A Hidden "Feature" of the Cornwall IV

" Agree with garbage crossovers. Great speakers. Buy new crossovers from alk engineering and they really sing."

I agree with all of this but it is amazing how special these straight from the factory speakers are with the lowly junk crossovers.  There are a bunch of shade tree mechanics in the Klipsch Heritage "fan boy" groups and we have to let them tweak a bit.  Is it really any different than a C7 Corvette owner buying performance parts to squeeze out more performance?  Out of the box the C7 can hold it's own against exotic cars double it's price.  Pretty special car at it's price point even with it's not so exotic archaic pushrod engine.

Bill

Love my Cornwalls!

Cornwall II, decorators. When I got them, they were black, hand painted with a brush - a few times. Previous owner got them from a bar. Even had chicken wire protecting the woofer. Not pretty, but sounded really good. They had both the Crites XOvers and Tweeters. I did extensive bracing - side/side - front/back - motor board - corners - port shelf. Also damped the midrange horn with spray/damping material on the outside to get rid of the ringing. 

They were brought up a bunch of notches because of these tweaks/mods.

So yes, upgrades from the factory make a difference. Previous bike was a BMW S1000RR. A beast by any measure. Swapped out the pipe, added 8hp to it (on a 450lb machine that approx 200hp, it made a difference...) Did I have to do this? No, of course not. Did it "go" better? Yes, it did. (And it sounded better...)

Crossover components matter, a lot. So if you can get them to sound better with comparatively few dollars, why would you not do that???

I have owned klipsch speakers in the past that I felt needed and benefitted from various upgrades. Even though better crossover parts would surely be an improvement, I don’t have any issues at all with the CW IV that lead me down that road. In my opinion, they need not apologize for any facet of their performance.

Oz

Head throbbing treble.   Searing treble w wrong amp. 
  To much treble.  
As mentioned.  How much is klipscch paying you.  ?????

I have owned Klipsch(Heritage and Reference) speakers for the last 15 years and have never experienced that "piercing" treble that chases one out of the room.  Source, amplification, placement/toe-in, room acoustics, all come in to play with Klipsch(and others) speakers and sometimes it requires some work to get it "right".

Bill