Fabio Cottatellucci

Hello friends I placed my Klipschorn in two "true" corners just on their arrival four years ago, luckily I had got a pair of clear corners else I would simply... buy another house... And yes - I sealed them. One day a tried to move the two girls off their corners and place them in my listening room as if they were "normal" speakers. When I was about to give up, I found the right spot and the result was a very interesting broadening of the soundstage depth and a more fluid midrange emission. This at the cost of a not-deadly reduction of bass extension. Frankly, IMVHO this solution could have been seriously taken into consideration. Anyway I drove the two monoliths back in their corners and they've been sitting there since, delivering pure listening pleasure. ... any other experience like this? Fabio PS please excuse my English, I'm not mothertongue (Italian).

Hello I 100% agree with DDrake, and wish to add some suggestions: a) if you can't use a conduit, try to lay a large carpet on the floor then run your wires underneath. same case, use these small square-section conduits that are less than 1" in section and find a suitable path for them (e.g. up a room corner, in the ceiling edge then down another room corner). Then paint them (they usually come out in white). c) keep the two wires (rear L+R) same lenght. This should be true for all the five / six / seven channels, but is very important for coupled channels (i.e. front L+R and rear L+R). If you find yourself with too a long wire for one of the two speakers, pile the excess behind the amp or some piece of furniture. The pile must be "random" to avoid interference; esp. do not wind it in a round shape or it will work as an inductance (I hope the word is this, I'm sorry I'm not English mothertongue). d) try avoiding any connectors. On a long run of wire, you'd better tighten it directly to speakers and amp binding posts in order to lower resistance and stain problems; if you keep an extra lenght, you can cut the wire by a half inch every two years to keep the contact "fresh". Have a nice day Fabio Cottatellucci

I traveled from Rome to Milan last Saturday to see the Top Audio, the largest Hi - Fi and HT Show in Italy: there among other events I attended a high efficiency demo held in the memory of The Colonel by an Italian loudspeakers & tube amps maker, Kiom. The demo was focussed on the low wattage low distortion concepts, and the loudspeakers used were a set of 77 Klipschorns without the upper wood structure. I enclose a couple of pictures. The mid horn and the tweeter were simply sitting on some carbon blocks, the crossovers were still completely factory original and only a complete rewiring had been carried out (excluding crossovers). A small piece of wood was set into the mid horn to damp ringing: I tapped the mid horn and it was well dumb by the way, a configuration like that allows the tiniest phase and angle adjustment for each squawker / tweeter set. I managed to have a seat in the sweet spot, so listened intently and can say the sound was really delicious, though in my opinion the credit can be given to the naked configuration only in part in fact, the amps sounded really good. Conclusions: naked Klipschorns exist and sound good. How better (maybe just different?) than normal models I cant say unless I test it with my own equipment, but I am tempted to reach for my tool set and spend next weekend unscrewing wood panels Fabio P.S. I wish to thank Klipsch Audio Technologies Technical Support: I asked for a copy of my speakers manuals, and these guys sent me all the stuff in days in *.pdf format very kind of them.

OK - first of all I wish to thank William for the article he sent me. In that essay Mr. Klipsch states that the squawker horn gets rid of all rings and hangovers once screwed to a wood ply baffle (the same observation that a couple of friends had written here). He adds that there's "Necessity of the flange to smooth the response in the bottom octave", and some other details, so that I'd dare to say that the "naked Klipschorn" topic is reduced to the upper and side planes of the mid-high unit. But I'd be happy to find a set of them here for a listening session: in that case I'll let you know... Have a nice weekend Fabio

Well I didn't quite expect so much interest about this topic ! Thank you for your answers and - yes Chris, William and Tony: I agree the front plate of the upper unit should be kept (but maybe curve-shaped or something like that). William, I would be delighted if you managed to retrieve that article and sent it to me... Have a nice evening Fabio

This is my first post here, nice to meet you all! I couldn't find this topic through the search engine, so my question is: has anybody in here ever tried to get completely rid of all the upper unit woodwork of his Kplischorns, leaving horns naked and sitting on some carbon block atop the bass unit (a kind of "Avantgarde" configuration)? I've heard that this really improves "air" and "definition". Cheers Fabio