The Klipsch Museum is going to be selling excess inventory
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While not for sale yet. I did get a list of items they plan on selling. There are some pretty cool things and even a couple holy grail Western Electric items. Neat to see some of the very vintage pieces of gear that Paul Klipsch collected over the years.
http://klipschmuseum.org/sale/KlipschMuseumSale.pdf
http://klipschmuseum.org/sale/KlipschMuseumSale.pdf
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there are some pretty cool items in that list. I'm sure there will be big stacks of dollars tossed at more than few.
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Hardy! Where's your checbook?
That's some great vintage gear. -
I guess the old man wasn't too much of a Polk fan.
Was Polk around in the 40's and 50's? -
Polk started in 1972 so nope nowhere near the 40's-50's
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Interesting indeed. Nice Thorens 124 with walnut arm. Cool amps and speakers galore that'll fetch top buck no doubt.
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cool stuff for sure. Thanks for sharing
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oh my -- there are some niceties on that list. Oh my.
I note with wry amusement a wee besmirching in the description of a Karlson K-15 (item 19)
I could use item 80 to pair with the one I have. Arggh.
Item 9 might be an EICO RP-100. Given what little can be seen of it, it might be anything (including, say, an Ampex or Scully transport). Ken S'll probably know.
I really really shouldn't'a looked at that PDF :-/
In seriousness, though: thanks, Mr. Ward!
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mhardy6647 wrote: »oh my -- there are some niceties on that list. Oh my.
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Item 9 might be an EICO RP-100. Given what little can be seen of it, it might be anything (including, say, an Ampex or Scully transport). Ken S'll probably know.
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OK maybe not
DSC_8726 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr -
I've not much experience with Eico tape decks, here's a link from the Museum of recorded Sound: http://museumofmagneticsoundrecording.org/RecordersEico.html
The German made A77 would be good to have, I wonder if Mr. K used it to live record. -
They only made two
No, Ken -- I just figured if it were, say, a Scully or an Ampex, you could probably ID it from the little bit that's visible in the photo
PS: I'm all set, A77, wise.
Just sayin'.
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I hope someone gives all that gear a nice home, a little restoration and some use. It's funny there are quite a few pieces that are also collected by Matt Polk, the Marantz and early McIntosh equipment mostly.
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Hmm..... I wonder if these are all housed in their Corporate Indy location
"....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963) -
A Marantz 8B is still on my bucket list. It is a wonderful amp; easily the best-sounding storebought PP EL34 amplifier I've ever heard. A work of art.
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mhardy6647 wrote: »A Marantz 8B is still on my bucket list. It is a wonderful amp; easily the best-sounding storebought PP EL34 amplifier I've ever heard. A work of art.
Unfortunately pricey, and I'm sure this one will go for a premium.2-channel: Modwright KWI-200 Integrated, Dynaudio C1-II Signatures
Desktop rig: LSi7, Polk 110sub, Dayens Ampino amp, W4S DAC/pre, Sonos, JRiver
Gear on standby: Melody 101 tube pre, Unison Research Simply Italy Integrated
Gone to new homes: (Matt Polk's)Threshold Stasis SA12e monoblocks, Pass XA30.5 amp, Usher MD2 speakers, Dynaudio C4 platinum speakers, Modwright LS100 (voltz), Simaudio 780D DAC
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That's part of the reason why there isn't one here -- yet. I will pick one up one day, though. I just don't want to work very hard at doing so
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I have had a question about Item 19, the Karlson speaker. It would seem that it was built from a "DIY" kit. Is that what the PDF is referring to in the "NOTES" section when it says:
"No label. Kit?
Probable contributor to "Bulls h.i.t" slogan
(their words not mine)
EDIT: you guys probably already knew the answer, but the Klipsch site actually has an explanation.
http://www.klipsch.com/bs
I stumbled across a Popular Mechanics kit plan from 1962 for these Karlsons.
http://home.planet.nl/~ulfman/images/Plans/K-12-plan.jpg
Didn't mean to go off-topic, so I'll go back to fantasizing about some of the gear in the PDF.
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Not to go all Cliff Clavin on you guys but Item 19 looks, to me, like a factory K-15, complete with the high-tech "Karlsonite" (ahem, Formica) finish.
source: http://www.hifilit.com/Karlson/Karlson.htm
The one in my basement looks just like it.
PA020003 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
PS if any of you happens to be really interested in the Karlson kult, there's a fellow called freddyi who posts (mostly) at AA and also AK who is... into them.
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Mornin', Doc. Coffee's ready. Get you a cup?
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I've had a few already -- can't you tell?
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PS -- one area in which I do agree with Col. Paul Wilbur Klipsch:
Claims of "another major breakthrough" in loudspeakers are... well... exactly what he said they were.
Folks like Harry Olson and Peter Jensen, and their colleague, mostly at Western Electric & RCA, worked out the physics and even the manufacturing technology a long, long time ago (in the service of the development of "talkies" -- movies with sound). Some of that seventy to eighty-year-old equipment, which was built with cost no object, is still breathtaking in performance.
The K-horn ain't half bad either -- although I really don't much miss my Cornwalls
Rcornieoly by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
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