KSP215k Speakers

Recently, I came across a pair of very unique speakers from the 1970s.

These speakers were made in East Germany when East and West were in cold war. Having accumulated so much sound and radar techology from the Second World War, engineers in East German decided to make their own speakers for studio monitoring and broadcasting. Schulz have 3 types of fullrange tht are being used in studio set up. The flagship is TH315 which is super rare and sometimes they go on ebay for EUR3000 now.

The second is KSP215k which is the 8 inch version with a whizzer cone. These were used in mono originally and therefore you will see a variety of colours of metal frame and magnet pastic cap version, but they are all the same drivers. The magic thing is that they have a cellulose dust cap which gives the extended high frequency response.The Ball Ball speaker cabinets were made by a company called Veb Statron around 70's (the space age era) for using the ksp215k at home. They are cool looking with acoustic material stuffing inside. TO mak space for these lovely speakers, I have sold off my JVC wood cone speakers.

For details, please see:http://www.rft-hifigeraete.de/9465.html

http://www.german-vintage-loudspeakers.com/navid.74/schulz-ksp-215-full-range-driver-alnico-version.htm