Rxfroid Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 Fortune crossed my path, I got a couple of Heresy HI-SM, it is not so easy to find these units in Europe and even less on a small Spanish island (Ibiza) I live on the largest Balearic island Mallorca. The condition for the age could say that it is perfect, all the units are original, woofer, midrange, tweeter and crossovers. I have not yet connected them for listening, I have made a measurement at the terminals and both units show 6.1 Ohm. The two crossovers are HIE type although one (the one with the higher serial number) #3849 by #3761 of the other, has different capacitors than anything I have seen so far. Do you know if these can be original or have they been recap? what makes me doubt a recap is that on the black base there are no traces of anchor holes of the oil capacitors. At the moment I have no idea of doing a recap, I'm going to connect them to my little tube amplifier to "roll" them, measure them and draw conclusions. Many thanks for your reading, I will report on the evolution of these jewels. (This is my first post on this forum, although I've read it quite a bit I don't know if I posted in the right place, sorry if it wasn't) Also apologies if my english is not so correct. Un saludo 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybob Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 Wow, nice score! Welcome! Yes man, looking original. Good fortune will say... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybob Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 Bumping @Rxfroid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnA Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 The black plastic cased capacitors were OEM Klipsch for a while in the 990s maybe before. Your K-42-E looks to be an Eminence (speaker company) made copy of the EV EVM-12L, the woofer I had in my early '80s HIPs. Your English is excellent. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gur_cmv Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 Hi, I'm also from Spain (Basque Country), and I have a pair of HI-SM too. It's funny how these are easier to find in Spain than regular Heresy Is, at least from my experience. I found them in a second hand store (Cash Converters) in very nice condition and I've been using them for a year and a half, paired with two SVS subs. I'm quite happy with them but I have only compared them to some little bookshelf studio speakers, which had some beautiful tight bass but a poor midrange. Now I am building a pair of Super Heresy 2.0s and we'll see which pair I'll keep, but definitely the looks of the HI-SM have been growing on me (I didn't like them at first) and they would be hard to get rid of. I don't think I will. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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