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That Bass that was thumping, that was NWA playing, the original beats by Dre, sorry bad joke I couldn't resist. But that was playing while I first realized how much bass could come for those speakers.

Another teaser pic, but with both the "big" KG4's and the Cornwall Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Furlough – And Oh that BASS!!! So those banished KG4’s sitting in the exercise room. Well lets say theoretically of course when I was a lil younger than 16, well hypothetically my parents went on some vacations. In the younger years of these parental vacations they would hire someone to watch me and the later high school years I don’t recall but maybe there was zero to lil supervision at times, lil foggy here. There were the times before I was 16 that theoretically Mom’s grey market, used, older, but you couldn’t tell Mercedes would get lil workouts but just in the neighborhood. Don’t get me wrong I was a pretty good kid within reason at least up to a certain age, but kids... pay lots of attention to details and how things are left so you can put them back with no one ever noticing… ie. Don’t get caught. Those KG4's needed a workout as well and the hall pass is here. I knew where those lonely kg4’s were, and just where that JVC receiver was. CD player,... check. And let me say it wasn’t until years later that I realized just how respectable that JVC receiver was but more on that later. I know the KG4’s are high efficiency, no, not Klipschorn or Cornwall or La Scala or or or or… but this JVC just made them sing and oh that BASS!!! So the first time I remember setting everything up and throwing full throttle at these KG4’s it was in the great room/ family room what ever you wanna call it. I knew nothing at the time about placement in any regard but I just got lucky. So lets put some things into perspective about this bass. This decent sized home in a part of the country where things are affordable was on a five acre lot. This was in a out in the country but its still a subdivision neighborhood. Weird right? Now you’re thinking why the hell is he now rambling on about this property and how is this relevant to BASS. Well its relevant, so stop letting your mind wander. So yeah did I jam out some Led Zeppelin, some Orb, lil Hotel California,… I sure did. At this point I'm sure I threw my entire cd collection at these experiments. But this was late afternoon, after school, still daylight and very low likelihood of pissing off your neighbors time of day. So back to the rap music. Now it really kills me that I can’t remember what albums I played. But one of the NWA albums I remember. Nice production and killer bass. I was so impressed and blown away, and even more mad a Mom for banishing these speakers, that I decided to see how this bass was doing outside but with all the doors and windows shut, totally sealed home. Because inside the house the whole space time continuum was rippling with bass, or at least thats how I remember it. See I told you the property was relevant. So the house was set back, hard to see from the street with woods and trees hiding it except for two spots where a half moon driveway connected and more driveway connected to that and wrapped around and went to the house. I went out my front door and walked a lil… BASS. This is a BIG driveway folks, I cant stress that. I made it to the street, holy crap maybe I will piss off the neighbors because that bass. My inner smart *** told me to walk further down the street, I listened and yep the BASS came along following for a while before eventually puttering out. Now the me of today is more the purist don’t touch tone controls kinda guy, but not the high school me. He would turn up the treble and the bass. Fortunately high school me did know when enough was enough both in regard to volume and shaping tone. But as I am walking back to the house, vein of the plot in an 80’s movie when the kid finds out mom and dad are Russian spies…. Well yeah I’m totally wondering if Dad knew about all this bass or not? Had he been hiding this fact just how much these babies can rock or thump? Years later I did tell dad this story, the Mercedes story, and about most of the times I broke the KG4’s outta jail. He smiled and laughed, and frankly he enjoyed hearing the stories. And no, he knew they thumped, but had no clue about thumping all the way down the street. Thanks Dr Dre.

THE 90's So up to this point , I enthusiastically used Dad’s KG4’s whenever I could. But never really tested the throttle too much, it was all still within reason. Then my dad got another job we moved to this gorgeous house that from an audiophile’s standpoint that had so many great rooms with great stereo potential. I know you know what I am talking about here. You go look at a house, condo, apartment… whatever suits your needs for shelter… but nothing is ok till you have pre-determined that you have rooms you can work with for your two channel room or where ever you are going to place your home theater. Maybe you make up excuses to your wife about some problem with this house you two are considering buying. But the real story is there wasn’t a good room for your gear. Well this house had great rooms. But,… something truly sad happened in this new gorgeous house that Mom toiled over her decorating. She decided that the “big speakers” were too big. Its kinda funny typing the words “big speakers” and “too big” as the whole impetus of this thread is because of, and will involve more of soon, don’t worry… but yeah CORNWALLS. Don’t get me wrong these aren’t Klipschorns but references using the phrase “gorilla in the room” should duly be changed to gorrillas plural for many models of Klipsch speakers. But, back to the sad moment in time for the “too big” KG4’s. They sadly went to live in solitary in the climate controlled exercise room in the corner covered up. Yep, you read that right, no need to check… they were not even allowed to be hooked up in the exercise room. They just got to stand in the corner with a dunce cap on that ok was just a sheet or something, but they got sentenced to 20 years to life… with potential for furlough and or release… but more on that later. Ok ladies and gentlemen lets have a moment of silence for my Dad’s KG4’s and their banishment of solitude (Yeah so we didn’t use the exercise room too much ok, back off)… Ok silence over because this whole time period for me musically is one of rapid change and decades later I am happy to say its never slowed down. So there was a whole deep Pink Floyd time period that I forgot to mention in junior high. Thank god for cassettes and generosity and trading music. Younins.. think Napster… real younins think torrents, youtube etc. I got really into the beatles, classic rock, Hendrix, radio stations weren’t lame. This all kept happening quickly and evolved into Nirvana, Alternative, NIN, yes rap is still going on here deal with it, beastie boys, NWA, Led Zeppelin. Here are the KG4's by the way

THE LATE 80'S So I’ve always liked electronics and music and to some regard stereos ever since I can remember. But circa 1987 my Dad wanted a set of good speakers. He demo’d several different speakers at the local Hifi shop and eventually came home with a pair of KG4’s. They were placed in a big vaulted room than I now know would be really tough room. Corner placement? Uh sorta, but yeah not really. They were both in the same corner divided by a tv in a cabinet in the actual corner. To put things in perspective I was in my mid teens and my idea of hifi was my boombox, my sony cassette Walkman, and eventually my Sony CD Player Walkman… ohhh, stop the presses! Lets not leave out those questionable headphones that came with these two Walkmen which at them time I was perfectly fine with. Moving of course from those fuzzy foam pads to just the hard plastic headphones with the tiny metal headband that poked directly into your ears. Not even young hipsters of today would rock these. Back to dad’s KG4’s. So he’s just purchased these new KG’s and the salesman as a take home demo cd to use suggested Lionel Richie’s Dancing on the ceiling. The speakers were powered by a decent JVC receiver and I believe the source if memory serves my right was either a Sony or JVC CD player. Oh you thought this was going to be some sexy perhaps mythic portion of the story that involved McIntosh equipment, or some old dynaco tube amp, well it is not. It just involves decent off the shelf equipment and Klipsch KG4’s with odd placement in an awkward room. But here’s the thing… it all sounded amazing. That Lionel Richie Dancing on the Ceiling album… amazing. And that bass. This was the very inception of me becoming an audiophile. Oh and also I started buying my first cd’s because everything sounded great on his system. I also was mowing lawns at the time and would convert my cd's to cassete when needed and made mixes etc because this new system also had a JVC cassette player and a JVC VCR with tracking settings so complicated if repurposed it could probably power the early NASA flights. And some of you may consider this my dark ages of my musical tastes because gangster rap was just becoming a widespread thing and oh that Aerosmith Pump album caused a while Aerosmith craze for me as well.

Here is a teaser pic of the new/old Cornwalls Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

INTRODUCTION: Here is My Klipsch-tory. Well, sharing was suggested by another member in regard to a recent purchase of Cornwalls and I guess I am bored or perhaps have too much time on my hands so I thought why not just make some feeble attempt at sharing my whole Klipsch-tory. Sure I may bore some of you and that’s ok, just hit the back button or finish reading this when you are having trouble falling asleep. This tale is going to go much farther back than these Cornwalls though, because it was another Klipsch speaker that caused my particular version of audiophilia. And yeah I’ll share pictures and essentially do a long term review as things evolve on these Cornwalls. I’ll also do the same for KG4’s. Because that’s were this story really begins. INTRODUCTION: THE LATE 80'S THE 90's Furlough – And Oh that BASS!!! Cornwall pre-initial impressions INTERMISSION – the buying experience.  The KG portion will resume after these messages College Post College – and the beginning of better equipment THE RETURN OF THE KG4’S CORNWALLS – FIRST IMPRESSIONS – Part 1 B.C. (Before Crites) INTERMISSION #2 SPEAKERS AND WOMEN, BUT REALLY JUST WIFE.. AND MOTHER FIRST IMPRESSIONS – AFTER CRITES – BURN IN PERIOD NEW

Going to stick it in 2 Channel Home Audio under "My Klipsch-tory and New to me pristine Cornwalls"

Also, why am I not able to edit my profile? More specifically adding an avatar pic? Or is it just a make x amount of posts or contribute x amount and then you can kinda thing?

Be careful what you ask for, lol, maybe I'll just start a thread and share my Klipsch-tory and bore some of you to tears, and hopefully entertain others and give a long term evolving review of these Cornwalls.

I went over there this morning and scooped these lovelies