These are the Klipsch Towers
Klipsch is the oldest hi-fi
name in the speaker business. Paul Klipsch built his first speaker
in 1938, and has been a maverick of speaker design till his death
in 2004. That first speaker was used a horn loaded design, and
the most famous speaker is the Klipschorn, still in production
fifty years later.
Today, all Klipsch speaker still utilize horn designs. The high
frequency speaker, the tweeter, is coupled to the room with a
horn. This increases the efficiency, or how much sound you for
the same power. The horn spreads the sounds into the room more
evenly.
The Klipsch RF-52 floor standing tower speaker represents one
of the best values in the Klipsch lineup. At $650 a pair, this
speaker produces excellent detailed high frequency response, very
natural voice reproduction and solid, deep and quick bass response.
A titanium tweeter is lightweight and quick. It is coupled to
the Klipsch Tractrix® horn for smooth even dispersion into
the room. Klipsch has combined ceramic materials and aluminum
and calls their woofer cones Cerametallic because they combine
both materials. These cones are rigid, yet lightweight to allow
fast response. The result it quick, tight fast bass.
Move up to the RF62 and you have an $850 floor standing speaker, but now Klipsch uses two 6 1/2 inch Cerametallic woofers. You get deeper bass, higher efficiency, and higher power handling ability.
The RF82 at $1100 pair uses the same woofers and titanium tweeter, but now the woofers are 8inch models.
RF63 and RF83 each use 3 woofers instead of two. The RF63 has three 6 1/2 inch woofers. The RF83 has three 8 inch woofers. With as much air moving power as the RF83 offers, you can hear lots of sound, with the speakes pushing very little air, for very small amounts of distortion, and huge real theater like sound levels without a subwoofer.
Remember, Klipsch has become a major supplier to mega cinema theaters
throughout the country and the world. The same high efficency
design with huge magnets and high power and high power handling
ability that is required in the best motion picture theaters is
key to the design of Klipsch speakers for the home.
Before you deside on the tiny speaker mounted on the wall, sit
down and listen to a block buster movie on this very affordable
Klipsch and Denon system. Then listen to music. There is something,
"live" about the sound Klipsch can create, and isn't
that what home theater is really for... creating that live, you
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