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they are in southern NH. I am asking 1250, which is what I have into them, without labor here is a descrtiotion of the mods that I sent to a potential buyer. Thanks I bought a decent set of 88 lascalas about a year ago locally. Little rough, but well within my means to fix and upgrade. The tops needed some work, as everyone likes to put plants on these things, so I added and wood glues a 1/4 Baltic birch panel to them. Furthermore, I added a really interesting wood to surround the front of the speaker and stiffen the side panels. I also added in a center spar, that make them look something like a belle. As far as I can tell it has had no effect on the sound and looks great to me, but it could be removed if it was a concern to anyone. Then I upgraded the type AL crossover network with some help from AL K and Bob crites, two well known klipsch aftermarket guys. This was a large improvement over stock. Not being one to stop thinking, I took Bob crites advice and upgraded the tweeters to a custom horn of his designed to work with a very good selenium driver. The point of doing this was to increase the upper frequency range to 20K, the original tweeters only went to 17ish. This tweeter is also good lower than the original klipsch K77m and is capable of dropping down to 4500hz. What this does is allows the the use of a crossover that crosses the mid/tweeter to 4500 which is where the newer lascalas are crossed due to a new tweeter design. The reason they did this is that the mid horn on the lascala starts to get rough over that 4500 point. Then I built from some very nice components a crossover designed by bob crites to cross the mid?tweet at 4500. The capacitors are auricaps and are extremely musical. There was only one last thing to do with these speakers. On the klipsch forum, there are quite a few folks that have removed the bottom of the lascala, and built a ported bass bin to go underneath the speaker to gain response down to about 45-50 hz, from the original~60hz. This proved to work well and sounds very good. It also raises the speaker by 10 inches and for me puts the tweeter at a more desirable level. Overall, The speakers function perfectly and sound amazing. I would keep them, but I finally found a set of belles, and they fit in my room better. BTW the wood is ambroisia maple. Also, the Bass mod, is fully reversible. Thanks -marc

So, I found a nice set of belles a couple weeks ago and I just cant keep both sets of speakers, as I only have one listening room. Loos like the belles will stay for a while, which means these lascalas are for sale. Email me if you are interested. Thanks.

Ayone looking for one of these? My buttons are not stuck, pinchrollers seem to be in good condition and there appears to be some nice old tubes in there 12ax7telefunkens.

Hey all. just wondering. I have a set of early 80;s heresy 1's that have had the woofers replaced. It looks just like the one on the right in this link, http://forums.klipsch.com/forums/p/90209/913067.aspx but has an made in china label on it with a non klipsch part number. They sound great, but seems to have no official klipsch markings on them? I was under the impresion that they were k28 is that correct? Thanks! -marc

Wrinkles, thanks for the comments it is sturdy as hell. just fired them up last night, big difference from the cornwalls I have been running. bass is good, really good much improved from before. figure it needs some batting though? anyone? I changed to the ct125's as well. Tough to remember exactly what they were like before. Huge midrange on these things, thats what sucked me into klipsch in the first place. 3 feet in front of them you could swear my center is on.... Glad you like the grain, its pretty crazy.

well hope this works. Let me know what youthink of the project, and also if you think I should use some batting in the new bass box. thanks -marc

Hey all, finally figured I'd throw some pictures of my first major-ish klipsch project up. I know you all usually post pictures of the whole process, but I have been waiting to get to this point and see them. Have not heard them yet. Let me know what you all think. BTW, if the belle like center board is going to be a problem acousticly, it can easily be removed, but I like the way it looks. I found a bunch of this wood at a local rockler when looking for ideas, and thought it would look pretty funky. No regrets yet, but I have not heard them.... Think I am going to grill off the top and the two bass bin ports. Any comments good or bad are welcome, as well as questions. Thanks -marc edit, need to add my pictures, cant figure out how, its not like the other boards I am on. I will get them up. Hold on. edit again, the help tab seems broken. I see the add images button, but my pictures are not online do they have to be? Someone want to give me a quick rundown..?

I believe it was in 87 Bob Crites told me that I would have one or the other, depending on when that year they were made.

Greg, I just rebuilt crossovers from the same model and year with the kit from bob crites. I had the terminal cup as well, and kept everything on the same circuit board, it went very smooth. I would assume that the ferrites broke while being remied from the original circuit board, so be carefule if you do remove them. Now who knows how much this would effect the missing ferrite will have, but I would not want to know that something was not right about something i just put a bunch of effort into. I would consider selling your cornwall 2 circuit boards on ebay, and getting new inductors, which are supposed to be better than stock for both boads from bob, or get the rebuild kit from bob and sell the wooden boards on ebay, with the disclaimer of the broken ferrite. I hope they had a disclaimer wherever you bought them. Good luck -marc

I like that look a lot. What horn is that on top? -marc

Wouldn't the selenuim dreiver cause problems in that it doesnt roll off at 6K like the k55? Just trying to get me head wrapped around all this stuff. -marc

yes it is, thanks guys. -marc

I have been trying to figure it out, but what horn are you using on that tweeter?

Hello there, looking at building the bass boxes for below my 88's. got them all torn apart right now so why not? Anyways just wondering, I keep flip flpopping on wheter to do a tube port or one like the slots used on the cornwall motorboard. I though that I had seen somewhere where someone specified port dimensiond for the same size box used here, but with the rectangualar slots instead. For the life if me I cannot find it though, and yes I have been searching all week. I have the materials, if anyone can provide that info, or a link to the post I thought I saw that would be great. BTW thanks for the inspiration here. I wish I could hear them! -marc

Dave, I am suprised the trim wasn't made from a double or triple stack of baltic birch side "endgrain", that would really tie it all together. You must have considered it? I do think some trim is better than no trim. Amazing project btw. Awaiting you listening tests. I am new to this klispch stuff, but its funny how a klipsch bargain leads to a lot of work huh?