Electro-Voice Cardinal Horn Speaker in Klipsch Cabinet

[luca1965ification]

Would you please tell me something about the soundtrack?

[olanzipMK2]

1958, cool! These speakers are the same age as my mother!

Regards.

[aidynphoenix]

i cant figure out where the lower frequency sounds excape from.. lol

[theaterboyeBay]

@aidynphoenix - this is a early version of the klipsch designed corner horn - bass comes out the back and uses the corner you place the speaker in as a horn

[fradaja]

@theaterboyeBay yes i had some there are gaps normally!

[MultiPissTank]

i just jizzed!

[kadio43]

como me gustaria tener estas cajas acusticas

[raytheprinter]

Very nice!!!! Thanks for posting!

[49kasey]

This is a very informative video. Thanks for putting it up. My earlier comment wasn't meant to disparage horns; upper range drivers sound very crisp and clean. It's just that the only time I ever heard K-horns I walked into the store and they were playing at a normal level and my immediate impression was that while they filled a huge room they sounded compressed. At the time I owned Celestion Ditton 10MKII's which was the mini version of the standard BBC monitor. A very exceptional loudspeaker.

[drakos2000]

Nice work. What is the soundtrack name pls?

[theaterboyeBay]

It is very cool what these old horn enclosures can do to a whole house. They seem to sound good even in rooms other then were they are placed. Not sure we will every convince someone that spent 100K on a typical modern speaker - but these horn designs have such a high enjoyment factor I bet their owners play more hours of music per week then most

[newjerseybt]

I built a pair of EV Patrician 800s with 30" woofer corner horns back in 1978 using E.V. blueprints. When I first powered them up for test they were actually scary sounding! I biamped them and found that only 2 watts RMS caused the house to shake! On a test sinewave you could hear no sound below 20HZ but the door leading to the basement was hammering out the frequency very convincingly!

[dukeboy3]

these speakers NEVER distort as long as you have them powered right a buddy of my dads had a 9in horn in his station wagon in high school and it was LOUD

[imrotting]

I have a 1957 EV Regency III, it has the 15", and the high and midrage horns and the controls on the side. An old RCA engineer that lived by me died and I got it from his widow. I guess it was about $600 when it was new. Sounds great.

[49kasey]

The only time I ever heard full range horns was Klipschorns in the early 70's. It was in an audio shop in the Wash. DC area that had a big room with a low ceiling. They had them playing at a background level and I thought they sounded really compressed. I don't see how anyone could live with that.

[theaterboyeBay]

@49kasey

Wow!!! making a bold statement for someone who has listened to a horn speaker just once - Still no one can deny your personal experience - good news is there are thousands of Klipsch horn & EV fans worldwide that would describe them as anything but compressed - in fact anyone who has had a chance to hear this type of speaker set up properly would argue that all other speaker design approaches sound compressed and lifeless in comparison - good luck with your opinion. 

[49kasey]

@theaterboyeBay It's not so much an opinion as a strong impression. But I'll agree that most loudspeakers sound lifeless. Since the shop was a Klipsch dealer I would assume they would have gone to all ends to demonstrate them to their fullest. And it makes sense to me that a folded horn would be subject not only to compression, but many colorations as well. After all, the woofer is in a compression chamber and has a folded horn in front of it, all made of wood.

[DeVizardofOZ]

@49kasey Actually our hearing and the degree to which our ears are set on our head is influencing how we perceive sound. Secondly, most horns sound great if the equipment is good (not talking about power;-). Best is a dual concentric construction (like Tannoy uses). I have listened to some of the best and most expensive speakers

but always come back to horns...

[49kasey]

@DeVizardofOZ Well, I'm not an alien and my ears are set just like anyone else's lol. But you'd never want to put a Tannoy in a K-horn so I'm not sure what your point is. Not trying to be obnoxious but I know my way around loudspeakers.

[DeVizardofOZ]

@49kasey What I meant to say is, that perceiving sound is subjective (Maybe because I am not a native English speaker I did not appear clear). Otherwise why can so many manufacturers successfully sell their products, even though most are not horns?! To my hearing horns and maybe ELS's are the sweetest as they produce music effortless.

[49kasey]

@DeVizardofOZ The only horns I've ever heard that I'd describe as anything like sweet are the Motorola piezos and the old Dynaudio front horn-loaded soft domes from the 80's. And I don't think that true sonic evaluation is a matter of taste. Two people can agree on what is better because it is really not subjective. Superiority can be recognized by an educated ear.

[DeVizardofOZ]

@49kasey For me it is not about brand names, but the most natural listening experience with all kinds of music, from A-Z. And, I do not believe that the most expensive speakers are necessarily the best, no matter what the company claims. But that is my personal opinion.

[dicktheguncheney]

just wow!!!



[vinylcanuck]

Fantastic!  Nicely presented, Beautiful Restoration on a Classic Speaker

[econoroller]

The electro-voice 15WK looks like the same frame and magnet housing as my old

electro-voice SRO 12" AlNico full-range speakers in my guitar amp cabinet.....

am I correct?

Are they the same basic frame/magnet housing?

good video...thanx :)

[theaterboyeBay]

@econoroller Yes the older SRO 12s had a massive Alnico like the 15WK and the frame was very similar although obviously a bit smaller

[steadfastcoward]

@theaterboyeBay I had Aristocrat cabinets loaded with slightly different model of Knight KN 800 in each. One was very dead but the other gave very nice results. Your cabinet look nicer. Hope you had a great sale!

[bongborin]

Wow. The speaker is looking very nice. The setup of the horn is sweet.

[raducanrazvan666]

great horn speakers! I MUST HAVE THAT piece of music!

May I know who and what it is?!?!?

[SmartX21]

Pretty nice video. Congratulations!