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I realize this is an old post but she asked excellent questions and the same question was not repeated three times. Each question was different. Mr. K mostly chose to discuss distortion. 1. What's missing from a Klipschorn? 2. What would be the difference with a symphony between a radio and when you build the Klipschorn? 3. What sounds better about a Klipschorn? 4. What was the purpose of a center channel speaker? I would love to hear his answers to all these questions.

Brutal. 🤣

Had I not tried it for myself, I wouldn't really know.

Curious if others have tried this. Would love to hear your opinions. Thanks guys. ---daniel

I compared the two here for those who may be interested. I mostly covered their sound characteristics.

It's not a room issue.

That depends on your interpretation of sound. Pairing makes a huge difference.

It's a well known issue. I think it's around 400hz on down, you get a boxy resonance. Even in my video comparison it's very audible.

In my opinion, based on my listening experiences with the Heresy IV's, I think Klipsch should rework the issues with box resonance on the IV and I think it would be an even greater speaker by comparison. Other than this issue, I really think the IV is a sweet little speaker that deserves most of the positive recognition it has gotten. The improvements Klipsch made to the bass are wonderful. Even though the bass is not as audible at low volume levels compared to my Forte I's, the Heresy IV is still a sweet little speaker in my opinion. Happy listening, ---daniel

Good point, I agree.

I'm talking about bass only.

Well the Cornwall IV's have less bass than the Forte I's.

How about compared to your Cornwalls?

Demos about halfway through for those interested.

A/B comparisons are the best way to evaluate speakers.

Yea, but wasn't a center speaker one of PWK's ideas for two channel listening? Wasn't that what the Heresy was all about?

I prefer the original Fote as well.

Thanks for the feedback guys.

I can't make sense of why he's not doing a good job stating his case. The method he uses clearly made an improvement to the audible bass because he was able to add the desired amount. If one listens with headphones it's very obvious.

He explains in the video that stands will be needed for the Heresy's the way they're set up. He didn't have them at the time, so he explains that he had to elevate them on tubs for the time being since he didn't have stands yet. I'm more interested in understanding why this method of improving bass is being ignored when it clearly makes an obvious improvement in the video with headsets.

About half way through, OCD explains this here.

BTW, with regard to ALK crossovers, I haven't heard anything about any significant increase in Bass. All that stuff about changing sound I could care less about. I'm strictly and only interested in how the bass can be increased without a sub.

Here's what I can't make sense of. Whatever it is he did, it made an extremely audible change to the bass simply be driving the woofer separately on its own. I'm seeing that by skipping the internal crossover altogether and adding a separate active crossover, you can direct more bass as desired which brings me to three more questions. 1. In theory could this be done for the original Heresy bass using a seperate "active" crossover with an amp? 2. Or, could a different with internal crossover altogether like an ALK be designed to simply direct more bass to the woofer? 3. Why didn't Klipsch simply do a similar thing by directing more bass to the woofer? Why is this guy able to do this in a video which btw is extremely audible with just the Heresy alone. Why develop a Heresy IV which produces more box resonance compared to the earlier Heresy. I understand that the Heresy was originally intended as a center for the Khorn's but why with all the amazing interest end-users have using the Heresy as a full range speaker can they simply not do what this guy did in the video. It makes no sense to me. Why is this so overly complicated? No matter what anyone has to say, the simple fact is that this guy did in fact add more bass to a low cost Heresy, period! Yet all I hear is people yapping about having to use subs being the only way. This video shows otherwise and the guy even states that he changed his mind about using subs.

Kevin does a good job sharing his experiences with less known amps. http://www.glowinthedarkaudio.com/

Yea, that's the one thing about Decware. They have a lot of hum issues. I messed around with their phono stages and couldn't get rid of the hum nor could the owner of it. Also, the youtube guys have been asleep for years on testing Decware. Wasn't until those reviews came out that customers were on this absurd 2 year waiting list. I sold my Zen and haven't looked back after receiving my modified ST35 and ST70. Decware are nice amps but there's other great amps out there too without these hum issues.