The Klipschorn

I have paired my 2002 Khorns with everything from Wavelength Cardinals w/ WE 300bs to 200 wpc McIntosh solid state. I agree with the posters who recommend tube power with them, but I have found that I get the best performance with a quality push-pull design, such as CJ or the new Mac 2102. Granted, they CERTAINLY do not need the power, but they still sound more robust on the bottom. The Mac 2102 and C2200 tube preamp are a great pairing with Klipschorns and, most importantly, are VERY quiet. Any noise in the system will be magnified exponentially by the Khorns.

I recently purchased a beautiful 86' set of K horns. I was bitten by the curiosity bug as I have read so much good and not so good comments on these. Well I must say they are an amazing speaker. The sound is so dynamic and smooth. I am using a Krell Kct preamp, Evo 202 CD player with a Krell Fpb-400cx amp with high grade cast cables. I tried them with some Primaluna tube Amps but I prefer solid state as the sound is much more dynamic to me. This is a good lesson to me as to not believe what you read and to actually try out a product if possible in your system to form your own opinion. That's what's nice about the used market you can buy and try it out then sell if you don't like it and not take a loss.

Old thread, but the Khorn lives on ! With a few updates and modifications, they can be world class. Join the Klipsch community and learn how to extract all that you can, even thought you are enjoying them now. (Enjoy ! MrD.

Good advice
buy them reasonably, in good shape, address any issues
make a good faith effort to adapt them to room ( or other way round w wing wall corner ) and then listen - make up own mind.....
exactly what I did w pair of Cornwall’s.....
awesome rockers !!!