From my own experience what the Klipschorn Loudspeaker needs is a bigger mid range cone and larger flare say a 3" cone?. That would alleviate the mid range shrill/harshness (for want of better words) and allow the mid octaves to sound unstrained and uncongested on certain types of music. The tweeter could be Improved upon also. On the plus side they a very a revealing Loudspeaker and can sound delightful on certain recordings. Massed choral works are a let down to my ears. The pluses outweigh the minuses for me in stock form. As I own two horn speakers that sound better than the stock Klipschorn, do I spend money and modify/Improve them or just leave them for what they are and enjoy them for what they do well?
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@helomech, Jimmy Hughes a well respected UK hi-fi reviewer music guru whom I have purchased some his equipment recommendations over the past many moons with no regrets gave the Heresy lll's a great review in 2010 and stated that he could live with a pair. No higher praise than that. http://www.hifiplus.com/articles/klipsch-heresy-iii-loudspeakers-hifi-plus-71/ @phusis , I would love to hear the Uccello, It looks lovely and I am sure it sounds wonderful. I hope Mr Mears comes to the RMAF this year with the Uccello or an equivalent, then again a trip to sunny Blighty could be on the cards for me soon, see the family, friends and have a decent Indian curry, and a trip to the seaside!! Thanks for your Info regarding ALK Engineering/ Volti Audio I might just look into both of them and research their offerings into making a good speaker excellent. Mr Klipsch only had to put on some music with massed violins with the violinists giving their bows some serious welly to see how constrained and downright unpleasant a sound that would be a pain on the shell likes and would even get pets running to exit the room. Its a flaw that can be overcome with simply (layman's terms) going large or larger. Of course my views are to my ears upon my own listening experience, and naturally I could very well be wrong. Then again Taters could be correct in that they are "the worst".......... |