rexhunt

Just to let you all know, I replaced the 4mfd capacitors with new Erse caps and the 24s sound much better. A very tight sound with plenty of bass and much nicer highs than before. I know it's apples and oranges, but I was A/B-ing them with my large Advents and while the Advents had the much deeper bass, the KLHs had better mid and highs. I bought caps for the Advents as well to reach the minimum order and just got done with them. Now the highs and mids are where they should be. Those little KLH 24s really are amazing little speakers - with a total investment of around $15 I'm one happy camper!! Rex

Wow, that's a lot of speakers. Going by the 2 year model life, I didn't think they would have made that many. So, I wonder how many had the simple circuit compared to the one mentioned most on this site? Rex

Mine are 114266 and 114267. The numbers must be some sort of code rather than sequential - that would have been over 93,000 speakers made between ours which is highly doubtful. Rex

Well, I'm just going to replace the 4uf caps and go from there. Roy, did you find a date on the woofer? Mine were from Feb. 1969. Rex

Thanks Kent, that is exactly what I was expecting based on your previous posts, but it is a single 4 ufd cap and no resistor. I found a thread on AudioKarma with the same thing. Rex

Hi, I'm new to the site but I have been lurking since I picked up a pair of large Advents at a garage sale last Summer. I recently came across a pair of KLH model 24 speakers at a thrift shop for $5. When I got them home, I hooked them up next to my wife's Boston HD8s which are similar. They both worked and the bass was fine but the highs left a lot to be desired. The tweeters were working so I started doing some searches here and on AudioKarma. It looked like I probably needed to replace the caps in the crossover. I found a great thread showing the crossover with the inductor, resistor, 8, and 16mfd caps. Well, I removed the woofer on one and checked out the crossover and it had only the inductor and a single cap. These speakers have the screw terminals which it seems was standard on the stand-alone versions rather than the RCA jack found on the speakers that came with the system 24. My question is, is the 4 component crossover designed to match the system? Is there an advantage to using the more complicated circuit on the stand-alone or should I just replace the single cap? Thanks, Rex