Joined the Cornwall club this morning.

tygr

Audiophoole
Was looking to replace my main system speakers the last few days. Thought I would go with Maggies. Saw an ad on CL for a pair of Cornwalls for a decent price with sort of trashed cabinets. Figured, what the hell, may as well go and have a listen.

Sounded a little bright but otherwise worth the investment. The cabinets could use some veneer work but weren't terrible. Some of the veneer has lifted but no big pieces missing.

So, for $400 they sound great in my listening space. Not bright like they did at the PO house/room. I'm loving them so far though they appear to be very old.

How do you date these things anyway?
 
I found what I think are the serial numbers stamped into the rear of the top board of each speaker. They are 14RO13 and 14RO18 I believe. Can anyone shed any light with these numbers?
 
Top thread of the Klipsch corner by Pmsummers should answer your question regarding what those numbers are. Congrats!!
 
I got to manufacturer date 1977 and then decided to let you go from there, short attention span. Sure there are others that can discern it far quicker.
 
beside enjoying them all you need to know is that they are well old enough to have a fresh set of caps installed. I would stick with good quality oil filled motor run caps as are in there now. The speakers were voiced for those caps stick with them. If you want them to sound spectacular then talk to Bob about a new set of his best tweeters as the old stock K77 are neither very smooth nor extended. You have a fine set of loudspeakers there congrats.
 
Thanks kids! I couldn't make heads or tails from that thread above re: dating old Cornwalls.
 
I found what I think are the serial numbers stamped into the rear of the top board of each speaker. They are 14RO13 and 14RO18 I believe. Can anyone shed any light with these numbers?

Top thread of the Klipsch corner by Pmsummers should answer your question regarding what those numbers are. Congrats!!

Thanks kids! I couldn't make heads or tails from that thread above re: dating old Cornwalls.
I believe that the serial numbers are actually 14R013 and 14R018 (the last three digits should be numbers). Your speakers were built in 1977, and were the 13,013th & 13,018th Cornwall speakers that Klipsch produced.
 
You're welcome!
Congratulations, by the way. You can't go wrong with $400 Cornwalls.
 
I believe that the serial numbers are actually 14R013 and 14R018 (the last three digits should be numbers). Your speakers were built in 1977, and were the 13,013th & 13,018th Cornwall speakers that Klipsch produced.

Edit. Was thinking of different serial numbers. My bad.
 
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Boy, I am really cornfused.


See what I did there, haha.
Klipsch Heritage S/N Date Code decoder

V. HERITAGE SERIAL NUMBERS:


DATES DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE

1955-1983 ##letter#### 20Y1234

3. In the 1955-1983 serial method the first, or prefix "digit(s)" before the year letter represents the sequence of production for each 1000 units. The suffix digits after the letter code will always be three digits - 001 through 999. For example 1C999 would be the 999th unit built, and 2C999 would be the 1999th built in 1965 C = 1965).

4. These digits before & after the year code apply only to that type of speaker.

5. The year code letter only identifies the year in which that number occurred.

6. As an example, if you have a pair of Klipschorn's and one of the serial numbers is 15T252, then by 1979 there had been 14,151 Klipschorn's made

7. For a pair of 1979 La Scala's, with serial number 22T403, it means there were 21,403 La Scala's made to that point.




YEAR OF MANUFACTURE (1955 THROUGH 1983 ONLY)

A = 1955-63* F = 1968 L = 1973 S = 1978

B = 1963-64* G = 1969 M = 1974 T = 1979

C = 1965 H = 1970 N = 1975 U = 1980

D = 1966 J = 1971 P = 1976 W = 1981

E = 1967 K = 1972 R = 1977 X = 1982

Y = 1983


* Cornwall's & La Scala's used "A" 1963 and "B" for 1964; the first Cornwall to use a letter code was 3A09, shipped in August of 1963.
I narrowed the "decoder" info down to that which is relevant to you. It should clear things up, hopefully.
 
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