Awesome thanks!!!

Horizontal splits for first year

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Me wantssseee the preciousssssssss posted above.

Minesssssssssssss, make them minesssssssssssss!

khorn51:

blonds have more fun

I'll stick to my Brunettes ... they always show me a good time.

Notice the braces in the horizontal LaScala to the outside horn walls.

Hi, all. I'm a complete newbie to the forum and to owning Klipsch.

I just picked up a pair of blond La Scala Industrials (originally with the idea of re-selling), and when I plugged them in to test whether they worked, I sort of fell in love with them. My wife, whom I love MUCH more than the speakers, is coming around to the idea of rearranging virtually everything else in the family room to make room to keep them.

I took a few pictures of them. As you can see, they have good bones, but a lot of scratches and scrapes. My next posts are likely to be asking the wisdom of this group about how to touch up those dings without doing harm to the underlying sound.

I've got a gallery of pics here.

I am also trying to post one with this message. As I said, first-time poster, so please forgive me if I'm using the wrong fork, so to speak.

Wow ... nice find ... the natural wood LSI's ... while not totally rare ... are pretty hard to come by ... where did you find them. Don't worry too much about the scratches ... just run them for awhile .... maybe rehab the crossovers.

What are you gonna run them with??

Welcome to the madness.

My motto is that any acquisition that doesn't make the rest of the system seem inadequate wasn't really an upgrade. These speakers, though, have really proved that true. I am not only looking to replace my old JVC surround-sound receiver, but there is now talk of buying another stereo system for upstairs. That one won't have Klipsch, I don't think, but is going to get the old speakers that used to seem fine until these surfaced.

As for where I got them, I got extremely lucky. A church about thirty miles away had them in the basement not being used any more and listed them on the Internet. I wasn't the first to respond, but the other guy apparently never showed up. I had given them up for gone when I got another e-mail asking if I was still interested. I said yes, yanked the seats out of the minivan, and headed out to fetch them. I got there and learned that the church had some newer stuff their musical director liked better--and to be fair to them, their newer stuff may have BEEN better, I didn't see it. Not clear whether these were once upon a time the part of the main PA and got stored or if these speakers got donated by some audiophile and never put to work. All I've done so far is clean them off with a little Murphy's Oil Soap. I am coming to realize that the scratches and dings are mostly on the sides which won't be that visible if I put them in the corner. The fronts look ok. I will probably run them for a little while without doing any rehab first. We'll see how they do. For now, I am tasked with moving stuff in the family room to get some space for them to fit. Currently they are blocking all access to the front of the tv.

The madness seems pretty good for now.

hello,

 If you ever think about selling youi blond LSI let me know.

 

Jim