JonMustang

I posted a while back about a looking for a good center channel for a couple KG4s. Good replies in there, but most people said that a third KG4 was the best center of all. In my challenging room, I find that there's a dead-spot in the center and so vocals sound wide and poorly-defined. A third KG4 would just be too awkward in the room, so I'm wondering if I could just wire up the horn from a KG4 to tighten up the soundstage. With a custom crossover, would I be getting much out of a center horn, like vocal detail and better imaging? Or are horn tweeters only producing very high frequencies, like the crispness of cymbals and such?

Hmm, interesting. Yea, I can imagine the voicing being a big deal. In my imagination, I thought a single, crossed-over horn with a mid range driver just sitting on a shelf between the KG4s might do well, but you all seem to be saying that would not work based on voicing?

I got them and love them, thanks!

I really like my KG4s in my living room... great amount of bass and I just ordered Crites titantium diaphragms too. Sounds nice for soul music and rock... a little less impressive for acoustic and vocal music. Anyway, the popular critique is that they don't do mids very well, and I agree. Not bad, but I've heard better. My Fisher X-202-B had a center channel output... So, any ideas on a center channel (horn?) speaker that might compliment the KG4s? I was thinking perhaps something vintage and exotic like an Altec horn, but any advice is welcome.

Can someone please confirm the height of KG4's when the risers have been removed? One source says 24.25" but I'd like to know before going off to buy some this week.

Based on the bass response and dimensions, I think a pair of KG4's would be ideal for me. I would especially like to find some in Walnut. I am located in Oakland but make it up to Sacramento and surrounding areas fairly often. I would love to pick up a pair this week!

This is great -- I picked up a set today. Great price, nice build quality. Made in USA too! The ones I found at Home Depot are made by "Burndy" and $2 for a pack of two. It looks like they're just gonna need a little bit of filing to fit. They're almost perfect. It looks like, with some minor tweaking, I'll also be able to use them on the amp-side of the cables too. I've got an old H.H. Scott LK-72 and it's kind of pain to fit things to those binding posts, so I'm looking forward to the project. I'll take some pictures and share the project results with y'all later in the week.

Thanks, good advice! Guess I'll go heat up the soldering iron Am I correct in saying that, in the case of gold plated lugs, at least there won't any corrosion to ever worry about? Not that I've ever had a problem with that -- realistically, the De-Oxit would probably do as good at gold plating, I suppose.

I'm looking for some good spade connectors for the binding posts on my 1978 Cornwalls. These binding posts are the kind that have one nut&bolt set of posts, and one set of machine-screw posts. It'd be great to find a few connectors that will fit nice and tight in the channel of the binding post (also, hooked up to a vintage Scott amp on the other end). Amongst the gold-plated types, are they pretty much all the same? Solderless vs solder vs set-screw, straight vs right-angle, Radioshack vs high-end, etc, etc. I'd like to hear your experiences with the lot of 'em. Might help me narrow down what would otherwise turn into an obsessive-compulsive nightmare of trial and error for me

Well it certainly sounds like restoring vintage audio components ain't so different from restoring cars, furniture or musicial instruments. The lessons I've learned from restoring the latter holds true; there's always a deeper and more time-consuming level of restoring, something that could be sanded down, updated or re-worked. But eventually you're gonna want to just use the darn thing and for 95% of restorations, just going through the basic functions with good replacement parts and addressing known-issues with smart updates is usually enough.

It's that exact No-BS professionalism and expertise that had me excited to send the LK-72 to Craig. Honestly, I knew I was gonna send it to him even while I was prowling through estate sales and online auctions to buy one! I liked the idea of the made-to-spec caps he uses not so much for boutique-ness but because, like you're saying, it seems like they're exactly right for the job-- no frills and hit their marks. I'm no expert, but from what I've read, you don't always get the exact same specs on off-the-shelf modern caps as you do on vintage ones, right? I mean, sometimes you've gotta get creative with reaching the correct impedance or something because they don't always make exact duplicates of old caps? So Craig's caps seemed like an ideal solution to me and I was a little worried the tuner restored by the local tech might not get the same attention. Anyway, I've actually got two LT-110s that I dropped off the the local tech, so I just asked him to restore whichever one tests out to be in the best shape. I care a good bit more about the amp than I do about the tuners, so at least I know it's in the right hands with Craig.

Hello All, I've been reading this forum for so long, I feel like I've been a member for years -- but I'm technically brand new and, as of last year, a very happy Klipsch Cornwall owner. I posted this question first in the "2-channel" area but I think it belongs here. Long story short, for my Cornwalls, I sent my Scott LK-72 to Craig at NOSValves in December and hope to hear it again soon. I also just dropped off the matching LT-110 at SerTech Electronics (a local outfit in San Jose, CA). Back when I sent the amp to NOSValves, Craig said he gets caps made to his specs, which sounded pretty impressive. I wanted to give the same quality components to my LT-110 but decided to try SerTech instead due mostly to the turnaround time. Norman, the fella at SerTech, generally felt that just about any good cap that is in spec will do for a tuner restoration -- no need to drop big bucks on ultra-high-end audio caps for one of these. Will I regret going economical on caps for a lil' tuner resto, or is anything spiffy and new going to be basically better than tired, old caps?

Ah geez -- this was my first post but I think it belongs in the "technical questions" section and not here. If a moderate spots it, feel free to delete it.