museum worthy KEF speakers?

[Chas]

Definitely replace all the capacitors with at the least, 400V Solens. I have a nice old pair of 104's (non aB version), some of the original capacitors actually went open circuit, I had never seen this happen before....

After replacing all the KEF OEM caps with Solens, there was a major improvement - and the tweeters started working again.

[Wayne]

Hi Chas

Thanks for the advice, figured complete swapout was the way to go. The 5u cap sure made a mess of its self inside the box, but the tweeter thankfully meters fine.
She never has liked any of my vintage gear but I honestly didn't think she would deliberately over-drive them to that point.
There ain't no speakers hooked up any-where now, makes me
Now I'll track down some Solens, hopefully locally, fit them & try them out at a mates place, will be looking forward to some better sounding Concertoes.

Cheers Wayne.

[LowPhreak]

frank23 -

Congrats on finding the orphans.

I had a pair of KEF C80's back in the early 90'S. A very decent sounding 3-way I thought.

One step down from the 104's, but had the same components except with the sealed cab B139 woofer instead of 104's 2x8" semi-reflex cab.

Not the most efficient speakers, but they had a very even 4 ohm impedance right across the range, and got going nicely with a 125 wpc or so.