BEC tweeters installed, CT125 :)

[Invidiosulus]

I got the tweeters from Bob today.

Thanks for the quick shipping.

I installed em as soon as I got home from work.

The CT125 in place inside my heresy.

I had already converted my K-77's to being front mounted a few years

ago, the CT125 is way easier to mount this way though since you don't

have to partially dissasemble the driver to get it off the horn.

Just unscrew the driver, pop the horn in the front and then scdrew the driver back on from the back and you are good to go.

I used some brass machine screws with lock washers and nuts to hold mine in place.

It originally required the removal of some wood around the opening of the hole to get the tweeter to sit flat in the opening.

With the K-77 I had also needed to remove some material from the back

of the upper brace inside the cabinet because the magnet assembly sat

so far forward with the horn remounted.

The '81(left side) with the new tweeter, beat up old cabinets.

Back in place on my desk where I listen to music all the time.

Ok,

So first I started listening to some vinyl

Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms.

I love the album and it sounded great.

didn't really hear anything especially new but the album has a certain peculiarity to it's sound to me.

Maybe it comes from being recorded in digital, maybe not.

It did sound great though.

Next up was the 45rpm Back in Black ACDC single at significant;y louder volume.

I was impressed, the highs were smoother and yet more solid and tangible then they were with the K-77.

Sticking with the vinyl for a little while longer I threw on There Goes Rhymin Simon by Paul Simon.

It sounded good but not astounding, the copy I have is fairly well worn.

I wasn't really in the mood for anything else from my meager collection

of vinyl so I decided to turn on Ye Olde Tyme PC and play some mp3's.

First off was a track by Beholder called World Leaders off of the Wish

ofr Destruction album, just some good power metal stuff to get my heart

rate up a few bpm with male and female vocals back and forth and lots

of rediculous guitar soloing.

Even though it was an mp3 the cymbals sounded better, overall the high end was a bit more apparent which really pleased me.

Keeping in the power metal vein I opened a track by Dragonforce.

Unfortunately too much of their music sounds so much alike and was

recorded in a manner so as to have every channel so close to clipping

that it leaves more than a little to be desired in the way of

production values.

Soldiers of the wasteland sounded nice but uninspiring due to production "issues".

I decided to leave the realm of compressed audio and try some CD's played through my computer.

My PC has in it a cheap turtle beach soundcard that was scavenged from

the trash pile at work after my soundblaster live ate it when I plugged

the power out of my moniter amp into the line out jack on the SBlive.

Anyways,

First off for CD audio was Richard Thompson: Action Packed - The best of the capitol years.

The opening track grabbed my attention and held on to it like something

that holds onto something very tight(it's really to late for similes to

make their way out of my somewhat beleaguered brain).

Turning of the Tide, there was a detail in the drummers brushwork that i had never heard.

I sometimes find it peculiar that as a guitarist and bassist I find so

much delight in listening to percussion tracks but perhaps it's because

it is something I can not do myself.

Whatever the reason I was astounded, letting the track finish out I could tell that there was a giant smile on my face.

I clicked forward to Vincent Black Lightning 1952, one of my favorite

highwayman songs ever and Thompsons guitar sounded great, the string

noise was there and the sound and space of the room around him seemed

enhanced compared to to what I had heard on previous listenings of this

track.

To say I'm happy with this upgrade would be an understatement.

I'm sure that over the next few days my ears will adjust and the sound

reproduction at my disposal will be rendered as normal to my aural

capacity But I will still be happy with this mod.

Now for some pointless shots of my sony turntable that I bough because I new nothing and was impatient.

Oh yes,

My Heresy's are assisted in the low frequency dept by these guys that hang out under my desk.

The equipment used in tonights listening was as follows,

Yamaha HTR-5540(main amp)

NAD 3150(phono preamp)

1981 Klipsch Heresy with Crites CT125 tweeter

Alesis RA-100(sub amp)

JBL 4636 sub cabinets x2

Sony PS-LX350H belt drive turntable

Ye Olde Dell Computer with Turtle Beach Montego 3

Acoustic Research patch cables or "interconnects" if you are so inclined.

Thanks Bob.

Peace,

Josh

[BEC]

Josh,

Nice review. Thanks.

Bob Crites