A different view...

Simply beautiful!!

Thank you!!!

I'm really REALLY anxious to get them put back together and in the living room doing what they were designed to do. Making music.

They are coming along nicely. Very soon they will be making music too.

Well they're done. OK... "mostly" done...

I went to bed last night and laid there and pondered the project. What had I missed? What had I overlooked? What could have been done better? You know the usual paranoid delusions that haunt people like me.

Having drifted off to sleep without any significant changes in mind I got up this morning and set about the task at hand.

One of the things that did come to mind was that fact that it has been 3 months or so since I listened to them as "La Scalas". I have not heard them with the current amplifier (Marantz 2240), or the current turntable (Clearaudio Emotion) so I made the decision to put them back to original configuration for a while before I implemented the porting. At this point they've undergone a couple of MAJOR changes. Most notable are the trachhorns from GotHover. I just thought it prudent to step in to the upgrades one at a time to best judge which ones matter.

Here's the picture of the left one. The right one looks just like it's partner.

 

And here's a shot of the whole "sound stage"...

 Very nice looking setup !  Congratulations...................

OK... So the next question becomes... Where do I place the Klipsch emblems? I have a few brass on black and a pair of "vintage" copper badges. I'd like a pair of "pie slice" logos but I hear they're kind of hard to come by.

Help me properly ID my La Scalas.

 

Great job on the veneer!  Your a natural!  Keep up posted as to how the sound!

WOW!  Beautiful job.  Some of you guys are so very talented when it comes to cabinet making.  Very nice!

jhoak:

Where do I place the Klipsch emblems? I have a few brass on black and a pair of "vintage" copper badges. I'd like a pair of "pie slice" logos but I hear they're kind of hard to come by.

Just call Klipsch and order a pair of "Jubilee logos".  They'll likely have them in stock.

I got a pair for my 1974 La Scalas to replace the worn (and one was missing) plastic pie slice badge and the new metal ones are much better looking.  I put them at opposite top corners, so the speakers look to be mirror-imaged right and left.  The right speaker is in my avatar.  The Jubilee logo is visible at the upper right corner of the speaker.

Really great job, JH. Custom La Scalas, "La Belles"??? You should be very proud.

Thanks for all the knid words everyone.

What you see here represents a LOT of hours of work. With quite a bit yet to do. I just couldn't stand walking through my garage day after day looking at them and not listening to them. The only time I have to work on them is the weekends. I suspect that I could have finished in a week or so if that's all I had to work on.

I'm going to listen to the for a couple of weeks, maybe a month before I make the conversion to ported. The good news is that by virtue of the design it'll take me about 30 minutes to convert them from regular La Scalas to ported La Scalas. Then I get to play with port lengths. Again easy to do. I can swap out port shelfs in under 15 minutes.

For the last 3 months or so I've been listening to my "poor mans" Cornscalas. I got a pair of the PH-800 horns and the appropriate crossover bits from Mr. Crites. They're nice no doubt. They do have more bass extension. What they don't have is the accuracy of the La Scalas. At one point yesterday I had one La Scala and one Cornscala hooked up. By setting the old Marantz to mono and sliding the balance control I was able to give them a good A/B comparison. The La Scala won. Hands down.

I don't suppose there's a marked for Cornscala cabinets without drivers?

What's next? HMMM... I'm thinking tubes...

 Very nice craftsmanship, you should be proud.

Very nice work Jeff, very nice.