Klipsch Jubilee & Klipschorn Experience

@souljasmooth wrote:

I bet it was the amps more than the room. I have Jubilees in a small room with excellent results. I have been playing around with different amps, and what a difference amps make on these speakers.

My assumption as well. As I’ve mentioned previously amp choice is vital with most any horn-based speaker, and can make a great difference wrt. the overall balance of sound and whether it’s perceived in-your-face or not.

However, strictly speaking whatever accounts for @willywonka’s Jubilee impressions at named exhibition last year is pure guessing, and let’s not forget that as there are different rooms, setups and choices of implementation, there are as well ears belonging to different individuals.

My ears are 9’ away from the center of the top horn.

My ears are ~11’ from the acoustic center situated between the lower edge of the large format horn and upper edge of the dual 15" woofer bass bin of my EV cinema speakers, and here the sound coheres wonderfully. I.e.: they’re 2-way speakers with the vertically aligned woofers coupled in parallel and the horn covers from ~600Hz on up. They’re subs augmented below ~85Hz.

Which version of the Jubilee’s do you own - the pro version made prior to the current domestic ditto? It would seem it shares the same MF/HF horn as the domestic variant but with a different driver, and the bass horn isn’t ported.

I own the current version. Yes same horn, different driver. Woofers are ported into a horn. And comes with an active crossover.

@souljasmooth wrote:

I own the current version. Yes same horn, different driver. Woofers are ported into a horn. And comes with an active crossover.

Great. What amps are you using? 

Thats what I was hoping for with this thread. Info on what amps people are using with these speakers. I have tried Canary, Accuphase, Constellation, EAR. Still trying different amps. 

@souljasmooth wrote:

Thats what I was hoping for with this thread. Info on what amps people are using with these speakers. I have tried Canary, Accuphase, Constellation, EAR. Still trying different amps.

I see. This can be a fairly arduous process finding the proper amp match, combination and configuration, and in any case you're left to your own findings eventually. Have you formed any preferences so far - an inkling perhaps towards tubes, SS, or a combination or the two? Low powered amps vs. higher powered? Similar amps for both the MF/HF and bass section? Even though the Jubilee’s are extremely efficient, my take is they’d thrive on some power still, despite claims to the contrary that much less power is "enough."

Moreover, if using a similar pair of stereo amps, try experimenting with vertical vs. horizontal bi-amping. This to me at least was an eye opener in my actively configured, high eff. speaker setup; using similar amps for both the MF/HF and bass section of my 2- way main speakers (the first important takeaway), and then configuring them vertically instead of horizontally - i.e.: one amp per speaker with its two channels divided over the MF/HF and bass sections. That’s where it all really began falling into place sonically, to me.