seti Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 At the Hope gathering Trey asked me Why Klipsch? What made me want to visit the museum/factory? I think what he really wanted to ask was What made all you nuts come down to Hope, AR from all over the country taking time and money out of your lives? After thinking about it for a while I may have answers as the haze finally cleared. I have always loved music and always prefered music over tv. I can remember being a kid and walking into an audio store and being awed by a khorn/mcintosch setup. The khorns were bigger than I was and I felt like I was standing next to a monolith ..... excuse the pun. The salesman was nice enough to rock me out even though I was a kid of about 8yo but I never forgot that day. I always vowed that one day I would have a good hifi system and never got the klipsch image out of my head and I equated hifi to klipsch from that day on. To be honest it was my love of music not the product that kept me wanting a hifi system for all those years not just the product name alone. I was 30 before I started putting my system togther and when I did it was klipsch. What made you guys Klipschphiles? This got me to wondering with the changes in how audio is being marketed how many kids are going to walk into BestBuy and leave thinking that is how hifi is supposed to sound. I walked into a bestbuy recently and listened to a few speakers and they didn't sound bad but nothing to get excited about. When you put a bigger Heritage Klipsch speaker in a room they command respect and attention on looks alone nevermind the great sound. I have thrown many parties where people have not known klipsch but walked out wanting a pair. I am very happy that Klipsch is putting new energy behind the new La Scala(WOW), Heresy, and the return of the Cornwall. Bravo Klipsch! Is the Klipschorn going to receive a similar revamp? I forgot to ask in Hope as I was in an audiophile daze. Is there a marketing campaign in the works for the revamped Heritage line? If there isn't why not let the Hope guys run their own show products and marketing? Perhaps even start up the Dope From Hope again. I swear I won't say this again but the Jubilee was the best sounding speaker I have heard in my life[li] Paul, Roy, and the Hope team produced a stunning product. Thanks again for sharing it with us it reminded me of the first time I heard klipsch in that audio store as a kid. I know it's available as an industrial theater LF speaker but something that sounds that beautiful deserves to be produced in a consumer version as well. Build it and put the price tag on it you feel necessary there are lots of high dollar speakers out there that don't sound nearly as good. Tooo much coffee on a Sunday morning.....I'll shutup now[] Cult Of Klipsch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Dee Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 Well, the gear is fun... and Mr. PWK's speakers and his life's work in them is off the charts on cool factor.... but it's really about the music. Music is the language of heaven. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colterphoto1 Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 My story mirrors your Seti. When I was like 14, I got my first membership to Columbia music club, getting like 7 LP's for the price of 3 and launched a hobby. Thewalls in my red, white and blue teenage room ( I would graduate HS in the bicentennial year) were not covered with magazine cutouts from Sports Illustrated , but Audio, Cream, Stereo Review. I dreamed of big equipment and that realistic sound. I heard it first at a mall boutique known as Graham Electronics at the Glendale Mall. It sounded just like real musicians in there. I hadn't the funds to buy equipment but stole some TDK SA cassettes in my early ventures there. Finally got up the funds and could only afford an Electrophonic receiver and Garrard record changer from a second tier stereo store. Never bought from the big chains. Never. Moved on to various gear, ended up a roadie for various local bands in the 80's, installing PA systems, running lighting consoles and being a hired gun PA knob twiddler. It's a way of life baby. The madness never ends.... Michael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulieHeartKlipsch Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 I just fell into mine by chance. I do not have any obsessed with them other then I love their sound (Heresy).[] J. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundog Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 My father's cousin, Bob, had a Klipschorn. When my family would visit him he would play me a narrated recording of Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf". I must have been about 10 years old. I would close my eyes and it all came alive. I fell in love with the sound. As a teenager, I built EICO kits and University Speaker Kits because I had limited funds. I initially had one mono EICO HF30 amp and an EICO mono preamp. The University corner speaker enclosure was a kit and I started with a University Diffusacone 12" full range speaker. Later I added a Univrsity crossover and a University horn midrange and then a University "Spheracon tweeter". When stereo came around I bought the first stereo record when it arrived in Albany, NY. I got another HF30 and an EICO stereo tube preamp. All were kits. I had a kit tonearm made by Rec-o-cut and a Pickering cartridge. The turntable was a project from a kit builders magazine that took a low cost turntable with a great motor and litght 8" platter that I made weightier by adding a 4" cement surround per the magazines instructions. I wanted deeper bass and University had a dual voice coil 15" woofer and an enclosure kit for a 15" woofer. This became my subwoofer for both channels and the 12" Diffusicones became my midranges for left and right channels. It was the late 50s, early 60s when I built this system piece by piece. It was great! I moved it to NYC via Greyhound bus and the subways! But I always dreamed of owning Klipshorns. In the 70's I became addicted to alcohol and other drugs and opened a Strip nightclub on Canal Street in NYC at the corner intersection of Little Italy, Chinatown, SOHO and the courts. The speakers became part of the club and the strippers would sit on the sub cabinet which was turned on it's side on the far end of the runway. When I sobered up and recovered I became an alcoholism counselor and established myself by treating criminal justice clients with addiction problems. I now develop programs and train counselors for NYS. Several years ago I built my dream system - I now own a pair of Klipshorns, 8 LaScalas, and a couple of Heresys. My systems are described as part of my profile. I could not have built these systems without the help of the wonderful peple on this site. Tomorrow, I'm going to buy a copy of Peter and the Wolf since I don't own one. It should be interesting to see what memories listening to it will evoke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Spinner Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 well ... when i was 14 i was playin' guitar in a band PA stuff was not only expensive, it sukked a.ss we got a used Altec mixer, and using plans from my fathers friend, i built some cabs then i built more ...'n more 'more at one point i ordered half a trailer load of Jensen 12's to fill orders... man you shoulda seen my fathers face when that tractor/trailer showed up at the house ! his friend , Bob Hyatt was an Altec dealer he had Cornwalls at his home .... i heard them, and built my own set ..using a 15"' from a Leslie, and Herald mid/ hi horns no re-tuning ..who knows what the actual performance was like ...Thiel, was really Small, Man ....[] .................a friend is still using them today .... we are talkin' 1968 here .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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