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Here’s two new diaphragms compared to 27 year old ones that still worked photo for you too RandyH001.

Congratulations on your beautiful Klipschorns. I find mine sound just as you describe. It’s fortunate you have a good room and audio system for them, as I do too, so I know how thrilled you are. Enjoy.

That’s great norbert2000. I hope you keep posting about this as you do it. Congratulations and enjoy.

I replied to your PM.

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I love it too and seeing the restorations and upgrades which inspired me to do mine and to share it with this thread for others. Thank you.

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Thank you. I like the removable grills on the tops too.

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Thank you. Yes it is, red oak.

I unfortunately didn’t take any photos of them in the condition I bought them in around the first months of 2005. I really wish I had. They were in somewhat plain and rough looking condition, so I didn’t bother taking photos of them. They were the basic Klipschorn decorators’ with not so good of looking plywood top cabinets and fronts of their bass cabinets. They looked like someone lacquered them and the lacquer was all cracked up from age. Their plywood grain patterns fronts of their bass cabinets didn’t match either, so refinishing them wasn’t an option anyway. New veneer was needed. I did take a couple after I did a little initial restoration on them right after I got them, but those photos might be on an old camera or computer long gone with me not being able to retrieve them anymore. Someone had also smeared red stain very messily all over their backs and one of the high horns diaphragms was no good due to a bad voice coil, so I replaced it, built tops and sides for their top cabinets, because decorators don’t come with them, and put them in false corners all done with 3/4” MDF painted flat black which looked and worked good enough, until I did my actual first restoration on them in December of that year. Link to that restoration below this. I had sent a photo of it to Bob Crites, because I bought crossovers from him for that restoration and he then started a thread on it that he titled Nice K-horn Restoration. Click on it below this if you want to see it. I still have their original top cabinets fronts, so I took this below photo of them for you. You can see I started to sand them to refinish them during my first restoration, but discovered it best for me to build new ones instead which I did in my first restoration seen in the above provided link. You can see in the below photo when I bought them they were in rough condition and their fronts on their bass cabinets were in the same bad condition, aged and dried out. I had restoring to do then and did and then a second time now to put them like factory built.

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Here’s an old thread about this if you want to read it.

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I didn’t put the base board across the bottom of the bass cabinets, because I prefer them without them, but may in the future. I installed new woofers and door seals, mid driver diaphragms and new horn gaskets, all new large diameter wires, and all new connectors during my first restoration of them, so now all their electronic components are in good condition.

Bass cabinets side grill cloth covers frames built to conform to walls base boards. Bass cabinets rear tail boards were modified to fit walls baseboard exactly and weather stripping was applied to seal them air tight into corners.

The grill cloth is attached with a narrow line of glue along the back edges of its wood frames that’s more than enough to stretch and hold it, but easy enough to remove if another cloth is preferred later. Magnets are under the top cabinets fronts wood veneer and attracting magnets in their grill cloth board frames, so no grill cloth covers connectors are visible on speakers top cabinets with grills off. Velcro holds lower bass cabinets grill cloth covers in place.