My Vintage Klipsch Speakers ???

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  • agfrost
    agfrost Posts: 2,428
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Oh, and the L-pads look like they might have cadmium oxide (the thick coat of white powder) on them -- moderately nasty stuff requiring some care while handling.

    https://rais.ornl.gov/tox/profiles/cadmium.html

    I likes me some cadmium! Scrape it over scrambled eggs when I can't get hold of fresh truffles. *



    *A very bad idea. I believe my chemical supply company refers to Cd salts as 'devils'. They can be handled, but care is a must as the illustrious Dr. Hardy has pointed out. To recap: Heavy metal: Fine for listening, not fine as breakfast condiment or dust inhalation.
    Jay
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 10,716
    hold the line. I have seen these. They are satellite speakers for an organ I saw on TV.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,414
    Then they got kicked by Mr. Ed...
    The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD

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  • TennMan
    TennMan Posts: 1,266
    Don't forget guys - one man's junk is another man's treasure.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,414
    TennMan wrote: »
    Don't forget guys - one man's junk is another man's treasure.
    Agreed... just saw an episode of Hoarders and these speakers were in it somewhere.
    The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD

    “When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,801
    They're not pretty -- but they're not junk, either.
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,283
    TennMan wrote: »
    Don't forget guys - one man's junk is another man's treasure.

    Yeah John, you don't like it when people make fun of your junk :#

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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,414
    My son's foot is over two inches long...

    The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD

    “When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson
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  • Frzninvt
    Frzninvt Posts: 15
    edited March 2017
    These are DIY creations, PWK never used L-pads. Klipsch components in a homebuilt cabinet. You already posted this on the Klipsch forum and got the same answer they are DIY.
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  • Gatecrasher
    Gatecrasher Posts: 1,550
    edited March 2017
    They look lie they are from the 1950s. My Dad made his own cabinets back then and used University components. They consisted of a large woofer and a horned tweeter too.

    I think a lot of the manufacturers offered bare components to builders back then.

    Those cabinets look like they may possibly have been manufactured for the home builder market or the builder made them from plans in an audiophile periodical from the time or something like that. My Dad made his bass-reflex cabinets from plans in a magazine.

    I do know one thing. My father's speakers sounded fantastic. Especially with his Eico tube amp he built in kit form and his old Garrard turntable and Tandberg reel to reel.

    Back then there was a lot less off the shelf audio equipment for the budget-minded audiophile. This was before all the Japanese electronics were available too. Those speakers may be kind of ugly by today's standards but I bet they sounded pretty-good when they were new.

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  • leftwinger57
    leftwinger57 Posts: 2,917
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    drivers look exactly the same as mine in my Rectilinear 3 Low Boys. I never heard Klipsch going w/ any other brand x-over A-type obviously Klipsch so it's so kind of Frankenklipsch
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    H/T- Toshiba au40" flat- Yamaha RX- V665 avr- YSD-11 Dock- I-Pod- Klipsch #400HD Speaker set-

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,801
    edited March 2017
    In their early days, Klipsch used many different drivers. Early on, they used pretty nice EV and University drivers -- but PWK was largely of the opinion that the drivers didn't matter much, and they moved towards cheaper & cheaper, "commodity" drivers as the years wore on.

    Klipsch never used really good drivers -- Altec, JBL, stuff of that ilk. They could have, but didn't.
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