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Klipsch Cornwall IV

Hello all,

I'm interested in what people who have heard the speaker feel about it. I currently run spatial M3 turbos and have an all tube analog setup ( line magnetic, hagerman ) with an oppo 105 being the digital front end.


Previous speakers have been acoustic zen, reference 3A, Maggie 3.6, and triangles. I am more concerned with a huge immersive sound stage than I am with pinpoint imagery. I have a big room and have plenty of space between the back wall and my speakers if I need it.


Any thoughts?
simao
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ozzy62
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I owned both as well. Both are great speakers, but the Cornwalls suit my listening taste more.

Oz



recluse
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Agree with RIAA in that CWs are overpriced. Crites offers an equivalent which looses on aesthetics but, rivals in SQ and obvious $savings. Are you after furniture and name recognition? If so, spend 4 k more and go with klipsch.

Spatial on a lower tier IMO , including higher impedance and sensitivity.
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ozzy62
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Agree with RIAA in that CWs are overpriced. Crites offers an equivalent which looses on aesthetics but, rivals in SQ and obvious $savings. Are you after furniture and name recognition? If so, spend 4 k more and go with klipsch
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Absolutely wrong.

I’m not saying that the right Cornscala (think Justin Weber) built the right way won’t outperform the CW IV. But Crites Cornscala will not come close. I owned a pair a few years ago and even after damping the midhorn and replacing Bob’s xovers with ALK, they wouldn’t touch the Cornwall IV today. The downfall of that design is the removable rear panel which causes a serious mid bass resonance on some material.

And for the life of me I don’t see where RIAA said they were over priced.
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To address your questions:1. I loved the Reference 3A de Capos, especially after I installed the BE tweeters. They might possibly have been the best sounding speakers I’ve heard; however, they were in a much smaller room than I have now. The imaged well and enveloped me in soundstage. Weakness is a lack of depth. I also had a pair of Veenas and those didn’t do anything in my room - small and diminished sound


2. Maggies were indeed fast and open but, as you said, a bit thin in sound.


3. The Adagios were quite good: accurate and pinpoint but not as immersive, not as good with washing a soundscape over me.


4. I owned Triangle Celius’s too many years ago to have any reliable sonic memory; however, I’ve always liked the Triangle sound (with both Celius and Titus having been in my collections: clear and transparent without being clinical). I would be open to a set of good Triangle floorstanders if it comes to that.





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