Knight KN H30HC 3-way speaker pair

[veggieguys]

I have the chance to get these cheap. 12" Also says Allied Radio Corp of Chicage IL. They are in huge walnut cabinets at a sale near me. There is also a pot for adjustments sticking out the side of the cabinet. I'm thinking these would be best with a tube amp. They look to be in mint condition. Any info would be appreciated.

 

[Nat]

Huge Walnut Cheap strikes me as promising. Allied sold lots of manufacturer's equipment, so who knows what you might find in there?

 

[rmeade]

I bought a pair of Knight Kn3000 recently; all EV components - 3 way ... horn mid and tweeter (12 inch woofer). They sound great, nice cabinet too. As Nat points out Allied used high quality components. Based on my experience - I would not hesitate.

 

[Robint]

I would go for them, I picked up a pair of Knight 95DU302 speakers last year and the consensus here at AK was the the drivers labelled KN 2250 were by Goodmans of England.

See:- http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=399693&highlight=knight

 

[veggieguys]

Picture

Here is a pic of the cabinets. There is only one speaker per cabinet, front ported. Wish I had taken a pic when I had the back off to show the Knight driver, tweeter, mid and woofer in one. I believe it was sold as a kit and installed in these furniture boxes.

 

[rmeade]

Electrovoice driver, perhaps?

Look like these?
http://stlouis.craigslist.org/ele/2907422630.html

 

[hatrack71]

Electrovoice driver, perhaps?

or Jensen...

 

[veggieguys]

Would it say that on the back of the woofer? It just says Knight KN H30HC 3 way there. The cabinets say nothing at all. Looks like the pic attached except it's not 888HC but H30HC.

 

[mhardy6647]

The drivers and the cabinets were sold separately (or the cabinet is a DIY).
KN H30HC isn't a model I know offhand.

Meanwhile... I am sitting here in our family room listening to Says You on the radio and surrounded by old Allied Radio catalogs

EDIT: Well, I see a KN 830BHC in the 1967 catalog. It appears to be an OEM version of the Electrovoice Wolverine LT-12 coax. Worth my scanning & posting or shall I just keep lookin'?

 

[veggieguys]

830HC it is! Here are the pics

Picked them up today. No one bought them so they were throwing them away. I arrived just in time with my truck. Heavy furniture! Free is a good price.

Sorry about the wrong model number. 8 and H sound alike so the guy who wrote it down for me must have heard me wrong. There is no B in the serial though.

I will hook them up soon to one of the most vintage amp/receivers that I have. Will a Sansui 5000X be too powerful at 55 wpc?

Report back how they sound soon.

 

[rmeade]

Great snag from the trash! AK, saving audio heritage one dumpster dive at a time!!!

 

[veggieguys]

Not liking the sound

Well, they sound like crap with my solid state Sansui. Maybe they are ment for a tube amp?? I may have saved them from the dumpster but I'm selling them. Got a guy coming over Monday who has a tube Fisher from the mid 60s. We will see how it sounds. Thanks everyone for their input.