My only experience with Klipsch are Heresys. I guess the Khorns now have a different and better tweeter.
Surely, Ralph, your Classic Audio Horns are a different world than Khorns?
Have you heard the 75th Anniversary ones?
Has anyone heard the newest version of the Klispschhorm?
I watched a YouTube of Robyn of Robyatt Audio.
A long standing Quad 57 man, he has taken the ESS rebuild to the max now with a new, fairly extreme wooden frame.
Very interesting that in this video he abandons his push of the Quads and now raves about the new Klipschhorns. Even saying that they are the best speaker regardless of price!
The new KHs are now in much improved enclosures with sealed backs making them now best away from corners into the room. But what about the sharp, honking sound of the horns? But for a diehard Quad guy to now say that the new KHs are better than the $100K+…? I was also a diehard Quad guy until I decided that I wanted bass and treble, and most of all, dynamics! There is no question that the KHs are that. I never owned KHs but did once have Heresys. I will never forget that blaring tweeter!
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@mglik -- "... I guess the Khorns now have a different and better tweeter." The newest AK6 version I heard a few months back sported a somewhat problematic upper end, as I wrote earlier. A quality tube amp pairing might be preferable, as some here have suggested, but still I wouldn’t expect it to completely ameliorate named shortcomings. Can’t speak for Ralph and the Classic Audio Loudspeakers, but I would expect them to better the Khorns from the central midrange on up. They extend deeper as well, but are direct radiating here nonetheless. Not to say they don’t deliver excellent bass, I’m sure they do, but horn-loaded bass (and up to lower mids) just sounds different. |
@atmasphere Huh?? I'm used to horns being relaxed and detailed like good ESLs! They can work quite nicely with good class D amps too 😉 I was amazed how well HYPEX Class D mono blocks |
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