Restoring a Set of Kef Calinda's - Vintage Hifi
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- Опубликовано: 4 июн 2019
- Summer time is here, and it's time to get some projects out of the way.
This video is about restoring my Calinda's towards an original look. These suffered from a make-over that wasn't going to fit the interior. So often you find these painted over.
Further missing T27 tweeters and thick and muffling curtain-material over the baffles. So yeah, not good, however like this, you'll be able to get a great deal on a set of these and they have great sonic potential. Warm but a tight low end. Bright and clear but not harsh. Just detailed, balanced and punchy! These sound truly stellar when set up right.
I'm definitely no wood worker or anything but I like to these kind of projects every now and then to get myself dirty, learn stuff and make terrible noise.
They came out pretty good after stripping, sanding, smoothing, staining, oiling, remounting drivers and making new baffles.
The general process can apply to speakers, furniture and other wooden stuff so maybe this can be useful to others as well.
So, not so much a music-related video, but stay tuned as I'm on it!
Enjoy!
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Some TLC for a set of Calinda's.
Superb!
Sanding ASMR
Yeah thats your answer to everything :) hehe love calinda's thank god you got the original T27. they are expensive for what they are. but hell they sound good in calindas ! they are sweaaat sounding speakers, a true true English laid back sound with deep lows and nice sparkling tops
Personally, I'd have begged/borrowed/stolen a router and some roundover cutters to add a small radius to the edges of the replacement MDF cover, and a slightly bigger radius on the speaker holes in it. This just helps break up the hard outline of the speaker hole edges when the sunlight hits it, and I feel it adds a slightly more finished look.
Also, MDF soaks up spray paint like your average Glaswegian can soak up whisky ( :D ). It's always a good idea to hit MDF with a can of sealer before spraying it, or black paint usually ends up looking like a patchy charcoal colour until you've spent 4x more on extra cans of paint and time than a single can of sealer would have cost.
Apart from that, brilliant job there mate. They may still not look 100% factory fresh, but considering how bad they were when you got them it's an absolutely stunning transformation !
Thanks for the tips!
wow!!
2:51- 3:12 The sander is actually "in-key" to the song in the background, it "hums the tonic" ;)
Yep, the pitch of the machine
hovers around an A, so we make it the lead instrument in our rock track!
Try doing all of that ,with a loudspeaker of today .No change ,they fall apart.
Great restoration .Where the woofers original B200 ? They looked so new ?The T27 you got are newer ones next gen. (you needed the ones with the wires sticking out )These : img.usaudiomart.com/uploads/large/1185947-vintage-tweeter-kef-t27-sp1032-cadenza-calinda-cantor-caprice-chorale-coda-concerto-corelli-cresta-1.jpg
But I don't think the sound will change or difference much .
I've got a couple of Cadenza's that are also painted white back in the late 70's early 80's :-(
Thank you for uploading .A great and healthy 2020
Regards Kenneth John
Yep I know, but happened to have those around. Problem is that 1 already fails today. Rest was original, might give it 1 more go on technical restoration before #@$ them off. :)
Great, thanks. I have to refinish mine as there is some staining up top and my sanding should be considerably easier than yours. I notice my grills are glued and not stapled. How were the gaps between the grills and the speakers. Finally, I notice that yours like mine, have a little more staining on the top of the side faces. Could you have sanded it a little bit more or do you think the stains will always bleed through a bit?
Hello
I have speakers Calinda.
I openned my speakers, Is it normal that the woofers are not wired ?
Have good day
True, the bottom woofers are the so called 'passive' woofers and they just mirror what goes on in the top woofer. Cheers,
Thanks for your clear answer.
Cheers
Can you tell me what kind of cable I need for the Calinda's?
Depends on you wishes and budget. The internal wiring should be standard as comes with the drivers. Speakercable isn't too critical either, but you can go overboard with that as well. Some nice banana plugs for good connection and nice slightly thick speaker cable will do. Cheers!
@@AldoSpadaroOfficial I'm sorry, I don't know the subject very well. I lost the cable for the back of my Calinda SP 1053 and am looking for a replacement ...
@@thomasbock997 For the back there's just the connection. It doesn't need or have it's own cable. Just a speaker cable from any audio shop will do. Let me know
@@AldoSpadaroOfficial First of all, thanks for the quick answers!
But what do you mean by 'speaker cable'? A normal 3,5 mm plug doesn't fit
@@thomasbock997 It's not a 3,5mm plug. It's a speaker plug. The cable wire goes in it, and then into the Calinda. You can find them anywhere. Just type speaker plug in search engine
and you see what I mean.