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In Reply to: For Rock: Genesis Vs didn't work - what next? Suggestions?? posted by JeffJ1 on December 26, 2002 at 16:15:07:
The Legacy Focus (especially the new 20/20 version) and the VMPS RM 40 are both very good suggestions and will both play very loud in big rooms with lots of slam.But if you like the up-front balance of the NHT 3.3 and want even more slam and dynamics in a big room, there is one other obvious way to go, hinted at by the suggestion to buy what they use at concerts. What you need is horn loudspeakers, and I can think of nothing suitable for home use which is more dynamic than a pair of the original Klipshorns. They are still being made new for $7500 a pair and are widely available used.
You need two solid full corners in your listening room to put them in and you should definitely listen on the tweeter axis, which gives a wide stage since the left and right K-horns will now subtend a 90-degree angle from your listening position. You get the best frequency response that way and the most depth possible from these up-front-sounding horns. Drive them with smooth sounding electronics. They don't literally need much power at all. These things are 10 dB more sensitive than even the Legacy Focus, and the Focus is 10 dB more sensitive than the NHT 3.3, so 1 watt with the K-Horns is the equivalent of 100 watts with the NHTs. But big amps bring out the best in the K-Horns IF those amps are not bright sounding themselves.
If you can meet those set up demands, nothing else comes close to being able to reproduce powerful music at concert levels at home. I use Legacy Whispers myself, and am quite familiar with the Focus and VMPS. Those are much more dynamic than most audiophile speakers. But having just heard new Klipshorns at a dealer yesterday, I was again reminded that I am kidding myself when I sometimes think that the Legacy or VMPS products are in the same league from a live-dynamics standpoint. The K-Horns are in a league of their own in that department.
No, the K-Horns are not as flat, detailed, or fast in the upper ranges as the Legacy or VMPS products, and they don't have those products' three-dimensional soundstaging capabilities either. But they are at least okay in these respects when listened to as outlined above. For certain types of music listened to loud, and for those for whom the number-one priority is live-music's macrodynamics, the K-Horn's unique virtues make up for its shortcomings in the area of subtlety.
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