I have heard a few of these systems with better deep bass, but I figure I can always buy a sub-woofer like everyone else if that becomes important enough. The Klipsch always rule in the mid to upper ranges, particularly apparent in the cymbals. I've since acquired a rather discerning ear in auditioning various friend's systems. I have to say the $3000 Magnepans were better, so if that's your budget buy those. some of the unaffordable models, so they brought out the B&Ws, the Dahlquists, the Magnepans. They just totally blew everything else in the price range out of the water! Then I thought, lets have some fun and test these babys vs. The clarity and depth of sound field were simply amazing. Polk, Infiniti, etc.) When I finally got to the Klipsch 4.5s I couldn't beleive what I was hearing. I couldn't afford much so I started in the lower priced range of what they carried (i.e. I remember going to the local audiofile store to audition speakers. I would not sit down with a 8 wat 300B amp, a glass of port in my hand and a nice oscar peterson trio to keep me company. I would then add a powerfull sub and blast away with a star wars movie. I would put them in a large room and drive them loud. Overall, i would choose a good and powerfull solid state amp to drive these speakers. Even with 95db/w/m efficiency, they need some watts to start playing and tubes don''t do it. I''ve heard a square tractrix in a JBL (forgot what they were) and they sounded better still.Īlthough I did not hear these speakers with a good solid state, I think they should preform better. This is what happens when you offload the range from 1600Hz to 20000Hz onto 1 single tractrix horn that doesn''t even have a circullar cross-section. They were not dull or anything, they were just too heavy. The absolute highs did not give a sense of air. The low mids were not noticable (I guess there was nothing wrong with them - they were just not balanced with the highs or the bass), but the mid-highs were screamy and metallic. The midbass was tight and especially in combination with 300B amp really fast and detailed.
It might be that the bass driver is not an easy load when it gets to real deeps, but the sub-bass simply sead weak and boomy. Sebart (One Push pull E元4 and one SE 300B).Īlthough it seems that the efficiency of the speaker should satisfy an underpowered SE amplifier, I think that the speaker is not well matched to low power tube amps. I listened to them combined with a Marantz CD player and two ASV amps from Mr. Very tight and crisp bass drivers.These speakers are not what Klipsch should be all about.
Obviously they're not the identical original drivers for the 4410s, but they're a great substitute. They're absolutely great drivers and I have no doubt they will continue settling in. I had to dial back the high and midrange controls significantly on the JBLs to get the right balance, but after several weeks now they're still opening up and becoming more responsive. After installing them and hooking them up they were very flat sounding and unresponsive, but in a very short time - a couple of hours, really - they started to open up. I had to ream out a slightly larger cutout to accommodate them with a hand-held wood rasp, which was a bit of work. The foam surrounds had finally given away in the original woofers, and since the original replacements are no longer available and I didn't want to try and repair the originals myself I decided to take a chance on these. I purchased two of these to replace the woofers in a pair of JBL 4410 Studio Monitors I have had since the late 1980s.