bcarey13 Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 Well, I've been here for about 2 years and figured I should start posting so I can edit my profile, etc..... I'm in the middle of restoring 2 khorns....They are from the pre stereo days. One is a July 1956 and the other is a January 1957.....I've been repairing, painting, veneering and dyeing(not staining) the veneer..I bought the veneer from Oakwood. I've bought new drivers and crossovers from Bob Crites and hope to have them up and running again in a couple weeks. I'll post some pics in that time of the progress. While they are being worked on though I am luckily not Klipsch-less. As we speak I am listening to an Crites upgrades set of Lascalas from 84' and a set of Heresy II's. I also have a couple sets of KG 3.5's that we use with the TV's. I think I would probably going faster on the resto if the Lascalas didn't sound so good. They are amazing. To be honest a couple of years ago I fought against liking Klipsch. I had about 20 sets of speakers rotate through my music room and none of them were Klipsch. The room has always been a challenge. It's about 26x16 with vaulted 15' ceilings. Nothing sounded great in there until I put in the 1950's khorns that were honestly pretty tired and not working 100%. Now, every Klipsch speaker sounds great in there. I'll update the resto as I go or if anyone has questions about the 60 year old khorns. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coytee Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 Gotta love honky horns! Sounds like you have some nice Khorns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcarey13 Posted January 24, 2017 Author Share Posted January 24, 2017 I've heard that the fiberglass/wood K5j's drop off pretty steeply at 4500hz so I will be using the 4500 crossovers from Bob. The horns were filthy....I've cleaned one and have one left. 60 years of dirt and dust and grime Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebes Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 10 minutes ago, bcarey13 said: The horns were filthy....I've cleaned one and have one left. 60 years of dirt and dust and grime That's called patina. So why are you dying the veneer. Is this easier, better, deeper, etc. In other words pray tell do tell me more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcarey13 Posted January 24, 2017 Author Share Posted January 24, 2017 here's one horn done and one still dirty 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcarey13 Posted January 24, 2017 Author Share Posted January 24, 2017 4 minutes ago, thebes said: That's called patina. So why are you dying the veneer. Is this easier, better, deeper, etc. In other words pray tell do tell me more. I've stained a lot of things over the years but the dye will actually sink in on tough to stain or tight grained surfaces really well. I figured I'd give it a shot. This is the place I bought it. http://www.kedadyeinc.com/Eco-Friendly-Wood-Stain.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZEUS121996 Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 13 minutes ago, bcarey13 said: here's one horn done and one still dirty Strange looking bass bins Mark 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcarey13 Posted January 24, 2017 Author Share Posted January 24, 2017 ^^^lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimjimbo Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 32 minutes ago, bcarey13 said: 60 years of dirt and dust and grime You talkin' to me? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcarey13 Posted January 24, 2017 Author Share Posted January 24, 2017 16 minutes ago, jimjimbo said: You talkin' to me? lol...not me here is one of the bass bin labels. As you can see it is a 'C' Style with no riser....Although I have made the necessary parts to turn it into a Riser or 'B' Style Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcarey13 Posted January 24, 2017 Author Share Posted January 24, 2017 and luckily these two plexi-badges were both present and in good shape 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimjimbo Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 Now THOSE are some cool badges! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schu Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 They sure are... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryC Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 2 hours ago, bcarey13 said: and luckily these two plexi-badges were both present and in good shape Lucky You!! Those are the best badges ever, IMO! Do you know where they go? On a B-style, they are centered on the inset collar between the top hat and the bass horn. On mine, they were held in by brass brads in the little holes in the ends. These beat the pie-shaped wedges and copper plates all to heck, IMHO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcarey13 Posted January 24, 2017 Author Share Posted January 24, 2017 ^^^ Yea, I carefully pulled them both off the speakers. Since I had a B style and a C style, the B was exactly as you said on the collar of the riser and the C style was centered on the top of the bass bin. It took me a while to get them off but I was able to save all 4 brass brads as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wvu80 Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 On 1/23/2017 at 7:24 PM, bcarey13 said: I've heard that the fiberglass/wood K5j's drop off pretty steeply at 4500hz so I will be using the 4500 crossovers from Bob. I just realized you bought new driver to go with the A/4500 XO. The A/4500 XO with a new tweeter (non-crites) made a huge difference in upgrading the sound in my 1978 Khorns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcarey13 Posted January 24, 2017 Author Share Posted January 24, 2017 12 minutes ago, wvu80 said: I just realized you bought new driver to go with the A/4500 XO. The A/4500 XO with a new tweeter (non-crites) made a huge difference in upgrading the sound. I bought the Crites CT-120's(I have them in my Lascalas too) and apparently they can handle down in that range without a problem. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wvu80 Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 I want to tell you B Carey that I love the kind of restoration you are doing, to bring tired speakers back to life. The only downside is that you may never know what those 1950's era Khorns were supposed to sound like, but that is a curiosity thing. The important thing is that we know with the components you've selected they will sound great. Speaking for myself I care more about how they sound now, rather than how they sounded way back when. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcarey13 Posted January 24, 2017 Author Share Posted January 24, 2017 8 minutes ago, wvu80 said: I want to tell you B Carey that I love the kind of restoration you are doing, to bring tired speakers back to life. The only downside is that you may never know what those 1950's era Khorns were supposed to sound like, but that is a curiosity thing. The important thing is that we know with the components you've selected they will sound great. Speaking for myself I care more about how they sound now, rather than how they sounded way back when. Well, I ran them for a while in my music room.... with the Stephens 103 LX2 woofers, University SAHF mids and EV t35 tweeters, and the original Klipsch 500/5000 Crossovers. Even with one suspect and crackly tweeter and some tired crossovers they sounded great. Of course everything in the khorn back in the 50's was all 16ohm. The dilemma was to try and source and refresh all 16ohm parts or move to the 4,16,8ohm standard that is still used today. Even though I would've loved to keep everything original my most important objective was to get the sound to be the best it could 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schu Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 what is the history on those HF lenses? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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