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These are my Apogee Centaur Majors which recently went through a full restoration by Brian Salazar (Baco99) They turned out amazing!

I am a big KLH fan. I have over 20pr of speakers and systems, from odel 12's, 6,s, 5s,17's as well as the rare Model 20+, I read an article recently on the Model 16 (See info below.) It states the the Units made Mid 1694 performed much better than the first launch Model 16's. Enjoy building & listening to your system. "We tested two Model 16 amplifiers, one an early production unit, the other a refined version that went into production around mid-1964. The first unit met or exceeded its published specifications, but it had excessive hiss in its phono preamp stage, its tone controls did not yield flat response in their Flat positions (the errors amounted to about 2dB at 50Hz and 10kHz), the two halves of the volume control tracked very poorly (with a 10dB difference at some settings below 10 o'clock), and the sound was quite gritty at low volume levels. The second sample was just as good in the specs department, and had virtually none of the problems of the earlier unit. Response and power output checks (both channels driven) verified the manufacturer's claims, as did noise measurements. As is customary, the noise spec is referred to full power output, presumably with the volume control all the way down. The acid test for transistorized components, and one which most of them fail miserably, is the noise measurement through the phono preamp stage, relative to a given level of input signal. Our second sample Model 16 measured 47dB down in one channel and 50dB down in the other, relative to a 10mV, 1kHz input. All of this noise was hiss, and it was low enough that it was barely audible through a speaker of typically low efficiency with the gain wide open and one ear right in front of the speaker." Read more at https://www.stereophile.com/content/sound-transistors-klh-model-16-amplifier#VdlXYefWwsZHlpS5.99