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I play trumpet to records and don't want to have to sit in one spot to enjoy the music....do these speakers have a small sweet spot? If anyone is reading this in North Carolina, I live near Charlotte and would love to take a listen to them again, as the only time I've heard them was back in '88
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If you run them with a center channel on the long wall, they image just like live music.
Most stereo is a 'tunnel' effect. If you're not in the right spot, or if you turn your head, the illusion goes away.
At a live performance if the trumpet player is on the left, and you turn your head towards him, he gets louder.
With a L-C-R set-up it images the same way.
At a live performance if you sit on the left, certain instruments are louder, if you sit on the right, other instruments are louder. No matter where you sit, you hear a smooth 'curtain' of sound across the stage.
An L-C-R set-up behaves in the same way.
What configuration would you use for building a center channel
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Klipsch recommended the Cornwall for a center between Khorns. A LaScala would work, too. Just try keeping the same mid and tweeter for the center channel. Bass is more flexable.
Actually, Klipsch recommends an all-horn system with the corner horn flanks, which means a LaScala. PWK's own setup at home had production Oiled Walnut Khorns in false corners and a Belle Klipsch in the center with resistor bridge feedning a 3rd amplifier (mono or 1/2 stereo) It's best d do the resistor box with all 25K ohm resistors and a potentiometer on the center to attenuate the middle -3 to -6 db from the flanks as required.
hi - do you think false corners "in the corners" might isolate some bad sheetrock/plywood wall resonances? these are excited even with harpsichord and acoustic guitar if I had less clutter then my 3rd K-horn could be rigged as center channel.
I was wondering if you took 1" thick MDF and made a false corner to put in your corner, that it would as you say, "lessen false vibrations" and make everything more supportive in the bass?
It does.
is tht a3/4" and is it attached to the wall? would simply screwing mdf or stiff plywood to flimsy walls help or just lower resonance of the wall? - my walls aer awful - 3/4" flooring grade plywood topped with sheetrock on 2x6 studs - vinyl siding as "outer wall" - they really resonant obnoxiously and render k-horn useless.
3/4" not attached to the wall. Here's a link:http://forums.klipsch.com/forums/p/71238/697931.aspx#697931
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pretty cool - so the add-on tail is carrying most of the new wall's stress and the four eyebolts up front are grabbing 4 winged bolts up where "pressure" is minimal. You must be running a steep slope xover - is that BC's woofer? - how'syour whole K-horn play versus $$$$ upscale yuppie systems and what is/are your amp(s)? -- if I cna mitgate the drywall resonance then things will be better - whole dang house flexes & rattles with George Wright's organ cd's
it might help with MDF screwed to the walls (may just lower resonance?)- or might help more if spaced out on a frame - PWK used 2x4 frame and plywood. -have no mobility nor help so its been 11 years since seen MDF- around 1990 I've ran a few different woofers in K-horn and 250Hz tractrix Edgarhorn/LE5A with tweeter set back to midhorn driver plane. K400 sounds ok to me overall on several amps -my house wall resonances with basshorn are maddening so it gets shut off.
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I have a audio friend in MD who runs em, too far??
Jeff
Yep, that's 9 hours or so away...I'm looking for someone who is within no more than 2 hours away.
You could try asking on Audiokarma.org, I've got a friend with K-horns in Raleigh, but I'm not sure about the SC guys...there very well may be some closer to you that I'm not aware of. And that would be the board to find out :)
its "wide enough" to have some horizontal lattitude without undue timbre shifts - - make sure you have decent walls for the cornerhorn which don't unduely resonate.
nt
No, the Khorns do not have a small "sweet spot." Properly set up, they will sound great in quite a large area of the room.
I just need to find someone in my area that has some to audition since it's been 20 years since I've heard them.
Listened to a pair of Khorns yesterday, finally. The ability for those two speakers that were 20 ft. apart to throw the image directly in front of me is mindboggling, with other instruments off to the side in their appropriate positions.
The sweet spot was quite large as I moved across all three cushions on the couch with no difference in sound.....I liked them alot.
I just would love to hear 2 pairs of them in the same room-stacked on top of each other.....but I've found a pair of Jubilees to audition now, so off I go.
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