KHorn Project.

[kevinmi]

Dave, I just put in a pair of 220ti tweets in my Khorns in place of my Crites tweets, and they sound great so far. I think they complement the 405 mids a touch better, but I've only had them in for a couple of days. They are a tad louder than the Crites also. -kevin

[Speakmeister]

It is a buyers market for sure. Very nice price.

[Guest David H]

Dave, I just put in a pair of 220ti tweets in my Khorns in place of my Crites tweets, and they sound great so far. I think they complement the 405 mids a touch better, but I've only had them in for a couple of days. They are a tad louder than the Crites also. -kevin

Super, I have a set of D220's on the way from Bob Crites, have been anxious to try them.

Definately a buyers market.

Dave Harris

[Guest David H]

Found a decent way to support the Fastrac in the Khorns.

[Guest David H]

Top hat bracing.

[tk49]

Dave, great thread, is the khorn fastrac horn the same as the lascala fastrac horn? In to the second week with your Fastrac's in my lascalas', really enjoying the open, smooth sound, gives the piano and guitar a full more natural sound over the K-400.

t

[Guest David H]

Dave, great thread, is the khorn fastrac horn the same as the lascala fastrac horn? In to the second week with your Fastrac's in my lascalas', really enjoying the open, smooth sound, gives the piano and guitar a full more natural sound over the K-400.

t

The horn used in this project is much larger. "Fastrac K", its a 300Hz Fc vs: the Lascala's 350Hz Fc.

Dave Harris

[Al Klappenberger]

kt

This horn is the early version of the horn that will replace my Trachorn 400 now that Bill Martinelli has moved on to other things. I have been running tests on a similar horn to verify it's performance. The instrument tests look good.

Al K.

[Groomlakearea51]

Great work!!! and great progress on getting that old face veneer off the bins. Seems to be coming along very well. Sanding the layer below is a PIA, but a box of 180 grit and a random orbital will do it very well. Followed up by some 400 and the new veneer will stick for sure!!

[H]

[hklinker]

I'm baaack.....[]

Great project, Dave! I am ready to tackle a K-horn project and this seems like a great primer.

Thanks for the posts and pics!

Herb

[Guest David H]

Great work!!! and great progress on getting that old face veneer off the bins.

Thanks Groom, yes it is alot of work, but I took a short-cut by stripping the majority of the top layer off with my hand planer, then went to the orbital.

Herb, is back..... Nice.

[Guest David H]

I am very anxious to get back to my Khorn project, but I had a request to address first.

It was suggested that I design an adjustable mount for my horns that did not require drillling new holes in his beloved KHorns: such as adding an L bracket or moving the current bracket from the original K-400. Initially I though the request to be a bit unreasonable, however I like a challenge.

Here is what I came up with. Because of the position of this brace, I can adjust it up to 1/4 inch in either direction, and will work in the original KHorn as well as the B Top KHorns. The great part is that this is built from left over plywood.

Dave Harris

[Guest David H]

Another with KHorn B top "C" brace installed.

Dave Harris....

[Johnny's Jill]

I love the new horn mount, it's so simple.

What crossovers?

Craig

[Guest David H]

More pics, I have always like the open end grain on Klipsch speakers, so I needed to come up with a way to replace the damaged end grain with matching 13 ply Baltic Birch.

[Guest David H]

Top Hat, still some work to be done.

Johnny 5, crossovers are coming be patient.

[Guest David H]

End grain.

[Guest David H]

Almost done, trying to decde if I want to add trim to the bottom of the bass bin.

[Guest David H]

Here is a before and after.

[Guest David H]

Closeup. The blond Birch is very attractive, but doesn't show up well in the pictures.