Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site vice.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!tektronix!tekcad!vice!shauns From: shauns@vice.UUCP Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: RE: Klipsch info wanted Message-ID: <1307@vice.UUCP> Date: Sat, 25-Feb-84 16:20:35 EST Article-I.D.: vice.1307 Posted: Sat Feb 25 16:20:35 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 26-Feb-84 23:21:18 EST References: <60@know-eng.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 28 At $700/pair, I guarantee you can find much better speakers than the Heresys. They were my first pair of "good" speakers when I got serious about this hobby five years ago. After taking them home and listening to music that I liked (not the salesman's preference), I could not listen to them for more than an hour at a time without getting a terrible headache; earstrain. I owned them for all of 6 months, and sold them as fast as I could. About the only thing these speakers are good on is horn reproduction. In fact, everything, even strings, sounds like a damn horn. They beam like crazy, and absolutely mangle midrange. Vocals are especially strident. At $700/pair, there are several excellent, well balanced systems out that "you'll respect in the morning", to paraphrase one famous ad. Check out offerings by Boston Acoustics, ADS, B&W, KEF, and Magneplanar. They may not sound as gosh whiz in the store as the Heresys but they are a LOT cleaner and more accurate, something that is appreciated only after many hours of cohabitation with your chosen transducer. One thing that you can say for Klipsch is that he follows a different drummer. A poor one. Power efficient, perhaps, but poor. Cheers from the wandering squash. -- Shaun Simpkins uucp: {ucbvax,decvax,chico,pur-ee,cbosg,ihnss}!teklabs!tekcad!vice!shauns CSnet: shauns@tek ARPAnet:shauns.tek@rand-relay