jpc2001 Posted April 4, 2017 Share Posted April 4, 2017 No affiliation. "Speaker Factory." The price is right -- if these are close to the real thing on performance. https://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/ele/6072592674.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mungkiman Posted April 4, 2017 Share Posted April 4, 2017 Particle board. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
absolve2525 Posted April 4, 2017 Share Posted April 4, 2017 Those look like Speaker Lab Ks. That's a hell of of lot of speaker for $250! I wouldn't be deterred by the particle board. They're heavy and survived this long, not exactly flimsy. Definitely worth checking out for someone who wants Khorns but can't afford or find any used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc2001 Posted April 5, 2017 Author Share Posted April 5, 2017 A prospective buyer will have to make a snap judgment of value based on little cues. Is it MDF or a lower grade particle board? Is there water damage, warping, or musty smell? Drivers and crossovers can be swapped, mold is forever. What's going on in the 2nd photo? I would expect to see a mid-horn throat there somewhere. Maybe it's higher up, maybe it's off for the photo, maybe it's AWOL? I own a pair of second-hand DIY khorn copies. It is a crap shoot. On mine the bass horns are solidly built plywood, very close to the khorn dimensions, and the crossovers were genuine Klipsch Type A. The bad news was the drivers were the wrong impedance. Real Khorns have a 4 ohm woofer, 16 ohm midrange, and an 8 ohm tweeter. Whoever put my DIY horns together had used 16-ohm drivers throughout. It was a shame, as they were suitable choices otherwise. So the choice was then to triamp and fix the levels in an active crossover, or replace drivers to get near a stock khorn spec. I replaced drivers. The whole project ended up costing a few hundred more than I'd hoped, $850 or $900 total. They're nice now, though they'll never be Klipsch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizRotus Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 I owned 4 plywood Speakerlab SKhorns. Those are not plywood and they don't appear to be Speakerlab. I never heard of Speaker Factory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richieb Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 I always thought the Real speaker factory was located in Hope, AR?! Did something change ---??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc2001 Posted April 5, 2017 Author Share Posted April 5, 2017 And they're gone. Anyone here get em? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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