DTLongo Posted January 26, 2004 Share Posted January 26, 2004 My new 2003 Klipschorns were dealer-contracted for in October 2002 for $6500.00. They have the light oak finish. The price included shipping, delivery and installation with Monster cable-quality wire. They were delivered April 1, 2003. Given that these speakers can run with high end ones ones costing $10,000 on up into the stratosphere, I think I got a good deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrot Posted January 26, 2004 Share Posted January 26, 2004 DT, Yes, if you have the available money, buying new is great. But Klipsch did such a fine job building Heritage through the years that old ones still hold up. Newly made Heritage speakers are in competition with old ones on eBay, not much at all with other speakers by other companies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dzapper Posted January 26, 2004 Share Posted January 26, 2004 Tom, Just think for only a hundred grand more you could have had a pair of these! Are they worth as much as a house? Rick Edit: I can't imagine I would ever be at ease with those Darth Vader looking things looming over me. RRRRRRR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrot Posted January 26, 2004 Share Posted January 26, 2004 Scary! Looks like a Ring Wraith. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTLongo Posted January 26, 2004 Share Posted January 26, 2004 When I still subscribed to Stereophile a decade or so ago I remember reading about Wilson Audio something-or-others (WAMM's), "Wilson Watt/Audio Puppies" and such. They were enormously expensive back then. I guess the company is still around. Back in the 1970's I attended an audio show in Washington D.C. that included a demo of then Infinity Reference Standard speakers at around $40,000 per pair. They were really beautiful, Stonehenge-like structures, two high woofer column cabinets with eight 12-inchers apiece and two similarly tall and broader midrange- and electrostatic tweeter cabinets. Also had a chance to hear them later at a now long defunct audio dealer called Excalibur in Alexamdria, VA. They were quite something. And quite impractical. As I said in my earlier reviews on this forum of my new Khorns, they, as relatively inexpensive speakers in that league, just sit skootched back and down rather unobtrusively in their corners and put out marvelous sound. Hats off to PWK. Really. At the age of 61 I did buy the Khorns as heirloom-quality speakers, and I don't think they will disappont in that respect, either. Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTLongo Posted January 26, 2004 Share Posted January 26, 2004 Recollecting further, the Infinity Reference Standards may have had six, not eight, 12" woofers in each of the two 8' tall columnar woofer cabinets. The total array was really visually impressive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted January 26, 2004 Share Posted January 26, 2004 Guys, dont you think we should get the classic Klipsch corner Khorn serial numbers before popping off estimates of their resale value how many times have the loudspeakers offered turned out to be something different based on their serial numbers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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