.....O Contrare, Shadow, a large midrange horn element, about 15 inches long total, which is nothing but a driver screw-mounted on a bell, brings spl headaches, haha....the smaller horns in some of the recent Klipsch floor standing speakers might be a different story because they still have some "point", but have less spl parting your hair rapping your skull like blurred drumsticks of spl....and no, I don't own any Klipsch....I typed this one below last night at hotmail since I was up late being on vacation and a night owl when working hours permit, yeah, I almost saw the sun rise, haha, and I use it now because a portion of this thread has gone to midrange horns....I plug the Christmas CD again by the orchestra....bear with it.....
.....a fair and impartial observation....a friend of mine has a pair of older Klipsch LaScalas....and compliment of surround speakers including center that came as a gray plastic coverered package that ran about a thousand including sub....the LaScalas have the folded bass horn-transfer from one 15 inch woofer some of you have heard about...well, I never liked the folded horn bass of Klipsch big stuff....it didn't even come close to being enough bass for me without cranking the bass tone control to at least four o'clock....and then it got whompy....lot of confusion audible....here it is, I was being overwhelmed by sound pressure but feeling little individual oscillation....lack of oscillations actually "heard", much less felt....which, if you got it cranked, you need to hear and feel....we're talkin' individual oscillations, low end, 12th and Vine, tell 'em mule sent ya', haha.... anyhow, the LaScalas sounded VERY good to me....I loved that hair-parting midrange Klipsch fifteen inch horn compression pressure at first years ago....but back then, I would more and more quickly get literally "pressured" out with a headache, for real....anyhow the last, I took the Christmas CD by the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra over to Danny's to use to listen to his stuff....I knew how it sounded at one minute and 26 into the first selection every way from last tuesday on my system....he placed the, ahem, used, cheap, WRONG word considering content, inexpensive, CD on the spinning pad, turned the volume to a level he knew both of us liked to listen at, and his wife was out on the back deck with a neighbor lady....we stood back as the beautiful handbells established the rhythm on the first selection, The First Noel, and the principal horn player and his second, duet the first verse and chorus and it's gorgeous....then the trumpets trio the second verse and most of the chorus when the strings take the melody and COME OUT OF THE CLOUDS WITH IT, are you with me?....at Danny's, sound pressure levels from the large mid horns were high again, as of old to me, as I listened, but you can't help but like that compression for a season...oh, he said later he had his 7 channel receiver set to 7 channel stereo....up to a minute and 26 into the first selection, I was walking around the room with my ear stuck in the surround speakers and heard nothing....I didn't listen to the center....the tone control for bass was set at +2 out of +12 he said....the sub went on down pretty well, I guess, (I now live in Cadillac Acres "Sub"division, arf, in the sub dept and can't help it, bear with me), but his sub was fuzzy a little, actually weak, but sorta' adequate, and you can bet your lungs it beat that folded horn bass aimed at me....I enjoyed the minute and 35 at Danny's....but when I got back home, ALL, the instruments were there again....funny, I specifically noticed the edge and brassiness of the bass trombone player....what happens at one minute 26 is, the strings, led by a glissando from the 1st violins, lead the orchestra as a whole into as sweet a sweet-spot as I have ever heard from an orchestra, and I ran the listening library back in college for appreciation classes and majors to listen to required listening that was to be tested by a brief interlude on test day and listened to probably 90% of what records the library had alphabitized in bins....yeah, vinyl....old fart....microscopic pieces of rubber/plastic being lopped off by a hard diamond stylus....eek, don't we love our lazer beams, haha.... no, I ain't posting a link again....go to amazon and type in Erich Kunzel and roll till you find the red paper with white ribbon and bow Christmas package....I ordered the cheapest used one they had that was about 8 bucks to my door....has sweet spots ALL the way through the CD....but that first one at one 26 is as good as it gets....I heard the magic on Danny's setup also....that's what really impressed me....I quit, and promise to never bring it up again, so help me Erich Kunzel.....
