closdubois Posted December 8, 2009 Share Posted December 8, 2009 Hello all: Have been acquiring several Heritage speakers over the past several years and finally was able to land some Khorns. Ijust picked up the 1975 Klipschorns and thought I should send thexovers in to get new caps installed. I'm looking at the xovers and thetwo smaller caps are small yellow plastic looking cylinders that sayPaktron, WC +/-5%, 2.0 MFD, 7306 150V. They look like they're epoxiedto the board The other capacitor is a large metal cylindernearly an inch in diameter and 2.25 inches long. I can't make out thewhat the printing says on it because it's obscured by the piece ofmetal strip affixing to the board. My question is: do these soundlike the caps that would have been installed originally or are some ofthese maybe the result of the xovers already having had their capsreplaced. Bought the Khorns from an ebay seller/agent whoindicated his client was the original owner but had had a stroke andwasn't able to remember doing any cap replacement or any other servicework on them. They sound pretty good but from everything I read here I think there's potentially more there. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djk Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 When the supply of surplus oil caps ran out Klipsch substituted some Mylar types. A short time after that they had new oil caps made. Replacing your caps would improve the sound. You need two 2µF and one 13µF per speaker. Forum member BEC can help you out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
closdubois Posted December 9, 2009 Author Share Posted December 9, 2009 Thanks for the info,djk. They're going toBEC today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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