschwanstein, and everywhere in between. The only city I wish I could've visited but never had the opportunity to was Leipzig...I'm a big J.S. Bach fan, and I would've liked to travel throughout the city he spent most of his later life in...Oh well, maybe someday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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