After asking for recommendations for speakers to pair with my Scott 222C, several members mentioned KLH Six as a good match. I started looking for a pair while I waited for my Scott to arrive. Getting impatient I bought a pair off eBay in what appeared to be ok shape. They arrived about the same time as the Scott, and I quickly hooked them up. To my disappointment one tweeter was dead and they did not sound good. Cosmetically they are challenged, but very fixable. I set them aside and hooked up my ADS L-880’s. The 880’s sounded great with the Scott, so I just enjoyed them. An AK member graciously set me up with a replacement tweeter, so I recapped the sixes and replaced the tweeter. I ran them in for a while with one of my solid state receivers, once they were back together. After some break in, I set them up in place of the 880’s, and they are killer. Top to bottom they get it done. Nice imaging, and great midrange. I kind of expected they would struggle in the midrange because they are 2-way. Not true. They are just right.
Last year I was in Chicago for work, and hit one of the hifi shops for some demos. I listened to several systems with the high end system containing tube electronics, and full range speaker well past the $10,000 mark. My 12 watt Scott and the KLH’s give me more than that mega buck system. In fairness, my system has been tweaked to my room, and it doesn’t look nearly as nice as the mega buck gear, but when the sixes can compete with a pair of $10,000 speakers, I get excited. It gives us folks with shallow pockets a chance to enjoy what the cork sniffers enjoy.
I’ll be doing some head to head comparisons with my ADS L-880’s soon, and I’ll pass along my findings. The L-880’s are very nice sounding too, so it will be fun to compare them.
My advice is watch your local Craigslist and grab a pair when they pop up for a good price. They are simple to recap, and deliver the goods with tube gear for sure.
Onebean
Last year I was in Chicago for work, and hit one of the hifi shops for some demos. I listened to several systems with the high end system containing tube electronics, and full range speaker well past the $10,000 mark. My 12 watt Scott and the KLH’s give me more than that mega buck system. In fairness, my system has been tweaked to my room, and it doesn’t look nearly as nice as the mega buck gear, but when the sixes can compete with a pair of $10,000 speakers, I get excited. It gives us folks with shallow pockets a chance to enjoy what the cork sniffers enjoy.
I’ll be doing some head to head comparisons with my ADS L-880’s soon, and I’ll pass along my findings. The L-880’s are very nice sounding too, so it will be fun to compare them.
My advice is watch your local Craigslist and grab a pair when they pop up for a good price. They are simple to recap, and deliver the goods with tube gear for sure.
Onebean