Klipsch owners, stand up and be counted

RP-600’s thru Yamaha A-S501 really nice couple!!!!

 

My all original late 80's walnut khorns

 

Nope, sorry bro, but nope.

 

anyone getting the new cornwall's or Heresey's?

 

Currently listening to KLF-30's at home. Using KG 5.2's in my garage system and have some KLF-10's on standby.

 

Lascala's with Crites tweeters and ALK Universal networks for my basement system and Heresy's for my living room system. Awesome speakers!

 

Recently picked up some Klipsch RF-10s from the Salvation Army. Small but heavy floor standers from the Reference Line about 10 years ago.

 

Don't be !

 

I've owned many pairs of Klipsch over the years, Khorns, Cornwalls, Chorus II, KLF20s... plus a pair or two of book shelf models. For the past two years I've been running KI-396-SMA-IIs and they're pretty amazing.

 

Loving my Forte iii’s. Especially when Paired with a Tube SET amp. Just Magic!

 

Interesting. Which Line Magnetic amp is that? Any brightness? I'm interested in getting a Line Magnetic amp again. And maybe watching out for a pair of older Cornwalls locally.

 

LM 805ia. It is not bright at all. Top end extension is very smooth and midrange is sweet. But it is a forward speaker and very dynamic in a good way even in lower volumes as it already fills my room.

 

Has anyone got the new Cornwall IVs ?

 

1970's Cornwalls, Belles, Heresy's (and sold my Lascalas to get the Belles). Bob Crites says I have the most souped up Cornwalls in existence (had to replace the tweeters and woofer, crossover, and upgraded the posts and interior wiring- worth it!). Love them all!

 

he's probably received enough accolades, but i'll give another thumbs up for Bob Crites. I was trying to refresh the crossovers in my Heresy II's and got myself into a pickle. He had me ship them out in the state I'd mangled them into and fixed them up for me. Great people

 

I'm really looking fwd into Steve Guttenberg's online review of the Cornwall IVs.

 

I have run my legacy Altec Lansing A7's with two different Line Magnetic amps, including the 518iA 845-based SET.

You will find LM products to be an excellent fir for most any of the legacy Klipsch speakers.

 

Absolutely. The vintage speaker that impressed me the most, EVER, was an AL I was demoed at hi-fi dealer once. Can't recall the exact model, but it was a 2-way design; a 15¨woofer and a huge exponential horn that looked like a harmonica. I'm talking mid-80s here.

 

The higher end models, which you were listening to, used their commercial theater quality bass speakers, driver's and horns.

I would like to custom build a speaker, using the bass horn form the Klipschorn, the HF altec 511B horn and 908 series driver, a JBL super-tweeter and ALK crossovers.

That would give you the best of everything.

And you could power it with an SET amplifier!

 

That'd be KILLER !. I remember people falling for speakers with multiple drivers, 4-5 ways; the more the better. I've ALWAYS thought 2-ways integrated the sound better. I picked my F2s over a way bigger JBL 4-way,5 drivers model, despite their being cheaper than the Ks. I was A/Bd , (volumes matched) and it took only 2 songs to decide which ones to buy.

 

All that old Altec stuff was always two way. Most every P.A. system that you came across was two way, for those very same reasons.

Even on two way systems, the crossovers were still the weak link.

I found this out on the Altec A7's that I had custom built back when I was sixteen.

The problem was not that Altec's frequency dividing network could not divide the frequencies, the could.



But at home, the HF horns are louder than the bass speaker and the you have to attenuate the volume level of the HF driver with the control on the processor, so that the volume of the HF horn matches the volume level of the bass driver.

Using a variable potentiometer to do this, as most every passive crossover does, results in the sound becoming more and more "dull" as you decrease the volume level to the HF horn.

In concerts, they leave the attenuation at zero, so it is not a concern.

The large Altec's that they use in the studio have the same driver's but the studio models have a smaller magnet, so the output of the HF driver is reduced.



The ALK crossovers use an autoformer with different taps that you adjust to achieve this same function. The result is attenuation but with introducing the "dull" that a purely resistive analog volume control does.

You can see the taps on the autoformer (on the left) and see where I have the jumpers set.

The smaller crossover on top is a custom designed unit that passes frequencies from 6-kHz. on up, driving the JBL babycheek super tweeters.



These are the raw Altec commercial HF horns, drivers and crossovers.



You can see the these same HF horn and driver components in a home Altec Valencia speaker (the crossover is different).

 

Here are the Valencia cabinets from the front with the grills removed.



And, with the Grills on.



Really, just scaled down A7 cabinets.

Altec's top of the line home speakers were still the A7 design, just with the bass cabinet inverted and the HF horn inside of the cabinet's, which were covered with a walnut veneer.



Here is a link to a Sound and Vision article about a guy who had A7's in his recording studio and later went to work for Altec.

 

My Lascalas are stock but for the crites x-overs. Circa 1970.

 

Recently purchased a pair of Klipsch R-51Ms a couple months ago and I absolutely love them. Got them half price, too.