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Strange Klipsch thing

I stopped by a local shop this afternoon because the guy had recently set up a two channel room. At the moment he's carrying Cary amps - which I use at home - and Klipsch speakers. He had an SLI-80 integrated run through the big Klipschorn speakers placed in the corners. What I heard was an enormously wide soundstage with exceptional image height, BUT, the whole thing sounded like it was being projected onto a perfectly flat wall. Not so much as a shred of stage depth. Is this fairly common with Klipsch speakers? It really seemed like an odd effect. Not my cup of tea at all.
grimace
grimace OP
624 posts
 
I should clarify. They weren't exactly my cup of tea, but i can understand why someone might like them. The width and height presentation was bloody huge. I'm just wondering if this is the "house sound" or if anyone who uses them in their home experiences the same thing. Also, since someone asked, it seems likely that since it was a demo setup, the KT88s in the amplifier were the stock tubes.
jdombrow
371 posts
 
Perhaps it was just due to their particular room setup.
rdavwhitaker
173 posts
 
My experience has been, on the couple occasions I've heard them (always in stores), that the big k-horns have fabulous dynamic range and sound very realistic with instrumental music, but poor imaging.
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sebrof
834 posts
 
I owned KHorns for about a year and a half. I liked a lot of what they did and some things I didn't like. Image depth was pretty much non-existent. I unscrewed the top hats that house the mids/tweeters and angled them into the room and it helped a little but not much.
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