klipshorn speakers

my son doe's not care about accuracy of a speaker! he just want's to hear his music 'loud'!!!!!

I like russ69’s advice, and you can also get Belle Klipsch’s if you want a better looking speaker.

I sold Klipsch’s when I was in college and I sold more Belle’s and La Scala’s than K-horns because they were much easier to place in a room.

Another consideration is the fact that your son is likely to move multiple times during his career and Belle’s/La Scala’s will be much easier to place in a new room. The best sounding Klipsch system I ever sold was a pair of Belle’s to a wealthy doctor who had a 60’ x 30’ listening room, but no corners. He powered them with an Audio Research power amp and in his room, they were the BEST SOUNDING Klipsch’s I ever head.

And I believe jasonbourne52 makes a good point with his JBL recommendation. Less expensive, somewhat similar sound, and MUCH EASIER to move.

As always, YMMV😎

@ozzy62 

Well, I have been posting this sentence for several years, so I guess I should win multiple-year awards.

Tell you what, go to your Klipsch dealer and listen to a spoken voice and then do it with, oh, I don't know, an ACCURATE speaker like one from Magnepan that does not color the sound.

Or, you could do what we used to do at my shop.  Put your hands on your face in the shape of a horn and speak to someone and then move them away.  Hear the difference?  No?  Then buy whatever garbage horn you love, pal.

Cheers!

Bugs Bunny>What a maroon<Bugs Bunny

sns, in order to make it work you would have to use a multi channel processor like a Trinnov Altitude 8 and use it's DSP to create the two cross over points then tri amp the K horns and measure the group delay of each driver.  You delay the early drivers to match the latest ones.
Then you would run the room control measurement and finally you would use a measurement microphone system to check the results and make adjustments in delay as indicated and correct the frequency response so that the two channels match as perfectly as possible. I can usually get within 1 dB from 100 Hz to 10 kHz. I think that would do the trick but I could never be 10% sure without hearing the results. This approach works perfectly with Sound Labs speakers but the Acoustat 2+2 did not get there all the way and I am not sure why, probably the transformer I used. 

I am not trying to be derogatory in talking about this. Only a small percentage of audiophiles have the experience of hearing a system that images at the level I am talking about. I doubt you would ever hear it at an audio show. In my experience only one system ever imaged this way without digital correction, the very first time I heard this, and as I said above I was flabbergasted. It took me another decade to get a system to imaging that way and it was probably more luck than brains the first time, I was using Apogee Divas. 

My wife is dragging me out for a bike ride. Talk about it later.