Vintage Klipsch Klipschorn Kornerhorn KHorn Speakers

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This is a set of some of the best speakers Klipsch has ever made. I purchased them new in the early eighties. They have the walnut finish and are in great condition - 0ne small chip one right speaker. Rarely used over the last 30 years, they were in our vacation home, and have always been in a non smoking climate controlled environment. They are currently hooked up and ready for a demo. They are large and heavy and about 175 lbs. each - so bring your truck !!!Still available new, at $7,998.00 a pair Asking $3,000 - or make resonable offer. They are located in the Rockridge district of Oakland. - leave message Description Audio pioneer and company founder Paul W. Klipsch launched the Klipschorn loudspeaker in 1946 to enable people, for the first time ever, to experience the power, detail and emotion of a live performance at home. Commonly called a corner-horn speaker, the remarkably uncommon Klipschorn includes a highly efficient horn loaded tweeter and midrange compression driver. Its patented folded-horn 15" woofer delivers powerful low frequencies. Product Identifiers Brand Klipsch Model KLIPSCHORN MPN Klipschorn UPC 743878017656 Key Features Speaker Type Main / Stereo Mounting Floorstanding Construction 3-Way Outdoor/Indoor Indoor Technical Details Peak Power Handling 400 watt Nominal Power 10 watt Frequency Reponse 33 Hz - 17 kHz Impedance 8 ohm Sensitivity 105 dB Connectivity Cable Design Available Colors Black, Brown Cabinet Finish Wooden Woofer Material Fiber Dimension Width 31.25 in. Depth 28.25 in. Woofer Size 15 in. Tweeter Size 1 in. Weight 175 lb Klipschorn: The Klipschorn, or Khorn, is the flagship product of Klipsch Audio Technologies. It was patented by founder in 1946, and has been in continuous production in the company's , plant since then—-the longest run in speaker production history. Although the Klipschorn's basic design is more than sixty years old, it has received periodic minor modifications.The Klipschorn's large (51" H (129 cm) x 31" W (79 cm) x 28" D (72 cm)) enclosure houses a three-way design: separate drivers—the , the , and the , respectively—handle the bass, midrange, and treble portions of the sound signal.Two rectangular horn lenses coupled to compression drivers handle the midrange and treble, while a 15" cone woofer is mounted in a folded bass bin compartment below. The folds open at the rear of the horn cabinet structure, utilizing the room walls and floor as continuations of horn structure, thereby increasing the effective length and size of the horn and affording greater bass extension.The body of the speaker cabinet forms a horn, an acoustic transformer/amplifier. The "Khorn" shape is like a baseball diamond: the pointy rear is open and exposed, the flat front covered with a wood panel and the top enclosed in cloth. The speaker sits in the corner of two adjoining walls, using the walls and floor boundaries as extensions of the horn. Technically speaking, the Khorn's folded bass "corner horn" can be described as a bifurcated trihedral (floor and two walls to form the trihedral corner) exponential wave transmission line.This design results in extremely high sensitivity. One watt RMS produces a 105 per meter sound pressure level (SPL), which is approximately 14–20 decibels higher than conventional speakers. Such sensitivity requires less amplifier power to achieve the same loudness. (Paul Klipsch demonstrated that the Klipschorn could reproduce concert-level dynamics powered by as little as 1 watt per channel.) The Khorn encourages the use of low powered amplifiers. The growing popularity in the audiophile community of single-ended valve (vacuum tube) amplifiers has sparked renewed interest in the Klipschorn and other highly sensitive Klipsch models.[]Utilizing the room walls and floor boundaries as extensions of the bass horn helps extend the speaker's frequency response down into the 35 Hz range, considerably lower than would be possible... read more

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