Klipsch Big Guns

[TheWalkman]

It appears Klipsch is relaunching the heavy artillery.

Klipsch OJAS kO-R2

https://www.ecoustics.com/products/klipsch-ojas-ko-r2/

Something tells me that of the 600 pairs sold, there will be a corresponding increase in divorce filings.

 

[Power Pop 23]

It appears Klipsch is relaunching the heavy artillery.

Klipsch OJAS kO-R2

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https://www.ecoustics.com/products/klipsch-ojas-ko-r2/

Something tells me that of the 600 pairs sold, there will be a corresponding increase in divorce filings.

Yes,

There will be no filings asking for 'joint custody' of the Klipsch Ojas kO-R2


I'll take as positives that Klipsch owner, Gentex is willing to invest in the brand and ASR receives free publicity from 'eCoustics'

 

[dfuller]

Oh wow. We're back to using 1940s era horn designs. Great.

 

[Oddball]

I'd charge $20K tariff per speaker per year if anyone would want to install that in my room. What can I say, I am cheap and this will likely not sound bad.

 

[Jim Taylor]

Do they think that we have forgotten?

 

[norman bates]

ug, sectoral horns...
Diffraction generators, my favorite.

 

[yhc]

According to this dealer, the new version offers increased resonance.

 

[mhardy6647]

It appears Klipsch is relaunching the heavy artillery.

Klipsch OJAS kO-R2

View attachment 527469

https://www.ecoustics.com/products/klipsch-ojas-ko-r2/

Something tells me that of the 600 pairs sold, there will be a corresponding increase in divorce filings.

Sectoral horn.
Direct radiator bass.
Klipsch's legacy has zero products like this*.
Klipsch is relaunching Altec's (and JBL's) legacy.

Vintage Altec is probably cheaper in 2026 (even though it ain't cheap). Probably at least as soul-satisfying, too.
My preference is certainly biased hard towards Altec.


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* Klipsch's legacy - which I believe is still available, at least sort of.

 

[egellings]

It appears Klipsch is relaunching the heavy artillery.

Klipsch OJAS kO-R2

View attachment 527469

https://www.ecoustics.com/products/klipsch-ojas-ko-r2/

Something tells me that of the 600 pairs sold, there will be a corresponding increase in divorce filings.

I'd like to see 8 mounting bolts on that woofer.

 

[Redacted]

It's a Dalek!

 

[norman bates]

Diffuser on wall

 

[mhardy6647]

Speaking of Klipsch and their legacy. Just saw this at hifihaven.org...

Klipsch launches first Heritage Bookshelf Loudspeaker:… | Klipsch

Klipsch launches first Heritage Bookshelf Loudspeaker: Rebellion never sounded so good. Learn more!

www.klipsch.com

cf., e.g.,

Vintage Rebel Flyer by Klipsch Audio, on Flickr

 

[levimax]

The current top of the line is the Jubilee, from what I have read the new horn design is state of the art. Maybe not as linear FR as some SOTA speakers but efficiency, SPL capability, distortion, and time domain behavior, is as good as it gets. I would love to hear them.

 

[Duke]

The current top of the line is the Jubilee, from what I have read the new horn design is state of the art. Maybe not as linear FR as some SOTA speakers but efficiency, SPL capability, distortion, and time domain behavior, is as good as it gets. I would love to hear them.

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Not that anecdotes have a whole lot of credibility around here...

On the Thursday evening before Axpona 2022 opened I was walking on the ground floor. Walking with me was a musician who played multiple instruments. Down a wide hallway we could hear a saxaphone being played, and there was a door open on that side of the hallway. I looked at him and he looked at me, and we were both bug-eyed. I said, "THAT sounds like a live saxaphone!" and he agreed; saxaphone is one of the instruments he plays. So we made a beeline for the open doorway. Was there a performance going on? Was somebody using a live-versus-recorded saxaphone to help them set up their room?

Nope. Somebody was playing a pair of Klipsch Jubilee speakers in a very large room.

 

[Skeptical_Aus]

I lived with Heresy IV's and tubes for 5 years and it was enjoyable. Now my system is distortion and resonance free and is more enjoyable.

According to the anecdote Jubilees sound likeflike if you leave the room and walk in a corridor.

 

[Chanur]

Speaking of Klipsch and their legacy. Just saw this at hifihaven.org...

Klipsch launches first Heritage Bookshelf Loudspeaker:… | Klipsch

Klipsch launches first Heritage Bookshelf Loudspeaker: Rebellion never sounded so good. Learn more!

www.klipsch.com

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cf., e.g.,

Vintage Rebel Flyer by Klipsch Audio, on Flickr

Color me interested.

 

[Duke]

According to the anecdote Jubilees sound likeflike if you leave the room and walk in a corridor.

Except that's not really what I said.

Can you think of any reason why speakers might sound realistic from outside the room and down the hallway, with no line-of-sight? What might they have been doing that was similar to what a live instrument would do under those conditions?

 

[MarkS]

I've never heard a plausible explanation. And so I think it's an anecdote-based myth that a blind test would expose.

 

[Duke]

I've never heard a plausible explanation. And so I think it's an anecdote-based myth that a blind test would expose.

I can think of two things that would contribute to speakers sounding realistic under the conditions I described, and both of them can be measured:

From outside the room, through an open doorway and with no line of sight to the speakers, all you are hearing is reflected sound. If the spectral balance of that reflected sound is correct, that would contribute to realism.

Also, assuming the volume level is up pretty high, you would be able to hear dynamic contrast from outside the room. So good dynamic capability would contribute to realism under those conditions.

What kind of speaker system might have these characteristics? Perhaps a large, fairly constant-directivity horn system?

 

[Waxx]

The new Jubilee uses the K402 horn, that is one of the better horns arround for tweeters. But the rest of the speaker is not real advanced, the driver on that horn is very mediocore (read: you can buy a lot better for a lot less) and the bass cabinet is still the same as 40 years ago, with the same driver.

And on the Ojas/KIiplish colab, it's basicly a bad execution of an Altec 612C cabinet with a multicell horn above, like often used in the past by Altec lovers. They did put the Altec 515 woofer and the Altec 288 tweeter in that combo. That (but with way worse drivers) is what Ojas and Kiplish now try to sell as a new speaker...

This is the original setup that they try to copy. The picture is from the internet, but many altec lovers use a setup like that since decades.