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Hi Gil -- they're yours if you want them! 2nd chance bidder didn't get back to me in the specified 24 hours, so I am under no obligation to hold them for him any longer. Let me know; thanks! Chris

Thanks, guys. I sent a 2nd chance offer to the 2nd bidder, so we'll see.

OK, folks, my eBay buyer is a total flake. Still no payment or pickup in 2+ weeks. LOOOOONG story. Anyone want them at the high bid amount ($511)?

I'm in for a few bucks to re-do crossovers if that is what his survivors would like. In any case, consider prayers and condolences sent. Y'all are an impressive bunch!

I had those EXACT JBL components in C36 cabinets. Man, they sang... I have regretted selling them ever since. In fact, I just picked up a pair of Fostex T945N bullet tweeters, a copy of the JBL 075 ring radiator. Hope they sound as good as the originals! Great score, by the way. A friend just went to an estate sale and asked if there was any olf HiFi gear or records. They directed him to the basement where there had been 3000+ LPs stored on racks, but they had fallen over onto the floor and subsequently got wet. Next to those were a rusted and rotted (also from water) pair of Quad ESLs. [] Sad...

Dang, guys, it's a PAWN SHOP! Go in with $400 cash and dollars to donuts, they'll be yours! I have bought so much stuff at pawn shops, and I have never paid more than 75% of the original asking price, and I rarely pay tax. Just say, "hey, I have $400 cash. Can you make that work?" I'll bet almost anything they'll do it. If not, say you'll need to think it over, and besides, you don't have the spare cash on-hand. I'll bet they don't let you leave the shop w/o them. The $100 saved almost covers gas $ to pick them up!

Thanks for all the input, guys (and gals!). I will pass along the word that $2700 is on the optimistic side; maybe he'll fold and I can get them on the cheap!

Wow... maybe I'll wait it out for some to appear elsewhere and try to steal a set that way! Did they sell at those amounts, or were they just bid to those amounts? I am convinced that someday I'll find a pair of these in the corner of a junk shop someday... kinda like when I found a McIntosh MC75 for $10 at an army suplus store (!) or a pair of JBL L36 cabinets with D131's, 075's, and crossovers, all mint, for $50 at a stereo shop (trade in special), etc... My brother scored a pair of Mac MC30's near mint, a Scott tube preamp, Ampex tube reel to reel, Thorens TT, and Karlson cabinets with University coaxial 15's in them for less than $20 total at an estate auction in IN. He sold that stuff off and damn near paid for a new roof on his house!

Ha ha.. yeah right! I saved for ages to buy that amp, and the tubes are just run-of-the-mill Electro-Harmonix 300B's (2 of them). The kicker is that the guy who has them told me he'd trade a pair of Altecs with the fretwork grilles (Santiagos?) for them, and I had a pair of those (minus the grilles, but otherwise complete and near mint) that I had passed along a year or so before finding these K-horns. Stupid thing is, I have known of these speakers for ~10 years now. I could have made payment and had them by now! I really don't have the room for them, to be honest. I mean, literally, the room, as in the architectural size necessary to make them "bloom." My listening room is tiny (relative to these speakers, anyway). What I wouldn't give to hear these bi-amped with my 300B amp on the top-end and a decent 50WPC or so ss amp on the bottom. Yikes. I had a pair of Altec VOTs set up like that and heavily damped (to the tube of about 350lbs of speaker EACH!). Those things sang. Boy, do I miss them. They were trimmed in African bloodwood and had custom boxed for the 511 horns, which had the vertical fins cut out of them. The old green 802 drivers... oh, those were sweet!

BTW, there's a pair of ca. 1973 K-horns in Minneapolis on CL for $1900 if anyone's interested: http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/ele/155368838.html

Someone probably also opined that the plastic horns, when introduced, were better than the metal ones, too, but your point is well-made. As far as collector's are concerned, though, dollars to donuts say these would command a higher price on the open market. Sadly, it's all academic to me... maybe I should ask if I can make payments on them (for myself)? I would seriously LOVE to have these things.

Yeah, they'll take a few $ to finish, but I'd sure like to have those wooden horns. This reminds me to call a friend in AZ who, when last we spoke, had been lusting for a pair of them. It seems to me one could sell the original University drivers and oddball tweeter and, if you shop right, replace them with better (more musical) alnico units and a matching T35 tweeter AND have some cash leftover. eBay the original stuff, which I'm sure would bring mega-$ if the seller's willing to ship overseas. As far as the crossovers go, I would guess they ought to be gone through anyway. You guys may be right; $2700 might be high. The lure of this old stuff for me, though, is making something so old sound so impressive, so I'd rather spend $2700 on these than on a newer pair in better shape with plastic horns or non-alnico drivers. But that's coming from a guy who's sold on the 300B SET curcuit, has interceonnects made from 1940's Western Electric cloth-jacket cables, etc... I dig the old stuff!

Why would you replace the horns? I though the wooden ones were the holy grail of the Klipsch line. I don't know what the value of a pair of original singles is these days as I haven't seen one in ages, so I can't address your pricing query. I know that if I had the jack I'd be all over them... YMMV.

Nope, though I wish I'd seen those!

Oh, I have my own interest in making this happen! I can't afford them, but getting them sold means I get to have them at my house for at least a night to see what the fuss is all about! And, of course, I'd be happy to accept a donation to cover gas and lunch costs during pickup! []

I think my mom's GPX boombox would give the $4k Bose system a run for its money...

Yup, mis-matched crossovers too, it looks like. They are up in a loft above an auto shop, hence the mess and my inability to test all the drivers, even. Nevertheless, I wish I could afford them myself. Since I can't, I figured someone here would probably like a crack at them.

ok, last one! I have a few more (not as good); email if interested!

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I'm working on more pics!

EDIT: I see how to do it... give me a little time and I'll post them! Moderators: feel free to re-size if necessary! Seadog -- can I do that? I figured they needed to be hosted somewhere, which I can't do. I'll fiddle around and see if I can get them posted!

I liked them well enough, just like my Fostex full-rangers better. I tried the La Scalas with a 300b amp and, try as I might, I couldn't get used to the forwardness. My room is pretty small, too, so that didn't help.

I know of a pair of very early K-horns (a '54 and a '60, as I recall) for sale nearby. I can probably pick them up for ~$2700, and I took several pics that I can provide to interested parties. Email me for info, but NO LOWBALLING. These are not mine; they belong to a friend, and I don't want to send out a dozen pics only to receive an offer of half that. That won't cut it. I'd buy these for myself, but a) the LaScalas I just bought and sold were too big for my room, and I can't afford them! Both have the old wooden midrange horn with University driver, and tweeter mounted in the mouth of the horn (one is square with a University driver, and one is a T-35). Seller says that the woofers were replaced at some point, apparently with K33s. Cabinets are solid but not the prettiest. Again, I have pics. I can pick these up and make them available for pickup in Charleston, IL. Let me know if anyone has any interest! Chris