Klipschorn placement and power question


I have a large farm machine shop that I would like to place a pair of Klipschorns in. I know they need to be in the corners, but can they be mounted up off of the floor. Or do the horns need to be on the floor to sound right? The shop is 48Wx72Lx17H. I'd like to hear stuff like ZZ Top at live listening levels. Any amplifier suggestions?
holzhauer
I agree with Johnnyb, you aren't really going to be utilizing the Klipchorns properly with that set-up. They will pump out tons of sound from 50-100 very clean watts. However, they may get fatiguing if you don't have a very nice clean amp (ie mac or similar solid state). Tube amps won't hold up to abuse as well.
I have seen Lascala's hung from very large rafters in a club and it worked very well and was very loud. But, to an audiophile, there was no imaging or soundstage at all.
Just think, 1 watt=105db, 2 watts=108db, 4 watts=111db, 8watt=114, 16watts=117db & 32meager watts will get you 120db of rock concert sound.
If you have to place them so far apart, you could add a center speaker to fill the middle, like a klipsch Belle or a Klipsch Laskala.
The shop is 48Wx72Lx17H. I'd like to hear stuff like ZZ Top at live listening levels.
That's almost 59,000 cubic feet. Contrast that with what most of us are familair with: An 18x20 family room with 8' ceiling is 2,880 cubic feet. Even a fairly large "great room" in a spacious upscale house would be around 12,000 cubic feet.

There's a lot of air to move in a room that big.

For live levels in a venue like this, we have to think in terms of something close to a full-range PA speaker. The Klipsch is sort of like that, and so is a 2- or 3-pair array of Cerwin-Vega CLS-215s.

Another viable option might be full-range self-powered PA monitors, maybe something like this.
06-03-09: Jaybo
dangle 901's from the ceiling and fire up the zz top.
... or 5 pairs of JBL-100's pointed at the listening area.