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The speakers you have are the original "Super 7" (not to be confused with the later (1981) Super 7, which was the redesign that went away from horns). they consisted of the bass cabinet from the Seven and the midrange and tweeter horns from the K's.  The Super 7 was a speaker that wasn't ever really production, and wasn't ever featured in any of the catalogs.  They were built to order in various cabinet shapes and sizes and never sold with full crossovers (most often tri-amplified with active crossovers).  If someone wanted passive crossovers, parts and general design were provided, which may be what was done here.  For folks from Seattle, the Seattle Center Lazerium originally had Speakerlab K's, but they were changed out to Super 7's at some point in the late 70's (and then changed to a full pro-audio system in the early '80's).  Our Current Super Seven uses planar magnetic ribbons instead of horns (slspeakers.com or find us on facebook).
PS  For those of you attending the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest this week, we will be exhibiting in room #2018, come by and see us!

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On 2/28/2018 at 9:00 PM, DizRotus said:

 

Correct.  In a vertical orientation.  They looked like this.

 

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I have a pair of the EV 8HD horns. They had been mounted in the pair of LS cabs I found for $100. They are almost back together with klipsch parts. They are diffraction horns and are supposed to be mounted verticle.

 

Bruce

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That is an Speakerlab commercial ‘super’ 7 from the early days (nicknamed the Super 7 before that name was ever used officially).

 

They were built mostly for clubs and venues like the Pacific Science Center Laserium, and were always at least bi-amped (and most often externally crossed over) because the efficiencies of the woofer section (from a 7) and the mid/tweet section (from a K) didn’t match.  I have seen one fully passive set, they had a bunch of resistors on the mid/tweet board.  
-Tom (speakerlab.net)

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On 7/7/2020 at 9:33 PM, Tom SpeakerLab said:

That is an Speakerlab commercial ‘super’ 7 from the early days (nicknamed the Super 7 before that name was ever used officially).

 

They were built mostly for clubs and venues like the Pacific Science Center Laserium, and were always at least bi-amped (and most often externally crossed over) because the efficiencies of the woofer section (from a 7) and the mid/tweet section (from a K) didn’t match.  I have seen one fully passive set, they had a bunch of resistors on the mid/tweet board.  
-Tom (speakerlab.net)

how do they sound -

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