Cornwalled Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 Hello all, I need to seek the advice of those more experienced than I. I've been curious to try out Klipschorns for a while and think I might "finally" have an opportunity. I've been gradually clearing stuff out of this extra room. My concern stems from the wall to wall cast iron hot water baseboard. It's an old house with the thick baseboards that stick out about 2 inches from the wall, and are about 6 1/2" tall. As far as blocking the heat, the left side already has a metal plate over it, and I'm sure I could do the same around the right side. However I'm not sure if that will be good enough. I don't want to dry the speakers out and crack them! The other question is how could I go about getting them to clear the baseboard? Is there any kind of a notch in the bottom as a provision for that? Or am I better off pursuing a different speaker? -Jon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimjimbo Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 Jon, any chance you could post some measurements of your room, and maybe a few photos, and where you would plan to position them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornwalled Posted August 14, 2018 Author Share Posted August 14, 2018 Hello Jim, The room is still very cluttered right now, so it's not really ready for pictures yet. However I should be able to get some up in a few days. The room is about 11' 9'' by 12 feet. However there's really only one good wall, because the door is in the corner of one wall, and there's a closet in the corner of another wall. My other concern is that since this is an old farmhouse, it's got some very weird ceilings. In one corner, the ceiling slopes all the way down to 45.5 inches! I looked up the spec sheet on the Klipsch site and it looks like the modern K-horns are 50.75 tall. So, assuming older ones are too, I guess that's a no go. The only thing I can think of is to take the door off the hinge (as I wouldn't need to close it anyway) and put them along the left wall. I realize this doesn't make much sense without pictures, so I'll try to get the crap out of there so I can get some good shots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron167 Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 The bottom of the Klipschorns will accommodate those heaters, no problem! The bottoms have reliefs greater than what you are describing.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornwalled Posted August 14, 2018 Author Share Posted August 14, 2018 Another thought: Is my room too small for Klipschorns? Do you think they'll overpower the room or sound too forward? Thanks, Jon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codewritinfool Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 My room right now is 9’ x 11’. They sound great. Not perfect, but good enough that they give me listening joy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockhound Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 Jon, I went down this round also. I have a 12x13 room with a cathedral ceiling. In my room they Khorn did not work. Now if I would have built backs on them then it may have been a completely different story, you might consider that as well. I now have KPT-942's in there and they sound outstanding. Unfortunately you are going to have to roll the dice and give em a spin as everyone's room and ears are different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJkizak Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 I've had K-horns in large rooms, rooms with high ceilings, L-shaped rooms, and one apartment with 17 foot dimensions. At present they are in my living room of 12 x 24 feet with 7 foot ceilings. The very worst sounding room was the 17 foot apartment which was awful and consumed huge amounts of power to get what was reasonable performance. Your SPL in a 11 x 9 foot room can't be very high but they should work. I had to cut reliefs in the bottoms of my older K-horns to clear the baseboard. JJK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avguytx Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 I had a pair of '78 Khorns in my home office back when I lived in Denton, TX but they were in way too small of a room. I thought. It was maybe 12 x 12 which was the 4th bedroom being used as my office back when I was a rep. It took nothing to run them but it was overwhelming. I had a 24 x 20 living room but there were no square corners with how the room was laid out so they couldn't work in there, either. I sadly sold them because I was selling everything off and going back to college at 43. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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