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I saw the list and really wanted a few things, but I was told the buyer wanted the whole lot...especially everything WE. We have a few early PWK speakers and designs in the Indy office that have WE, I'm not certain but I think his earliest designs use WE...I keep thinking if I "borrow" some of the WE drivers, no one will notice...lol. In fact, directly outside my office door there is a big horn that has a WE 555 mounted to it...just teasing me everytime I walk past

Lol! Joe's like...you will listen to horns and tubes or die!

Exactly!!!!!!

Wait a minute, did you just call me inauthentic and assume I only listen to Jazz on vinyl in the same post? Wow-that's a bit harsh. I listen to jazz on vinyl and on Tidal! LOL There is nothing inauthentic about having extremely clear vision of what you want to produce and not letting others sway you into "dulling" the vision. When you design by consensus products become boring. The hard lines get softened, corners rounded, materials swapped for less expensive options to save money. Take a look at the new stuff me and my team have created, I hit resistance all the way through the process...but we believe the end product is magnificent. Could be wrong but we are crazy proud. The response to the new stuff seems to be resounding with an even larger audience than we planned. My music tastes varies from Rage, Nirvana, Ben Harper, Chili Peppers, Motown, jazz (love Art Blakey and Chet Baker), rap and just about everything (well maybe not too much country...) and the Fifteens will sound great on all of it! I was just spinning Fugees on the SIXES right before I typed this...

Thanks, not shy in telling you my inspiration for that amp came from 1970's Luxman. There was something so mechanical about 1970's Luxman. You should have saw me explaining to my designer and electonic engineer...I want the switch that goes "Kerchunk" when you flip it. LOL that was a funny day!

I'm just going to agree to disagree with you. Have you not heard the gobs of today's speakers that have bass that sounds like a car stereo? It's just my opinion but too many of today's speakers sacrifice midrange for extended bass. When you say speed and frequency response are the same thing, I'm not sure you are catching what I'm talking about. I am talking about the speed in which a driver can go from rest to excursion and back to rest. If you've seen those massive 15" woofers people use these days they have massive excursion, long voice coil and wide thick surrounds...that's a combination for a slow woofer and one which cannot do for example 800 or 1000 cycles. Most of these woofers are running from say 200 (probably less hz and down). That's the opposite of what we are after with this speaker. On the Fifteens the 15" woofer extends and crosses over much higher than most of today's speakers...back to the speed and low mass. To get to a higher crossover point effectively you need a low mass cone (when using a large diameter cone). I have a very specific idea in mind for these speakers and have from the first moment I explained them to my team. I can see and hear it before they were made. Reserve your judgement until you hear them, which you should be able to do (hopefully) in Hope in April. If you don't like them, we make some absolutely amazing speakers you can buy from our heritage line or a pair of RF7. I've been disagreeing with people in these walls since I started, but if I listened to the everyone we might still be making plastic Bluetooth speakers in colors! I'm proud of what my team is doing and feel I'm pushing in the right direction for the future of our company. Here's my guess...you and I actually want the same thing out of this speaker...wait till you hear them. I told you I'm the minority...I'm not 100 percent sold we have been on a linear evolution with audio. Good sound is not a recent occurrence. Here is a video to watch-it really starts when they change records (watch it until the end-there is something the person filming says that might make you question your ideas about sound reproduction). I have heard a number of these western electric demos and until you have heard one, you really have to reserve judgement. I heard the WE757 through reel to reel at CES a few years ago and literally had tears. I grew up in South Philly so I'm not a very sensitive guy, the emotion from that demo was unreal. even on youtube in my mind this sounds "right" And it uses drivers from the 20's and 30's! And there is BASS!

Thats our hope...for HOPE. Sorry I had to...lol We talked about this on Thursday and are attempting to have a pair ready for the Pilgrimmage. Whether they will be an active or passive pair, don't know yet..

Im pretty certain you misread my responses. No where did I say the Fifteens would have no bass. They have plenty of bass (so far, early tuning still). A few things: I said my nirvana was SET, High Sensitivity speakers etc. and that TONE I love. Never said that was what the Fifteens would sound like. On the Fifteens my goal was to use a low mass cone with limited excursion. And I said it wasn't about the ultimate bass response (you can watch some videos on YouTube and hear me say the same thing). All I mean by this is that we didn't use some crazy excursion large voice coil blah blah blah nonsense 15" driver. Those types of drivers are very heavy, very slow and require gobs of power. We want speed. The reason I said they will sound like no other speaker on the market (and I'm talking retail market, not pro), is because most of the consumer stuff I see today focuses on exactly what I described above...3" voice coil, long excursion blah blah blah. I'm with all of you that reproduction is the key, so we may sacrifice some ultimate bass excursion for dynamics, scale, speed and ultimately in my mind something closer to a speaker from that time before exaggerated bass response and frequency response up to and beyond 20K became design objectives.

Done, you have an email in your email box, please read when you can and respond if there are any special shipping instructions needed. Have fun!

Roy, I'll send you some

That is something we are trying to accomplish, can't commit to that yet, but will update the thread.

Well out target release date of the FIFTEENS is still many months away. As to where to hear the ONE and THREE, our initial shipment sold out before they arrived in our warehouse, so initial rollout was limited. Are you located in Texas? I can ask out regional sales manager for a store where you can listen to them if you would like. They both sound great and we are getting fantastic reviews, the THREE will blow away what you may think is possible in a $399 table top speaker.

The 15's were not envisioned or designed for everyone. Wait to you hear them to decide if you want them or not. Me a dude? LOL

They will both be active and not use passive crossovers inside. Can't say too much more yet or Chris might kill me!

So hard to describe. My nirvana is high sensitivity speakers paired with SET tube amps. I guess its about getting as close to walking by a room and hearing something sounding similar to when you walk down the street and instantly know there is live music.

There may have been a pair of passive 15's in the office doing a little shootout against the Forte and Sonus Faber...

No...never worked at Bose. I thought Bose had issues with Highs too In search of TONE....

No, not a ton of rock concerts...just preference...

Well, my goal was for them to sound like no other speaker on the market. Our acoustic engineer (on the powered side) and I have had many discussions. My goal is for the speaker to be about: Speed, Dynamics, Scale...and ultimately about TONE. Don't kill the newbie, and I may be in the minority, but I personally don't care much about bass. I didn't want to use a 15 for the ultimate bass response. I wanted to use a 15 to be a nostalgic nod to PWK's dream speaker which he said would be a 15" 2 way. And for a nod to Western Electric...515, the Voice of Theatre stuff and so on. All the stuff I've always been a fan of. Its not about excursion or the size of the voice coil... Kerry-who many of you may know, said something really interesting the other day, he was like "I heard about people like you...who don't care about bass, but not sure I have met one of you before". I'm happy about that and totally cool with that statement. I don't listen "in the sweet spot" or sit in the middle of two speakers listening for imaging, sound stage, depth (insert more audiophile terms)....I often listen off axis. If the "TONE" is right, them I'm listening to MUSIC, which I much prefer to HIFI. Hope I didn't go too far into left field on this...it is after midnight while I type this....

OK, will do

Awesome

I AM!!!!

Those were just renders. It was important to me to use low mass paper cones (again that nostalgia and vintage brain)...

Awesome. I will be at the Pilgrimage, CAN NOT WAIT!!!

Thanks, I joined Klipsch almost a year and a half ago...been one heck of a fun ride so far. The design direction in a lot of the new products came from myself and my amazing Sr Designer Tony Martin! Tony was our employee of the year and I'm crazy proud to have him on my team.