searsdj

I'm familiar with the Cornwalls, and they are great. Without the long story, I ended up giving my Klipschorns to a family member when I moved to Europe 10 years ago. Recently I started looking at coming back to the USA. I tried to get my Klipschorns back, but it was no deal. Staying with my son, who gave me a room at his house to use, started a simple bedroom system. I saw an add on Criag's list for some KM-6's. I had never heard of them, but the price was more than inexpensive..Hey they have a KLIPSCH brass tag, can't be that bad. It was about 120 degrees and we met at a location and transferred the dust laden speakers to my truck. they were big, and quite heavy.. I wasn't ready for that I wanted bedroom speakers.. but OK.. the guy apologized for the dust.. lets say Dirt. Cleaned them up and set them up. In another Craigs list deal, I bought some little JBL's for my son's computer.. they offered a free Pioneer Receiver, with no remote.. maybe middle of the line. Then plugged my laptop into the amp, hey, they work.. little big.. but OK. ALL Klipsch speakers handle the high range to my liking.. their horns just fit my need and make even speakers much more expensive sound not as good to me... and trust me, I've had arguments against $20,000 speakers. I checked the internet and found the KG6 was a military knock off of the KG 5.5.. I didn't know that model either.. thinking.. maybe I've got a cheaper model. While my low quality MP3's were playing through this free Pioneer amp.. with no remote to adjust anything.. I started rolling the power on a little. They were displaying an uncanny control over low volume.. very strong inner presence.. remember the Chorus II? OK, not possible Chorus' were great and a long time ago. Little more power, Elton John's piano is pushing my Klipschorns.. Impossible.. this is a 2 way system.. not the array tweeter horn on a Klipschorn. My son gets home from work to see what I have bought... his pride is a pair of Matthew Polk SDA/SRS's standing over 6 feet high.. we start switching songs.. him bringing in his favorite sound bites. Then we got serious and took them to performance level... I'm running stereo, but sound is surrounding the room... My Klipschorns by now have been dusted, my memory of the Chorus, Cormwall, Le Scala are getting thrashed. My son, a musician was stunned.. these cheapo Klipsch were taking on the heaviest sound we have and not even blinking, in spite of the nasty piece of masking tape put on one woofer dust cover. Neither of us could understand this.. I contacted Klipsch.. the KM6 and KG 5.5 are identical.. the difference is marketing.. the only reasonable answer was they were the last of that era working on improved Bass, without a subwoofer. From their time, most configurations expected you to have a sub. These in my opinion could actually be the best of all time.. as ridiculous as that sounds, given the competition. What I do know, is Klipsch will service them for years and these will not be lost, they of course need to be the mains in a proper living room system.. and I'm not going to loose these.