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| Tube Preamp - What to buy? HIDon Sachs here. I really don't care which preamp you buy, but for people to say my preamp is the sp14 is not correct. The board is the same. The board has been improved immensely because I have suggested improvements to Roy. But, I run the c... | |
| Klipsch Cornwall IV HiI got the pathaudio ones from hifi collective in the UK. They have FEDEX for about $30. Or mail... They had the values. I would wait until you can do it all at once. Spendy indeed if you don't have OEM accounts, but if you are keeping t... | |
| Klipsch Cornwall IV A few crossover tips from a guy who did it and learned a lot from doing the first board so the second one is neater and cleaner:) VCap ODAM caps have conductive bodies, so make sure the cap body cannot contact the leads or the inductors. Some s... | |
| Klipsch Cornwall IV I have my grills on. I take them off now and then, but honestly, like you say, the speaker sounds great with them on and they look cool and the spousal acceptance factor is very high. Very retro looking. Is it a perfect speaker? Is there a per... | |
| Klipsch Cornwall IV I don't know about damping the cabinets. They may be as lively as Klipsch wanted to work with the woofer to get the sound they want. Or not.... The easiest thing is to make whatever you are doing removeable so you can put it back to stock if yo... | |
| Peeking inside a Carver Crimson 275 Tube Amplifier on the caps in the Carver...Everything is built to a price point. If they charged $500 more for the amp they could use better coupling caps. I am sure it is a very nice amp. I prefer octal tubes in the front end, but anyway, changing the coupli... | |
| Klipsch Cornwall IV According to their site it is basically a shielded resistor. I have no idea why that would be necessary, but anyway there is no hum of any sort, the speaker sounds great, I didn't change the values of any parts so the crossover functions as it al... | |
| Klipsch Cornwall IV that is just a drain wire on the pathaudio resistor. You don't even have to connect it if you don't care to. I tied the two of them together and then soldered to woofer ground input. They fit easily on the board | |
| Klipsch Cornwall IV from above: Hi Don! I started to put together a parts list to modify the crossover caps. I like VCAP much. I've used their CuTFs before. Can you shed some light on where one could cut corners a bit to save cost? The reason I ask is that the m... | |
| Klipsch Cornwall IV HiNo, I am not modding the cabinets at all. Right now I have just damped the horns and woofer frames, and really improved the crossovers with far better parts. If I ever wanted to sell the speakers I have not devalued them in any way, but rather... | |
| Klipsch Cornwall IV That pretty much sums up the cornwall IV. Lots of fun, a wee bit bass shy at the very bottom, but you can live with it because the bass is very fast and tuneful. Yes, I would say they run out of steam somewhere in the 35 Hz range. Would have t... | |
| Klipsch Cornwall IV Agree, the proper way is with a speaker switch. You can hook the two amps to a switch box and then have one set of leads to the speakers. Toggle amps that way | |
| Looking for an amp that punches way about its weight and I can grow with HiDon Sachs here. Someone posted above that they have my version of the Bob Latino kit. Ummmmmmmm, no. There is not really anything in common between the Latino kits and my amp. The kits are great bang for the buck. About all they have in co... | |
| Klipsch Cornwall IV from above: I'd be careful what you wish for with upgrades and parts. I've had several speakers with great parts that made my ears ache or ring when played at much lower than safe levels. Frequency has much more to it than can be easily measured.... | |
| Klipsch Cornwall IV Yes, I have the X5 with ODAM caps (I got Clayton to try them) and the Cornwall IV. It is a tough call and I have to put the X5 back in the system in a couple of weeks when the Cornwalls are completely run in with the new caps and resistors. A... |