mrdecibel: If you know, how do the Klipsch La Scala perform with corner placement? Are they designed for corner placement ideally?
K-horn won't fit, any other corner speakers recommended for a big room?
I am dealing with two very small corners in a fairly large room that I want to fill with a very open and transparent sound. I currently have a set of VonSchweikert VR3's in the corners and they sound great on the bottom end, but are lacking the resolve that I am looking for on the top end. I would like something that is a little less laid back. As mentioned in the title, I would love to put in a set of Klipschorns but there is a window at each corner that will not allow a K-horn to fit without covering the window. This is a fairly big room (22 x 30 x9) with three walls of windows and large opening at the back of the room that goes to the kitchen. Due to WAF, the two corners on the 22' wall are the only locations that are acceptable and yes, my VR3's are about 20' apart. My listening zone is at about 24-25' away so it works out ok but soundstage and imaging does suffer because of this. My thoughts are that speakers that are meant to load off the corners of the room and aim towards the center (K-horn) is the correct path for me. In a perfect world, I would be able to enjoy them at 12' away as well as 24' away. Currently, my setup actually sounds better at 24'. Does anyone have suggestions for speakers that are meant to go into a corner or very close to corners? Ideally, I'd love to get a pair of Maggies because I have always loved them when set up correctly, but I don't know how I could make them work well within my constraints. One last comment, I still have small kids at home so the wife needs to stay in case that was Option 1. Anyone ever had this problem to deal with and did you ever solve it?
- ...
- 35 posts total
@kren0006 The Lascala ( and the no longer available Belle ) can fit in a corner, but in all of my years experience with them, corner placement causes mudiness, boominess, creates overhang in the bass output and timing, and, the dog house ( Klipsch lingo for the bass horn ) loses the coherence between the bass and midrange / treble. I find them very coherent and well balanced. They sound good against the wall behind them ( being 24 inches deep, with some rear wall treatment ), but not near a corner. I know quite a few folks who use them in corners, and I tell each one of them to get Khorns. I enjoy my LSs, but if I currently had workable corners ( I did at 1 time and owned earlier Khorns ), I would have Khorns. As you may know, I admired PWK, and still do ( RIP ). |
Thanks mrdecibal. One more if I may: Klipsch Cornwall- okay in corners? I ask because my brother has similar placement restrictions as OP but for different reasons and KHorns won’t be in his budget. But I’d rather know going in than to advise something unlikely to work well
i know the whole point of the name Cornwall is supposedly that they work either in corner or on wall but just wondering if that’s true in practice or merely marketing bluster |
- 35 posts total