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daddyjt
daddyjt Posts: 2,322
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I just don’t have the words for this abomination... and only $500🤣

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https://classifieds.ksl.com/listing/54069654
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  • Clipdat
    Clipdat Posts: 12,599
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 49,794
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    Clipdat wrote: »
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    Yours?
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

    President of Club Polk

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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,094
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    That pos has been for sale for a very long time.... I think it was posted here last summer.
    The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD

    “When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson
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  • VR3
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    He would be better recycling the box and selling the parts lol
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • scubalab
    scubalab Posts: 3,101
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    At least match the impedance... sheesh!
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  • mantis
    mantis Posts: 17,056
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    Is it all one box or 2 perfectly placed on top of each other? Looks more like a display then a usable center channel or channels.
    Dan
    My personal quest is to save to world of bad audio, one thread at a time.
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  • kevhed72
    kevhed72 Posts: 4,958
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    Slap a Bose or Beats badge on it and you have a bitchin' home theater in a box....literally!
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,035
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    Go big or go home...

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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Go big or go home...

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    He doesn't look very happy! :smile:
    Basement: Polk SDA SRS 1.2tl's, Cary SLP-05 Pre with ultimate upgrade,McIntosh MCD301 CD/SACD player, Northstar Designs Excelsio DAC, Cambridge 851N streamer, McIntosh MC300 Amp, Silnote Morpheus Ref2, Series2 Digital Cables, Silnote Morpheus Ref2 Series2 XLR's, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Pangea Power Cables, MIT Shotgun S3 IC's, MIT Shotgun S1 Bi-Wire speaker cables
    Office: PC, EAR Acute CD Player, EAR 834L Pre, Northstar Designs Intenso DAC, Antique Sound Labs AV8 Monoblocks, Denon UDR-F10 Cassette, Acoustic Technologies Classic FR Speakers, SVS SB12 Plus sub, MIT AVt2 speaker cables, IFI Purifier2, AQ Cinnamon USB cable, Groneberg Quatro Reference IC's
    Spare Room: Dayens Ampino Integrated Amp, Tjoeb 99 tube CD player (modified Marantz CD-38), Analysis Plus Oval 9's, Zu Jumpers, AudioEngine B1 Streamer, Klipsch RB-61 v2, SVS PB1000 sub, Blue Jeans RCA IC's, Shunyata Hydra 8 Power Conditioner
    Living Room: Peachtree Nova Integrated, Cambridge CXN v2 Streamer, Rotel RCD-1072 CD player, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Polk RT265 In Wall Speakers, Polk DSW Pro 660wi sub
    Garage #1: Cambridge Audio 640A Integrated Amp, Project Box-E BT Streamer, Polk Tsi200 Bookies, Douglas Speaker Cables, Shunyata Power Conditioner
    Garage #2: Cambridge Audio EVO150 Integrated Amplifier, Polk L200's, Analysis Plus Silver Oval 2 Speaker Cables, IC's TBD.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,035
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    The Col. was always a little irascible :)

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    ... of course, that may be because of the loudspeakers he always had to listen to.

    B)

    No white labcoats, but he did look a little happier playin' in the lab...

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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
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    And here I thought it was because he couldn't find a pair of socks to go with his outfit! :smile:
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    Basement: Polk SDA SRS 1.2tl's, Cary SLP-05 Pre with ultimate upgrade,McIntosh MCD301 CD/SACD player, Northstar Designs Excelsio DAC, Cambridge 851N streamer, McIntosh MC300 Amp, Silnote Morpheus Ref2, Series2 Digital Cables, Silnote Morpheus Ref2 Series2 XLR's, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Pangea Power Cables, MIT Shotgun S3 IC's, MIT Shotgun S1 Bi-Wire speaker cables
    Office: PC, EAR Acute CD Player, EAR 834L Pre, Northstar Designs Intenso DAC, Antique Sound Labs AV8 Monoblocks, Denon UDR-F10 Cassette, Acoustic Technologies Classic FR Speakers, SVS SB12 Plus sub, MIT AVt2 speaker cables, IFI Purifier2, AQ Cinnamon USB cable, Groneberg Quatro Reference IC's
    Spare Room: Dayens Ampino Integrated Amp, Tjoeb 99 tube CD player (modified Marantz CD-38), Analysis Plus Oval 9's, Zu Jumpers, AudioEngine B1 Streamer, Klipsch RB-61 v2, SVS PB1000 sub, Blue Jeans RCA IC's, Shunyata Hydra 8 Power Conditioner
    Living Room: Peachtree Nova Integrated, Cambridge CXN v2 Streamer, Rotel RCD-1072 CD player, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Polk RT265 In Wall Speakers, Polk DSW Pro 660wi sub
    Garage #1: Cambridge Audio 640A Integrated Amp, Project Box-E BT Streamer, Polk Tsi200 Bookies, Douglas Speaker Cables, Shunyata Power Conditioner
    Garage #2: Cambridge Audio EVO150 Integrated Amplifier, Polk L200's, Analysis Plus Silver Oval 2 Speaker Cables, IC's TBD.
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  • motorstereo
    motorstereo Posts: 2,049
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    Thank you for posting that as I never knew what went on behind the scenes of my khorns. That looks like a well thought out baffle arrangement for the woofer. It's also much more interesting to look at than the see thru hpm100's.
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Go big or go home...

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,035
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    The folded bass horn of the Klipschorn was a very clever and successful design. The Klipsch bass horn was licensed to many enclosure manufactures in the 1950s, including, e.g., Electrovoice. EV made woofers with performance "parameters" (this is pre- T-S parameters, of course, but them ol' engineers did know what they were doing) . EV's Klipsch horn compatible woofers can be identified by "WK" suffixes -- and they were (are) pretty formidable beasts :)


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    (borrowed images; the stamped "K" on the bell cover is barely visible in the bottom photo)

    I am not a fan of most of the heritage Klipsch loudspeakers, but I do like the K-horns (even stock). I heard a pair of extremely modified ones in Henniker, NH a couple of years back, driven by big autoformer-coupled soiled solid state Mac amplifiers -- and they were (I must admit!) absolutely superb. Impressively transparent presentation. Good stuff.
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  • motorstereo
    motorstereo Posts: 2,049
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    I'd have to agree with you here. I've owned a few pair of the Klipsch heritage line myself and I could not warm to their sound either. I thought it was the horn sound that I didn't like but the k's seem to be a different animal. The amp I always seem to come back to out of the several I've used on them also happens to be a 125 wpc autoformer coupled solid state Mac amp.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,035
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    They are indeed [a different animal]. You'll see me knocking the other "Heritage" Klipsches, but I don't you'll find that I've ever posted too many discouraging words about the K-horn.

    Cornies were the next best thing, IME/IMO.
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  • motorstereo
    motorstereo Posts: 2,049
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    Here's a surprising to me adventure I had just yesterday with my K's. I've been using a Mac 2125 for the past few weeks on my ads 1530's and everything sounded wonderful during their time together. Yesterday I swapped that amp to the khorns and right away I noticed something was wrong. One of the channels sounded distorted. After probably 15 minutes of diagnosis I traced it down to the left channel of the Mac. I pulled the amp out expecting to take it to be fixed as it was that noticeable. Once it was out of the rack though I noticed one of the barrier strip screws was loose. I tightened that loose screw up put the amp back and sure enough the distortion disappeared.

    So here was this left channel distortion that I never heard for 2 weeks while the amp powered the 1530's but I picked it right away on much more sensitive khorns. This got me to wondering..... if I'm missing that much distortion on the less sensitive 1530's how much music might I be missing out on???
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,035
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    Well, there is actually no question that the Col's philosophy, i.e., using limited excursion drivers with acoustic transformers (known colloquially as horns or, to the revisionists, as waveguides ;) ) yields loudspeakers with very low distortion.


    The irony of those folks who extol the attributes of one amplifier of, say, 0.008% THD vs.another with, say 0.2% THD* -- but who are using loudspeakers with distortion levels (THD) that exceed 1% across the spectrum -- is palpable. :)

    Now, all we've got to do is tie this discussion back to clear plastic speaker enclosues. ;)

    Here, how 'bout these? :)

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    * Note, I'm not sayin' that this putative golden ear audiophile isn't hearing
    differences between the two putative amps... but it almost certainly ain't due to the THD levels per se! B)


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  • Inspector 24
    Inspector 24 Posts: 1,308
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    It’s local to me, if y’all pitch in I’ll go buy it and demo it. Plus I have an empty LSiC box I could steal the drivers back and make someone here a helluva deal!
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  • dolbyd
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    Inspector 24 wrote: »
    It’s local to me, if y’all pitch in I’ll go buy it and demo it. Plus I have an empty LSiC box I could steal the drivers back and make someone here a helluva deal!

    The owner of that FrankenPolk bought a CS1000P from me when he was building that. He has some crazy ideas.
    Main room- RTiA9 x4, CSiA6, in ceiling Atmos RT-70 x4, SVS PC 4000 x2, Marantz 8805A, OPPO 203, Emotiva DR3 G3, Emotiva XPA-2 G3, Emotiva XPA-5 G3, Emotiva X300, Sony 75" 940E, Panasonic Plasma VT50, PS Audio Power Port X2, PS Audio AC-5 x8, AQ Rocket 33 Biwire speaker cables, AQ King Cobra XLR IC, Furman PFi20 W/Cullen cable, SoildSteel S4-4 rack, Gik room treatments

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  • reverb
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    I bet PWK was a hoot to hang around with. Could only imagine him after a couple of beers!
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  • Inspector 24
    Inspector 24 Posts: 1,308
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    dolbyd wrote: »
    Inspector 24 wrote: »
    It’s local to me, if y’all pitch in I’ll go buy it and demo it. Plus I have an empty LSiC box I could steal the drivers back and make someone here a helluva deal!

    The owner of that FrankenPolk bought a CS1000P from me when he was building that. He has some crazy ideas.

    Should we be on the lookout for another FrankenPolk center?

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  • dolbyd
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    Inspector 24 wrote: »
    dolbyd wrote: »
    Inspector 24 wrote: »
    It’s local to me, if y’all pitch in I’ll go buy it and demo it. Plus I have an empty LSiC box I could steal the drivers back and make someone here a helluva deal!

    The owner of that FrankenPolk bought a CS1000P from me when he was building that. He has some crazy ideas.

    Should we be on the lookout for another FrankenPolk center?

    Hopefully not!
    He does have an obsession with SDA and he thinks it can be used in more ways. I guessing that center is some attempt into that.
    Main room- RTiA9 x4, CSiA6, in ceiling Atmos RT-70 x4, SVS PC 4000 x2, Marantz 8805A, OPPO 203, Emotiva DR3 G3, Emotiva XPA-2 G3, Emotiva XPA-5 G3, Emotiva X300, Sony 75" 940E, Panasonic Plasma VT50, PS Audio Power Port X2, PS Audio AC-5 x8, AQ Rocket 33 Biwire speaker cables, AQ King Cobra XLR IC, Furman PFi20 W/Cullen cable, SoildSteel S4-4 rack, Gik room treatments

    Office- Legend L600, in ceiling Polk RC80i, Marantz 7704, OPPO 203, Pioneer Elite PDF-59 CD, PSA Stellar 300, Sony 55" 800B, Gik room treatment

    Master BR- Signature ES60, Signature S35 Center, Signature S15 Dolby Height, LSI700 in ceiling, SVS-SB4000, Marantz 5012, Emotiva XPA5 G2, OPPO 203, Pioneer DVL-919 Laser Disc, Sony 55" OLED

    Patio- SDI Atrium8 x3, Emotiva A-100 amps x3
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