I've since acquired a rather discerning ear in auditioning various friend's systems. I have to say the $3000 Magnepans were better, so if that's your budget buy those. some of the unaffordable models, so they brought out the B&Ws, the Dahlquists, the Magnepans. They just totally blew everything else in the price range out of the water! Then I thought, lets have some fun and test these babys vs. The clarity and depth of sound field were simply amazing.
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Polk, Infiniti, etc.) When I finally got to the Klipsch 4.5s I couldn't beleive what I was hearing. I couldn't afford much so I started in the lower priced range of what they carried (i.e. I remember going to the local audiofile store to audition speakers. I would not sit down with a 8 wat 300B amp, a glass of port in my hand and a nice oscar peterson trio to keep me company. I would then add a powerfull sub and blast away with a star wars movie. I would put them in a large room and drive them loud. Overall, i would choose a good and powerfull solid state amp to drive these speakers. Even with 95db/w/m efficiency, they need some watts to start playing and tubes don''t do it. I''ve heard a square tractrix in a JBL (forgot what they were) and they sounded better still.Īlthough I did not hear these speakers with a good solid state, I think they should preform better. This is what happens when you offload the range from 1600Hz to 20000Hz onto 1 single tractrix horn that doesn''t even have a circullar cross-section. They were not dull or anything, they were just too heavy. The absolute highs did not give a sense of air. The low mids were not noticable (I guess there was nothing wrong with them - they were just not balanced with the highs or the bass), but the mid-highs were screamy and metallic.
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The midbass was tight and especially in combination with 300B amp really fast and detailed.
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It might be that the bass driver is not an easy load when it gets to real deeps, but the sub-bass simply sead weak and boomy. Sebart (One Push pull E元4 and one SE 300B).Īlthough it seems that the efficiency of the speaker should satisfy an underpowered SE amplifier, I think that the speaker is not well matched to low power tube amps. I listened to them combined with a Marantz CD player and two ASV amps from Mr. So provided these are not issues in your case, the best height would be where the top of the speaker reaches the bottom of the screen.These speakers are not what Klipsch should be all about.
#KLIPSCH KG 4.2 VS KG4 TV#
The speaker blocks the TV remote sensor (I use a little pocket mirror now) with the children and pets, this isn't ideal I had to give up another 10" of space in front of the TV Unfortunately it does have some drawbacks: If you have a projection screen, you could maybe mount the center behind the screen, but that's not an option for most of us. However, this is as close to the center of the screen that I can get it without blocking the picture. This is probably so because the stand is more inert than the top of the TV was, rather than the location being superior. I find that this sounds much better than when it was sitting on top of the TV. I saw that many higher end speaker manufacturers that also sold stands for their 5.1 sets had this setup and so I thought I would try it too. The center channel sits just high enough so that it's top is just a hair under the screen, but covers up the plastic bottom of the TV. It is in the center, and the platform is angled upwards just a tad with a thin rubber mat between the stand and speaker.
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I now have the center channel on a dedicated stand (DIY with particle board and weighed down with stones inside the stand). Just recently, I decided to try something different and for this speaker it really improved the sound. For as long as I can remember, I've had my center chanel (a rather hefty and wide Axiom VP150) on the top of our widescreen TV, angled downward towards the listening position.