ClaudeJ1

I'll give you my thoughts, since you asked. The TI 3255 Chip is an amazing device. Just how well it's implemented in lower wattage than the "max" rating makes the difference. Everyone is barking up the wrong tree about this. You "ahem" review reminds me of the You Tube video from a fauxtographer and his cute wife testing out all the 85mm lenses on the market, photographing a mannequin head. They then declared a Nikon 105 MM to be the winner. What an insult and a waste of time. If you are all about all horns and big horns, like I am, you already know that big watts don't mean a thing to a Klipsch guy or gal. Also, this is an old PA-5 thread, so why are you judging negatively an amp that your go "cheap" and not a PA-5? Emotional testing without data, is just another opinion, especially with all the flowery word BS that comes from StereoPhool and Absulutely Soundless magazines whose reviewers listen to good MUSIC in crappy room. Waste of time.

I'm assuming your are still enjoying LaScalas with flat bass to 30 Hz. or lower with the affordable "upgrade?" Just in case Tony and Lady have a band whose bass goes that low!

Ah yes, Kelly Harmon, daughter of football star, Tom Harmon, sister of Mark Harmon on CSI, married John Z. DeLorean which made the other GM wives jealous. Gorgeous woman. All the siblings were movie star gorgeous kids. Anyhow, I photographed JJ without the morning crew and all the WRIF, WMGC, and WCSX Jocks, including Arthur Penhallow, right before he quit the RIFF, because they didn't want to pay him what he asked. But that's another story. I guaranty you that none of those 3 stations ever played even ONE Tony Bennett song! (Hey, since I'm the OP, I gotta keep it relevant!)

I had a Detroit News paper route in 1968. Like any 13 year old, I loved music and listened to CKLW in Jr. High, which was a 1.5 mile walk each day. I saved money and bought a Zenith portable AM radio and a pair of Koss Brown headphose (they probably had 3" speakers in them). The radio came with a mono ear bud on a wire, so I cut the ear plug end off and wired the 1/8" mono plug to a 1/4" female adapter for the 1/4" headphone plug (wired in Mono, using the bought all this at Lafayette Electronics. Cassettes were just coming along then as a music medium. My dad told me I looked ridiculous with those things on my ears, but they kept them warm in the winter too. I may have invented the first walkman, and my friends think Sony stole my idea. LOL.

I attended the same Elementary School as Stevie Wonder when I moved to Detroit from Quebec, Canada. He was 4 years ahead of me, but he was a legend among teachers in his early teens!

I bought 3 of them. One spare and the other two in full time use on Edgarhorn Titan II's and in my full Atmos HT/2.2 stereo (at the couch of a button) upstairs with the Danley SH-50's. Yamaha YPAO room EQ on both. Best bang for buck amp EVER. The guys that had trouble with them use too much power on INEFFICIENT, non-Klipsch speaker. But we know better!

Singer of the Great American Songbook for decades. I especially like the collaboration of his voice with various young chicks! The man was THE MAN!

The effective mouth size of a Klipsch Bass Horn is the walls of a room corner, which is 4x4 feet. Since the Undergroound Jublilee and the Klipchorn bass horns were designed for a corner, they become 8 foot long horns. The mouth of a LaScala is too far from the walls to be as effective as the Khorn or the Jubilee in BASS EXtension department. All speakers have Cabin Gain in small rooms (those in most homes) and this is why Klipsch can make shorter horns that take advantage of this.

You can buy good subs in kit or assembled form, much cheaper at Parts Express.

Simple answer, really. Having designed bass horns for about 10 years, the Khorn against the wall is only good for 60 hz. or so, which is fine for most music. You can add EQ or a subwoofer below that. It's a 4 ft horn without corners, as is the Underground Jube. The rest is opinion without curves, of which I have several hundred accumulated.

He shouldn't be. The LaScala is a 2.7 foot horn that cuts off at 104 Hz. then relies on the sealed dog house for bass below cutoff when placed in effectively one "corner" the cabinet, in to another corner or wall, having a "free lunch" from cabin gain. The Underground Jubilee is a 4 ft horn that cuts off at 60-70 Hz NOT in a corner (etter than a LaScala) and behaves better than a Khorn when in a corner. Even PWK felt the Jube was a step up from the Khorn. Now that Roy has done a "greatest hits" version of it, the "75" with Active Network and better drivers it's the top of the pile. The LS plus twin horn subs is the best bang for buck, but it's a 4-way while the Khorn is a 3-way. Salt to taste either way, it's YOUR taste buds and Wallet.

I had two pairs of Khorns (Raw Birch and Lacquered Walnut). Also several pairs of LaScalas, with and without Horn Subs (THTLP's by Bill Fitzmaurice). By far, the LaScalas with Subs are better than Khorns without. Islander is right.

Just do what Paul Klipsch did (I did too). Build false corners out of drywall and 2x4's. Easy and cheap. It's in the Dope From Hope.

She was simply the best. Better than all the rest. She left a good job in the city, working for the man every night and day. She was a private dancer, where love had nothing to do with it!

Read and watch the video. I met Dr. Waldrep and bought some of his recordings. Very good work. Even he changed his mind about hirez being better. It's the Recording Engineer and Mastering, so I agree with Artto on this. ALL HiFi is an ILLUSION, since you can't replicate the sound of any acoustic instrument with varying fundamentals and harmonics with varying 3D dispersions in different recording spaces with only 1 or 2 microphones! It's all an Illusion, so pick your favorite ones! https://www.realhd-audio.com/?p=7258

Headphone listeners would disagree about the room. MQA is a distorted format, but nothing is ever PURE, as you have so well stated. Dr. AIX pretty much settled (even to himself) with 500 participants that there is Zero advantage to using HI REZ formats because no one could tell the difference between any of them beyond good old Redbook CD. It's the MASTERING!

MQA is a high distortion format being marketed by people who ignore the technical truth in search of ignorant dollars. We should all run like the wind away from it. Qobuz rocks.

I had a C26 when I was 19. If I'm considered old by now, that pre amp is older, and still works, I presume. But what about the Capacitors? Maybe don't wear like in speakers, but the question remains if it is to full spec?

And here I thought I was alone in my ALL HORN Buzztonal explorations. Thanks for the entertainment. Whether serious or funny mood, that article works for me very well.

I'be using two of those in my BT-7 horn to replace the NOT maintenance free servo drive (belts).

The simplest, most direct form of a universal audio truth ignored by most mainstream consumers. Bose anyone?

I created a flat pack of a modeled "slim" version of the refolded Gjallarhorn. I bought the drivers at a close out sale at PE. The will be done and measured this year. Sims tell me they will go down to 13 Hz. in my room.

A woman like no other who still looked incredible at 75!

I did a story in Rangefinder (they got the cover too) on GM photo department about 20 years ago. I got to see all kinds of cool things not open to the general public. The Photo Dept. Manager is now President of the Corvette Museum where they do a "Museum Delivery" for C8 buyers. At some point and will drive to Kentucky and visit with my camera. To your point, I don't believe in owning expensive sports cars like Lamborghini, Ferrari, Porshe. Yachts, and Swimming Pools included. I want friends that own those things. I just want to own the set of keys to all those toys. LOL. This includes expensive TUBE amplifiers, too. Been there, done that in my 20's and 30's. Owned them all McIntosh, Marantz, Scott, Dynaco, etc. The "space heater to good sound" ratio lost it's luster for me. I like tube amps that are owned by others for similar reasons as the sports cars, etc. Back to the OP, having integrity or lack thereof, for sales on a public forum is not excusable.

You are too funny, man. One of my BFFL's (45 years and couting) has his original 1967 Vette he bought after he got our of Military Service. He sold his lakefront property and bought a C8 cash with 45 Grand leftover. Even with the regular 500 Horse mid engine, this this is a cross between a go-cart and a spaceship. It's just glued to the road like no other. So yeah, I think the carbon mirrors package cost $5 grand on that thing, so the rest of the car would be free. LOL.