Man what a great forum! I appreciate all the help and response from everyone so far, seems to have alot of community invlovement and help around here compared to other forums I have been in.. I have owned Klipsch speakers for years and really love their sound and makeup.. Ive had the Heresies(lacked bass IMO), Chorus, Cornwalls, and now the Klipsch Tangent 400's. I know, i know they are not the most loved Klipsch speakers by any means but they really are a decent speaker with the same drivers as the Heresy II's, just MUCH better bass down to 39Hz. The problem and biggest knock on them are there cabinets being weakly made and having sometimes a thin muddy sound. So my plan was to build new cabinets and do some upgrades to them. That is how I came across Bob Crites.. I was going to upgrade my tweeter diaphrams, realized he builds his own cabinets and he was going to make a set of solid Birch cabinets for these that would really clean up the sound.. Then I got to discussing things with him and realized that the Cornscalas were a design idea he had and looked in to his cabinets. I always loved the Cornwall bass, and Ive heard the Lascalas and thought they really had a clean upper end, so I knew I couldnt go wrong.. Anyways put in the order for his C design as Ive heard nothing but good things about these, realized that the wife factor came in to play, and am looking for alternatives with the same drivers..
I really like the Walrus speakers posted above and I ran across these while searching around that I liked ALOT and they were made for the wife approval lol. The only problem is he says that he does not feel the heritage sound as a result of changing the port design and dimensions, and this scares me a bit to really dive in and make a change to such a great speaker.
http://community.klipsch.com/forums/t/71921.aspx?PageIndex=1
I wonder if HarryO who made the Walrus gets the same sound and performance out of his Walrus speakers as a Cornwall provides.. I dunno, I'm up in the air right now about this, wondering if I should just stick to the original design(dont want to lose out on anything Cornscalas have to offer) but appreciate the help, keep it coming
Am looking to make up my mind by the end of the week, so I can have these speakers done by February