LaScala speakers

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.

Yes, getting that top bin isolated from the bass bin was revelatory as far as clarity. This improvement was very noticeable and made me realize why Klipsch decided to split those bins. I think the bass was knocking the brains out of that mid horn. I used four properly weighted Isoacoustic shock absorbers. I have the bottom bin sitting on dollies I made separated from the speaker by cushion pads designed for this weight. That change I didn't notice that much. They are very handy though for adjustments of angle and closeness. Plus they are basically invisible. The Isoacoustics between bins lift the top bin high enough to get clear of rubber feet but not too much so as to be very noticeable. I've added painted inserts between top and bottom bins to hide shock absorbers. Looks normal and actually a little better. IMO

I always loved these spkrs but always felt that they were a little hollowish.  Just recently however, I pulled the spkrs a further 4" from the front wall (now 23 inches from the back of the cabinet) and this completely transformed the sound. It fixed the hollow quality I was noticing in the horns, replacing it with a remarkably holographic, authoritative, and balanced soundstage that makes music so much more engaging. 

@fire_water I always loved these spkrs…completely transformed the sound..

Guess the loving has significantly increased. Congratulations. Agon has a lot of helpful compassionate contributors.