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I sent that gentleman an email inquiring if he has anything he wants to part with. I looked up the specs on the Cornwalls and I remember them being quite a bit bigger than 35.75" x 25.5" x 15.5". I suppose I was quite a bit smaller back then. All the better for me =) I'm eager to see if he has anything to sell. Listening to them on a stock receiver wouldn't be that bad anyway since that's what I am going to be driving them with, at least initially. Thanks for the hookup Jeff! Btw, my name is Jacob. I think my old username was jmartinson... gotta see if I can still access it. -jacob

I'll drop him a note this evening. Thanks!

well, i've got $500 in my wallet, but i really don't have the room for them - the KLF-20s would have been a tight fit the way things are arranged right now. my current house is a small 2 bedroom in the heights and it's got a pretty small living room. do you know if he has anything smaller? thanks! -whtboy

=| =| =| The guy just called me back. They decided to sell them to a family member instead. http://houston.craigslist.org/ele/120341529.html I guess it wasn't meant to be. I suppose I should use the cash to pay off part of my visa card anyway. Seems like I'm never going to get a decent system put together! -whtboy

Damnit... this guy isn't returning my calls. I hope he is just at work or something. I was hoping to get this taken care of while my son was still in school.

Not that I'm considering a new amp purchase or anything, he he he . . . just trying to get an idea if my current electronics setup is going to seriously limit the sound I get. I'll check out those threads, thanks!!! -whtboy

Does the choice of amplifier make a big difference with these speakers? Right now I've got a Yamaha Natural Sound RX-V530 http://www.audioreview.com/mfr/yamaha/a-v-receivers/PRD_133620_2718crx.aspx I used to have an Onkyo receiver driving my Cambridge Soundworks Ensembles and that sounded awful inspite of the reviews I read that led me to buy that (budget) setup. After a couple years the receiver blew a fuse and (due to my ignorant and over-adventurous attitude at the time) I decided to replace the fuse with some heavy guage speaker cable since I was so sure there was nothing wrong with my Ensembles. Well, I'm sure everyone can guess the outcome of that move! That led me to buy the Yamaha which I thought would be a great choice b/c it has an impedance selector - 4 or 8 ohms. The Ensembles are rated at 6 ohms so I decided to be safe and set the receiver at 4. After another year or so that receiver started shutting off - first at high and then even at moderate volumes. When it turns back on it says check speaker cables. My cables are fine - checked with a digital multimeter - no shorts. I wanted to check the speakers themselves, but my multimeter does not check impedance - only basic voltage/resistivity/continuity. I did a little plugging and unplugging and found that both of the left-channel speakers (satellite and sub) would cause the receiver to shutdown and report cabling problems when plugged in to either front channel. I called CSW, explained the situation and they gave me an RMA number to send the speakers in for repair or replacement. I was impressed that they were able to pull up my warranty information based on my name and the city I lived in when I made the purchase, but I never sent the speakers in b/c I figured at best they would send me new speakers that sounded like the originals - nothing to write home about. Six months after that the receiver started shutting down with right channel sub connected and now I'm listening to music and movies through a single Ensemble satellite. I'm really hoping the problem is in fact with the speakers and not the receiver itself. It seems unlikely 3 out of 4 of the speakers would develop shorts (unless they were all from a bad batch with poorly built crossovers or something like that) but it also seems unlikely the Onkyo would start burning fuses *and* my Yamaha would report short problems too. What do you guys think? -whtboy

Yes, sorry, KLF-20's. The only Klipschs (sp?) I've heard are the old Cornwalls and some RF-5 and RF-7s at Tweeter when they still carried them. I wasn't impressed much with the RF-5s but the 7s sounded pretty nice in comparison to everything else they had at the time. Can you elaborate on what you mean by the KLF-20s being more rock 'n' roll speakers? Meaning they are more oriented to high volume or that they don't have a good soundstage or have crappy mids or something like that? I always thought of the Cornwalls as being awesome rock 'n' roll speakers because the dynamics were so strong - I never heard anything from them that sounded like they were backing off at the last decibel. I only heard one or two tracks of classical music on them, but they had a lot of the big drums and crashing cymbals that sounded incredibly life-like. I'm going to be putting them in a small room with little hope of finding a good spot for them until I get a bigger house, so I don't have any expectations for getting a decent image at this point. I'm hoping if I get these I'll have them long enough to get to put them in a proper room. The finish is supposed to be the satin black. I will do some searching on the serial number format. The guy said his dad (who only speaks Spanish) bought them at the end of the production run in 2001. Now you've made me curious to find out what the serial number indicates. Thanks for the info! I'll definitely post again tomorrow to report on what happened. -whtboy

Hahaha, that was a while back, yes! I forgot I had registered previously until you mentioned it. I don't remember the details of what happened - I've had hopes of getting some Klipsch speakers for a *long* time. The two biggest barriers to me getting Corns are that I don't have that much space in my living room and a $700 speaker purchase at any point in time would border on seriously questionable impulse buying for me =| Not that that has stopped me from making equally questionable purchases before, which is why I might come home with these babies tomorrow. I've already got the cash in my wallet, a high level budget planned for paying the critical bills and arrangements made to meet with the current owner for a little listening. Hopefully I will be posting again tomorrow with lots of exclamation points and smiley faces =) Thanks for all your input! -whtboy

My first exposure to real "hifi" systems was my uncle's Cornwalls connected to a big amp/preamp pair and the first CD player I ever saw in person. That was a long time ago and although I've always listened to music on a budget I never lost an appreciation for the big, live sound the Cornwalls put out - especially the helicopter track in The Wall which made me feel like a chopper was actually landing outside the room! I've had a modest array of disappointing setups including speakers from Bose and Cambridge Soundworks. Nothing I've heard since the Cornwalls even comes close to the dynamic reality the Cornwalls put out. I found a local guy who is selling a pair of KLH-20 speakers for $500. Is this a good deal? Will the 20's give me anything close to what I remember from the Cornwalls I heard when I was a kid? Is there anything I should look out for? The way the guy spoke it sounded like they hadn't been used in a long time. I'm not sure if they were in storage, in an attic, or what. Any input one way or the other is greatly appreciated. Thanks! -whtboy