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| To Buy or to DIY, here is my question chorus, You obviously have more experience and knowledge than I did when starting audio DIY stuff, so I’m sure what you do will be a success. Given how many acoustic panels you built, I image you have some on the ceiling. Since I had horns for ... | |
| To Buy or to DIY, here is my question chorus, Not to get off subject, but if you’re going to have your tools out anyway, a simpler DIY project with much higher return on investment vs. store bought is building your own acoustic panels since the room dimensions and how it’s acoustical... | |
| To Buy or to DIY, here is my question lemonhaze, I smiled when I read you comments about the importance of the crossover being so important and laughed when you recommended the Altec Model 19. So I accept your statement that great minds think alike! The cabinet houses only the woof... | |
| To Buy or to DIY, here is my question chorus, As many have said, DIY speakers can be rewarding, frustrating, a great learning experience and worth it in the end. Mine, basically a modified Altec Model 19, took longer than I planned to get all the details right and allow for a learni... | |
| If a " system " cannot do this, I move on........ @mrdecibel, Nice description of what many of us heard as teenagers when our listening preferences were being formed. The sound of Altec and Klipsch horn speakers in the 1970s is what did it for me. As many have pointed out, Klipsch speakers i... | |
| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear Triumvirat's "Illusions On a Double Dimple," especially for the acoustic guitar and electric bass in "Lucky Girl." | |
| I knew room treatments were in my future. With a converted basement room 13' x 20', speaker placement for me worked best along the short wall. Speakers are about 1 1/2' from each wall and 8 1/2' apart. Listening area about 9' from speakers. This gave more area behind to deal with refle... | |
| Best garage speakers I see millercarbon beat me the Klipsch Heresy, which is a great recommendation, but they would benefit from a subwoofer. The Forte is basically a larger Heresy for better bass extension with the same midrange and tweeter setup. | |
| Best garage speakers High efficiency horn loaded speakers are used for concert and theater PA systems quite effectively. They can fill large areas without sounding strained and have great dynamics.In that price range some slightly scuffed up Klipsch Forte I or II's w... | |
| 700.00 speakers new or used Someone already referred to Klipsch if you like the dynamic sound typical of a high efficiency speaker. These type speakers mate best with tubes and don't need much power, i.e., a good amp with 5 - 35 watts.For your price range consider the Forte... | |
| The Hardest Naturally Occurring Substance on Earth Here's another spin on how something soft can wear something much harder. A carbon steel blade used to chip tree limbs will last a very long time happily turning hundreds of yards of fresh cut tree limbs into mulch. Now replace the blade with a ... | |
| Lower end Soundsmith cartridges vs others in same price range? If you go with SoundSmith, you might consider one of their preamps. A friend has a Ortofon Black on a modded Jelco 750 arm and wanted to try different preamps. One I brought over was a Creek OBH-2. It sounded "best" - as in balance, clarity, so... | |
| Klipsch speaker choices mrdecibel, I have appreciated your input over the years while looking for ways to improve my sound system, even beyond speakers, so thought I'd add some clarity on the dampening mod. I understand some horn and speaker combinations can yield bette... | |
| Klipsch speaker choices Edit: To make one of my statements more specific and accurate regarding tweeters and midrange compression drivers and horns in the Heresy and Forte being the same, that is specifically for the Heresy I - III and the Forte I models. Forte II use a... | |
| Klipsch speaker choices If you like DIY projects, try a pair of Forte I's with Bob Crites crossovers, (or consider ALK crossovers), Crites titanium tweeter diaphragms, and an earlier (1970s in my case) Heresy midrange compression driver/diaphragm which were of higher con... |