Kevin cornette

Mr Stevens thank you for info. I will be checking the site out. I’ve got about 2-3 months to make preps and get parts before garage is hopefully complete. I’m no audiophile but while I have this wealth of knowledge before me let me explain please. I’ve retired from an industrial job as a mechanic. Working in loud plant environment and playing music weekends. Over years with loud guitarist, some nights I’d leave with ears ringing so I accept my low freq’s are shot and highs are dulled. My question in yalls opinion if I went with a tube preamp with the solid state Mc152 amp, how would that combo work? Should there be an audible difference? Tubed preamp and SS amp? I accept my hearings degraded but do y’all think I’d be able to hear a difference? Oh I’m running B&W 601 speakers till I get Klipsch repaired. Sorry to bother y’all.

Babadono, I douched the pots and buttons as far as I could reach them with a contact cleaner called 321 Contact by Drummond. I don’t know if that’s the same as deoxit but it’s all I could find. And thanx so much for the info for replacement parts. I will be checking that out. Contractor says 6-9 weeks on garage/ man cave build, moneys in bank and I’ve apportioned enough for preamp, dvd- cd-sacd player, tv. Like I say I would love to reuse that crown preamp. But I’m looking at Tubes4hifi SP14 preamp. Nice simple analog design. Reasonable prices.

Babadono, my son was playing some low bottom rap through an under powered intergrated amp I had temp hooked up. It was cranked all the way up. I’ve been a bass player in working bands since 1974 and I’ve heard that rumble of a blown 15” before. Let me say the tweeter and horn sounded fine and I sent crossovers to Klipsch and they came back fine so I’m assuming the horns are ok. I may find out I’m wrong in which case I’ll be crying for yalls help again.

Marvel, thanks so much for your info. I have pics of the Klipsch paper tab on back with inspectors signature although sig is quite faded. They are still wholly there. I’m playing with the pics as we speak and your right it says they’re too big as they are.

Sorry for long answer, but no I’ve not ordered replacement woofers yet and this is why: earlier this year my oldest friend and band mate since 1974 passed away leaving me 12 guitars, 5 amps, 700+ albums, 1000 cd’s, effects… all this stuff is in boxes all over my house. So we’re in process of enclosing our garage for a man cave/ home studio to house these things. Replacing my old Crown dc300a and 150a preamp with something new is next step and once I have room complete I’ll bring Lascalas out of trailer and repair them to compliment new system. One step at a time. But I have been looking online for replacements. Any recommendations? I would appreciate any advice I can get before I start. I’ve bought the McIntosh mc152 amp, Id love to bring Crown 150 preamp back into service but pots are scratchy and phono inputs are buzzing. So I may need a new one. Any advice is appreciated.

please forgive me I’m new. 1995 my son blew my woofers in my 1977 Lascalas. At the time I had read that if you boxed your crossovers up and sent them to Hope they would check and repair them charging only for parts. I sent them and several months later I got them back with a letter saying they were fine no charge. But the capacitors looked shiny and new. I reinstalled crossovers and never got around to replacing woofers because they were in storage for years in my parents house and I had no room for them where I had moved. Since 2017 I moved them into a trailer without climate control. Now I have room to set them up again and replace woofers. My question is since the crossovers have never been used since getting them back from Klipsch, should they be good now. I would attach a pic but I’ve not learned this site yet. But they look fine to me. Clean and dry no leaks. What do y’all think?