Yes, I'm using the Khorns now. Not perfect, but the best I ever heard, anywhere, once I was finished with the following:Did you keep the Khorn? I have a pair myself, soon i will use them in the new house crazy dynamics, if I had a properly treated room they would put me on the ground
- I treated the room (lightly) first, slowly, with lots of listening in between. Some absorption and lots of diffusion.
- Used Audyssey to iron out some wrinkles and kinks. I use Audyssey FLAT for most good recordings. Not perfectly flat, still, but sounds great, with those incredible dynamics. For a few harsh CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, I switch over to Audyssey Reference, with its slight roll-off at the top ( -2dB @ 10K, - 6dB @20K). I hear the best Dirac (full range) is better at room correction, and, of course Trinnov, but it's way too expensive.
- Corner horns may require some special treatment, such as an approximately 2 foot x 4 foot absorber starting where a yardstick would hit each side wall if held flat against the front of the midrange/treble "top hat" of the Khorn and extending 2 feet farther into the room than that helps get rid of early midrange/treble reflections from the mid horn that are undesirable. I owe this tidbit to Chris A of the Klipsch Community Forum. See below.
- Even if you have the new Khorns that have closed backs (but not sides!), regardless of what you might infer from advertisements, they still must be in corners, but can be toed in or out to aim right at you. Klipsch says you should be able to look straight down the mid/high horns from the listening position (use a flashlight, if need be). The older models need to be fairly sealed into the corners with pipe insulating tubes, or neoprene sheets (Google it).
- If you are building a room from scratch in the new house, have no two dimensions the same, and a high ceiling (at least 8 feet). If you can't have a ceiling that high, put an absorber on the ceiling where the sound from the tweeter will hit first.
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