Klipsch Heresy IV Speaker Review

[Sal1950]

I was asking the question? You answered
With a question? Class A tube or SS and not Adcom or an AVR would not be my first choice. I have been doing this for 40 years and owned it all and we know that the speaker delivers what it’s fed. I say enjoy the science side and the rest enjoy the experience. What I did notice is this subjective review was reposted in multiple publications Making it not so objective. True.

I'm not going to play a circular round robin game with you here. Heresy's, some love them, some hate them. I'll make a simple comment here and move on. A marriage between the Heresy and a Benchmark ABH2 would deliver the best possible sound the speaker is capable of.

 

[VintageFlanker]

From a pure listening enjoyment perspective did you listen to them thru a high quality source and high quality amp including a low power tube amp?

What about the cables?

 

[mhardy6647]

What about the cables?

Ahh... that's the key, mate!

 

[NormB]

Hmm.

Here’s my setup, you decide if it is “high quality”

Vinyl or
RtR REVOX B77-II rebuilt/calibrated by me last year.
Ortofon Verismo MC cart or Cadenza Black MC on SME V TA (rebuilt by SME Canada 2 yrs ago),
Thorens TD 125-II TT new bearings (bronze, and ceramic ball on sapphire thrust plate)
Ortofon ST-80 SUT
APT-Holmann preamp (Quirk Audio upgrades 2024)
Tektron 2A3/50/300b amp using a variety of drivers (mostly 40’s era Sylvania 6SN7 or 6F8G w/ adapters) and EML 2A3 mesh tubes. I’m getting very
good volumes and 80+ dB levels when I push the amp past 50%

The Klipsch Heresy IV are fine, but I’m using omnidirectional Schmidt V2’s (or something, I forget the extension) I picked up in Ontario last March; I changed drivers in the Schmidts after some research, should be getting closer to 96% efficiency.

So far I like this MUCH better as I’d replaced Ohm-Walsh 4’s with the Klipsch but missed the overall soundstage/dimensionality of the omnis. I’ll be playing the Klipsch
again soon when I get my audio room finished in our new house (months maybe, we haven’t moved in yet and there’s a lot of detail work to be done), may use them in my garage setup or something..

 

[Steve Dallas]

What about the cables?

You better elevate them to eliminate carpet transients!

 

[mouser830]

I'm not going to play a circular round robin game with you here. Heresy's, some love them, some hate them. I'll make a simple comment here and move on. A marriage between the Heresy and a Benchmark ABH2 would deliver the best possible sound the speaker is capable of.

Exactly my point. Well made. Objectivity?

 

[Sal1950]

Exactly my point. Well made. Objectivity?

I still have no idea what your point is, and don't believe you do either.

 

[Nwickliff]

lets be clear At the levels very high at which the Heresy start to show distortion other speakers would be broken I mean in normal condition some SPLs are achieved only during short peaks But if you listen from a distance at full power the sound could be fatiguing

It might be helpful specify the type of distortion you're talking about because the Heresy has more distortion than any other in this price point! I'm, of course, talking about resonances and FR amplitude, which can all be heard easily! There's also time distortion between all the drivers that are wildly spaced at different distances because of the horn design but not sure how much of that is audible. IMO the Harmonic distortion you're talking about is much harder to hear than the others I mentioned and the Heresy has them in spades.