Jacko2929

Having recently purchased the CW IV, I have to say I am definitely in the camp that this is a somewhat antiquated speaker. Especially in terms of its ability to image, create a soundstage, or “disappear”. My comparison is against my previous speakers were a ten year old set of Dynaudio focus 360’s. The Dinos with my equipment, Bryston 14b3, bp173 preamp, Denafrips Venus, would simply disappear at will, with the performers voice positioned somewhere one the plane of the speaker hovering above.... and the instruments spread around. This does not happen with the Klipsch CWs, not even close. As well, the klipsch are considerably slower on many drum passages, don’t have near the musicality, and the designers seemed to have been very cautious with the upper end, to the point that a lot of passages that sparkled before , don’t. They do not sound like a modern speaker. If the comparison is with other previous klipsch, possibly they may be the best, but there are far better imaging speakers then the CWs. Which given all the reviewers out there who have gushed over these speakers, I am surprised myself...and somewhat disappointed. So, do I give up, no I will try a tube preamp before I do that, likely the Primaluna Evo 400. The reason I am not giving up is that the CWs do create some amazing sounds, the pluck of guitars strings, saxophones, trumpets, some very amazing sounds that if I can get happening with a proper soundstage would be great. Another attribute of the CWs is that they bring out the best in 60’s recording. The doors for instance where the music was made to bounce back and forth between speakers, the Cornwalls are outright fun. As well, I was blown away by sounds from Uriah Heep recording...Stealin’ being one of them...the CWs transform some of this music to very defined and distinctive tunes. Net conclusion, they are not a modern speaker and they do not image like a pair of Dynaudio’s but they definitely have there attributes. Will report back if I ever get tubes in front of my SS amp. I apologize to any Klipsch fans I may have cheesed off, but some of the reviews out there including some very big reviewers are a tad misleading.