Klipsch Cornwall IV


I have a pair of nearly new Klipsch Cornwall IV speakers for sale on this site. I am looking for opinions on the current status of the market for these loudspeakers. My ad has an asking price of $4300, which I believe is more than reasonable considering this pair is in mint condition and the price of a new pair is almost 7k. I see Forte IVs for sale for about the same asking price as Cornwall IVs. So, what gives, has the market for these collapsed? My ad has been up for a while and there hasn't been one inquiry about this ad. 

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$4300 is inline with I have seen online. Right now, things have been sitting for a while unless it's a great deal. Sadly, Klipsch sells a ton of speakers, there are always a few for sale. The Cornwalls are huge and heavy, hard to transport, and even harder to ship, shipping will be an extra $500 or so on them, that's hard to swallow. 

Honestly, they will sell for this price, you need to post them locally (Facebook craigslist) deal with the crap, until someone wants them bad enough to let go of $4300.

@4afsanakhan , the guy has the wrong attitude, "my speaker didn’t sell yet....oh...its audiophile snobbery" !?! I even referred him to a facebook group with 21k horn nerds. He might have more luck there perhaps if the "snobs" here didn’t buy his things.

In fact, here’s how quickly an aging cornwall or lascala can get rescued...maybe even turn into a heirloom speaker kinda sound for some guys. It happened quite recently with my nephew.

The dude thought he struck some unbelievable deal on a used old cornwall somewhere (not this latest one), bought it and kept whining that it sounded like ass. I told him "Remove the drivers and unhook the wires....while i’m on my way". I went over there with a Behringer CX3400 active crossover, 120 measly dollars, a banana socket, wire and some no-rez panels (just random sht i have laying around)....

I show up there, he had it all open....I said "stick these no-rez panels inside dude".

I already had the cx3400 crossover, level knobs and delay, where it needed to be. The old "cheesy" crossover’s just sitting inside, didn’t even bother to take it out....drilled in the extra socket. 

straight wire, 6 channels hooked up to a cheap 7 channel monoprice class ab or whatever hometheater amp he had. The speaker transformed in about 2 hours.....i repeat...2 hours is all it took to hook things up, take care of things.

The dude’s sitting over there in triamped hog heaven with a 120 dollar active crossover and some no-rez. It’s very quick, boom, boom.....and none of your klipsches ever sounded that good in spite of whatever great front end you had.

This is the budget amp he's running on his active triamped klipsch.

https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=43866

 

Now, you all carry on with your re-selling efforts...

 

Jeez Deep 333, where did that come from? The dude asked a valid question and did so politely, he did not ‘whine’ as you so delicately put it, unlike your attack’ish response from nowhere…

‘If it was a fabulous heirloom speaker as is, you would keep it, wouldn’t you? (Not be trying to sell it and whine because you got low ball’d or whatever)’

Personally, I have sold, electronics and a pair of ZU's on ebay.  I list items there for pick up only. They are the 800lb Gorilla when it comes to traffic delivered to your posts.  

The Klipsch are historcially important speakers, and have a dedicated loyal following (great efficiency makes them attractive to weak amplifiers). They are an aquired taste. But more objectively, they do not compare well with modern speakers. 

There IS a market for them, but takes time since shipping is complicated/expansive and therefore only regional market considered.