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They look great! The cloth is in pretty good condition, personally, I'd leave it as is. The veneer looks fantastic too!

Hey Geoff! You're doing a great job with these and great documentation! You will be quite impressed at how good these sound when you're done. The black liner grill cloth was used so you would not be able to see the drivers through the linen fabric, and the cloth shielding the woofer basket is the same as the Six's and Twenty Threes. I prefer this over the thin tissue type paper used in AR's, which is always shredding and falling apart when I open up a pair. Looking forward to your listening impressions. If you have a space where you can spread them out, do it and be prepared to stage like sound! Glenn

Hey Geoff, So not too bad. I think in the end after a recap, some work on the cabs, woofer and mids surrounds resealed, they will be very nice. Have fun! Glenn

Hey Geoff! Good deal for sure. Post pics, I'd love to see what you got! Glenn

I paid the same for mine, and already recapped! Well worth the 160.00. Grab them,get to them when you can. I forgot to mention, I also restored a set of Seventeens, which also sound great, more of a comparison to the AX4a's. My daughter has them now. Glenn

Peters thread on AK is a great one. There's very little info on these, his documentation, and restoration work was outstanding. Geoff, I've had 4 pairs of KLH's, still have three. The Five, Six, and Twenty Three. Of these, which are the most easily found, I rank them in this order, Five, Twenty Three, Six. The Fives are outstanding, period. They give my AR3's a real run for the money, and a performance bargain, though prices are creeping up. The Twenty Threes are Sixs on steroids, the cabs are bigger and they share the woofer with the Five which can handle a lot more power than the Sixs. Ahh, the Sixs. Absolutely love them. Mine are 1963 models, with the glued woofers, and one glued tweeter. The other tweeter is screw mounted. This is the year the screw mounted tweeter was phased in. I believe 1965 the screw mount woofers came. My other pair were 1972's, end of the production run with vinyl clad cabs. Both Sixs sounded virtually identicle, except, the 1963's go a tad deeper due to the epoxy mounted woofers longer excursion. I have them hooked up to my Scott LK-72, and it's a sublime mating. Hopes this helps you a bit, but any of these I'm sure you would be very happy with. Glenn