ClaudeJ1

After seeing the photo you provided, I don't think you need to do anything except get them as close to the corners as you can and go for it. You have to have the bowl of soup first and foremost before you decide how much salt to put in it to "improve" the taste. It's your taste buds, so get the soup and GO FOR IT!

Those look exactly like my 1977 KCBR's. The very BEST year they were made, IMHO. If you just add plywood to further enclose the horns they will perform good enough not to fit tightly into a corner (real or built). I had to build ONE false corner for my pair, while Paul W. Klipsch himself had 2 false corners for his setup at home. I you add plywood and seal the sides, acting as a "partial corner" built onto the horn (bass section only), then it will allow for bending the old "you must have a perfect corner" Rules, quite a bit before you have a performance issue.

Look up the word, Fascism, the current state of affairs what has evolved in the new millennium since 9/11.

You forgot to add that you paid State Sales tax on those $5000 speakers too. So selling them at a loss should be a tax Deduction against the income, right?

No, the most ridiculous part is the BUYER has to pay State Sales TAX on used items. WTF, they even charge tax on the frikkin' SHIPPING!

So did you move your L and R LaScalas to side duty in 5.1?

Actually it was the Belle he replaced it with. For lower distortion AND to match the Walnut Oiled Khorns in his house (saw and heard them myself). Since I could only afford the Birch Khorns, I used a LaScala center because everything was Tung Oiled Birch with no stain, but that was the exception. Of course, then people started buying the Belles in Pairs for 2 channel. I think they were the "Prettiest" of the Klipsch Heritage. But I think it made sense to do what Klipsch did which is quit the Belles and made the LaScalas pretty instead because the majority of people did not use a center channel for stereo (I did for 30 years) and LaScalas don't have to have corners either, as you all know.

Certainly not in phase coherence. Then in what way is it and improvement, Bass only? You have a DTS-10 so I fail to see how the bass could improve if you use room correction (lower crossover point, maybe????

I think the picture you showed is the same one I saw at Ms. Valerie's subsequent house next to her Bosendorfer piano in 2007 with the black 503. The ones I saw in 1999 had the Mahogany Horns on top like the photo below taken at Ms. Valerie's. Not sure they were ever hooked up to play at either location.

As a pure co-incidence, as Technical Editor of Professional Photographer Magazine, I was attending an all digital photo Seminar in Caesar's Palace in early 1999, which started at the tail end of the CES show. I was totally unaware of this coincidence. Imagine my surprise when, to my left, I saw the KLIPSCH Room on my way to the photography stuff. So I stepped inside, saw the Beautiful Jubilees in Mahogany, and asked Roy, who I had never met, if Paul Klipsch was there. I remember Roy giving me a funny look like: "Who is this character?" LOL. I was told I had missed him by about 10 minutes! Since I had spent a full day with him at the factory and a half day at his home in 1985, I'm sure he would have remembered me, if I had arrived 1/2 hour earlier. That was one sad, missed opportunity! Proving that ignorance is not bliss once again.

I'm on my 3rd pair of used ones. I never should have sold the second pair! LOL! They help to fuel my belief and propagation of the expression "The bigger the horn, the better the horn" when you add up all the variables that yield superior sound propagation. Yet few people are willing to pay the price for their realization! Whether it's dollars, space required, or aesthetic sacrifices. They would rather put up with low volume, high distortion, small, direct radiators that Push air out rather than squeeze it out with higher sensitivity and accuracy of transient response that sound more like live instrument, especially in the bass department, which dictates big and expensive being the best for that quality level.

Got 3 of these babies in storage! It was the best of the EV horns (had them all), which were also like by DJK, our deceased pal.

Thanks for contributing to the accuracy of the story I got sucked into with limited, multi-party, misinformation. All I did was to share my Experience as a "non-insider" who spent a few days, 10 years ago, with a Klipsch DEALER at the time, asking for my help on a special project of his making. I am not Rigma or MikeBSA, but I was part of the same privileged group as you, by invitation, in 2007. It was easy to hear how great the U-Jubes were, but especially the K-402 horns on top of the MWM, which caused me to part with my beloved Khorns and Center LaScala 15 years ago. I still enjoy the journey. All of my posts here have been in the spirit of keeping it real and factual as much as possible. I'm one of those who is not afraid of the truth, wherever it comes from. I don't mind being corrected with facts from others here, and I'm also not afraid of calling out others' Bullshit when appropriate, when my information refutes the worthless opinions so prevalent on the internet in general, with no data or experience to back it up. So basically, I find the asking price of the Goldens to be outrageous, with like kind reaction here. On the other hand you gotta admire the guy's intestinal fortitude in asking that price for a legendary product WITHOUT the benefit of the inside knowledge, and superior memory recall, so many here possess.

Thanks for the positive contribution to my otherwise incomplete data set. Much appreciated!

And still have money leftover for an entire music and movie collection!

It's called "showing up to the auction with cash."

W.C. was a Klipsch Pro dealer who had built up a huge stock of used Klipsch Pro and Heritage speakers. When I pulled up to his place in Charlotte, he had a trailer full of MWM bins when out front when I arrived. THE Golden Jubilee BASS Bins from Klementovich, generously gifted to him by Valerie Klipsch for writing PWK's biography, traded to W.C. for a motorcycle (or cash to buy one) AFAICR. He said he had a new building under construction that would have lots of demonstration space, but he never told me it was in South Carolina. But since the speakers were commissioned by Mrs. Klipsch and built by someone that had worked in the Hope factory, from Paul's Personal Drawings, I guess that the new seller's advertising ploy is mostly true, while, perhaps being vague via incomplete information worse than mine. Incidentally, that guy also has 2 pairs of Khorns for sale at a shade less than $6,000, so Who knows? Obviously his motivation is to capitalize, big time, on the verifiable part of his Extreme RARITY of the set, which is what I call the Goldens' "$120,000" Name Plates! I heard them with both the Martinelli Horns as well as the Oval Tractrix Horns that looked like the Michelin Man from the rear. The crossovers were built by someone else and not W.C..............................................so YES, I think all he had that was "PURE" Klipsch were the Golden Bass Bins only. can't imagine Valerie Klipsch would have given Klementovich just the bass bins, without a top end as a complete, listenable Stereo setup. In addition, she must have had someone built a crossover and top horn combo (same as the single Jube in her living room). It's possible the top end was sold off separately by either Michael Klementovich or W.C. who did say the Martinellis were his favorite top end. The rest of the story is mostly relegated to my memory's trash bin, since all this was just 2 days of my life, 10 years ago!

Not as outrageous as some of the prices for 94 year old Western Electric Theater speakers! But I digress......

I AGREE TOTALLY. I almost drove down to SC to bid on these myself, but decided to pass. I talked with the Auctioneer of W.C. Fisher's estate. The kid who bought these paid about $6,000, including, I think some McIntosh amplifiers in the auction. Obviously he did not buy them for their SOUND quality!! LOL. I spent time with W.C. 10 years ago when he was still in North Carolina and had these bins open to see what was inside. I actually heard these speakers and they sounded just fine on my test CD's. I also curved them. The Martinelli Horns on top are not longer made either and had nothing to do with Paul Klipsch, Valerie Klipsch, or the company, since they are a 3rd party horn and Spanish drivers. I would say that if someone were to buy these at this price, they are the rarest of the "Underground Jubes" or "Museum Jubes" but don't sound as good as the ones you could buy from Klipsch Theater dealers with a K-402 on top at only 25% of the price. Anyone who can afford these should probably buy the Brand New Jubilee 75's instead with far superior sound with a $90,000 savings. We shall see..................

Which part? A single comment for one that contains 2 parts results in zero communication of point.

They are not jubilees, so none of the Klipsch fanatics here would ever call them that. Good luck getting even half your asking price (more realistic) after your big mistake in putting them in HER living room in the first place! Wives Rule!!! LOL>

Sold my beautiful Jube clones and my TAD drivers to a guy in Toronto who also bought my Twin DTS-10's. Let's just say that he has more bass than he needs for his pipe organ recordings!! LOL.

Nice to see those DTS-10 tapped HORNS, picking up the FEEL of the super low end, even though a Khorn goes low enough for music, even they need a good sub to finish the job for pipe organ lovers. Good moves all around!

IBID

You very precisely summarized all the points I made here.