Bofkont

I simply never had the chance to listen to any of them; they are rare and were very expensive. American speakers to me were electrostat, magnetostats and hybrids with accompanying local heating sources like krell and accoustic research amps. It all reminded me of "nothing replaces cubic inches". Krell's philosophy is quite the opposite as you guys have been aware of much longer. Anyway it was a bit of a revelation. As I said in my first post the Palladium 39 speakers very much sounded like high end speakers I have listened to more often. Great workmanship but you're still auditing speakers and not always listening to music. The way the Khorns handled the musical material swept me of my feet. The involvement you get is staggering and is lacking in other setups I have listened to. It will take some while to get used to because there is little or no coloration of the box itself, they're not sweet at all and yes slightly hornlike if you're not used to it. IMHO incomparable to the 39F's but than again I don't want to put people off who are totally happy with them. I have been for years with my KEF 107's. They used to be more expensive than Khorns BTW..... So to sum it up: it is not the analytical mind that is triggered by deeper bass or clearer mids; it's more the musical mind that has a different sense of time and seems directly connected to the emotional brain. It so happens I just got a mail from my dealer with a very tempting offer. He has two pairs of 60th's: one with a flamboyant and the other with a more quiet veneer. I think I'll go for the loud one! Cheers, Dirk

Dear all, I'm new to this group and only since yesterday fully aware of Klipschorns. I could listen and compare the big Palladiums against the 60th Anniversary Klipschorn. Don't want to offend anyone but the horns blew away everything. I've been interested in audio since +25 yrs and played with Cabasse Sloop and KEF 107 (the big bandpass system). All modified with decent cable and crossovers. Sometimes I was really involved, but most of the time just listening to loudspeakers I now realise. With the horns I was really involved with the music. Tuck & Patti, Cecilia Bartoli, Keith Jarrett, Rickie Lee Jones, they all were with me in the room. I'm seriously tempted to buy the horns, for a reasonable price, but it is still a lot of money. I would drive them with Marantz MA-24 class A monoblocks. The setup would be a 2 channel seperate in the basement/cellar of 13x30 with a low ceiling of about 7 ft. My Q to the community would be if this low ceiling will work out well since accoustics seem to be very important and the recommendation of having +8 ft. ceilings from PWK. It is a concrete house, no echo, carpets etc. Cheers Dirk