Arthur Yang

I have made some tries by following some of your advices which I think is practical to my conditions. And, they help! Now I have getten much better performance out of the Khorn in my living room. Although there are still problems need to be overcomed in the future, I know what might be the possible causes at the least. Thank you for all your friendly hands. Now the Khorn are signing quite wonderfully. The next that I have to do is to solve the unstable focus of the image. I guess I need to have a SET amp. with high current which could feed crossover and thereafter the mid, high drivers enough power to balance with the bass driver. Maybe a try of 2a3 or 300B is worthy. My truely appreciations to you all. This forum makes me feel at home. I am very pleased to be a member of this big family. I will update my progress hopefully soon. Best wishes

---------------- On 10/9/2003 2:21:19 PM paulparrot wrote: Congratulations on having Klipschorns in a good-sized room in Taiwan. That is, I'm sure, a rarity. You might try putting the speakers against your longer wall to see if you prefer that. When you talk about windows, do you mean actually behind the speakers, or inbetween the speakers? I would never recommend having Klipschorns anywhere but firmly in corners. The only exception would be if you wanted to build false corners, something you should not have to do. I don't know why you are getting too much bass, unless you are just not used to the Klipschorn sound. But taking them out of the corner to reduce their bass response goes totally against their design. Imaging isn't everything. Good luck. If you don't mind, let us know how you got these speakers in Taiwan. ---------------- Right speaker sit firmly in rigid concrete wall coner. Window behind it start from the turning angel of the horn. But the window sits on a concrete wall which is about 80cm high from the floor. There maybe more problem in the left corner. The window is 80cm from the floor too but is right behind the speaker. The window on the parallel wall also start from the turning angel of the horn, same height. This, in some way, is like that I have a 80 cm high concrete corner which is about 20cm shorter than the idea least high of false wall. Or like I have a false wall which is built by concrete for the lower 80cm and by glass for the remaining part. Will this make big difference? There were five pairs of 50th Anniv. Khorn being imported into Taiwan by Klipsch distributor as I know. One is kept by the importer for his own use. The other three pairs were taken home by the old Khorn users at the first place. Only one pair is bought by new user. I guess this pair is from this user since it is quite impossible the old user will let go the jewel. I get this pair from an audio gear shop. They have been put in the corner for more than two years together with JBL Paragon and Olynpus 8(?) before I find them. As housing is extremely expensive in Taipei, not really many people have room to fit Khorn in. So I got them with luck.

---------------- On 10/9/2003 2:11:28 PM Chris Robinson wrote: I'm not sure why you're getting too much bass. I think your amp is EL34-based, isn't it? But one thing is for sure ... keep it snug in the corner. That's where it's designed to be. If you have the ability, try putting them against the long wall, even if just for brief experimentation. Your room is plenty large, but trying the long wall will help eliminate whether or not its a short wall problem. The 10' ceilings are excellent for the sound. Finally, the Klipschorn is a very revealing speaker. It's not coloring your music at all. What's going in is coming out. You may wish to swap in a SET amp to compare with your PP if one is available for a brief listening session. I've found a great variation in the sound produced by the same Klipschorns in the same room when I've rotated various amps in and out (Eico HF-81, AES (Cary) Superamp (KT88/EL34), Wright (2A3 SET)) and my current gear (see below) which is about as musical and perfect as I think it can get. Good luck! ---------------- Yes, JA30 is powered by EL34 or KT88. 4 KT88 are serving. I did try 5687 SET amp. Sound quality is very good. Bass is lighter but the amount is all right. The problem is that it loses the image. Somewhat like the guitar is cut to two pieces- high in center, bass at the right. Higher power SET amp. maybe needed. I will try my other 245 SET mono amp. later today. Do you think 2a3 SET fits? I also suspect that resonance is another reason for getting excess bass. Or, maybe, it is just that I am not used to the clean bass yet. Thank you Chris!

I am more than happy to learn that I get 4 gentlmen's replies after a few hours sleeping. Thank you my friends. You are so warm and kind.

I had just got one pair of 50th Anniv. Khorn. Very lucky to get them. They are in mint condition though used for a short while. My system is Linear Acoustic CDP + Jadis JA30 + Jadis JPS2 Anything should I be reminded to get good performance from them. Your advices are highly appreciated. Thank you first. My listening room is around 5m x 7m with ceiling high more than 3.5m. Speaker are set at the short side with two windows behind them (windows are 80cm from floor ). Listening position is 1 meter from radiation intersection which is about 3 to 4 meters from wall. First impression: it seems that I get to much bass. Kind of quite sticky feeling. image is not as focused as my other pair of speakers Ensemble Primadonna gold.