Martyn Miles
pfm Member
Just to be clear - the damping that MK1 Kans had was applied both in the form of doping to the drivers and damping material inside the cabinet. I don't think (correct me if wrong) the later Kans had doped drivers.
I bought a pair of old Kans. they had 'pushed in ' tweeters and the cabinets were almost useless, due to water damage and cracked edges.
I only bought them for the B110s.
What amazed me was how difficult it was to dismantle the things ! It took ages to split open the broken cabinets and remove the front baffles. I was being very careful not to damage the '110s. The crossover was attached with wood screws to the rear panel, and has various components stuck down with what looked like Araldite adhesive.
The B110s were held in by hexagon bolts and some sort of adhesive. I did ( eventually...) get them out. They were painted with what appeared to be car underseal.
The seller wanted the old tweeters and crossovers, so I was left with two good condition drivers and a pile of broken and cracked chipboard.
My lasting impression was a sort of 'bomb proof ' loudspeaker, where no expense has been spared on its construction.