The pink bit’s are carpet that’s simply filling in the ‘footprint’ that was left from the previous fireplace after removal. It saves me the expense of changing the whole carpet.
When the blue carpet finally does go, it will probably get changed for an engineered real wood floor, with rugs!
The side doors give access to inside the secret hidden wood-surround which has an internal passageway for speaker cables that go up and over the cast-iron fireplace.
The fireplace itself is a reclamation from a house built in 1929, it’s only a tiled cast-iron front, but has a lot more character than the 1980s thing that existed before!
A local master-woodworker corrected the rebate, and fitted the side-doors.
Nice room mate
Thanks! We all try to keep life worth living.
Max
Hang in there. ATB
Compared to the lighter coloured veneered ones, I think they look very handsome without grills.
Very nice first time poster,
I am wondering if there was a noticeable change of accent switching from an all British system to an American one… I find it fascinating the fusion of a pre-revolution speakers (OK, a 1957 design to be exact) with last word Bricasti and Pass Labs. As far as I can tell, Max, you are the only one on the forum who uses these models so we depend solely on your experience of toe dipping into these new waters. Keep us updated please.
Haim
NS1000 ? Is that the M version?
Toby,
I confess I have never removed grills from any speaker. I’ll be happy to post about these surprising and definitely unexpected Heresys. It’s interesting that most are curious about them instead of the dernier cri like the ST-25 or the Bricasti M3. I myself am surprised at how a lucky choice the Klipsches were.
More coming!
M
Very original set up, specially in this thread. I have never seen Klipsh Heresy, they look stunning. With the class A Pass, it must sound very nice. I enjoyed once Klipsh Rf7 with Audioanalogue. Very musical.
How is this Bricasti, punchy, dynamic, or more on the nice and soft side?
Haim,
I’ll happily report about them if their unusual age and provenience is not bothering anyone. It’s a bit like having dated Jane Fonda… turned back as she was in Inspector Klute.
Max
FR,
the Bricasti struck me paired with the Pass from the beginning. I’d say it is not assertive nor smooth, but very natural with a tad of extra light on dynamics and coherence. The constant amazement is the Pass: it has shown me something I vaguely knew about and about which someone once wrote on this forum: each recording has its own volume, and the heavy, unassuming box is capable to reveal immediately if you want to turn the pot down or up a bit with each disc…
The Heresys deserve a discussion of their own. Being 63 years old, revised in early 80s and early 00s, I have wondered what has really happened in HiFi in the last decades.
Max
The Obelisk share a bit the look of your Heresy. A bit.
You have confused over that post.
It was a mention to Debs SBLs without grills just before.
Nevermind, an opportunity to mention how smart your new system looks within your room. The best Italians have always known about style but your sense seems impeccable.
Lovely setup there Max and I bet it sounds wonderful. As for ‘old’ loudspeakers, you won’t need to convince me how good they can sound.
I’ve never heard a pair of Gales. They used to intrigue me in younger days because they didn’t suggest vertical or horizontal placement… And those metal sides had a touch of 60s, luxury cologne bottles. If you see what I mean. I still have to know all about them.
My Heresys are Mk III, though, meaning that they are built now and were revised last time in 2007.
The Gales’ stands are extremely elegant too. I wonder when did HiFi move from serious sound in the home to a game of visual eccentricity and cost.
M.
Debs, have you ever considered a pair of SL2s? I can just picture them in your system configuration and I think they’ll be a perfect match for your decor.
Yes i have considered SL2s.
I have heard them in other peoples systems, and like’d what i heard.
But the issue i have with changing to SL2s are;
A good pair at the right price is difficult to find and would cost some.
I won’t find SL2s with a better veneer than my dark oak sibbles.
What would i do with my SBLs if i change to SL2s?
My SBLs are a bit unique, in stupendous condition, and although they punch well above their weight are probably worth only so many hundreds of pounds, which is a bit off considering they’ve cost me well over a grand in restoration alone. Although this was 10 years ago so they don’t own me anything really ; )
Also, my room is not particularly solid brick walled enough to benefit the full fat 100% from boundary speakers, i only get away with it due to the fireplace and chimney stack bricks, and it’s possible in this here room and situation a swop from SBL to SL2 maybe more of a sideways move than an upgrade.
That sounds like good news, a few months ago you seemed a bit blue about them and thought they were a bottle neck.
Got to say, I love mine - but then I am in the first flush as it were!
M