Klipsch Cornwall 2s.

Anything less would be uncivilized.


Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
Piffle. I'll put my Bozak's up against anything.

Well, whatever you like best.

The Klipsch speaker line has always been more about faithfully
reproducing the original sound. I have tried this test many times...
usually with an acoustic guitar, but also with a few other instruments.

Have listeners close their eyes and play a piece of music that is
familiar to a musician standing by (with his instrument). Have him ready
to jump in and cut off the stereo, then switch back. Do this a couple of
times at random through the piece, it might take a little practice.

Can the listeners tell the difference? If not, that's good enough for me.



One of the biggest I've ever seen was a demonstrator speaker made by
JBL. It was one piece stereo speaker made out of maple - 12 foot
long, four high and if I had to describe it, it looked like a coffee
table overdone on steroids.

The other was a set of custom Acoustic Research speakers in a artsy
fartsy movie theater located in Metarie, LA - this was back in the
early '70s. Damn things took up an entire wall.


Well, theory suggests that the best sound reproduction would involve
radiating from at least 2 walls surrounding the listener. It wasn't a
macho thing for me with the Cornwalls, they just sounded so good. But
speaker size could be a sort of conspicuous consumption.

The Grateful Dead used to tour with a PA system that included "the
JBL-Alembic Wall Of Sound" set of speakers which took about nine
18-wheelers to tote it around. Cut the profit margin on their tours
considerably.... the funny thing is that this always struck me as an
example of capitalistic excess, not what the band was known for

DSK