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  1. Would also consider bare K-Horn or La Scala cabinets, cosmetic condition not super important. Can't be rotten or anything, but can be ugly.
  2. I'd certainly consider any Altec type boxes or any folded horn type box set up for 15s as well.
  3. Yeah, he says they are built by SLM. Probably work fine though. Rather have real ones, but you know, $200 a box. Too far anyway.
  4. Man, those are perfect, but Illinois is too far from SoCal. I could go north as far as Sac, east as far as Vegas or Phoenix. I didn't even think about Reverb tho. Maybe check out a pawnshop or two.
  5. After an upgrade I find myself with 2 complete KHorn tophats, AA networks and a set of K33s. Looks like I might need a couple La Scala bass bins. Industrial or birch, whatever. Can pick up in reasonable roadtrip distance from LA. These are for the man cave / shop / bar in the garage, so the more character the better.
  6. Absolute beasts the 2205s are. Good luck with the sale, I wish I had a use for that bad boy.
  7. Man, they look great. I wish they put those handles on the consumer line as well. Just make em fancy FFS.
  8. I mean, I've bought,sold,traded since the 70's and and managed multiple music venues with every variety of PA known to man, but I'll go ahead and bend the knee to your obviously superior opinion on this.
  9. Oh man, I respect your opinion, but it's against my experience, but I'd love for you to expound on what you consider a good room for 'horns. They will be bright in a small room but that's every horn ever. I've just never had a room with 2 good corners that wasn't a decent room for khorns. Good being the determinator obv, and I've bought and sold plenty as my house at the time dictated. Honestly I think for an average room Forte IIs or Cornwalls rule as far as Kilipsch go, but subjective.
  10. You modded yours for a reason, yeah? I love La Scala's and am not trying to talk them down, but in my pretty extensive experience with them, they have proven to be more placement and room sensitive than K-Horns or the smaller speakers. Clearly you can have KHorns in too small a room as well, but finding a room where you can space La Scalas and still keep them away from the walls is hard. They sound fine even under less than ideal circumstances, but as the other poster noted they can be bright. But fine is not the same as ideal and they sound best at least 24" from the walls (which means a 16' room in my opinion) projecting into a big room at a decent volume. If that's not your listening environment I'd encourage you to audition Cornwalls at least before making a decision. All this is out the window if you get a screaming deal obviously.
  11. The LaScalas yelled at me and the Heresys sing to me. LOL, this is a perfect description of La Scalas in a less than ideal room,which is most of them. Cornwalls or K-Horns are usually a better choice for big rooms that aren't barns or dance clubs. La Scalas are basically a PA speaker and are best utilized that way IMO. What I mean by that is they sound best within a pretty fixed volume range. K-Horns still sound punchy at low volumes, so do Cornwalls. La Scala's are dead until like 80 db or something, then all of a sudden they sound freaking amazing. They are also pretty picky about placement in that big room in my experience. Subs help, you used to see a bunch of LS with subs bolted on top back in the day.
  12. 15' is a tad short IMO, I want at least 24" to the back and sides and 8' in between. But, you're pretty close to a good La Scala room for sure. I said this in another thread, but I think K-Horns might actually fit more rooms than La Scala's.
  13. I ran a Carver M 1.5T thru a 4000T into La Scala's for years when I lived in a party house, and I have a crate of blown tweeters and mids to prove it. Absolute and total mismatch, the Carver was way,way overpowered. A ton of hiss as well, since Bob wasn't too concerned with that or THD for that matter. Fantastic amp for greedy speakers, but way overkill for Klipsch.
  14. Yep, and his pre-amp. Figured it would be plenty, but nice to know. My BIL has been isolating since the lockdown, but I figure this project will get him involved. And for folks that don't remember, those Carvers were something stupid like 350 into 8 and 1000 bridged mono. rack mount and all, but he put a fan in the PA version which the home version needed badly.
  15. LOL, I have a mess of blown mids and tweeters that say headroom is nice if you have responsible roommates. That Carver could rip speakers apart if you weren't careful.
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