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RE: La Scala

Scratching my head. I admit I am not necessarily a horn lover having used electrostats for most of my 50 years know the hobby. Have had a set of Cornwalls and more recently a set of Heresys IIs. When I finally gave up my last set of stats I was going to buy a sdy of LaScalas but got sidetracked and bout a set of Bozak Symphonys instead.

The Cornwalls impressed me and I regretted selling them after doing so. I picked up the HIIs about '89 to help out someone more than wanting them. Never got to a point where I liked them enough to keep them in system for any time but, enough not to quite give up on them. The lower end showed some of the same attributes that I experienced with my full range stats that even the Bozaks could not match.

Recently, I popped one, found a cap let go. I was finally preparing to sell them and had to decide to sell for cheap or repair. Got the Crites rebuild kits and his titanium tweeter diaphragms. At the time I thought the tweeter had gone out. I did the rebuilds and changed the diaphragms. Sadly, I did not test in between to see what made the difference. My original diaphragms tested good and within a couple of tenths of ohms between them. Also cleaned up the terrible driver to baffle gasketing that had large gaps so not doing any job.

Not sure what causes the most change. I suspect maybe by the time I got the speakers the caps were trashed though only about 5 years old. For a couple of hundreds dollars and a couple of hours work it was like buying a couple,etc of grand of new speakers. Mucb of what I liked about the stats, I am experiencing with the new HIIs.

I would suggest getting the LaScalas and loving with them for some time as they sit. Find an amp that does decently well with them and carefully log your likes and dislikes about them. You already have a good starting place if the drivers are original and with the Crites crossover's. Only then explore improving them but, go slowly. Klipsch heritage seems to love up to the report they had way back then, for the bucks you get good value and a solid foundation whereby for not a lot of money they can show significant improvement.
Don Brian Levy, J.D.
Toronto ON Canada

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