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Thanks Tensleep. It was a lot of work, but that's what it took for my wife to let them in the house. I give the re-fin a 'B.' I could have probably sanded a bit more, and the OEM corner hardware is pretty beat... They're sounding pretty good! There's definitely some midrange emphasis going on. I find with big boxes like this you have to turn them up to a volume level where the wood of the box gets involved in the tone. The louder you crank this rig, the better it sounds! I call it 'box-fi' That said the H-K tube amp definitely adds some magic. Next week, I'll hook a mixer and a PA amp see what they'll really do!

Couldn't post all of them on one reply.

Here's the KP-301s with their new finish. It took a lot of sanding, and there were a few dings through the top ply. 4 coats of Minwax semi-gloss poly and now my wife will allow them out of the garage.

I intend on using speakers for listening and also for some lite PA use.. Primarily they are going to be powered with a 60 watt per channel Harman Kardon tube amplifier for listening situations. I do intend to use them as PA speakers occasionally and in those circumstances they will be powered with a 650 watt per channel QSC amp. I just finished swapping in the Crites tweeter diaphragms but have not listened to them yet since I am only halfway done refinishing them. I plan on rebuilding the passive crossovers eventually. Active crossovers could be interesting, but would take a good bit of time to set up and a real time analyzer that can do transfer function measurements like smaartlive or spectrafoo.

Dennie, Thanks for your welcome. I may hang around some.. Nash, The guy that sold the speakers was a first time craigslister, and admittedly not much of a computer person. It took several days for him to call me back...

I'm thinking that the OP is was talking about the pair on Craigslist here in Nashville. I ended up buying them yesterday. Got a great deal on them because the K-79's were toast. Funny thing is that the owner of them thought that the speakers were working 100%. I ordered a set of titanium diaphragms from Bob Crites. I'm a touring live sound engineer by trade, but am planning on using these at home mostly. They're going into our bedroom stereo. Front end will be a Thorens TD series turntable though a Dynaco PAS-3 powered with a Harman Kardon Citation II. I sometimes jam with friends at the house and will gently use them for that with a little mixing console and powered with a QSC amp. The paint on them is not stellar, so I'm going to attempt to sand them down to the bare birch. If I ever needed to I could have the guys in our wood-shop respray them with a finish nearly identical to the OEM Klipsch black paint. Anyhow, just wanted to sign up let everyone know these went to a good home. This is my 2nd pair of Klipsh. I had a pair of Heresy's 10 years ago and have regretted selling them several times over the past few years.