Apollowell our tweeters were definitely dead
the mids and low end are still a little bit crunchy but they have like 25 years of wear and tear on them. and i’m not about to buy new mid diaphragms and woofers lol (well…maybe at some point some new mid diaphragms would be in order). but anyway holy shit does the high end sound good now.
i was genuinely having fun just hearing myself through a microphone earlier, it sounds so crispy!!!
here’s a lil demo btw (not that you can get much of an idea of how it sounds through a phone video, but you can get an idea of the fact you can actually hear the high end)
kira flow@kirakira sometimes they do, yeah. the midrange drivers are pretty similar to the tweeters actually, just a bit bigger (which is why they haven't died completely at least, but they wear kinda similarly), and the woofers are...well, woofers (they don't usually die from age alone in my experience but they definitely don't sound quite as good/tight after a while).
@kirakira from what ive heard from some people who are much deeper into the industry than i am, klipschorns are kinda notoriously easy to kill (they pretty much demand limiters, which we have not given them quite yet).
@apollo oh these are klipschorns? explains why you described the mid driver that way. i guess a smaller driver is gonna be a little more susceptible to power spikes (though they also shouldn't take as much power to drive)
@kirakira yeah, they have horn loaded tweeters and mid drivers (and pretty standard woofers). cant remember which is mains and which is sub but one is kp-362 and the other is kp-682 iirc. and yeah, the drivers don’t need a super large amount of power to drive, which is in no small part why they blew (heaps of power got dumped right into them).