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If you have the space, I would recomend finding another KG 5.5. I have three across the front and they blend perfectly!

BigCliff Am I understanding you correctly in that you have a 2 channel setup but multiple speakers for each channel? Is the kenwood amp powering a forte and kg5.5 on one channel and a forte and kg5.5 on another channel? If the kenwood amp is soley powering the KG5.5's, do you feel the 220wpc is a good amount for the speakers? Not too much? Have you in the past powered them with a lower or higher amount of juice? Too what effect did it have?

How many watts have you or are you pushing to your KG 5.5s?

What have you used to power your KG5.5's? I am currently using just my onkyo receiver ( ONKYO TX-SR502) which has 75 watts per channel for HT duty and the sound is great. Having said that, I have no bench mark to compare the sound I'm hearing against. I am planning to get a new onkyo receiver ( ONKYO TX-NR808) which will have 135 watts per channel. The reason for the upgrade is to be able to run HDMI into the reciever as well as getting preouts. I have been looking at the Emotiva XPA-5 or UPA-5 to power the speakers seperately from the reciever. Getting the reciever is the first order of business for me with the seperate amp being down the road. My question is what have other forum members used either currently or in the past with KG5.5s and what were their thoughts on it?

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I'm at work so I can't check the dates now but will do that this evening. As far as my ears can tell there is not any noticable difference in the sound between the different tweeters. There are actually quite a few differences between the pairs of speakers. All but one pair have a smooth finished motor board on the exterior while one pair is veneered like the sides. Another pair doesn't have the Klipsch badges on the bottom. Some of the 5.5s have the crossover mounted to back of the speaker wire inputs and you can see it by looking down the port. The others have the crossover some where else. There is a very slight difference in the shape of the horns as well.

After picking up a couple of pairs of KG 5.5's I have noticed some differences between the speakers. The tweeters appear to be different from one pair to the next.Both picture below are a close up shot inside the horn of some KG5.5s Above is one type of tweeter and below is the other type. I also own a pair of kg5.2's that have the tweeter that has the pointy cone. In total 4 kg 5.5s and 2 kg 5.2s have the pointy cone and 2 kg 5.5s don't have the pointy cone as shown in the first picture. My question is what is the difference between these different horn/tweeter setups?

Overall it sounds like a good idea. Thanks for the input everybody. I will be placing my order shortly and hopefully all will work out.

Anyone have any input on the pros and cons of purchasing equipment that has been factory reconditioned? Specifically I am looking to purchase a Onkyo Reciever from an authorized Onkyo Internet Dealer. A warranty is included and the way I see it is if something was wrong, they fixed it and now it is as good as new. What concerns/interest me is the much lower price the item is offered at. I thought it would be wise to consult with the board before making the order. Thanks!

Was able to pick up the kg5.5 to be used as a center last night. I hooked it up and layed it on it's side for now and it sounded great. Hopefully this weekend I will be able to get in the shop and make up a new board. I will update with pictures then. Thanks for all the input!

I have no problem with the port being in the front in terms of how it looks. I just don't know if the location matters in terms of the port working correctly. Putting the port in the back would require me to cut a hole on the back of the speaker which I do not want to do. I want the option of putting the original face back on at a later date if I were to want the speaker to stand up as originally intended. Knowing this I would like to keep as much 'factory" as possible.

Here is another low quality image of what I intend to have upon completion of this project.

Forgive the low quality image, I had to take a picture of computer screen with cell phone to get this here.......

You understand my intentions correctly. Last night I measured up the KG5.5 and plugged it all into autocad. I had thought I would have room to put the port on one of the ends of the speaker face but that is not the case. The only place the port would fit would be to put it directly under the horn, in between the two woofers. Even placing the port there leaves me little room top to bottom for any kind of spacing between the edges of speaker/horn/port. I had hoped to be able to use the same speaker body and only change the face of the speaker. I still think this can be done but I am concerned about the location of the port. Is having the port directly below the horn as well as inbetween the two woofers a poor location for the preformance of the speaker? I am trying to figure out how to turn what I have drawn in Autocad into a jpeg or another file format to be able to load up what I have drawn. I will upload pic once I can sort the file conversion out.