Are the Klipschorns mainly for Classical music ??

I also owned K horns for years for many types of music, mainly rock, but my wife , who plays string bass, loved them for classical. I now own Klipsch KLF30's as she loves the bass, and through my 45/2a3/300b SET's sound very good on all program material. I must say they sounded terrible on Adcom amps the dealer had. When we hooked up my LP12, Counterpoint SA5.1 , SET I had brought, the dealer shut the doors, brought out the ashtrays, and said " I had always believed Klipchs were incapable of depth of soundstage , and had hard sounding tweeters.. I can't believe what I hear." We and rhe salespeople listened into the night.

Glassaud,

Excellent combination between the 30's and SET's! I use a completely restored EICO hf-81 integrated tube amp with my 20's and Chorus II's.

I upgraded the crossover networks in both pairs of spekaers and the difference is incredible. I do all the upgrade work myself and stand by my work. I offer a complete money back gauruntee if you don't like it. However, no one to this day has ever been even slightly unhappy.

Mike

I'm very out of date. My experience with horns, including those of Klipsch, was for monaural listening. The rational for such horns, placed in the corner of a room, was that the adjacent walls extended the horn. The sectoral horn used in several of the systems for high frequencies was an extension of concept. I had thought stereo killed them off, because few rooms could accomodate a pair of corner horns.

In the old days there were a number of such systems (unsure of spelling, JBL Hartsfield, ElectroVoice Patrician, Altec Voice of the Theater, and Klipschhorn to name a few. But along came Edgar Villcher at Acoustic Research with his long-excursion air-suspension speakers, and tar began pouring over the monsters. The small boxes lent themselves to stereo. Since then, there seems to be a general return to ported reflex enclosures. IIRC, Bozak was the first to use many moderate size cones to displace air.

So the answer to the question of whether Klipshorns are mainly for classical music is obviously no. Anyone have a JBL Hartsfield out there? At the time, I thought they sounded great, but problably wouldn't now.

Paul Klipsche and Edgar Villcher had several interesting debates at the annual Acoustical Society of America meetings, and I must admit to deserting the psysiological and psychological sessions to attend those debates. One of the great PK lines was something like, I don't care if you push it with a broom handle, you still have to move the diaphram to displace air.

db

Going to pick up second set of Klipschorns tomorrow. Thank God they are only 2 1/2 hours away instead of 6 hours.

Most of my collection is classical. i would never consider horns for classical. I need separation of the image. I can't stand whena speaker or a vacumm tube model blends everything into one "blob".
Sure horns may deliver more dynamics over most cone speakers and over all panels.
Which is why i looked for a cone that delivered with characterists of a horn.
Something that married the best of both approaches.