So much for quality drivers making better sound! - Tweak48

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So much for quality drivers making better sound!

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Posted by Tweak48 on April 23, 2001 at 19:11:58

In Reply to: Re--Klipsch Woofer posted by Tom Brennan on April 23, 2001 at 15:33:38:

Tommy

You know, I put myself through school working at the local hi-fi store-selling folks on the benefits of cast aluminum baskets, high gauss levels, and edgewound voice coils with narrow gaps. When I think about it, I probably sold over 100 pairs of JBLs (mostly L19, L26, L36 to poor students, and Jubals, L100s and 200s to well heeled ones) while I was in their employ. The quality of construction of JBLs and the higher end Altecs (Altec was also producing low-end junk in the 70's) seemed to me to have a direct correlation to sound quality. When I got out of school I became the Tannoy rep for the Rocky Mountain States, and becoming familiar with that line reinforced this belief, as they were made in the same fashion as JBL and Altec.

I could never reconcile the fact that Klipsch, particularly the Cornwall and the Belle, was a damn good sounding speaker in spite of using what I was trained to believe were second rate drivers. Perhaps the benefits are in the margins and the nuances, as a three way JBL system (L300 for example) has to me greater detail than the Klipsch, even though both sound good. Maybe it also points to the great potential of a good horn design, in spite of less than top notch manufacturing.

As an aside, I hear a rumor that Klipsch has curtailed the shipment of all Heritage series speakers, pending the selection of a new source of midrange drivers. Have you heard anything about that?

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Topic - Components for Klipsch corner horn clones? - 39221 08:54:34 04/23/01 (9)

Re:horn clones? K-relies on resonance -beware of low Q-low xmax woofers - freddyi 02:42:35 04/25/01 (0)

Re: Components for Klipsch corner horn clones? - DrM 11:45:59 04/23/01 (6)

Re--Klipsch Woofer - Tom Brennan 15:33:38 04/23/01 (5)

So much for quality drivers making better sound! - Tweak48 19:11:58 04/23/01 (4)

Re: So much for quality drivers making better sound! - Jack Crenshaw 12:02:30 04/28/01 (0)

Re-Klipsch Heritage - Tom Brennan 21:41:33 04/23/01 (1)

They should really-no-kidding contact Radian!!(nt) - Tweak48 15:08:41 04/24/01 (0)

Re: So much for quality drivers making better sound! - Tom Brennan 21:30:31 04/23/01 (0)

Re: Components for Klipsch corner horn clones? - Tom Brennan 09:52:33 04/23/01 (0)

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So much for quality drivers making better sound! - Tweak48 19:11:58 04/23/01 (4)

Re: So much for quality drivers making better sound! - Jack Crenshaw 12:02:30 04/28/01 (0)

Re-Klipsch Heritage - Tom Brennan 21:41:33 04/23/01 (1)

They should really-no-kidding contact Radian!!(nt) - Tweak48 15:08:41 04/24/01 (0)

Re: So much for quality drivers making better sound! - Tom Brennan 21:30:31 04/23/01 (0)

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