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One bass bin veneered with Ribbon Mahogany...and one glued up ready to go

What a great sight!! Congrats. I would be so excited to get brand new speakers

I think they are 84's I think they stopped using the letter to designate the year in 84' and the first two numbers are the year made. I have a set of 84' LaScalas that have a similar number

I think I have read a number of times that khorns sound best with ceiling heights of 9' + and of course with corners. My room has 14-15' vaulted ceilings and the khorns sound amazing in there. Of course, if I could get a set of Jubilees instead I would probably do it in a heartbeat.

Hey Aaron, I have not heard the Jubilees(but want to)..(we had a discussion already about them) One of the things I learned about the Jubilees(correct me if I'm wrong) but they do better in smaller rooms and with lower ceilings than the Khorns do. I think you said your ceiling weren't all that high in your room at one point.

I had asked Bob Crites and I think he said that he hadn't done any testing on the K5J's...Someone contacted me who seemed very knowledgeable and said that PWK was making these by hand back in the day and they were a pain to mold and make. I was told that the frequency starts to drop off at around 4500khz so I adjusted the crossover I was buying. I liked the looks of them so for the time being they are staying. I am however always looking into other possibilities like the ones Greg makes at Volti. They are pretty big and take up a lot of real estate in the top hat section. I think the only place you can fit the tweeter is on that vertical wood brace. I'd love to know more about the history of them if anyone knows

Well, I ran them for a while in my music room.... with the Stephens 103 LX2 woofers, University SAHF mids and EV t35 tweeters, and the original Klipsch 500/5000 Crossovers. Even with one suspect and crackly tweeter and some tired crossovers they sounded great. Of course everything in the khorn back in the 50's was all 16ohm. The dilemma was to try and source and refresh all 16ohm parts or move to the 4,16,8ohm standard that is still used today. Even though I would've loved to keep everything original my most important objective was to get the sound to be the best it could

I bought the Crites CT-120's(I have them in my Lascalas too) and apparently they can handle down in that range without a problem.

^^^ Yea, I carefully pulled them both off the speakers. Since I had a B style and a C style, the B was exactly as you said on the collar of the riser and the C style was centered on the top of the bass bin. It took me a while to get them off but I was able to save all 4 brass brads as well.

and luckily these two plexi-badges were both present and in good shape

lol...not me here is one of the bass bin labels. As you can see it is a 'C' Style with no riser....Although I have made the necessary parts to turn it into a Riser or 'B' Style

^^^lol

I've stained a lot of things over the years but the dye will actually sink in on tough to stain or tight grained surfaces really well. I figured I'd give it a shot. This is the place I bought it. http://www.kedadyeinc.com/Eco-Friendly-Wood-Stain.html

here's one horn done and one still dirty

I've heard that the fiberglass/wood K5j's drop off pretty steeply at 4500hz so I will be using the 4500 crossovers from Bob. The horns were filthy....I've cleaned one and have one left. 60 years of dirt and dust and grime

Well, I've been here for about 2 years and figured I should start posting so I can edit my profile, etc..... I'm in the middle of restoring 2 khorns....They are from the pre stereo days. One is a July 1956 and the other is a January 1957.....I've been repairing, painting, veneering and dyeing(not staining) the veneer..I bought the veneer from Oakwood. I've bought new drivers and crossovers from Bob Crites and hope to have them up and running again in a couple weeks. I'll post some pics in that time of the progress. While they are being worked on though I am luckily not Klipsch-less. As we speak I am listening to an Crites upgrades set of Lascalas from 84' and a set of Heresy II's. I also have a couple sets of KG 3.5's that we use with the TV's. I think I would probably going faster on the resto if the Lascalas didn't sound so good. They are amazing. To be honest a couple of years ago I fought against liking Klipsch. I had about 20 sets of speakers rotate through my music room and none of them were Klipsch. The room has always been a challenge. It's about 26x16 with vaulted 15' ceilings. Nothing sounded great in there until I put in the 1950's khorns that were honestly pretty tired and not working 100%. Now, every Klipsch speaker sounds great in there. I'll update the resto as I go or if anyone has questions about the 60 year old khorns.