Klipschorns


I once owned a pair of Klipshorns for about a year. I was never able to make them sound very good. Everything sounded HUGE which is good for some music - Pink Floyd comes to mind - but music that should sound life-sized was also HUGE. Voices emanated from the ceiling, mid-bass dominated everything (until I used an equalizer), there wasn't much of a sense of depth, and the sweetspot was about an inch wide.

Nevertheless, many people think they are the best speaker ever made. I'm willing to blame my experience on the room and/or the inability to find the magic combination of associated components. I'd like to hear them again in a system where everything is right. Was my experience unusual?
jlambrick

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I have had a fair amount of exposure to the Klipschorns
and I can really tell you first hand that it is a 'classic'
but very tired and old design for a speaker. First, it just
is not very accurate. Secondly, the imaging is just way
exagerated. Thirdly, the bass is a joke compared to today's
best designed. Not only that but you must find corners for
them which is absolutely the worst places for speakers to
be backed into. This is a design that belongs in a museaum,
not in the home of a true audiophile.