Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!ittvax!wxlvax!rlw From: rlw@wxlvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: KLH Speakers Message-ID: <827@ittvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Jul-83 15:54:13 EDT Article-I.D.: ittvax.827 Posted: Wed Jul 6 15:54:13 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Jul-83 14:15:50 EDT Lines: 23 (Apologies to those who saw this a year ago. Since KLH is in the news, I'm repeating it for general amusement.) Many years ago (1962+-2) I was consultant to the U.of.Pa.-Columbia Electronic Music Lab. We were setting up a listening room at the U.of.Pa. and I took a group of musicians and engineers down to Danby Electronics for a blind listening test of a dozen or so speakers. The results are amusing (but probably not statistically significant): all of the 6 musicians chose the KLH-6 as their favorite... all of the three engineers chose the AR-2 (I think it was the -2). In consequence I bought two KLH-6 speakers for myself -- only to see them remain behind in a divorce settlement. Plaintive cry: Does anyone have any KLH-6s for sale? Is there anything available today (for not outrageous cost) that can amtch their sound. I don't think it was pure "fidelity" that is the answer. KLH deliberately shaded the sound for room listening and I think it sounded good to the musicians who were used to being in the sound. The ARs sounded too remote to them. --Dick Wexelblat (...decvax!ittvax!wxlvax!rlw)