Klipsch love them or hate them.

Klipsch, Mac tubes, Rock. Kind of like peanut butter and jelly, a great match. Wish I had the Klipsch set up that Fleetwood Mac used in concert.

I've had many types of monitors, tower speakers like Salk towers but none of them image like the old Klipsch.    All the older Klipsch Speakers have that 3D sound stage to them.  Close your eyes and you feel like you are there.   My Kefs may be more accurate but they don't image the same.   They don't have that WOW what kind of speakers are those effect.

Have a pair of KG4 and Chorus 1s.   They image like crazy and more more air than the new speakers with the multi but tiny drivers.

Horns provide a very forward, immediate sound, with lots of presence. Too much presence, having a severe "cupped-hands around a mouth"/"pinched nose" coloration that quickly becomes irksome. The worst speakers, by far, I've ever heard for vocals. The ones I've heard, anyway. But very dynamic, if that's your priority and you can live with the extreme level of coloration they possess. They do mimic the sound of the PA systems at rock concerts, which may be why rockers don't mind them. When I lived in my Band's house at the age of 21, our PA (Altec Voice Of The Theatre A-7's) did double duty as our stereo speakers.

Call them what you want most people when they listen to them have the WOW effect. They sound live. When you go to a real concert you don’t see a bunch of tiny speakers you see speakers with large drivers. If you want a live sound the Klipsch do much better than most.

Do you see people at a concerting saying "gee they sound different than my monitors at home" They don’t sound colored or harsh to me, but some peoples ears are more sensitive than others. There is not wrong or right to it but people saying things like colored and looking down on Klipsch because of this are not being realistic. And are over exaggerating things just a bit.

To me, all my monitor type speakers sound flat and one dimensional in comparison. Yes they might be more accurate on paper but they fail on the WOW department.

I am talking about the OLD Klipsch not the new stuff.

Bob, the thing is the sound heard at most concerts is coming from a PA system, which is what Klipsch speakers sound like. Live acoustic music does NOT sound like that. If a listeners reference is the sound of a PA system, Klipsch should be fine.