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From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: RAW SPEAKERS
Message-ID: <213@omen.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 15:37:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: omen.213
Posted: Sun Aug 11 15:37:27 1985
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Reply-To: caf@.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
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In article <334@ttrdc.UUCP> kyl@ttrdc.UUCP (Kwing Y. Lee) writes:
>Dick:
>
>    When I first purchased the Klipsch speakers time and phase coherence were
>just started to be the main design goals of speakers (Dalquist DQ10s). Back then
>the criticisms that I heard about the Klipsches are that they are too big, too
>expensive and they don't have the high end response that they should have....
>and also the so called "horn sound". Now nearly 10 years later, I still have not
>outgrown by babies and I still think they sound fantastic. I would really 
>appreciated if you can summarized all the criticisms of Klipsch horn speaker
>systems in one single comprehensive article. Thanks in advance.
>
About 1975 I decided it was time to upgrade my speaker system as the drivers
on my AR3's were getting either fried or rotted away.

I make a tape with segments from various records and went to as many stores
as I could find.

The Klipschorns sounded great on some of the chamber music, but shrieked
on the choral music.  A Yamaha bookshelf system sounded fine, but was only
slightly more efficient than a dummy load.  Magneplans sounded fine except
for a lute recording which tried to convinve me that lutes were 6 feet tall.
The best sound, especially on the coral music, was a $900 Lansing system,
rather beyond my budget.  I ended up with a pair of Infinity 2000-II
which came close to the sound of the $900 system, did well on all the
segments on the tape, and cost $260 each.

The only problem with the Infinity's is placement.  Best results are obtained
with placing them according to Carver's Holorgram suggestions, but this is
impractical in my living room.

BTW, I'd like to hear recommendations for a pair or fairly small speakers
for my computer room wall. I don't want to give up the bass, but don't
need terribly high audio levels.  Listening is to FM and CD's with a Sony
20 watt receiver and 12 band equalizer.  The 20 watts is adequate for
reasonable listening levels, even with extreme low bass boost.
The room is like:

	-------------------------
	|s        s     	|	s = speaker
	|  table      table	|
	|   me			w	me = listening/hacking location
	|			d
	|			w
	|			|
	|			|
	|			|
	door------------closet---
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