LaScala speakers

@kingdeezie if you are ever tempted,  DO NOT replace the factory metal strips with expensive terminal jumpers - waste of money and time! I thought those beautiful Furutech JumperFlux-S jumpers would improve SQ but instead they masked HF resolution and introduced MF saturation. After 400 hours I reverted back to the cheap factory strips and couldn't be happier.

That said the terminals themselves are rather cheap and need an upgrade. Furutech makes some incredible terminals. But after my experience with the jumpers I'm hesitant which is unfair because Furutech makes great products in general like my custom  Furutech power chord for my Innuos Pulsar Streamer which has made a huge difference. 

That’s amazing that you posted this. I was thinking of doing this soon! I was gonna try Nordost jumpers. 
 

Sometimes I think it’s probably most prudent to just leave the AL5s alone. I’ve had many speakers more expensive and “ better” than the La Scala. 
 

Inevitably, while they all did some things better or far better, I would stop enjoying the music I like. The AL5s just seem to bring me more enjoyment than anything I’ve had before, which is crazy because for years most audiophiles said Klipsch Heritage was garbage. 
 

Different strokes as they say! 

@kingdeezie this is by far one of the best spkrs I've heard.  I have then paired with an Accuphase Class-A amplifier and they hit all the notes beautifully.  This combination has introduced me to music that I never really listened to especially jazz and jazz Trio's and Quartets like Bobo Stenson,  Tord Gustavsen,  Marcin Wasilewski, Maciej Obara and many more. Albums like Bobo Stenson's Cantando or Tord Gustavsen Trio's The Other Side are now my go to reference pieces. Same goes with aoustic guitarists. I just discovered this beauty tonight  titled:

"The Gathering -  Guitar Various Artists 2024"

These speakers do everything so well.  And they are gorgeous to look at and carry the wife approval factor certification! Are they perfect? No. But what speaker is? Whst component is for that matter? 

I'll try isolating the cabinets for sure but trust me on the jumpers. FWIW I'm having trouble selling these jumpers, and I can't even give them away - lesson learned.

Not recommended....You could give it just enough toe in and adjust speaker-speaker distance to obtain some sense of holographia and a enveloping soundfield.

The older klipsches, by default, have some major flaws....the glare, shout and a lot of pestilent things historically associated with them come from the inability to set accurate driver delays, etc, w.r.t acoustic center on a passive crossover. You may start to aggravate some of this. With an active crossover, you can make even the old klipsches a very serious hifi speaker, same goes for the old altecs, jbls, whatever...essentially all the big horns.

The main klipsch engineer himself has resorted to active crossovers on the newer klipsches...that should tell you something...you wouldn’t know more about the la scala than him, would you? If you heard goofy bass from the new la scala...it implies you sat in a goofy room and the room messed up the bass or whatever.

All these big hifi horns should be treated like the installation grade pro speakers....dsp, clean crossover, driver delays and the right amount of peq to taste....There’s a reason big horns have some haters...its because of purists sitting around with inadequate tools..and to be fair, the haters heard all the flaws, the purists managed to glaze over it or did some psychological convincing...

(not to mention the flea watt SET fantasy with some guys because the speaker is soooo sensitive n all...the SET is a very stupid amp to tie to these type of klipsches and horns, but, that’s a different topic)

I haven’t heard Klipsch in a long time. A good friend of mine had the late 80's Lascala’s and upgraded to the K-horns in 1990, The difference in sound was hard to believe, in fact he almost returned the new horns. That massive mid bass bump from the lascala’s was replaced with true deep bass and it took him awhile to adjust.

IDK if the boom is carried over to the new lascalas, but ’billstevenson’s’ suggestion of pulling speakers out from corners will settle down that massive bass bump while reducing room reflections. Large speakers are a pita to place perfectly, but at least it’s free.