Ever wonder what's under the hood of a Klipschorn???

After rearranging some things I found my set of technical papers from Klipsch. This is a cutaway view of a Klipschorn - that's where yer money is going towards - very complex cabinetry. Folks who bought knockoffs like Speakerlab's attempt DIDN'T get a K-Horn, that's for sure... Paul "Bulls**t" Klipsch did it right... Picture is from the article "Eight Cardinal Points in Loudspeakers for Sound Reprodcution;" IRE Transactions on Audio, November/December 1961; Paul Klipsch - author...

 

Klipsch's website says it (and the La scala!) use a 15" woofer in there.

Is that true, because it's hard to tell from the picture.

[T]

 

JBL seems to like the Klipschorn too (well, at least 2/3's of it ):

JBL "K2"

Yikes, $12,500 each! Anybody heard these things?

[T]

 

Yep, 15" it be.

 

Mr Tannoy, AKA Guy R Fountain, knew a little bit about folding wood too!
Jeff

 

For the historians here:

Did this JBL cause any resentment/amusement/disbelief among Klipsch owners when it was introduced?

(Yep, I like JBL, but I liked them more before they were acquired by The Harmon Group. )

[T]

 

Dunno - the K-Horn is still around and in production. PK inspired a lotta others to give it a try - almost all were flops (and Klipsch wasn't using cheap drivers - he sourced drivers from Western Electric, Stephens, University and EV before developing some on their own). Haven't heard the Hartsfield, but it looks like a monster!

 

I have a rattle issue with one of my Khorns, and I'm pretty darn sure it's the woofer. It rattles noticeably from about 16 to 30 hz. I see there are some reasonably priced woofers on ebay which are supposed to be for either the Khorn, the La Scala (or Belle Klipsch), or the Cornwall, that I'll probably go ahead and get. The question is...how hard is it to replace those?

 

I knew a guy who had Belle Klipsch's hooked up to one of those old 270wpc (?) Pioneer receivers. Talk about a mismatch. One click of the volume knob and you could barely hear them. Then next click and you couldn't even carry on a conversation.

 

Did they ever address the echo due to the midrange horn length?

 

Wow this was an old thread! Talk to Bob Crites. I just bought a set of his woofers for another project and they were great. http://www.critesspeakers.com