Klipsch Cornwall IV

@jbhiller

I don’t think music is authored on inexpensive amps and gear. In fact, the studios I’ve been to all had hundreds of thousands of dollars of gear. Not a cheap amp to be found.
Certainly live venues might be using Crown and inexpensive amps for playback.

you are absolutely correct in my experience

people conflate equipment used in recording and mastering (absolutely excellent gear) with gear used in conventional playback (heavy duty industrial stuff like crown amps giant p-a horns etc etc) in mass audience venues

an example is in 2006 i bought an audio research v70 tube amp, with high grade foil capacitors and rca/mullard old stock tubes handwound output transformers etc etc - this was the amp that for years powered the recording/playback monitors in david chesky’s nyc (formerly rca radio city) recording studio from when he launched the grammy winning boutique label... all those lovely recordings on lp and cd we bought by sara k, paquito d-rivera, ana caram, and remasterings of phil woods clark terry badi assad etc etc... this amp was used to for mixing and final voicing!!!... it is lovely amp, utterly pure and grainless, full of air and timbral accuracy - if anything it is too accurate, midrange sounds maybe just a touch lean for my tastes - but i still have that amp as a keepsake

i would be very appreciative if a reader here can describe to me their opinion of the stereophonic imaging/depth qualities of the latest cornwall IV speakers, how they compare to something like a thiel tower, for example. 

Well that name was assigned 50 years and 4 models ago. Doesn’t mean it still applies. Look at Khorn - latest model doesn’t need to be in corner. 
Just wondering how far from wall owners have seen best results?

Nobody said they HAD to be placed near a corner/wall. It does apply just like AUDIO NOTE speakers will always work near a Corner/Wall. They are designed to do so. Go to the Klipsch site and see where they are placed OR look at any of their advertisements/brochures. ALSO watch ZERO FIDELITY’s review on Youtube. His Room is only 9 x 12 so guess what....they arent very far from the wall at all.