no question, Tubes will help in dealing with the fatigue you are experiencing. Klipsch speakers are notorious for being on the bright side due to the fact that they use a horn tweeter. These are super efficient but can be very fatiguing and I personally hate them.

Those speakers are rated at a sensitivity of 94dB which means you need about 10w of power to drive them to deafening levels. That being said, what feature set do you need. Do you need a tuner? Do you need a phono stage? What is your budget? Tube amps tend to a bit pricier than solid state counterparts so picking carefully is important.

caferacer59 wrote:

Hello, I am new to high fidelity and recently bought a set of Klipsch KG-4's and a Pioneer SX 750 receiver. I dig the aestetic of the whole set and I am pretty happy but the high end of these speakers seem off to me and I get fatigued listening to them, though I may just be listening too much. I recently upgraded the tweeters and the crossovers and that has helped somewhat. I have been reading many comments stating that these speakers really pair well with tube amplifications and may give me the roll off on the higher end that I can't seem to get with my Pioneer. Unfortunately it seems there is no way to test this hypothesis with out just buying another amp. Thoughts or any experience with kg4s and tube amps out there?

Those Klipsch speakers are terrible; ear fatigue guaranteed with them. Get rid of them and get some decent-sounding speakers.

Virtually any of the speakers from Wharfedale, PSB, or Focal will sound so much better that you will be amazed. There are many others; too numerous to list.

Look at the speakers listed in Recommended Components here on this website.

Also, the Pioneer receiver is not what I would recommend for pleasant sound.

It is not as big a problem as those awful speakers, but any integrated amp from NAD, Cambridge Audio, or Marantz will also make a big improvement over the Pioneer.

bierfeldt wrote:

no question, Tubes will help in dealing with the fatigue you are experiencing. Klipsch speakers are notorious for being on the bright side due to the fact that they use a horn tweeter. These are super efficient but can be very fatiguing and I personally hate them.

Those speakers are rated at a sensitivity of 94dB which means you need about 10w of power to drive them to deafening levels. That being said, what feature set do you need. Do you need a tuner? Do you need a phono stage? What is your budget? Tube amps tend to a bit pricier than solid state counterparts so picking carefully is important.

the reason tubes sound better to you is because they roll off the high frequency response. Nothing to do with quality. Tubes are inferior.That's why you think they sound "better"