(this is about how they were when they came out)

@kirakira you will be delighted to hear that these things sound fuckin fantastic now

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.

@apollo do diaphragms otherwise go bad with age?

@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).