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Where did all the Klipsch experts go?
You scared them away with your amazing equipment setups (the equipment ENHANCES the room look, unlike what most of our collections do to the room). And from the dates you were switching out toys every couple of days and all the pieces look great! My best toys don't look nearly as good.
Hopefully they sound as good as they look.
My cornies aren't in great shape and my room position flexibility is lacking, but from what I have read from other users the speakers are supposed to be in room corners (hence CORNerWALL: I had always thought it was named after the British city, but NOOOO!). Mine are against the back wall, but not quite to the corners. I can't say that the imaging is stupendous (and probably never will match a good, time-aligned speaker), but with the right amp I find Thelonious Monk's piano very "pianoey" and that is something I haven't heard with my other speakers to the same level. I've got to work on getting a tube amp in the system to get the sound everyone is talking about. Sorry if I didn't really say anything inciteful, but after seeing your setups I'm a bit dumbfounded. All I have left to say is: MORE PIX PLEASE?!
Hopefully they sound as good as they look.
My cornies aren't in great shape and my room position flexibility is lacking, but from what I have read from other users the speakers are supposed to be in room corners (hence CORNerWALL: I had always thought it was named after the British city, but NOOOO!). Mine are against the back wall, but not quite to the corners. I can't say that the imaging is stupendous (and probably never will match a good, time-aligned speaker), but with the right amp I find Thelonious Monk's piano very "pianoey" and that is something I haven't heard with my other speakers to the same level. I've got to work on getting a tube amp in the system to get the sound everyone is talking about. Sorry if I didn't really say anything inciteful, but after seeing your setups I'm a bit dumbfounded. All I have left to say is: MORE PIX PLEASE?!
I very much appreciate your compliments! All I can say is, tubes will be one of the best investments you make to compliment your Cornwall's. You can get into one fairly cheap here on BT. Another great investment is the Crites upgrades for your Cornwall's. If you have any questions or need help, myself and pretty much anyone else here on the forum can help!
I agree with Ken. It is bad enough that you torture us with those beautiful setups, but then you show us the view at night! The Geneva Convention has rules about that. Of course I WAS wondering what the view out of that big picture window was like, but that was not what I was expecting. I was thinking of desert and tumbleweeds. Classic jazz with the lights down must be amazing. Or some Sinatra.
Yeah, my crossovers are the 2 cap/2 ind version and I have read about Bob Crites upgrades (I did replace those old caps: and got the tweeters and squawkers making music again). Also have an old Fisher 500 that I need to restore before hooking it up (selenium rectifier replaced, 10 ohm protection resistors added, but caps are still orig and I need to replace them before using [I've blown up a cap at work before and I don't want that mess/smell in the house]). Of course I found it in someone's garbage years ago so it has NO SOAF whatsoever, but is in working condition.
If nothing else, your pix give us something to aspire to: making our gear enhance the room esthetic, not bring it down. I know my wife would like that.
Yeah, my crossovers are the 2 cap/2 ind version and I have read about Bob Crites upgrades (I did replace those old caps: and got the tweeters and squawkers making music again). Also have an old Fisher 500 that I need to restore before hooking it up (selenium rectifier replaced, 10 ohm protection resistors added, but caps are still orig and I need to replace them before using [I've blown up a cap at work before and I don't want that mess/smell in the house]). Of course I found it in someone's garbage years ago so it has NO SOAF whatsoever, but is in working condition.
If nothing else, your pix give us something to aspire to: making our gear enhance the room esthetic, not bring it down. I know my wife would like that.
Thanks Scott!!
Just got some walnut bases and isolator feet installed on the Dynaco MK III monoblocks. Also, switched the speaker cables from the Linn's to a pair of Nordost Blue Heaven bi-wire cables. I'll take some nicer pics when I get the custom preamp I am having built right now show up in the mail. Also pulled the R2R player and the cassette deck and added a Sonos Connect for streaming radio and my FLAC files from my music server. Digital signal is converted through a Grant Fidelity TubeDAC-11 which I am also temporarily using as a preamp since it has two additional analog source inputs. The last update for now is the Art DJII phono stage was replaced with a Music Hall MMF Phono Pack. Got some new, higher quality interconnects in the mail to replace all the AudioQuest Sidewinders. Also, made my own 10ga power connectors with heavy duty connectors and fancy cable jacketing and cool, old railroad ceramic cable isolators for the speaker cables 
Think that's about it....for now LOL
Think that's about it....for now LOL