klipshorn speakers

@ozzy62 

Well, I have been posting this sentence for several years, so I guess I should win multiple-year awards.

Tell you what, go to your Klipsch dealer and listen to a spoken voice and then do it with, oh, I don't know, an ACCURATE speaker like one from Magnepan that does not color the sound.

Or, you could do what we used to do at my shop.  Put your hands on your face in the shape of a horn and speak to someone and then move them away.  Hear the difference?  No?  Then buy whatever garbage horn you love, pal.

Cheers!

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sns, in order to make it work you would have to use a multi channel processor like a Trinnov Altitude 8 and use it's DSP to create the two cross over points then tri amp the K horns and measure the group delay of each driver.  You delay the early drivers to match the latest ones.
Then you would run the room control measurement and finally you would use a measurement microphone system to check the results and make adjustments in delay as indicated and correct the frequency response so that the two channels match as perfectly as possible. I can usually get within 1 dB from 100 Hz to 10 kHz. I think that would do the trick but I could never be 10% sure without hearing the results. This approach works perfectly with Sound Labs speakers but the Acoustat 2+2 did not get there all the way and I am not sure why, probably the transformer I used. 

I am not trying to be derogatory in talking about this. Only a small percentage of audiophiles have the experience of hearing a system that images at the level I am talking about. I doubt you would ever hear it at an audio show. In my experience only one system ever imaged this way without digital correction, the very first time I heard this, and as I said above I was flabbergasted. It took me another decade to get a system to imaging that way and it was probably more luck than brains the first time, I was using Apogee Divas. 

My wife is dragging me out for a bike ride. Talk about it later.

I assume I could get my Klipschorns to measure better with digital processor, but at the cost of colorations of that processor, nothing that signal passes through doesn't have sound signature. I don't want a single change here from the status quo. And whats not to like in my ss or imaging department, illusion of live performers in room. Life size, fully dimensional, height, width, depth all in proper proportion, well defined on sound stage. Sound stage spreads across room,  far into room, well past my listening position, the only thing missing I've heard with previous setups and speakers is that sound stage doesn't extend outside and behind  speakers on front wall, Klipschorn required placement impinges on this.

Most importantly, I don't have to work at all in order to imagine this, this is the sound quality I get from each and every listening session and it lasts over many hours, five and six hour listening sessions not uncommon. I'll remain satisfied until we get visual 3 dimensional holograms to go along with our music. And I'm not saying my imaging couldn't possibly get better, but why would one feel the need to change out something that isn't a problem.
Back to the point of this thread. OP reiterates his son only cares about loud, Klipschorn with 300 watts will provide that! The issue then becomes whether the drivers can handle that wattage without frying. For sure you'd need  a Kipschorn with the tweeter protection circuit, not all have it. Next I'd be worried about mid driver, diaphragms on stock Klipschorn drivers are pretty fragile, especially on a vintage Klipschorn. Don't know if new production has increased durability?

In 1978, I was playing my vintage 1976 Khorns extremely loud (Cheap Trick Live at Budokan) and I fried both woofers. I didn’t damage the tweeters or midranges which does seem strange now. At that time, I called Klipsch, and they sent me two new drivers for free! I was using a McIntosh MC 2100 at the time of the incident.