Less expensive alternatives to Klipsch Heritage Cornwall IV?

ElectroVoice 15W Woofer and two ElectroVoice horns, brightness and presence controls, 16 ohm 

local pickup only (you could use UPS Pack and Ship)

SkyFi Audio, LLC, 479 S Broad Street, Glen Rock, NJ 07452

https://skyfiaudio.com/products/ev-electro-voice-15-3-way-speaker-system-in-marquis-enclosures

They must sound a good bit like mine which sound a good bit like big Klipsch. If you were quite serious, I would go listen/compare them to mine for you, they are 1 hour north of me.

Mine are taller, same tweeter T350, same Woofer 15W, different mid horn, and I slant them back (see wood block above front wheels) aiming the tweeter to seated ear height.

Age: I have a full set of spare drivers and re-cone kit. The horns are impregnated linen, mine untouched since 1958, I’m told virtually indestructible (I did burn a T35 coil blasting ’In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida’), the crossover’s parts are sealed in tar filled metal cans, and re-build kits for the 15" woofers (cloth not foam surrounds) still exist, and parts express has 16 ohm L-Pads.

https://reconingspeakers.com/product/ev-electro-voice-15w-15-aftermarket-recone-kit-16-ohms/

Do you have 16 ohm taps on your amp? I drive mine with a Cayin A88T MK1 which has 16 ohm taps (originally Fisher 80az Mono Blocks).

Note: Current Klipsch Cornwalls are 8 Ohm, and I presume foam surrounds on the 15" woofers. No level controls which I think is a darn shame.

https://d2um2qdswy1tb0.cloudfront.net/spec-sheets/Cornwall-2019-Spec-Sheet-v03.pdf?v=1718394140

@elliottbnewcombjr 

Hi -

All nice stuff.  What would you recommend driving these speakers with?

The OP presently uses an old in the tooth Pioneer Elite amp (presuming AV, could be wrong).  Would that do the trick here?  

Since $7.5 k was a mic drop for speakers and these would cost $3.5k, plus a trip out to Bergen County, plus any expense to refurbish ... aren't we bringing him pretty close to the mic drop ceiling.

The ceiling could always change, but I got that the Cornwalls were a NFW for him, price wise.

Rich 

rar1

These would be the easier to live with choice with free shipping in the price.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/388549886687?_skw=klipsch+Cornwall+4+speakers&itmmeta=01K39V49BXHE33GKSP0P5TM6G9&hash=item5a7760c2df:g:zqIAAOSwS5FoRgXa&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAABAFkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1cBOKmrhg%2BCqxj2mITce6UpTDoZIcpr%2B7ap%2BcjLvAsJ8jO80pRGxkgSxyitp8Oib2LzyDBWh6XVmdXjZxkHItXK9CZ6Z30VKgvjjLdB%2FLR4iPNnUYOgS1WOWWB9sICZFS8NLdAAxY7AEvTkYJ8N%2FciXIbAygF5i3lftly3a6rj4RfENJPK%2FeMTami%2BOWhynh29sKpadcDayqBrbWyQeLT7I4X0VrGnSaUgq89lhai8wp4nAVlnrCsvqh4MfrV3o8aBINoxzEWWimaOzep%2B%2FNx3lXGxy6kf7Ho2ous%2FTHVLDX6k3YRctCmXLrYoDhvqOlgc%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR46WkbuaZg

IF OP really likes the sound of Cornwalls, and IF what Skifi says is true, transport is the immediate issue (no refurb needed currently).

I have never seen that Marquis cabinet before. If they become your beloved speakers, in the future the cloth could be replaced, a woodworker could refinish, adding a select veneer of choice ..... I would put them on 3 dual wheel casters, and tilt them back a bit like my existing ones, not only directs the tweeter, it changes the angles of reflection off the floor/ceiling/eventual rear wall.

I 'know' their sound (possibly preferable to the Cornwalls, certainly similar), For me, the pair of L-Pads to adjust them in any listening space using a CD with test tones and an SPL mike is highly desirable and the Klipsch lacks that. They could be added to the Klipsch, especially the restored ones.

You never know what floats another's boat, who has a cousin Vinnie with a big SUV that could pick them up and come visit, and I don't know what space or equip OP will use/change to, or his retirement plans and how that will effect 'big' stuff.

However their age/future is an entirely different matter when compared to a fairly current Cornwall and Cornwall the far more common 8 ohm.

I've got spare drivers and re-cone kits, If mine were stolen by a pair of strong theives, I would probably go back to a pair of JSE Model II's,

The Cornwalls have front ports, the Marquis rear slots/vents, I have a rear 'tuned port' designed by Electrovoice Engineers when I designed the cabinet, however I have it blocked here, I used it open in prior location when there was no wall behind the speakers.

https://holthill.com/products/jse-infinite-slope-model-2-ready-to-rock?srsltid=AfmBOorZul0QVXI9XsS5zmNyS2rYoBak6ML8ZediPbiP7NUtn0UfkhXn

I want to stay with tubes, they are sensitivity 90db, not sure my Cayin's 45 wpc would be enough for very dynamic content, I used McIntosh SS 2250 to drive them in the past, just because someone gave it to me. I never tried less power with them, I just assumed my Fisher 30 wpc 80az mono blocks were not enough.

btw, take a look at my horns mounted vertically, and both the Cornwall Horns and Electrovoice 250 Midrange horn in the Marquis being mounted horizontally (note electrovoice t350’s are vertical in both mine and the Marquis).

The Electrovoice Horns in my speakers have mouth shapes that accomplish the opposite of what they appear, mounted vertically, they limit the vertical dispersion, and specifically deliver wide dispersion.

https://products.electrovoice.com/binary/T350%20EDS.pdf

My midrange is actually two horns on a single driver, called a ’Compound Diffraction Projector’, model 847 CDP on page 26 here. Fisher chose to use it in my Uncle Johnny’s Fisher President II, which I inherited in 1973. Thus my speakers can be considered 4 way, although the crossover is 3 way.

https://www.steampoweredradio.com/pdf/electro%20voice/electro%20voice%201957.pdf

Currently a used pair of Cornwall’s at www.partsconnexion.com