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Jubilee is big and ugly, and totally unforgiving of the non-top-notch front end components and source material. I hear hiss, pops, ticks, hum, everything with them. I already have ugly in my workshop MCM1900, and will have in the new HT KPT904. This room in the house I'd really prefer to have something 'nice'. I hate to say it but for the lack of listening I do in there (ok nearly none to date), a system that's better than 99% of the population is quite possibly good enough for me. Most of my current music listening is through the MCM or forte II in the home office, sometimes the 5.1 system in the family room which is LS with THX subs. There is something about this room where a Klipschorn just ENERGIZES the room better than the Jubilee. 17x25 with 2x 1/2" plaster board (not drywall), a couple of very large windows, and Brazilian Cherry floor. Massively hard surfaces but enough diffusion and absorbtion in there that it sounds lovely. Somehow the Klispchorns just cook the Jubilee bass, and yes I have the bass boost 30hz bump on.

Done some reading, apparently there are a lot of imitations around, but these are the last of the OEM EV parts. Another option might be to use BEC CT125. Would this tweeter work in place of a K77 alnico without any special network adjustments? I'm looking into price on the Klipsch K77F, that's one with wide mounting tabs that mounts to the rear of the motor board but the horn portion protruded totally through the 3/4" stock. Easy swap even in a Khorn and you don't have to tear the grille cloth off!

Dang it, me next !

If you have corners, sealing them is no issue whatsoever.

1972 KWO bone stock, one owner, I've rarely played them. Considering the following: Have BEC AA networks installed currently Have K55 solder lug types with new OEM diaphragms I installed that I could swap out for the old push-pin types. Alnico K77 is week on one side. Looking into getting OEM EV type diaphragms for those Have BEC CT125 type tweeters in stock. Other considerations: Newer Klipsch K77F types that would mount from rear and project through the motor board, eliminating diffraction Klipsch AK5 network upgrade kits that would be costly, but a ferocious upgrade and make available for sale all the above parts. Stay Klipsch but experiment with K510/B&C driver (which I'll have here once I get the KPT904M from Bill Hendrix). Anybody tried any of the above? It's a bang for the buck scenario, I really think I'd be happier with a splendid pair of vintage Khorns in my gallery room than these Jubilees (NO They're not for sale, geesh), and if I could improve performance the Khorns would stand a better A/B chance, or be more saleable should I go an entirely different direction. I do remember my buddy IndyKlipschFan had an 80's pair of oak Khorns that he added backs and the AK5 kit to and they sounded great, but we never did much really critical music listening with them. And YES, I'd do each mod one and a time, and use the SMAART system to take curves and do listening tests A/B for each and every step of the upgrade process, as I've preached for years!

YES that is the easiest way to repair if you have the mud (ferrite or rectangular) magnets. For those with the older, round alnico magnets the loose diaphragm with leads that must be carefully soldered will have to be used.

Need 2. Is this from Simply Speakers in FL? packing wise, yes it needs to protect both the dome, the voice coil, and the very fragile leads. I have a box of probably 20 here with broken leads. For $30, they should come from the supplier in a protective housing of some sort.

have a very nice set of them, but really would like to convert them to KP301 II. This would involve changing out the mid horn at a minimum to the KP604 Tractrix type, also the mid driver to KP66E possibly some network reconfigurations. Just wondering if anyone has managed this type of modification?

Wondering what would happen if I took the K66 out of my KP250, put them on some spare K604, and tried them out with my KP301?

BLASPHEMER!

Don't even get me started. Too many of you guys remind me of me, and I'm not sure that's a heathy thing for any of us...

Body by Fisher

I don't believe I have ever had 'buyer's remorse with regard to Klipsch loudspeakers, but this is a very difficult process. The herd does not wish to be culled, not one bit nosireebob!

oh the motor, I usually am more concerned with the sound of the horn, the K604 in this case. PWK really had it right in the 90's when he developed the Tractrix horn. I'm not so sure why I've spent so much time in Exponential-land. maybe getting K510's on my Khorns would be a good answer... I'll have some of them with B&C drivers in a bit when I get those 3x KPT904M systems over here. Time to play mix and match again I suppose [sigh]

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what's a K61?

KI172 uses a Tractrix horn in the correct vertical orientation, is two way, and has three-way slants. Besides that it's a more modern design by what, two decades. I'd buy that one above any Klipsch monitor. But a lot of very small JBL monitors can blow any of them away, and are far smaller on stage, lighter to pack around, and more accepted by musicians. If you can afford powered monitors the newer EV or QSC K10/K12 are some of the flattest response, best engineered out there today.

HSM is the worst sounding of the lot. Very limited bass response, but at least the horn is oriented correctly. The KSM12 sprays HF all over the stage, making feedback suppression a bit difficult. None of them are voiced very well and take a lot of eq on 1/3 octave to get the boxiness out of them. The KSM2 (15" 'Cornwall' monitor) has been dubbed 'The Drummer's Dream - because it's 15" K43 and ported and has some SERIOUS kick to it. My system is 3x KSM12II for front vocals, and one KSM2 for drummer!

Did you ever sell a bunch of stuff and have a lot of second thoughts afterwards? Because I'm losing my mind over here....

All of them. I can hear the 'pinched-ness' of the exponential and it grates on me.

Examine the screws on the bottom hatch and look for pry marks indicating that the woofer might have been replaced. Take a drill-driver and if suspect, with permission of seller, remove the hatch to see if there is a genuine Klipsch K33 in the doghouse.

Very nice tutorial. I've done some smaller home speakers and a few re-foam jobbies, but the 4-part woofers are a lot tougher to do than drop-in's (Peavey all in one basket) or 1-piece. I have two JBL 2245, EVM15L, K49 and 4x K47 that need reconed. Probably start with the el-cheapo Pyle 15 I got out of an old LSI for practice before the spendy ones!

I dunno, after spending time with Jubilees, every exponential horn sound squonky, LS, Khorn, CW. But I love my forte II's. Would a pair of Chorus II's be my answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything?

Here I've been struggling with whether to keep my 72 Khorns or Jubilees, when what I really need is the openness of a Tractrix horn with the deep end of a nice Heritage-y passive system. Would sell both pairs of these speakers if I could get my hands on a nice clean local pair of Chorus II. JimJimbo, this is you buddy. I think I messed up.

forte, Quartet was part of the second round and as such, had the 604 Tractrix mid horn found in forte II and Chorus II. BTW, the 'f' is always lower case as it is in the musical notation.