@Artemmarius Hello?

I have home made khorns and have made many revisions. I am using Crites cast aluminum woofers, eliptrac 400 mid horn with BMS 4592 mid drivers and LMAHL & B&C 120 driver tweeter. I am still using ALK type AA crossovers. I attenuate the mids and tweeters with L pads (which I do not like). I would like a crossover with second order sub to mid and the ability to attenuate mid and highs. Looking at the ALK CSW-450 crossover seems to fit the bill but he no longer makes them and Crites doesn't seem interested. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I am capable of reading a schematic if someone has one. If someone has done something similar I would appreciate your advice. I am using a Unison Simply 845 as the amp. I like the current sound but wish to clean up a little muddiness in the bass and get rid of Lpads. Thanks in advance.

I saw the last post was from May.  I have Eversolo DMP A8 hooked to my klipshorns from 78 and just new caps.  I have tried many of the Dacs mentioned and liked them but the A8 is superior to them all.  I purchased second hand $1,500 was used about 20 hours before me.    I have used 3 different amps McIntosh MA 252 Auccuphase E4000 and a McIntosh mac6700.  My opinion is with klipsch horns you don’t have to buy a $5-10 thousand DAC to hear a huge difference.   

The “problem” is that the woofer hardly has to work in a bass horn as far as its excursion is concerned. I don't want to encourage you to like loud listening. It's just a mechanical process of break-in that is accelerated by louder music (if you don't disturb anyone). You don't even have to be in the same room. I don't mean volumes that break the windows, but just room-filling volumes for an hour or so every day. Then, after a few more weeks, your AL5s start to shine and they sound very differentiated even very quietly.    

Thanks will wait for couple of more weeks before i judge and conclude, like other mentioned will barrow SET ampls and play around .   Yes, i dit not push them harder, usually its low to medium volume listening levels. 

I said they would definitely advise... 😉

@murali-reddy I have a C22CE from the late 90s together with an MC275 Mk4 from 2002. on my 1977 LaScala it can sound very fine and subtle, but if I want it and the music suits it, I can create naked raw scary acoustic violence with these amps. very dry, fast and explosive even in the bass also as you say not too deep but anyway. Maybe the LaScala aren't properly broken in yet if you've been listening to them for 300 hours but quietly?   I restored 51 year old Khorns this summer. They now have brand new all original K33E Klipsch/Eminence woofers..like in your new AL5. Believe me, it took a few weeks, say two months, before they sounded completely resolved, clear, authoritative and well defined. I also only hear the lowest octave really energetic and deep after this break-in period. Give your AL5 some time and occasionally play louder music so that the bass can settle in properly. BTW I guess you checked all wiring, also the AL5 internals for correct phase?

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Hello All.    Thought I should give you an update.   I've gone to four Jubilee dealers now.  While they currently do not stock the Jubilees the only stereo shop that was able to give me an excellent demonstration was Audio Classics in Binghamton, NY where they had them paired with double mono McIntosh MC 275 tube amps. (Thanks for introducing me to them, (Ryan K at Audio Classics, Binghamton, NY).  I just bought consecutive serial numbered MC-275s from them.  Since my memory could be faulty from back in May when I was at Audio Classics and wasn't ready to change my speakers out, in the end I had to go with wheat I could hear today.  I really think that had I been able to hear the Jubilees properly set up with tube amps again I might have gone in that direction. I'm getting Classic Audio (not to be confused with Audio Classics) T1.5 Reference speakers in their Contemporary line.  They sounded wonderful at the Capital AudioFest.   John who makes these speakers near Detroit one at a time hopes to have them to me by Christmas with the veneer that I was able to choose.  He's going to drive them out (about 9 1/2 hours away). get them upstairs and set up.   https://classicaudioloudspeakers.com/cgi-bin/index.pl?fs=2&upper=38&content=39    Thanks to all on here who guided me on here.    More detail for those who want to hear it all.   The Jubilee dealer nearest me (I'm in Saratoga Springs, NY) wasn't able to set them up with tube amps.  I think their showroom may have been less than ideal.  Not much side wall interaction.  speakers weren't in a corner.   listening position may have been too close.    I looked into to going to the HI Fi Loft in New York City to compare the K-horns to the Jubilees but because they mostly sell to New York City people (with size constraints) they don't carry the Jubilees, Just the smaller Heritage speakers.   Dealer in Chicopee, MA. would have loved to sell me their 75th anniversary pair of Jubilees.   But they weren't able to properly demo them for me.  They have them in their main show room.  They did hook up tubes for me.  And they were able to demo all the other Klipsh Heritage speakers for me.  They all sounded great.  Aaron (I think I have his name right) was extremely helpful at Safe and Sound.  He really understands sales and customer service.   I met with the owner of a Heritage dealer outside of Boston.  Great, warm, enthusiastic and helpful individual.   He gave me a tour of his place and played some K-horns on solid state amps.  I think they needed tube amps to warm up the sound that I perceived to be a bit harsh on the top end.  They had sounded better to me with tube amps at Safe and Sound.   Good base but not as low as the Jubilees.   I'm really looking for true full range solution.  He took me to his home and played the Jubilees which he has in his listening room.   He had them with solid state on the bottom and tubes on the top.   In this particular room with this set up the sound stage didn't open up as wide as I had hoped.   Might've benefited with tubes on the bottom as wekk as the top or maybe the set up in the room which was filled with equipment might have colored my listening experience.    I went to the Capital Audio Fest.  140 rooms of equipment.   Almost boggling.   My wife got some nice dinners out of the trip and we went to a great Jazz Club in Georgetown: Mr. Henrys.    We spent 8 hours at the show on Friday and 4 hours on Saturday.   Lots of great innovative things going on in the audio industry.  Heard many speakers.  In the end I went with horned speakers (which I expected) with tubes.   Thanks all !

Never tried skipping preamp. will give it a shot. thanks