lobster999

The problem is who on Audiovox's executive team is going to care enough about the higher end Klipsch product to justify them using their lower end but revenue generating products to subsidize the higher end ones? Why not just eliminate the higher end product all together? A passionate audio engineer will have a heck of a time justifying the costs going into R&D and manufacturing for a big time speaker to corporate bean counters when the $$$ could be served by making ipod docks with the klipsch label on them. The wine maker analogy only works if the company shares the same passion for great wine that the wine master does. I'm afraid i've seen no evidence that Audiovox has ever shared the same passion for audio that PWK did and the current klipsch engineers do. Best case scenario for me is that Audiovox is wanting to get into the higher end markets and they see this as a great vehicle to do that. Maybe we'll get bargain bin Palladium's []

I wish I could play that thing, but it's my 9 year old boy's guitar. It's a fairly entry level Ibanez. He's been playing for about a year now and is getting pretty darn good []

They are both very dynamic speakers, but I have to give the edge in dynamics to the Klipsch speakers. The Klipsch perform quite a bit better in regards to bass, detail, and clarity. Imaging seems better on the Klipsch as well. I'd say I get a larger sound stage, but that is probably just due to the speakers being placed wider apart in order to be in the corners but it is still an advantage of the Klipsch speakers in my room. The Druids do beat the Chorus on vocals and give a more warm intimate vibe on small scale recordings (little girl with guitar type recordings). The Druids probably handle poor recordings a little better. The Druids also have a thicker tone if that makes since, especially with electric guitars, but the Chorus has more detail and handles transients better. Throw on something large like Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, Wagner, or Mastodon and the advantages become quite apparent with the Chorus IIs. The Klipsch speakers just put out a bigger and more fun sound. I'm some what surprised that I don't notice any coherency issues going from essentially a single driver design to a 3 way design, but that probably just means my novice ears aren't as susceptible to it. That's a good thing in my book...The Druids are now handling family room duty and my kids love that.

The room is 13x13... my love seat is a few inches off the back wall. It's equidistant from the speakers. I have three GIK acoustic panels hanging behind the seat which help a ton.

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Well here are a couple of pics of mine. I just picked up my Chorus II speakers a couple of weeks ago. So far so good [Y] ... forgive me for the cell phone quality pics...

Hey guys...i'm new to the klipsch club but loving it. I just picked up a pair of black chorus II speakers and have been loving them. I had been using Zu druids before these and I have to say I think I prefer the Chorus II speakers to them. Certainly a different presentation. So here is my question of you guys. I have dedicated room which is a good thing, but it is 13x13 with 8 foot ceilings which is a bad thing. You can see a diagram of my room at the link below. I currently have the klipsch speakers placed in a 45 degree angle in the corners along the right wall in the diagram with my seating position in front of the hallway opening. Is this the best layout or should I rotate the speakers into different corners? My thoughts were that having the hall way opening behind my listening seat might help with some of the inherent issues with square rooms. I do have 6 GIK 242 (2 inch acoustic panels) and 2 GIK 244 (4 inch acoustic panels) to use as needed. Any thoughts?