high-efficiency loudspeakers

I've found that a pair of recently acquired Klipsch Heresy IIIs are much better than I expected (not sure what I expected in my house, but I did force myself to listen to a pair at a dealer before before buying these damn things) and since many haven't heard them since 1957 and might think, as I did, that they're an anachronistic old fashioned pile of beatnik era "hornist" crap, you may find they're pretty friggin' great. Or maybe you're DEAD INSIDE.

I prefer 10 foot wide burl wood horns with dual 30 inch woofers powered by a .127 watt vintage telephone amp….cloth covered wire from 1918…sounds awful but looks nice.

Note that my still surprisingly great sounding Klipsch Heresy IIIs cost (from a reputable Ebay seller/dealer with factory warranty) about 1500 clams including shipping. For a beautiful sounding 99db efficient 3 way I  think they are unique little speakers that will raise the roof with my massive 12wpc single ended tube amp. Unfortunately it does require payment in actual clams, which need to be refrigerated. 

One thing about the Heresy IIIs that's interesting and noticeable when looking at them (which I often do since they're in front of my eyeballs when listening) explains part of the musical coherence they display in spades...measured from the center of the tweeter horn to the center of the woofer is only about a foot...to the edge of the woofer much less of course...all due to the mid horn being narrow top to bottom and placed right on top of the woofer (even has a cutout in the same radius as the woofer to help in the proximity), and the tweeter horn right on top of the mid. For a 3 way that's pretty close, and the design works amazingly well with tseamless blending of the drivers...a good thing.

By the way, tseamless isn't an actual word.