heads up: empty K-Horn cabinets - $50

[dingus]

i have a line on a pair of K-Horn cabs. dont know yet their condition or anything else yet. i'll see if i can get some pic's, but if anyone is interested i can put you in contact with the seller.

 

[kevin]

That just might be something I would take a look at... LOL.. I'd say shipping would be more than the boxes...

 

[orange]

i have a line on a pair of K-Horn cabs. dont know yet their condition or anything else yet. i'll see if i can get some pic's, but if anyone is interested i can put you in contact with the seller.

Please do relate more about them. I'm not familiar enought about them but I like building speakers and even though I'm flat broke I like seeing these things.

 

[dingus]

yeah, shipping would be problematic. i'm thinking they might be a kit, possibly Speakerlab cabinets, but i have no further info yet.

 

[dingus]

my daughter is in a medical imaging equipment tech class and the cabs belong to one of the instructors. here is her original email;

my teacher Art wants to know if you want some K Horn speaker boxes.. He has 4 of them

i was assuming they were without drivers, but who knows? this is the latest info from her;

I'm assuming they are assembled correctly cause it was a project he oversaw in the class a few semesters ago. And he said he used to own some K horns that were so massive and powerful (up to 180db) that when he and his wife started building their house, they redid the blueprints to accommodate them and make a room without windows to get the acoustics right

i've asked her to verify if they are Klipsch, a kit or whatever and if any drivers are present.

 

[laatsch55]

Scott, after hearing some Klipsch K's again this weekend, I'm leaning towards the Speakerlab cabs........

 

[orange]

What size woofers are used, 12" or 15"?

 

[fitz43]

Scott, after hearing some Klipsch K's again this weekend, I'm leaning towards the Speakerlab cabs........

Lee,

Are you saying you like the Speakerlab cabinets better than the originals?

 

[laatsch55]

Lee,

Are you saying you like the Speakerlab cabinets better than the originals?

Yes Doug. With the addition of the Crites 1526C woof the bass is tighter , more accurate and the FR goes lower. All subjective with no measurements taken what so ever, but that's my take on it. Skratch has been converting the Speakerlab K plans I had to 3/4 Baltic Birch and Mark says the moitorboard cutout is different for the Klipsch K's. I would think that would be a floating dimension depending on driver selection. The 3 sets of K's I heard this weekend were some 1963 models, some 1974's and ser #'s 214, 217. The bass does not rip my attention away like mine do. And he had plenty of electronics to do it.

 

[speakerman1]

Lee did the bass sound as an equal to the other sounds? Not in your face?

 

[laatsch55]

Yes Larrt, linear as hell!! He had some fine stuff, it had better have been linear.....

 

[speakerman1]

The L/R system has that sound. I can vibrate the floor. It is still not boomy. The bass is just there equal. Everything is proportional. Today listening with SP hooked up. There were sounds I hadn't heard before. Hearing the foot cymbals close up. Was kinda cool. These are CDs I know. Hearing the new sounds sort of spoils listening to the other systems.

 

[orange]

I'd still like to find out more about the cabinets.

 

[laatsch55]

The L/R system has that sound. I can vibrate the floor. It is still not boomy. The bass is just there equal. Everything is proportional. Today listening with SP hooked up. There were sounds I hadn't heard before. Hearing the foot cymbals close up. Was kinda cool. These are CDs I know. Hearing the new sounds sort of spoils listening to the other systems.

Funny you should say that, We have listenedto Shpongle-"Remix" at least 100 times, had it on last night and was having supper upstairs for a change and noticed a bass note that I hadn't before. It startsa out as one and then is rolled into 2 separate, it was rather cool.

 

[speakerman1]

It is hooked with the Audio Magic ICs. They are silver so I can get by with running them with tubes with no shrill.

 

[orange]

Funny you should say that, We have listenedto Shpongle-"Remix" at least 100 times, had it on last night and was having supper upstairs for a change and noticed a bass note that I hadn't before. It startsa out as one and then is rolled into 2 separate, it was rather cool.

Isn't that great without any cosmic debris?

 

[speakerman1]

It is like wow where did that come from. Was in the garage listening got to a point in the song which usually grabs my attention and it was not even a hint of it coming through the speakers. I can't say it is the best system I have heard. I can't say it isn't either. If it was I wouldn't be trying to improve it. I can say it is the most well rounded that I have heard in a very long time. Now to fix the phono part of it.

 

[dingus]

here are the pic's of the cabs. they were apparently a student project that only went this far.

 

[dingus]

 

[orange]

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You tell me how to get them over to Ontario, OR and I will finish them in April. Way better than the secondhand DIY cabs I'm working on.