Klipsch? Then the turntable brought it face first toward me and I saw its tweeter and midrange contained in Tractrix horns. Yes, Klipsch!
The $15,000/pair P39-F Palladium is the flagship of Klipsch's new Palladium line. The P39-F boasts in-house drivers—all hand-matched to within 0.5dB (and each speaker is matched to within 0.5dB to its mate). The 0.75" tweeter and 4.5" aluminum upper-…
Kal Rubinson adds: I turned a corner and saw what any normal person would think was the world's largest ash-tray but, given the context and my psyche, I thought it was Mirage's all-out effort at a center-channel speaker. I grabbed Bob Gassel, Global Director of Training for the Klipsch Group, hoping to have him tell me that this was indeed the ultimate center-channel solution but he disappointed me: It's only an outsized model…
"This is the perfect solution for ordinary people who want great sound almost anywhere in the room" said Keith Claytor, the Klipsch Group's PR guy. "Audiophiles will be skeptical, but if they actually listen to them, they'll be amazed at how much freedom escaping from the sweet spot gives you."
Stranger things have happened.…
"Nuttin'" said Jeff Joseph. "Just the same Insiders ($2500/pair) you saw last year and a MJ Acoustics Reference 112 subwoofer ($3200 each). Sit down, listen—you don't even have anything to write about."
It was a good plan, jinxed only by how captivating the sound was. The Insiders, which are designed to be in-wall speakers but were simply hanging on the cubicle's walls, sounded amazing: engrossing, balanced, focused.
"Of course," Joseph said. "Infinite Slope technology was just made for an application…
RoomPerfect components come with a measurement microphone and set-up is said to take 15 minutes.
The system on demo included the $2500 CD-1 CD transport/player, the TDAI-2200 control amplifier, the $1800 SDA 200Wpc power amplifier, $2600/pair DP-1 dipole loudspeakers, and $…
Not that they need to, but simply because they could, Thiel was demoing the CS3.7s with a pair of SS-1 subwoofers ($5900/each). The resulting system, at $16k, was almost modest by high-end standards, but the balance and effortless musicality of the system was breath-taking.
Rumor has it that a pair…