Konan

I'll keep my eye out but the few sets I am seeing online right now are going for $450 or more which is a lot more than I paid for the RF5's. Maybe it's my area but I never see deals like other people seem to find. Even a pair of RF5's go for a minimum of 550 after watching them for 6 months straight locally.

You are all probably right, the original woofers must have gotten blown and they used these as replacements since these go for around 40 per speakers as compared to 75. I'm wondering how much of a difference there would be between this and the original woofer. Also, I didn't know that the RF-3 had the same size woofer, I had thought they were 6" woofers instead of 8". I may keep my eye out for some RF-3's in the future to swap from if you guys think it will make a significant difference. I personally think they sound really good but then again I don't have anything to compare them with.

Sorry for the slow response, Here are a few pics, I haven't been able to get any time at my desktop for a while now. Been out in the field primarily. The speakers appear to be in near mint condition aside from this.

Man I sure hope that isn’t what I got. I would have to assume that he knowingly swapped the woofers.. here are some pics of the speakers. I have pics of the woofers but I can’t upload more than 2mb since I’m a noob.

I just need you guys to determine that I have bought the original prototypes that are priceless Then I can sell them and upgrade to RF-7s! haha

I have another question as well. There is a sticker on the back of the speaker that says "Monster Cable Internally Wired with Custom Z-Series Cable. This probably isn't verbatim but pretty close to the wording. Is this typical of these speakers or a modification?

I inspected them and the speakers perfectly match the recessed shape in the cabinet and they appeared to be of high quality and sound. Also, the screws were original and didn't appear to be worn from removal. I guess I was right to be concerned. Hopefully someone on here can vindicate me... I can post some pics when I get home this evening if there is any interest.

Thanks for the quick response.

Hey, I'm new to the forum and just picked up a pair of Klipsch RF-5 speakers for my HT setup off of FB Marketplace. To my surprise when I showed up to look at the speakers the woofers were all black instead of the iconic copper color. I have been looking around for info about this but haven't seen anyone else mention this or any pics of this configuration. Were the early RF-5 speakers all black? If so is there any significant difference in quality, materials, etc between the black woofers vs copper woofers? I was very hesitant to buy them given this but felt reassured that they were all original upon close inspection. Honestly, I would rather have had the copper colored cone as it is indicative of Klipsch reference speakers! Also, any details about the different iterations of the RF-5 speakers from the inception through the current RF-5 speakers would be helpful. Even just opining on quality between them would be interesting to me. The speakers I purchased were RF-5 cherry in very good condition and haven't been played much at all. I paid 320 for them, which seemed like a good to reasonable price. Thanks,