I’ve had a pair of Klipsch H700 Heresy Cinema speakers from the late 60’s/early 70’s kicking around in my carriage house for the better part of the past decade and have had them for about 15 years. They’re completely shagged, the woofers are punctured and the boxes are knackered af, but if iirc, the tweeters and squawkers are in good shape.
Every time I have to move them, I keep thinking should put them on the curb, but obviously I haven’t. Now that I’ve got a hi-if again, I’m wondering if I shouldn’t restore them instead. I’m a master carpenter and former cabinet maker: it would be pretty easy to make oak, cherry or walnut shells for them. My main question is, what is the best bang for the buck way to bring them up to spec (or better) performance-wise? Obviously, the woofers are wrecked, they're klipsch stamped k-22 AlNiCo drivers with the stamped steel frameKlipsch seems to have discontinued them and the K24 drivers that replaced them in the series. While I'd like to ultimately recone the original drivers, the prices for doing that are a little higher than my immediate budget allows- is there a suitable aftermarket substitute in the sub $100? I'm going to assume it will need to be recapped- which 2.2muf 200v (or higher) rate the best value? How much of a hassle is it to upgrade from type c to type e? is it even worth doing? how durable are the inductors and transformers?
