Cutlass Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 (edited) Hi everyone , first post . Hoping the klipsch experts can help me identify the model of klipsch speaker I saw /heard in the mid 1990s , it was the best speaker I ever heard and I’d like to find a set to buy used . They were a huge floor tower speaker with two 15 (maybe 12? But I’m pretty sure they were two 15 inch ) subwoofers on the front , and one 15 inch passive radiator on the rear . I’ve tried looking through eBay , google images etc can’t seem to find any vintage klipsch floor speakers with 2 12s or 2 15s on the front ! Though similar in layout , with the horns and two subs below , They were not the klf30, they seemed even larger and had the passive radiator on the rear anyone know what model this would have been ? They were newish speakers in the early 1990s Edited October 26, 2020 by Cutlass 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 Far from it to be an expert but I do not recall seeing any of home model line-up of Klipsch speakers ever offering dual 15s in the front with or without a passive radiator. Maybe you could have been looking at something in the pro line? The klf-30 & cf-4 both had dual 12s but no passive radiators. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybob Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 Welcome to the forum @Cutlass ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuzzzer Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 Klipsch never made a model like that. Very few models were made with passive radiators in the back. Forte I and II, Quartet, Chorus II. There were a few Klipsch Tangent and KG models made with passive radiators but they all had them in the front. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moray james Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 1 hour ago, wuzzzer said: Klipsch never made a model like that. Very few models were made with passive radiators in the back. Forte I and II, Quartet, Chorus II. There were a few Klipsch Tangent and KG models made with passive radiators but they all had them in the front. Most kg but not all. The KG4 has a passive on the rear baffle, there may be others in the KG and or the Tangent line up. I was not into them and did not spend much time on them when I first got into Klipsch. Wish I had. Perhaps some with KG and or Tangent experience will chime in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuzzzer Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 1 hour ago, moray james said: Most kg but not all. The KG4 has a passive on the rear baffle, there may be others in the KG and or the Tangent line up. I was not into them and did not spend much time on them when I first got into Klipsch. Wish I had. Perhaps some with KG and or Tangent experience will chime in. Yes, the KG4 is the only speaker Klipsch ever made with two woofers in front (each 8") and a 12" passive radiator in the back. https://images.app.goo.gl/r2VuteKtWKkErJEu5 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oicu812 Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 53 minutes ago, wuzzzer said: Yes, the KG4 is the only speaker Klipsch ever made with two woofers in front (each 8") and a 12" passive radiator in the back. https://images.app.goo.gl/r2VuteKtWKkErJEu5 As an owner of two pair of KG4, I can confirm this information. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybob Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 Seems like I saw a pro like that ...maybe not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cutlass Posted October 27, 2020 Author Share Posted October 27, 2020 I don’t think they were pro speakers , this was in the San Francisco area where Goodguys was the big klipsch retailer in the 1990s and the home I saw them in bought them from Goodguys were there any klipsch speakers with two 15 inch drivers on the front , even if one was a passive radiator ? the cf-4 and klf30 seem closest to what I remember but I remember them being bigger than 12 inch 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjptkd Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 1 hour ago, Cutlass said: I don’t think they were pro speakers , this was in the San Francisco area where Goodguys was the big klipsch retailer in the 1990s and the home I saw them in bought them from Goodguys were there any klipsch speakers with two 15 inch drivers on the front , even if one was a passive radiator ? the cf-4 and klf30 seem closest to what I remember but I remember them being bigger than 12 inch I'm guessing since they were the best speakers you ever heard that they were Chorus II's; 15 in the front and passive 15 in the rear. Also the Tangent 500/5000 had dual 12's in the front one active and one passive. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricktate Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 http://ndgservice.ca/data/pdf/klipsck.pdf klipsch parts....I had a klipsch site that had all the speakers made but cant find it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricktate Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20130121022039/http://www.klipsch.com/cf-4#second Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricktate Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 Found it...lol. https://web.archive.org/web/20120121104208/http://www.klipsch.com/discontinued-speakers 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 Lets not forget the Tangent line was only ever offered on military base PX's and never available to the general public. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuzzzer Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 5 hours ago, Cutlass said: were there any klipsch speakers with two 15 inch drivers on the front , even if one was a passive radiator ? No. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
001 Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 16 hours ago, wuzzzer said: Klipsch never made a model like that. Very few models were made with passive radiators in the back. Forte I and II, Quartet, Chorus II. There were a few Klipsch Tangent and KG models made with passive radiators but they all had them in the front. KG4 & tangent have rear passives... oops, didnt read the other posts saying this. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnA Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 For clarity's sake, a subwoofer is a specialized speaker in a separate enclosure and rarely, to never, part of the main speaker. Full range speakers have *woofers*, not subwoofers, regardless of how deep they play. I cannot think of any Klipsch speaker system with two 15" drivers other than Pro/Cinema systems and subwoofers, and those did not have passive radiators. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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