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KLH Model 345 Little Baron

kbott

kbott

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Picked these up today. Thought they looked like they have potential. The cabinets are in great shape aside from the missing logo and some minor veneer damage. Looks like the hardest thing will be sourcing foam aside from being green it has a pretty wide roll

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Great find! I have been wondering how speakers from that series sound...I have a friend of the family that owns a pair of their bigger brother, the Research X SCX-3's and they are supposed to sound wonderful, but I never got to hear them (also never got to hear the Pioneer SX-1980 they were attached to). Anyway, I always thought that this series looked suspiciously like the early Infinity speakers of roughly the same time frame. Did they trade designers???? Anyone care to weigh in???
 
:banana: the baron is singing again. they say it's a controlled acoustic compliance loudspeaker system the little foam plug between the tweeter and the woofer is a tube stuffed with fiberglass. Is this similar to the venting on a dynaco a-25

they sound really nice very full rich/lush bass with non fatiguing highs all in what I consider to be a very beautiful walnut veneer cabinet. I still have to do some minor veneer strip to the top but overall a big :thmbsp:

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Awesome speakers! Those cabinets look great. Nice tweeter too, I really like those Peerless domes.

The Dynaco A25 uses an aperiodic vent - from what I understand, this makes it seem like a larger cabinet as the airflow is damped. Those looks like they use the same principle.
 
I've been listening to them all morning now while I'm routing out my garage saleing day and they're better than I was expecting
 
for those interested in how to get green foam or blue etc at first I was thinking something like rit or easter egg dye then as i was buying rit the lady at the counter said how about shoe polish. next stop a shoe repair place and I picked up this

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r311ik said:
the bottom 8" looks like my monitor IIa's and the tweeter looks to be the same.
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it's a 10" woofer on the bottom with a really big and heavy square magnet very similar to an advent's.. the cone itself is a very heavy and stiff paper
 
Those are my dream speakers (I know, weird dream). I've been trying to find a pair for 2 years with no luck. Great job on refoaming them, do you have anything (glass, stone, etc) on the tops of them?
 
Kbott

Still enjoying your 345's..if you don't mind me asking, where did you find your replacement surrounds, I have the 355's and amazingly the surrounds are still intact and do not show signs of rot, I don't know why though, however, they will some day and thought I should start looking.

Are there any published reviews on the 345 and 355, not much out there in the web.
 
source for the surrounds?

I just picked up a pair of these in great shape but the woofers need foam. I was wondering if anyone knew where to get the new surrounds? Thanks!
 
kbott said:
for those interested in how to get green foam or blue etc at first I was thinking something like rit or easter egg dye then as i was buying rit the lady at the counter said how about shoe polish. next stop a shoe repair place and I picked up this

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Hi, Kbott-

This is an old, old thread but I hope you're still a member and reading your feed so that, perhaps, you can advise me. Your image showing the shoe polish you used to color the foam has been removed but I am preparing to refoam a pair of 355s and wonder if you could repost your information about matching the color of the originals? I know it's not necessary but I do like the unique look of the green. Also, what model foams did you end up using?

Thanks a million!
 
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