Cherry Wood Corner Horns
zingo
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As you guys know I am moving shortly and my new listening room sadly does not have the layout for corner horn speakers; stupid windows... These are the best speakers I've ever owned, and one of the best I've ever heard, and I'm looking sell them and move to something smaller. The finances didn't work out to simply get a new woofer cabinet, so I've decided to move on entirely. If you've never heard all wood horns with no hint of congestion and ultimate clarity and detail, you're missing out on an incredible listening experience.
The guys from Soniphase (a local horn speaker building company) helped me piece together this awesome pair of Klipschorn style, 3-way corner horns speakers. The bass bins are cherry wood, patiented corner horns loaded with 15" woofers, and strong down to 35Hz. The mids are an Eminence compression driver loaded in a patiented Smith horn, with a custom Eminence tweeter mounted under the mid. The crossover is mounted in the mid/high unit, and all the horns are wood and built right here in the Pacific Northwest. These speakers are 105db sensitive and currently being driven by a 6wpc single ended EL84 amp for the mid/highs and a 440wpc solid state amp for the woofers.
Asking $2000 Polkie price, and I could provide transportation, but obviously no shipping.
The guys from Soniphase (a local horn speaker building company) helped me piece together this awesome pair of Klipschorn style, 3-way corner horns speakers. The bass bins are cherry wood, patiented corner horns loaded with 15" woofers, and strong down to 35Hz. The mids are an Eminence compression driver loaded in a patiented Smith horn, with a custom Eminence tweeter mounted under the mid. The crossover is mounted in the mid/high unit, and all the horns are wood and built right here in the Pacific Northwest. These speakers are 105db sensitive and currently being driven by a 6wpc single ended EL84 amp for the mid/highs and a 440wpc solid state amp for the woofers.
Asking $2000 Polkie price, and I could provide transportation, but obviously no shipping.
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Forgot to mention that a 6" throat pair of motorboards are also included, as well as a set of Vishay capacitors to swap in the XOs instead of the Sonicaps for fun.
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Forgot that these are included too; sorry they are dusty... They are matching cherry wood top hats for the woofer cabinets that will make they look like Klipschorns.
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These are well out of my price range, and we're much too far apart geographically for it to matter anyway.
But, my wife and I are renovating out entertainment room. So, in the words of that guy looking up at the business end of Callahan's 44 in "Dirty Harry," "I gots to know" :
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The woofer cabinets are 25.5"D x 33"W x 39"T. The mid/high Smith horn sits on top and is about 2.5' wide and 10" tall. The top hat are the same width and depth of the woofer cabinets, but about 18" tall.
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Again, I'm just talking for the fun of it here, but...
We're putting in wooden bookshelves across three walls and meeting in two corners. I'm wondering if, theoretically, these could be slid into the corners rather than have the shelves meet in the corners. They would have wood on either side of them, 16" out from the wall, and shelves above them.“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
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I don't see why not. They need a little breathing room on each side of the horn throats of the cabinets, but could be built around other than that. They actually take up less room than other speakers of similar size because of the corner placement.
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What would be the measurement out from the wall at a right angle to that corner, f that makes sense?“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
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24" from corner down the wall to the edge of the thoat; 32" to the forward most lip.
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Price drop to $1500 or trade for a pair of speakers of similar value.
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I would also be willing to sell the corner woofer cabinets with all extras (just not Smith horns) for $900.
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congratulations on the sale!
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Yes. Congrats to u both“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
- Isaac Asimov
Hi-Fi
Apple Lossless --> Squeezebox Touch --> Joule Electra LA-100 Mark iii --> Odyssey Khartargo Mono Plus --> LSiM-705's
Cabling by Groneberg
Visuals
https://media.illinois.edu/journalism/ledford-charles-stretch
bit.ly/stretchonphotojournalism
http://Vimeo.com/channels/stretchphoto
