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Hello Everyone, I just got back from picking up the Cornwalls - I don't know if you all saw these on Ebay, but they were one owner and had sat in the same spot since new (1979). You would have to see these to believe them - they look brand new. The original owner, a retired EE, took imaculate care of these and had regularly applied Homer Formby linseed oil. All the edges are straight as an arrow, even on the risers. I can't believe there were only two bids on them. The owner spent a good two plus hours helping me pack and load them. All I have to worry about now are the two cats.... As an added bonus, the owner also sold me the one owner McIntosh MA 6100 amp that has driven these since new. It too, was immaculate - looked brand new and I got the complete set of manuals with it. I passed on the McIntosh tuner, which was very hard to do, but I didn't want to have to make a second trip to Zales.... I'm one happy camper!!!!!

Thanks for all your comments - I'll be picking them up tomorrow. On the way home, I'll be stopping by Zales.............

I just won a set of mint, one owner, McIntosh driven Walnut Cornwall I speakers (1979) on Ebay for 709.00, within reasonable driving distance from where I live. I didn't even mention it to my wife because I was sure someone would outbid me. Just a month or so back, a pair of 1977 Cornwalls went for over 200 more than these in about the same location in VA. Did the 1979 Cornwalls have alnico drivers? Thanks!

Hello - much of what I've read on this thread is over my head. I never get to DEMO anything because I buy everything used and usually without a power receptacle close by. I bought my last system unheard out of the back of an SUV from a medical doctor from the parking lot of her office during my lunch break one day. Denon Class A amp, B & O TT, Pioneer CD, Yamaha cassette & Heresy speakers. (It all worked great and looked new, for a yard sale price!) I use the Denon with my Khorns in my open workshop (28' x 62)'. This system sounds great to my ears despite the bare 9' tall poured concrete walls. I want to place a LaScala between my Khorns and got the plans to build the center network from this forum some time back but have never acted on it. Would a late 70's or early 80's Technics receiver with a blown channel work OK to power the LaScala? Also, I was told a receiver with Pro-Logic II would work well. Would an Onkyo 5.1 channel high current Pro-Logic II receiver be a good bet? Circuit City has those well under 200. I just want to run my LaScala in the center with music only. Does anyone have a suggestion for a receiver to use? FWIW - I sold my first Khorns a few years ago to an electrical engineer who brought his 4 watt kit built amps to audition them with. I'm definitely sold on tubes after hearing his with the Khorns, and he wasn't even satisfied with them because he wanted Russian tubes instead of the Chinese tubes it had! To me they sounded awesome! I was amazed at what 4 watts will do with Khorns! Thanks in advance for your comments.

"I don't think so. That Onkyo doesn't appear to have any processing any more advanced the Dolby Pro Logic. That doesn't work very well for music as the soundstage will collapse into the center channel. If you want to get something with better processing for music find a receiver with Dolby Pro Logic II that has the full user adjustable controls in the music mode. DPLII was developed by Jim Fosgate and can do a nice job on music and gives some adjustments to help tailor the sound. Because it is from Dolby just about everything from the last few years has the DPLII modes in it but not all have the adjustable parameters." Thanks Shawn - I'll look for one with DPLII with adjustable controls. Paul

I have a pair of Khorns 27 feet apart and I want to play a LaScala between them. Presently, I have a Denon class A amp and only play the Khorns. An Onkyo TXDS 484 Home Theater receiver (5.1 channel, 4 years old) is available in the local trader for 100. Would hooking up the LaScala and Khorns to this receiver be an acceptable alternative to building a center setup? I only have older 2 channel receivers and haven't kept up with the latest equipment. Also, would having my Heresy speakers hooked to surround help? Again, this will only be a music system, using radio, CD, cassettes, phono. Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

Back in mid February, I saw a posting in one of the Klipsch forums that contained a picture of Paul Klipsch standing next to a plexiglass klipschorn. I want to show it to a co-worker and now I can't find it - can someone please direct me to it? Thanks in advance!

Actually, I just remembered I had an extra 198? Kenwood stereo receiver stuck in a closet. Could it be used as the mono amp in the mono mode? It even has one bad channel anyway (plays great thru one side).

Thanks for the replies! I don't have a mono amp handy, so would I be better off looking for a good second hand quality surround sound receiver? Any suggestions? I'm looking for a relatively cheap solution, can't afford to buy anything new.

Are there instructions on this site anywhere to build the 3 channel box so I can add a LaScala between my Klipschorns? I only have two channel equipment. Thanks in advance.

Thanks for all your input. Don't worry, these cats won't loose their claws. I thought I was safe with the KG4's, as the grill covers are tight on them, but she must have got her claws stuck in the grill, and being a huge indoor cat, pulled it off with her weight. I caught her in the act of "plucking" the woofer in my Cornwalls last year (it had a loose grill) and smacked her good and I thought she was cured. She just loves that deep "whump" the woofers make when she claws them.

This morning, I saw where out of th blue one of my two cats had a party with one of my KG4's and tore through the top woofer dust cap on one of them. Does Klipsh sell the dust caps or can Klipsch replace the dust cap? If Klipsch does sell just the dust covers, could it be glued directly over the old, or would the old need to be removed first? I think I could carefully pull back all the shreaded pieces and skim a layer of glue on them, but it wouldn't look very good, but I'm more concerned with the functionality and not afecting the sound. Thanks in advance for your comments!

Oak finish, they would be near mint but one of them has the typical flowerpot stains on top. I believe the top could be lightly sanded, bleached and refinished to look good. They sound great. Sorry, no pictures yet. They must picked up. Email if interested. Asking 275 obo. Located in Madison, VA (within 2 hours of DC)

It wasn't me, but I tried! This morning I left a message that I would take them if you or Steven didn't. I'm also in VA a little over an hour away from them. Somebody got a great deal!

In the last 6-8 months, I sold my '85 Cornwall I's, oak with brown grills in fair to good condition. I got 900 for them shipped and it cost me 166 to ship via Yellow Freight from VA to IL. I also spent 60 and hours of my time constructing new boxes lined with 1.5" thick foam. I told the buyer he could get a decent price just for the shipping cartons! They arrived in great shape and he was pleased. Sold via Audioweb. Also sold some beautiful Oak '96 Heresy II's Via Audioweb in the last 9 months to a year for 500 shipped - I allowed myself to get burned on that deal - I ended up paying 115 for a package store to package and send them because I didn't get around to constructing the boxes fast enough. A few months ago I made up for the loss I took on the Heresy II's by finding some '74 Khorns an hour away for 550!

I will definitely experiment with the LaScala before I decide what to do with it. My Khorns are roughly 26.5' feet apart, so the LaScala should be a big improvement. I'll look into building the center channel device. If I do perchance buy an HT receiver, and plug in my Heresys into the surrounds, would that be any improvement over the horns and LaScala alone? I would only be playing music via the radio and CD's through the system. Many thanks for all your helpful comments!

I've never owned anything other than older 2 channel receivers. I have a single LaScala that I either need sell or use as a center speaker between some Khorns. To use as a center, would it just be a matter buying a newer receiver with a center channel and hooking it up? Would that be the same as the original Klipsch center speaker setup? Thanks in advance!

They sounded decent for being homemade from a bunch of components thrown together. They would crank up LOUD, and that was important to me back then. I used to like "wow" my friends by cranking them as loud as we could stand them. Now I have that constant whistling teapot in one ear!! I sold the "Jensens" back in '85 to a close friend who still has them. Sold the "Knights" in '87 to a guy I used to work with - lost track of those, but I sure wouldn't mind having the EV mids back from them!

Corner of the Family room taken sometime during 2001.

Thanks for all your comments, they are all appreciated. I did get a design guide for ported enclosures from an Altec engineer back when I initially started this project. At the time (if my memory serves me correctly), after plugging in the parameters, I couldn't tune to below 40 hz without loosing a lot of decibles, but that didn't seem right. I figured I was doing something wrong. As far as what frequency to tune to - I would want the lowest possible at -3 decibles.

I have conflicting specs regarding these woofers - may need to figure with these woofer specs as well - I received both of these sets of specs from Eminence: Imp 8 ohms Rdc 5.2 ohms res 35 HZ Qm Nom 3.58 Qe Nom .29 Qt Nom .27 VAS 7.5 ft3, 212 liter eff 98 db flux density 13 Kilogauss VC 3" Mag 95 OZ

Hello Everyone, IN the early '90s, after a failed attempt to buy back the Cornwalls I sold in '87, I started building some speakers to try to capture the sound I missed so much. They were never completed because I ended up buying more Klipsch speakers and lost interest in them. Now I'm getting nestalgic and would like to finish them. They are towers, 46.5" tall x 18" wide x 16.5" deep approx made of .75 in thick cabinet grade birch plywood. I figured 6.1 ft3 internal volume in each cabinet less speakers. I bought Eminence 15" cloth accordian edge woofers for them, with 4" VC and 96 OZ mags. The Thiele small parameters are listed below. I experimented with putting one on a riser with a make-shift port underneath and leaving the other sealed - and I definitely like the ported sound better. I have lots of 6" ID schedule 40 plastic pipe to use as ports if that would be a good idea. I thought about having a friend machine some of the pipe so I could make an adjustable length port, or else cutting various lengths close to the theoritical correct length and trying them. I could also do an underneath shelf port. Could some of you well versed in this field plug in these specs and suggest what the port internal volume should be, and any other pertinent info I could use to finish these speakers? Also, I was thinking of sacrificing some Heresys for the horns and xover, or using some JBL horns and drivers crossed over at 800 HZ. All suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!! 02-PART # 15418 05-RE OHMS 5.17 13-FS HZ 30.70 06-LE MH 1.11 14-MMS GMS 64.40 07-QM 6.15 15-CMS mm/N .4176 08-QE .200 16-RMS NS/M 2.0197 09-QT .200 17-VAS LTRS 430.11 10-XMAX MM 1.60 18-SD SCM 856.34 11-BL TM 17.74 19-EBP 150.5 12-EFF % 5.88 20-SPL dB 99.7

With all this discussion of room acoustics - how would you all rate an open room (chock full of stuff), inside dimensions 26.75' wide by 60.75' long with poured 8" thick 9' high concrete walls with windows & doors, concrete floor with exposed 6" thick fiberglass batts overhead. This is where the klipschorns live - they are in the corners of the one end of the house - a short wall. I originally wondered how they would sound in this environment, but after sliding them tight into the corners and listening to them, they sound a lot better then I thought they would, and definitely belt out the bass. Wife and kids won't let me crank them up loud for more than a few minutes at a time, as the sound (mostly bass) comes up through the floors to the upstairs.

B & O Beogram TX2 TT for sale, probably needs cartridge, as it has static when played. Everything else works OK. One recently sold on Ebay for around 300 in same shape, needing cartridge. Make an offer! Email if interested.